More than 350 ballplayers have defected from Cuba since 2014.
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Few Democrats defected from their party; the dissenters included moderate Rep.
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The official has since defected from the Emirates and fled the country.
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According to the ministry, 1,127 people defected from North Korea last year.
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Every Republican voted no, and only two Democrats defected from the majority.
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Cuba Adeiny Hechavarria (shortstop) and Aroldis Chapman (pitcher) both defected from Cuba.
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They've rarely defected from the president in large numbers for key votes.
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Díaz also heard the call, and defected from the military on March 1.
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They had defected from a loose, Saudi-backed coalition that looks increasingly shaky.
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Most, including Mr Chapman, defected from the communist island, often in harrowing circumstances.
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Prominent members of the caucus defected from the Ryan bill, with one, Rep.
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The representative that defected from the Republican party and I'd say mid afternoon.
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Eighteen of its 106 elected MPs have defected from the party since 2013.
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Kepler also speaks Polish; his dad defected from Poland during the Cold War.
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He defected from Cuba in 2011 and became a major leaguer a year later.
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Diaz, 25, was signed by the Cardinals in 2007 after he defected from Cuba.
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Then they talked to a pilot who had defected from the Syrian air force.
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More conservatives defected from the plan than moderates, because it didn't undo Obamacare enough.
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That's clear in the words and timing of Republican leaders who defected from Trump.
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In the 28500 vote, only four Democrats and four Republicans defected from their parties.
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The unnamed soldier is the third to have defected from North Korea's military this year.
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Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected from the Soviet Union in 1967, leaving behind two children.
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Gabriela Cuevas, who defected from the conservative National Action Party in January to support Lopez Obrador.
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An Australian senator defected from the ruling Liberal National coalition to set up a rival party.
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Both eventually defected from Cuba and successfully realized their Major League dreams in the United States.
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One worshipper explains that he defected from his old church because it was rigid and traditional.
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On Saturday, Venezuela's top military diplomat in Washington, Colonel Jose Luis Silva, defected from Maduro's government.
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After Egypt defected from the Soviet camp, America oversaw the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979.
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The first batter, Tampa Bay outfielder Dayron Varona — who defected from Cuba in 2013 — popped out.
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Three Democrats defected from their party to support taking away grants from the sanctuary localities: Reps.
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When Cespedes defected from Cuba, his financial adviser introduced him to Vega, who sold Cespedes a Mercedes.
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There was an effort to sideline the senior officers who defected from Assad's army at the beginning.
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Since North Korea started facing famines in the 1990s, about 30,000 citizens have defected from the country.
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These Sun Belt states have shifted mainly because white college-educated conservatives have defected from the president.
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These Sun Belt states have shifted mainly because white college-educated conservatives have defected from the president.
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Around here, some have defected from the suburban Redskins, back across the D.C. line to the Nationals.
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The lawmaker told Reuters Johnson had realized his bid would fail after lawmakers defected from his campaign overnight.
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But he has cancer and several of his ablest lieutenants have defected from his Movement for Democratic Change.
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Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska defected from the GOP to oppose DeVos.
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Then, on the eve of the 1996 Olympics, he was gone—defected from the team hotel outside Atlanta.
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This week three other centrist parties spurned offers of plush ministerial posts and defected from her governing coalition.
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Jeong said it was unprecedented that such a group had defected from the same North Korean restaurant abroad.
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Thae was posted abroad with his immediate family when he defected from North Korea's British embassy in 2016.
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I later defected from Communist Yugoslavia, moved to California, raised a family, and started my own pharmaceutical company.
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She defected from Czechoslovakia, at 18, and fended for herself on tour for six years without a country.
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John McCain of Arizona defected from GOP leadership because of his objections to the unorthodox legislative process, Sen.
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After winning a pair of Olympic gold medals, Rigondeaux defected from his native Cuba and went professional in 2009.
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Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN)Thae Yong Ho says he defected from North Korea for the future of his family.
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But his influence has waned after two out of three senators defected from 2014, citing difficulties working with Palmer.
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Yes, some have defected from Trump, but most cases can be attributed to self-preservation rather than moral clarity.
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Only two Trump electors defected from him, with one voting for John Kasich and the other for Ron Paul.
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A year ago, Christine Lagarde, then the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, also defected from the conference.
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"The Russian Five" was the name given to the group of players who defected from Russia to play hockey.
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More than a dozen senators defected from Nigeria's ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, to join the People's Democratic Party.
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Conservatives see them as Hollywood's Dirty Harrys—at-times-literal gun-toting renegades who've defected from the liberal Hollywood establishment.
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Simba Makoni, a decent former finance minister who defected from Zanu-PF, won 8% of the presidential vote in 2008.
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As this mass violence was perpetuated by the government, some officers defected from the military, later forming the armed opposition.
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Sirisena previously defected from the SLFP, then led by Rajapaksa, in 2014 to join an opposition coalition that ousted Rajapaksa.
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Fernandez attended Alonso after he defected from Cuba and before he became a first round pick and future MLB star.
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He had defected from the Nusra Front with the leader's tacit blessing, claiming to have left his old life behind.
