Month: November 2019

Click here to read the full article. Blue skies were the order of the day for Thanksgiving in New York City. Last year the day was the coldest on record but 2019’s temperatures were positively balmy by comparison.  Nonetheless, it wouldn’t do to let all that specially purchased cold weather clobber go to waste. Read…

At a rally in Sunrise, Fla., on Tuesday night, President Trump declared a victory in the imaginary “war on Christmas” while warning of a new one: the war on Thanksgiving. “Some people want to change the name ‘Thanksgiving,’” Trump told his supporters. “They don’t want to use the term ‘Thanksgiving.’ And that was true also with…

By Jessie Pang and Martin Pollard HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police on Friday withdrew from a university campus trashed by weeks of clashes as pro-democracy activists canvassed social media to promote more protests at the weekend. Senior members of Hong Kong Polytechnic University toured buildings strewn with debris after police left, including a…

Piracy is undoubtedly one of the biggest threats the entertainment industry is facing. Within a matter of hours after the release of films, its pirated copies get uploaded on the internet and starts circulating in social media apps. In no time, it is seen or downloaded by millions of people who get it free on…

(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 Friday morning that he believes PolyU could be handed back to university management after dangerous…

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 food, ranked Zimbabwe among the four top countries facing severe food shortages outside nations in…

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 on the German garrison stationed there—kicking off with a star shell.  As RAF Hampden bombers…

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 declared a “climate emergency”. The symbolic vote by lawmakers was designed to pressure for action…

Mandatory evacuation, fires after Texas refinery explosion originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A mandatory evacuation and curfew were ordered following an explosion at a petrochemical refinery in Texas early Wednesday morning, officials said. (MORE: Explosion erupts at Texas chemical refinery, injuring at least 3 people) At least three tanks are on fire as responders work to…

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 that sent large plumes of dark smoke into the sky continued to burn Thursday at…