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'It will kill jobs': Missouri reverses minimum wage from $10 an hour to $7.50


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:05 UTC
Protesters demanding $15 minimum wage in St. Louis, Missouri
© Jeff Curry / AFP
Bucking the trend of other states to raise minimum wages to $15 an hour, Missouri's Republican Governor allowed a bill to pass into law that blocks cities and municipalities from setting their own minimum wage to keep it at the statewide standard of $7.50 an hour.

The bill will affect those minimum wage workers in St. Louis who are currently making $10 an hour after winning a two-year legal fight against business groups who challenged a 2015 city ordinance authorizing an increase.

Under that city law, the wage was set to rise again in January to $11 an hour, then increase annually with inflation.

"It will kill jobs," Missouri Governor Eric Greitens said of the increase, according to the St. Louis Dispatch. "And despite what you hear from liberals, it will take money out of people's pockets."
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Teenage Ukrainian beauty queen broadcasts death on Instagram during drunk-driving livestream

Caroline Mortimer
Independent, UK
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:27 UTC
ukraine car crash
A Ukrainian beauty queen livestreamed the crash that killed her and her friend while the pair of them were drinking alcohol in the car.

Sofia Magerko, who won a beauty contest in her home city of Izyum, was vlogging on a live Instagram feed while her friend Dasha Medvedeva was driving at high speeds before they smashed head-on into a lamp-post.

The pair were both heavily intoxicated and drinking from wine bottles in the video.

The women were seen saying "Hi boys" to the camera and laughing and joking about how much they "enjoyed life" seconds before the crash in Izyum.

The screen goes black at the moment of impact but the sound of the crash can still be clearly heard, the Daily Mail reported.

Comment: A tragic symbol not only for Ukraine as a country, but for most of the Western world: driving drunk into almost certain destruction...

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'Jihadist jails' set up within three British prisons to isolate extremists


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:27 UTC
'Jihadist jails'
© David Goddard / Getty Images
Three British prisons will soon feature special "jihadi jails" in an effort to stem radicalization in confinement.

Among the first inmates to be transferred into the isolated areas are Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebolajo, and infamous hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

Another 26 Islamic extremists are to be placed in the "separation centers."

Over 4,500 frontline officers have also been trained in the latest counterterrorism techniques and placed in HMP Frankland, County Durham, and two other prisons yet to be confirmed.
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Norwegian Refugee Council: Over 30,000 Gaza residents remain displaced after 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:45 UTC
Mohhamed Keferna
© AP Photo/ Adel Hana
Mohhamed Keferna, 14, sits on a couch in his family's building that was damaged by Israeli strikes during last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015
As many as 35,000 Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip continue to live in displacement from their homes, three years since the end of the Israel — Gaza conflict, with 11,000 residencies totally destroyed during the war, the Norwegian Refugee Council said in a press release on Thursday.
"Three years on, 35,000 people remain displaced and the Gazan society is at the brink of collapse as the severe power shortages have all but ground Gaza to a halt," the press release read.
In recent months, the situation in Gaza has become critical due to lack of fuel for generators for hospitals, water treatment plants as well as power cuts, according to the press release.
"Three years after the war in 2014, Gaza citizens continue to live in displacement. Of 11,000 homes totally destroyed during the war, a little over one third have been rebuilt. Many families continue to live in tents," the press release specified.
The press statement stressed that humanitarian assistance to the region is limited by "the siege" imposed by Israel and therefore is not enough to help people escape aid dependency.
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Interior minister reveals double murder of Austrian couple was by 'radicalized Muslim'


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:30 UTC
Austria police
© John MacDougall / AFP
A Tunisian man who admitted to killing an elderly couple in Austria turned out to be a "radicalized Muslim," the interior minister says. The murders could mark the first Islamist attack in Austria.
"It turns out that the suspect is obviously a radicalized Muslim who has murdered two people," Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said at a press conference on Wednesday, as cited by ORF radio, Reuters reports. "For this reason I am talking about a murder case which clearly has an Islamist background."
Last week a Tunisian immigrant turned himself in to police, confessing he had killed a married couple in the city of Linz. An 85-year-old woman had her throat slit with a knife, while her husband, 87, was stabbed and beaten to death. The alleged perpetrator, named as Mohammed H. by local media, also set fire to the couple's house.
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Philippines police official proposes Muslim-only ID cards to tackle extremism


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:20 UTC
Marawi
© Ferdinandh Cabrera / AFP
A Filipino official has called for Muslim-only ID cards to be rolled out as the state continues its battle against Islamic State-linked militants in the south of the island nation.

