Новости за 20.09.2024

Retired engineer Kenneth Armitage, 81, died after falling through a hole in his bathroom that was left behind by workers as they completed a wet room conversion

TEHRAN, Sep. 20 (MNA) – The Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami says Tel Aviv would face a crushing response from the Axis of Resistance for its acts of terror in Lebanon.

(Telecompaper) Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair, the studio behind the viral hit game Palworld...

A signed electric guitar from the Bodyslam guitarist has been put up for auction, with the proceeds to be sent to help people affected by severe flooding across Thailand.

Poet and antiwar priest Daniel Berrigan wrote in his book The Nightmare of God, “We would like to think that the empire is virtuous. Or that it can be made so, converted, so to speak, by a large dose of civic virtue.” He concludes that it is not virtuous nor can it be made so. More

The numbers are clear. The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in November last year resulted in the release of 109 hostages. Compare that to Israeli military operations, which have managed to rescue 8 hostages while killing three by accident. The military has also recovered the bodies of another 34 hostages, including six killed shortly More

Finance minister calls on cabinet colleagues not to allow budget consolidation to slow down.

A lecture series can promise much.  But one run out of a corporatised university comes with its own burdens and blemishes.  There is the stifling sense of brand and name that hovers over proceedings.  The logo is everywhere, a permanent reminder about the role of the chief donor, sponsor or name of the individual associated with the event.  Then More

Tirupati laddoo row Chandrababu Naidu calls for review of temple food offerings

Shohei Ohtani produced one of the greatest individual performances in MLB history on Thursday night as he took his dominant first season with the Dodgers to new heights.

Claims that Nicaragua is “weaponizing” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the U.S. border have been appearing regularly in the media over the last twelve months. The claim was made on NPR in January, in the Associated Press last October, in El Pais last November and by the BBC this July, to cite More

It is the small details that tell the story of Palestine and the genocide.  This is what a friend relayed to me last week, as they explained the situation being lived in occupied Palestine, as the people endure the most obvious and well-documented genocide in human history. From afar we read the details and numbers of killed and injured, see More

The leadership of the 1.3-million-member Teamsters union official has no endorsement. But Teamster President Sean O’Brien has tacitly endorsed Donald Trump for president—by attending and speaking at the Teamster convention, by ensuring that the union’s executive board which he dominates voted no endorsement for U.S. president, and by releasing polls that claim a majority of More

Press freedom struggled when a federal tax agency looked into The Davis Vanguard, a community news outlet based in  Yolo County, one of 58 in California. Just ask David Greenwald, founder, editor and executive director of The Davis Vanguard,  https://www.davisvanguard.org. In 2021, a private attorney who attended law school with the Yolo County District Attorney filed an More

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I get it. No one wants to be a jerk or impolite as they set out on their personal effort to change the world or even their home town. So they go to Town Council meetings, and meet with the local legislators and even Congressional representatives to make their well-researched case for cleaner air, safer More

Here’s a swell idea. We’ll bury a bunch of nuclear bombs on the Alaska North Slope right near the Chukchi Sea, detonate them, and create an artificial harbor. Not really sure how it will affect people, animals, plants, or water in the area…but we’ll find out afterwards. This was seriously advocated in the late 1950s More

In 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reported that one in 1,000 Black men in the U.S. are killed by police. Statista states that between 2015 and August 2024, Black U.S. residents were fatally shot by law enforcement officers at a rate of 6.2 per million of the population per year More

The Nifty Realty index was trading 1.1 per cent up at 1080.75.

LAHORE: After the PML-N-led coalition failed to table a contentious ‘Constitutional Package’ in parlia­ment due to an inability to convince Maulana Fazlur Rehman — a former ally of the PML-N — questions are being raised over the role of PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, who remained conspicuous by his absence from the scene, despite the tough time being faced by his party.

Andy Mahler says he was stunned at his friends’ reactions to news that he has Stage 4 cancer. “Steve, this is where I’m so humbled and grateful, because I had no idea,” he told me, while resting on a downed, bench-sized tree limb in his beloved Orange County woods. After his doctor said Andy’s hip More

Ajit Pawar says he is saddened to learn about the death of the EY employee “due to stress”

(Telecompaper) New Zealand wholesaler Chorus has announced that Drew Davies has been appointed to the role of chief operating officer from 14 October 2024, filling...