US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has shelved plans to meet with senior North Korean officials, including one of leader Kim Jong-un’s top aides, the State Department said Tuesday. The talks between President Donald Trump’s top…
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Trial for acclaimed theater director opens in Russia
Advertisement Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov waits for a start of court hearing in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. Serebrennikov has been under house arrest since August 2017 on…
Read More »Happy Diwali: Tollywood celebs pour in wishes for the festival of lights
Diwali is also known as the festival of lights which will be celebrated for victory of lights over darkness. On the occasion of the festival, people decorate their homes with lights, do puja, cook a variety of dishes and burst firecrackers at night. From aam-aadmi to T-town celebrities, everyone celebrates the festival of lights with lot of love and enthusiasm. ...
Read More »Cameroon school kidnap: 78 students freed two days after being abducted by armed men
Seventy-eight students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon earlier this week have been freed, according to reports. The students, all boys aged between 10 and 14, were taken from a Presbyterian school in an English speaking area on Monday, where…
Read More »Superbugs kill 33,000 in Europe every year
(CNN)Superbugs are killing about 33,000 people in Europe every year, according to a new report. The “burden of infection” — measured in the number of cases, attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) — of these superbugs is equivalent to that of flu, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which conducted ...
Read More »North Dakota’s Native American Tribes Print Thousands Of IDs To Fight Voter Suppression
After a federal judge held up North Dakota’s new voter ID law last week, tribal leaders in the state were scrambling early this week to print thousands of new tribal IDs for Native Americans who reside on reservations in the state so they could vote in the midterm election on Tuesday, according to ABC News. The tribes requested a temporary ...
Read More »Cuban president meets North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel — both hoping to get out from under U.S. economic sanctions — have agreed to expand and strengthen their strategic relations, North Korea’s state media reported Monday. Diaz-Canel, who is in Asia on his first international tour since assuming office in April, arrived in ...
Read More »US mid-terms: The celebs who want to influence the elections
Taylor Swift shocked people last month when she came out in support of the Democrats ahead of the mid-term elections. Skip Instagram post by taylorswift View this post on Instagram I’m writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on November 6th, in which I’ll be voting in the state of Tennessee. In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly ...
Read More »Lion Air jet’s airspeed indicator malfunctioned on 4 flights
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – The “black box” data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows its airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four flights, investigators said Monday, just hours after distraught relatives of victims confronted the airline’s co-founder at a meeting organized by officials. National Transportation Safety Committee chairman Soerjanto Tjahjono said the problem was similar on each of ...
Read More »El Chapo trial expected to open in New York
Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s trial is scheduled to begin today with jury selection in a US federal court in Brooklyn. Lawyers for Guzman said in a motion last week that they needed more time to…
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