GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to set up an investigation into mass killings during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called ‘war on drugs’, a step that activists said was long overdue. FILE PHOTO: Activists and families of drug war victims display placards during a protest […]
Daily Archives: July 11, 2019
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump welcomed prominent conservative social media provocateurs to the White House on Thursday and said that along with himself, they are being treated unfairly by big tech firms, which he says suppress conservative voices. Trump said he has told his administration to look for regulations […]
SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) – Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton would like more of the limelight on a crowded sporting Sunday that could see the Mercedes driver win his home British Grand Prix for a record sixth time. Formula One F1 – British Grand Prix – Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Britain […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee have urged the Trump administration to conduct a scientific review of a Justice Department-backed bill to classify all illicit chemical knockoffs of the potent painkiller fentanyl in the same legal category as heroin. FILE PHOTO: Plastic bags of fentanyl are […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Eduardo (L), the third son of Mr Bolsonaro (R), has a strong influence on his father Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil, has invited his son to become ambassador to the US. Eduardo Bolsonaro, 35, who is currently serving as a congressman and […]
The Malaysia Airlines 370 plane went missing in March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. While many still speculate over what happened on board, French investigators believe a murder-suicide is the most plausible explanation for the crash. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was […]
Mark Labbbett, 53, has been a regular fixture on the ITV programme The Chase since 2009 and has also appeared on the US and Australian versions of the show. But the quizmaster has now revealed he was previously a school netball coach after he posted his enthusiasm about the Netball […]
Mississippi has suspended the medical license of an OB-GYN physician amid several complaints about him, including that he had an affair with one of his married employees starting in 2015 and tried to insert abortion-inducing drugs into her while she was pregnant with his child. The baby was born in […]