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Pregnant Woman Found Dead Near Photo of Twins’ Sonogram, Boyfriend Arrested: Police

Canada Restricts Dealings With Hong Kong Over New Security Law

OTTAWA—Foreign Affairs Minister Francois−Philippe Champagne says Canada is suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as part of a package of responses to the new security law China has imposed on the territory. In a statement, Champagne says Canada will also treat sensitive goods being exported to Hong Kong as if they were being sent to mainland China. That means outright banning some military−related goods from being traded there. China imposed strict new controls on Hong Kong this week, in what Champagne calls a violation of the “one country, two systems” philosophy that was supposed to last 50 years after Britain returned Hong Kong to China in 1997. Champagne’s statement says Hong Kong’s place in the global economy was based on that promise and needs to be reassessed. Canada’s moves…

Pregnant Woman Found Dead Near Photo of Twins’ Sonogram, Boyfriend Arrested: Police

Authorities suspect a Texas man fatally shot his pregnant girlfriend on Monday before hijacking another woman鈥檚 car at gunpoint.

The pregnant woman, Darionne Burley, 26, was found dead in the front passenger seat in Mansfield. Police said they were called to the scene after a woman said someone stole her vehicle.

Maurice Smith, 28, is accused of driving the vehicle to his apartment in Fort Worth, officials told the Fort Worth-Star Telegram.

Smith was charged with capital murder of multiple persons in Burley鈥檚 and her unborn children’s deaths, aggravated robbery, and a parole violation, police told NBC5 in Dallas.

Police said that Burley was found with a gunshot wound near a wallet with a recent sonogram of Burley鈥檚 twins. The photo listed Twin A and Twin B as boys and Burley as their mother.

Pregnant Woman Found Dead Near Photo of Twins’ Sonogram, Boyfriend Arrested: Police Maurice Smith, 28, in a booking photo. (Fort Worth Police)

Burley had also apparently uploaded a photo of the sonogram to Facebook, according to People Magazine.

Authorities did not provide a motive in the slayings.

However, Smith’s mother told police that Burley and her son had an intermittent relationship since high school, and they recently held a gender-reveal party. Burley was due to give birth to the twins in October, according to the Star-Telegram.

Pregnant Woman Found Dead Near Photo of Twins’ Sonogram, Boyfriend Arrested: Police Darionne Burley in a Facebook selfie (Facebook / selfie)

Officials said Smith tried to purchase a gun and was denied during an FBI background check. However, they said that a man attended a gun show with Smith and bought a .40-caliber Hi-Point pistol.

Smith allegedly told police that the two had an argument about a leaking tire, and that Burley made him feel like less of a man and also called him a junkie, according to police, reported People Magazine. He said the two drove home, and she left in the car to run errands.

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Nasdaq-Listed Chinese Company Cheated Creditors by Using Fake Gold as Loan Collateral

Nasdaq-listed Chinese jeweler Kingold Jewelry Inc. (KGJI) has received 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) loans by claiming to use tons of gold as collateral in the past five years. However, the creditors discovered that some of the gold bars are gilded copper alloy. The loans were protected by insurance issued by Chinese state-run PICC Property and Casualty Company (PICC) and some smaller insurers. But the insurers refuse to pay for the loss of Kingold’s creditors by claiming that the insurance contracts defined that they won’t take care of the loss that was created by the policyholder. However, the creditors emphasized that the insurance agreement ruled that insurers will take responsibility if the gold that is supplied by the policyholder doesn’t meet the standard. Kingold designs and manufactures jewelry. It was…