Month: November 2019

A blistering resignation letter from a member of the Kamala Harris campaign paints a picture of low morale among staffers of a directionless campaign with “no real plan to win” ahead of the crucial Iowa caucus in 2020. According to the New York Times, the sentiments expressed in a letter from now-former state operations manager Kelly Mehlenbacher…

OICHA (DR Congo) (AFP) – The Democratic Republic of Congo town of Oicha on Friday buried 27 victims of the latest massacre in the country’s volatile east, with hundreds paying homage while lashing out at security forces for failing to stop attacks. Mourners gathered in silence around the tiny morgue of Oicha, located near the…

WASHINGTON — Late last month, as damaging revelations about President Donald Trump began piling up in the impeachment inquiry, conservative commentators and activists, including one of the president’s sons, trained their anger on an unlikely target: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Graham, normally one of the president’s most ardent defenders in the Senate, had “not lifted…

Two Carnival Cruise Line passengers died in a bus crash while on an independent tour in Belize on Wednesday. “Sadly, two of our guests have died and the five others who were injured will continue their medical care in U.S.,” Robyn Fink, director of PR at Carnival, told USA TODAY in a statement. “Our Carnival CareTeam and…

ROME–The tattoo of a Nazi eagle above a swastika that spans the back of Francesca Rizzi leaves no doubt about her political ideology. The 36-year-old winner of an online beauty pageant in which she was crowned “Miss Hitler” was one of 19 people across Italy put under formal investigation this week for illegally forming a…

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. ambassador to Zambia said a high court ruling sentencing two men to 15 years in prison for homosexuality was horrifying. Click Here: brisbane lions guernsey 2019 Ambassador Daniel Foote urged the government to reconsider laws that punish minority groups. “I was personally horrified to read yesterday about the sentencing of two…

The charity Prince Andrew partnered with to help sex trafficked women in India has told the Telegraph it will “review” its connection to him in the wake of the Epstein scandal. Senior figures at the Women’s Interlink Foundation (WIF), with which the Duke started his Key To Freedom initiative in 2012, told the Telegraph they…

(Updates with residents, tourists stranded in Arizona town) By David Schwartz PHOENIX, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Some 1,000 people were stranded without heat or power in a small Arizona town near the Grand Canyon on Friday during a major winter storm that threatened to disrupt travel for millions as it moves east one day after…

A woman is suing a bar claiming bouncers stood by and watched as she was sexually assaulted in an alley. Video footage shows a man dressed in black opening the back door of the El Hefe bar and restaurant, in Chicago, followed by another man who appears to be holding the woman by the neck…

Baghdad (AFP) – By torching Tehran’s consulates and slapping their muddy shoes against photographs of top Iranian officials, Iraqi protesters have shattered a taboo on public criticism of their influential eastern neighbour. But even as it faces red-hot rage in the streets, Tehran has consolidated its influence within Iraq’s political class and among armed actors,…