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Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein activists targeted in violent attacks


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:25 UTC
belfast police
© Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
A week of rioting and violence across Northern Ireland culminated in explosive devices being thrown at the Belfast homes of prominent Sinn Fein activists, including the party's former leader Gerry Adams.

The home of the republican Bobby Storey, who previously served as the party's chairman in Northern Ireland, was also targeted.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) confirmed on Friday night that they were dealing with "two incidents at two separate addresses in West Belfast."

A further search of both locations saw remnants of "industrial, firework-type devices" seized by police, and "a parked car was damaged at one of the houses", according to a PSNI statement.

Sinn Fein's Policing and Justice Spokesman Gerry Kelly condemned the "reprehensible and cowardly attacks."
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Clutch your pearls! Firm used in Maryland election systems has a Russian investor!

Brian Witte
Yahoo!
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller House Speaker Michael Busch
© AP Photo/Brian Witte
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, left, and House Speaker Michael Busch discuss an FBI briefing they received about Russian links to a company that maintains part of the state election board's voter registration platform during a news conference in Annapolis, Md. on Friday, July 13, 2018.
A vendor that provides key services for Maryland elections has been acquired by a parent company with links to a Russian oligarch, state officials said Friday after a briefing a day earlier from the FBI.

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael Busch made the announcement at a news conference in the Maryland State House, a gathering that included staff members of Gov. Larry Hogan.

"The FBI conveyed to us that there is no criminal activity that they've seen," Busch said. "They believe that the system that we have has not been breached."

Comment: Talk about hysterical! A guy who invested in a company that provides services for elections is a Russian! This is a serious threat to democracy! It's hard to know if the people freaking out are in on the fact that the Russia hysteria is a complete distraction or if they've become so embroiled in the hype that they actually believe this is an issue.

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33 hospitalized after Ryanair flight plummets mid-air & makes emergency landing in Frankfurt, Germany


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:04 UTC
Airplane
© Ralph Orlowski / Reuters
A Ryanair aircraft on the tarmac of Frankfurt Hahn airport, June 6, 2016.
Dozens of passengers were taken to hospitals after a Croatia-bound Ryanair flight had suddenly made an emergency descent, plummeting from 11,000m before finally landing in Frankfurt.

A Ryanair flight bound for Croatian resort town of Zadar had made an emergency landing at Frankfurt-Hahn airport after rapidly descending from 36,000ft (11,000m), German media reported citing police.

33 passengers were taken to the hospital after they "complained about headache and earache and suffered from nausea,"Spiegel magazine quoted a spokesman for the Federal Police early on Saturday. The authorities believe there might have been a drop in pressure on board the Ryanair Boeing 737, which carried 189 passengers.

At Frankfurt airport, paramedics took care of the passengers, with city authorities dispatching ambulances to ferry the injured to nearby hospitals. Uninjured passengers spent the night at the airport. "A replacement aircraft will probably fly people to their destination on Saturday," the police spokesman said.
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India's child-rape problem: 15 yo girl repeatedly raped by classmates and teachers at her school over six months

George Martin
Daily Mail
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:55 UTC
India rape march

School girls hold placards during a silent protest rally against the recent rape cases of two teenage girls in Jharkhand on May 8 this year.
A 15-year-old girl has claimed she was repeatedly raped by her classmates and teachers in a shocking case in northern India.

The unnamed victim, from eastern Bihar, said she had been routinely raped by 19 people, three teachers and 16 students, over the course of six months - police revealed Thursday.

Anuj Kumar, sub-inspector of the Ekma police station in eastern Bihar state told CNN the girl was initially raped by three or four boys in the first incident.

Comment: India has got a serious freaking rape problem and it's disgusting. And the fact that there were 40,000 rapes reported in India in 2016 and the victims were children in 40 percent of those cases, is truly stomach turning. It remains to be seen if the death penalty will have any deterrent effect, but the fact that such a strong penalty would even be needed points to something seriously, seriously wrong.

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Update: 128 killed, 150 injured in suicide attack at Pakistan election rally


RT
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:21 UTC
A Pakistani yougman injured in a bomb blast is transported at a hospital in Bannu
© AFP
A Pakistani yougman injured in a bomb blast is transported at a hospital in Bannu on Friday; July 13, 2018
Some 70 people have died and more than 30 have been injured after a suicide bombing at an election rally near Quetta, Pakistan. Hours earlier a bomb went off at another election rally in the country's northwest, killing four.

More than 1,000 people were attending the rally when it was targeted, according to local police. Friday's bombing is the deadliest in Pakistan since two bomb blasts ripped apart a marketplace in Parachinar last June, killing almost 100 people.

The blast killed Siraj Raisani, who was running for a seat with the newly-formed Balochistan Awami Party. Raisani died while on the way to a nearby hospital, according to the provincial home minister.

Comment: Update 14/07/2018:
Pakistan: Death Toll From Mastung Suicide Bomb Climbs To 128

Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, a political candidate for the Balochistan Awami Party, was also killed in the latest attack in the run-up to Pakistan's July 25 general elections.

At least 128 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a political rally in Pakistan's Mastung district on Friday, including candidate Nawabzada Siraj Raisani, provincial Health Minister Faiz Kakar told DawnNewsTV.

The attack, which also injured a further 150 people, 12 of them critically, is the deadliest bombing in Pakistan since 2014, according to the BBC. No group has yet claimed responsibility.

