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When former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori shut down his country’s Congress in 1992, the then pro-democracy government of Venezuela broke diplomatic relations with Peru, Argentina withdrew its ambassador, and Chile and several other countries officially requested that Peru be suspended from the OAS. And the OAS pr...
Nothing even close to that happened after Thursday’s arrest of Ledezma, one of Venezuela’s top elected officials and leading opposition figure. At the time of this writing, no Latin American government had issued a strong condemnation of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s arbitrary arrest of Ledezma, nor requested a...
Maduro, who only earlier this month led official celebrations to honor a 1992 coup attempt by late President Hugo Chávez, has accused Ledezma and other opposition leaders of “conspiring and organizing” violent anti-government actions, which they categorically deny.
On Friday, outgoing OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza expressed his “alarm” over the latest events in Venezuela. But in the absence of any member country request to hold an extraordinary meeting, the group is basically watching Venezuelan events from afar.
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) announced Friday it will send a delegation of foreign ministers from Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia to Venezuela at a yet to be determined date to observe the situation on the ground.
That may be good news for Maduro, since UNASUR is the regional group most sympathetic to his government. Last year, UNASUR dispatched the same three countries’ foreign ministers to Venezuela for an alleged mediation effort after student protests in Caracas left at least 43 dead.
But the UNASUR mediators not only failed to broker an agreement between Maduro and the opposition, but helped Maduro win precious time to diffuse the protests. The three countries’ foreign ministers did not get the release of all students arrested during the protests, nor a commitment from Maduro to meet some basic dem...
Earlier, in 2013, UNASUR had rushed to bless Maduro’s dubious election victory, after a pro-government electoral tribunal had proclaimed him winner by 1 percent of the vote despite opposition charges of massive fraud.
UNASUR President Ernesto Samper called Friday for “dialogue” in Venezuela, and criticized U.S. sanctions against about five dozen Venezuelan officials suspected of human rights abuses and corruption.
My opinion: I agree. Trouble is, the regional community is leaderless. It’s no surprise that Venezuela’s closest allies — the populist demagogues ruling in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Argentina –— have remained silent.
What’s more difficult to understand is Mexico and Brazil’s failure to ask regional organizations to meet their duty and demand the respect for democratic institutions in all member countries.
Because of that, the OAS, UNASUR and other regional groups are increasingly looking as protectors of government abuses, rather than of democratic freedoms.
The stars came out to share their summer plans and shout above the crowded red-carpet din at Monday night's Critics' Choice Television Awards given by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. Watch the highlights!
Honoring programs and performances that aired between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013, stars such as Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter, Shameless vixen Emmy Rossum, Archer and The Talk's Aisha Tyler and and Bryan Cranston with the cast of Breaking Bad were on hand to rub elbows with good friends whi...
Big winners of the night included The Big Bang Theory for Best Comedy Series and Behind the Candelabra as Best Miniseries of Movie, while Breaking Bad tied with Game of Thrones for Best Drama Series and Duck Dynasty and Push Girls tied for Best Reality Series.
KIEV (Reuters) - About 2,000 Russian servicemen have been killed so far in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Friday, citing intelligence data.
It was not possible to independently confirm the figure.
Russia denies sending its troops into Ukraine in support of pro-Russian separatists battling the Kiev government’s forces. Kiev and its Western backers say there is overwhelming evidence to prove the direct involvement of Russian troops in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow said Russian soldiers recently captured by Ukrainian forces had lost their way during a training exercise.
The United Nations has put the total death toll in the Ukraine conflict, which erupted in April, at more than 2,600 people.
EXPRESS SPORT brings you the Premier League table for Gameweek 21.
Chelsea leapfrogged Manchester United in the Premier League table after their 5-0 destruction of Stoke at Stamford Bridge.
Jose Mourinho's side are now third after failing to find a way past a resilient Southampton side at Old Trafford.
Manchester City's incredible run of victories came to a dramatic end after a 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace – with Ederson saving a penalty in the 91st minute.
