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China bans US military visits to Hong Kong over protest support - CNN

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2019-12-03 09:12:23Z
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Trump slams Macron for 'insulting' and 'disrespectful' NATO comments - CNBC

President Donald Trump has denounced recent comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron on the military alliance NATO.

In November, Macron told The Economist magazine that the world was experiencing the "brain death" of NATO, warning that members of the alliance could no longer rely on the U.S.

In comments to the press ahead of a NATO meeting in London on Tuesday, Trump said Macron's words had been "very, very nasty" to the other 28 member states. He added that it was "very insulting" for the French president to label NATO as brain dead. "You can't go around saying that about NATO," Trump added.

The U.S. president said relations between the U.S. and European NATO members were not causing any divide, with the exception of France.

"I do see France breaking off. I'm looking at him and I'm saying he (Macron) needs protection more than anybody and I seem him breaking off, so I'm a little surprised at that," said the American leader.

Trump has himself criticized the international body, previously describing NATO as "obsolete." And in comments just before arriving in the U.K., Trump also called out some of the alliance members as "delinquent," in an apparent reference to the amount of money that some nations spend on defense.

President Donald Trump participates in a listening session on youth vaping and the electronic cigarette epidemic inside the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 22, 2019.

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The U.S. leader also took a swipe at France's economy, suggesting with its high unemployment rate, that the country was "not doing well economically at all." The unemployment rate in France moved higher to 8.6% in the third quarter of 2019 but has been steadily improving over the past five years.

Trump suggested France was looking to bolster its budget by introducing a levy a digital tax on U.S. giants such as Facebook and Google. The president said he would now counter this move. "They are starting to tax other people's products, so we are going to tax them," Trump told the reporters.

On Monday, the White House had said it may impose duties of up to 100% on $2.4 billion in imports of French Champagne, cheese and other luxury goods.

Leading losers in the French stock markets on Tuesday morning were luxury stocks such as Hermes, LVMH and Kering.

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2019-12-03 09:32:00Z
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NATO leaders gather in London for anniversary summit - CNN International

Donald Trump is a very unpopular man in the UK. Which is unfortunate, given he's here for the next couple of days for a meeting of NATO leaders.

Visits of the US President are hard to predict, but Trump's last two trips to Britain followed a pattern.

First, there's the build-up, in which political groups across the spectrum announce their plans to protest against Trump as soon as he sets foot on British soil.

Then there's the President's obligatory dig at Sadiq Khan, the popular Mayor of London, over the city's knife crime epidemic. He might skip that tradition this time, given the deadly terror attack that took place in London last week. But his dislike of Khan is profound, and it could be too tempting.

There's usually a "surprise" newspaper interview, in which he sticks his nose into British politics and offends a major political figure. That's often followed by a press conference where he tries to clean up the mess, but usually just ends up tying himself in a knot of contradictions.

The visits are usually more of a spectacle than anything else. This time, however, Trump lands just a few days before the UK holds what could be the most important general election in the nation's postwar history. And any unexpected grenades Trump chooses to hurl could have consequences beyond a two-day political storm and affect the outcome of an actual election.

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2019-12-03 09:10:00Z
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Economist tells newspaper he was forced out from Chinese bank because he's a Hong Konger - CNBC

Buildings along Victoria Harbor at night in Hong Kong, on April 29, 2019.

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Law Ka-chung stepped down as chief economist at the Hong Kong unit of a Chinese state-owned bank and has alleged he was forced to do so because he is a native of Hong Kong, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Law spent 14 years at the Bank of Communications before being forced to resign in October, the article said.

"They don't think it's appropriate for a Hong Kong guy to speak on behalf of a Chinese bank," Law told the newspaper. The report noted it was his first interview with an international English-language media organization since being asked to resign.

The Bank of Communications did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.

The former economist told the newspaper the bank has become less lenient about comments made to the media.

Law told the Financial Times that management was especially displeased with remarks he made in a local radio interview, in which he said the SARS outbreak in 2003 had a bigger economic impact on Hong Kong than the anti-government protests have.

The city's leader Carrie Lam, who has Beijing's public support, has said the opposite, that the protests hit the economy worse than the epidemic.

Largely peaceful protests that began in early June over a controversial extradition bill have turned increasingly violent in the months since, intermittently forcing public transportation, schools and government offices to close.

The region's economy contracted 3.2% in the third quarter, entering a technical recession for the first time since the global financial crisis. In October, retail sales in Hong Kong fell 24.3% from a year earlier, the worst on record and marking a ninth-straight month of decline.

Read the Financial Times story here.