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"All have been raped by the previous government," said Mr. Mahathir, who defected from the governing alliance two years ago.
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The Karolyis, who defected from Romania to the US in 1981, are both former head coaches of US Olympic teams.
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His actions sparked a nationwide uprising and eventually a civil war with armed rebels -- many of whom defected from the military.
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After years of hounding Malaysia's political opposition, Dr. Mahathir, 92, defected from the governing coalition to partner with his former enemies.
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On Friday, news quickly spread throughout the universe that a crucial member of Taylor Swift's squad had defected from the group.
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According to Sports Illustrated, Fernandez saved his mother from drowning when the family defected from Cuba when he was a teenager.
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But the U.S. believes that the group includes mainly individuals who defected from Tehrik-e Taliban (TTP) and the Afghan Taliban.
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Aetna's announcement on Tuesday follows the lead of the nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, which defected from the group last year.
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Candidates from opposition parties that recently defected from the majority were rejected by the courts following objections from the ruling coalition.
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Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen, and Sarah Wollaston, and Sam Gyimah all defected from the Conservatives earlier this year for similar reasons.
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The first time Cespedes picked up a golf club was a little over four years ago, after he defected from Cuba.
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In 2012 he is believed to have defected from the regime and fled to Jordan before making his way to Europe.
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After the courts banned the new outfit (and Mr Newin defected from it), a third Thaksinite party won the next two elections.
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He is a former commander in the Khmer Rouge who later defected from the group whose genocide devastated Cambodia in the 1970s.
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But coalition officials say only a very small "handful" of Maghawir al-Thawra fighters have defected from the coalition's counter-ISIS effort.
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And Colombia's migration authorities said 23 members of the security forces had crossed the border and defected from Mr. Maduro's authoritarian regime.
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The military officers say they had interrogated some Venezuelans who had defected from armed groups and identified Venezuelan nationals killed in combat.
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But when the electors gathered across the country Monday, this plot backfired embarrassingly — more electors defected from Hillary Clinton than from Trump.
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But some political candidates have reportedly defected from Sharif's PML-N party because they claim they've received intimidating threats from military officials.
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However, many of the regions that defected from the Democrats to support Mr Trump in 2016 returned to their liberal roots this year.
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But for some unexplained reason, Tikka defected from the Inferni, and took the wand necessary for the Dark Lord's resurrection along with her.
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Judo competitors Popole Misenga and Yolande Mabika defected from the Congolese judo team during an international competition in Brazil to ask for asylum.
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She is widely viewed as the most moderate Republican senator, and famously defected from her party to help sink Obamacare repeal last year.
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" Fares Bayoush, a negotiator from an American-backed rebel group who defected from the Syrian Army, said, "He is the one who misunderstood.
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He had defected from this one because he has had enough of only ever being invited by the embassy for this one occasion.
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The Zetas originated from a team of élite commandos who defected from Mexico's armed forces, so the cartel was prone to paramilitary affectation.
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Esteban Yanez Rodriguez of the Venezuelan air force's high command said he has defected from Maduro's military and declared his support for Guaido.
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A former stalwart of the ruling Chavismo movement, Falcon, a former mayor and state governor, defected from the governing Socialist Party in 2010.
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An American who allegedly defected from the Islamic State group was captured in Iraq by the Kurdish peshmerga militia, according to Kurdish news wires.
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Tavares, who defected from Renault, where he was second-in-command, pledged to cut labour costs, inventory and model line-ups to restore profitability. .
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Zayd, who said he defected from the Syrian Army to the opposition in 2012, described a program that was rife with inconsistencies and incompetencies.
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Manfred Güllner at Forsa, a pollster, notes that voters who have defected from the CDU have slightly stronger centrist tendencies than those who remain.
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That's why Facebook's product manager for Live, Vadim Lavrusik, defected from the social network to start his own video streaming iOS app called Alively.
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Tavares, who defected from Renault, where he was second-in-command, pledged to cut labor costs, inventory and model line-ups to restore profitability.
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But when he defected from President Robert Mugabe's party to join the opposition a few months ago, he immediately put his farm at risk.
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Earlier this month, Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party seized control of the National Assembly and swore in an allied politician who defected from Guaido's camp.
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Bands sang songs praising Hun Sen, the world's longest serving prime minister, a former Khmer Rouge commander who eventually defected from Pol Pot's murderous regime.
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A North Korean nuclear scientist who defected from the Hermit Kingdom reportedly committed suicide inside his prison cell after he was forcibly returned by China.
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The housewife, DJ, rebel fighter, and orphan are led by army officer Chike Ameobi, who defected from the army after being ordered to kill civilians.
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Representative Martha Roby of Alabama, who defected from Mr. Trump on Saturday, said she would contribute significant money to help Republicans hold their House majority.
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And Cory Bernardi, the South Australian senator who defected from the Liberals last year to form his own party was among those to complain loudest.
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Avrich includes a photograph of dealer Larry Gagosian with his arm around Schnabel who, last spring, defected from his powerhouse gallery to join rival Pace.
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Through countless extra hitting drills and conversations, Ward, who is from Alabama, and Puig, who defected from Cuba in 13, have formed a close bond.
