News Headlines - 08 May 2017
▽Flames, fatality at Venezuela demo over leader's crisis maneuver
Venezuelan police fired tear gas and hooded protesters hurled Molotov cocktails as thousands rallied in anger at President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution.
Flames erupted in the latest of more than a month of clashes that prosecutors say have killed 32 people in the oil-rich nation, stricken by food shortages.
▽Chinese Rights Lawyer 'Released' After Guilty Plea During Subversion Trial
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan on Monday released rights lawyer Xie Yang on "bail" after he pleaded guilty at his subversion trial and backtracked on previous reports of his torture while in police detention.
Xie, 45, stood trial at the Changsha Intermediate People's Court on Monday, pleading guilty to charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and "disrupting court order."
▽In a Beijing ballroom, Kushner family pushes $500,000 ‘investor visa’ to wealthy Chinese
Over several hours of slide shows and presentations, representatives from the Kushner family business urged Chinese citizens gathered at a Ritz-Carlton hotel to consider investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a New Jersey luxury apartment complex that would help them secure what’s known as an investor visa.
An article in Russia’s biggest selling newspaper has attacked Manchester for being full of “many fat people” and “disgusting” gay couples... Alisa Titko, a columnist for tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, was shocked when she found herself in Manchester’s Gay Village.
▽NASA releases stunning images of Saturn from Cassini | The Indian Express
NASA’s has released some stunning images of Saturn and its moons captured from the Cassini spacecraft. Each of these high resolution images were captured by NASA’s Cassini from its 20 year journey. Cassini has already begun its series of 22 weekly dives before it will take the final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15. This will bring the 20-year journey of NASA’s Cassini to an end.
