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Foreign-born terrorists exploit 'human rights laws' to escape deportation


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:17 UTC
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Up to 40 foreign terrorists have exploited UK human rights laws to escape deportation to their home countries, according to a report from the Home Office.

The report reveals the extent to which the UK government allows convicted extremists to stay in Britain due to concerns they may face inhumane treatment back home.

Published in February, the Home Office report details the impact of the government's Deportation with Assurances (DWA) scheme, which allows Britain to deport convicted terrorists with guarantees from their home countries they will be treated fairly after extradition. The UK agreed on DWA with Ethiopia, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and Morocco in 2005.
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Russian MPs prepare a bill punishing 'non-material bribery'


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:15 UTC
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Russian lawmakers have prepared a bill that would make giving or accepting 'intangible bribes' a crime. It would also include punishments for arbitration judges that abuse their power.

The main sponsor of the bill - the deputy head of the Lower House Committee for Countering Corruption, MP Anatoliy Vybornyi of United Russia - told Izvestia daily that the draft would also stipulate tougher punishments for corruption crimes already in the criminal code. In particular, he proposed raising the current maximum prison term for bribery. The law currently stipulates two years for giving bribes and three for accepting them, but the new bill would impose punishments of four years for both. Abuse of power in arbitration courts would be punishable by up to three years in prison.

The lawmaker claimed his bill had already received a positive assessment from the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor General's Office.
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'Wicked decision': Liberal Jews slam Israel for freezing mixed-gender Western Wailing Wall prayer space plan


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:12 UTC
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© Baz Ratner / Reuters
Liberal Jews have slammed the Israeli government for freezing a plan to establish a mixed-gender prayer space at the Western Wall, with one group canceling a planned gala event with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Jewish Agency for Israel, a non-profit group that works with the Israeli government to serve Jewish communities across the globe, announced its cancelation of the planned dinner event earlier on Monday.
"In light of yesterday's decisions by the Government of Israel, the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency will be changing its entire agenda for the remaining two days of its meetings in Jerusalem, in order to address the ramifications of these decisions. The scheduled dinner with the participation of the Prime Minister has been cancelled," it said in a statement, as quoted by The Jerusalem Post.
The freezing of the plan represents a U-turn for the government, which approved a blueprint for a US$9 million project to establish a mixed-gender prayer space in January 2016.

The Western Wall (also called the Wailing Wall), the holiest site where Jews can pray, is currently divided into men's and women's prayer spaces.

Comment: See also: Zionist claims to the Western Wall not supported by historical evidence

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"Hacked by Team System DZ": Algerian group defaced Ohio govt & dozens of other websites with pro-ISIS & anti-Trump messages


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:29 UTC
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© Global Look Press
A group of hackers have replaced several Ohio government websites' homepages with pro-ISIS messages and a threat to President Donald Trump. The Team System Dz hackers also defaced a number of international sites.

Each of the compromised sites had its homepage replaced with a black background, an Islamic State-like logo and music playing in the background.
The pages were headed with the words, "Hacked by Team System DZ."

"You will be held accountable, Trump," the homepage reads. "You and all your people for every drip of blood flowing in Muslim countries."

"I love Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL terrorist group]," it concludes. At the bottom of each page was a link to the group's Facebook page.
The affected Ohio sites include those of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, the Ohio Governor, the Ohio First Lady, the Office of Workforce Transformation, Office of Health Transformation and Medicaid.
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8 injured as SUV slammed through brick wall and into LA motel swimming pool


RT
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:09 UTC
Car in pool
A vehicle crashed into the swimming pool of a Los Angeles neighborhood motel, injuring eight people, including the driver, who was left in critical condition, according to the city's fire department.

The accident occurred in the San Pedro neighborhood on Sunday evening at around 7:30pm, when an SUV slammed through a brick wall and sank into the Vagabond Inn's swimming pool.

Many children aged six to ten were in the pool at the time of the crash, according to witness accounts cited by the media.
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'Hi dad!' California father gets phone call from son 11 days after he thought he'd buried him


RT
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:28 UTC
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© Eric Thaye / Reuters
"Hi dad," those were the words California father Frank Kerrigan heard 11 days after he buried a man he wrongly believed was his son.