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Manny Diaz, the former mayor of Miami and a paid board member at Bloomberg Philanthropies, defected from Mr. Biden to Mr. Bloomberg several weeks later.
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Several business leaders had defected from their advisory council roles after Trump's highly controversial comments in the wake of a white nationalist rally in Virginia.
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Sterling took a knock after three lawmakers defected from British Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservative party in a move that could undermine her Brexit strategy.
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In numerous statements, they defected from his sinking campaign, underscoring that Trump's casual championing of sexual assault is unacceptable and does not reflect their party's values.
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Dr. Matos and three other doctors who defected from Cuba's contentious medical diplomacy program in Brazil accuse PAHO in the lawsuit of aiding in human trafficking.
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Carlos Vecchio, the opposition's envoy to the United States, said that those who defected from Maduro's government would continue to be employed under Guaido's interim government.
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Chuka Umunna, who defected from Labour (via Change UK) this summer, suggested that 200 seats would be in contention if the party got a 5% swing.
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Finally, in February 153, Gurriel and his brother Lourdes Jr. — who would sign with Toronto — defected from the Dominican Republic after playing in the Caribbean Series.
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Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said, a reference to the three Republican moderate senators who defected from the bill and killed it, taking a line similar to Trump.
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But the real concern of Labour parliamentarians was not their leader's lukewarm effort for Remain, but the way large numbers of Labour voters defected from the party.
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Those who have recently defected from the Shabab said it was very dangerous to show any interest in the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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Collins, a stickler on reductions to government health care, previously defected from the party to sink Republicans' efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act over the summer.
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A longtime Labour activist who once ran Ms. De Piero's district office, he defected from the party after falling out with colleagues over his vote for Brexit.
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Instead, he talked at length about how his dad defected from Cuba on an improvised boat and how he ate a raw seabird so he didn't starve.
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The militant group, also known as Daesh, established a new foothold in the province last year when Hekmat defected from the Taliban, attracting the attention of U.S. forces.
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The answer, it seems, is because Apple recently defected from traditional quartz-based clocks in its phones in favor of clocks that are also made of MEMS silicon.
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On Monday, the president named new cabinet ministers, putting Rajapaksa in charge of finance and giving portfolios to four lawmakers who defected from supporting Wickremesinghe to back Rajapaksa.
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It's been two decades since artist Sun Mu defected from North Korea, and his depictions of the country he left behind have only become more provocative with time.
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In the Midwestern battlegrounds, the flood of white, working-class defections to Mr. Trump overwhelmed the smaller stream of white, college-educated voters who defected from the Republicans.
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Biden's campaign strategy centers on winning back white, working-class voters who largely defected from the Democratic Party in 2016 and helped propel Trump to the White House.
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Clinton's bid for the White house, have defected from the Democrats and intend to vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party (who has no chance of winning).
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Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus, made headlines this year when he defected from his party over opposition to Trump.
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Justin Amash of Michigan, who defected from the Republican Party over his opposition to Trump and now identifies as an Independent, voted in favor of the first article.
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Justin Amash, who recently defected from the Republican Party, as one of the impeachment managers in a potential Senate trial for President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported.
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The 30-second video highlights Richland County Council Vice Chairwoman Dalhi Myers, who raised eyebrows last month when she defected from Biden and announced her support for Sanders.
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Bart Hernandez, a baseball agent known for representing players who defected from Cuba, was charged with human trafficking by a federal grand jury in Miami today, according to ESPN.
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Unsurprisingly, many "good" militant leaders end up switching to the "bad" militants' side -- including Mast Gul, who defected from a Kashmir militant group to the Pakistani Taliban in 2014.
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According to media reports and some analysts, Baleedi may have recently defected from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to become the chief of Islamic State's Yemen branch.
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Another scene in the ballet, which is choreographed by Yuri Posokhov, depicts Nureyev visiting a drag act in Paris, soon after arriving there having defected from the Soviet Union.
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The NY Yankees fireballer -- nicknamed the "Cuban Missle" -- defected from Cuba (by way of the Netherlands) back in 2009 ... and has made it his mission to get full citizenship.
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Gurriel, who defected from Cuba after the Caribbean Series in February with his brother, 22-year-old Lourdes Gurriel Jr., a top outfield prospect, has been training in Miami.
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As riders defected from Uber, Lyft went from underdog to formidable competitor, raising $20153 billion and growing its share of the American market to more than thirty per cent.
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Back in September, police deployed tear gas at campaign rallies for Mbabazi — a longtime Museveni ally and former prime minister who defected from the ruling National Resistance Movement party.
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The dissident writer Georgi Markov defected from his communist homeland of Bulgaria in 1969 to start a new life in London, where he became a reporter for the BBC.
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Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, a conductor who defected from his native Poland in 1960 to take charge of the Minnesota Orchestra for the next 19 years, died on Tuesday in Minneapolis.
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The team was mindful that since Cespedes defected from Cuba and reached the major leagues in 2012, he had landed on the disabled list four times with leg problems.
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Justin Amash of Michigan, who defected from the Republican Party over his objections to Trump, tweeted soon after emphasizing that the power to declare war lies with Congress. Sen.
