‘Go Back To Your Bunker,’ Seattle Mayor Tells Trump In Spat Over Protests
SEATTLE: Seattle’s mayor told Donald Trump to “Go back to your bunker” on Thursday, escalating a spat after the president threatened to intervene over a police-free autonomous zone protesters have set up in the western US city. The reference to a “bunker” was a nod to reports Trump was rushed by Secret Service agents to […]
Delhi: Coronavirus patients being treated worse than animals: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Friday termed the situation in Delhi “horrific” and said that bodies are being found in garbage and that Covid-19 patients are being treated “worse than animals”. “COVID-19 patients are treated worse than animals. In one case, a body was found in garbage,” the court said and asked the Delhi government to […]
Schools reopening delayed in China after three new virus cases emerge in Beijing
BEIJING: Beijing said Friday it would delay primary school students returning to class after three fresh coronavirus cases emerged in the capital — the first after two months of no infections in the city. China has largely brought domestic coronavirus infections under control, and the majority of cases in recent months have been overseas nationals […]
Trump says chokeholds by police should generally ‘be ended’
President Donald Trump says he’d like to see an end to the police use of chokeholds, except in certain circumstances. “I don’t like chokeholds,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel that aired Friday. “Generally speaking,” he said, the practice “should be ended.” But Trump also talked at length about a scenario in which […]
Sushant Singh found dead in Mumbai
Actor Sushant Singh has passed away at 34. He was found dead in his apartment in Mumbai. While there was no note, the Mumbai Police is ruling it a suicide. “Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide, Mumbai Police is investigating,” said a spokesperson of Mumbai Police. Singh had made his debut in 2014’s Kai Po Che and went […]
Twitter shuts thousands of accounts linked to China, Russia, Turkey
Twitter on Friday said it had removed tens of thousands of “state linked” accounts used by China, Russia and Turkey to push their own propaganda, sow misinformation or attack critics. By far the biggest network uncovered was linked to China, the US social media giant said, comprised of a “highly engaged core” of 23,750 accounts that was boosted […]
Protesters Burn Down Wendy’s Restaurant Where Another Black Man Was Killed by Police
Protesters shut down a major highway in Atlanta on Saturday and burned down a Wendy’s restaurant where a black man was shot dead by police as he tried to escape arrest, an incident likely to fuel more nationwide tensions over race and police tactics. The restaurant was in flames for more than 45 minutes before […]
American convicted of spying in Russia, gets 16 years
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court convicted an American corporate security executive Monday of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison after a closed trial that the U.S. denounced as a “mockery of justice,” and it angrily said his treatment in jail was “appalling.” Paul Whelan, a former Marine from Novi, Michigan, has […]
When does it stop?’ Slain man’s family makes tearful plea
ATLANTA (AP) — Pleading through tears Monday, the family of a black man killed by Atlanta police outside a drive-thru demanded changes in the criminal justice system and called on protesters to refrain from violence amid heightened tensions across the U.S. three weeks after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. An autopsy found that 27-year-old Rayshard […]
3 cops allegedly ingest bleach in their milkshakes at Shake Shack
Three New York City cops have been hospitalized after supposedly ingesting dye that had been placed into their milkshakes at a Shake Shack café in New York City. The episode happened on the night of June 15 when the three officials went to a Shake Shack eatery in Lower Manhattan when, sooner or later during their feast, […]
