Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested.
Associated Press/Ted S. Warren A Pennsylvania school district equipped each classroom with rocks in case of active shooters. The superintendent said it’s meant to be a “last-ditch response to an armed intruder.” Schools have been floating various school-safety measures in the wake of last month’s high-school shooting in Florida. As school districts across the country […]
Rodrigo Duterte has once again harshly lashed out at UN human rights officials planning to probe alleged extrajudicial killings in his war on drugs, and claimed full responsibility for the “lawful” actions of law enforcers. This latest vulgar outburst against the international human rights officials comes a day after UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al […]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that Joss Whedon is leaving Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ Batgirl movie, two acclaimed female writers are looking to fill the now-vacated writing slot. Roxane Gay and Hope Larson separately chimed in on Twitter that they’re ready to dive in and take over should DC come calling, and […]
Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Coaches threw away skis after Wednesday’s practice runs at the Winter Olympics. Cold temperatures can cause snow crystals to form sharp edges and ruin the bottom of skis. Temperatures during the practice runs in the morning were in the single digits Fahrenheit. Six people were recently treated for hypothermia during a concert […]
THE olive branches may have run out from team captain Lleyton Hewitt but Australia’s Davis Cup players are still hopeful of a reconciliation with Bernard Tomic. Doubles specialist John Peers hoped Tomic realised his ex-teammates were “there for him” after admitting it was hard to watch his ill-fated stint on Network Ten’s reality TV show […]
LONG-TERM Socceroos coaching aspirant Graham Arnold has a bolt-from-the-blue suggestion as to who Bert van Marwijk might pick for the trip to Russia. Arnold, who will likely take over the national role after the World Cup, is a big fan of emerging Melbourne City talent Daniel Arzani. The forward hadn’t started an A-League game until […]
Pooja Bhatia is OZY’s former deputy editor, and her column, The Long Arc, weaves together the threads of politics, culture and history. In a storied address to the 1893 World’s Fair, Frederick Douglass pleaded the case of Haiti, “the one country to which we turn the cold shoulder.” Douglass, who had served as minister to […]
Getty Images/Pool President Donald Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shithole countries” in an immigration meeting Thursday, lawmakers have said. The remarks sparked an international backlash. They also may cause trouble at home, as difficult negotiations to avoid a government shutdown could become even trickier. President Donald Trump’s remark to a […]
Enlarge (credit: Vladimir Godnik/Getty Images) While everyone was screaming about Meltdown and Spectre, another urgent security fix was already in progress for many corporate data centers and cloud providers who use products from Dell’s EMC and VMware units. A trio of critical newly-reported vulnerabilities in EMC and VMware backup and recovery tools—EMC Avamar, EMC NetWorker, […]
President Donald Trump’s tweet describing Pakistan as liars and cheaters has provoked a wave of public fury in the South Asian country as Washington moved to withhold aid to Islamabad. On Tuesday, protesters rallied against Trump in the Pakistani port-city of Karachi, burning an effigy of the US president along with his portraits and US […]