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"There was oxygen, but they didn't let me use it," said Dr. Arias, who defected from the Cuban government's medical program late last year and now lives in Chile.
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The duo — who defected from Romania in 1981 — have coached legends from Mary Lou Retton to Kerri Strug, and Martha oversaw both the 2012 and 2016 gold-medal winning teams.
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Popole Misenga and Yolande Bukasa Mabika, two judo practitioners who defected from the Democratic Republic of Congo at the 2013 world championships in Brazil, were also chosen for the team.
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The group's board is made up of nine corporate chief executives and lawyers who defected from a similarly focused organization within the Chamber, called the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC).
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In the wake of Clinton's defeat, Sanders's camp tended to argue that tactically, Democrats needed to do more to "win back" white working-class voters who'd defected from the party.
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"Lerna has defected from the open-source community and should be shunned by anyone who values the health of that community," Raymond wrote in a blog post on his website.
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This formula failed twice in the past after Pyongyang defected from the Agreed Framework it signed with the Clinton administration and from its pledges to the Bush administration in 2005.
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Milk Street, the culinary enterprise Christopher Kimball invented after he defected from America's Test Kitchen, has created a well-tested book that turns the Tuesday-night recipe on its head.
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"The country is exhausted," said Rachel Johnson, a writer (and sister of the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson) who recently defected from the Conservatives to join the pro-European Liberal Democrats.
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Park, 24, defected from North Korea with her mother at the age of 13 after the dictatorship's oppressive government imprisoned her father and left her family fearing for their lives.
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Among the under-40 Romney voters who supported Mr. Trump in 2016, 16 percent appear to have defected from the party to vote for a Democratic House candidate in 2018.
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In January, Sami told a Quebec news agency he had defected from ISIS, calling it a "fake caliphate" and vowing to continue to fight the Assad regime on his own.
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Douglas Carswell (UKIP/Conservative, Clacton, 2005-2017) Carswell became the anti-EU UK Independence Party's first elected MP when he won a by-election in 2014, having defected from the Conservatives.
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Among suitors is the newly-formed Barun Party (BP), which was launched just within the past two weeks and consists of over 30 lawmakers who defected from Park's ruling Saenuri Party.
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Air Canada defected from Airbus to Boeing with an order for the 737 MAX to meet its core narrowbody needs in 2013, but still uses Airbus jets for some group operations.
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Abu Faisal, 36, was an army captain before Syria's civil war began in 2011 but defected from the Syrian army in 2012 to join the fight against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Last week, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's third most senior elected official, defected from Buhari's ruling party to the main opposition and is fast becoming a leading critic of the president.
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Amnesty International, in interviews with former detainees, doctors and prison guards who defected from Syria, estimated between 5,000 and 13,000 inmates were killed in Saydnaya prison alone between 2011 and 2015.
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The main subjects of the documentary series will be Sarah Edmondson (Psych) and husband Anthony Ames, who defected from the group early on (Smallville's Kristin Kreuk also joined and subsequently left).
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However, Hun Sen reiterated on Wednesday that the CNRP would be dissolved and any elected officials who defected from the opposition to his party would be allowed to keep their positions.
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Another senator known for anti-Islamic views and support for US President Donald Trump, Cory Bernardi, defected from the ruling Liberal Party earlier this year to set up the Australian Conservatives.
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Because if Keeffe had really defected from NXIVM, a group described by experts as a highly controlling cult, it meant there was a possibility that anyone could wake up and leave.
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During Game 3 of the Series on Friday, Gurriel, who defected from Cuba in 2016, hit a home run off Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish in the bottom of the second inning.
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Over all, almost one in four of President Obama's 2012 white working-class supporters defected from the Democrats in 2016, either supporting Mr. Trump or voting for a third-party candidate.
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The task of tracking down former regime agents who were willing to explain their roles in the system was simplified by the fact that so many had defected from the government.
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She also defected from a Democratic vote on new House rules including PAYGO restrictions, which require that Democrats offset any spending that increases the deficit with a equal amount of cuts.
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Aside from one senior general, who recognized Guaido in a video and urged others in the military to do the same, most of Venezuela's top military officers have not defected from Maduro.
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But when the Saudi man walked away, the Syrian, who had defected from the government army in 2011, leaned forward and confided that the fighters he led in southern Syria were struggling.
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Zuck and "members of the high command" then met with a product manager who had recently defected from Google and worked on Google Plus and had him "walk the leadership through" it.
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As she puts it, she merely had a fifth vote she didn't know she had in Kennedy, who defected from the court's bloc of Republican-appointed justices in the 5-4 decision.
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Golkar, second only to Jokowi's own PDI-P in number of seats held, defected from Gerindra and is now officially neutral and thus open to persuasion (but at what cost remains unclear).
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When Edward Lowassa defected from CCM to the opposition and ran for president against his old party, it looked fleetingly as though this elite split might spell the end of CCM's dominance.
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A Syrian refugee in Germany, Nour Sheikh Ibrahim, wept as he remembered the kindness the elder Ms. Barkat had shown him when he defected from the Syrian Army and escaped to Turkey.
