A man has died after falling from a 1,981 foot (604-meter-high) cliff in Norway that featured in a “Mission Impossible” film. Preikestolen, known in English as “Pulpit Rock” is a cliff in southwestern Norway overlooking the Lysefjord. It is one of Norway’s most famous mountain hikes and sees more than 300,000…
American John Poulos was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 42 years in prison by a Colombian court, after he was found guilty of aggravated femicide in the killing of a young Colombian DJ named Valentina Trespalacios, as well as crimes of concealment, alteration or destruction of evidence. The killing…
Roman Gorilyk is now little more than a skeleton. His ribs and collarbones are sticking out, his belly is sunken, his shoulder and hip joints clearly visible under his pale skin. Gorilyk’s extreme emaciation appears to be the result of the two years he spent in Russian captivity. The former…
South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) party faces a mammoth challenge as it needs to form a government with its political rivals after suffering a seismic blow in last week’s election. On Wednesday, the ANC’s national spokesperson insisted that any coalition government would be in the interests of unity and…
Russia will increase the number of military instructors in Burkina Faso, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday during a trip to the West African nation. “Russian instructors are working here, and their number will increase; at the same time, we are training members of the armed forces and law enforcement…
Israel is phasing out the use of the detention camp of Sde Teiman in Israel’s Negev desert, a state attorney told Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday during a first-ever hearing about the facility where hundreds of Palestinian detainees from Gaza have allegedly been held under conditions of extreme abuse. State…
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VanEck Vectors Retail ETF (RTH) is a peculiar beast. It holds 26 retail stocks, 70% in the Consumer Discretionary sector and 30% in Consumer Staples. It’s tilted toward cyclical growth, but occupies enough “defensive” space not to get hammered too badly when the economy undergoes a downturn. On Wednesday, RTH…
The Technology Sector (XLK) continues to dominate and drive the rally, but fewer and fewer stocks within the sector are participating in the rally. We know this because our Silver Cross Index (SCI), which shows the percent of stocks in the Technology Sector with Silver Cross BUY Signals (20-day EMA…
/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES / Quimbaya Gold Inc. (CSE: QIM) (OTCQB: QIMGF) (‘Quimbaya’ or the ‘Company’) announces it is completing a private placement of units of the Company (‘Units’) for up to an aggregate of $3,000 ,000 (6,000,000 Units)…