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Iran arrests six for deadly suicide bomb attack on security forces


RFE/FR
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:23 UTC
Funeral IRGC
© AFPIranian funeral of slain IRGC in suicide bomb attack
Iran says it has arrested six people suspected of involvement in last week's deadly suicide bomb attack on security forces in the southern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on February 18 that it had arrested three "terrorists" in safe houses in the cities of Saravan and Khash.

Sistan-Baluchistan Province's public prosecutor Ali Movahedi said that three other people accused of being involved in the February 13 suicide bombing that killed 27 IRGC members were arrested, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.

The IRGC said that 150 kilograms of explosives and 600 kilograms of "explosive materials" as well as weapons and ammunition were confiscated in the raids in Saravan and Khash.

Those arrested had "produced, guided, and supported" the vehicle used in the attack, the Guards said.

In the attack, one of the deadliest on Iranian security forces in years, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a bus that was transporting IRGC troops. A militant Sunni Muslim separatist group called Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Comment: For details of the attack, see also:
20 members of Revolutionary Guards dead in suicide attack in S Iran

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'Shoot the president': School cancels assassination party game for kids after public outcry


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:41 UTC
guns
© REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
A school running a community arts center in Ohio was forced to stop advertising a party game where kids are instructed to 'eliminate' the president with toy guns, after it sparked national outrage.

The game entitled 'President' had been advertised as a part of Nerf gun-themed party organized by the Olmsted Performing Arts community center in Berea, a suburb of Cleveland.

"There is one president with body guards. Everyone else tries to eliminate or shoot the president," read the description of the game on the center's website, since deleted.

The brief description doesn't include any specific reference to President Donald Trump, but the tense environment around his presidency, complete with high-profile threats, helped create concern and outright anger among the community, believes Ohio resident Julie Berghaus.
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Double suicide attack in Syria's Idlib kills at least 15


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:38 UTC
Syria
© REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah
On 16 February, the Russian Defence Ministry's Centre for Reconciliation in Syria said that terrorists from the Idilb de-escalation zone had attacked Tall-Salhab and Kibriya in Hama Province as well as the Hara settlement in Aleppo over the past day.

At least 15 died and 30 were wounded as a result of a double suicide attack in Syria's Idlib, the Turkish NTV broadcaster reported citing local sources.


Two blasts took place in the city centre and preliminary reports indicate that they were caused by the detonation of two cars loaded with explosives, according to NTV.
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Horror in Russian forest: 6yo boy spends night alone in the wild after getting lost...or even worse


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:37 UTC
forest
© Sputnik / Pavel Lisitsin
The bizarre incident occurred in Losiny Ostrov National Park in Moscow, where a 6-year-old boy got lost in the wild, according to his mother. Multiple witnesses accounts, however, suggest he was left there on purpose.

Early on Sunday, a woman called the police, stating that her 6-year-old son got lost in Losiny Ostrov (Moose island) the evening before. The mother had apparently searched for him for hours, before giving up and seeking help from the authorities.

The mother and her son were driving past the park, and the child all of a sudden asked her to go for a stroll there. While in the forest, the boy ran away and got lost, according to the woman.

The park's location on the outskirts of Russia's capital should not deceive you. It is actually a genuine forest, with few man-made roads, rough terrain and even marshes. And, yes, there are mooses out there, as well as other, potentially dangerous wildlife - for a six-year-old child especially.
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WaPo oped: Smollett story needs to be true to validate rampant racism

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:26 UTC
jussie smollett
© REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
In an extremely dark op-ed for the Washington Post, the executive assistant for the editorial board lamented about how heartbroken she will be if Jussie Smollett wasn't actually targeted in a hate crime.

Instead of feeling relief that maybe there isn't as much hate out there as she thought, Nana Efua Mumford wrote about her heartbreak that maybe he wasn't actually attacked by some evil Trump supporters in an article titled, "I doubted Jussie Smollett. It breaks my heart that I might be right."

