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Loved ones of those killed at last week’s tragic Bronx fire shed tears and vented anger on Monday, demanding “accountability” from the mom whose toddler touched off the deadly blaze. About 50 mourners prayed and lit candles at a vigil outside of fire-gutted 2363 Prospect Ave., where 12 people perished Thursday in the city’s deadliest...

Liberian President-elect George Weah has declared the country open to investment and pledged to tackle entrenched corruption, in his first speech to the nation since decisively winning an election last week. Speaking in front of reporters and aides packed into a small conference room at his party headquarters, Mr Weah thanked his predecessor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, for enabling Liberia’s first democratic transition in over 70 years but said he was determined to usher in sweeping changes. Читать дальше...

MOTION PICTURE Picture, drama: “Call Me by Your Name,” “Dunkirk,” “The Post,” “The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Picture, musical or comedy: “The Disaster Artist,” “Get Out,” “The Greatest Showman,” “Lady Bird,” “I, Tonya” Director: Guillermo Del Toro, “The Shape of Water”; Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”; Ridley Scott... Читать дальше...

To win a national title, Kirby Smart will have to break an ugly streak.

The Dawgs and Tide will meet in SEC country to play for it all.

The Georgia Bulldogs were the first team to punch their tickets to the 2017 college football season’s national title game, beating Oklahoma in an absolute classic in the Rose Bowl semifinal on New Year’s Day. It’s their first-ever Playoff semifinal win.

They will face No. 4 Alabama, which blew out Clemson in the Sugar Bowl edition of their three-year rivalry. The Tide ... are not making their first title run. They pretty much always do this. Читать дальше...

With reference to the letter titled ‘The PN’s destiny’ by Arthur Muscat (December 11) allow me to point out that, according to information I received, party officials and two deputy leaders of the Nationalist Party were free to decide whether they would remain in their position or not and were never forced to resign from their respective posts (after the June 3, general election). I would like to thank former party officials, former deputy leaders and the outgoing party leader for services rendered. Читать дальше...

Seoul is proposing to hold high-level talks on January 9 with Pyongyang at the demilitarized zone between the two countries, South Korea's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said Tuesday.

TEHRAN: A policeman was shot dead as fresh protests broke out in Iran on Monday while the authorities moved to crack down on days of unrest across the country.

President Sauli Niinistö was photographed recording his traditional New Year’s Speech in the Presidential Palace on 29 December, 2017.

Country music star Carrie Underwood said Monday that a Nov. 10 fall outside her Nashville home was worse than previously reported. "In addition to breaking my wrist, I somehow managed to injure my face as well," she wrote in a message to her fans. "I'll spare you the gruesome details, but when I came out of surgery the night of my fall, the doctor told Mike that he had put between 40 and 50 stitches in." (Mike Fisher is Underwood's husband.) She added that she is "not quite looking the same,"... Читать дальше...

The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development (AIED) has described the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to jettison the nationwide demand for restructuring in Nigeria as a retrogressive and callous act.

The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development (AIED) has described the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to jettison the nationwide demand for restructuring in Nigeria as a retrogressive and callous act.

The concept of supernatural beings of great power drove the imagination of Americans before Europeans ever arrived here. America remains fascinated with superpower beings, or superheroes and superheroines, stemming all the way back to Action Comics from the 1930s, and exploding today in the forms of blockbuster action flicks and the multivariate artifacts of their downstream marketing. But today we would like to highlight a creature so fantastic that it has captured the psyche of native cultures literally for centuries... Читать дальше...

Japan’s Nippon Life Insurance Co, which recently struck a deal to buy about a quarter of US investment firm TCW Group, is scouting for opportunities to buy boutique managers of bonds and alternative assets, its president said. “Asset management is a business that can generate synergy with life insurance and it needs to be operated globally. We have been looking widely for potential partners,” Yoshinobu Tsutsui told Reuters in an interview. The bulking up of asset management overseas by Japan’s largest... Читать дальше...

It’s been nearly 25 years since FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully tackled their first case on “The X-Files,” which premiered on Fox in September 1993. The series, which grew to encompass two big-screen movies, a spinoff (“The Lone Gunmen”) and merchandising, returns for its 10-episode 11th season Wednesday with stars David Duchovny (Mulder),...

Jahlil Okafor’s integration to the Nets lineup is back on. Coach Kenny Atkinson said the recently acquired center — sidelined to get up to speed with his new teammates — should return to the court Wednesday versus the Timberwolves. “I expect to see him against Minnesota. I think I’ll start to get him some minutes,”...

Reacting to the article titled ‘No deterring bus lane bravado’ (December 27), the local cycling commuting group, BAG, pointed out that drivers who abuse and illegally use the priority vehicle lanes also put cyclists’ lives at risk. With few urban cycle lanes, the Bicycle Advocacy Group pointed out that these are often one of the few urban infrastructures that should make cycling easier. Often, the case is completely the opposite. Not only do people on bicycles have to cope with illegal drivers speeding past queues of stuck traffic... Читать дальше...

Der oberste iranische Führer, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hat ausländische Kräfte beschuldigt, für die Eskalation der Proteste im Iran verantwortlich zu sein. "Die Feinde des Iran haben in den letzten Tagen den Unruhestiftern Geld und Waffen sowie politische Unterstützung zur Verfügung gestellt, um dem Iran zu schaden", sagte Khamenei am Dienstag in einer ersten Reaktion auf die Proteste.

Erstmals seit Beginn der Proteste im Iran hat sich das geistliche Oberhaupt des Landes, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, zu Wort gemeldet und die "Feinde" des Iran für die Unruhen verantwortlich gemacht. Es handle sich um eine Verschwörung, um die iranische Führung zu unterwandern und anzugreifen, hieß es am Dienstag in einer im Staatsfernsehen veröffentlichten Erklärung.

Im Zusammenhang mit den Protesten im Iran sind bisher insgesamt 21 Menschen getötet worden, darunter 16 Demonstranten. In der Hauptstadt Teheran wurden in den vergangenen drei Tagen nach Angaben der Behörden rund 450 Menschen festgenommen. 200 Menschen seien am Samstag festgenommen worden, 150 am Sonntag und rund hundert am Montag, sagte ein Vertreter des Gouverneurbüros von Teheran.

Bei den größten Protesten gegen die iranische Regierung seit 2009 hat es nach tagelangen und landesweiten Demonstrationen mindestens 13 Tote gegeben. Erstmals seit Beginn der Proteste am Donnerstag beklagte auch die Polizei ein Todesopfer. Bei einer Kundgebung in der Stadt Najafabad habe ein Demonstrant mit einem Jagdgewehr auf Beamte gezielt und den Polizisten getötet, sagte ein Polizeisprecher.

The APS Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale is a large-scale contemporary art exhibition directed by Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci. The museum is currently filled with contemporary artworks and site-specific installations by 25 local and international artists, which all focus on the theme: ‘The Mediterranean: A Sea of Conflicting Spiritualities’. Participating artists hail from Malta, the UK, the US, Germany, Austria, Russia, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Lithuania, Georgia, Latvia, France, Lebanon, Poland, Serbia and Australia. Читать дальше...

Originally published by the Jerusalem Post. 

If the Iranian regime is unable to brutally stomp out the countrywide protests raging through the country, and if the protesters achieve their goal of bringing down the regime, they will go down in history as the saviors of millions of people not just in Iran but throughout the world.

Given the earth shattering potential of the protests it is extraordinary to see the liberal media in the US and Europe struggle to downplay their significance. Читать дальше...