Новости за 05.06.2019

Michael Mazza

Security, Asia

The United States cannot participate in the 2022 Olympics without signaling acquiescence to China’s most flagrant human-rights abuses.

Thirty years ago, the People’s Liberation Army marched on Beijing. Troops fired indiscriminately on unarmed civilians. Tanks crushed the innocent underfoot. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were murdered, while many others were thrown in prison for years or decades; some received lifetime sentences. Some protesters... Читать дальше...

HONG KONG - As a record 180,000 Hong Kong residents commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests with a candlelight vigil Tuesday night, attendees and organizer

A whopping 260 tonnes of mixed garbage and 50 tonnes of recyclable materials were collected during April’s Let’s Do It! Cyprus campaign, by far surpassing last year’s 31 tonnes of mixed garbage and 16.6 tonnes of recyclables. The number of volunteers also went up, from 46,185 in 2018 to 49,560...

As expected, the absence of superstar ratings magnet LeBron James and the virtual elimination of an entire U.S. media market has put a damper on the TV turnout for the NBA Finals. But take a step back from all the performative rending of garments and gnashing of teeth and the deliveries for the Golden State-Toronto series don’t exactly represent a catastrophic failure for advertisers or for the league itself.

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Love Island fans were in stitches as playboy Anton Danyluk was left all on his own after new boy Curtis Pritchard stole Amy Hart

Production has shut down almost entirely at the France plant which annually produces more than 600,000 jars.

Clark County commissioners recognized Liberace’s birthday Tuesday. He would have turned 100 years old this year.

BEIJING — This story was first published on June 5, 1989, two days after China began a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The AP is republishing the story for the 30th anniversary of the violence in which hundreds, if not thousands of people are believed to have died. Troops again opened

Astronomers eager to observe bizarre visitors to our neck of the Solar System were in for a real treat late last month as the rare double asteroid 1999 KW4 made a "close" pass of Earth at a distance of some 3.2 million miles. It was far enough away that the space rock didn't have a chance of posing a threat to our planet, but it was close enough that scientists were able to catch a glimpse of the special visitor. Asteroid 1999 KW4 isn't like many of the other space rocks that speed past our planet on their way around the Sun. Читать дальше...

The Korean Film Archive has been quietly uploading classics for well over a year now, making its YouTube page an invaluable resource for cinephiles.

Williams, 30, ranked 80th overall with a net worth of $225 million.

The wife of an NYPD sergeant who was gunned down by ex-con in the Bronx became emotional Tuesday when the three cops who put their lives on the line to defend her husband until his last moments were awarded the department’s top honor. “[I want to tell them] just how much I love and appreciate...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued the city of San Antonio...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts the recommendations of the Inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. And that includes the finding that actions have amounted to a genocide. Now, some who've studied genocide up close are concerned about the use of the term in the report. So what's the justification for the Inquiry's use of genocide? For that, the CBC's Andrew Nichols spoke with Fannie Lafontaine. She was the lead author on the Inquiry's 43-page legal analysis, and is the... Читать дальше...

YouTube outlined some of the steps it is taking to protect minors on its platform. The Google-owned video site said in a blog post that it updated its livestreaming policy to bar younger minors from livestreaming if they are not "clearly accompanied by an adult." New classifiers--machine learning tools that help identify specific types of...

The cause of the contamination of the silt at Market Slip will be difficult to pinpoint for a variety of reasons, according to the executive director of ACAP.

The San Diego parent of Ascent Student Lending said Tuesday that it will buy Skills Fund, an Austin, Texas, startup that specializes in lending to students at computer-coding boot camps.

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Who would have thought the guys behind "All Star" would end up being woke champions in 2019?

Train passengers were stuck for six hours in a tunnel outside Paris on Tuesday after their high-speed service suffered a power cut just minutes after departure, leaving them in sweltering heat, without electricity or working toilets. The train bound for Barcelona became trapped in the tunnel in the Yerres area outside Paris. French rail operator SNCF said the power failure lasted only 10 or 15 minutes but the train was unable to restart because of its position. A new train was sent in to shunt the stalled carriages along, but without success. Читать дальше...

June 4, 2019

MADISON, S.D. – Dakota State (S.D.) football head coach Josh Anderson is excited to announce the addition of Paytton Hobbs to the coaching staff.  He began his duties as the defensive coordinator for the Trojan football program last week.

All-American List

COLUMBIA, Ky. – Three members of the Lindsey Wilson softball team in Callum Pilgrim, Makea-Al Kaluau and Annabelle Ramirez were named NAIA Softball All-Americans, the national office announced Tuesday.

Pilgrim earned first team honors while Kaluau and Ramirez were all named to the Second Team. The three were instrumental in leading the Blue Raiders to both the MSC regular season and tournament titles, along with an appearance in the NAIA Softball World Series.