World News Briefs For Sunday, 18 December 2016
Hello Australia!! - The exit from Aleppo is back on - China makes its point with the US - Farewell to the man who revolutionized emergency medicine - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Thousands of people are awaiting evacuation from Aleppo amid reports of a new cease fire deal to facilitate the exodus from the besieged Syrian City. Government and rebel sources say they will allow civilians to leave as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad consolidate power. At least 6,000 people had already exited east Aleppo under the truce that began on Thursday and collapsed on Friday.
China has agreed to return the US undersea drone it seized last week from the South China Sea. The Pentagon didn't say when or how the hand over will be carried out. Earlier, China accused the US of "hyping up" the incident. The unarmed drone was carrying out scientific research with a civilian-staffed US Navy vessel in the general area as military bases that China built in the South China Sea over the past several months. It's believed that Beijing is stepping up poking and prodding the US after pretender-elect Donald Trump threatened to halt the decades old "One China" policy and recognize Taiwan.
A suicide car bombing in central Turkey targeted a bus carrying off duty soldiers - the blast killed 13 people and wounded 56 more. No group claimed responsibility immediately, but security forces claimed the attack at the local market in the city of Kayseri bears the hallmarks of Kurdish separatists.
Poles returned to the streets for a second day of protests against the excesses of the right-wing government, demanding the government drop its plan to restrict the access of journalists to MPs in parliament. The first round of protests began on Friday, were met with ruling PiS party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski hinting that protesters' civil liberties should be restricted, and grew in reaction to that.
Zimbabwe's autocratic President Robert Mugabe will stand for "election" again in 2018, when he'll be 94-years young. This came out at the ruling Zanu-PF party's annual conference, during which the youth wing proposed that Mugabe should be declared president for life - which has pretty much already happened, since Mugabe has been in charge of the country since gaining independence from the UK in 1980.
The doctor who invented the method of forcing air out of the lungs to rescue choking victims has died. Dr. Henry Heimlich was 96-years old. He was already in hospital in the US city if Cincinnati after suffering a heart attack last Monday. In May of this year, Dr. Heimlich used his own Heimlich Maneuver to save an 87-year old woman who was choking at his retirement home.