Liverpool came from behind to beat Leicester 2-1 thanks to another Mohamed Salah brace, while Swansea scrambled away from the bottom after two late goals to stun Watford.
Take a look through the gallery to reveal the Premier League table.
a software upgrade that gives your UMPC a fresh, Vista-like look. It's a brand new interface that addresses a few problems on current UMPCs where drilling down to your media isn't as fast as it should be. For starters, the Origami Experience brings a new Home screen to your UMPC. Instead of seeing the image below, you'...
Likewise, the Music and Video sections will also sport a new Windows Media Player 11 look as you can see from both images below (the first image is the old interface followed by the new Origami Experience UI).
Overall, the upgrade looks very promising and appears to fix some of the awkwardness found on early UMPCs. It's not clear whether any UMPC will be able to download the upgrade, but we'll report back on that as soon as we find out. Now all that needs to be addressed are the hardware and price of these UMPCs.
UPDATE: Laila Ali is speaking out after accidentally hitting an elderly man with her car. In the statement shared to Instagram, she wrote, "As was reported, I was involved in a minor parking lot accident yesterday. I am okay, and am praying that the elderly gentlemen who was walking behind my car as I was backing up is...
Her daughter Sydney was also in the car at the time of the incident, but is "okay."
She concluded her message: "I am thankful for the medical responders and La county sheriff's department, both of whom arrived promptly and tended to the situation with urgency and calm. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me concerned."
Laila Ali accidentally sent a man to the hospital.
The Lost Hills Sheriff confirmed to E! News that the former pro boxer hit a pedestrian with her car on Tuesday. According to the Sheriff, Ali stayed on the scene and was not believed to be cited in the incident.
The reportedly elderly man was in stable condition and transferred to a nearby hospital, the Lost Hills Sheriff confirmed. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the accident took place in the Calabasas Commons area around 2:40 p.m.
According to TMZ, the Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident as an accident.
E! News has reached out to Ali's rep for comment.
She has not addressed the accident publicly as of yet.
The retired athlete did take to social media earlier in the day to pay tribute to her famous father, Muhammad Ali, with a snap of the father and daughter boxing together.
The iconic boxing champion died two years ago in June 2016.
This story was originally published on Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018, 6:14 a.m. EST.
Twitter says it will ban or restrict advertisements related to cryptocurrencies in an attempt to crack down on fraud. The move follows similar steps by Facebook and Google earlier this year.
Twitter said the new rules will roll out starting Tuesday and will apply to all advertisers in about a month. The new policy prohibits ads for initial coin offerings, in which a startup issues a currency that can be used to buy services with the company.
Ads for cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet services, meanwhile, will be restricted and limited to those that are provided by a public company under Twitter's new policy.
The price of a bitcoin dropped below $8,000 on Monday.
BOISE, Idaho — More than 100 aftershocks have rattled southeastern Idaho since a 5.3 magnitude quake hit near the town of Soda Springs late last week, and experts say they could continue for another week or so.
The 5.3 quake hit was the second in the series, and it hit about 6 p.m. Saturday. There were no reports of injuries or damage, though officials say 17,000 people reported feeling the 5.3 quake from as far away as Salt Lake City, Utah.
Soda Springs resident JoAnna Ashley was in nearby Georgetown visiting her parents when the biggest earthquake hit. She grabbed onto the shaking refrigerator and watched as a bottle of tiki torch fuel perched on top wobbled toward the edge. Her kids, ages 5 and 8, grabbed onto Ashley during the shaking.
"They didn't scream, but were all, 'Momma, what's happening?' in that worried voice," Ashley said.
The family spent the rest of the weekend camping, and they eventually started giggling whenever an aftershock would start rocking their camper.
"It kind of became commonplace. You'd be sitting there in the chairs, everyone talking, and all of a sudden you'd start to see the water shaking inside the bottle," she said.
By noon on Tuesday, more than 102 additional earthquakes had been recorded in the region by the U.S. Geological Survey, all at magnitudes of 4.5 or less.
They'll likely taper off by the end of next week, said John Bellini, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado. "They can go on for days or weeks, and they'll get smaller in size and frequency," Bellini said.
