London: French authorities boasted they had made a “record number” of arrests in Paris on Saturday, as they fought protesters for control of the streets. As evening fell, after hours of clashes between protesters and security forces, it appeared the authorities had gained the upper hand. People run from a burning car during clashes with police on Saturday in Marseille, […]

Three Michigan volunteer firefighters have been injured when they responded to a fire at their own station. Two Blissfield firefighters have been treated at a hospital for smoke inhalation and another has minor burns on his arm from battling the blaze Saturday morning. Someone walking by the unoccupied station saw smoke and reported it. Officials say two ambulances are a […]

Fearing “Act IV” of unrest, France to close Eiffel Tower, Louvre, at weekend France will close the Eiffel Tower and other tourism landmarks in Paris and draft in thousands more security forces on Saturday (Dec 6) to stave off another wave of violent protests in the country over living costs.  With protesters from the “yellow vest” movement calling on social […]

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a human rights pioneer and dissident who challenged the Soviet and Russian regimes for decades, demanding that they free political prisoners and establish democratic rights, died Saturday in a Moscow hospital, a Russian official said. She was 91. “She remained a human rights activist to the very end,” said Mikhail Fedotov, head of Russia’s Human Rights Council. “This […]

Police say a 22-year-old software engineer was found dead at the company’s New York City headquarters. Scott Krulcik was found unconscious on the sixth floor of the company’s offices in Chelsea at about 9 p.m. Friday. He was pronounced dead by Emergency Medical Service workers. Police say there were no signs of trauma and the death does not appear to […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would only be ready to discuss the fate of a group of Ukrainian sailors it captured last month after their trial was finished. The United States and the European Union have called on Russia to free the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were detained by Russia on Nov. […]

Colchester MP Will Quince has resigned as a ministerial aide to Gavin Williamson, and said he "implores" the Prime Minister to "find another way". Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Will Quince said: "I wanted to support this Withdrawal Agreement, and I still want to support it, but unless the backstop is addressed to include either an end date or a […]

Her autobiography, Becoming, was part of the biggest publishing deal in history, worth £51million. In its first week it sold a whopping 1.4million copies and it’s already on its sixth print run, even though it was published less than a month ago. Her ten-city book tour of the US sold out stadium-sized venues, with a star-studded string of hosts including […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan, in a major policy shift, enacted on Saturday a law to let in more foreign, blue-collar workers to ease a labor shortage, despite criticism it was too hastily crafted and risked exposing the workers to exploitation. Immigration has long been taboo in a country where many prize ethnic homogeneity, but the shrinking, aging population has increased […]

Tyson Fury’s wife reveals she lost their baby hours before his comeback fight and she kept it SECRET from him until after the bout was over Paris Fury, 28, did not tell her husband of the devastating loss at the time  She feared it may distract him from fight against Albanian Sefer Seferi in June Fury met Paris at the age […]