Victims were transferred to the Civil Hospital Quetta, Bolan Medical Complex and Combined Military Hospital Quetta, according to Kakar.

Witnesses said the attacker targeted a meeting organized by Siraj Raisani, a Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate for the PB-35 Matsung district.

"Mr. Siraj Raisani succumbed to his wounds while he was being transferred to Quetta," said provincial Home Minister Agha Umar Bungalzai.

This is the latest in a string of attacks on political candidates in the lead up to the country's July 25 general elections.

Earlier on Friday, a bomb explosion targeted a convoy carrying former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani in Pakistan's Bannu district. Four people were killed and 32 more were injured. Durrani survived the attack.

Two people were injured in another bomb blast detonated near the BAP's election office in Khuzdar late Thursday.

On Wednesday night, a bomb exploded in Peshawar killing 21 people, including Barrister Haroon Bilour, leader of the Awami National Party (ANP). Local police said the attack, which used approximately eight kilograms of TNT, was claimed by the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Another 75 people were injured.

Despite the latest attack, ANP officials said the party would not back down from contesting the upcoming general elections. Bilour was a candidate for the provincial assembly seat.


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Pistol

New York mafia man miraculously survives point-blank range assassination attempt, shooter on the loose


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:20 UTC
Shooting
© Citywide 911 / YouTube
An associate of a New York City crime family has narrowly escaped death after being chased and shot several times by a would-be assassin on the streets of the Bronx, video footage released by police has revealed.

Salvatore 'Sally Daz' Zottola, a partner in crime of the Bonanno family, which has ruled the streets of New York for over a century, was targeted by an unknown shooter at about 6.30am on Wednesday morning. The newly-released video of the incident shows a red Nissan pulling up next to Zottola's car.
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Attention

Tribal chief and Democratic candidate for state Assembly charged with fraud, grand theft

Damon Arthur and Amber Sandhu
Redding Record Searchlight
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:03 UTC
Caleen Audrey Sisk
© Shasta County Sheriff's Office
A Democratic candidate for state Assembly has been charged with grand theft and making fraudulent claims in connection to allegations she improperly entered thousands of hours on her time sheet as an employee of California In-Home Support Services.

The state paid Caleen Audrey Sisk, 65, of Redding $38,300 for 4,441 hours she claimed on her time sheet but did not work, according to a Shasta County District Attorney's Office investigation.

Sisk, who is chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Shasta County, is running as the Democratic Party candidate for the 1st Assembly District against Republican incumbent Brian Dahle of Bieber in Lassen County.

Two days after she announced her candidacy for Assembly, the Shasta County District Attorney's Office filed charges against her.

According to Shasta County Superior Court records, she faces six counts of filing fraudulent claims and one count of grand theft of personal property, all felonies.
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Magic Wand

Duh: Student loan debt unpayable if states take away licenses needed to work

C. Jarrett Dieterle and Shoshana Weissmann
USA Today
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:00 UTC
college graduates
© Seth Wenig, AP
Roderick Scott Sr., a Texas middle school teacher, had been teaching for several years when his professional license was up for renewal. Although the process is usually routine - the application can be submitted online and requires a simple fee - what happened next nearly left his life in ruins.

The Texas Education Agency denied Scott's renewal. The reason: He had fallen behind on his student loan payments, the loan he had taken out to allow him to obtain his teacher's license in the first place. Unbeknownst to Scott, Texas law allows the state to suspend or revoke a professional license as punishment for falling behind on student loan payments.

Scott started paying back his loan instead of his rent and other commitments, a decision that ultimately caused him to be evicted from his apartment and forced to file for bankruptcy.

Comment: As if student debt wasn't already an ever-expanding prison sentence. A bill like this simply makes it go from being unlikely to be able to pay off student loans to impossible.

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Pistol

Brazilian lawyer murdered by hitman in front of his 18 month-old daughter (GRAPHIC IMAGES)


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:25 UTC
André Ambrósio Ribeiro Pessoa assassinated Brazil lawyer
© flagrante Brasil / YouTube
Police are investigating the murder of a labor lawyer who was shot at point-blank range in the presence of his 18-month-old daughter. The gut-wrenching CCTV video shows the father calmly accepting his fate to save his little girl.

André Ambrósio Ribeiro Pessoa, 46, died after receiving five gunshots late Thursday afternoon in Caruaru, Brazil. The extremely graphic video of the assassination -captured on security camera- shows the victim arriving at his ex-wife's house to drop off the toddler. As soon as he gets out of the vehicle with his daughter and the nanny, the murderer approaches them, holding a gun.
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Hundreds injured and one teen killed as Gaza's March of Return marks over 100 days


RT
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:25 UTC
march of return gaza protest
© Agence France=Presse
Palestinians protest in Gaza on 13 May 2018 to mark the Nakba
A 15yo Palestinian has been killed by live IDF fire and over 220 people have been injured during the Great March of Return protest on the Gazan-Israeli border. The clashes marked over 100 days since the deadly weekly revolt began.

Othman Rami Hellas, 15, was killed on Friday evening after being shot by an IDF sniper during yet another tense standoff along the border demarcation fence, Wafa News reported. Another 220 Palestinians suffered injuries from the live bullets and tear gas that were used to repel the protesters.

The IDF said it was forced to respond to the Palestinian "violence" after a soldier received "moderate injuries" from a grenade that was thrown at him by the rioters.
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