DraftKings Inc said on Wednesday basketball legend Michael Jordan will take an undisclosed equity stake in the fantasy sports and gambling company and join its board as a special advisor. Shares of ... ( read original story ...)
Michael Jordan gets stake in DraftKings for advisory role
DraftKings shares climbed in midday trading after announcing that basketball legend Michael Jordan would take an ownership stake in the company in exchange for becoming a special adviser to the sports ... ( read original story ...)
‘Comrade Duch,’ Infamous Commander Of Khmer Rouge Prison, Dies In Cambodia
Kaing Guek Eav oversaw Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 prison, where thousands of people were executed and tortured during the Khmer Rouge's terrifying rule in the 1970s. ( read original story ...)
Cambodia genocide: Khmer Rouge prison chief Comrade Duch dies
Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, ran the notorious Tuol Sleng prison where thousands of people were tortured and murdered in the late 1970s. As many as two million people are believed to have ... ( read original story ...)
Arabic media: Israeli airstrikes on strategic T-4 airbase in Syria
Arabic media reported on Wednesday night that Syrian air defense confronted an attack on the strategic T-4 airbase in the Homs province of Syria. The base is located in the desert, near the ancient ... ( read original story ...)
Syria reports Israeli airstrikes against central airbase
Syrian air defenses opened fire late Wednesday on missiles launched by Israeli warplanes at a military airbase in the central province of Homs, shooting down some of them, state media said. State news ... ( read original story ...)
Kazakhstan, Georgia trade surges despite COVID-19
Azerbaijani president: Without any hesitation, we support Turkey and will support it in any circumstances Politics 20:33 President Aliyev: We are concerned about format of trilateral military ... ( read original story ...)
Kazakhstan confirms 27 COVID-19-like pneumonia cases, 3 deaths
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Over the past 24 hours Kazakhstan recorded 27 more COVID-19-like pneumonia cases, 3 deaths, while 103 recovered, coronavirus2020.kz reads. ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka’s Malinga pulls out of virus-hit IPL
Veteran Sri Lanka paceman Lasith Malinga has pulled out of the Indian Premier League "to be with his family", his team said Wednesday, adding to growing list of players abandoning the coronavirus-hit ... ( read original story ...)
The lessons of the 1953 mass uprising (hartal) in Sri Lanka
The hartal showed that regardless of the intensity of a mass struggle, it will not succeed without a conscious Marxist leadership ... ( read original story ...)