BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department warned American citizens on Saturday to “exercise increased caution” in China due to heightened risk of arbitrary law enforcement including detention and a ban from exiting the country.
© Reuters/Aly Song Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund in Shanghai
“U.S. citizens may be detained without access to U.S. consular services or information about their alleged crime,” the State Department said in a security alert issued to its citizens in China, adding that U.S. citizens may face “prolonged interrogations and extended detention” for reasons related to state security.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 40 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday.
Twenty people were killed and at least 13 others were missing in Myagdi district, 200 km (125 miles) northwest of the capital Kathmandu, where several houses were destroyed on Friday, district administrator Gyan Nath Dhakal said.
“Rescuers are looking for those who are still missing in Myagdi,” Dhakal said, adding that 50 people had been plucked to safety using helicopters. “Eleven people who were injured in the landslides have been moved to nearby hospitals,” …
Five people have been killed and six hospitalized after gunmen took hostages at a church in South Africa on Saturday, police said.
It was unclear how many hostages were in the church at the time, but all have been freed, according to the South African Police Service. They have arrested 40 suspects in relation to the attack at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zuurbekom, northwest of Pretoria.
Of those who died, four were found shot and burned in a car and the fifth, a security guard, was also shot in his car while responding to the incident. Police officers …
Suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, who is currently facing trial before the Presidential Investigation Panel over allegations of corruption levelled against him has reportedly shunned the cell of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, FCID and turned the mosque in the premises of the police headquarters as his abode where he has spent his fourth night.
As he embarked on the battle of his life, the police management team was said to have abandoned him to his fate to carry his own cross following his refusal to identify with the police …
More than 70 countries warned they are at risk of running out of HIV medication due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey conducted by the World Health Organisation.
Twenty-four countries said they have a “critically low” stock of antiretroviral medicine, or ARVs, largely used as a therapy to treat HIV, or have seen a disruption in their supply chain as a result of the pandemic, the WHO said.
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“The findings of this survey are deeply concerning,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. “Countries and
Talking to her husband on her Facebook show Red Table Talk, Pinkett Smith said the affair with singer-songwriter August Alsina took place during a period of separation.
Smith described the split, saying: “We decided we were going to separate for a period of time and you go figure out how to make yourself happy and I will go figure out how to make myself happy.”
Pinkett Smith added: “From there, as time
The agency also recovered the body of a child who died in the collapsed building.
It was gathered that the building suffered total collapse leaving its occupants trapped as they were fast asleep at about 4.00 am.
The immediate neighbours of the victims were said to have alerted emergency responders about the incident but on arrival, the first victim to be recovered …
American Navy has graduated its first African-American female strike fighter pilot. She is Madeline Swegle, a Virginia native from Burke.
She will receive her Wings of Gold on July 31, according to Naval Air Training Command.
Swegle first graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2017, according to Stars and Stripes.
She completed her tactical air pilot training syllabus at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, this week, qualifying her to fly F/A-18 Super Hornet and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, among others.
Madeline Swegle
Rosemary Mariner was the first woman in the Navy to fly tactical jets in 1974 as …
In a statement, the White House said Stone was a “victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.
“These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice,” the White House said.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says some operators of tourism businesses are helping some Nigerians to launder money.
On Friday, the agency appealed to the practitioners in South-East, not to engage in such.
EFCC lamented the rate of non-compliance with extant anti-money laundering regulations for Designated Non-Financial Institutions.
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Enugu Zonal Head, Ibrahim Bappa, spoke on Friday while addressing executive members of Society of Tourism Proprietors of Nigeria (STPN), Enugu State Chapter.
The officials were at the commission’s Enugu office at the instance of the …
The Kogi State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to restore military checkpoints on Okene – Lokoja- Abuja road to check the activities of bloodthirsty criminals on the road.
A statement signed by the council chairman, Adeiza Momoh Jimoh and Secretary, Ademu Seidu said the road has become a safe haven for criminals, leaving tales of woes on families of their victims.
The statement noted that the Osara – Irepeni axis of the road has become notorious for the activities of the blood thirsty criminals.
The Union also urged the state government …
Ayo Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order an investigation into the sales of properties seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under the suspended acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu.
“Those recovered loots that were re-looted must be re-recovered”, Fayose said on Friday.
In a statement by his spokesman, Lere Olayinka, the former governor said the ongoing investigation will be incomplete without digging into “who bought what and how they were sold.”
He noted that the sole aim of the probe must not be to remove Magu from office.
Fayose stressed that …
