During the past few years, soccer fans in Hong Kong have booed the national anthem during World Cup qualifiers and other matches. Pro-democracy activists fear the law will be used to undermine freedom of speech and protest, after a punishing year of setbacks including the jailing of prominent members of the democracy movement for their roles in anti-government protests. Read More »
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Trump Plans to See Putin in Asia Amid Scrutiny of Campaign Ties
Sunday, November 5, he will arrive in Japan on November 6-7 in South Korea, November 8 - in China, November 10, will go to Vietnam, where he will participate in the APEC forum. "Now, another former Trump campaign advisor, JD Gordon, has come forward, and according to CNN , Gordon said, "[Trump] heard him out", in referring to Papadopoulos presenting the idea of meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Read More »
Bowl-eligible Virginia scores late, beats Georgia Tech
The Yellow Jackets (4-4, 3-3) had driven 90 yards in nine plays to take the lead. After an A.J. Mejia 36-yard field goal gave Virginia an early 3-0 lead, Georgia Tech responded with a touchdown as Marshall punched it in from 1 yard out. Read More »
Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Waleed bin Talal
The king had decreed the creation of a powerful new anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince, only hours before the committee ordered the arrests. The sweeping campaign of arrests appears to be the latest move to consolidate the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , the favorite son and top adviser of King Salman. Read More »
Kushner Sends Records Related to Russia Probe to Special Counsel Mueller
Kushner, after the election, trying to set up a back-channel meeting". Papadopoulos' disclosure offers a second instance in which a Trump campaign official sough incriminating information on Clinton from Russian sources. Manafort, 68, and business partner Rick Gates , 45, both entered not guilty pleas in a Washington court after being read charges that they hid millions of dollars they earned working for former Ukrainian politician Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Moscow political party. Read More »
Ohio State tumbles right out of Playoff picture with stinker at Iowa
Ohio State and Iowa , longtime Big Ten rivals, have met just four times in 11 years. So long to Barrett's streak of 190 throws without an interception. But Iowa broke a 17-17 with an 89-yard drive late in the first half, capped by Stanley's 25-yard strike to tight end Noah Fant . Iowa started a new tradition this season that has quickly become one of the coolest things in college football. Read More »
California party bus shooting leaves 1 dead, 3 wounded
A shooting incident occurred early Saturday in a popular tourist spot called Santa Monica beach near USA western city of Los Angeles, leaving one dead and three others wounded. Two remain hospitalized while the fourth only sustained minor injuries that did not require a transport. The suspects are described as 2-3 male blacks with no additional information available at this time. Read More »
Senator Rand Paul assaulted at Kentucky residence
Kelsey Cooper, a spokesman for Paul, said in a statement that "Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault". Boucher is now being held at the Warren County Jail on $5,000 bond. She added that the Senator was "fine" and the incident is now a matter for police. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) was assaulted in his Warren County home. An arrest warrant for Boucher was issued through the Warren County Attorney's office. Read More »
PV Sindhu slams airline for rude behaviour, airline denies
When the air hostess Ashima tried to advise him to behave properly with the passenger (me), but to my surprise he behaved very rudely with her. Also, she wrote if such employees work with reputed airlines, then airline's will spoil their reputation. Read More »
Yemen rebels fire missile at Saudi capital
Al Arabiya reported that the Saudi delegation to the United Nations said Houthi rebels have placed at least 50,000 land mines at the Saudi-Yemeni border. The United Nations has warned Yemen now stands on the brink of starvation. Saudi Arabia has strongly condemned United Nations financing of 14 million dollars to the Yemeni Education Ministry, now managed by Houthi militias, according to Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya . Read More »
UFC Star Tyron Woodley Slams Conor McGregor for Gay Slur
McGregor has four fights left on his current deal with the UFC but he insisted after his win over Eddie Alvarez a year ago that the UFC brass needed to come talk to him about an equity stake before he returns to the promotion. That's the true danger in combat sport. The fighter promoting his new film " Notorious " told the BBC's Boxing Club: "I look at politicians and they're nearly hated by everyone and I don't want to be in that position". Read More »
Former NFL player a suspect in Utah domestic violence-related homicide
