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Circus horror: Watch as lioness attacks 4 year old girl during show


RT
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:44 UTC
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Screenshot from a YouTube video of the incident.
A traveling circus performance in Russia was interrupted in a horrible way after a lioness suddenly attacked a 4-year-old girl through the fence around the arena.

The terrifying incident, which was caught on video, happened in Uspenskoye, a town of some 12,000 residents, located in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia. The footage, filmed by one of the spectators, shows the lioness lying on the floor after instructions from the tamer. She then suddenly rushes across the arena and reaches out at a small girl standing with her back to the animal at the first row of seats. Cries of horror are heard as circus workers rush to save the child.

The girl, with claw and bite wounds on her face and chest, was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery. According to medics, her life is not in danger, but she is to be transferred to the regional capital, where a better child trauma center will continue her treatment.

Comment: Those who visit circuses that beat animals into submission to be used for entertainment shouldn't be surprised to find that the animal is still actually wild. Although it does seem that animals are going on the attack more frequently these days:

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Suicide bomb near Afghan prison kills 7, injures 5


Sputnik
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:49 UTC
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© AP Photo / Dar Yasin
A suicide bomb attack near a prison in Afghan capital of Kabul has killed at least seven people and injured five, local media reported.

A suicide bomb that exploded early Wednesday morning near Pul-e-Charkhi prison targeting a prison staff vehicle in Afghan capital of Kabul killed at least seven people and injured seven, Tolo News reported, citing security sources.

The security sources also told the news channel that most of the employees in the targeted vehicle were women.

This is the second time this week when a blast rocks the Afghan capital. Another suicide bomb explosion hit Kabul early on Monday, injuring 6 people. The suicide attack struck in front of the headquarters of Afghanistan's election commission office.

Comment: See also:

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Pakistan supreme court overturns blasphemy death sentence for Christian woman accused of insulting Muhammad

Memphis Barker
The Guardian
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:30 UTC
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© AFP / Arif AliTehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party supporters at a rally demanding Bibi's death.
Pakistan's supreme court has struck down the death sentence for blasphemy handed down to Christian woman Asia Bibi, in a long-delayed, landmark decision that has seen the judiciary praised for its bravery in the face of threats of violence and protest from the country's Islamist groups.

The court, in a three-member bench led by chief justice Saqib Nisar, released the verdict on Wednesday morning in Islamabad, three weeks after they had reached a decision.

The delay followed threats by blasphemy campaigners to hold large protests and kill the judges if they did not uphold the death sentence. Members of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP), a new political party dedicated to punishing blasphemy, blocked roads in Lahore and pelted police with stones after the ruling.

"Her conviction is set aside and she is to be relieved forthwith if not required in other charges," said Nisar, reading out the judgment.

"It is ironical that in the Arabic language the appellant's name Asia means 'sinful'," reads the judgment written by Justice Asif Khosa, "but in the circumstances of the present case she appears to be a person, in the words of Shakespeare's King Lear, 'more sinned against than sinning'."

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West Virginia man turns himself in to police for strangling 9 cats to death, charged with animal cruelty


WVNews
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:23 UTC
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© Caters News Agency
Morgantown Police charged man with animal cruelty after he killed nine cats.

Officers from the Morgantown Police Department responded to a house on Walnut Street at around 5:20 a.m. on October 30, where a suspect wanted to report himself for animal cruelty.

Officers spoke with the suspect and he led them to his residence on Harding Avenue and there were nine dead cats, according to a press release for the Morgantown Police.

The suspect told officers he had strangled the cats, according to the release.

According to the press release, Monongalia County Animal Control was called and attempted to secure and care for any remaining animals at the residence.

James Gregory Wicker, 43, of Morgantown has been charged with animal cruelty.
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Diplomatic tensions flare after Saudi Arabia executes migrant maid who killed her employer's father


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:07 UTC
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© Reuters / Darren Whiteside
Saudi Arabia's execution of a migrant maid has sparked diplomatic tension with Indonesia at a time when the kingdom is facing international condemnation for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Saudi authorities executed Tuti Tursilawati on Monday without informing the Indonesian government, Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. It's the third time in three years that the kingdom has executed an Indonesian citizen without informing their government in advance.

Tursilawati was charged with premeditated murder after she beat her employer's father to death with a stick in 2010, the Jakarta Post reports. She said she was acting in self-defense and that he had been sexually abusing her. The woman ran away after the killing and was reportedly raped by nine Saudi men before she was taken into custody. She was sentenced to death in 2011 and was one of 18 Indonesians on death row in Saudi Arabia.

