Highlights of this day in history: A Cold War crisis over Cuba leads to brink of nuclear war; Shah of Iran allowed into U.S. for treatment; ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd killed; Last victim slain in D.C. sniper shootings; Cellist Pablo Casals dies. (Oct. 22)
Highlights of this day in history: A Cold War crisis over Cuba leads to brink of nuclear war; Shah of Iran allowed into U.S. for treatment; ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd killed; Last victim slain in D.C. sniper shootings; Cellist Pablo Casals dies. (Oct. 22)
Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads not guilty to sexual misconduct indictment; Felicity Huffman starts serving prison time in college scam; Vietnam bans animated ‘Abominable’ over South China Sea map. (Oct. 16)
Here’s the latest for Tuesday, Oct. 15th: Hunter Biden addresses Trump accusations; Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads not guilty; Convictions of Catalan separatist leaders lead to clashes in Northeastern Spain; France’s lower house of Parliament approves IVF bill.
Cuba Gooding Jr.’s groping trial set to begin on Thursday; Ozzy Osbourne says he’s “not dying,” postpones his 2020 European shows; Kurt Cobain’s “Unplugged” sweater, guitar, head to auction. (Oct. 10)
Hundreds of women marched through Mexico City on Saturday to demand a complete end to the country’s ban on abortion. They chanted calls for greater women’s rights and held up green hankerchiefs bearing the slogan “Legalise Abortion”.
Many areas of Mexico have highly restrictive laws on abortion. In Mexico City it’s been legal since 2007 to abort within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. And lawmakers in the southern state of Oaxaca voted just last week to follow suit. But in the rest of the country it’s against the law, except in the case of rape.
Saturday’s rally was aimed at pressurising the authorities to make it legal everywhere in Mexico. The march was mostly peaceful, although a small group of demonstrators broke away and vandalised a number of stores.
Elsewhere in the region, three Central American countries have total bans on abortion: El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. Argentina came close to decriminalising abortion last year for any pregnancy up to 14 weeks after a measure passed in the lower house of Congress. The Senate voted it down under heavy opposition from conservative groups.
Along with Mexico City, Cuba and Uruguay are the only places in the region where women can undergo abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy regardless of the circumstances.
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Highlights of this day in history: JFK and Nixon participate in TV’s first presidential debate; Cuba ends Mariel boatlift; Composer George Gershwin, poet T.S. Eliot and tennis star Serena Williams born; ‘West Side Story’ hits Broadway. (Sept. 26)
It’s an international fad, but in Cuba it bears its own special flavour: more and more youngsters sport a trimmed beard, but without the political significance given by Fidel Castro and his “bearded” rebels during the 1959 revolution.
Highlights of this day in history: First steps toward building the Berlin Wall during the Cold War; Cuba’s Fidel Castro born; Spain’s Cortez captures what’s now Mexico City; Director Alfred Hitchcock born; Baseball’s Mickey Mantle dies. (Aug. 13)
