Month: July 2020

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) The following are highlights off…

Six months after crowning their first-ever AEW World Champion, they officially have their second as Jon Moxley pinned Chris Jericho at AEW Revolution Saturday in Chicago, IL, to win the title. The match was the culmination of a feud that started on the Dynamite after November’s Full Gear pay-per-view. It was a wild and bloody…

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) The following article is part…

At least 35 guests at a wedding party, including children, were killed during a raid by Afghan forces on a nearby militant hideout, local officials have said. The Afghan defence ministry said the raid in Helmand province struck a militant base being used to train suicide bombers. The operation killed 14 Taliban fighters and six…

Hong Kong police on Sunday toughened their crowd control measures, pushing back forcefully with tear gas and water cannons against pro-democracy protesters as tensions continue to spike ahead of China’s National Day celebrations on Tuesday.  Running street battles with the riot police began in the early afternoon after thousands of demonstrators descended on Hong Kong’s normally crowded…

Bernie Sanders had a heart attack this week, his presidential campaign has confirmed after days of limited information about the condition that hospitalised him.  The Vermont senator, 78, felt chest pains on Tuesday night and was taken to a hospital in Las Vegas, disrupting his campaign to win the Democratic presidential nomination.  The Sanders campaign…

Jane Fonda has been arrested at a climate change protest in Washington DC. The 81-year-old actress was detained on the steps of the US Capitol, handcuffed, and escorted into a police vehicle. Fonda was one of 16 people arrested for unlawfully protesting, and was charged with "crowding, obstructing or incommoding". She was released hours later….

The US on Thursday announced a 120-hour ceasefire by Turkey in northeastern Syria to allow Kurdish fighters to withdraw from the region, in an apparent endorsment of the aims of the Turkish offensive. Mike Pence, the US vice president, said that the Trump administration had also agreed not to implement the “massive” new sanctions it had…

The mothers of two Myanmar men sentenced to death for the murder of a pair of British backpackers in Thailand submitted a plea for clemency from the Thai king Thursday, in a case tainted by claims of irregularities. Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were sentenced to death by Thai courts for the rape and murder of…

CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary groups operating with impunity are summarily executing civilians during botched night-time raids and are responsible for the disappearances of suspects, a rights group said Thursday. The secretive militias, whose support from America’s Central Intelligence Agency continues a tradition stemming from the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s, have long hunted the Taliban and are seen as an important…