Small magnitude earthquake swarms are common near the fault lines scattered throughout central and southeastern Idaho.
"Do we expect a larger one? No, we don't," said Bellini, though he noted that forecasting earthquake risk can be difficult.
"You don't have earthquakes every day like in California — they're feel-able just a few times a year in Idaho," he said. "It's harder to make generalizations like that in areas that don't have as much seismicity. Idaho has had larger earthquakes in the past, but how often they repeat is not known."
Idaho's biggest earthquake, a 6.9 temblor, was recorded on Oct. 28, 1983. The small towns of Challis and Mackay rocked for about a minute as the Lost River Fault beneath Borah Peak (Idaho's tallest mountain) pushed upward and the Thousand Springs Valley dropped.
Two schoolchildren were killed in that quake when a brick storefront collapsed. Aftershocks continued for more than a year — one reaching a magnitude of 5.8 — and the mountains and neighboring valley shifted nearly 14 feet apart in some places.
Ashley has experienced other earthquake swarms in the region, but she said the current one feels unusual because of the magnitude and frequency of the temblors.
"This is unprecedented for everybody. But if they say a bigger one is unlikely, then I think we'll all be fine," Ashley said. "The only concern is that we'll get a big enough one to do damage — most of us here don't have earthquake insurance."
Ariel Winter is remembering her late co-star and friend, Burt Reynolds.
The 20-year-old actress co-starred with Reynolds in the 2017 film The Last Movie Star, and the two formed a close bond on the set.
After the news of Reynolds’ passing broke on Thursday, Winter took to Instagram to share a series of photos of herself with her co-star.
The world lost a legend today. Not only on screen, but also in life. Burt Reynolds was an incredible man to everyone he encountered, and I am deeply grateful that I got to spend time with him in the way that I did. They don’t make them like him anymore— he truly was the last movie star. Burt was a kind, loving soul tha...
Reynolds died of a heart attack on Thursday at the age of 82. His family was by his side.
Prior to his death, the Modern Family actress opened up to ET about working with Reynolds in April 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Following his passing, stars from all over posted tributes to the actor, including his legendary co-stars Sally Field and Dolly Parton.
RIYADH: Technology companies throughout the Kingdom will get startup funds up to SR500 million ($133.3 million) from the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) during the first quarter of next year.
The initiative, launched by the Badir Program for Technology Incubators, one of KACST’s leading programs, aims to trigger the growth of Saudi startups for a positive impact on the national economy, increase productivity and create more job opportunities for Saudi youths.
According to a statement from Badir to Arab News, funding will be concentrated on the acceleration phase of these companies in exchange for a share in their capital.
The Badir accelerator also offers a wide range of advisory services such as training, follow-up and workshops, accompanied by continuous guidance, in order to develop the entrepreneurial innovations and translate them into existing projects within 90 working days.
According to a report in Magnet, specialized in linking startup entrepreneurs with strategic investors in the Gulf region and the Middle East, the volume of financing deals for startup technology companies announced in Saudi Arabia during the first nine months of this year increased by about 10 percent compared to the ...
Among the startup Saudi companies incubated by the Badir program during the past three months, company graduates Foodics Company recorded $4 million in investments, Matic $3 million, and Smart Control $1.6 million, led by Saudi finance companies and supported by Gulf and regional investment groups.
All the fuss over the Bears’ defensive holdouts has camouflaged a serious problem on offense. Sure, you have Jim McMahon throwing the football again. But who is going to catch it?
With a new season two weeks away, there is evident inadequacy at the flanker, or wing, position. “That position is up in the air,” says Ted Plumb, the receivers coach.
Brad Anderson would dispute that contention. This confident fellow will start Monday night in Dallas in the third exhibition, and considers himself adequate for the job.
As so often happens in football, one man’s broken rung is another man’s leg up the ladder. Anderson can be happier than a pooch loosed in a hydrant factory because the only two proven performers in the job he covets, regular Dennis McKinnon and 10-year veteran Brian Baschnagel, can’t run without limping.