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In 2003, after Maines criticized President George W. Bush during a concert in London, country radio stations nationwide dropped the group, which eventually, in turn, defected from the country-music industry altogether.
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Justin Amash, who recently defected from the Republican Party and became a libertarian, as one of the impeachment managers in a potential Senate trial for President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported.
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An emphasis on national solidarity need not, and should not, paper over ideological differences between left and right, nor can it speak to every alienated voter who has defected from the left.
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The Botswana Democratic Party had suffered a split in May, when Mr. Khama — a son of Botswana's independence leader, Seretse Khama — defected from its ranks, accusing Mr. Masisi of departing from its values.
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Roy defected from his father's cult — the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — in 2014 before going public with his claims of paternal sexual abuse, inspiring others to come forward.
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"If the people who know you are rejecting you, it's time to get out," said Manny Roman, the vice chairman of the Miami-Dade GOP, who defected from Rubio to Cruz's leadership team.
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The results from Mecklenburg suggest that the AfD made its biggest gains among blue-collar workers, who defected from the Social Democrats by 11 percentage points and from The Left by 8 points.
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One bill would limit the ability of investigators to strip politicians of their immunity from prosecution and another would permit almost 80 congressmen who have defected from the opposition to join Morales' party.
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Senate President Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's third most senior elected official, last week defected from President Muhammadu Buhari's ruling party to the main opposition and is fast becoming a leading critic of the president.
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While the consortium has been plagued with delays in its development, retailers effectively defected from the effort by working on their own solutions and offering interoperability with other third-party services like Apple Pay.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged former Air Force intelligence officer Monica Witt with helping Iran launch a cyber-spying operation that targeted her former colleagues after she defected from the United States.
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Rarely through the DMZ itself (as one North Korean soldier famously did last year) — but an astonishing 1,127 North Koreans defected from their country in 2017, according to South Korea's Ministry of Unification data.
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Not only had he set more than 21 world records; he had also defected from Bulgaria, where he and his family were oppressed ethnic Turks, to Turkey, which celebrated him as a national hero.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan forces killed an important Islamic State (IS) commander in an air strike, one year after he defected from the Taliban and established a new IS foothold in the country, security officials said.
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One reportedly worked on economic matters in the embassy of an African country and defected in May 2015 with his family, while another diplomat was reported to have defected from an Asian nation in February.
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That suggests that this year's major-party candidates were more disliked than Obama and Romney, but it doesn't mean third parties shaped the election — unless Democrats disproportionately defected from Clinton in all the important states.
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Chapman, who has not been connected to the Hernandez case, defected from Cuba in 2009 after a failed attempt to leave by boat in 2008, for which Cuban authorities suspended him from the Beijing Olympics.
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On January 20183, four days after demonstrators flooded the streets of Washington, D.C., to protest the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, Jose Peralta, a Democratic state senator from Queens, New York, defected from his party.
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Members of North Korea's cheerleading squad are being forced to perform sex work for their political masters as part of their trip to the Winter Olympics, according to a soldier who defected from the country.
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Thus, to expand their base of support, the party needs to win back the precise voters who defected from President Obama to give Donald Trump his electoral college victory by reconciling their positions on immigration.
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But aside from one senior general, who recognized Guaido in a video and called on other members of the military to do the same, most of Venezuela's top military officers have not defected from Maduro.
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Provincial police and government officials in Ghor said the killings were carried out by a former Taliban unit with 150 members who had defected from that insurgent group and declared allegiance to the Islamic State.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eleven Venezuelan diplomats in the United States have defected from President Nicolas Maduro's government since opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president last month, a representative of the opposition said on Thursday.
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Mullah Mansour's cultivation of Iran for weapons was done with the full knowledge of Pakistan, said the former Taliban commander, who did not want to be identified since he had recently defected from the Taliban.
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" Guy, who, later in the summer, will drive the girls to the murders, is "a farm boy who'd defected from Travis AFB when he'd discovered it was the same bullshit scene as his father's house.
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Earlier this month, Tory MP and former GP Sarah Wollaston defected from the Leave Campaign, saying its claim that Brexit would free up £350 million [$475 million] a week for the NHS was, patently, bollocks.
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Lubumbashi is the largest city of copper-rich Katanga, which is Kabila's home region, but he has faced vigorous opposition there and several prominent supporters have defected from his ruling coalition over the last 18 months.
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Chapman, who defected from Cuba in 2009 and made his debut with the Reds the next year, received four speeding tickets in his first two years in Cincinnati, which led to the suspension of his license.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and 44 former lawmakers have defected from the party led by President Maithripala Sirisena, splitting with the president barely two weeks after he installed Rajapaksa in office.
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Gustavo Marcano, senior aide to the opposition's envoy to Washington, told reporters in the U.S. capital on Thursday that 11 diplomats in the United States have defected from Maduro's government since Guaido declared himself interim president.
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In 1775, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia who wanted to quickly end the war, issued a proclamation to free enslaved Black people if they defected from the colonies and fought for the British army.
