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In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen gestures during a meeting with lawmakers from Baltic states at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Tsai on Monday in a sign of further cooperation between European Union nations and Taiwan. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP) The defense minister of Taiwan said his nation alone will successfully repel any invasion by Mainland China. While talking to reporters on Monday, Taiwan’s top defense official said Beijing wants to “slowly exhaust” the island nation, but it will not succeed. The defense minister then stressed Taiwan’s defense force has efficient counter-measures in place to contain and defeat China’s plans of annexation. His remarks came after 27 Chinese warplanes violated the Taiwanese Air Defense Zone on Sunday. Separately, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said all freedom-loving nations must stand by Taiwan.

FILE – A protester holds a sign calling for the defunding of police at a protest on July 25, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland officials will reverse plans to cut police funding and seek to hire more officers as soon as possible, Mayor Libby Schaaf said Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, as a spate of gun violence and fatal shootings has left residents on edge. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa, File) The mayor of Oakland, California is pushing to reverse plans to defund the police amid a spike violent crimes in the city. On Monday, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced she’s working to stop plans to divert funding from the police and is seeking to hire more officers. This announcement comes as the number of homicides in Oakland jumped to 127 after three people, including a retired police officer, were killed over the weekend. The Democrat mayor said she will ask the City Council to reverse millions of dollars in funding, which was set to go toward programs to prevent crimes. “We will also be presenting an ana

FILE PHOTO: Designer Virgil Abloh appears at the end of his Fall/Winter 2019-2020 women's ready-to-wear collection for his label Off-White during Women's Fashion Week in Paris, France, February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe Louis Vuitton honored Virgil Abloh at his last fashion collection show in Miami on Tuesday, just days after his sudden death prompted an outpouring of tributes for the industry’s most high-profile black designer. Drones formed Abloh’s initials and spelled out the words “Virgil was here” in the sky outside Miami’s Marine Stadium where the memorial event was held. There was also a giant statue of Abloh. Chicago-based rapper Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi walked the runway before a live audience that included streetwear designer Don Crawley, known as Don C, Kim Kardashian and rapper ASAP Ferg, according to Instagram posts. As the show began, roughly 16,000 viewers tuned in to watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9jJh1yHAg. Models were clad in Vuitton

An image of Josephine Baker is projected on the Pantheon monument during her induction ceremony in Paris, France, November 30, 2021. Thibault Camus/Pool via REUTERS Josephine Baker, the famed French American singer and dancer, was inducted on Tuesday into the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris – one of France’s highest honours – at a ceremony attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. Baker, who also served in the French Resistance during World War Two and was a prominent civic rights activist after the war, is the first Black woman and sixth woman to enter the Pantheon, a Paris landmark dominating the city’s Latin Quarter. She was “a Black person who stood up for Black people, but foremost, she was a woman who defended humankind,” Macron said during a speech. He spoke shortly after Baker’s most famous song, “J’ai deux amours, mon pays et Paris” (“I have two loves, my country and Paris”), was played at the ceremony. Baker was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906 but went on to find much of

  FILE PHOTO: The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it will ban political advertising on its platform in the run-up to Philippine elections in May next year to choose a successor to President Rodrigo Duterte. The move comes amid pressure on social media platforms over their handling of political advertising during the U.S. presidential election in 2020. Social media platforms have become political battlegrounds in the Southeast Asian nation, with studies showing Filipinos top the rankings globally for time spent on social media. Election advertisements that promote or oppose any political party or the candidacy of any person or party for public office, would not be allowed to run between Feb. 8 to May 9, 2022, Google said in an update to its political content policy. The dates cover the period of campaigning in the Philippines up to electio

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has come under attack for insisting that he was never arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). DAILY POST had reported that Fani-Kayode was rearrested by EFCC on Tuesday over alleged document falsification. Fani-Kayode, alongside others, is standing trial over alleged N4.6 billion money laundering, alongside Nenandi Usman, a former Minister of State for Finance. According to the report, Fani-Kayode was arrested on Tuesday after proceedings at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos. However, in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle, the former Minister denied the arrest, saying he was only invited by the anti-graft agency. “Once again I was invited to the EFCC today. Once again, despite media reports, I was NOT arrested but invited. I got there at 11.00 am and I have just been released. Thanks be to God”, he tweeted. But some Nigerians who stormed the comment section to express themselves, lambasted him

FILE PHOTO: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan August 15, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato Japan and the United States could not stand by if China attacked Taiwan, and Beijing needs to understand this, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday. Tensions over Chinese-claimed Taiwan have risen as President Xi Jinping seeks to assert his country’s sovereignty claims against the democratically ruled island. Taiwan’s government says it wants peace, but will defend itself if needed. Speaking virtually to a forum organised by Taiwanese think tank the Institute for National Policy Research, Abe noted the Senkaku islands – which China calls the Diaoyu Islands – Sakishima islands and Yonaguni island are a mere 100 km (62 miles) or so away from Taiwan. An armed invasion of Taiwan would be a grave danger to Japan, he added. “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-U.S. alliance. People in Beijing,