Donald Trump has a long-lost twin brother in south-western China.That’s the plot of Trump on Show, a Cantonese opera inspired by the 45th president of the United States that opened in Hong Kong on Friday.Cantonese opera is a 500-year-old art form originating in southern China.Produced by Wei Wang, Eunice Wang and Pody Lui of BBC…
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump says he is “giving strong considerations” to placing “Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only.” He tweeted that on Friday hours after the White House said the idea was no longer under consideration. Trump is accusing Democrats of failing to overhaul immigration laws and tweeting that, “The Radical Left always seems…
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Disney raised the curtain on a hotly anticipated video steaming service that’s aiming to topple industry pioneer Netflix, once a valuable ally of the Magic Kingdom. The service, called Disney Plus, has been in the works for more than year, but Thursday marked the first time that the longtime entertainment powerhouse has…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Tens of thousands of employees at Stop & Shop supermarkets in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut went on strike Thursday over stalled contract negotiations. United Food & Commercial Workers union members from several locals walked off the job, with some picketing outside the stores. “The men and women who make Stop &…
Founder letters have become an essential part of the initial stock pitch from high-profile technology companies. “ Google is not a conventional company,” the founders wrote in their introduction in 2004. “Facebook was not originally created to be a company,” Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his. Uber Technologies Inc., which filed paperwork Thursday for what could…
An E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 109 people in six states — and that originally stumped Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators — appears to be related to ground beef, the CDC announced Friday. When the CDC first announced the outbreak on April 5, it was unable to point to…
Image copyright EPA Image caption Police blamed “infiltrators” for violence in Algeria’s continuing protests Police and protesters have clashed in Algeria as marches against the ruling elite show no sign of ending. Police used water cannon and tear gas in the capital Algiers as demonstrators called for the removal of new interim President Abdelkader Bensalah.Largely…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr Ibn Auf quit a day after becoming military council chief The head of Sudan’s military council has stood down a day after leading a coup that toppled long-time leader Omar al-Bashir amid a wave of protests.Defence Minister Awad Ibn Auf announced his decision on state TV. He named as…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTrump: ‘We’ll send illegals to sanctuary cities’ President Donald Trump has acknowledged planning to free immigration detainees in Democratic urban strongholds as a political retaliation ploy.The Republican president tweeted that his antagonists should be “very happy” about the idea given their “open borders, open arms policy”.He said…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Judges say Afghanistan’s current situation made the prospect for a successful investigation “limited” The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected its prosecutor’s request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.Court judges highlighted instability and the lack of co-operation with investigators in the country.The ruling was hailed by US President Donald…