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Top Vatican cleric Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sex crimes
- February 27, 2019
Pell was considered one of the Pope's closest advisers and spent five years overseeing the Vatican's finances. The former Vatican treasurer had fended off multiple allegations of sexual abuse until now. Cardinal George Pell , Pope Francis' top financial adviser and the Vatican's economy minister, bowed his head but then regained his composure as the 12-member jury delivered unanimous verdicts in the Victoria state County Court on December 11 after more than two days of deliberation. (more...)
- February 27, 2019
Pell was considered one of the Pope's closest advisers and spent five years overseeing the Vatican's finances. The former Vatican treasurer had fended off multiple allegations of sexual abuse until now. Cardinal George Pell , Pope Francis' top financial adviser and the Vatican's economy minister, bowed his head but then regained his composure as the 12-member jury delivered unanimous verdicts in the Victoria state County Court on December 11 after more than two days of deliberation. (more...)
Vietnam Is an Intriguing Model for North Korea
- February 27, 2019
If you do nuclear, that can't ever happen. He cautioned, "it may not happen, but I hope that it will". "I'm not in a rush", he said. As long as there's no testing, we're happy. He got a red-carpet welcome with honor guard, military band and fluttering North Korean and Vietnamese flags. And many voices in the Trump administration, including national security adviser John Bolton, have expressed skepticism that North Korea would ever live up to a deal. (more...)
- February 27, 2019
If you do nuclear, that can't ever happen. He cautioned, "it may not happen, but I hope that it will". "I'm not in a rush", he said. As long as there's no testing, we're happy. He got a red-carpet welcome with honor guard, military band and fluttering North Korean and Vietnamese flags. And many voices in the Trump administration, including national security adviser John Bolton, have expressed skepticism that North Korea would ever live up to a deal. (more...)
Pakistan shoots down two Indian military aircraft
- February 27, 2019
He said Pakistan would cooperate with India in an investigation concerning the suicide auto bombing by Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police on February 14. The CAA tweeted that it "has officially closed its airspace until further notice", while a Pakistani military spokesman said the decision had been taken "due to the environment". (more...)
- February 27, 2019
He said Pakistan would cooperate with India in an investigation concerning the suicide auto bombing by Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police on February 14. The CAA tweeted that it "has officially closed its airspace until further notice", while a Pakistani military spokesman said the decision had been taken "due to the environment". (more...)
J&K: Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter crashes in Budgam
- February 27, 2019
An aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on Wednesday morning. There has been no official confirmation of what caused the crash. "The IAF team will investigate the crash site and provide more details", said Superintendent of Police, Nagpure Amod Ashok. According to Indian media, the Srinagar Airport has been shut down. (more...)
- February 27, 2019
An aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on Wednesday morning. There has been no official confirmation of what caused the crash. "The IAF team will investigate the crash site and provide more details", said Superintendent of Police, Nagpure Amod Ashok. According to Indian media, the Srinagar Airport has been shut down. (more...)
Gardaí issue warning about disturbing Momo 'game' encouraging children to self harm
- February 27, 2019
The death of a teenager in India has also since been linked to the game. "One video of such interaction... shows an ominous sounding voice recording being sent to a child telling them to take a knife to their own throat". Within 48 hours of each other, a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy took their own lives after playing the game, which they discovered through the Facebook-owned WhatsApp communication tool. (more...)
- February 27, 2019
The death of a teenager in India has also since been linked to the game. "One video of such interaction... shows an ominous sounding voice recording being sent to a child telling them to take a knife to their own throat". Within 48 hours of each other, a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy took their own lives after playing the game, which they discovered through the Facebook-owned WhatsApp communication tool. (more...)
Kushner says US Middle East peace plan addresses borders
- February 27, 2019
Kushner described the plan as "very detailed", touching on all aspects of the conflict, including the "redrawing of boundaries and resolving final status issues". Abbas has refused to discuss any peace plan with the United States in the wake of Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017. (more...)
- February 27, 2019
Kushner described the plan as "very detailed", touching on all aspects of the conflict, including the "redrawing of boundaries and resolving final status issues". Abbas has refused to discuss any peace plan with the United States in the wake of Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017. (more...)
Sanders campaign loses three top staffers
- February 27, 2019
Sanders also refused to call Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro a dictator because he claimed that Venezuela still had "democratic operations taking place". "(The senator) busted his tail to fly all over the country to talk about why it made sense to elect Hillary Clinton and the thanks that (we) get is this kind of petty stupid sniping a couple years after the fact". (more...)