The call to introduce the cards was made by Central Luzon Police Superintendent Aaron Aquino during a meeting of Central Luzon police, military, political leaders and about 200 Muslim religious and community leaders on Tuesday, reports Manila-based local news network Rappler.
"This is just for the identification of every individual, of every Muslim. If we have the ID system, we will know who the residents are and who the visitors are in a place," Aquino said, as cited by SunStar.
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Small plane drops out of the sky, explodes on California interstate


The Sacramento Bee
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:22 UTC
Plane crashes on California interstate
© OnScene
A small twin-engine plane dropped out of the sky and exploded in flames on a busy freeway near a Los Angeles area airport Friday morning, injuring the two people aboard but clipping only one passing vehicle, a fire official said.

The Cessna 310 aircraft crashed on Interstate 405, just short of a runway at John Wayne Airport in Costa Mesa around 9:30 a.m., said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The pilot declared an emergency shortly after taking off from the airport and was trying to return when the crash occurred, Gregor said.

The two people who were aboard the plane, a man and a woman in their 50s and 60, were alive when they were pulled from the fiery wreckage and were taken to a hospital with traumatic injuries, Orange County Fire Capt. Larry Kurtz said.

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Fire results in huge explosion at electricity substation in Siberia


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:55 UTC
explosion electricity station tomsk siberia
© Телекомпания ТВ2 / YouTube
Some 150,000 people in the city of Tomsk in Siberia were left without electricity for several hours after a huge explosion rocked a substation. The moment of the blast was caught on camera.

The incident happened on Thursday afternoon, when a fire at the Vostochnaya substation resulted in a blast, local TV2 reported. The substation has been operating since 1963, providing power supply "for most of Tomsk."

Facilities were partially destroyed, which led to a temporary shutdown of the Tomsk power station, Russia's Ministry of Energy said.

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Manchester police: Arena bomber may not have acted alone


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:04 UTC
salman abedi
© Greater Manchester Police / AFP
Salman Abedi in the Manchester area
British police are hoping to speak to the brother of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi as "other people" may have been involved in the attack in May, which killed 23 concert-goers.

The 22-year-old British-Libyan's brother, Hashem Abedi, was arrested in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, following the attack, together with their father, Ramadan.

Now Greater Manchester Police hope to speak to Hashem as part of their investigation. It is said to be liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Libyan authorities.
"We don't have evidence of a large network. We do however suspect others were either aware [of] or complicit in the knowledge of this attack," said North West Counter Terrorism Unit Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson.

"We do believe that there are other people potentially involved in this. We do however believe further arrests are possible."

Jackson added that the investigation "is likely to run on for many more months to come."

Comment: More on Manchester:

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Video emerges of alleged Russian mercenaries torturing ISIS captive to death


Russia Insider
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:41 UTC
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Russia Insider calls for an investigation and if all checks out for the perpetrators to be dealt with severely

A gruesome video of what appears to be Russian mercenaries torturing an Arab man in Syria to death with a sledge hammer has appeared on the internet.

The torturers are Russian-speaking but as South Front points out they're not wearing official uniforms of the Russian military and carry antiquated weapons that are not longer in use by the Russian military. They are also very ragged. If they are Russian, they are mercenaries.

One of them is carrying a patch spelling out in Russian "I'm just gonna hurt you really, really badly", taken from the dystopian Hollywood film The Suicide Squad.

In the video one of the torturers can be heard saying in Russian "Let's start, fucking ISIS." which established they at the very least believe the man to be an ISIS fighter.

Comment: Wars act as attractors for sadists, where they are able to do what relatively normal and stable societies would not otherwise allow them to do. Just like psychopaths thrive in chaotic corporate environments, they thrive in the chaos of war zones. It doesn't really matter which side they're fighting on, as long as they get to play the "game".

Healthy societies recognize these individuals and treat them accordingly. Unhealthy ones say, "What's the big deal? They're getting the job done." We all know how America treats their psychopathic mercenaries: by giving them a free pass. It will be interesting to see the Russian response to this, if there is any.

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