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Fox News to investigate yet another sexual harassment claim against Bill O'Reilly

John McCrank
Yahoo! News
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:15 UTC
Bill O'Reilly
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Fox News parent Twenty-First Century Fox Inc said on Sunday it will investigate a sexual harassment claim against TV anchor Bill O'Reilly, who has seen several companies pull their ads from his top-rated news show in the past week.

The investigation comes after a complaint was phoned in to the network's corporate hotline last week by Wendy Walsh, a former regular guest on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor" TV show, and her lawyer, Lisa Bloom, which the two posted to YouTube.

"21st Century Fox investigates all complaints and we have asked the law firm Paul Weiss to continue assisting the company in these serious matters," the company said in a statement.

Walsh, a psychologist and radio host, said O'Reilly reneged on an offer to secure her a lucrative job on the network after she declined his invitation to join him in his hotel suite after a dinner in early 2013.

"I'm told that they are taking it seriously, and they are going to do the investigation that's legally required of them," Bloom told CNN on Sunday.

Comment: Bill O'Reilly joins list of men sued at Fox News for sexual harassment - again

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$300mn telefraud scam mastermind arrested on arrival in India


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 08:11 UTC
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© Stringer / ReutersPolice officials escort Sagar Thakkar.
The prime suspect in an international $300 million telefraud scam that targeted American taxpayers has been arrested by police at Mumbai International Airport.

Sagar Thakkar, 24, was taken into custody in the early hours of Saturday morning as he stepped off a flight from Dubai, where he had been on the hiding out from Indian authorities for several months, Reuters reported, citing local police sources.

Thakkar is the suspected leader of a major international telefraud syndicate that operated in the US and India.

Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh told a news conference that Thakkar, who was charged as part of the ongoing DOJ investigation, had fled to Dubai following raids in October related to the case, Reuters reported.
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'Guccifer 2.0' chat logs with nude model spark new theories about murder of DNC's Seth Rich

Ian Miles Cheong
Heat Street
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 18:32 UTC
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New chat logs between alleged Democratic National Committee hacker Guccifer 2.0 and a Playboy centerfold model surfaced today via Wikileaks on Twitter, throwing more fuel on the conspiracy theories surrounding murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich.

The Twitter conversation, conducted via direct messages, purports to reveal Rich as the primary leaker of the DNC e-mails that proved highly disruptive during the 2016 presidential election. There is no substantiation to these claims.

Robbin Young, who posed fully nude for Playboy in the 1980s, is the one who released the chat logs. She says on her website that she followed Guccifer 2.0 on Twitter following the DNC leaks. She considers him to be a "hero and a friend."

(U.S. officials have alleged that Guccifer 2.0 is the creation of Russian hackers seeking to interfere with American politics. Guccifer 2.0 has denied being a Russian front).

For a period of two weeks, Young and Guccifer 2.0 shared flirty messages and "discussed" politics. The conversations, as seen in the publicized logs, are effusive, intimate and conspiratorial,

Comment: See also: Guccifer 2.0: US falsified evidence, denies Russian links

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11yo Russian boy with epilepsy beaten by 'debt collectors' for his mom's non-existent loan


RT
Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:29 UTC
11 year old Russian boy
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Three men in Yekaterinburg have allegedly attempted to beat a debt out of an 11-year-old boy with epilepsy, accusing his mother of not paying back a loan at a bank that she did not take. The woman says her son might have been harassed for her sister's debt.

Moreover, Irina told Russian media that one day before the beating the unidentified perpetrators spilled beer on his head and made him smoke a cigarette. She denies receiving debt recovery letters or taking the loan in the first place.

Yekaterinburg police have confirmed to Life.ru that Irina indeed has no bank loans.

Meanwhile, Irina has revealed that her sister and near-identical twin, Olga, might be the one the debt collectors were seeking. Olga took a car loan from the bank in 2011, Irina said.

"She has the same surname as me, the same date of birth and she is registered at the same place as me," Irina said. She noted that while her twin reportedly paid back the principal sum of the loan, 300,000 rubles, she also had the same amount due in interest.
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Germany investigating hundreds of suspected extremists in armed forces


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 18:20 UTC
German Bundeswehr armed forces soldiers
© Fabrizio Bensch / ReutersGerman Bundeswehr armed forces soldiers
Germany has launched an investigation into 275 cases of suspected right-wing extremist activity among its service personnel, including racist comments on the Internet and saying "Heil Hitler," Germany's Defense Ministry told parliament in a letter, according to local media.

Germany's Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) is looking into 53 extremism cases among Bundeswehr soldiers from 2017, 143 cases from 2016 and 79 cases from before 2016, the Defense Ministry said in a letter to the Bundestag, DPA news agency reported, citing Funke Mediengruppe newspapers.