By then, she said she no longer knew where McClanahan was. Someone from the hotel called police shortly after the officer was flagged down to report a "ruckus" in the room. According to a public online wedding planning profile, Anthony and Keri McClanahan were married in January. McClanahan reportedly played football for Washington State and the Dallas Cowboys in the 90s. Read More »
Trump pleas for Saudi Arabia to list Aramco in US
But by describing the listing as a priority for Washington, he could help to sway the Saudis' decision. The flotation is part of a broad effort to raise Saudi Arabia's profile and boost government revenues after a sharp drop in oil prices hindered its ability to pay for large infrastructure projects and subsidies that citizens have come to rely on. Read More »
Racist Pamphlet Targets Asian School Board Candidates in New Jersey
Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel were targeted earlier this week after residents received a flyer in the mail with photos of each candidate with the words "DEPORT" stamped underneath, asking township citizens to "stop Jerry Shi & Falguni Patel from taking over our School Board." Why? "The Chinese and Indians are taking over our town!" it continues. Read More »
NTPC explosion: Probe committee to submit report in 30 days
The death toll is among the highest from a power-plant accident in recent years. Over 100 employees were injured. According to reports, a massive fire broke out inside and a huge ball of dust rose after the explosion making rescue operations hard. Read More »
Iran: Thousands march on 1979 anniversary, chant anti-Israel, anti-US slogans
News agencies described it as a Sejil surface-to-surface missile with a range of 1,200 miles. The embassy was stormed by Iranian students on November 4, 1979, and its personnel were held hostage for 444 days. Trump has also slapped additional sanctions on Tehran over its ballistic-missile program. For his part, the Russian minister said the election of Karbasian as the Iranian head of the Joint Iran-Russia Economic Commission will pave the way for further cooperation between the two ... Read More »
Former Presidents Bush reveal in new book they didn't vote for Trump
Updegrove asked the elder Bush, 93, what he thought Trump was seeking in running for president. "We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America", Bush said, not mentioning Trump by name. Read More »
Trump demands investigation into Clinton
I look at what's happening with the Justice Department, why aren't they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her dossier, and the kind of money... Despite publicly proclaiming in February that he wasn't aware of any campaign aides having contact with Russians, Papadopoulos' plea indicates that Trump, like Sessions, participated in a conversation about Papadopoulos' Russia contacts - contacts that Papadopoulos boasted could allow him to arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. Read More »
Pope decries wars past and present
Pope Francis called war "the destruction of ourselves" in an emotional homily given yesterday (3 November) at a U.S. military cemetery in Italy as he marked All Souls' Day commemorating the dead. Along with the Pope, the governments of China , Japan, and South Korea have called for restraint in the midst of Trump's handling of the crisis with North Korea, urging him to call Kim to the negotiating table. Read More »
Supreme Court to Hear LP Case Today
The opposition Liberty Party - and its candidate Charles Brumskine - had argued that gross irregularities had been committed by the National Election Commission in the first round on October 10. The Commission has since ruled out any major irregularities that could warrant the overturning of the entire votes, though it did not dispute claims that there were challenges on polling day. Read More »
Time to boot out those who have looted Himachal: PM Modi
Earlier in the day, responding to remarks by the BJP chief ministerial candidate in Himachal Pradesh Prem Kumar Dhumal on their party's fight against corruption, senior Congress leader and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday said BJP "s main achievement is 'ease of doing corruption". Read More »
A Look At Recent Insider Trades For Wynn Resorts, Limited (WYNN)
The stock traded on unusually build up volume of 3.46 Million comparing to the average volume of 1810.11 shares, completing picture of exact trends with uncompleted dots in volume over the norm. Also, President Matt Maddox sold 42,900 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 15th. Wynn Resorts, Limited earned a media sentiment score of 0.16 on Accern's scale. Read More »
Lebanon PM Saad Hariri announces surprise resignation
The 47-year-old was appointed prime minister in late 2016, leading a 30-member government that included Hezbollah. Hariri slammed Iran's "grip" on the country and said Iran "and its affiliates" in the region will "not prevail". This surprise move will strike Lebanon hard, throwing the country into uncertainty while being in the middle of serious regional tensions. Hariri also said that Hezbollah's policies have put Lebanon "in the eye of the storm". Read More »