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During the 2018 midterms, enough moderate Republicans defected from the party, some over the GOP's dogged attempt at repealing Obamacare, that the party lost control of the House of Representatives as well as some Senate races.
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In other words, while the 2018 vote is consistent with both partisanship (all the Democrats voted nay) and ideology (a coherent "ideological cluster" of GOP members defected from their leadership), the 1985 vote indicates little of either.
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Since Cespedes defected from Cuba and reached the majors with the Athletics in 2012, Wilson has often tried to say hello to him at games, wish him good luck, offer a hug and, sometimes, a small present.
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But Republican senators have shown few signs of breaking with Trump — instead criticizing House Democrats' impeachment process as sloppy, partisan and incomplete — following a similar pattern after not a single Republican defected from Trump in the House.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Eleven Venezuelan diplomats in the United States have defected from President Nicolas Maduro's government since opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president last month, a representative of Venezuela's opposition said on Thursday.
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North Korea claims a high-ranking diplomat who recently defected from the United Kingdom to South Korea was fleeing a litany of criminal charges in his home country, including ones related to the sexual abuse of children.
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The so-called National Salvation Government, formed on Monday, will be headed by Abdul Aziz Habtoor, a politician who had defected from Hadi's government and joined the Houthi coalition last year, according to the movement's news agency Saba.
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Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander who defected from the genocidal group and helped drive it from power in 1979, is allied to China, and Beijing says it supports the Cambodian government's efforts to maintain national security.
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North Korea has not identified Thae as a defector but in August, its state media accused an unidentified senior diplomat who defected from his post in Britain of fleeing to escape punishment for various crimes including child rape.
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Supporters of Massa, who personally clashes with Fernandez and defected from the Justicialist Party in 2013 to form a new dissident Peronist party, Renewal Front, do not have plans to align with other movements within the opposition either.
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Cohen was a key figure in the insular coterie that runs Trump's personal and business affairs, and he's now one of the few people ever to have defected from that group and spoken publicly about its inner workings.
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I joked during Ben Higgins' season of The Bachelor that one of his dates had been set-decorated by a crew member who'd defected from a production of The Phantom of the Opera, but I have to apologize.
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It's about 60 miles north of Houston, inside Sam Houston National Forest, on a 2,000-acre ranch owned by Bela and Martha Karolyi, the coaching couple who defected from Romania and became the guiding force of U.S.A. Gymnastics.
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WILD GOOSE DREAMS A "goose father" — a South Korean man who stays behind after his family moves to America — connects online with a young woman who has defected from North Korea in this new play by Hansol Jung.
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It leans conservative and is represented by Representative Jeff Van Drew, a freshman congressman who opposed impeachment and last month defected from the Democratic Party to join the Republicans with a pledge of "undying support" for Mr. Trump.
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The FSA, which began as a group of Syrian soldiers and officers who defected from the Syrian army, is an association of over a dozen rebel groups fighting the Russian-backed government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The woman identified the body of her brother from a cache of more than 50,000 images taken and smuggled out of the country by a Syrian forensic officer who defected from his position and fled Syria, Guernica 37 said.
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Trump's move to the middle on Social Security and Medicare has received remarkably little attention in endless post-election retrospectives, particularly those focused on how Democrats can "win back" white working-class voters who defected from the Obama coalition.
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Ninja calls out Twitch after his dormant channel highlights porn After the world's most popular Fortnite player defected from Twitch to Mixer, Twitch began promoting other channels on his dormant page — including one that was just a porn broadcast.
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Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge commander who defected from the genocidal group and helped drive it from power in 1979, is allied to China, and Beijing says it supports the Cambodian government's efforts to maintain national security and stability.
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Red-state Democrats including West Virginia's Joe Manchin and North Dakota's Heitkamp have defected from their party and voted with Republicans on a few key nominees, including embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Puig defected from Cuba on a speedboat at age 21 and soon found himself entangled with Mexico's notorious Zetas crime organization, which threatened to chop off his arm if it failed to receive the promised $250,000 fee for his passage.
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But if the Republican does lose, I expect it to be less because Moore's voters defected from the Republican camp, or were so disgusted they stayed home, and more that national headwinds were favoring Democrats—even in deep-red Alabama.
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But the North's security apparatus is geared to shielding the leader from internal threats, whether from a disgruntled senior bureaucrat or an unknown element in the public that might incite violence, a former bodyguard who defected from the North has said.
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Related: The Taliban Tells the Islamic State to Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan IS has made inroads recently in Afghanistan, attracting fighters that defected from the Taliban after the death last year of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the group's longtime leader.
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In April, Mr. Guaidó made an unsuccessful bid to unseat Mr. Maduro by force when he appeared in a video flanked by national guardsmen who had defected from the government, calling on the rest of the armed forces to join him.
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He has said that nobody is immune from legal prosecution in Russia and pointed out that the Bolshoi Theater recently staged "Nureyev," a ballet directed by Mr. Serebrennikov about Rudolf Nureyev, a gay ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union.
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Today's trailer shows the crew of the Colossus fleeing from the First Order as Tam Ryvora, who defected from the Colossus to join the First Order at the end of the first season, begins her career as a TIE Fighter pilot.
