The question now is whether Britain will distance itself decisively from its ally, leaving the United States more isolated in the war on terror. Gordon Brown, the all-but-anointed prime-minister-in-waiting, restricts himself to tepid endorsements of Bush’s foreign policy and evidently feels no love for it. David Cameron, the fresh leader of the opposition Conservative Party, knows how to read the national mood. He is not going to pick up the pro-American baton....
title: “No Show” ShowToc: true date: “2023-02-01” author: “Donna Ruper”
New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, traveling with a Senate delegation, had to get a new passport recently because Saudi and Kuwaiti officials refused to honor a passport with a stamp from Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport. The 17-member delegation was denied meetings with any member of the Saudi government. Lautenberg has filed a complaint with the State Department. worry that President Bush’s latest appointee to the financially strapped center’s board, Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, won’t be much help as a fund raiser....
MORE: Biggest summer transfers | Soccer’s beautiful fans Off the field, this summer has seen him spend more than 60 hours on airplanes taking him from coast to coast stateside and all over the Brazilian map. On the field, the midfielder has continuously offered his box-to-box presence for club and country. Bradley began July by playing 120 minutes as the U.S. national team was eliminated from the World Cup with a second-round loss to Belgium....
Miller grew up not terribly far from here, in the part of the country where work ethic, grit and determination are considered to be part of the fabric, not some luxuries to be dispensed on those few days when the sun fails to shine. Many of his players did, as well: three members of Arizona’s seven-man rotation are native Easterners like Miller. So maybe there was a bit of incongruity to his message....
The Rockets, ranked 20th in the AP poll and 24th in the newly released College Football Playoff rankings, saw their dream of an undefeated season come to an end Tuesday night with a 32-27 home loss to Mid-American Conference rival Northern Illinois. MORE: First CFP rankings of season announced | Hayes’ Four In, Four Out The pumped-up Rockets jumped out to a 17-7 lead in the Tuesday night MACtion game, but the Rockets (7-1, 4-1 MAC) let the Huskies (6-3, 4-1 MAC) stick around....
The Nittany Lions’ only previous conference win came Feb. 4 against Northwestern. Penn State, which won the NIT last season, has shown the potential for a breakthrough despite its struggles; only three of its 11 conference losses have been by double digits. The first half concluded with a rare ejection of Michigan coach John Beilein, who received two technical fouls after the buzzer with the Wolverines trailing by 13 points....
Noah Green was shot and killed after allegedly driving his car into a Capitol Police barricade and charging officers with a knife on Friday, killing Officer William Evans and injuring another officer. A Facebook account believed to belong to Green was deleted from the platform within hours of the attack. In posts captured by Newsweek shortly before the page was taken down, Green described personal difficulties in recent months that included quitting his job to go on “a spiritual journey....
In an op-ed in The Guardian in September, Metuktire accused Bolsonaro of encouraging deforestation. “President Bolsonaro of Brazil is encouraging the farm owners near our lands to clear the forest-and he is not doing anything to prevent them from invading our country,” he wrote. The 89-year old Nobel Prize nominee responded by saying, “Bolsonaro said I was not a leader, but it is he who is no leader and should go....
No one’s sure how many street children live in Nairobi, but their numbers are increasing exponentially. By city council estimates there were roughly 60,000 four years ago; now social workers speak of 200,000–all between the ages of 1 and 18. Most are believed to be AIDS orphans or victims of Kenya’s unrelenting economic decline, cast out by parents no longer able to feed them. Once in the city, they survive on petty crime and odd jobs: they pick pockets, stalk and attack pedestrians, steal mobile phones, look after parked cars or run drugs....
Unfortunately, the game was postponed because the entire field was under water. MORE: Best MiLB states | 17-inning no-hitter | One game, one ball | Identity theft Game postponements are not exactly a rarity at Harbor Park. The stadium is located right on the harbor, which is not too far from Hampton Roads and the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. This was the fourth postponement of the season. The Tides will now have to play five games in three days in order to make up....
Fedora said the four players were suspended for a “violation of team policy,” but offered no other details about what rules were broken. The players suspended were sophomores Des Lawrence and Brian Walker, redshirt freshman Donnie Miles and true freshman M.J. Stewart. North Carolina has said it is conducting an investigation of what it described as an incident involving members of the team. That statement was released in response to a Yahoo Sports report, but did not confirm it was a hazing incident....
The country has said that since 2020 it has not recorded a single case of the virus because of its efforts to quickly shut borders, prohibit tourism and quarantine tens of thousands of people. On Wednesday, a WHO representative to North Korea said that the country has tested 23,121 people for the virus from the beginning of the pandemic until April 1 and that all results were negative, according to the Associated Press....
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort on New Year’s Eve, Trump claimed Kim had signed a “contract” on denuclearizing North Korea. But Professor Robert E. Kelly of Pusan National University in South Korea called this “a lie.” “This is just not true,” Kelly, a Korean affairs analyst, wrote on Twitter. “Kim signed nothing binding regarding nukes or missiles. No Kim ever has. “And Republicans used to know that the Kims shouldn’t be trusted....
Observers of North Korea reported that the parade began in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square at around 10 p.m. KST, according to NK News, which was approximately 9 a.m. EST. At least 12 “illuminated objects” were spotted flying over the capital city ahead of the festivities. Previously, it had been speculated that the parade might occur overnight on Sunday, but this did not end up happening. South Korean officials reported Sunday that its northern neighbor was planning to hold a late-night parade in Pyongyang to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA), according to the Yonhap News Agency....
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency first released images last week of supreme leader Kim Jong Un inspecting “a newly built submarine” that “will perform its duty in the operational waters of the East Sea of Korea,” reporting that “its operational deployment is near at hand” in a body of water also known as the Sea of Japan. As speculation mounted as to what kind of vessel was being constructed, the South Korean Defense Ministry held a closed-door meeting briefing top lawmakers....
Denis Pushilin, who has served as the DPR’s head since 2018, announced the news in a post on his Telegram channel. He called North Korea’s recognition of the republic as an independent state a “diplomatic victory.” Tass, Russia’s state-run news agency, said North Korea’s embassy in Moscow confirmed the country had recognized the independence of both the DPR and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), another pro-Russian separatist territory in Ukraine’s Donbas region....
In his first public appearance in three weeks, Kim set in place new policies to further ramp up the nation’s nuclear war deterrence during a meeting with the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Military Commission today, state news agency KCNA reported. The hermit kingdom’s move comes as Trump-led denuclearization negotiations have made little progress since late last year as the U.S. president continues to prioritize his domestic response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak....
Cybercriminals with links to a state-sponsored unit known as “Hidden Cobra” have been breaking into the websites of “large U.S retailers” and planting “skimmers” since at least May 2019, according to research released today by security firm Sansec. Skimming is the interception of details during online purchases, and is often referred to as a “magecart” attack. The process involves injecting malicious code into the store’s checkout page—directly or via third-party providers—then lurking for victims....
