Seventy-nine years ago, a Jewish woman named Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Today, her great-grandson will walk into a U.S. courtroom for the latest round of what has been a nearly 20-year battle to get it […]
Is this world leader actually a body double?
Nigeria’s president took the extraordinary step of denying rumors that he died and was replaced by a body double, telling the country that he is alive and well. “It is the real me I assure you,” President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday to a group of Nigerians during a visit to Poland, where he is attending […]
After beating Mexico, Trump targets…
After teaming up with the leaders of Canada and Mexico on Friday to sign a revised North American trade pact, President Donald Trump said on Friday that he hopes the U.S. and Japan can balance their trade deficit “very quickly.” The president acknowledged that the U.S. is doing a lot of trade and other business […]
145 whales wash ashore and die in mass beach stranding
All of the 145 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote New Zealand beach have died. However, conservation workers are hoping to save some of the eight pygmy killer whales that remained stranded Monday at the other end of the country in an unrelated event. A hiker discovered the pilot whales in two pods […]
U.S. military kills 37 radical Islamic terrorists
The U.S. military says it killed a total of 37 Islamic extremists in two airstrikes in Somalia. U.S. Africa Command, which carries out counterterrorism missions in Somalia and elsewhere in Africa, said in a statement Tuesday that both airstrikes were conducted on Monday. It said 27 members of the al-Shabab extremist group were killed in […]
Trump drops sanction hammer on Russia, Iran
The U.S. says it has placed a network of Russian and Iranian companies on an international blacklist for shipping oil to Syria in violation of U.S. sanctions. Officials say the network helps fuel the Syrian war effort of President Bashar al-Assad while providing revenue for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the militant groups Hamas […]
Arrest of top financial CEO stuns investors
Japanese prosecutors were considering Tuesday whether to file formal charges against Nissan Motor Co.’s chairman Carlos Ghosn amid a probe into allegations he misused company assets and under-reported millions of dollars of income. The arrest of Ghosn after a whistleblower disclosed the alleged misconduct left many investors stunned by the downfall of a relentless cost […]
Get out! Hundreds of Mexican protesters demand caravan go home
Hundreds of Mexican citizens congregated around a monument in an affluent section of Tijuana, the city south of California, on Sunday to protest the illegal migrant caravan that has arrived with plans to storm into the United States. And the Mexican nationals had a clear message: President Donald Trump was totally right. “No to the […]
Brexit cancelled? UK Prime Minister confronts critics
British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to seal business support for her Brexit deal with the European Union on Monday, but remained on a collision course with a group of lawmakers seeking to unseat her. The draft agreement has triggered an avalanche of criticism in Britain and left May fighting to keep her job, even […]
Secret arrest order for WikiLeak’s founder Julian Assange
The Justice Department inadvertently named Julian Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case that suggests prosecutors have prepared charges against the WikiLeaks founder under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in an August court filing from a federal prosecutor in Virginia, who was attempting to keep sealed a separate case involving a man accused […]
