BREAKING: After NY Talks, Abe Confident He Can Build Trust-Based Ties with Trump
Posted: November 17, 2016 Filed under: Asia, Breaking News, Diplomacy, Global, Japan, White House | Tags: -elect, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Israel, New Balance, President of the United States, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United States, United States Congress Leave a comment
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the two talked about various issues but refrained from disclosing the contents of the meeting with Trump because the talks were unofficial.
He made the comments in New York after a meeting that was intended to smooth relations following Trump’s campaign rhetoric that cast doubt on long-standing U.S. alliances.
Abe became the first world leader to meet Trump on Thursday, seeking reassurances over the future of the U.S.-Japan security and trade relations.
Abe met with Trump in New York, where the incoming president is working on setting up an administration after his surprise election victory last week that has injected new uncertainty into old U.S. alliances.
“I do believe that without confidence between the two nations (the) alliance would never function in the future and (after) the outcome of today’s discussion I am convinced Mr. Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence,” Abe said following the meeting.
Trump’s campaign rhetoric caused consternation in many world capitals, including Tokyo. Trump has said he would demand that allies such as Japan and South Korea contribute more to the cost of basing U.S. troops in their countries.
Such comments have worried Japan at a time when the threat from North Korea is rising, and China is challenging the U.S.-led security status quo in the Pacific. Read the rest of this entry »
Seattle Mystery: Human Foot Washes Ashore in Pacific Northwest, and it’s Not the First
Posted: August 24, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: Foot, KCPQ, King County Washington, Medical Examiner, New Balance, Pacific Northwest, Seattle, WITI 2 Comments
SEATTLE (WITI) — FOX6Now.com‘s Katie DeLong reports: A human foot, still inside a New Balance tennis shoe washed ashore in Seattle this week — and if that wasn’t mystery enough, it’s the FIFTEENTH foot that’s washed ashore along the Pacific Northwest coast since 2007!
“Who knows where they originated. Maybe it’s not from this area at all but from one of the surrounding islands.”
— Seattle resident Albert Hulsen
15 human feet have washed ashore along the Pacific Northwest coast — from Canada down to Tacoma — over the last seven years.
And no one seems to know where they’re coming from. Read the rest of this entry »
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