Mes: agosto 2019

(AP) BEIRUT – Armed Shiite clansmen in Lebanon said Wednesday they had captured more than 20 Syrians and will hold them until one of their relatives seized by rebels inside Syria is freed. The tensions were a stark reminder of how easily Syria’s civil war could spill over to neighboring states. In Geneva, a U.N. investigation said Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and pro-government militiamen were responsible for war crimes during a May bloodbath in the village of Houla that killed more than 100 civilians, nearly half of them children. It also said rebels were blamed for war crimes in at least three other killings. The report by the U.N. Human Rights Council said the scale of the Houla carnage indicated “involvement at the highest levels” of Syria’s military and government. It is first time the U.N. has described events in Syria’s civil war as war crimes and could be used in possible future prosecution against Assad or others. The council also said the conflict is moving in increasingly “brutal” directions on both sides. Hotel used by U.N. observers rocked by explosion in Damascus, Syria’s capital cityPentagon: Iran training militiamen for AssadU.S. lifts sanctions on ex-Syria PM More in After the Arab Spring As the fighting deepens, so do the fears of it triggering unrest in fragile Lebanon, which is deeply divided between supporters and opponents of President Bashar...

(CBS) Casey Anthony, the Florida woman acquitted last month of killing her 2-year-old daughter, is the most hated person in America, according to a new poll released...

Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg and “Parks  and Recreation” star  Aziz Ansari are teaming up for one of the most unusual comedies in years, “30 Minutes or Less,” also starring Danny McBride and Nick Swardson. In the film, Eisenberg plays the slacker  pizza delivery guy Nick, who gets kidnapped, has a bomb strapped to his chest, and is forced to rob a bank.  Nick recruits the help of his teacher and former friend Chet (Ansari) to carry out the ill-planed heist. Eisenberg and Ansari recently sat down with us in New York to discuss their take on this high-concept subject matter. With the plot of this film, how do you make kidnapping and robbery funny? Jesse Eisenberg: The comedy really comes from these two regular guys…I’m a pizza delivery guy and he’s an elementary school teacher…being forced to do this insane thing of robbing a bank. And so the comedy actually comes from the bank robbery. The actual realistic reaction that they have to it. So they go and buy plastic toy guns and spray paint them to make like real guns— Aziz Ansari: We wouldn’t go buy machine guns. We wouldn’t automatically become the crew from “Heat.” We would have to do a very shoddy job. Eisenberg: Piece-meal effort. Ansari: Yeah, a piece-meal effort to do it. And I think that’s what’s funny about it. There’s one joke after...