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Police in the capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, clashed with protesters and fired shots at the crowd as university students attempted to march on the country's parliament building.
According to reports, student activists were on their way towards parliament house in Port Moresby to express dissatisfaction with the country's prime minister, Peter O'Neill, amid allegations of corruption, when police lines halted their movements and fired into the crowd to prevent them from leaving the campus.
© Kyodo / ReutersSeven-year-old Yamato Tanooka (R), who was found by authorities in the woods nearly a week after his parents abandoned him for disciplinary reasons, waves as he leaves a hospital while his parents bow in Hakodate on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido, Japan.
As Yamato Tanooka left hospital on Tuesday, he waved to a crowd of wellwishers gathered outside and spoke briefly about his traumatic ordeal that entranced people around the world.
"I'm alright," was the seven-year-old's response when asked how he was feeling - which is certainly not how he felt after realizing he had been abandoned by his parents for what they said was punishment for throwing stones at cars.
© Action Images / ReutersMuhammad Ali
A boxer who, in his day, practiced the most primitive and brutal of sports with the grace and poetry associated with fine art, a man who outside the ring stood in defiance of the racial oppression that was the accomplished fact in the land of the free, Muhammad Ali represented the very antithesis of the hypocrisy which his passing has unleashed from the great and the good in a country that once reviled him.
We are talking about people such as former US President Bill Clinton, who following the news of Ali's death after a brief battle with respiratory illness said: "He made decisions and he lived with the consequences of them. He never stopped being an American even as he became a citizen of the world."
One of the "decisions" that Ali made was to champion the cause of black people living in the projects and the slums of America's vast inner cities, the very demographic that Clinton's policy of mass incarceration - i.e. the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 - decimated.
© Hidalgo County Sheriff's OfficeFelipe Santiago Peralez
The woman, identified in court documents as A.R., has since filed a lawsuit after the officer who raped her was sentenced to prison for official oppression.
On May 29, 2014, A.R. was picked up by La Joya police officers for a misdemeanor probation violation and booked into the La Joya City Jail. While the other officers were out on patrol, Felipe Santiago Peralez entered her cell and conducted an "all-night invasion" of her body, according to court documents.
© Beth Harpaz/APThe man fell into the hot springs Tuesday afternoon
According to YNP Public Affairs Officer Charissa Reid, a search was underway for the man who disappeared Tuesday afternoon.
Reid said the man is presumed dead because he has yet to be found.
"The recovery process is very difficult because of the hazards of the environment," said Reid.
Reid said the man is in his 20s, but she would not identify the man or where he is from. He reportedly walked about 225 yards off the board walk before falling in to the hot spring.
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US District Judge Shelly Dick concluded on Monday evening that the woman was legally incapable of consenting to sex with former Sorrento police chief Earl Theriot. Dick has not specified what penalties, if any, Theriot faces in the civil suit.
On November 2013, Theriot responded to a 911 call about an unconscious woman at a gas station. The police chief allegedly put her in the front seat of his cruiser and took her to his office at the Sorrento Police Department instead of taking her home, and subsequently engaged in sexual contact with her.
In the daylong case, the woman testified that she was heavily intoxicated before the encounter, and that Theriot purchased more alcohol for her before driving back to her office.
Naohiro Masuda, TEPCO Chief of Decommissioning at Fukushima Diiachi Nuclear Power Plant, finally publicly "officially" announced that 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, is missing (Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuels is Missing, Epoch Times, May 24, 2016).
Now what?
According to Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: "Nobody really knows where the fuel is at this point, and this fuel is still very radioactive and will be for a long time."
A big part of the problem is that nobody has experience with a Fukushima-type meltdown, which now appears to be 100% meltdown, possibly burrowed into the ground, but nobody really knows for sure.
What's next is like a trip into The Twilight Zone.
"The absolutely uncontrollable fission of the melted nuclear fuel assemblies continue somewhere under the remains of the station. 'It's important to find it as soon as possible,' acknowledged Masuda, admitting that Japan does not yet possess the technology to extract the melted uranium fuel," (600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fukushima Fuel Still Not Found, Clean-Up Chief Reveals, RT, May 24, 2016).
© Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office / ReutersRapist Brock Turner
Persky has come under extreme scrutiny for his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, who was convicted in March of three felony charges for the January 2015 sexual assault of an unconscious 23-year-old woman on Stanford's campus. Turner admitted to sexual contact with the woman, but said she had given consent. Both were heavily intoxicated, and the woman testified in court that she has no memory of the assault. Turner was spotted by two male graduate students "thrusting his hips atop an unconscious woman lying on the ground." The two men confronted Turner, who then fled. They chased him and held him down until police arrived.
A jury found Turner guilty of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated person, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
© Wikipedia CommonsAn aerial view of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
The FAA issued an advisory warning pilots on Saturday that global positioning systems (GPS) could be unreliable during six different days this month, primarily in the Southwestern United States. On June 7, 9, 21, 23, 28, and 30th the GPS interference testing will be taking place between 9:30am and 3:30pm Pacific time. But if you're on the ground, you probably won't notice interference.
The testing will be centered on China Lake, California—home to the Navy's 1.1 million acre Naval Air Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert. The potentially lost signals will stretch hundreds of miles in each direction and will affect various types of GPS, reaching the furthest at higher altitudes. But the jamming will only affect aircraft above 50 feet. As you can see from the FAA map below, the jamming will almost reach the California-Oregon border at 40,000 feet above sea level and 505 nautical miles at its greatest range.
Comment: What were the parents thinking abandoning their seven year old son alongside the road to fend for himself? How traumatic it must have been for this young boy.