Taiwan has protested against China’s boarding of a tourist boat, as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies a short distance off China’s coast but is controlled by Taiwan. Taiwanese media reported the King Xia, carrying 11 crew and 23 passengers, was boarded by the Chinese coast guard for about 32 minutes on Monday. […]
TAIPEI (Reuters) – The boarding of a Taiwanese tourist boat by China’s coast guard triggered panic among Taiwanese people, a Taiwan minister said on Tuesday, as tensions rise across the sensitive Taiwan Strait. China announced on Sunday that its coast guard would begin regular patrols and set up law enforcement activity around the Taiwan-controlled islands […]
An American tourist has admitted raping and murdering a fellow US hiker, whom he pushed down a 165-foot ravine near a “Disney” castle in Bavaria. Troy Phillip Bohling, 31, from Michigan, made a wide-ranging confession via his lawyer on the first day of his trial at a District Court in Kempten, 65 miles southwest of […]
Kempten, Germany — An American man accused of raping and killing a fellow U.S. tourist near Bavaria’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last year made a wide-ranging confession on the first day of his trial Monday. Troy Philipp B. faces several charges including one count of murder over the death of the 21-year-old woman. He also stands accused […]
An American man on Monday admitted to charges of murder and rape after he allegedly pushed two US women down a ravine, fatally injuring one of them near Germany’s Neuschwanstein castle last year. The 31-year-old defendant admitted the charges during the start of his trial, the German news agency dpa reported. Defendants in the German […]
Adult men from overseas in designer clothes, smoking marijuana and passing flasks as they congregate outside New York City’s crowded migrant shelters are among hundreds of thousands of new arrivals who crossed into the U.S. from the southern border and have made their way deeper into the country. Only a small portion of them are […]
The 15-year-old migrant boy who shot a tourist and opened fire on a cop in Times Square — then bawled like a baby when he was arrested — faces two counts of attempted murder and will be charged as an adult, police said Saturday. The teen, whose name is being withheld by the Daily News […]
A Canadian tourist opened the door of a Thai Airways flight that was preparing to take off from Chiang Mai airport bound for the capital Bangkok, local broadcaster ThaiPBS and officials said this week. “The whole plane was in chaos,” wrote Facebook user Ananya Tiangtae, who was on the flight, adding that officials escorted the […]
Gunman shoots tourist in Times Square, fires at officer; manhunt underway: Police A manhunt is underway for a gunman who shot and injured a tourist in Times Square and fired at a responding officer, according to New York City police. Three men entered JD Sports, a clothing and sneaker store, at about 7 p.m. Thursday […]
Street vendors in Los Angeles can now operate at some of the city’s most popular tourist spots after council members voted Tuesday to remove a ban on “no street vending zones.” In a unanimous 15-0 vote, L.A. city councilmembers removed the ban on seven zones where street vendors were prohibited from working: Hollywood Walk of […]
Ohio is not Florida or Nevada It’s been a “great” week for Ohio’s Gerrymandered Oppressive Party. Taking away parental and transgender rights and announcing plans to end the state personal income tax and the commercial activity tax, all within days, must have taken huge amounts of concentrated greed and bigotry. Some states with no state […]
Childhood pals Eric Smokes and David Warren hope Wednesday they will hear a judge vacate their convictions in a 1987 Times Square murder they have long said they did not commit. Smokes and Warren were teens when they were arrested for the fatal mugging of 71-year-old French tourist Jean Casse, who was attacked on W. […]