"I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did. I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago and, if proved true, this would be just one more point on the list. I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate," Mumford wrote about her desire for another hate crime to confirm her world view that racism is rampant in her hometown.
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Mother shocked after her 6th grade son was arrested for refusing to stand during Pledge of Allegiance

Josh Magness
Miami Herald
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:43 UTC
Dhakira Talbot
The boy's mom, Dhakira Talbot
Dhakira Talbot is shocked that her 6th grade son was arrested in school after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

"I'm upset, I'm angry. I'm hurt," the Florida mother said, according to BayNews9. "More so for my son. My son has never been through anything like this."

The incident happened on Feb. 4, according to The Washington Post, and reports began to surface over the weekend.

Police say the 11-year-old student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland said he wouldn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance because the flag is "racist," according to WTSP.

Ana Alvarez, a substitute teacher in the classroom, said she was offended by this comment and asked the student, who is black, why he didn't leave the country, as reported by The Washington Post.
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Arizona man rescued after spending hours stuck in quicksand at Zion National Park, Utah


AZ Family
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:13 UTC
Zion Park
A man from Arizona was rescued in Zion National Park Sunday after he became stuck in the middle of a creek in quicksand.

A press release stated that on Saturday afternoon, Zion Dispatch officials received a call saying that a 34-year-old man had his leg stuck in quicksand.

The man, who was unable to free himself from the quicksand, was located about three hours up the left fork of the North Creek trail in the park, the release stated.

The man's hiking companion left him with warm gear and clothing and went to call for help, according to the release. It was three hours until the companion was able to get cell phone service to call dispatch.
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Canadian, English-speaking narrator of ISIS propaganda videos captured in Syria - unrepentant


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:53 UTC
ISIS captives
© Twitter
The man's perfect English caught the world's attention as early as 2014. Experts speculated at the time that he could have been North American or Canadian and they turned out to be correct.

A Canadian man of Ethiopian descent who immigrated to the North American nation as a child turned out to be the narrator behind numerous Daesh propaganda videos, including those that depict prisoner executions, according to a report by The New York Times.

One of the most notorious Daesh propaganda video shows Syrian prisoners digging their own graves, before allegedly being shot in the back of the head by Daesh.

It is now known that the man with the perfect English-language narration in the horrific videos is Mohammed Khalifa, a 35-year old Canadian citizen who immigrated from Saudi Arabia as a child. During his life in Canada, he learned to speak like a native Canadian, studied technology and worked on modest jobs for various computer companies.

Khalifa was captured by Kurdish SDF forces as they advanced on Daesh's last stronghold east of the Euphrates river. He is now detained in a prison in Northern Syria.

"I don't regret it," Khalifa told reporters. "I was asked the same thing by my interrogators, and I told them the same thing."

Comment: Video footage of Khalifa in SDF custody:



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Gender politics isn't fact, it's a feeling and quite frankly, barking mad

Janice Atkinson
Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:17 UTC
transgender
© NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP/Getty Images
What a time to be living in the West. We've never been richer, more educated or healthier and our life expectancy is increasing year on year.

Instead of building on these achievements in the West to increase our prosperity and competitiveness, we are embarking on an embarrassing and damaging agenda led by people who are publicly funded to spew the nonsense that is identity politics. Through our schools, universities and workplaces, we have been fed a diatribe of gender politics as fact rather than feeling, when it's quite frankly barking.

Our stretched police force has coppers sitting behind computer screens looking for slights against trannies. People are being arrested for stating the fact that a man who chops off his penis and ingests multiple female hormones is now a woman.

Comment: Ms. Atkinson has finally said what needs to be said. Freedom of expression is already defined as a human right. Demanding unequivocal acceptance of that expression be enshrined and enforced by law is not.

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Police called on young entrepreneur selling hot cocoa


WTAE
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 03:22 UTC
Boy selling hot chocolate
An 11-year-old boy wanted to share some warmth and earn a few bucks, but he ended up getting the cops called on him in Castle Shannon.

Andrew Donaldson, of Castle Shannon, is not new to the drink stand scene.

"A lot of times, I make over $50, and I do pretty good," Andrew said.

This small business owner is normally seen setting up shop outside his Castle Shannon home when the temperature is a little warmer, but like most entrepreneurs, when he sees an opportunity, he takes it.
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