Archive du mois : janvier 2018
A US plan to form a new border security force in the northeast of Syria has drawn condemnation from major powers in the region, including Turkey and Russia. Under the plan, the US-led coalition fighting against ISIL in the war-torn area would recruit 30,000 fighters into the new force, according to US officials. Turkish President…
Updated January 16, 2018 15:50:11 Video: David and Louise Turpin have been arrested and charged with the torture of their 13 children. (Image: Facebook/David-Louise Turpin) (ABC News) Thirteen siblings, ranging in age from two to 29, were rescued by police in California from a house where some of them had been chained to beds, and…
A prominent Yemeni activist who used social media to document the war that has ravaged his country has been released by Houthi rebels after more than five months in detention. Hisham al-Omeisy, 38, was freed on Monday along with two other prisoners accused of being loyal to Yemen’s slain former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, sources told…
A new report released by the international watchdog organisation Freedom House has raised concerns about Tunisia’s democratic backslide. Data analysed by the NGO from 195 countries over the past year showed that Tunisia was still the only free country in the Arab world, but the North African state saw its political rights rating decreased from…
Houston’s James Harden, Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green pushed into the LA Clippers’ locker room Monday night looking to confront Austin Rivers after the Rockets’ 113-102 loss, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Die Logik einer Bombe ist unbestechlich, mit ihr lässt sich nicht streiten. „Es werde Licht!“, mit diesen Worten endet die Science-Fiction-Farce „Dark Star“ von 1975 über den Sternenzerstörer gleichen Namens – und mit ihnen beginnt auch die Karriere des Regisseurs John Carpenter. Dem Absolvent der einflussreichen Regieklasse der University of Southern California (USC) gelang gleich mit seinem…
Carillion bosses face an investigation into a “shameful” bid to protect their bonuses before the firm went bust, with the company’s collapse now threatening to turn into a major corporate scandal. The Government warned directors of the firm, which handled hundreds of public contracts, that they would be hit with “severe penalties” if found guilty…
by Ian Hanchett15 Jan 20180 15 Jan, 201815 Jan, 2018 On Monday’s broadcast of CBS’ “Late Show,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that President Trump can begin to prove he’s not racist or bigoted by supporting the bipartisan immigration compromise. Schumer said Trump’s comments “over and over and over again can be described…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The parents are held on charges of torture and child endangerment Two parents have been arrested in California after police found they allegedly kept their 13 children captive at home, some « shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks ». David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were…
Enlarge / Entrance of Hernan Cortes into Mexico In the wake of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, waves of epidemics slammed Mexico. By 1576, the population, which had been more than 20 million before the Spanish arrived, had crashed to two million. One brutal outbreak in 1545 was estimated to have…
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