Month: March 2021

Guatemala City — A large truck slammed into a crowd gathered on a dark highway in western Guatemala Wednesday night, killing at least 18 people and possibly many more. Bodies were left scattered on the roadway, and officials initially said more than 30 people had been killed. Local fire department spokesman Cecilio Chacaj said people…

London — U.K. politicians have put forward a “Green New Deal” in the British Parliament in the same week a progressive climate change plan of the same name was rejected by lawmakers in the United States. The American legislation, backed by Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has gained significant publicity around the world.But the concept of…

A sex scandal with #MeToo implications is shaking up Korea’s $5 billion K-pop music industry.Entertainment companies invest up to $100,000 in training and housing children as young as 11 in conditions akin to indentured servitude.Shares in YG Entertainment, which manages a K-pop star at the center of the scandal, are down 27 percent.K-pop is one…

Washington — In an unprecedented step to ramp up pressure on Tehran, the Trump administration is planning to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization.” A U.S. official confirms to CBS News that it could happen as soon as Monday. The move is expected to further isolate Iran and could have widespread implications for…

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published an analysis on the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal, blaming it on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and church laws that protected priests. Benedict also claimed that “homosexual cliques” once existed in seminaries. Benedict provided no basis for his claim about the cliques, which he said “acted…

A tour bus carrying German tourists crashed on Portugal’s Madeira Island on Wednesday, killing 29 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said. The bus, which was carrying 55 people, rolled down a steep hillside after veering off the road on a bend east of the capital, Funchal, and struck at least one house, local…

— The Sun has a new interview with John Cena, which you can read at this link. He had a lot to say regarding Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, noting that Johnson always wanted to be an actor and that he set the precedent of using professional wrestling as a stepping stone. Cena said, “…And Rock…

Colombo, Sri Lanka — A series of explosions followed by a shootout between Sri Lanka’s military and suspected Islamist militants erupted overnight, less than a week after suicide bombers unleashed a series of devastating attacks that killed more than 250 people on Easter Sunday.  A military spokesman said the militants are believed to be a part…

A 5-year-old boy in Afghanistan who lost his leg when he was just a baby received a prosthetic one recently – and his reaction to the new limb is going viral. The video of the boy dancing with his prosthetic leg was posted by the International Committee of the Red Cross Afghanistan, which shared some…

The town council in Newhaven, England, agreed to commemorate American rapper Eazy-E with a memorial bench – even though no one on the council knows who he is. Eric “Eazy-E” Wright was a founding member of N.W.A., which pioneered rap in the late ’80s with their iconic album “Straight Outta Compton.” Eazy-E died in 1995…