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WASHINGTON — The day after he defected from Democrats to vote against impeaching President Trump, Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey on Thursday appeared in the Oval Office with Mr. Trump to make it official: He was becoming a Republican.
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Obama lost whites with no college degree by a very large margin in 2012, but Clinton did even worse — especially losing the support of the kind of Northern, relatively secular noncollege whites who had not already defected from the GOP.
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Haftar -- who defected from Gadhafi's military to live in exile in the United States before returning to Libya in 2011 -- will have to be brought on board if a stable Libyan government with popular support is to be formed, said St John.
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He is a former Khmer Rouge cadre who defected from the genocidal group and helped drive it from power in 1979, and is credited with helping Cambodia achieve economic growth, but has been criticized for his crackdown on critics and the media.
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AFP reports that over the course of the last three days a group of activists called Fighters for Free North Korea—including many people who've in fact defected from North Korea—have gone about sending leaflets across the border from South Korea.
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But in the crossover of musical tastes in the Mets' locker room, which is a testament to the melting pot that baseball can be, nothing can probably match the fact that Yoenis Cespedes, who defected from Cuba, is now obsessed with country music.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov, who really defected from the Soviet Union in 1974, plays Nikolai Rodchenko, a Russian ballet star who had fled eight years ago but finds himself back in the U.S.S.R. when the 747 jet carrying him to Tokyo crash-lands in Siberia.
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In one case, the CIA helped a man who wanted to go to college by providing fake records he needed to apply, while in another, officers facilitated a secret divorce for an asset whose wife still lived in the country he defected from.
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And despite his aesthetic differences with Malevich and Lissitzky, he took both artists along for the ride as teachers at the school, only to watch as more of his students defected from figuration to Malevich's new abstract style, called Suprematism, year-by-year.
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According to an analysis by the Long War Journal, a publication that tracks militant groups in Africa, the Islamic State has a small presence in northeastern Somalia and consists of dozens of fighters led by a militant that had defected from Shabab.
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Union workers, especially in industrial fields, have defected from their historic allegiance to Democrats over social issues like gun rights and abortion, and in 2016 Mr. Trump won many of their votes while promising to crack down on trade deals and illegal immigration.
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A Fox News exclusive back in 2010 exposed the fact that 17 Afghan military men had defected from an Air Force Base in Texas alone, while a further 46 members of the Afghan military had walked away from the Defense Language Institute's English Language Center.
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" One woman, the complaint claims, "began having sex with Raniere" and "he provided her with money and offered her a job, but as soon as she defected from DOS and stopped having sex with him, Raniere told her she had to pay the money back.
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In 1981 the husband-and-wife coaching tandem of Marta (left) and Bela Karolyi defected from communist Romania—where they had guided Nadia Comaneci, a star pupil, to the sport's first perfect 10 score at the Montreal Games in 1976—and settled in Texas.
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He would represent a return to the less chaotic Obama era, and also has an "Uncle Joe" image that some observers think could win back Rust Belt voters who defected from the Democrats to Donald Trump in 2016, swinging the White House his way.
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Or how, despite the complicated politics around Cuba and the United States, it moved many of us to tears when our teammate Eddie Oropesa, who had defected from Cuba, finally made it to the major leagues and reunited with his family in the dugout.
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The violence also paved the way for a would-be savior in Benghazi: a septuagenarian general named Khalifa Haftar, who had defected from Muammar el-Qaddafi's army in the 1980s and fled to the United States, before returning to Libya in 2011 during the revolution.
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She is married to Oscar Lafontaine -- a former social democrat finance minister -- who defected from Gerhard Schröder's coalition Socialist-Green government and later founded Die Linke, with the members of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor to the East German Communist Party.
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Trump's decision to withdraw the US from TPP is also a first step in the administration's efforts to amass a governing coalition to push the new President's agenda, one that includes the blue-collar workers who defected from Democrats and flocked to Trump's candidacy in November.
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The center-left Liberal Democrats trail not far behind at 16 percent, but Labour and the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to team up to take advantage of those numbers, as many of the latter's newest members defected from Labour over serious misgivings about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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Camila Cabello, the autonomous former member of Fifth Harmony who defected from the now-defunct group's other four harmonies, won two of the biggest awards of the night for her body of work and her hit song "Havana": Video of the Year and Artist of the Year.
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Last fall, he once again became the host of his own show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," which began its run at 7 P.M. and then, in January, moved to 9 P.M. , to fill the space formerly occupied by Megyn Kelly, who had defected from Fox News to NBC.
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Two years later, disturbed by the Republicans' drift to the political right, Roosevelt defected from the G.O.P., formed the National Progressive Party, and made a rogue run for an unprecedented third term in the White House (he entered office in 1901, after William McKinley was assassinated).
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Mr. Macri does not have a majority in either the Senate or the lower house, but he was bolstered this week when a group of lawmakers once loyal to former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a political opponent of Mr. Macri, defected from her bloc in the lower house.
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The statistical evidence is very clear that border security and controlling immigration remain central issues for the American people, particularly the 2628 percent of Obama voters who defected from the Democratic Party to vote for President Trump, based on a report from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group.
