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Biden aide to meet Japan, South Korea on next steps on North Korea
The United States is holding three-way talks with South Korea and Japan on how to handle North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-Un is seen on a television screen in Seoul in March 2021. (Photo: AFP/Jung Yeon-je)
02 Apr 2021 05:51AM Share this content
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WASHINGTON: Top security officials of the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet on Friday (Apr 2) to discuss next steps on North Korea as President Joe Biden completes a policy review.
Ink, eggs hurled at PM’s aide Gill outside LHC
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March 16, 2021
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers allegedly threw ink and eggs on Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Political Communication Shahbaz Gill outside the Lahore High Court on Monday.
As per details, the incident occurred when Gill reached the court in connection with the hearing of a case. Police increased security around the high court and arrested the PML-N workers allegedly involved in the attack.
The court, however, adjourned the hearing till March 30 and excused the PM’s aide from personal appearance in the next hearing. Responding to the incident, Gill said he will not be intimidated by such incidents, adding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) used to do politics, not bullying. “The opposition is in panic and resorting to unjustifiable tactics but I will not back down from my principled position no matter what,” he said, adding: “Tell Maryam Nawaz (PML-N Vice President) that
Maskless Alaska Airlines passenger facing 20 year sentence, urinating on plane
14 Mar, 2021 09:15 PM
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A Colorado man accused of disrupting an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Denver by refusing to wear a mask and then standing up and urinating in the cabin faces a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew and attendants that carries a maximum term of 20 years in prison and a possible US$250,000 ($386,000) fine.
The FBI arrested 24-year-old Landon Grier of Canon City after the flight landed March 9, according to an affidavit filed in US District Court in Denver.
The affidavit by FBI Special Agent Martin Daniell III, who interviewed Grier and crew members, says Grier appeared to be trying to sleep but swatted at an attendant when she asked him repeatedly to put on his mask, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration.