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Valletta, Malta — A Maltese special operations team on Thursday boarded a tanker that had been hijacked by migrants rescued at sea and returned control to the captain, before escorting it to a Maltese port. Italy’s hard-line interior minister slammed the migrants as pirates but aid groups rejected that label, saying the European Union’s policy […]

Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John say they are boycotting Brunei-owned hotels over the country’s implementation of harsh new criminal sentences.The penalties, based on Islamic law, include death by stoning for gay sex and amputation for theft.The boycott was kicked off by actor George Clooney last week, who admitted he’s stayed in some of […]

A San Francisco woman is pleading for help after, she says, witnesses told her that her brother is being tortured so violently in a Saudi prison it could end up killing him, CBS San Francisco reports. Areej Sadhan said Abdul Sadhan, 35, was arrested in March of 2018 at his office in Saudi Arabia. He […]

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a throng of dignitaries and well-wishers looking on, a small Israeli spacecraft attempted to pull off the first privately-funded non-superpower moon landing Thursday, but the lander apparently crashed to the surface after engine trouble and communications glitches during the final descent. “We had a failure in the spacecraft,” […]

North Korea has test-fired a “new-type tactical guided weapon,” its state media announced Thursday, a move that could be an attempt to register the country’s displeasure with currently deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States without causing those coveted negotiations to collapse. The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, observed the firing by the Academy of […]

— Jim Ross, who is doing a bunch of media today promoting WWE’s upcoming show in Oklahome, spoke out on a few things in a radio interview with rock station 100.5FM KATT out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma this morning. Ross talked about Hogan only receiving a $250,000 paycheck for a match at SummerSlam and then […]

The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight reported cases of serious depression among employees at France’s main telephone and internet company over three years. In a long-awaited trial in Paris, the former president of France Telecom defended himself Tuesday against accusations of moral harassment. Once a state-owned monopoly, France Telecom transformed […]

A top defense official suggested Russia might have illegally tested low-yield nuclear missiles, effectively violating a 1996 international ban on nuclear tests.  Speaking Wednesday at the Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank, Lt. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr., director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said the U.S. believes Russia “probably is not adhering to […]

The 40th birthday of Ironman was always going to be a special race, and so it proved with the Kona debut of Javier Gomez, course records broken, emotional stories of redemption and some heavyweights showdowns between the world’s greatest long-course athletes. Advertisement Grabbing the headlines in the men’s elite event was Patrick Lange, who broke […]

A two-night NXT TakeOver event will officially be part of WrestleMania 37 week. Click Here: aviron bayonnais rugby jerseys It was announced tonight that NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver will take place on Wednesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 8. This will be the first two-night TakeOver special in NXT history. The first night of […]