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2019-12-03 08:10:00Z
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North Korea threatens US with Christmas gift - The - The Washington Post

Kcna Via Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cuts a ribbon during a ceremony in North Korea in a KCNA photo provided on December 2, 2019.

TOKYO — North Korea said on Tuesday that dialogue with the United States had been nothing but a “foolish trick” and warned Washington it could be on the receiving of an unwelcome Christmas gift.

The North Korean regime has given the United States until the end of the year to drop its “hostile policy,” come up with a new approach to talks and offer concessions in return for its decision to end nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests in 2018.

But a recent decision by the United States to postpone a joint air drill with South Korea clearly hasn’t satisfied Pyongyang.

Ri Thae Song, vice foreign minister in charge of U.S. affairs, accused Washington of trying to buy time by calling for a “sustained and substantial dialogue,” but he rejected this approach.

“The dialogue touted by the U.S. is, in essence, nothing but a foolish trick hatched to keep the DPRK bound to dialogue and use it in favor of the political situation and election in the U.S.,” he said, referring to his country by its official name the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“The DPRK has heard more than enough dialogue rhetoric raised by the U.S. whenever it is driven into a tight corner. So, no one will lend an ear to the U.S. any longer.”

Ri then again reminded the United States of the fast-approaching deadline, effectively repeating a veiled threat to resume long-range missile tests.

“The DPRK has done its utmost with maximum perseverance not to backtrack from the important steps it has taken on its own initiative,” he said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency. “What is left to be done now is the U.S. option and it is entirely up to the U.S. what Christmas gift it will select to get.”

North Korea has a history of timing launches with an eye on international developments and even U.S. holidays.

Last week, North Korea chose Thanksgiving Day to launch two projectiles from what it called a “super large multiple-rocket launcher,” marking the 14th test of short-range rockets or missiles it has undertaken this year.

On July 4, 2017, North Korea conducted its first ICBM test, the Hwasong-14, with leader Kim Jong Un describing it as a “gift package” for the Americans on their Independence Day.

North Korea has also dialed up the military threats in recent months, suggesting it may soon launch a ballistic missile in the direction of Japan.

When Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described last week’s launch as a threat to the region and the world, but described the projectiles as ballistic missiles, North Korea responded by calling him the worst idiot in the world and the most stupid man in history.

“Abe may see what a real ballistic missile is in the not distant future and under his nose,” KCNA said Saturday. “Abe is none other than a perfect imbecile and a political dwarf.”

Min Joo Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.

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2019-12-03 08:09:00Z
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NASA photos show the crash site of India's Vikram lunar lander - Engadget

Russian scientists display 18,000-year-old permafrost pup - Al Jazeera English

Russian scientists showed off a prehistoric puppy believed to be 18,000 years old that was found in permafrost in the country's far east.

Discovered last year in a lump of frozen mud near the city of Yakutsk, the puppy is unusually well-preserved with its hair, teeth, whiskers and eyelashes still intact.

"This puppy has all its limbs, pelage - fur, even whiskers. The nose is visible. There are teeth. We can determine due to some data that it is a male," Nikolai Androsov, director of the Northern World private museum where the remains are stored, said at the presentation at the Yakutsk's Mammoth Museum, which specialises in ancient specimens.

In recent years, Russia's far east has provided many riches for scientists studying the remains of ancient animals. As the permafrost melts, affected by climate change, more and more parts of woolly mammoths, canines and other prehistoric animals are being discovered. Often it is mammoth tusk hunters who discover them.

"Why has Yakutia come through a real spate of such unique findings over the last decade? First, it's global warming. It really exists, we feel it, and local people feel it strongly. Winter comes later, spring comes earlier," Sergei Fyodorov, a scientist with the North-Eastern Federal University, told The Associated Press.

"And the second very serious deep reason of why there a lot of finds is the very high price of mammoth tusk in the Chinese market."

When the puppy was discovered, scientists from the Stockholm-based Center for Palaeogenetics took a piece of bone to study its DNA.

"The first step was, of course, to send the sample to radiocarbon dating to see how old it was and when we got the results back it turned out that it was roughly 18,000 years old," Love Dalen, professor of evolutionary genetics at the centre, said in an online interview.

Further tests, however, left the scientists with more questions than answers - they could not definitively tell whether it was a dog or a wolf.

"We have now generated a nearly complete genome sequence from it and normally when you have a two-fold coverage genome, which is what we have, you should be able to relatively easily say whether it's a dog or a wolf, but we still can't say and that makes it even more interesting," Dalen said.

He added that scientists are about to do a third round of genome sequencing, which might solve the mystery.

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2019-12-03 06:27:00Z
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