It was not just a royal war between Gajapati emperor Gopinath Narayan Deo and his younger brother Sarbjgan Jagannath Narayan Dev over property share. Police on Thursday said the Maharaja had felt threat to his life from Sarbjgan for which the former sought security last year.
The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. ----------------- (LEAD) S. Korea to give funds provided by Japan to sexually enslaved victims SEOUL -- South Korea has decided to use Japan's comfo
Schrijfster Annejet van der Zijl, ontwerper en kunstenaar Joris Laarman en toneelregisseur Daria Bukvic zijn donderdag uitgeroepen tot de winnaars van de Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst 2016.
Manchester City’s new coach Pep Guardiola will be heading back to Barcelona after the Premier League club was pitted against his former team in the Champions League draw on Thursday. Guardiola, who also spent most of his playing career at the Catalan club, steered Barcelona to two Champions League titles as well as a number
State pension funds are looking at a $1 trillion shortfall in what they owe workers, according to The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Advantage, JPP. A Florida judge has set a trial date in Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul’s lawsuit against ESPN and Adam Schefter. Pierre-Paul claims that the network and its top NFL insider committed invasion of privacy by posting on Twitter one of Pierre-Paul’s medical records in July 2015. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the…
Barbra Streisand, “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway” (Columbia) On her new album of duets, Barbra Streisand is asked by one of her guest singers one of those ridiculous, starry-eyed questions that only someone who lives in an oceanfront estate in Malibu would consider. “Does the world ever frighten you?” asks Seth MacFarlane, with presumably a
Mike Benitez
Syria, Middle East
The roughest bar in a rough neighborhood, a bar called Syria has problems.
Author’s Note: I doubt any problem in history ever had a lone culprit. Sometimes one of the best tools is to approach the problem from not only a different angle, but a different lens, to truly comprehend the breadth, depth, and context of the issue at hand. Consider this an attempt at a comedic low-brow approach to understand a very serious high-brow, multi-faceted problem rooted in clashing ideologies. Читать дальше...
An artificially intelligent, autonomous Terminator killing machine that excludes or absolves human decision-makers of responsibility will likely be developed, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chair Gen. Paul Silva said on Thursday.
They're helping needy families in Cameroon as part of a Red Cross giveaway. And in Indiana, a kid got a soul serenade from Grammy winner Anthony Hamilton.
– A new group called RE-IPOB has broken away from the Biafra movement – Spokesman for the group, Ikemba Biafra says that the group will choose its leader on Monday, August 29 – RE-IPOB says it is ready to dialogue for an end to the agitation if the federal government is sincere The Biafra agitation […]
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Editorial Board Member Joe Rago on the Republican nominee’s softening stance on immigration. Photo credit: Getty Images.
After more than 17 hours buried under the rubble of a massive earthquake in central Italy destroyed almost an entire town, firefighters rescued a 10-year-old girl from the crumbling building where she lived, Time magazine reported Thursday. Rescue workers in the town of Pescara del Tronto, about 100 miles northeast of Rome, saw the girl’s legs and removed pieces of rubble to pull her out. “You can hear something under here. Quiet, quiet,” one rescue worker said, according to the Associated Press. Читать дальше...
China is taking a more inclusive tack in imposing cybersecurity standards on foreign technology companies, allowing them to join a key government committee in an effort to ease foreign concerns over planned domestically-set controls.
The aggressive use of monetary tools is as important as the target
Biden said he expected the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would close before President Obama leaves office in January.
Nintendo NX rumors tout more details about the console’s specs and game library. The system may support a Tegra X2 processor to play launch titles like “Metroid Prime 4.”
LOS ANGELES — Herb Alpert’s foundation has given $10.1 million to endow music education at Los Angeles City College. The gift announced Thursday will provide all music majors tuition-free attendance, additional private lessons and further financial aid. The musician says in a statement that LACC has helped many low-income students who have financial challenges. Forty
The Panthers gave Yandle a seven-year, $44.4 million contract over the summer.
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