Coach Plumb doesn’t sound quite as happy. He watches his hairline recede every day with the depth at wide receiver. “What we thought was going to be a strength is now showing a little bit of weakness,” he frets.
McKinnon, the team’s most consistent wideout, is coming back slowly from his second knee operation in nine months. (“There’s some real concern there,” Plumb says.) Baschnagel had knee surgery the first week of training camp and is on injured reserve.
He applied a flimsy patch by moving rookie James Maness and Jack Cameron to flanker from split end. I say “flimsy” because Maness, a third-round draftee, has missed a lot of practice with a pulled hamstring, and now must learn a new position. (“He’s like in the first week of training camp,” Plumb says.) Cameron made th...
There seems a more obvious savior. You have a veteran of demonstrated ability playing split end behind Willie Gault. Why not move Ken Margerum to flanker?
In other seasons, we would expect the outspoken Margerum to be offering the coaches his advice on the subject, campaigning to start in McKinnon’s place. But Margerum, coming back from the serious knee injury that cost him a year of competition, is being uncommonly shy. He begged off an interview last week, saying he’d ...
Meanwhile, there is the incumbent by default, Anderson. With his blue eyes, peachy complexion and glowing good looks, this native of Arizona looks as though he should be hopping around in one of those impossibly frothy soft-drink commercials, rather than catching footballs and getting the fizz knocked out of him. The B...
At 6-2 and 198, Anderson is big enough to do the blocking expected at flanker, though he is nowhere near McKinnon’s proficiency. His blocking “needs improvement,” he allows.
He burned Pac-10 defensive backs for long touchdowns, and his three catches last season averaged 25.7 yards, the best mark on the team.
If Anderson fills the flanker void, Ditka and Plumb should send a bouquet to his mother.
But his mother (who religiously attended all his football and basketball games, track meets and band concerts) appraised him with a scout’s eye and told him he’d never make it in basketball, no matter how many free throws he shot.
Luckily for the Bears, Anderson was a dutiful son, brought up to believe mother knows best.
Ask any true fashionista and she’ll tell you that shoe shopping is one of life’s greatest pleasures.
Coveting a pair of killer heels and making them yours is a dopamine-inducing delight – and there’s none of the agony that comes with browsing for bikinis or jeans, because the size of your feet doesn’t really fluctuate.
There’s something particularly pleasurable about buying boots, because unlike strappy sandals or sky-high stilettos that are reserved for holidays and special occasions, you can wear boots day in and day out, almost all year round.
They spark joy way more often than those delicate court heels that stay hidden in a box at the back of your wardrobe most of the time – wouldn’t Marie Kondo approve?
So what’s trending in the boot department for 2019?
One thing’s for certain, ankle length is where it’s at – these shorter styles will take you from winter to spring with ease, and with lots of cool colour and print options, they’re anything but boring.
Break up wintry dark outfits with a pop of red, yellow or orange. Fiery hued kitten heel boots make a chic addition to a floral maxi skirt, or will brighten up a casual jeans and jumper combo.
Taking over from this season’s ubiquitous snake print, zebra stripes are galloping into fashion for 2019. Team with a leather mini skirt and a zebra jumper, if you really want to be on trend.
A high shine finish gives block heeled boots a luxe feel, and this season’s coolest pairs come with metallic or heel detailing too. Make these patent pretties your party stars.
The cowboy comeback continues, but now it’s all about pared back, sleek styles in soft hues. Powder pink or white are ideal for pairing with floral frocks from now until summer.
Neurosurgeons of Cape Cod is pleased to announce today that it has relocated and expanded its practice, moving from 130 North Street to 46 North Street in Hyannis. The phone number remains the same – 508-771-0006.
Neurosurgeons of Cape Cod offers four neurosurgeons trained and experienced in treating all ailments and injuries related to the spine and the brain – Dr. Murray; Paul Houle, M.D.; Achilles Papavasiliou, M.D.; and Gordon Nakata, M.D. Trained at some of the world’s best universities, the group offers state-of-the-art tr...

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