Month: December 2019

In a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Denver on Dec. 16, two women have alleged that they were sexually assaulted on Frontier Airlines flights by fellow passengers — and the airline failed to respond to their requests for help. The suit, which was first reported by The Denver Post, includes…

Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images Two women are suing Frontier Airlines, alleging in a lawsuit that the company mishandled their sexual assault complaints in two separate incidents. The women said they both reported their allegations to flight attendants immediately, but that the attendants didn’t notify authorities on the ground and the airline didn’t…

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) – At least 30 people were killed in fighting between militiamen and traders in a restive district of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, a security official and a local imam said Thursday. “Thirty bodies have been brought to the mosque,” said Awad Al Karim, the imam of…

China, Iran and Russia will hold joint naval drills starting on Friday in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman, China’s defence ministry said on Thursday, amid heightened tension in the region between Iran and the United States. China will send the Xining, a guided missile destroyer, to the drills, which will last until Monday…

PODGORICA (Reuters) – Hundreds of backers of Montenegro’s pro-Serb opposition took to the streets of the capital Podgorica on Thursday, rallying against a law they say would strip the Serbian Orthodox Church there of its property. Click Here: azzaro parfum Ahead of a vote on the draft Law on Religious Freedoms, expected later on Thursday…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s Parliament adopted a contested law on religious rights Friday after chaotic scenes that saw the detention of all pro-Serb opposition lawmakers. The vote followed nationwide protests by supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church who said the law would strip the church of its property, including medieval monasteries and churches. The…

PODGORICA (Reuters) – Montenegro’s parliament approved on Friday a law on religious communities despite street protests and a last-minute attempt in the chamber by deputies of the pro-Serb opposition to prevent the vote going ahead. Under the law, religious communities in the tiny Adriatic state would need to prove property ownership from before 1918, when…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Burning Man organizers sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to recover millions of dollars they say the government has overcharged them in fees over the past seven years at the counter-culture celebration in the Nevada desert. Black Rock City LLC, the nonprofit that produces the annual Burning Man event, filed…

Anyone expecting senators to behave like jurors in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is bound to be disappointed. In ordinary criminal trials, we disqualify jurors if they know the defendant, the witnesses, or even the latest news. If we applied those standards to senators, we’d have to disqualify the entire Senate. Fortunately, it is possible for…

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s feud with President Donald Trump has covered all manner of topics, including taxes, immigration policy and whether America was ever “great.” Now, however, the governor has brought their skirmish to a whole new battleground: marriage. In an end-of-year kibosh, Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have permitted federal…