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…

Ben Stiller en victime d’une escroquerie financière qui décide de se venger : c’est le programme de “Tower Heist”, comédie d’action signée Brett Ratner, avec aussi Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick et Casey Affleck, et dont la bande-annonce est en ligne. Il y a 10 ans, George Clooney, Brad Pitt et Matt Damon faisaient main basse…

Lockheed Martin, the American aerospace and defence major, has proposed to manufacture custom-built F-16 fighter jets in India. The company officials say that it will give Indian industry a unique opportunity to become part of the world’s largest fighter aircraft ecosystem. “We plan to introduce two new words into the lexicon of international fighter aircraft…

CUTCHOGUE, NY — In late March, Debbie Horton of Cutchogue was facing the unknown when her husband Rick was admitted to the hospital with the new coronavirus. The hardest part, Horton told Patch, was the complete loss of control. “I can’t hold his hand,” she said at the time. “I can’t go in and see…

VAN NUYS, CA — Two men are out on bail after assaulting a Van Nuys Target security guard who confronted them for not wearing a mask in the store, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The confrontation, which occurred at about 10:20 a.m. May 1, left the security guard with a broken arm, according…