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) Sasha or Melanie? That’s the choice facing “So You Think You Can Dance” viewers, according to executive producer and chief judge Nigel Lythgoe. In the middle of the Wednesday night finale performances, Lythgoe repeated his contention (he’s been saying this since the start of the Fox summer hit) that a female dancer would take the top prize – $250,000, the title of America’s Favorite Dancer and a spot in an energy drink ad campaign. Pictures: “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 8 Competing for it are Melanie Moore, a contemporary dancer from Georgia; Sasha Mallory, a contemporary dancer from California; Tadd Gadduang, a Salt Lake City B-boy; and Marko Germar, a jazz dancer from Guam. The four did a solo and 군산출장만남 four choreographed routines each in the two-hour finale, which also featured guest judges Katie Holmes and Kenny Ortega. Holmes, the former “Dawson’s Creek” star obviously loves dance – she’s a founder of the Dizzy Feet scholarship foundation – but her comments and criticisms were no more pointed than those of most other guest judges this season. Certainly, they couldn’t compare with the on-target commentary of Lady Gaga. Ortega, meanwhile, is the director and choreographer of the 1980s dance classic “Dirty Dancing” and helmed the “High School Musical” franchise and the “Michael Jackson: This Is It” movie. When it comes to dancing, he knows what he...

(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...

The runaway bestseller, “The Help,” is a look back at the relationships between white women and their black maids in Mississippi in the early 1960s. The book was written by Kathryn Stockett, and the film version premieres today. The author has sparked a lot of controversy because she’s white, yet wrote her novel from the perspective of an African-American housekeeper. If that’s not unusual enough, she let her best friend, a relative unknown, direct the film. Stockett’s explosive novel is set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, a time of segregation and 고창콜걸 sit-ins, CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports. It’s the story of a rebellious Southern belle who collaborates with black maids to write a book pulling the covers off the complex, often painful relationships between a pampered, privileged class of white women and the black women who served them. “The Help” has been a bestseller for more than 100 weeks, and the movie has A-list actors, including Viola Davis and Emma Stone. Stockett and the film’s director, Tate Taylor, are lifelong friends who grew up in Jackson, Miss., raised by black housekeepers. “The Help” is her first book and his first major motion picture. Stockett reluctantly showed Taylor her manuscript after 60 literary agents had rejected it. Taylor said of her book, “You think you know your best friend so well, and...