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Seit Kurzem regiert in Österreich die rechte FPÖ – und gibt sich ungewohnt handzahm. Hat sich die Partei geändert? 21. Dezember 2017, 20:22 UhrEditiert am 21. Dezember 2017, 20:22 Uhr Eine der ersten Ziele des neuen Vizekanzlers und passionierten Paffers Heinz-Christian Strache: Das Rauchverbot kippen. © Alexander Schwarzl Von Hunden, die bellen, heißt es, sie würden…
House Republican leaders quelled most of the squabbles among GOP lawmakers over a stopgap funding bill and were moving toward a vote, making a bid to force the Senate to accept their trimmed-down version of the plan to avert a government shutdown. The House Rules Committee sent to the House floor a measure that would…
Britney Spears is leaving 2017 — and Las Vegas — behind with a bang. In what ABC is calling the “first television performance of 2018,” the pop icon will treat viewers to renditions of her high-energy hits “Toxic” and “Work Bitch” on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018. Though the show airs…
A resounding majority of United Nations member states has defied unprecedented threats by the US to approve a draft resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The non-binding measure passed at a UN General Assembly emergency meeting on Thursday with 128 votes in favour and nine against, while 35 countries abstained. It passed despite…
The African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s ruling party, has resolved to « immediately and unconditionally » downgrade the South African Embassy in Israel to a liaison office. The ANC’s decision on Wednesday evening, announced during its 54th National Conference, came on the eve of a UN General Assembly emergency session where member states resoundingly approved a draft…
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. The EECOM console—that is, the mission control console responsible for the electrical, environmental, and (initially) communications of the Apollo command and service module—wound up being home to an outsized number of famous names. Perhaps most famous is…
The Houthi rebels’ December 4 execution of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh sent a massive shock across Yemen and the Middle East. The dictator, who ruled for 33 years, had remained one of the most influential actors in Yemen even after a 2011 popular uprising forced him to step down. Saleh, having survived assassination…
I can get down with some terrible Christmas movies. I’ve willingly watched Melissa Joan Hart and Mario Lopez have no chemistry in Holiday in Handcuffs. I was raised on Earnest Saves Christmas. And I’ll watch Love Actually any day of the week. So you know you can believe me when I say Netflix’s new El…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress, spending and the threat of a government shutdown (all times local): 10:10 a.m. President Donald Trump is calling on House Republicans to pass a spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. Trump says on Twitter Thursday that « House Democrats want a SHUTDOWN for the holidays in order to…
When Catalonia declared independence from Spain in October, it was the first time an elected government in Western Europe had declared independence from an unwilling host state since Ireland’s 1919 declaration of independence from Great Britain. Civil war did not follow Catalonia’s declaration as it did Ireland’s. Deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont says he backed…
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