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Aftermath of Riot in Singapore
December 8, 2013 2:24 pmA crowd set fire to vehicles and clashed with police in the Indian district of Singapore late on Sunday, in a rare outbreak of rioting in the city state. The incident reportedly started after a private bus hit and killed a foreign worker in the Little India area. Television footage showed a crowd of people […]
Leave a commentPG&E worker injured working on transformer in Potrero Hill
December 8, 2013 2:23 pmA utility worker was injured while responding to an outage in San Francisco Sunday morning, a PG&E spokesman said. The outage, which affected around 575 customers in Potrero Hill, was first reported at around 8:30 a.m., spokesman Joe Molica said. One of the workers who responded to the neighborhood was injured when a transformer failed […]
Leave a commentSantana, 4 others receive Kennedy Center Honors
December 8, 2013 2:08 pmBay Area rock legend Carlos Santana joined piano men Billy Joel and Herbie Hancock, opera star Martina Arroyo and actress Shirley MacLaine Sunday in receiving the Kennedy Center Honors, the nation’s highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts. All of them have been playing music, dancing or singing since they were children — […]
Leave a commentSurviving Sandy Hook
December 8, 2013 1:23 pm(SOUNDBITE) (English) KAITLIN ROIG-DEBELLIS, SANDY HOOK TEACHER, SAYING: "I remember… I remember… It's weird, I didn't remember until just now. I remember in the days after, it was so hard to get
Leave a commentMourners Bury News Cameraman Slain by Syrian Insurgents
December 8, 2013 1:23 pmAn Iraqi freelance cameraman killed by insurgents last Wednesday in Syria was buried on Sunday in his hometown city of Falluja west of Baghdad with hundreds of fellow journalists joining friends at the ceremony. Yasser Faysal al-Joumaili was executed by al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria to become the first foreign journalist killed by insurgents in the […]
Leave a commentCrowds Topple Lenin´s Statue in Ukraine to Protest Russia Ties
December 8, 2013 1:23 pmCrowds toppled a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian capital and attacked it with hammers on Sunday, in the latest mass protests against President Viktor Yanukovich and his plans for closer ties with Russia. Ukrainian opposition leaders told journalists in Kiev that they didn't order protesters to destroy the statue of […]
Leave a commentUkraine sees largest anti-govt protest since 2004
December 8, 2013 1:15 pmHundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Ukraine’s capital on Sunday, toppling a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and blockading key government buildings in an escalating standoff with the president over the future of the country. The biggest demonstration in the former Soviet republic since Ukraine’s pro-democracy Orange Revolution in […]
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December 8, 2013 1:10 pmHere's the latest news for Sunday, December 8th: Icy glaze and snow moving South to North; Nelson Mandela remembered in prayers; Protesters topple Lenin statue; Giant Christmas Stollen unveiled.
Leave a commentSouth Africans of all faiths pray for Mandela
December 8, 2013 1:04 pmIn death, Nelson Mandela unified South Africans of all races and backgrounds Sunday on a day of prayer for the global statesman — from a vaulted cathedral with hymns and incense to a rural, hilltop church with goat-skin drums and barefoot dancing. Mandela was remembered in old bedrocks of resistance to white domination as well […]
Leave a commentGay partner benefits growing at Fortune 500 firms
December 8, 2013 12:42 pmCorporate support for gay and transgender rights is reaching workers in new corners of the country and economy six months after the US Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, according to a new report card from the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group. The Human Rights Campaign found that more than two-thirds […]
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