Month: December 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts. In recent days, Trump shared an unsubstantiated media report and a second post…

Washington (AFP) – Donald Trump faced calls from his own party to show more restraint on Twitter amid a storm of outrage Sunday over the president revealing the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower who triggered his impeachment. Criticism has been growing since Trump retweeted an attack that included the name…

Donald Trump is facing criticism for retweeting the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint triggered the impeachment investigation into his dealings with Ukraine. The US president, who has 68 million followers on Twitter, escalated his row with the Democrats by sharing a post from one of his supporters purporting to disclose the whistleblower’s identity, including…

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Sudanese court sentenced 27 members of the national intelligence service to death by hanging on Monday over the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir. It was the first time courts have handed down convictions over crackdowns on…

Several police officers stormed into a home in North Carolina after the startled homeowners called to report an intruder in the middle of the night. The suspected burglar turned out to be a rogue robot vacuum cleaner. Over the holidays, Thomas Milam and his wife, Elisa, were watching a movie just after midnight when they heard a series of noises…

Click:bearing dealer A suspect has been arrested after five people were stabbed at a Hasidic rabbi’s New York home during a Hanukkah celebration, an attack Governor Andrew Cuomo has branded “domestic terrorism” that is part of a “cancer” of growing hatred in America. One person was very seriously wounded, the governor told reporters, and remains…

ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images; Alex Wong/Getty Images; DOMINIQUE JACOVIDES/AFP via Getty Images Five people were stabbed in a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York during a Hanukkah celebration on Saturday. Several people were gathered there when an attacker entered the home carrying a machete described by a witness as “the size of a broomstick.”…

Police struck a woman three times with a stun gun on her 70th birthday after she denied them entry into her home to search for her grandson, documents show. Barbara Pinkney from Manatee County, Florida was charged with obstruction and battery on a law enforcement officer on Thursday, according to an affidavit seen by NBC…

Bradenton, Florida — A sheriff’s deputy tased a 70-year-old woman three times while trying to arrest someone else at her home, reports CBS Tampa affiliate WTSP-TV, citing arrest reports. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were seeking someone wanted for carrying a concealed firearm on December 26. The arrest report said Barbara Pinkney met…

As Indian protests against a new citizenship law have intensified, so has police use of “lathis”, sturdy sticks used to whack, thwack and quell dissent since British colonial times — to sometimes deadly effect. At least 27 people have died in the past two weeks of protests, mostly from bullets, but hundreds more have been…