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Gossip boys: Trudeau, BoJo & Macron caught scoffing at Trump on hot mic at NATO summit sidelines (VIDEO) Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has been filmed bad-mouthing US President Donald Trump in a chat with UK PM Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO reception. All three seemed to be sharing laughs. The video, filmed at a Buckingham Palace reception for NATO leaders on Tuesday, has been making the rounds online. The clip shows Trudeau complaining about what is presumably Trump’s signature ways with the media and his uncanny ability to take his own staffers aback with off-the-cuff remarks. “He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference off the top,” Trudeau was caught saying on a hot mic, apparently responding to J...

Trump’s lawyer vows to block ICC bid to relaunch probe into US soldiers' ‘war crimes’ A personal attorney of President Donald Trump has traveled to The Hague to contest an International Criminal Court (ICC) war crimes investigation targeting US forces overseas, arguing the body has no jurisdiction. The ICC’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is set to make a second request to launch a full war crimes probe this week, after she was barred entry into the US to pursue an initial investigation in April and shot down by a panel of ICC judges. This time, one of the president’s personal lawyers, Jay Sekulow, will testify to challenge the move. “The #ICC’s Prosecutor is seeking to investigate ‘war crimes’ charges against members of our #US Armed Forces,” Seku...

‘No interference allowed’: China slams US Congress for passing bill envisioning sanctions over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority Beijing has voiced harsh disapproval and vowed to retaliate after the US House of Representatives passed a bill threatening new sanctions on China over human rights abuses against religious minorities. Rushing through the House with near-unanimous backing on Tuesday, the bill declares US support for the Uighurs, a Muslim minority group based in China’s Xinjiang province. The bill is a modified version of a similar law introduced in the Senate, but adds provisions calling for sanctions on Chinese officials overseeing policy in Xinjiang and bars exports of surveillance gear that could be used to spy on citizens. “We must t...

North Korea’s Kim rides white stud AGAIN & sends Twitter ‘experts’ into guessing frenzy (PHOTOS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s recent tour to Mount Paektu to visit historical sites might have gone unnoticed but for a flurry of photos showing Kim on the back of a white horse, leading the way through snowy terrain. KCNA, North Korea’s official news agency, has released 71 photos, illustrating what seems to be every step of the North Korean leader’s trip to the mountain. Accompanied by dozens of high-ranking military and party officials, likewise horse-mounted or not depending on the stage of the journey, Kim “looked round the revolutionary battle sites” in the area on Tuesday. © Reuters / KCNA ...

‘Stumbling block for peace’: UN General Assembly calls on Israel to withdraw from Syria’s Golan Heights The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution demanding that Israel vacate the Golan Heights – Syrian territory it captured in 1967 and has occupied since – arguing its presence in the disputed region is an obstacle to peace. Passed in a 91-65 vote with 9 abstentions on Tuesday, the resolution called on Israel to abandon the Golan after over 50 years of occupation, insisting that nations may not acquire territory by conquest, a core principle of international law. “The continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region,” ...

Another ‘deplorables’ moment? Surging in Democrat polls, Buttigieg calls all Trump supporters racist Pete Buttigieg, an Indiana mayor suddenly leading in polls for the DNC presidential nomination in early primary states, has accused supporters of President Donald Trump “at best looking the other way on racism.” Campaigning in South Carolina on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday's Democrat debate, the South Bend mayor was was filmed accusing “anyone who supported this president” of either being racist or unacceptably tolerant of it.  BUTTIGIEG: "Anyone who supported this President is at best looking the other way on racism, at best." pic.twitter.com/6NbCxBwC4X— Benny (@bennyjohnson) December 3, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js ...

‘Deliberate falsehood’: Scientists shred Chinese CRISPR babies experiment after leak of unpublished research A controversial genetic experiment to make Chinese twins resistant to HIV is causing renewed outrage after the release of the original research, with scientists charging that it failed to meet its goals and ignored basic ethics. The MIT Technology Review published portions of two previously unseen research papers on Tuesday, principally authored by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui, who last year attempted to use CRISPR DNA editing technology to immunize twins – Lulu and Nana – against HIV. While He’s bold claims about what the experiment accomplished have come under scrutiny before, a wave of new criticism has followed the publication, which w...

How do you like that, Elon Musk? Defamation trial over ‘pedo guy’ tweet kicks off in Los Angeles High-profile defamation cases rarely go before US courts, but count on eccentric billionaire Elon Musk to find himself in just such a predicament. The suit was brought by a British man whom Musk called a “pedo guy” on Twitter. The defamation trial kicked off on Tuesday at the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, with jury selection. Questions that would-be jurors faced to determine their bias or lack thereof proved to be very detailed and quite unusual. Among other things, they were asked about their attitude towards billionaires – of which Musk is one – and their views about people living in Thailand, such as the plaintiff, Vernon Unsworth. The p...

More than 100 Jewish graves desecrated near Strasbourg (PHOTOS) Anti-Seimitic graffiti appeared on more than 100 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery located in a small village near the French eastern city of Strasbourg as the region faces an upsurge of anti-Jewish sentiment. As many as 107 graves out of a total of 700 have been desecrated in the small village of Westhoffen, a home for just 1,600 people, located 25 kilometers west of Strasbourg. The tombstones were covered with swastika and anti-Jewish symbols. The number ‘14’ considered to be a white supremacist symbol was also found on one of the graves. “It's a shock,” Maurice Dahan, the president of the Jewish consistory for the Bas-Rhin region, where Strasbourg is located, told AFP. Meanwhile, the l...

Failed EXORCISM attempt? Sect member arrested in Russia over gruesome MURDER of his own son A gruesome murder of a child rocked the Russian Urals city of Ekaterinburg. The prime suspect is the boy’s father, who turned out to be a sect member indulging in violent practices in a quest for “salvation” and “demons” fighting. The body of a 9-year-old boy was discovered in a shallow grave in one of the city’s parks last week, after the authorities received a tip-off from one of the victim’s distant relatives. Investigators concluded that the victim was asphyxiated, detaining two suspects shortly afterwards. Read more Arctic kindergarten killing: Man cuts sleeping boy’s throat in daycare center ‘on the ORDERS OF SATAN’ ...