2020 July

Daily Pro Wrestling History (03/12): Steamboat & Youngblood win NWA Tag Team titles

1959 Kansas City, Kansas: – NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor beat Lee Henning in 2 out of 3 falls  – Dino Bravo and Bob Ellis beat Dick the Bruiser and The Mighty Atlas  – Rip Hawk beat Lou Spindola  1979  Memphis, Tennessee: – Hans Schroeder beat Buzz Sawyer – Tommy Gilbert beat Danny Davis […]

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WWE Raw rating down from last week, only ESPN NFL programming outdraws Raw in key adult 18-49 demo, key metrics and perspective

Click:custom keychains> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) Last night’s (11/25) episode […]

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Zimbabwe cuts water for two million residents of Harare as it runs out of money

Two million people in Zimbabwe’s capital have been left without water after the government ran out of foreign currency to pay for imported treatment chemicals.  The crisis marks a new landmark in a spiraling economic crisis that has led to hyperinflation and caused shortages of essential imported commodities including wheat and fuel, and has raised […]

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Vladimir Putin climbs mountain and picks mushrooms on Siberian birthday trip

Vladimir Putin has climbed a mountain and picked mushrooms and berries in the Siberian wilderness to celebrate his 67th birthday, even as his ratings continue to flag.  In a video and photographs published by the Kremlin, Mr Putin drove an off-road vehicle through a forest with defence minister Sergei Shoigu and flew in a helicopter […]

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British orphans missing in northern Syria after mass escape of Islamic State families 

Three British Islamic State orphans have gone missing in northern Syria after the camp they were in was shelled by Turkish forces. Ten-year-old Amira, her sister Hiba, eight, and brother Hamza, around the same age as Hiba, were discovered in the Kurdish-run Ain Issa camp by a BBC reporting team last week.  But they vanished […]

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Europol says women ‘equally capable of crime’ as men as it reveals most-wanted list 

Europol has revealed the names of Europe’s most-wanted fugitives – and 18 of the 21 criminals on the list are women, warning they are “equally capable” of committing serious crimes as men. Called the "Crime has no gender" campaign, Europe’s policing agency on Friday rolled out a new campaign to catch the continent’s most wanted […]

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How Presidents Trump and Erdogan have left the Bashar al-Assad’s regime victorious in Syria 

When Turkey announced its plan to send troops across the border, the Syrian government could have seen it as a hostile breach of its sovereignty.  Instead, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime – which has survived much bigger threats to its rule during the eight-year civil war – saw an opportunity. According to a source close to the government, […]

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Uber driver given death penalty for murder of British embassy worker in Beirut

An Uber driver was yesterday sentenced to death for the murder of a British embassy worker in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Tarek Houshieh had confessed to the "senseless" attack on 30-year-old Rebecca Dykes, whose body was found dumped by the side of a highway in December 2017. She had been out in the Gemmayzeh […]

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Essex lorry deaths: All 39 victims were from Vietnam, officials confirm

All 39 people found dead inside a lorry container in Essex have been identified as Vietnamese, the country’s Ministry of Public Security has said. Essex Police had initially said that officers believed the 31 men and eight women to be Chinese after finding the bodies inside a refrigerated unit in Grays on Oct 23.  But on Thursday, […]

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Kobe Bryant, Daughter, 7 Others Killed In Helicopter Crash

Click:how big are nano satellites CALABASAS, CA — Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was killed along with one of his daughters and seven other people in a helicopter crash into a hillside near Malibu Sunday morning, according to the authorities and news reports. Bryant was 41 years old. He was an icon in the […]

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