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Terrorists increasingly target Saudi Arabia


Sputnik
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:10 UTC
Mecca
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
On Friday, the Saudi Interior Ministry said it had foiled an attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Terrorists were allegedly going to attack worshipers who gathered at Islam's holiest site to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

The investigators believe the attack was plotted from abroad. Five suspects have been detained, including a woman.

Experts claim that the security situation in Saudi Arabia has worsened for several reasons. The main factors include the strengthening of the Daesh terrorist group in the Middle East and the war in Yemen against Shiite militants, which Riyadh has been waging since 2015.

Moreover, Saudi Arabia has been financing a large number of projects promoting Salafism — the most fundamentalist branch of Islam. According to WikiLeaks, the country has financed radical terrorist structures through governmental and non-state structures, including Al-Qaeda and Daesh.

Riyadh has not commented on such allegations and claims that the blame for terrorist activities lies on Qatar.
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Fire

Over 100 people burnt to death in Pakistan after oil tanker overturns and explodes


RT
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:10 UTC
Oil tanker flips
© Waji Official / YouTube 100+ people burn to death after oil tanker flips & explodes in Pakistan.
Over 100 people have burnt to death after an oil tanker overturned, spilling its payload on a highway in the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur, local media report.

At least 123 people were killed according to sources that spoke with Geo TV Pakistan. At least another 40 people suffered severe burn wounds. They have been taken to two local hospitals in critical condition, Rescue 1122 Director General Dr. Rizwan Naseer told the news outlet.

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The video that one pro-Israel group is desperate to keep you from watching

Peter Beinart
Forward
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
No Way To Treat a Child panel
The No Way To Treat a Child panel in Washington dared to discuss how Palestinian children are treated at the hands of the IDF in the West Bank
When it comes to Palestinians, the American Jewish establishment is in the ignorance business. The average American synagogue has never hosted a Palestinian speaker. The average "pro-Israel" activist has never read a book by a Palestinian author. The American Jewish philanthropists who fund Birthright send thousands of young American Jews to Israel each year, on a program that systematically excludes the voices of 50% of the people who live under Israeli control.

But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that for major American Jewish organizations, ignorance is an export. It is not enough that American Jewish leaders never hear from Palestinians themselves — they do their best to ensure that American politicians don't, either.

Consider the sequence of events that began on June 8. On that day, an advocacy group called No Way To Treat a Child hosted a panel discussion on Capitol Hill. That's not unusual. Advocacy organizations hold panel discussions on Capitol Hill all the time; the location makes it easier for congressional staff to attend. What made this one unusual was its subject: the Palestinian experience under Israeli control.
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Bomb

Death toll rises to 85 following a series of terrorist attacks in Pakistan


RT
Sat, 24 Jun 2017 23:01 UTC
Pakistan blast victim
© Fayaz Aziz / ReutersA man injured in the Parachinar blasts is carried to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan June 24, 2017.
The death toll from a series of terrorist attacks in Parachinar, Quetta and Karachi in Pakistan Friday, has risen to 85 people, with a dozen of critically injured dying in hospitals overnight.

The death toll from twin blasts at a local market has risen to 67 people, after 12 of those wounded in Friday's attack died in hospital, a government official in Parachinar, Shahid Khan, told AP Saturday.

Two explosions, in the space of several minutes, rocked the busy Toori Bazar in the mainly Shia neighborhood Friday afternoon.

Sabir Hussain, a doctor at one of Parachinar's hospitals said his facility received over 250 injured people, with more than 60 in critical condition, the Times of Hindustan reported.

The Sunni extremist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, claimed responsibility for the attack in Parachinar located in north-western Pakistan.

Also on Friday, 14 people were killed in a suicide car bombing near the office of the provincial police head in the town Quetta in the southwestern part of the country. A breakaway Taliban and Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) faction said it was behind the bombing.
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People

Victorious Syria: A new dawn of resistance against imperialism

Bruno Guigue - Translation by Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:06 UTC
Billboard in Aleppo
© Vanessa Beeley
As on a calm, still morning, the landscape of Syria is gradually emerging from the shadow. Everywhere, the advances of the Syrian Arab Army have reconquered thousands of square kilometers of territory in East Aleppo, Homs and Damascus. The army is on the verge of retaking full control of the Syria-Jordan and Syria-Iraq borders, traditional rat runs for the foreign mercenaries intent on destroying the cradle of civilization for a fistful of petrodollars.