Russian Federation introduces reciprocal measures against 'hypocritical' Canadian sanctions
All assets of persons subjected to sanctions are frozen and those individuals are banned from entering Canada, it said. Canada announced the sanctions on Friday against Russian officials it accused of complicity in the death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 while he was in prison after alleging state tax fraud. Read More »
3 killed, several injured in stampede in Bihar's Begusarai
The cause of stampede has been learned as a false rumour that created a panic-like situation among the pilgrims. "The news agency took it to Twitter to broke the news and wrote, "#SpotVisuals: "3 dead & 10 injured after the stampede at Simaria Ghat in #Bihar's Begusarai ". Read More »
Turkey: 2 killed in raid on suspected PKK hideout
The clashes erupted while the terrorists were trying to infiltrate into the Derecik border town's rural area from Iraq, the Daily Sabah reported. An Interior Ministry statement said 19 rebels were killed in the clash as well as a wider, air power-backed operation launched to catch the militants. Read More »
Federal Bureau of Investigation finds second Uzbek sought over Manhattan terror attack
The FBI had released an alert saying they were seeking information about the second man, Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, 32, in connection with the attack . Kadirov was located after the wanted poster went out, William Sweeney, assistant director-in-charge of the New York FBI office, told a news conference. Read More »
BIGG BOSS 11: Puneesh Sharma PEES in his trousers!
After many arguments which took place between Shilpa and Vikas, the task got over and Vikas become one of the winners as he had the maximum number of point. After two failed attempts and no instruction from Bigg Boss , he climbs the roof in order to run away from the house, but fails. Later, Bigg Boss instructs Luv to release contestants from the jail. Read More »
US, Russia Pushing Competing Plans At UN On Syrian Chemical Attacks
Lavrov also said it was important to bring the steps of the joint mechanism of the United Nations and the OPCW probing into the chemical attacks in Syria to conformity with the standards of the Convention for the Prohibition of Chemicals Weapons in what concerns the cases where incapacitating chemical substances were used in the course of the conflict in Syria. Read More »
Established manager admits he is keen on Sunderland job
In a rare interview with the club's website, Sunderland's American owner - who is looking for his ninth manager in six years after sacking Simon Grayson on Tuesday night - said it was untrue that he no longer cared about a concern he has tried and failed to sell in the last year. Read More »
Trump's Death Penalty Call Jeopardizes Fair Trial
The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility, without giving evidence, for a truck attack in New York City earlier this week that killed eight people, the deadliest act of suspected terrorism to strike the city since September 11, 2001. Read More »
Polk County deputies arrest woman riding horse for DUI
CBS reported that Byrne was arrested and booked into the Polk County jail. A passerby called the Sheriffs Office after noticing Byrne appeared "confused and possibly in danger", according to an arrest affidavit. Deputies say she had a strong odor of alcohol. So does a DUI charge fit this case? When it comes to DUIs, Central Florida sheriffs aren't horsing around. Read More »
Monster courgette mistaken for Second World War bomb in Germany
Though World War II has been over for more than 70 years, unexploded bombs are still periodically found throughout the country. When police arrived, they found a 16-inch zucchini, which "really did look very like a bomb". The vegetable was a dark colour and weighed a whopping 5kg (11 pounds). The outlet notes that WWII-era bombs have been unearthed in Germany before, sometimes necessitating evacuations before authorities can defuse them. Read More »
British PM May: UK Will "Absolutely Not" Apologize for Balfour Declaration
We are proud of the relationship we have built with Israel". After reminding critics the time had come to acknowledge the past, the British leader canvassed the chances of a lasting Middle East peace settlement. Netanyahu and May met Thursday in London prior to the dinner. Despite giving one of her most pro-Israel speeches to the audience at the Jewish News/Bicom Balfour 100 event, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, left listeners in no doubt where she stood on the vexed ... Read More »
N. Korea slams 'frenzied' United States over B-1B bombers
Pyongyang claimed the exercises , also involving South Korean and Japanese fighter jets, were a "surprise nuclear attack drill" simulating an attack on key North Korean targets. In Hawaii, Trump was huddling with leaders of the U.S. Pacific Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the region. The bombers were accompanied by Japanese and South Korean fighter jets. Read More »