Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, left for a visit to Israel and Jordan on Sunday, as his nation pivots away from a long-time reliance on American military hardware and support. The four-day visit to Israel will be the first by a Philippine leader in more than 60 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Mr Duterte, accompanied…
Tuesday night’s SmackDown on the USA Network was up to 2.792 million viewers, the show’s third-best showing since last July’s brand split. The show featured a previously announced battle royal to supposedly determine a new number one contender for the WWE Championship in the main event. The night also opened with a SmackDown Women’s Championship match between rivals…
Unknown assailants fired three Katyusha rockets at Iraq’s Basra airport Saturday, an airport official said, after a chaotic and violent night that saw hundreds of protesters burning tires on main streets and highways and setting ablaze the Iranian consulate in the city. The protests in Basra are the most serious to shake Iraq’s oil-rich southern…
A strong typhoon packing winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph) tore across the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, bringing heavy rain and causing widespread power and communications outages. There were no immediate reports of casualties after super typhoon Mangkhut, a category 5 storm, entered the province of Cagayan in the early hours and sent winds…
Bryan Danielson, 35, and wife Brianna (Daniel Bryan & Brie Bella), 33, announced after a doctor’s appointment yesterday that their daughter, due tomorrow, was expected to be late. Bryan Danielson wasn’t at SmackDown this past week, and given the timing, one would assume he’s allowed next Tuesday off as well. The couple did a video on the Bella…
Hopes of rapid progress towards the denuclearisation of North Korea cooled on Thursday after the US pushed back against Kim Jong-un’s promise to dismantle a nuclear test site if Washington first made concessions. Donald Trump and his secretary of state had both offered words of encouragement after Kim signed a joint statement with Moon Jae-in, the…
The former Chinese head of Interpol, who went missing last month, was accused of accepting bribes on Monday, becoming the latest top official to fall into President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption dragnet. After days of concealing the fate of Meng Hongwei – who is also China’s vice minister for public security – from the international community,…
The 2015 Jacob Curby Cup at the Jones Convocation Center at Chicago State University on Saturday, June 27 has been cancelled. The event included a dual meet between the United States and 2014 World Team Champions Iran in Greco-Roman wrestling. The Curby Cup is held in honor of the late Jacob Curby, a Greco-Roman Team…
The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) recently held their 70th Anniversary Show which emanated from The Asylum in Nashville, Tennessee. The show was highlighted by NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Cody Rhodes defending his NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title against Nick Aldis in a 2-Out-Of-3 Falls Main Event Matchup. There was also a match to crown the inaugural…
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