Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:49:12 +0000
MEXICO CITY (AP) – An attack on a bar in Mexico’s Gulf coast city of Coatzacoalcos killed 23 people and injured 13 late Tuesday. The attackers started a fire that ripped through the bar, killing eight women and 15 men. There was no immediate information on the condition of the injured. Photos of the scene […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:10:57 +0000
Malaysia’s ex-prime minister Najib Razak played a pivotal role in plundering the state’s 1MDB fund and channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into his own bank account, a prosecutor said Wednesday at the opening of his most significant graft trial. Claims that Najib and his cronies pilfered massive sums from the fund and spent it […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 05:43:40 +0000
Bangladesh’s top court has ruled that women need no longer declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates after a five-year legal battle by women’s rights groups trying to protect women’s privacy and potential humiliation. Marriage laws in the Muslim-majority country in South Asia had required a bride had to state on her marriage certificate […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 05:32:50 +0000
A deadly cobra was on the loose in the German town of Herne on Tuesday, with local residents told to keep their windows closed and steer clear of long grass. The meter-long snake, a monocled cobra whose bite can be fatal, has been missing since Sunday after escaping from its owner in the western city […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:45:22 +0000
HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Hong Kong police said yesterday they were forced to fire water cannon and a warning shot to fend off “extremely violent” demonstrators, following another weekend of clashes at pro-democracy rallies. Sunday’s violence in the district of Tsuen Wan, around 10 kilometers from the city center, was some of the worst […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:40:31 +0000
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – US President Donald Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, Axios reported Sunday. During a hurricane briefing, Trump asked if it were possible to disrupt hurricanes forming off the coast of Africa by dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of the […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:35:54 +0000
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis said yesterday that the Amazon forest is vital for our Earth and is urging prayers that fires there are quickly controlled. Francis added his voice to the chorus of international concern that the blazes in Brazil will have grave repercussions on the world’s environmental health. The pontiff, who is […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:40:33 +0000
Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell will remain in prison for at least another three years after losing an appeal against his conviction for sexually abusing two 13-year-old choir boys, an Australian court ruled on Wednesday. Pell, the highest ranking Catholic worldwide to be convicted of child sex offences, was sentenced in March to six […]
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:31:04 +0000
BEIJING — “Get those foreign agents outta town”, roars a music video by a patriotic Chinese rap group, one of a slew of creative efforts by Beijing attacking Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as violent and spurred on by overseas governments. The rap video, overlaid with clips of protesters clashing with police and breaking into Hong […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:40:17 +0000
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. – President Donald Trump dismissed concerns of recession on Sunday and offered an optimistic outlook for the economy after last week’s steep drop in the financial markets. “I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters as he returned to Washington from his New Jersey golf club. “We’re doing tremendously well. […]
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