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Sex-streaming giant Pornhub will collect private data on all its UK users under new law


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:09 UTC
woman on bed
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A sex-streaming giant has announced that it will collect data on anyone accessing its porn stash - but will not record their sexual preferences.

MindGeek - the biggest internet pornography company in the world - will collect information, including users' addresses and ages, under new age-verification laws.

The new Digital Economy Act means that anyone accessing porn must prove they are old enough - over 18 in the UK. Firms are currently scrambling to figure out how they will verify ages and could demand the collection of card data or ID documents.

MindGeek, the firm behind adult websites PornHub, YouPorn and RedTube, is not being ordered to store the additional information but bosses plan to do so. The company, which also owns pornography production studios including Brazzers, will use a verification system called AgeID by which a user can create a login and use a third-party mechanism to prove they're over 18. MindGeek will then charge other pornography sites to use its solution.
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Austrian energy firm exec: Russia brings security of gas supply to Europe


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:06 UTC
natural gas
© Reuters
The European Union needs a reliable source of natural gas, and Russian state company Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is what Europe needs, according to an executive of Austria's oil and gas company, OMV.

"Security of gas supply is crucial, and Gazprom brings it," said OMV's member of the executive board Manfred Leitner speaking before the European Gas Conference in Vienna on Tuesday.

"It means gas to heat houses, schools, hospitals and for European energy. The gas comes safely and at an affordable price," Leitner said.

Leitner urged to stop being skeptical about Russia, given that the European gas production has been declining.
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Iraqi migrants don't want to be forcibly repatriated to Iraq, and Baghdad doesn't want them either

Mustafa Saadoun
Al-Monitor
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:18 UTC
iraqi migrants
© REUTERS/Philippe WojazerIraqi migrants Ibrahim, his wife, Ashty, their children, Mandy (L) and Muhammad (R), pose outside their caravan in the "New Jungle" makeshift camp as unseasonably cool temperatures arrive in Calais, northern France, Oct. 15, 2015.
Iraqi Ivan Sahda Moshi has been hiding at a friend's house in Gothenburg, Sweden, since Dec. 1, 2017, as a decree has been issued by Sweden to forcibly return him to Iraq. "I hope that my case is looked over again this year," Moshi told Al-Monitor. Moshi, who fled Iraq in 2007 seeking asylum in Sweden, belongs to a Christian family, all of whom have fled Iraq to different countries. He fears going back, as militias threatened to kill him due to his work with US forces, not to mention that Christians are a threatened minority in Iraq.

On Jan. 10, Abdul Bari Zebari, the head of parliament's Foreign Relations Committee, indicated that the European Union is intending to forcibly return Iraqi immigrants whose asylum requests have been rejected back to Iraq. He called upon the Iraqi government to not accept any negotiations with the European Union concerning forcibly returning Iraqi immigrants, as he suggests that returning them should be voluntary, not compulsory.

In a similar case to Moshi's, Hassan Amer, whose asylum request has been rejected by Austrian authorities, had to submit an appeal against his rejection before Vienna courts to obtain a new hearing session where he will talk about the circumstances on which he submitted his request for asylum.
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Woman ordered a hat on Amazon and was accidentally sent illegal cancer drug from Ukraine

Zoe Forsey
The Mirror
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:29 UTC
Woman shopping on laptop
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Online shopping is a wonderful thing.

You can get pretty much anything delivered to your front door in just a few days.

It's especially helpful when the item you're after is a tad unusual, and not something you'll find on the shelves in Asda or Wilkos.

Unsurprising Meagan Day's search for a felt sauna hat led her online, and she quickly found the perfect one.

Simple.
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Not likely: Activists demand the arrest of Mohammed Bin Salman over 'Yemen war crimes'


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:36 UTC
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman
© Fayez Nureldine / AFP
Human rights activists are calling on British authorities to arrest Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his imminent visit to the country. They say he must be held responsible for alleged war crimes carried out in Yemen.

The director of Human Rights for Yemen, Kim Sharif, told RT she has submitted an application to Westminster Magistrates' Court and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to issue a warrant for the prince's arrest. He is expected to visit Britain in the coming weeks.

"We oppose his visit in an official capacity because of the accusations of war crimes in relation to the matter of Yemen," Sharif said. "It would not be good for us, Britain... to be receiving brutal dictators such as this man.

"If he wants to submit to the UK authorities to answer to war crimes, he is welcome," she added.