Eighty-two-year-old Frank Kerrigan had been told by the coroner's office in Orange County that his son, Frank M. Kerrigan had been found dead in the street. The coroner's office had wrongly said that his 57-year-old son had been identified by fingerprints.
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US city celebrates 80th anniversary of first ever (63 hour!) transarctic flight by Soviet ace


RT
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 21:37 UTC
ANT-25 plane
© Sputnik The ANT-25 plane in which Valery Chkalov's crew carried out the Moscow-America flight. 18 June, 1937
Amid new tensions between the US and Russia, Vancouver, Washington, where Valery Chkalov ended his record-breaking 1937 flight over the North Pole, has honored the Soviet pilot who became a US celebrity and built an air bridge between the two nations.

At the ceremony, the band played the Star-Spangled Banner and the Russian national anthem, while the city's pro tem mayor spoke of the "lasting impact" the first uninterrupted flight across the North Pole has had on Vancouver. The flight was one of the most famous occasions in the life of Vancouver, a city that often has been overshadowed by its Canadian namesake further up the Pacific coast.
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Drug scourge: 3.5% of Iran's population are now regular drug users, numbers 'more than doubled' in last 6yrs


RT
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:20 UTC
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© Reuters Afghan farmers work on a poppy field Abdul Qodus
The number of drug users in Iran has more than doubled in the last six years, according to a survey carried out by the nation's Drug Control Organization (DCHQ).

The survey found that 2.8 million citizens - roughly 3.5 percent of the population - are consuming drugs regularly, with opium accounting for 67 percent of consumption, marijuana 12 percent and methamphetamine approximately 8 percent.

"There are about 2.8 million people regularly consuming drugs" in the country of 80 million people, DHCQ spokesman Parviz Afshar told the ISNA news agency. "This growth, has sounded the alarm using these materials," Afshar added, as cited by Radio Farda.

"Opium is still the most popular [drug] and methamphetamine use has dropped significantly," he said.
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Buildings all over Britain are failing combustability tests in light of Grenfell inferno


RT
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:22 UTC
grenfell tower
© Toby MelvillePolice officers stand in front of the The Grenfell Tower block, north Kensington, West London, Britain.
The UK government has found that cladding on 60 high-rise blocks in 25 local authorities failed to meet safety standards, as part of an investigation launched in the wake of the fire at the Grenfell tower block which killed 79 people.

Tests are being conducted on up to 600 buildings as part of the investigation and every building tested so far has failed.

The highly flammable cladding is widely believed to be the main reason why the fire at the Grenfell block spread so quickly and multiple evacuations of at-risk tower blocks have taken place in the past fortnight.
"So far the cladding from 34 high-rise buildings, in 17 local authority areas, has failed the combustibility test," Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government said in a statement on Saturday.
Javid confirmed that authorities are checking 100 tower blocks per day, looking for the highly combustible aluminium composite tiles.
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Cop outed as a pedophile during cadet theft investigation

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:48 UTC
Officer Robert Cain
According to the LA Times, when the LAPD began investigating the theft of several police cruisers by its own police cadets (minors), they had a suspicion that "lax security of the station's equipment locker may have played a role in the alleged theft of squad cars, bulletproof vests, police radios and Tasers by LAPD cadets." But after Chief Charlie Beck personally arrested one of his own men, he discovered pedophilia was at the heart of their investigation.

Beck arrested Officer Robert Cain, 31, at the 77th Street Division at 11:00 am Thursday. His 15-year-old female victim was incriminated as being involved in the thefts and destruction of police equipment. After interviewing her, investigators became aware of the ongoing sexual relationship between the cadet and Cain.

According to the LA Times;
Officer Robert Cain, 31, allegedly had sex in the past month with a teenager suspected with other cadets of being involved in the recent thefts of police cruisers and other LAPD equipment, Beck said. Cain also allegedly knew of, and helped facilitate, the string of thefts that has rattled the department in recent days, Beck said.
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