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Top UK retailers volunteer for govt plan to stop assaults of acid attacks

RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:41 UTC

Several of Britain's largest retailers have signed up to a voluntary government initiative aimed at curbing the horrific rise in assaults with acids and other corrosive substances across the UK.

Retailers, including Wickes, B&Q, Screwfix, Wilko, the Co-op, Morrisons, Waitrose, Tesco and John Lewis, have signed up to the plan preventing under-18s from buying products that: contain sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, drain cleaners or brick and patio cleaners respectively, or products containing sodium hydroxide, such as paint strippers.

"Acid attacks have a devastating impact on their victims, leaving both emotional and physical scars," Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability Victoria Atkins said in a statement. "I'm pleased that so many of the UK's major retailers are joining our fight to combat this scourge and signalling they are committed to selling acids responsibly."

Age restrictions will also be introduced in retailers' online stores, though enforcement of this may prove more difficult with the advent of home delivery services from supermarkets like Tesco.

Comment: See also: London becomes the 'acid attack capital of the world'

Mom plans to sue after son comes home from school with two broken wrists

Nicole Johnson and Aliza Chasan
Pix 11
Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:54 UTC

An outraged Brooklyn mother says her son was forced to sit through school with two broken wrists that went unnoticed by teachers and staffers.

Krystal Alejandro plans to sue the city Department of Education over the injuries she says her 6-year-old boy Armani suffered on Dec. 18 at Public School 106 in Bushwick.

Alejandro said no one said anything about her son's injuries when she picked him up from an after-school program. He complained that his hands were sore.

The first-grader pointed out scratches on his hands as he told his mother that he fell at the school playground, Alejandro said.

When Armani continued to complain about the pain in his hands that night, Alejandro took the boy to Wyckoff Hospital, where doctors told her that both of his wrists were fractured.

Comment: Accidents happen. The boy could have broken both wrists even under supervision. The effects of gravity hold up even in our overly litigious society.

Manhunt underway as father kidnaps dangerously ill infant son from intensive care in Toulouse

RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:26 UTC

A manhunt has been launched for the father of a two-month old baby suspected of kidnapping the infant on Friday evening. The child was taken from intensive care and authorities say his life is in danger.

The baby, identified as Tizio, was kidnapped from the Purpan hospital in Toulouse where he was undergoing emergency medical treatment to save his life, prosecutors announced Saturday. He was being kept alive via gastric and intravenous feeding tubes, but was snatched from the intensive care unit Friday evening, triggering France's child abduction alert.

Man dies from serious injuries, object he picked up at Stockholm metro explodes

RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:54 UTC

A man died in the hospital after sustaining serious injuries caused by an exploding object he picked up from the ground near Varby gard metro station in Stockholm, Sweden.

Police first reported the incident in the Huddinge district of the Swedish capital at 11:07am local time (10:07am GMT) on Sunday. The area near Varby gard metro station was cordoned off after an unidentified object exploded, according to local police.

The man, who picked up the object from the ground, was taken to the hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries, according to police.

Child psychologist: Best friends should be banned because it's 'exclusionary' and can lead to 'emotional distress'

The College Fix
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:10 UTC

In the latest overly empathetic attempt at shielding young people from the harsh realities of life, a shrink wonders if schools should ban children from having - wait for it - best friends.

Writing in US News, child and family psychologist Dr. Barbara Greenberg says "there is something dreadfully exclusionary" about the concept of a "best friend," and notes some American and European schools already forbid kids from having them.

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31 year old man arrested for decapitating 5 cats, but 'Croydon cat killer' may still be at large

RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:50 UTC

A 31-year old man has been arrested in Northamptonshire in connection with the murder and mutilation of five cats in the area between August and November 2017.

The suspect, arrested in connection with arson and cat mutilations, has been released, but is still under investigation. Northamptonshire police confirmed they are liaising with London's Metropolitan police in connection with the ongoing Operation Takahe, an investigation into a slew of animal murders across the UK linked to the so-called Croydon Cat Killer. The cat killings are believed to have started in Croydon in October 2015.

Despite media headlines, a charity working to bring the UK cat killer(s) to justice doesn't believe the arrest will necessarily lead to a breakthrough in the ongoing investigations into animal killings and mutilations. While the Northamptonshire attacks were similar in its modus operandi to the Croydon killings, police have yet to find any tangible connection linking the crimes in the two areas.

Part of the solution? Brussels homeless receive portable cardboard tents to get through winter

RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:24 UTC

© Nicolas Maeterlinck / Belga / AFP / AFP
A man adjusts an Orig-Ami cardboard shelter at the Brussels North railway station on December 29, 2017.

With shelters overcrowded and canvas tents banned in Brussels, a group of volunteers found a way to help the homeless stay warm this winter. They distribute portable cardboard tents to those who have no roof over their heads.

"There are 2,600 people living in the streets of Brussels," Xavier Dupont, spokesperson for a volunteer association, told Ruptly on Friday. The new tents are given to people who fail to find housing at the shelter and are forced to sleep rough. "Cardboard makes a good thermic isolation, and we also give plastic sheets to protect the floor from humidity," Dupont noted.

CEO of Adidas: Anti-Russia sanctions have 'led to loss of many jobs in the West' and thinks that 'politicians prefer to keep silent about this fact'

Sputnik
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 14:41 UTC

Adidas chief Kasper Rorsted is calling on Europe to restore relations with Russia.

Speaking to German media, the head of the popular footwear, clothing and accessories company stressed that sanctions harm the West just as much as Russia.

"Anyone who thinks that sanctions only punish Russia is wrong," Rorsted said, speaking to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. "They've led to the loss of many jobs in the West. Politicians prefer to keep silent about this fact."

Baby's body snatched from his coffin in suspected Satanic act

RT
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 14:20 UTC

Argentinian police are looking for the body of a baby boy, stolen from his coffin on Christmas Eve, in what is feared by local authorities to be an act of a Satanic cult.

One-year-old Ciro Arnada's body was taken from his coffin while his parents waited for a plot to become available in their local cemetery in the small town of Otamendi, in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina.

Russia: Two boys get lost in woods, take watch shifts and cuddle with dogs to survive night in below freezing temps (PHOTOS)

RT
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 20:48 UTC

A walk in the woods turned into a survival lesson for two fifth graders from a town in Russia's Urals region who were forced to spend a night out in the winter cold after getting lost.

Before disappearing Thursday afternoon, the 11-year-olds Ivan and Evgeniy from the town of Kushva, about 200 km north off Ekaterinburg, were heard speaking of plans to set up "a command unit" in the forest. The boys later said that as they were taking a stroll, one of the two dogs they had with them took off to chase a squirrel. The boys ran after their pet and at some point realized they could not find their way back.

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Society's Child

Top UK retailers volunteer for govt plan to stop assaults of acid attacks

Mom plans to sue after son comes home from school with two broken wrists

Manhunt underway as father kidnaps dangerously ill infant son from intensive care in Toulouse

Man dies from serious injuries, object he picked up at Stockholm metro explodes

Child psychologist: Best friends should be banned because it's 'exclusionary' and can lead to 'emotional distress'

31 year old man arrested for decapitating 5 cats, but 'Croydon cat killer' may still be at large

Part of the solution? Brussels homeless receive portable cardboard tents to get through winter

CEO of Adidas: Anti-Russia sanctions have 'led to loss of many jobs in the West' and thinks that 'politicians prefer to keep silent about this fact'

Baby's body snatched from his coffin in suspected Satanic act

Russia: Two boys get lost in woods, take watch shifts and cuddle with dogs to survive night in below freezing temps (PHOTOS)

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