Two Swedes Jailed for Bombing Danish Tax Office
COPENHAGEN—A Copenhagen court on Thursday found two Swedes guilty of bombing the Danish tax agency and sentenced them to five and four years’ jail respectively. Zacharias Tamer Hamzi, 24, and Nurettin Nuray Syuleyman, 23, were convicted of transporting a bomb via the Oresund Bridge, known from the TV crime series “The Bridge”, and detonating the device in August 2019. The explosion in Copenhagen shattered glass doors and windows and scorched metal cladding at the main entrance of the building in Nordhavn, just north of the city center. One person was slightly wounded. The motive for the bombing remained unclear, but the court dismissed terrorism charges. The prosecutor had sought lifetime sentences for the childhood friends, neither of whom had been convicted of a serious crime before. “I’m pleased that my…
A Chinese city in the south-west has been rocked by powerful blasts. This, after a fireworks factory exploded. Videos show the devastation.
Landslides hit China’s Guizhou province. Four villages and over 500 people were affected. Many are still missing.
Millions of federal dollars were given to companies with links to the Chinese regime. They were meant for American-owned small businesses to help keep their workers.
With a future in the U.S. market in jeopardy, some Chinese listed companies are looking to Hong Kong as an option. But one expert says the region’s core values could be shocked as a result.
The Chinese are losing trust in China’s Red Cross. A Chinese NGO founder said unlike the Red Cross in other countries, the one in China is state-controlled and is used to cover for the regime—it gives out the communist party approved narrative on humanitarian disasters.
And on the fifth anniversary of China’s sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers, the last lawyer to be released is calling for justice.
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US Treasury Chief Supports More Direct Payments in Next Coronavirus Aid Bill
WASHINGTON—U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that he supports another round of direct payments to individuals as part of the next coronavirus legislation and is working to get it passed by Congress by the end of July. Mnuchin also told CNBC in an interview that not all of the airlines that signed Treasury loan agreements will need to access those loans, as they may be able to meet their financing needs in private financial markets. Despite United Airlines’ decision on Wednesday to notify 36,000 employees of potential furloughs, Mnuchin said he believed most airlines wanted to keep as many staff as possible, and healthy airlines were needed to aid the U.S. economic recovery. Regarding the future of the $660 billion Paycheck Protection Program, Mnuchin said any extension of…