TRUMP: CHINA AGREES NUKE WEAPON FREEZE NOT ENOUGH
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. and China agree that North Korea cannot just freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for concessions and that it must eliminate its arsenal.
Trump was restating a long-standing U.S. position but suggested that China now concurred with Washington that a “freezefor-freeze” agreement was unacceptable.
Manson reportedly in grave condition in California hospital.
Cult leader Charles Manson has been hospitalized in California with a bleak prognosis, according to a report Wednesday. The 83-yearold was taken to a Bakersfield hospital three days ago, TMZ.com said. The notorious mass murderer serving seven life sentences in Corcoran State Prison has been suffering from health issues.
Dangerous Hawaii psychiatric patient arrested in California.
A man acquitted of a 1979 murder by reason of insanity who escaped from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital during the weekend was arrested Wednesday in California.
Randall Saito left the Hawaii State Hospital on Sunday, took a taxi to a chartered plane bound for the island of Maui, and boarded another plane to San Jose, Calif., Honolulu police said. Saito was captured Wednesday morning in Stockton.
Earthquake survivors ask for help.
SARPOL-E-ZAHAB,
IRAN» In a western Iranian town devastated by this week’s powerful earthquake, families are sleeping on the rubble of their homes and were fashioning reed shelters to offer protection from the elements Wednesday, saying authorities haven’t delivered enough tents ahead of the fast-approaching winter. Icy rains will be coming soon to Sarpol-e-Zahab, hit hard by Sunday’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake, which killed more than 530 people and injured thousands. Survivors in other towns and villages nestled in the Zagros Mountains face the same conditions.
Russian lawmakers approve bill targeting foreign media.
Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill allowing the government to register international media outlets as foreign agents, a swift retaliation to the U.S. demands made to a Russian TV channel. The bill comes days after the Russian state-funded RT registered with the U.S. Justice Department as a foreign agent after pressure from Washington.
Congress urged to tighten rules on Chinese state media in U.S.
WASHINGTON»
All staff members of Chinese state-run media outlets in the United States should be required to register with the government as foreign agents as they may be supporting Chinese intelligence gathering and “information warfare,” congressional advisers said Wednesday.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said Beijing has expanded its overseas media presence to promote a positive view of the rising Asian nation and the Communist Party, even as it has tightened its control over media and online content at home and has increased restrictions on foreign journalists in China. — Denver Post wire services