ALMATY (Reuters) – A brawl and a series of clashes in several villages in Kazakhstan’s southern Zhambyl province have left a number of people dead and wounded, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Saturday, without providing any numbers. Police and the National Guard now have the situation under control, Tokayev said in a statement, ordering the
Gorgeous looks from the Canadian designer Kaela Kay (Photo: Courtesy Kaela Kay) Black-owned beauty businesses have been on a well-applauded rise in recent years. But when it comes to diversity in fashion, Black-led labels, especially in the luxury market, still feel like a rarity—save a few exceptions. Olivier Rousteing has been creative director at Balmain for almost
Netflix’s annual tradition of flooding your to-be-watched queue is already underway! It’s 2020 now, and it seems like the streaming service is already doing its darndest to match that number when it comes to its Netflix Originals output — OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but just a bit. Even if you’re still playing
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A Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 OneWeb satellites blasts off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan February 7, 2020. Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS/Handout via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) – The UK firm OneWeb launched 34 satellites from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on Friday as part of its effort to provide
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a campaign rally by U.S. President Donald Trump in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that Britain’s decision to let Huawei Technologies have a limited role in its 5G network remains a
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a statement about his acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said he is keeping Mick Mulvaney as his acting chief of staff, but there
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday declined to endorse an unusual suggestion from U.S. Attorney General William Barr that the United States consider taking control of two major foreign rivals of China-based Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. FILE PHOTO – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives in front of Senate Majority Leader
AMMAN/ANKARA (Reuters) – Wary of a confrontation with Turkey that could suck Moscow into a military quagmire, Russia is likely to take a gradual approach to helping the Syrian government capture the last rebel bastion of Idlib, analysts and diplomats say. FILE PHOTO: Trucks carry belongings of people fleeing from Maarat al-Numan, in northern Idlib,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, reeling from severe earthquakes last month and still struggling to recover from devastating hurricanes in 2017, would get nearly $4.7 billion in new aid under legislation passed on Friday by the House of Representatives. The Democratic-controlled House, by a vote of 237-161, approved the bill that
Steven FerdmanGetty Images Fashion week officially started yesterday, and Zendaya spent the first night fêting an incredible new achievement. The Euphoria actress has just been tapped as one of Bulgari’s new ambassadors. She attended the Brooklyn party for their new unisex B.zero1 Rock line and to celebrate the new role. Naomi Scott, EXO’s Kris Wu,
Phantogram have announced their new album. Entitled Ceremony, it’s due out on March 6th via Republic Records. Below, take a listen to the lead single, “Pedestal”. Ceremony follows Phantogram’s 2016 LP Three and marks the group’s fourth album overall. Written and produced entirely in Los Angeles, the duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter split the creative process between
A 19-year-old is dead after attending a drum & bass event this past weekend outside Birmingham at The Assembly Leamington after taking ecstasy and being refused tap water by staff. Of course, anyone taking drugs assumes the risk that comes with illegal action, but corroborating reports of poor ventilation and overcrowding in the venue spell
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, atop a ULA Atlas V rocket, stands at launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Steve Nesius/File Photo (Reuters) – Boeing narrowly missed a “catastrophic failure” during its December flight test of an unmanned space taxi that was
Akira Amari, Japan’s Minister for Economic Revitalization and Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy, addresses the session ‘Japan’s Future Economy’ during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich TOKYO (Reuters) – A group of Japanese ruling party lawmakers urged the government on Friday to issue
WASHINGTON/MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) – Pete Buttigieg narrowly won Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses, the state party said on Thursday, after a long delay in releasing the results of the first contest in the race to pick a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump. Buttigieg, the moderate 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, edged out progressive