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Mallorca woman held on suspicion of murdering husband, feeding him to dog


The Local - Spain
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:07 UTC
Stock image of a dog
© Sheila Sund/Flickr
A Russian woman is being held on the suspicion of killing her German husband and feeding bits of him to their dog at their home on Mallorca.

Svetlana Batukova, 46, is in police custody after she was found next to the bloody corpse of her husband named locally as Horst Hans Henkels on Friday.

A post mortem on Saturday revealed that the German had bled to death after being repeatedly stabbed with a kitchen knife.
La rusa cocainómana despelleja a su marido en Mallorca y le da los jirones al perro https://t.co/0J26TA1yWl pic.twitter.com/4Cw49Umxto
— Alfonso Rojo López (@AlfonsoRojoPD) April 4, 2016
Flesh from his arms had reportedly been cut off and fed to the couple's dog, an American Staffordshire bull terrior, according to the online Periodistadigital.

Initial findings widely reported in local media on the Balearic Islands indicated that the victim had been drugged before being repeatedly stabbed and had bled to death on the floor of their flat in Sant Llorenç.

The couple had reportedly married in January and Henkels had recently undergone surgery on his trachea and could therefore hardly speak.

Local police confirmed that they had been called out several times to the property in recent months over domestic rows.

Batukova, who was reportedly under the influence of alcohol and drugs when arrested, is due to appear before an investigating magistrate on Monday.
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Hardhat

China interested in moving factories to Russia


RT
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:49 UTC
Factory
© Reuters
Beijing is ready to transfer some of its shipyards as well as chemical and steel plants to Russia's Far East. Russia is interested, but says this can only be done in full compliance with local environmental laws.

"We are ready to accept Chinese enterprises to establish joint export-oriented production in the Far East territory", said a spokesman for the Far East Development Department Rustam Makarov.

The Chinese factories are involved in construction, metalworking, energy, machine building, shipbuilding, chemicals and other sectors.

However, this movement will only be done if they comply with Russian environmental laws.
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Heart - Black

Police kill suspect, then kill his hostage; family seeks justice

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:38 UTC
Matthew Serbus and Dawn Pfister
© CBSMatthew Serbus and Dawn Pfister
On Feb 7, 2014, Matthew Serbus led police on a dangerous high-speed chase before crashing his car and taking Dawn Pfister as a hostage. Police would shoot Serbus as he held a knife to Pfister, then, walk up to Pfister and kill her too. The entire incident was recorded on a police dashcam.

The Chaska police department never released the dashcam footage showing the killing until now — after all the officers involved were cleared by a grand jury. Now, the family of Dawn Pfister is speaking out and has hired an attorney to bring their daughter's murderer to justice.

Two years ago, officers received calls about a hit and run and a vehicle driving dangerously down the highway. They found Matthew Serbus driving his car, weaving down the road, with the hood blocking his view. Inside that car was his girlfriend, Phister.
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Heart - Black

'I lived in fear, hunger & violence': 11yo Iraqi boy reveals the horrors of spending 8 months as ISIS prisoner


RT
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:22 UTC
Iraqi boy
© Sputnik / YouTube
An 11-year-old boy has been speaking of his ordeal after being held prisoner for eight months by Islamic State before he eventually escaped. Ayman Sharaf Khaji told Sputnik of the awful suffering he and 100 Yazidi children had to endure.

It is difficult to image someone so young could have experienced such horrors. However, Ayman remains remarkably composed as he reveals some of the ordeals that he had to face during his eight-month nightmare.

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Snakes in Suits

Investigation finds oil and gas companies stiffed 29,000 employees out of over $40 million in wages

Alan Neuhauser
US News & World Report
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:18 UTC
fracking
Rig workers drill a saltwater well to draw fluids for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Anthony, Kan., in February 2012.
Like beacons in the night, the flares burning over America's oil and gas fields drew tens of thousands of workers over the past decade, promising big paydays and new pickup trucks, even for those who had just graduated high school.

But in an industry sector recently plagued by plunging oil prices that have forced thousands of rigs to go idle, many of those workers have been feeling even more financial pain, having been forced to wait for their full paychecks.

More than 29,000 oil and gas employees have been stiffed over $40 million in back wages, according to findings from more than 1,100 investigations launched since 2012 by the Labor Department.

Despite booming industry profits and record oil and gas output - which together rejuvenated the country's economy and transformed the U.S. into the world's top oil and gas producer in 2014 and 2015 - companies misclassified their workers and failed to pay them required overtime, even as they put in long workdays in often dangerous conditions.
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Handcuffs

San Antonio: School cop body slams 12 y.o. girl

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:16 UTC
Officer Joshua Kehm
Officer Joshua Kehm
A video was uploaded to YouTube this week allegedly showing a San Antonio Independent School District police officer body slam a 12-year-old girl.

According to Ghost-0.com, the girl's mother, Gloria Valdez, says the officer told her that her daughter "tried" to kick him and that he thought she was gonna start a fight with another student. However, the young, female student was just having a peaceful conversation with a fellow peer before the officer attacked her.