- February 27, 2019
Sanders also refused to call Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro a dictator because he claimed that Venezuela still had "democratic operations taking place". "(The senator) busted his tail to fly all over the country to talk about why it made sense to elect Hillary Clinton and the thanks that (we) get is this kind of petty stupid sniping a couple years after the fact". (more...)
US firms in China worry bilateral ties will worsen
- February 27, 2019
Trump is also obsessed with America's massive trade deficit with China, $336 billion in 2017 and likely higher past year. It was in the middle of that period that Trump gave China 90 days to agree to a deal or face a rise in tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of its exports to the United States. (more...)
- February 27, 2019
Trump is also obsessed with America's massive trade deficit with China, $336 billion in 2017 and likely higher past year. It was in the middle of that period that Trump gave China 90 days to agree to a deal or face a rise in tariffs from 10 percent to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of its exports to the United States. (more...)
Pakistani military downplays Indian air raid, says bomb caused no damage
- February 26, 2019
He paid tribute to the military and said: "I assure the nation that the country is in safe hands". Gen. Asif Ghafoor, the director-general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's public relations arm, said that the Indian aircraft had not hit any targets of significance. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
He paid tribute to the military and said: "I assure the nation that the country is in safe hands". Gen. Asif Ghafoor, the director-general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations, the military's public relations arm, said that the Indian aircraft had not hit any targets of significance. (more...)
Lukau's resurrection story crumbles, church claims man was 'undead' on arrival
- February 26, 2019
A woman who claims to be the resurrected man's landlord said the man died on Friday in her hands after a cough. According to Sowetan, Lukau's church now claims that the "dead" man was actually "already alive" when his "body" got to the premises and that Lukau had only "completed a miracle that God had already started". (more...)
- February 26, 2019
A woman who claims to be the resurrected man's landlord said the man died on Friday in her hands after a cough. According to Sowetan, Lukau's church now claims that the "dead" man was actually "already alive" when his "body" got to the premises and that Lukau had only "completed a miracle that God had already started". (more...)
Sterling rallies as May prepares to rule out no-deal Brexit
- February 26, 2019
The Labour leader told a heated meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday night: 'The Prime Minister is recklessly running down the clock, in an attempt to force MPs to choose between her botched deal and a disastrous No Deal. "She promises a short extension but for what?" The Prime Minister added: "An extension can not take no deal off the table". "If they are satisfied that the effect is the same, then for me that is good enough", he said. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
The Labour leader told a heated meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday night: 'The Prime Minister is recklessly running down the clock, in an attempt to force MPs to choose between her botched deal and a disastrous No Deal. "She promises a short extension but for what?" The Prime Minister added: "An extension can not take no deal off the table". "If they are satisfied that the effect is the same, then for me that is good enough", he said. (more...)
Mum and daughter 'team up’ to slaughter FIVE family members
- February 26, 2019
Trash was piling up outside, a neighbor told NBC affiliate WCAU , and no one would answer the door to the ground-floor unit in Morrisville, Pa., a borough just across the Delaware River from Trenton, N.J. Further details surrounding the deaths of the victims have not been released by authorities. Morrisville Chief of Police told Levittownnow.com that "there were no obvious signs of trauma". (more...)
- February 26, 2019
Trash was piling up outside, a neighbor told NBC affiliate WCAU , and no one would answer the door to the ground-floor unit in Morrisville, Pa., a borough just across the Delaware River from Trenton, N.J. Further details surrounding the deaths of the victims have not been released by authorities. Morrisville Chief of Police told Levittownnow.com that "there were no obvious signs of trauma". (more...)
Michael Cohen to Accuse Trump of Lying and Potentially Criminal Conduct
- February 26, 2019
Cohen is scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives oversight committee Wednesday in a public appearance that is expected to focus on alleged misdeeds by Trump during his presidential campaign and after his election. On Nov. 29, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress by telling lawmakers in 2017 that all efforts relating to the Moscow project had ceased by January 2016. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
Cohen is scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives oversight committee Wednesday in a public appearance that is expected to focus on alleged misdeeds by Trump during his presidential campaign and after his election. On Nov. 29, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress by telling lawmakers in 2017 that all efforts relating to the Moscow project had ceased by January 2016. (more...)
