Play video content “Mighty Ducks” star Shaun Weiss knows how to get a crowd excited … leading an audience in an iconic ‘Ducks’ chant — and tossing out signed gear. The actor/comedian — best known as Goldberg the Goalie from the ‘Ducks’ trilogy — hit up the House of Blues in Anaheim for country singer … Read more
MOSCOW — Suspects in the Russia concert hall attack, which left more than 130 dead, arrived at a Moscow district court on Sunday night. There was a heavy police presence around the Basmanny District Court, which is expected to determine pretrial restrictions for the men, who are suspected of opening fire on crowds of concertgoers … Read more
ROME — Italy on Sunday marked the 80th anniversary of one of the most horrific World War II massacres in German-occupied Italy with solemn commemorations and a performance of a symphony honoring the dead. Riccardo Muti was conducting the Italian premiere of William Schuman’s Ninth Symphony, subtitled “Le Fosse Ardeatine,” which the New York-born Jewish … Read more
A week ago, President Vladimir Putin swaggered triumphantly onstage at a post-election event surrounded by young people in T-shirts reading “Putin — Russia — Victory,” and he confidently shrugged off Western criticism of the vote as neither free nor fair. This weekend, a very different Vladimir Putin addressed a nation shocked by a massacre at … Read more
MOSCOW — Family and friends of those still missing after an attack that killed over 130 people at a suburban Moscow concert hall waited for news of their loved ones as Russia observed a day of national mourning on Sunday. Events at cultural institutions were cancelled, flags were lowered, and TV entertainment and ads were … Read more
The death count in Friday’s tragic Moscow mass shooting is much higher than originally believed … according to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The controversial head of state reportedly told the nation during a televised address that 133 people had been killed in the vicious attack at Crocus City Hall, a concert venue on Moscow’s Western … Read more
Shocked Russians brought flowers and teddy bears Saturday to the Crocus City concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow to pay their respects to more than 100 people who died in a grisly attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Mourners hung flowers on fences and piled them on the ground a short distance from … Read more
At the peak of the Islamic State’s power, the territory the group controlled in Syria and Iraq was around the size of Britain. But by early 2019, following airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition and an assault by a Kurdish-led fighters against the group’s remnants in eastern Syria, U.S.-backed forces declared the final defeat of the … Read more
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that authorities have detained 11 people in the attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 115 people and left the sprawling venue a smoldering ruin. In an address to the nation, Putin called it “a bloody, barbaric terrorist act” and said all four … Read more
By Guy Faulconbridge and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has arrested 11 people including four suspected gunmen in connection with a shooting rampage that killed 93 people in a concert hall near Moscow, the Kremlin said on Saturday. It said FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov had reported to President Vladimir Putin that those detained … Read more