overnight News of 07/19/19

A South Korean Man Died After Setting Himself On Fire Outside The Japanese Embassy

A South Korean Man Died After Setting Himself on Fire Outside the Japanese Embassy image (SEOUL, South Korea) — A 78-year-old South Korean man died hours after setting himself ablaze near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday, police said, at a time of worsening tensions between Seoul and Tokyo. The man, surnamed Kim, ignited a ...

Japan Is Among The World’S Safest Countries, Though It Has A Grisly Record Of Mass Violence

Japan Is Among the World’s Safest Countries, Though It Has a Grisly Record of Mass Violence image A 41-year-old man shouting “you die!” ran into an anime studio in Kyoto and set it ablaze Thursday morning, killing 33 people and injuring 36 others. Police said the man sprayed sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant before starting ...

Iran Denies The U.S. Destroyed A Drone In The Strait Of Hormuz

Iran Denies the U.S. Destroyed a Drone in the Strait of Hormuz image (TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran is denying a U.S. warship destroyed an Iranian drone in the strategic Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship. Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tweeted on Friday: “We have not lost any drone in the ...

A Passenger Was Fined $105,000 And Banned For Life For ‘Extremely Disruptive Behavior’ On An Airplane

A Passenger Was Fined $105,000 and Banned for Life for ‘Extremely Disruptive Behavior’ on an Airplane image An unruly passenger has been billed $105,000 after her “extremely disruptive behavior” caused a flight to be diverted with a military escort. British budget carrier Jet2 accused passenger Chloe Haines of “a catalogue of ...

A ‘Beech Bonanza’ Boosted The Population Of This Critically Endangered New Zealand Bird

A ‘Beech Bonanza’ Boosted the Population of This Critically Endangered New Zealand Bird image A rare New Zealand bird once thought to be extinct is having its most successful breeding season in years. The kākāriki karaka, also known as the orange-fronted parakeet, is having an “epic” breeding season due to a ...

‘Whenever There’S Trouble He Rushes There.’ Meet Legislator Roy Kwong, The God Of Hong Kong Protests

‘Whenever There’s Trouble He Rushes There.’ Meet Legislator Roy Kwong, the God of Hong Kong Protests image In a narrow office, just across the bay from mainland China, sits the God of Hong Kong Protests. Roy Kwong, a social worker turned politician, is fielding back-to-back interviews while writing a column about the police response to discontent flaring ...

Pompeo Calls China’S Treatment Of Uighurs The ‘Stain Of The Century’

Pompeo Calls China’s Treatment of Uighurs the ‘Stain of the Century’ image U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called China’s treatment of Uihgurs, a Muslim minority group, the “stain of the century” while speaking at a conference in Washington D.C. Thursday, Reuters reports. The State Department ...

A Man Who Wrote A Message In A Bottle 50 Years Ago Has Been Found

A Man Who Wrote a Message in a Bottle 50 Years Ago Has Been Found image The man who wrote a 50-year-old message in a bottle found on Wednesday has been tracked down . ABC located Paul Gilmore, who wrote the letter when he was 13, through his family in Australia and England, who say that he’s currently on a ...

Defying Trump, House Votes To Block Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia

Defying Trump, House Votes to Block Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia image The House of Representatives passed three resolutions Wednesday to block the sale of billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a move made in defiance of President Donald Trump and likely to be vetoed. Several ...

The Louvre Removed The Name Of OxyContin-Linked Sackler Family From Its Walls

The Louvre Removed the Name of OxyContin-Linked Sackler Family From Its Walls image The Louvre in Paris removed mentions of the Sackler family on Wednesday, becoming one of the first major museums to drop the name of the philanthropic family that also produces the powerful and addictive painkiller OxyContin. The museum’s ...

Suspected Arson In Japanese Animation Studio Leaves At Least 1 Dead

Suspected Arson in Japanese Animation Studio Leaves at Least 1 Dead image (TOKYO) — A man burst into a famous animation production studio in Kyoto and started a fire early Thursday, leaving at least one dead and 35 others injured, some critically, Japanese authorities said. The fire broke out at a three-story ...

‘Cambodia Is Not A Dustbin.’ More Plastic Waste To Be Sent Back To The U.S. And Canada

‘Cambodia Is Not a Dustbin.’ More Plastic Waste to Be Sent Back to the U.S. and Canada image Cambodia announced that it will send 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste back to the U.S. and Canada, becoming the latest Southeast Asian country join the backlash against taking in the developed world’s trash. The country’s environment ...

The U.S. ‘Shot Itself In The Foot’ By Pulling Out Of The Nuclear Deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Says

The U.S. ‘Shot Itself in the Foot’ by Pulling Out of the Nuclear Deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Says image The U.S. “shot itself in the foot” by pulling out of the nuclear accord with Iran, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said, offering a grim outlook for the chance of opening talks with President Donald Trump. Zarif, in an interview Wednesday ...

Crowd Chants ‘Send Her Back!’ At President Trump’S Combative North Carolina Rally

Crowd Chants ‘Send Her Back!’ at President Trump’s Combative North Carolina Rally image (GREENVILLE, N.C.) — Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally Wednesday into an extended dissection of the liberal views of the women of color, deriding them for what he ...

Pakistan Has Arrested The Suspected Mastermind Of The Mumbai Attacks, Days Before Prime Minister Visits U.S.

Pakistan Has Arrested the Suspected Mastermind of the Mumbai Attacks, Days Before Prime Minister Visits U.S. image (MULTAN, Pakistan) — Pakistani authorities say they have arrested a radical cleric and U.S.-wanted terror suspect blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, just days ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s trip to Washington. Counterterrorism ...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, A British-Iranian Imprisoned In Iran, Has Been Moved To A Psychiatric Ward

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian Imprisoned in Iran, Has Been Moved to a Psychiatric Ward image The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who has been in jail in Iran for more than three years, says she has been moved to a hospital psychiatric ward , according to the BBC. The 40-year-old aid worker ended a 15-day ...

Sudan’S Ruling Military Has Signed A Power-Sharing Deal With Opposition Leaders

Sudan’s Ruling Military Has Signed a Power-Sharing Deal With Opposition Leaders image (CAIRO) — Sudan’s ruling military and the pro-democracy movement on Wednesday signed a political document that’s part of a power-sharing deal meant to end the country’s deadlock after weeks of stalled talks. The two sides ...

Here’S How North Korea Gets Luxury Goods Despite Sanctions

Here’s How North Korea Gets Luxury Goods Despite Sanctions image A new report which maps out how North Korea obtains luxury goods says that the country obtains the items through sophisticated networks, despite sanctions against the country. The report by Washington D.C.-based non-profit research organization the ...

A Man Tried To Smuggle Cocaine Into Spain By Hiding It Under His Toupee

A Man Tried to Smuggle Cocaine Into Spain by Hiding It Under His Toupee image Spanish police said Tuesday that a Colombian man was detained at Barcelona’s international airport for trying to smuggle cocaine into the country under a toupee . The unnamed man, who arrived on a flight from Bogota, attempted to hide cocaine ...

An Australian Fisherman Found A Message In A Bottle Written 50 Years Ago

An Australian Fisherman Found a Message in a Bottle Written 50 Years Ago image (CANBERRA, Australia) — A fisherman man said on Wednesday he was looking for the author of a message in a bottle found off the southern Australian coast 50 years after it was written. Paul Elliot told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he and ...