China’s Ambassador to Israel Found Dead in Tel Aviv Home, Heart Failure Suspected

Pentagon Confirms Advanced Weapons Program After Trump Touts ‘Super Duper Missile’

Trump made the comment during a brief Oval Office event at which Defense Department officials presented him with the Space Force flag. He claimed the “super-duper missile” could travel “17 times faster than what we have right now.” “We’re building, right now, incredible military equipment at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We have no choice. We have to do it—with the adversaries we have out there,” Trump said, singling out Russia and China. “You’ve heard Russia has five times, and China is working on five or six times,” referring to missile speed. “We have one 17 times,” the president said, adding, “And it’s just gotten the go-ahead.” Trump said at the meeting that the frontier of space would be “the future, both in terms of defense and offense,”…

JERUSALEM鈥擜n Israeli police spokesman has said that聽China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead in his聽Tel Aviv home on Sunday.

Police have launched an investigation into his death, the spokesman said.

Magen David Adom paramedics told Israeli media that聽Du was found dead lying in his bed. He appeared to have died in his sleep of natural causes.

People and Israeli police are seen at the door of China’s ambassador to Israel, Du Wei’s home in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, Israel May 17, 2020. (Nir Elias/Reuters)The suspected cause of death is heart failure, Times of Israel reported.

Police did not immediately comment on the cause of death of ambassador Du Wei, who was 57 years old and became ambassador to Israel in February, according to the embassy’s website.

Before that, Du served as聽China鈥檚 ambassador to Ukraine.

He leaves behind a wife and son.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Focus News: China’s Ambassador to Israel Found Dead in Tel Aviv Home, Heart Failure Suspected

Trump: US Considering Giving WHO No More Than China Does

The United States could restore some funding to the World Health Organization under a plan that would cap contributions at whatever amount China gives, President Donald Trump said Saturday. Trump responded to a social media post that included a story claiming the Trump administration is close to restoring partial funding for the organization, also known as the WHO. Funding is still frozen for now, the president clarified. “This is just one of numerous concepts being considered under which we would pay 10 percent of what we have been paying over many years, matching much lower China payments. Have not made final decision,” Trump said. Funding is still frozen for now, the president clarified. World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on April 6, 2020.…