The 15-page letter expands on the cases that involve soldiers making gestures used in Nazi Germany along with the "Heil Hitler" phrase, and verbally abusing fellow servicemen with a migrant background, Reuters reported, citing the document.
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Mexico will grant residency to 588 Cubans stranded on the US border

Lizbeth Diaz
Reuters
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:10 UTC
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Mexico said on Friday it would grant residency permits to 588 Cubans who were stranded in the north of the country after the United States ended its "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy, which had given legal status to almost every Cuban to reach U.S. soil.

Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) said the beneficiaries of the program are currently in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States, where the group was headed.

"INM has done everything to allow this group of foreigners of Cuban origin to obtain their residency in the country for humanitarian reasons," the institute said in a statement.
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59% of people in Germany disapprove of US strike on Syrian airbase - poll


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 17:19 UTC
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© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / SputnikAftermath of the US missile attack on the Syrian military airbase.
Almost 60 percent of the people in Germany say the US strike on a Syrian airbase earlier in the week was the wrong thing to do, according to a poll commissioned by Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

The poll, ordered by the media outlet and conducted by Emnid-TNS company, asked respondents about Washington's decision to launch Tomahawk missiles at the Syrian airfield.

The survey revealed that 26 percent approved, and 59 percent disapproved of the attack on the military site.

The majority of the respondents, 80 percent, also think that no more strikes should be made on Syrian territory. Only nine percent would welcome further US attacks on the country.

The US said the bombardment was in response to a suspected chemical gas attack in Idlib, which Washington claims Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government were responsible for.

A total of 59 Tomahawk missiles launched from American warships hit Shayrat airfield, where it is alleged that Syrian planes with chemical weapons took off.
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UPDATE: 2 Commuter trains collide in Moscow injuring several people


RT
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:21 UTC
Moscow Train Collision
© Iliya Pitalev/Sputnik Over 20 injured as 2 trains collide in Moscow.
More than 20 people have reportedly been injured and 16 hospitalized after a train going from Moscow to Brest collided with a commuter train. It happened after a man reportedly crossed the tracks, prompting the use of the emergency brakes.

Four carriages were derailed, with one turning upside down and visibly wrecked, as shown on footage filmed by eyewitnesses.

"At that moment 445 passengers and a train crew were on board a long-distance train, and the driver, his assistant and two ticket inspectors were on the inter-urban train," said the Investigative Committee's spokesperson, Tatiana Morozova, as cited by RIA Novosti. She added that among those who were hospitalized are the crew of the long-distance train and both ticket inspectors.
Moscow Train Collision
© Iliya Pitalev/Sputnik
Conflicting reports about the number of the injured and those who asked for medical assistance in the aftermath of the incident have been incoming. Russian Railways said that at least 50 people sought medical help following the crash, as cited by RIA Novosti.

Comment: UPDATE: New video footage of the aftermath.

Russia's Emergencies Ministry has released close-up footage of the rescue operation in the wrecked train carriages following the Saturday night accident in Moscow, in which a commuter train rammed into one leaving the city. Some 50 people have sought medical help.



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Dallas: Hackers blamed for triggering emergency sirens

Claire Ballor, Robert Wilonsky & Tom Steele
Dallas News
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:42 UTC
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Dallas officials blame computer hacking for setting off emergency sirens throughout the city early Saturday.

Rocky Vaz, director of Dallas' Office of Emergency Management, said that all 156 of the city's sirens were activated more than a dozen times.

Officials don't know who was responsible for the hacking, but Vaz said "with a good deal of confidence that this was someone outside our system" and in the Dallas area.

The city has figured out how the emergency system was compromised and is working to prevent it from happening again, he said. It's a "very concerning" issue that Dallas has never faced.

Although Vaz said that identifying who sounded the sirens will be like "finding a needle in a haystack," Mayor Mike Rawlings said authorities will "find and prosecute whomever is responsible."
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Cowardly cop protects society by smashing tiny woman's face in the ground

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:32 UTC
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Bystanders at Barstool Sports Bar near Colorado State University were treated to a front-row seat at what could easily be described as a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) takedown of a fragile woman by what could be characterized as a bully cop. But, of course, police see the altercation differently. You decide.

When the video (taken by a bar-goer) begins, a woman can be seen arguing with a Ft. Collins police officer. But when one looks closely, the officer can be seen positioning his hands on the woman in such a way as to be able to effect a near perfect body slam. And flawless it was. The seemingly fragile woman who was dressed in a party dress and high heels was, as some have said, brutally smashed on the ground.

Those who were recording the video seemed to love the wild ride the woman took at the hands of police. But other, more level-headed ones, possibly ones not so inebriated by their beer, immediately cried foul. In the comments section of the Instagram video, viewers determined the aggressive actions on the part of the officer were simply unnecessary and potentially criminal.
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