Restoring the sovereignty of the Syrian state on its national soil, this courageous army of conscripts, inflict shame upon all those who dreamed of destroying this recalcitrant state, upon all those who wanted to dismember Syria because it dared to foil their neocolonialist plot.
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Biohazard

London Underground steps up cleaning to fight superbugs plaguing the tube


The Guardian
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:07 UTC
London Underground steps up cleaning to fight superbugs plaguing the tube
© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesTube network to fight grime with industrial vacuum cleaners and magnetic wands after discovery of threatening bacteria
Industrial vacuum cleaners and magnetic wands will be used in a bid to rid the tube network of eight of the most dangerous superbugs.

Cleaning of the London Underground will be stepped up each night over the summer to remove metal particles, dust, oil and grease from about 50 stations and five tunnels.

An investigation published last month by London Metropolitan University and taxi insurers Staveley Head found 121 types of bacteria and mould on public transport in the capital.

Eight of the most threatening bacteria to human health were discovered on the tube, with the Victoria line deemed the dirtiest route.
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Recycle

Wasted food: 40 percent of America's food is thrown away

Susan Narjala
relevantmagazine.com
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:57 UTC
food waste
A few years and many grocery store trips later, I came to expect blemish-less, Instagram-worthy fruits and vegetables unblinkingly. I piled my cart with as much produce as everyone else. And, at the end of the week, I winced only slightly as I threw wilted kale and squishy oranges into the trash.

Little did I realize that my demand for cosmetically perfect produce or my need to overstock my refrigerator for a rainy day, could potentially have huge repercussions. Multiply my consumer expectations and shopping patterns by the thousands of households in the U.S., and we create a staggering epidemic of food waste.

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Info

Tell us something we don't know: High Court rules that Tory welfare policies cause 'real misery'

Harriet Williamson
The Independent
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:00 UTC
theresa may
© EPAThe High Court has ruled that the Tory's benefit cap causes 'real misery for no good purpose'
Today, the High Court ruled that the benefits cap, one of the Tories' flagship welfare policies, is unlawful, because it amounts to illegal discrimination against single parents with small children. It's likely that the Government will be forced to alter or completely scrap their benefits cap, a policy that limits the total amount a household can receive in benefits to £23,000 in London and £20,000 elsewhere in the UK.

High Court judge Justice Collins described the benefit cap as causing "real damage" to single parent families and said "real misery is being caused to no good purpose". This is the fundamental truth at the heart of Tory welfare policy - misery without progress or reason.

Welfare reform as part of the coalition government's austerity measures has driven thousands more people into poverty and in many tragic cases, some deaths occurred after individuals were declared fit to work. Austerity was not inevitable. It was an ideologically-motivated programme designed to force the poorest and most vulnerable in our society to shoulder the burden of a financial crisis that they had less than nothing to do with creating.

Comment: No moral compass: British austerity has created a country of destitution

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Health

Mexico legalizes medical marijuana

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 18:44 UTC
medical marijuana mexico
As a growing number of individual states in the U.S. stand up to the federal government on marijuana prohibition, Mexico legalized medical marijuana nationwide on Monday.

Mexican President Enrique PeñaNieto issued a decree, following the bill's overwhelming approval from Mexico's Senate in December, with a vote of 98-7, and from Mexico's Lower House of Congress in April, with a vote of 374-7 vote.
"The ruling eliminates the prohibition and criminalization of acts related to the medicinal use of marijuana and its scientific research, and those relating to the production and distribution of the plant for these purposes."
The decree stated that the nation's Ministry of Health would be in charge of "public policies regulating the medicinal use of pharmacological derivatives of cannabis sativa, indica and Americana or marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinol, its isomers and stereochemical variants, as well as how to regulate the research and national production of them."
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Fire

10 fire engines, 72 firefighters battle blaze at East London apartment block


RT
Sat, 24 Jun 2017 17:46 UTC
Bethnal Green fire
© Hannah McKay/ReutersFirefighters tackle a fire at a low-rise block of buildings in Bethnal Green, northeast London, Britain, June 24, 2017.
Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters are battling a blaze at a block of flats on Turin Street in Bethal Green, east London, according to the London Fire Brigade.

A flat on the third floor and roof is alight, the fire service said in a statement. One man suffering from smoke inhalation has been hospitalized.

The London Fire Brigade received nearly 50 calls from members of the public about the fire at approximately 4:25pm local time.

The cause of the fire is not yet known.
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