(Bloomberg) — Police said they had lifted their blockade on Hong Kong Polytechnic University after officers cleared a campus that’s been besieged for nearly two weeks amid a violent standoff with demonstrators. Chow Yat-ming, the city’s assistant police commissioner, said […]
Harare (AFP) – Zimbabwe is facing “man-made” starvation with 60 percent of the people failing to meet basic food needs, a UN special envoy said Thursday after touring the southern African country. Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to […]
Two days after Christmas on the morning of December 27, 1941 the icy Arctic calm of the Norwegian islands of Vågsøy and Måløy was shattered 8:48 AM as four Royal Navy destroyers and the light cruiser HMS Kenya opened fire […]
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Almost half of all Europeans fear climate change more than losing a job or of a terrorist attack, a study by the European Investment Bank (EIB) showed on Thursday as EU lawmakers […]
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More than 50,000 people in southeast Texas will spend Thanksgiving away from their homes as evacuation orders remained in place after two powerful Wednesday blasts at a chemical plant in Port Neches, about 80 miles east of Houston. A fire […]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they suspected the father of a family that was found locked away in a farmhouse room of having sexually abused two of his nine children. Police discovered five siblings and their ailing […]
Dutch father who kept kids isolated for 9 years in a farmhouse, accused of sex abuse: Prosecutors originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The father detained for holding six of his children against their will in a remote Dutch farmhouse for nine […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch father accused of holding six of his children against their will on an isolated farm for nine years is now also suspected of sexually abusing two of his other children, prosecutors said Thursday. […]
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday during an Arizona campaign stop that the U.S. needs “an awful lot more immigrants rather than less” and promised to increase legal immigration as president. “We need immigrants to take all the different kinds […]