At least 150 die from tainted liquor in India's northeast
- February 26, 2019
As many as 331 people have been admitted to hospital, government officials said. The first four victims were from Halmira Tea Estate in Golaghat . Over 100 people died after consuming illicit liquor in the two states earlier this month. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
As many as 331 people have been admitted to hospital, government officials said. The first four victims were from Halmira Tea Estate in Golaghat . Over 100 people died after consuming illicit liquor in the two states earlier this month. (more...)
'Chilling' testimony promised from Trump's former lawyer
- February 26, 2019
Cohen's public testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee won't touch on certain subjects that remain under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller's team. His three-year prison term had been expected to begin on March 6, but a judge recently approved Cohen's request for a two-month delay because of shoulder surgery and his preparations for his testimony before Congress. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
Cohen's public testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee won't touch on certain subjects that remain under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller's team. His three-year prison term had been expected to begin on March 6, but a judge recently approved Cohen's request for a two-month delay because of shoulder surgery and his preparations for his testimony before Congress. (more...)
Python travels 9,300 miles in unsuspecting woman’s bag onboard flight
- February 26, 2019
An Australian snake is a long way from home after hitching a ride in a woman's bag on her flight home to Scotland . The shoe was then packed into a suitcase, and the snake discovered 9,300 miles later, as she unpacked. Her son-in-law Paul Airlie , who lives with his family in Mackay , said the find was certainly a surprise. "Snakes are as foreign to a Scot as snow is to a Queenslander", he added. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
An Australian snake is a long way from home after hitching a ride in a woman's bag on her flight home to Scotland . The shoe was then packed into a suitcase, and the snake discovered 9,300 miles later, as she unpacked. Her son-in-law Paul Airlie , who lives with his family in Mackay , said the find was certainly a surprise. "Snakes are as foreign to a Scot as snow is to a Queenslander", he added. (more...)
Everything Meghan Markle wore during her royal tour of Morocco
- February 26, 2019
She continued conversing in the language throughout her time with them while her husband admitted that he didn't "speak much French" and asked if the girls spoke English. Markle arrived in Casablanca on Saturday in a stunning custom red dress by Valentino that honored the country's flag and featured a short, subtly embellished cape. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
She continued conversing in the language throughout her time with them while her husband admitted that he didn't "speak much French" and asked if the girls spoke English. Markle arrived in Casablanca on Saturday in a stunning custom red dress by Valentino that honored the country's flag and featured a short, subtly embellished cape. (more...)
Democrats will subpoena Mueller's Russian Federation report if needed, lawmaker says
- February 26, 2019
With Democrats taking control of the House in January and Schiff now the committee chairman, he has undertaken his own investigation. "We will, obviously, subpoena the report", Schiff told ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos in an interview. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
With Democrats taking control of the House in January and Schiff now the committee chairman, he has undertaken his own investigation. "We will, obviously, subpoena the report", Schiff told ABC "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos in an interview. (more...)
Analysts urge caution over hopes for US-China trade solution
- February 26, 2019
Describing his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping , US President Donald Trump resorted to pantomime and stereotypes, including a " glasses " gesture that left some US officials laughing but his critics not amused. As CNN pointed out , the Shanghai Composite index ( SHA:000001 ), which is the equivalent to the S&P 500, Dow Jones, or NASDAQ indexes; rose over 5% on the news, this was the largest daily gain for the index since 2015. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
Describing his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping , US President Donald Trump resorted to pantomime and stereotypes, including a " glasses " gesture that left some US officials laughing but his critics not amused. As CNN pointed out , the Shanghai Composite index ( SHA:000001 ), which is the equivalent to the S&P 500, Dow Jones, or NASDAQ indexes; rose over 5% on the news, this was the largest daily gain for the index since 2015. (more...)
'Ice Tsunami' Caused By Windstorm Prompts Evacuations Along Lake Erie
- February 26, 2019
Large chunks of ice could be seen slamming into the wall. David Piano shared these photos. That ice then flowed downstream and caused concerns about possible ice-jam flooding on Cayuga Island in Niagara Falls. Those winds were described as "very strong" and "damaging" by the office. "Buildings which are under construction and older, deteriorating buildings may experience significant damage or even collapse", the NWS said. (more...)
- February 26, 2019
Large chunks of ice could be seen slamming into the wall. David Piano shared these photos. That ice then flowed downstream and caused concerns about possible ice-jam flooding on Cayuga Island in Niagara Falls. Those winds were described as "very strong" and "damaging" by the office. "Buildings which are under construction and older, deteriorating buildings may experience significant damage or even collapse", the NWS said. (more...)
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