A senior adviser to the EU’s top court said on Thursday that products from Israeli-occupied territories must be clearly labeled as such to avoid misleading consumers. The European Court of Justice is not obliged to follow the Advocate General Gerard Hogan’s legal advice. However, the former Irish judge’s legal opinions are seen as highly influential…
Speed, performance, privacy & pain: But Pentagon says F-35 issues have ‘acceptable workarounds’
As an F-35 flew over the White House to impress President Donald Trump and his Polish counterpart, a damning report outlined a litany of potentially fatal issues with the jet the Pentagon wants to greenlight for full production. Documents obtained by Defense News point to 13 severe technical issues that still plagued all three variants…
‘F*ck the international community, it can be bought’: Filipino FM on South China Sea incident
The Philippines’ top diplomat is not interested in support from the international community when it comes to the dispute with China over the sinking of a boat in disputed waters of the South China Sea. “F*ck the international community. It can be bought. This is our fight and in the end ours alone,” Foreign Secretary…
France seeks more European special forces to tackle rising Sahel violence
Click:wps官网下载 France has asked European powers to provide special forces to support thousands of troops struggling to contain a rise in violence in West Africa. There has been an increase over the last six months in Islamist militant attacks and inter-ethnic violence in the Sahel region, Reuters said. Click Here: cheap kanken backpack “If we…
Google staff keep ‘blacklist’ of conservative and ‘fringe’ sites – report
Google reportedly runs two “blacklists,” one allowing staff to remove “fringe” websites from search results and another for filtering out opinion articles, according to conservative news outlet the Daily Caller. The lists allow Google employees –who CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress in December never “manually intervene on any particular search result”– to suppress certain addresses…
Trump says he’ll meet Putin at G20, but Moscow hasn’t heard a thing about it
US President Donald Trump said he intended to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Japan. The Kremlin says they have not heard from the White House about the preparations, however. “I’ll be meeting with Putin at the G20,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, as he…
US threats over F-35 program dishonor NATO alliance, Ankara says
Turkey has criticized a letter from Washington warning about Ankara’s removal from the F-35 fighter jet program, describing the language used in the message as unbecoming of a NATO ally. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan wrote a letter to his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, outlining how Ankara would be excluded from the F-35 program unless…
Trump threatens China with $325 bn in extra tariffs if no trade deal reached
President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on a further $325 billion-worth of Chinese goods if Washington and Beijing cannot come to a trade agreement. Speaking at a White House press conference after meeting with the president of Poland, Trump said that he predicts a deal will be reached, but warned that, failing this,…
Brexit may expose Britons to cancer-causing chemicals as EU pesticide regs rolled back, experts warn
Researchers have warned of possible “significant departures” from EU regulations on harmful pesticides once Brexit is enacted, which may cause chaos between British territories but open up trade with US and Canada. The EU provides some 80 percent of the UK’s environmental laws which must now all be converted by each devolved territory, which may…
US Treasury Dept imposes new Iran-related sanctions on 2 individuals and a company in Iraq
The US Treasury Department announced sanctions on Wednesday against two Iraq-based persons and one company, for their alleged links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Makki Kazim and Mohammed Hussein, along with the South Wealth Resources Company have all been hit with secondary sanctions, according to the Treasury Department website. Secondary sanctions form a major part of…