Riots

Website of the Year World 8 Apr, 2021 08:18 AM3 minutes to read Hijacked cars burn at the peace wall on Lanark Way as rioting broke out in West Belfast. Photo / AP Rioters set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in the…

BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences on Thursday to call for calm after frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers helped trigger some of the worst violence in the region in years. Despite the appeals, clashes spread further into Irish nationalist areas on Thursday night…

Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) Wednesday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” likened the January 6 Capitol Hill riot to the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Cohen said, “We just celebrated Passover. On Passover, Jewish people are instructed over two centuries to remember 2,000 years, over 2,000 years, to remember that…

SFH meets with stakeholders on improving Hong Kong's electoral system (with photos/video) *****************************************************************************************      ​The Secretary for Food and Health, Professor Sophia Chan, hosted four briefing sessions today (April 7) and met with stakeholders of the catering, agriculture and fisheries, Chinese medicine and health services sectors to explain the improvements to the…

News Corey Connelly Saturday 3 April 2021Fr Leslie Tang Kai stands aside as Andrew Llanos washes the feet of his wife Dana at Scarborough RC Church on Holy Thursday. In his sermon on Good Friday the priest called on the PNM and PDP to work together to solve the THA…

Western criticism of the revamp should be dismissed as meaningless and empty. Worldwide electoral democracies are exhibiting serious flaws, and Hong Kong should not shudder at embracing new thinking Published: 3:30am, 4 Apr, 2021 Updated: 3:30am, 4 Apr, 2021 Read More

SED meets with education sector on improving Hong Kong's electoral system (with photos/video) ******************************************************************************************      The Secretary for Education, Mr Kevin Yeung, today (April 1) hosted two briefing sessions to brief and exchange views with members of the education sector on the amended Annex I to the Basic Law…

Elise Amendola/Associated Press New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft spoke with reporters Wednesday and offered some thoughts on the quarterback position, which Cam Newton occupies after re-signing with the team on a one-year deal this offseason. Regarding the struggles Newton and the Patriots offense endured, Kraft said in defense of…

Phoenix The helmet-wearing Idaho man photographed dangling by one hand from the Senate’s balcony during the Jan. 6 riot at the United States Capitol turned himself in six days later. While buckled in the vehicle delivering him to the Boise jail, Josiah Colt made a video apologizing and expressing shame…

Elise Amendola/Associated Press NFL insiders reportedly "believe" the New England Patriots are going to target a quarterback during the 2021 draft next month. "From what I can gather in terms of talking to other people around the league as well, in terms of what they think the Patriots are going…