A U.S. cruise ship that forced all its passengers to disembark in Cambodia after suspending its operations last week has departed the Southeast Asian nation with only crew aboard, Cambodian officials said Wednesday. The MV Odyssey, owned by Florida-based Villa Vie Residences, had been on an around-the-world cruise when it suspended its planned three-year voyage…
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has endorsed the independent candidate in the Montana Senate race, Seth Bodnar, over the Democratic nominee, Bodnar’s campaign announced Friday. “The best leaders I’ve served with, in uniform and in government, care more about getting the job done than about who gets the credit, and Seth is one of…
Washington — Katie Zacharia, President Trump’s new White House press secretary, is being removed from the role after her first week on the job, two U.S. officials told CBS News on Friday. Some White House staff learned about the change from news coverage. The New York Times first reported that she had been fired. One…
Russia’s commitment to boost global diesel supply, as announced by President Trump on Oct. 9, may do little to ease prices in the U.S. in the short term, according to energy experts. “If we get diesel from Russia, basically it means that their existing customers are not going to get it and they’ll have to go…
Washington — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday asked the Justice Department’s internal watchdog to investigate why the FBI lowered its hiring standards for candidates who may have engaged in bestiality, prostitution or employment theft. In a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Don Berthiaume, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said the…
The initial findings of the second post-mortem examination of 25-year-old business owner Mir Raza Ali revealed multiple injuries and a congealed black substance in his mouth and throat, Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said on Saturday. Raza, owner of eatery Wafflix, had gone missing on July 28. The 25-year-old’s body was found a day later…
The body of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) graduate and businessman Mir Raza Ali was exhumed on Saturday, his father’s lawyer said after the Sindh government restored the original medical board. The exhumation had been scheduled for Friday morning but was postponed after Raza’s family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of a medical board and…
KARACHI: The exhumation of 25-year-old businessman and Institute of Business Administration graduate Mir Raza Ali’s body was postponed on Friday after his family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of the medico-legal board formed for the purpose. Ali’s body was found in bushes in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar last month, a day after he went missing on July…
