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Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.
This week, the following hot news you should know:
Top 1 | Trump Concedes US Election, Says Capitol Rioters ‘Defiled the Seat of American Democracy’
Trump has been fighting for two months to ensure what the president called the "legitimate results" of the 2020 election, insisting that his victory was "stolen" by Democrats via massive voter fraud.
US President Donald Trump issued a video address late Thursday condemning the violent actions that unfolded at the US Capitol the day prior and acknowledged that a “new administration would be inaugurated” on January 20, 2020.
Trump's address marked the very first since his Twitter locked his account for 12 hours over what the social media platform considered a violation of its policy rules. The remarks came less than two hours after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a press briefing in which she voiced the first official condemnation from the White House of the violent riots.
Top 2 | Pompeo, Mnuchin Discuss Invoking 25th Amendment on Trump, But Abandon the Idea, Report Says
Following Wednesday's chaos in Washington, DC, when US President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol during the 2020 election results certification, members of the US Congress, including its high-ranking officials, have called to remove Trump from office through the procedure described in the 25th Amendment.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin discussed invoking the 25th amendment to the US Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from power due to the fallout from the insurrection, but abandoned this step, CNBC reported Thursday, citing sources.
According to the report, Pompeo and Mnuchin had informal conversations within their own departments about the 25th Amendment, the invocation of which would begin a process of Trump's removal from office.
Top 3 | Democrats plan lightning Trump impeachment, want him out now
Warnings flashing, Democrats in Congress laid plans for swift impeachment of President Donald Trump, demanding decisive, immediate action to ensure an “unhinged” commander in chief can’t add to the damage they say he’s inflicted or even ignite nuclear war in his final days in office.
As the country comes to terms with the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters that left five dead, the crisis that appears to be among the final acts of his presidency is deepening like few other periods in the nation’s history. With less than two weeks until he’s gone, Democrats want him out — now — and he has few defenders speaking up for him in his own Republican party.
Top 4 | Hillary Clinton trolls Trump with tweet after his Twitter ban
Hillary Clinton trolled President Trump after he was permanently banned from Twitter Friday.
Following his ban, Trump's Twitter account was deleted, much to his outrage.
After news of the ban broke, Clinton used her Twitter account to make a snarky comment about what happened.
She tweeted out a checkmark emoji while quoting a her own 2016 tweet telling Trump to 'Delete your account.'
Top 5 | Indonesia plane crash: Black boxes located as human remains recovered
Rescuers searching for the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed into the ocean with 62 people on board on Saturday say they have located the plane's black box flight recorder and obtained communications data.
The head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said late on Sunday evening that the two black boxes from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 are believed have been detected within 150 to 200 meters (492 to 656 feet) of the crash site -- and that search and rescue operations are continuing around the clock.
Authorities said Monday that their efforts to recover bodies, the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) were hampered by debris in the water.
Top 6 | Iran to Expel UN Nuclear Inspectors Unless US Sanctions are Lifted in February, MP Says
The Iranian parliament has warned that the Islamic Republic will expel International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from its nuclear sites if the US sanctions against Tehran are not terminated.
The decision comes in accordance with "The Strategic Measure for the Removal of Sanctions", adopted by the parliament in November to intensify activities in nuclear research following the assassination of top Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Iran gradually suspended its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal after Washington decided to leave it in 2018 and reimposed sanctions against Tehran. Iranian authorities urged European signatories to the nuclear deal to shield their country from the unilateral American sanctions, while the US and Israel accused the Islamic Republic of attempting to create nuclear weapons.
Top 7 | Trump admits he's partly to blame for violence at U.S. Capitol
President Trump admitted Monday that he is at least partially to blame for what transpired at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday.
That's according to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who spoke with the president on Monday and later conveyed Mr. Trump's feelings to fellow House Republicans.
Multiple Republicans familiar with the exchanges confirmed the details to CBS News.
Top 8 | Japan to widen state of emergency beyond Tokyo as virus surges - media
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told a meeting of ruling party executives on Tuesday he would declare a state of emergency for the three western prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo to stem the spread of COVID-19, Kyodo news reported.
Responding to pressure from Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures in eastern Japan, Suga last week declared a one-month state of emergency for that region until Feb. 7.
But the number of coronavirus cases has also climbed in the west, prompting Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo to seek a state of emergency too. The government is finalising plans to do so on Wednesday, and could also consider adding the central prefectures of Aichi - home to Toyota Motor Corp - and Gifu, Kyodo reported, citing government sources.
Top 9 | Germany will have coronavirus restrictions beyond January: minister
Germany will not be able to lift all measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus at the beginning of February, Health Minister Jens Spahn said, stressing the need to further reduce contacts to fend off a more virulent strain of the virus.
Top-selling tabloid Bild reported on Tuesday that Chancellor Angela Merkel had told a meeting of lawmakers that the current lockdown could last until the start of April.
The German cabinet is set to meet later on Wednesday to approve stricter controls on people entering the country after a national lockdown was last week tightened and extended to the end of January.
Top 10 | Bird flu outbreaks reported in Europe, Japan, India
With less than 15 days into 2021, a pall of new health scare is hanging over Japan, India and at least 10 countries in Europe – France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Ukraine.
After the novel coronavirus, it's avian flu influenza.
A highly contagious strain of H5N8 and H5N1 has killed over 3.5 million birds since October in Europe and over 400,000 birds in India, triggering panic and a bird carnage.
Over 200,000 birds have been culled in France and 400,000 more are to be killed, 62,000 birds are on the cull list in one of Germany's top poultry producing areas, India has slaughtered over 200,000 birds, while Japan is set to cull a record 1.1 million farm chickens.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
