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Manhunt underway after three people shot in San Francisco park


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:17 UTC
San Fransico bike police
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A speeding getaway car is the last anyone saw of a group of masked men fleeing a San Francisco park, where a volley of gunshots wounded three people and sent many others, including children, into a panic running for cover.

The gunshots rang out at around 3:00pm in Dolores Park near the statue of Miguel Hidalgo in the city's Mission District Thursday.

No arrests have yet been made.

A witness named 'Hatter' said he only saw one person pull out a gun. Police are currently searching for several suspects and will stay at the park this evening to investigate, KPIX reported.

Two of the three victims who were shot are men and are in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, authorities said. The third victim is a minor and information is being withheld on that person, Brent Andrews, a spokesman for the hospital said, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Cannabis company buys entire California ghost town to create marijuana tourist destination


RT
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:12 UTC
Nipton, CA
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A 100-year-old ghost town founded during the California Gold Rush is being modernized for the "green rush" after a cannabis company purchased all the land, buildings and businesses for $5 million.

On Thursday, American Green, a marijuana technology company, announced they purchased a small town in San Bernardino County with the intention of turning it into the "the country's first energy-independent, cannabis-friendly hospitality destination."

"The Cannabis Revolution that's going on here in the US, has the power to completely revitalize communities in the same way gold did during the 19th century," David Gwyther, chairman and president of American Green, said in the announcement.

Located on the border of Nevada and California, the desert town of Nipton has a population of around 20 people, according to the Los Angeles Times. The town also comes with its own water supply, a general store, an RV park, a campground and a five-room hotel from 1904.
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Another fire rips through Dubai 'Torch' Tower: That's 6 skyscrapers in 3 years!


RT
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 22:18 UTC
Fire rips through the Torch Tower in Dubai
© Nivetha VijayathasanFire rips through the Torch Tower in Dubai
A massive blaze which engulfed one of the tallest residential buildings in the United Arab Emirates has been brought under control. Dubai's firefighters battled the huge fire for hours before snuffing out the flames at the 79-storey Dubai Torch Tower.

Firefighting brigades from four stations have been sent to battle the flames at the Torch Tower, the fifth tallest residential building in the world.


Comment: See also: 5 skyscraper infernos in 4 years: Massive fire rips through 2 residential towers in Ajman, Dubai

Dubai 'Torch' residential tower engulfed in flames

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Dollar

Unidentified hackers cash out over $140K worth of bitcoins in WannaCry ransom


RT
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:35 UTC
WannaCry, computer virus, hacking
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An unidentified person has cashed out more than $140,000 worth of bitcoins in ransom collected from victims of the WannaCry's global computer hack. WannaCry encrypted users' files, and hackers charged $300 to $600 for keys to get the files back.

The ransomware virus hit hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in May, targeting hospitals, business and government systems. For three months the ransom money sat untouched in three bitcoin wallets.

A Twitter bot called @actual_ransom, set up by the media outlet Quartz to watch the bitcoin accounts, picked up the first withdrawal at 11:10 pm on August 2.
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Ohio man gets 20 years for reposting ISIS social media threat to US troops


RT
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:01 UTC
ISIS flag
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An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to using social media to support the killing of 100 US military personnel on behalf of Islamic State was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Justice Department said.

Terrence McNeil, 25, of Akron, earlier pleaded guilty to five counts of solicitation to commit a crime of violence and five counts of making threatening interstate communications, according to prosecutors.

McNeil who had no prior arrests or criminal history was arrested in November 2015.

Prosecutors said McNeil professed his support on social media on numerous occasions for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

In January 2015, IS released a video via social networking website advocating so-called lone wolf attacks in Western countries, according to prosecutors.
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One killed and 6 injured in suicide attack on NATO troops in Afghanistan


RT
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:06 UTC
An ambulance rushes to hospital in Kabul
© Gong Bing / Global Look PressAn ambulance rushes to hospital in Kabul.
One NATO soldier was killed and five were injured, along with an interpreter, when a Taliban suicide bomber struck a patrol in Afghanistan.

The attack took place Thursday evening in Qarabagh District, Kabul province, according to the press service of Operation Resolute Support, NATO's mission in Afghanistan.

The nationality or identity of the casualties has yet to be announced.
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People

Poroshenko's party now polling at a measly 9 percent


Russia Insider
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:48 UTC
Petro Poroshenko
Fortunately for him all the other parties are just as unpopular.

Ukraine's first post-Maidan PM, Arseniy "Our Man Yats" Yatsenyuk was famously forced to resign last year when his popularity dropped to single digits. Ukraine's first post-Maidan president is getting there too.

If parliamentary elections were held today his "Poroshenko Bloc" party would get just 9.3% of the vote:
The Poroshenko Bloc, the president's eponymous party, would earn 9.3% of those likely to vote, while the Russian-oriented Opposition Bloc would earn 8.4%. The pro-EU, reform-oriented Civic Position party led by former Defense Minister Anatoliy Grytsenko would earn 8.3%.

The Russia-oriented For Life party led by media mogul Vadym Rabinovych would earn 7.7%, the populist Radical Party led by Oleh Liashko would earn 7.3% and the pro-EU, Self-Reliance party led by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi would earn 5.8%.
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Where German gold is stored and why it should be brought back to the country


Sputnik
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:40 UTC
gold bars
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Germany's gold bars have been kept abroad since the end of the WWII. The activist campaign "Bring our gold back home!" demands the return of the gold reserves to German soil.

The process of repatriation is already underway. In early 2017, it was reported that Germany's Bundesbank had repatriated almost half its gold reserves from abroad.

"Strictly speaking, we are talking not about the repatriation," the founder of the private initiative "Bring Our Gold Back to Our Homeland!" Peter Boehringer said in an interview with Sputnik Germany. "After all, the gold reserves of the German state have never been in Germany. That's why we call it a campaign to bring it back home. "
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Mosul's liberation from Daesh allows women's undergarments and bikinis to be openly sold in markets again


Sputnik
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:52 UTC
mosul store
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During the years of Daesh's hold over Mosul, women had a very hard time buying clothes for themselves. Stores selling lingerie and nightgowns were shut down by the terrorists. However, even in such dark times women didn't despair and found ways to purchase what they wanted.

For the last three years there was a ban on the sale of bikinis and nightgowns in Mosul. The terrorists strictly monitored that male shop vendors did not sell such goods to women.

There was always a large presence of terrorists in the trading places in the city and if they noticed that a male salesman was selling nightgowns or pajamas to a woman, he was arrested, beaten and fined $2,000.

For this reason, almost all the shops selling women's clothes and undergarments were shut down across the city.
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Red Flag

Latest Pew poll reveals more people feel threatened by US policies than Russia or China


RT
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:20 UTC
empire us hegemony
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Fears of American power and influence have risen dramatically around the globe in just four years, with more people, even those in some US allied countries, feeling more threatened by American policies than that of Russia or China, a latest Pew poll has found.

The trend has been recorded by the reputed Pew Research Center "amid steep drops in US favorability and confidence in the US president."

The pollster's latest survey, released Tuesday, found that on average, 38 percent of people around the globe now regard American power and influence as a major threat to their country. The figure is up 13 percentage points from 2013.

In just four years, perceptions of the US as a threat increased the most in Spain, climbing from 17 percent in 2013 to 59 percent. Turkey, another US ally within NATO, followed, with US anxieties among Turks rocketing from 44 to 72 percent.
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