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Try to think of public figures who made the opposite journey: Elizabeth Warren, Garry Wills, and Joan Didion come to mind, and Kevin Phillips, the disillusioned Nixon strategist; more recently, the writer Michael Lind and the Clinton-hater-turned-lover David Brock defected from the right to the left.
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The state, which has not voted for the loser in a presidential election since 1960, is seen as a microcosm of American swing voters — from culturally conservative "Reagan Democrats" who defected from their party to support Republican Ronald Reagan in the 1980s to suburban soccer moms and upwardly mobile Hispanics.
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Forceful advocacy of basic progressive values by a charismatic messenger thrilled long-suffering Texas liberals (who are numerous in absolute terms despite being outnumbered), while O'Rourke also proved to be an appealing fresh face for millions of suburban Texas Republicans who'd defected from the Trumpified version of the party in 2016.
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"It was this deep, gut-felt misgiving of remaining in the group, remaining in the cult," Lyford — who defected from the alien-obsessed religious sect when he was 39 — recounts ahead of the next episode of People Magazine Investigates: Cults, which airs on Investigation Discovery on Monday, June 17, at 9 p.m.
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Not having the joint cultural event may avert some logistical and political risks for both sides, but the last-minute move by North Korea still signals "a bit of a threat," said Ahn Chan-il, who defected from North Korea in 1979 and now heads the World Institute for North Korea Studies.
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But as someone who draws on his upbringing in the working class stronghold of Scranton, in northeastern Pennsylvania, and has been speaking the language of unions for years, Biden offers himself as the only candidate who can bring back Rust Belt workers who defected from Democrats to vote for Trump in 2016.
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Related: How a 19-year-old North Korean escaped and became a sushi chef in America North Korea claims a high-ranking diplomat who recently defected from the United Kingdom to South Korea was fleeing a litany of criminal charges in his home country, including ones related to the sexual abuse of children.
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Mr Farage fell out spectacularly with his party's only three other political talents fit for national prominence: Suzanne Evans (whose membership was suspended after she called him "divisive"), Patrick O'Flynn (a former political editor of the Daily Express) and Douglas Carswell (a libertarian who defected from the Tories in 2014 to become UKIP's only MP).
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Diess, who had defected from BMW to become head of the VW brand on July 1, 2015, joined the July 27 meeting with Volkswagen's then Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn to discuss how to convince regulators that VW's cars could be sold, a VW defence document filed with a court in Braunschweig in February, shows.
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Diess, who had defected from BMW to become head of the VW brand on July 1, 2015, joined the July 27 meeting with Volkswagen's then Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn to discuss how to convince regulators that VW's cars could be sold, a VW defense document filed with a court in Braunschweig in February, shows.
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In Guatemala City, demonstrators clustered in front of Congress to protest actions against the CICIG as well as two legislative initiatives: one that would give the legislature power to oversee the process of stripping politicians of their immunity and another that would permit almost 80 congressmen who have defected from the opposition to join Morales' party.
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Along with garnering attention for his chart-topping pitching—he was among the top ten in several pitching stats in the NL that year, including number of strikeouts per nine innings and hits allowed per nine innings, and third in WAR—Fernández also gained recognition for his optimism and iconic backstory about how he defected from Cuba.
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Played by Annette Bening, Mar-Vell is a scientist who defected from the Kree during the Kree-Skrull War when she discovered the shameful secret: that the enemy Skrulls are actually a peaceful people who lost their home planet and are refugees searching for a new home, all because they don't want to follow the militaristic and tyrannical Kree rule.
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In chronicling Eastman (19933-1969), a son of Congregationalist ministers who gained prominence as a writer, editor, philosopher and political activist, Professor O'Neill charts an Odyssean intellectual transformation in which his subject embraced free love, feminism and socialism, then defected from Bolshevism and defended Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's hunt for Communists; he later became an outspoken foe of the war in Vietnam.
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In 2006, Joseph Kim defected from North Korea to China, where he connected with Liberty in North Korea, a non-governmental organization dedicated to resettling North Korean refugees to South Korea and the US. Kim's father died from starvation when he was 12-years-old, according to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, where Kim now works as an assistant for the Human Freedom Initiative.
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EXILED AFGHAN LEADER AND ONETIME U.S. ALLY WARNS AGAINST &aposPEACE&apos WITH TALIBAN BORN OF WEAKNESS FROM JAIL, REMORSEFUL EX-ISIS FIGHTER WARNS THAT GROUP WILL RETOOL AND RETURN Ibrahim al-Jabawi, who defected from his position as vice president of Police in the Syrian province of Homs in 2012 to take on a role as the Amman-based spokesperson for the Southern Front, concurred that "some of the TOW rockets ended up with Al Nusra."
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"And based on interviews I've conducted with people who defected from the group, there is a complete and total sense of paranoia — that they are being spied upon by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, Iraqi intelligence in Iraq, the Kurds in northern Iraq, and indeed agents from the Russian federation or one of the coalition countries, France, Britain, the U.S." Recent ISIS propaganda videos, translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, illustrate ISIS' apparent internal strife, and the message the terror group wants to send to potential spies.
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