News Headlines - 06 February 2021
▽Ex-head of McDonald's, Apple units in Japan arrested for assault
Eiko Harada, who has served as the head of the Japanese subsidiaries of McDonald's Corp. and Apple Inc., has been arrested for alleged domestic violence, Tokyo police said Saturday.
Harada, 72, was arrested on Friday after his wife, who is in her 50s, called the police to say that she had been beaten by her husband, they said.
▽Three Chinese spies posing as journalists expelled from the UK
Three Chinese spies who falsely posed as journalists have been expelled from Britain in the past year, The Telegraph can reveal.
The trio are understood to be intelligence officers for Beijing’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and arrived in the country on journalism visas under the fake pretext of working in the media.
A senior Whitehall source confirmed that the three spies each purported to “work for three different Chinese media agencies”, which have not been named, and that they “all set foot in the UK” in the past 12 months.
The Duke of Sussex has accepted an apology and "substantial damages" from The Mail On Sunday and MailOnline's publisher over claims he snubbed the Royal Marines after stepping down as a senior royal... Harry sued Associated Newspapers for libel over two "almost identical" articles published in October, which included the headline "top general accuses Harry of turning his back on the Royal Marines".
▽Marjorie Taylor Greene: House votes to remove Greene from committee assignments - CNNPolitics
The House voted Thursday evening to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, a decisive step that comes in the wake of recently unearthed incendiary and violent past statements from the congresswoman that have triggered widespread backlash from Democrats and divided congressional Republicans.
The vote tally was 230-199 with 11 Republican House members voting with Democrats to remove Greene from her committee assignments.
▽Canada labels the Proud Boys, neo-Nazi groups as terrorists | CBC News
The federal government will now classify the Proud Boys (a neo-fascist organization with chapters in Canada and the U.S.), the Atomwaffen Division, AWD (a group that calls for acts of violence against racial, religious and ethnic groups), and the Base (another neo-Nazi organization that advocates for violence to incite a race war), as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code.
The government considers these three groups, along with another new addition, the Russian Imperial Movement (a Russian paramilitary group with ties to neo-Nazi groups worldwide), as "ideologically motivated violent extremists."