Sharif said Saudi forces are committing war crimes and violating the Geneva Conventions and their protocols with impunity.
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Mexico to send troops after record 25,000 murders

Michael O'Boyle and Diego Ore
Reuters
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:26 UTC
soldier stands guard next to a crime scene
© REUTERS/JorgeA soldier stands guard next to a crime scene, where men were killed inside a home by unknown assailants, in the municipality of San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, January 27, 2018. Picture taken January 27, 2018.
Cops to crack down on criminal groups in regions where a surge in violence led to more than 25,000 murders last year.

National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said federal police troops will work with local officials to round up known major criminals and bolster investigations.

The aim was "to recover peace and calm for all Mexicans," he said. He did not provide details on the number of federal police to be deployed.
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Karma in action? Trophy hunter mysteriously shot dead on South Africa expedition


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:48 UTC
Hunter
© Pero Jelinić / Facebook
A Croatian trophy hunter who traveled to South Africa after killing "everything that could be hunted in Europe" was inexplicably shot dead while aiming for a lion.

Pero Jelinić, 75, a hotelier from the Croatian island of Pag, had already killed a lion and was aiming for another on Saturday when a stray bullet struck him on a remote farm.

Jelinić travelled to Leeubosch Lodge in the North West province of South Africa with two friends to "complete his extensive trophy collection" and was particularly keen to claim the head of a lion "to crown his rich hunting career," according to his friend and fellow hunter, Slavko Pernar.

"Pero was a passionate hunter of big and small game, and in search of that he travelled most of the world," Pernar told Croatia's Jutarnji List newspaper.
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More than 800 US rabbis urge Israel to halt deportation of African migrants


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:56 UTC
African migrants protest outside Israel's Supreme Court
© Ronen Zvulun / ReutersAfrican migrants protest outside Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017.
More than 800 rabbis and other Jewish clergy in the US have signed a letter calling on Israel to reverse its plan to deport African migrants, arguing the asylum seekers are "escaping torture, enslavement, and war."

"As a country founded by refugees, and whose early leaders helped to craft the 1951 International Convention on the Status of Refugees, Israel must not deport those seeking asylum within its borders," reads the letter, which was written by the Jewish groups New Israel Fund, HIAS, T'ruah, and Right Now.

"We Jews know far too well what happens when the world closes its doors to those forced to flee their homes," the letter continues. "The asylum seekers who have come to Israel are escaping torture, enslavement, and war. We are angered by reports that many of those who have been deported to Africa have already suffered rape, robbery, torture, and human trafficking."

Comment: The fact is Israel is for Jews only, anyone else need not apply just ask the Palestinians.

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Smoking

How my 'dead body' photo-shoot ended up on millions of tobacco products across Europe - and I don't smoke

Morwenna Ferrier
Guardian
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:15 UTC
tom fraine tobacco photoshoot
In 2012, I decided to take a year-long sabbatical in Europe, eventually settling on Berlin. I'm quite a structured, career-minded person and I wanted to see what it was like to move somewhere with no plan, no friends and no money.

I saw an advert looking for models for tobacco warnings. It was paid, so I applied and made the shortlist. I asked what I needed to bring to wear and they sent me a one-line email saying: "This is what we need you to do," and attached a picture of a naked guy curled up in a ball. They told me I would get €100.

Comment: And there you have it; anti-tobacco propaganda conjured up on a photoshoot using models and with no professional medical direction to qualify what they're depicting.

Even so, medicine has completely lost sight of the reality of the many benefits of tobacco smoking and has instead been brainwashed to believe lies with skewed data, decades of government propaganda while being lobbied hard by pharmaceutical companies looking to hawk their nicotine pills, patches and 'popcorn lung' creating e-cigs - as well as medications that have side-effects some of which were later revealed to be linked to 3,063 serious injuries, 78 deaths, many of which were suicides.

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Court rules boy brought into US illegally has no right to govt-funded lawyer


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:23 UTC
Courtroom Judge justice US
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A minor brought into the US from Honduras illegally by his mother does not have a constitutional right to a counsel in immigration proceedings at the government's expense, a federal appeals court has ruled.

On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a deportation order against C.J.L.G., an underage boy from Honduras who fled gang violence with his mother and entered the US illegally in 2014.

In a 54-page ruling, the three-judge panel based in San Francisco, California, declared "it is not established law that alien minors are categorically entitled to government-funded, court-appointed counsel."
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