Even if this young girl had actually tried to attack this cop, his violent response was entirely uncalled for.
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Arrow Up

Senior female chief in Malawi annulled up 850 child marriages and sends girls back to school

Marni Fogelson-Teel
Inhabitots
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:53 UTC
Malawi chief child marraiges
Theresa Kachindamoto
Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over close to 900,000 people... and she's not afraid to use her authority to help the women and girls in her district. In the past three years, she has annulled more than 850 child marriages, sent hundreds of young women back to school to continue their education, and made strides to abolish cleansing rituals that require girls as young as seven to go to sexual initiation camps. With more than half of Malawi's girls married before the age of 18, according to a 2012 United Nations survey — and a consistently low ranking on the human development index, Kachindamoto's no-nonsense attitude and effective measures have made her a vital ally in the fight for women's and children's rights.

Comment: See also: A million children in Africa suffering severe acute malnutrition after years of drought linked to El Niño

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Star of David

Racism and segregation: Israeli hospitals' long-standing practice of separating Arab and Jewish mothers in delivery rooms and maternity wards

Ido Efrati
Haaretz
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:03 UTC
maternity ward
© Alon Ron
For many years the health system has been segregating Arab and Jewish mothers who come to deliver their babies, particularly in hospitals and maternity wards that serve mixed populations. This is obviously not official policy, but is being implemented by nurses on these wards, with doctors and hospital management turning a blind eye. However, in many hospitals that are reimbursed for every delivery, this policy is part of the benefits offered to new mothers, an attractive bonus for those who choose to give birth in a hospital.

Reshet Bet radio has reported that hospitals such as Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem and Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Ichilov in Tel Aviv and Meir in Kfar Sava direct Arab and Jewish women to separate rooms, either automatically or at the women's request.

The report, which touches a sensitive area of friction relating to demography, discrimination and medicine, has raised a storm. Habayit Hayehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich rushed to inflame the situation by tweeting sarcastically that it was only natural that his wife would want to lie beside a woman who had just given birth to a baby who might want to murder her own baby in 20 years.

More disturbing is the apparent surprise and the responses of the medical establishment and its spokesmen, ranging from condemnation to sweeping denials. The formal prohibition on segregating mothers is obvious, since this is patently racist and discriminatory. However, anyone familiar with the system knows that this has been going on in many places for a long time. It begins before mothers are assigned to recovery rooms after giving birth.
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Eye 1

Detroit man imprisoned four women & sold them as sex slaves


RT
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:49 UTC
Ryan Travis
© Wayne County Sheriff's DeptRyan Travis, 32, of Detroit, charged with sex trafficking and child pornography in case involving four women he called his wives. One was found chained to a stripper pole in his living room, authorities say
A man from Detroit, Michigan has been accused by the federal government of enslaving women at his home and selling them on the internet as sex partners, as well as possessing and sharing child pornography.

Arraigned in US District Court on Monday, 32-year-old Ryon Travis pleaded not guilty to the accusations. He is charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and producing, possessing and transporting child pornography, according to a report by the Detroit Free Press.

The case dates back to March 2, when police officers in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield raided Travis' home to investigate suspected fraud and identity theft and seized two cell phones that allegedly belonged to him. Three women that Travis called his "wives" were inside the home at the time.

Law enforcement found child-porn images inside the phones, including pictures of children under 12 years of age, and various photos showing a grown man having sex with a young girl laying on a sheet, the Free Press reported.

About two and a half weeks later, another police raid took place that discovered a fourth woman in Travis' home. This time, the 25-year-old woman was chained to a stripper pole by the neck with a padlock.
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Hourglass

Saudi Arabia: Rebranding an absolute monarchy


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:37 UTC
road and sheik
© www.newstatesman.comBridging two worlds, the slow evolutionary road.
The recent developments in the political and social life of Saudi Arabia show that the absolute monarchy is now on the long way of evolution to a modern secular state, Moscow-based professor and specialist in modern Eastern studies Grigory Kosach wrote.

Saudi Arabia is the key player in the Middle East, pretending to be the leader in the Sunni Arab world. Riyadh is also of the world's leader in oil production and exports. On the other hand, to the Western mentality the kingdom looks anachronous.

Saudi Arabia appeared on the world map thanks to the efforts of its "founding monarch" Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud. In the first quarter of the 20th century, he seized several areas in the Arabian Peninsula, including Riyadh and Mecca. But the kingdom was established not only with power. It was also based on principles of the ultra-conservative doctrine of Wahhabism, a religious movement within Sunni Islam. Having used Wahhabism as one of the pillars of his kingdom, Abdel Aziz could make its expansion efforts religiously legitimate.

Comment: Pattern: Force the topple of the house of Saud and something more insidious will take its place. East does not meet West evenly, nor is the transition from one dynamic to the other entirely feasible or ever complete. In the Mid East, there will always be the dynamic of religion in politics and war - even the West has strong elements of this behind its secular facade. Couple this with the residuals of colonialism, geopolitical rivalries and add a big gob of zealotry for good measure...sparks fly and conflicts inflate. Western reform and secularism will likely undermine, but not replace, the historic marriage of a ruling dynasty with its regime state. Perhaps the slow change stands the better chance.

Even Western nations are mutating to illiberal (partial or empty) democracies based on blind faith sans accountability: a governing system in which citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power due to the erosion of civil liberties. Moral and functional disintegration is the projected end result. Sound familiar?

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