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Solomon Islands accepts Chinese offer for riot police help
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Beijing was helping Solomon Islands respond to "grave" anti-government riots.
"At the request of the government of Solomon Islands, China will provide a batch of emergency riot equipment for the police and send an ad-hoc police advisory team," he told reporters on Thursday.
"The Chinese supplies and personnel will arrive in Solomon Islands soon and are expected to play a constructive role in enhancing the ability of the Solomon Islands police.
China Seeks First Military Base on Africa’s Atlantic Coast, U.S. Intelligence Finds (WSJ, Alt link)
Classified American intelligence reports suggest China intends to establish its first permanent military presence on the Atlantic Ocean in the tiny Central African country of Equatorial Guinea, according to U.S. officials.
The officials declined to describe details of the secret intelligence findings. But they said the reports raise the prospect that Chinese warships would be able to rearm and refit opposite the East Coast of the U.S.—a threat that is setting off alarm bells at the White House and Pentagon.
The “most significant threat” from China would be “a militarily useful naval facility on the Atlantic coast of Africa,” Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command, testified in the Senate in April. “By militarily useful I mean something more than a place that they can make port calls and get gas and groceries. I’m talking about a port where they can rearm with munitions and repair naval vessels.”
Amazon's Alexa Gives Lethal Challenge to Bored Child (Report)
The Amazon device left a parent stunned when it suggested a potentially deadly challenge for Kristin Livdahl's 10-year-old daughter. It was prompted, “Alexa tell me a challenge to do.”
"The challenge is simple," the AI said. "Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs."
"I was right there and yelled, 'No, Alexa, no!' like it was a dog," Livdahl said. Amazon has been in touch with her via Twitter, saying they will investigate Alexa’s rogue behavior.
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Experts pull documents, money from Lee statue time capsule
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and other artifacts Tuesday from a long-sought-after time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Along with several waterlogged books, pamphlets and newspapers, the box contained an envelope of Confederate money, which conservators carefully separated, and two carved artifacts — a Masonic symbol and a Confederate flag said to have be made from the tree that grew over Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s original grave.
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