Comment: You'd have to be pretty desperate to go to work in Saudi Arabia:

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Top officials among 25 killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:51 UTC
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© Reuters / Mohammad IsmailAn Afghan army's helicopter.
At least 25 people were killed after an Afghan helicopter crashed in the western part of the country, authorities confirmed to local media. Provincial officials and top military officers are reportedly among the casualties.

As the story unfolded, the Taliban claimed credit for the attack, saying their militants shot the helicopter down. Afghan authorities blamed the incident on the bad weather.

The head of the Farah provincial council and the deputy commander of the Afghan Army's 207th corps are said to be among the officials on board the ill-fated aircraft.
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London-based pharma company charged after infant deaths due to contaminated food products


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:56 UTC
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© Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters
Pharmaceutical company ITH Pharma Ltd is facing criminal prosecution following the deaths of babies at several British hospitals, police have announced.

London-based ITH Pharma Ltd is facing criminal charges after allegedly supplying contaminated feed to premature babies between May 27 and June 2, 2014.

The charges come after an investigation was launched in 2014, after three babies died and another 20 needed treatment over contracting septicemia (blood poisoning).

Scotland Yard said in a statement on Wednesday: "ITH Pharma Ltd, based at Premier Park, NW10, has been charged with seven counts of supplying a medicinal product which was not of the nature or quality specified in the prescription on 27 May 2014.
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Cultural appropriation turns Halloween into a nightmare

Jonathan Turley
The Hill
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Cultural appropriation
Halloween is again upon us. Across the United States, the prospect of frightening images have some pledging to skip the holiday or closely shield their children. It is not the scary decorations or costumes but "cultural appropriation" that has triggered a tradition of recrimination and anger. Colleges and universities have warned students not to dress as Indian chiefs or Mexican bandits, while parents have publicly debated whether they can allow their children to dress as the Black Panther or Moana without being accused of cultural appropriation or racism.

"Cultural appropriation" has become a common term on campuses and is receiving broader meaning with each passing year. In Utah, a high school student was denounced for wearing a Chinese dress to her prom. White students wearing hoop earrings or dreadlocks have been denounced, while there have been protests over serving sushi at Oberlin College, holding yoga classes at the University of Ottawa or having a "Mexican food night" at Clemson University. The reason behind such limitless forms of cultural appropriation is its limitless meaning. Fordham University law professor Susan Scafidi has defined the term as encompassing the "unauthorized use of another culture's dance, dress, music, language, folklore, cuisine, traditional medicine, religious symbols" and more.
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German nurse admits to murdering at least 100 patients


The Guardian
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:10 UTC
Niels Hoegel
A former nurse has admitted to killing 100 patients in his care, on the first day of his trial in the biggest serial killing case in Germany's post-war history.

Niels Hoegel, 41, has already spent nearly a decade in prison on a life term for other patient deaths. He is accused of intentionally administering medical overdoses to victims so he could bring them back to life at the last moment.

As the proceedings opened in the northern city of Oldenburg, the presiding judge, Sebastian Buehrmann, asked whether the charges against him were accurate. Hoegel replied "yes".

Comment: The Epoch Times reports more on this serial killer's alleged motivations:
"The prosecutor's office assumes that he did this in order to create a life-threatening situation in order to demonstrate his resuscitation skills to colleagues and superiors," the indictment states, according to DW.

Prosecutors have alleged that his boredom may also have been a contributing factor in Hoegel committing the acts. [...]

In prior hearings, Hoegel is reportedly said to have been seeking a sense of euphoria after having resuscitated a patient from an emergency situation he himself created. But he would fall into a despondent state if he had failed, according to AFP.

During Hoegel's second trial, a court-appointed psychologist said that Hoegel had told her he had injected 90 patients with heart medication during his stint at Delmenhorst Hospital. Of these, 30 patients died although he was close to killing 60 more.


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'I've been used!' Kayne West says he's hanging up his political hat


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Andrew Kelly
After weeks of infamy as the most famous Black face of the conservative movement, Kanye West wants off the Trump train, claiming he's been "used" and blaming fellow controversy-courter Candace Owens for ideologically seducing him.

Owens unveiled the logo for her "Blexit" movement - as in a "black exit" from the Democratic party - at Saturday's Turning Points Young Black Leadership Summit, boasting that West had helped design the logo, which he now denies. Not only is he pulling out of any further involvement with the campaign, he says, but "I never wanted any association with Blexit."


The rapper claims to be washing his hands of politics, tweeting regret that "I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in." He pledged to focus on creative endeavors going forward, though some might say his Oval Office performance earlier this month, during which he hugged the President and called his Make America Great Again hat a "Superman cape," was pretty creative.
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