Create your page here
photo: AP / Isaac Brekken
Tyson Fury compared to Muhammad Ali after stunning win over Deontay Wilder
AOL 23 Feb 2020
Tyson Fury was put in the same breath as the great Muhammad Ali after his stunning display to stop Deontay Wilder and win the WBC world heavyweight title in Las Vegas ... British former world cruiserweight champion Glenn McCrory believes Fury is boxing his way towards being considered among the greatest of all time ... He will want none of that ... He wrote ... ....
photo: AP / Eric Gay
Bernie Sanders takes a commanding lead - is he now unstoppable?
ITV 23 Feb 2020
The race for the Democratic nomination has just passed a critical milestone. The presidential candidates have been tested in three key parts of the country. the American heartland (Iowa), the North-East (New Hampshire), and now in the racially diverse American West ... Hispanics flocked to his banner ... The battle of New Hampshire ... Credit. AP ... .......
photo: AP / Julius Constantine Motal
Hero in Hanukkah attack declining $20K reward over Zionism
The Journal 23 Feb 2020
An Orthodox Jewish man credited as a hero for attacking a knife-wielding man who stabbed five people during a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City is refusing to take a $20,000 reward from established Jewish groups because he considers them Zionists, according to a rabbi who knows him ... "That was what was on our minds." ... "We're letting it go....
photo: AP / Luca Bruno
Italy coronavirus cases rise to more than 100 - regional chief
Yahoo Daily News 23 Feb 2020
MILAN (Reuters) - The number of cases of coronavirus in Italy continued to rise on Sunday after the government passed a series of emergency measures to limit the spread of the outbreak in Europe's most affected country ... The measures were introduced just hours after two people died from the virus in the north of the country ... ....
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
Saudi-led coalition says foiled Red Sea attack by Yemen's Houthis
Yahoo Daily News 23 Feb 2020
DUBAI (Reuters) - Naval forces from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Sunday foiled an "imminent terrorist" attack by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in the southern Red Sea, a major commercial shipping channel, the Saudi-led coalition said ... ....
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
South Korea raises disease alert to top level as coronavirus cases soar
The Jerusalem Post 23 Feb 2020
SEOUL - South Korea raised its infectious disease alert to its highest level on Sunday as confirmed coronavirus cases in the country jumped to 602 and the death toll rose to five ... The woman had no recent record of overseas travel ... The Korea Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the number of infections had jumped by 169 ... ....
photo: AP / Michael Probst
‘As long as the AfD is legal, racism is legal’: Far-right party condemned as Germany struggles to combat extremism
The Independent 22 Feb 2020
As Germany‘s president expressed his sympathy and shock during a candlelight vigil for nine people killed by an immigrant-hating gunman, a woman called out from the crowd, demanding action, not words ... Download the new Independent Premium app. Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now ... Shape Created with Sketch ... Show all 8 ... 1/8. REUTERS....
photo: AP / Matt Dunham
Johnson’s Brexit flunkey sums up all that’s wrong with his master’s trade fantasies
The Observer 23 Feb 2020
Last week, an unelected special adviser delivered one of the most political and controversial speeches made by a British public official in recent times ... This betrayed a combination of ignorance, self-deception and vainglory that will ill serve our country ... He continued ... Read more ... It is a bewildering misreading of contemporary reality ... Play Video. 1.38....
photo: AP / Leo Correa
Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo
Wtop 23 Feb 2020
SAO PAULO (AP) — When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly three decades old ... “Gorgeous women wanted to be here. I’m very excited because this shows we can be anywhere ... We don’t get it so often ... Source ....
photo: Creative Commons / Hossein Zohrevand
Iran’s leader says fears of new virus used to stifle voting
Wtop 23 Feb 2020
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Officials in Iran haven’t announced the voter turnout from parliamentary elections two days ago, but on Sunday the country’s supreme leader accused enemy “propaganda” of trying to dissuade people from voting by amplifying the threat of the coronavirus ... sanctions piling pressure on the plunging economy ... Source ....
photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/Mikdev
Pope Francis appears to give thumbs down to Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan
Deccan Herald 23 Feb 2020
Pope Francis on Sunday warned against "inequitable solutions" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying they would only be a prelude to new crises, in an apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal ... 28 ... Francis has called for all to honour U.N. resolutions on the city ... GET IT. Pope Francis. Donald Trump. Middle East....
photo: AP / Michael Probst
Greta Thunberg scathing about politicians as thousands join Hamburg climate protest
Yahoo Daily News 23 Feb 2020
"If enough people get involved in making change happen, change can happen," the 17-year-old said. (Reuters/F. Bimmer). Greta Thunberg gave a rousing speech to several thousand people as part of a climate protest in Hamburg on Friday ... Read ... A performance from German hip hop group Fettes Brot preceded the Swede's speech ... ....
photo: AP / Alberto Pezzali
Block Julian Assange extradition, Harry Dunn’s family urges Government
ITV 23 Feb 2020
The family of Harry Dunn has called for Julian Assange not to be extradited as long as the US refuses to send the suspect in the teenager’s death back to the UK ... Their spokesman Radd Seiger said the Foreign Affairs Committee had accepted their request for an inquiry into the extradition, and to the diplomatic immunity granted to Mrs Sacoolas ... Credit....
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit
Palestinian killed, others injured by Israeli forces in southern Gaza
China.dot.org 23 Feb 2020
A Palestinian was killed and others were injured Sunday by Israeli forces' gunfire in southern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources ... He added that the soldiers responded by opening fire. . ....
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
Coronavirus: South Korea confirms huge rise in cases
BBC News 22 Feb 2020
Medical officials first announced 142 new cases on Saturday and then hours later increased the number by 87. In a statement, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said that of the 229 new cases, 95 were related to Daenam Hospital in Cheongdo ... They include 230 patients in a women's prison in Wuhan ... ....
