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Angler from Apopka goes missing during fishing tournament on Lake Okeechobee
The boater Bill Kisiah has been located alive. Searchers found his partner and his boat, but Kayler is still missing. Professional angler Nik Kayler, 38, has not been seen over the past 24 hours after his boat capsized on Lake Okeechobee on Thursday. [Full Article...]
Angry travelers fight as flight delays continue at JFK
Flooding due to a water main break forced the suspension of worldwide flight arrivals at New York's John F. Kennedy global Airport on Sunday (Jan 7), adding to the misery of travellers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days. [Full Article...]
West Bengal youth held for proposing Sachin Tendulkar's daughter over phone
Dev Kumar, who has been picked up by Mumbai Police along with local police, has also tattooed Sachin daughter's name on his arm. The accused's family members claim that he was mentally unstable and did wrongful acts in the influence of this disorder. [Full Article...]
Haley's Iran Session at UN Turns Into Defense of Nuclear Deal
Up to 42,000 people have taken part in the protests. "The Iranian people are rising up in over 79 locations throughout the country", Haley told the council. "However worrying the recent events were, they did not constitute a threat to worldwide peace and security". "One U.S. resident took to social media to order the killing of our security forces ... [Full Article...]
Gulf World Rehabilitating More Than 200 Cold-Stunned Sea Turtles
The FWC asked that anyone who sees injured or distressed wildlife such as sea turtles report them to the Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-FWCC (3922). "And the wind was pretty bad so the water was churned up and muddy". When water temperatures fall below 50 degrees, the turtles can become stunned. Florida Fish & Wildlife staff, partners and permitted volunteers rescue cold-stunned sea turtles... [Full Article...]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-introduces anti-marijuana laws
The decision, which rescinds previous marijuana prosecution policies, comes just days after the State of California began legal recreation sales of marijuana on January 1. The former senior Justice Department official behind the decision to harmonize federal prosecutions with state legalization efforts during the Obama told CNN in a phone interview Thursday that it's uncertain how Sessions' new me... [Full Article...]
BJP won't cower down by CPI-M's violence: Amit Shah
But we do not want change for change's sake, neither for the sake of forming a government. Kulai, in Ambassa sub-division of Dhalai, is around 82km from here. Shah also said the Agartala airport will be named after Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur if the BJP was voter to power. "All criminals belong to CPM and the Left Front government is protecting them", he said. [Full Article...]
Prove Hindu credentials by banning cow slaughter, Adityanath tells CM
Farmers frustrated at un-remunerative prices for their produce had brought tonnes of unsold potatoes in tractor-trolleys, trucks and dumped them on roads, right in front of the CM House and UP State Assembly. Uttar Pradesh had a bumper potato crop with production touching a new record of 160 lakh metric tonnes in 2017. In September, the state government had rolled out saffron buses. [Full Article...]
Donald Trump will announce 'Dishonest and Corrupt' Media Awards
In fact, Stephen Colbert , the most anti-Trump of the anti-Trump late-night comics, is angling for a prize. "After provoking North Korea and then insulting Palestine, the President turned to America's greatest foe: the fake-news media", Noah said of Trump's announcement. [Full Article...]
Sydney swelters in hottest day since 1939 as mercury hits 47.3C
Fire warnings and bans were also issued across Sydney in response to the high heat threat that has caused multiple wildfires . Emergency services are bracing for what is predicted to be one of the hottest days of the year as a risky "blast furnace" moves across Australia . [Full Article...]
32 missing, oil tanker on fire after collision off China
An Iranian oil tanker carrying gas condensate collided with a Chinese cargo ship and exploded in the eastern coasts of China, Kasra Nouri, spokesman for the Iranian oil ministry, said January 7. It was not immediately clear how much environmental damage had been caused or the volume of oil spilled into the sea. It was due to arrive at Daesan in South Korea from Kharg Island in Iran on Sunday, ... [Full Article...]
Fire and Fury book an act of fiction; author a fraud
Bannon infuriated Trump with comments to author Michael Wolff describing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in NY between Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic ". Reagan, the Republican US president from 1981-1989, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994 and died in 2004. Trump, 71, issued the tweets from the presidential retreat a... [Full Article...]
FIR filed against newspaper, reporter
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body that runs Aadhaar, denied that the breach allowed access to millions of Aadhaar cardholders' details, saying demographic information can not be misused without biometrics ( See: UIDAI probing reported Aadhaar data breach, but denies information leak ). [Full Article...]
President Trump's aide says critical book is 'pile of trash'
Miller dismissed both Bannon and Wolff's credibility , saying the author was a "garbage author of a garbage book", and that claims in the book were "a pile of trash". Last year, in response to a report that Bannon's allies were distancing himself from him, Miller told the Daily Beast that his "friendship with Steve is stronger than ever". [Full Article...]
Donald Trump: China 'Caught Red Handed' Selling Oil to North Korea
Last month, South Korean authorities impounded the Lighthouse Winmore, a Hong Kong-flagged tanker suspected of transferring fuel to a North Korean ship while in worldwide waters. The newspaper said the ship was registered in Malaysia until mid-2017 and then switched to Panama. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered to send a delegation to the Games in South Korea in his New Year's address, an... [Full Article...]
Man killed after explosion near Stockholm subway station
Police told news agency TT that the killed man and the injured woman were a couple. The Swedish tabloids Aftonbladet and Expressen claimed the device may have been a hand grenade but Olsson dismissed that as speculation. Officials said the blast is not believed to be terror-related. A bomb squad was called to the scene to analyse evidence and look for additional explosives. [Full Article...]
Imran Khan's marriage proposal to faith healer Bushra Maneka!
The report stated that the PTI chairman started 2018 by tying the knot with the woman on January 1 in Lahore, and came straight from there the next day to appear before the anti-terrorism court in Islamabad that granted him bail. PTI leaders, however, denied the reports of their chief's third marriage. "Please accept my apology, ' it quoted him as saying - accusing him of 'parroting the same lin... [Full Article...]
Hurrah! Saudi King Salman Announce Special Allowance For His Countrymen
They are detained at Al-Hayer prison south of the capital pending their trial, " he explained. Saudi Arabia announced on Friday the transformation of Saudi Aramco into a joint stock company, in the preparation process for a planned 2018 initial public offering, which is expected to be the largest ever. [Full Article...]
United States aid cuts meant to arm-twist Palestinians
Netanyahu at his Sunday weekly Cabinet meeting also reiterated support for Trump's threat to cut aid to Palestinians. Earlier this week Trump said on Twitter that his government should stop the aid to the Palestinian government and to the United Nations aid agency because they are "no longer willing to talk peace" with Israel . [Full Article...]
How One Book Cracked Trump's Base
The credibility of the various accounts in Wolff's book have come under intense scrutiny; however, WIBC host Tony Katz notes that if Wolff does in fact have legitimate recordings of staffers talking about Trump, "all bets are off". And when Trump addressed reporters later, the Ivy League graduate was ready for the question. Reagan died in 2004, at age 93, from pneumonia complicated by the Al... [Full Article...]