Month: October 2019

Yankees strike early against Astros, stay alive in MLB playoffs

DJ LeMahieu and Aaron Hicks homered as New York rocked star Houston pitcher Justin Verlander for four runs in the first inning Friday in a 4-1 win that kept the Yankees alive in the Major League Baseball playoffs. The Yankees, whose 40 World Series appearances have yielded 27 […]

Nets draw Hong Kong protest backers as NBA-China row simmers

Supporters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement made their presence felt Friday as the Brooklyn Nets played their first game in New York since they were caught in the middle of the NBA’s rift with China. Tensions between Beijing and the American basketball league erupted this month after Houston […]

Asylum-seeking Mexicans are more prominent at US border

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Lizbeth Garcia tended to her 3-year-old son outside a tent pitched on a sidewalk, their temporary home while they wait for their number to be called to claim asylum in the United States. The 33-year-old fled Mexico’s western state of Michoacan a few weeks […]

Hong Kong says murder suspect wants to surrender to Taiwan

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s leader said Saturday the murder suspect whose case inadvertently helped ignite the city’s protest movement wants to surrender to authorities in Taiwan. Carrie Lam told reporters that Hong Kong’s government would “actively follow up on” a letter she received from Chan Tong-kai requesting […]

Sharpton searches for the words to eulogize _ and galvanize

A life taken at the hands of police. A grieving family. A divided nation. A stirring eulogy by the Rev. Al Sharpton. The 65-year-old civil rights activist has become a constant of the Black Lives Matter era with his presence in the pulpit after police shootings of African […]

Batman is not a hero: Robert Pattinson

Los Angeles, Oct 19 (PTI) Robert Pattinson says he does not have a penchant for taking up the parts of a hero or a good guy and he believes the superhero character Batman is also not one of them. In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Pattinson […]

TSRTC bandh begins in Telangana

Hyderabad, Oct 19 : The state-wide bandh called by the striking employees of TSRTC pressing various demands, including merger of the corporation with the Telangana government, began on Saturday with the opposition parties actively supporting it. The bandh is being observed a day after the Telangana High Court had […]

Pak violates ceasefire along IB in JK’s Kathua

Jammu, Oct 19 : Pakistani Rangers violated ceasefire by targeting forward posts and villages with small arms firing along the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. The firing from across the border in Manyari-Chorgali area in Hiranagar sector was unprovoked and […]

Five of family burnt to death in Assam

Dibrugarh (Assam), Oct 19 : Five members of a family including two children were charred to death when a cooking gas cylinder burst triggering fire at their house in Dibrugarh district of upper Assam, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred at Niz Kodomoni near Thermal Colony in Dibrugarh […]

Smriti Irani to visit Amethi on Oct 20, 22

Amethi, Oct 19 : Union Minister Smriti Irani will visit her Lok Sabha constituency Amethi on October 20 and 22 and take part in a series of programmes, including a ‘Gandhi Sandesh Yatra’. On October 20, Irani will take part in the ‘Gandhi Sandesh Yatra’ along with other Bharatiya […]

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