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Canada proposes new regulations to outlaw removal of passengers from overbooked flights


RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:49 UTC
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New standards have been proposed to assure fair treatment for Canadian air travelers, including a measure that would bar airlines from bumping passengers from overbooked flights.

The legislation was introduced a month after a series of scandals related to overbooking emerged that saw passengers forcibly and even violently removed from their flights. In the most notorious recent case, a man was injured while being violently dragged off a plane for refusing to get off.

The new rules were unveiled by Canada's minister of transport, Marc Garneau, on Tuesday. While an exact package of air passenger rights has yet to be laid out, the Transportation Modernization Act would certainly forbid air carriers from involuntarily removing travelers from overbooked planes on both domestic and international flights. In addition, passengers who leave their seats voluntarily are to receive fair compensation, according to the ministry's statement.
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Inflation hits 4-year high in UK amidst weak growth of real wages


RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 14:44 UTC
Union jack piggy banks
© Darrin Zammit Lupi / ReutersA row of piggy banks adorned with the colors of Britain's Union Jack flag are displayed in a souvenir shop in London
Despite the lowest unemployment rate in more than four decades, real wages in the UK fell at their fastest rate in the first quarter of the year since 2014.

According to the Office for National Statistics, wages excluding bonuses rose by 2.1 percent year-on-year which was the weakest increase since July 2016 and below analyst expectations.

Salaries were not keeping pace with inflation which was 2.3 percent in February and March, and 2.7 percent in April. Inflation was driven higher by the falling value of the pound since the Brexit vote.

"If the disparity between pay and price growth continues to increase as we predict, household spending is likely to slow further, weakening overall economic activity," Suren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce was cited as saying by the Guardian.

Despite the weak wage growth, there are signs of continued strength in the UK labor market.
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Drunken Aussie faces 11 charges and possible caning after expletive-laden scuffle with Singapore police at airport (VIDEO)


RT
Tue, 16 May 2017 14:32 UTC
Jason Peter Darragh
© Ben Bonifant / YouTubeJason Peter Darragh was arrested at Singapore's Changi Airport
An Australian man is facing 11 charges, and a possible caning, after he resisted arrest and assaulted police officers at Singapore Airport. The drunken scuffle was caught on video and has since gone viral.

Jason Peter Darragh, 44, was arrested by six police officers at Singapore's Changi Airport on April 20, after he pushed an officer to the ground.

The video was uploaded to YouTube on May 6 by Ben Bonifant, who took the video as he waited for his girlfriend to locate her passport.

"Police officers got a rude awakening when this bloke decides to pick a fight with them and resists arrest," he wrote in the video's description. "Oh and he loses his shoe."
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Child sex offenders are still at large in Rochdale, says former detective


RT
Tue, 16 May 2017 18:25 UTC
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Victims of the Rochdale child sex abuse ring, exposed in 2012, are still at risk of being exploited by offenders who are still at large in the community, according to a former detective who worked on the case.

Margaret Oliver, former detective constable for Greater Manchester Police (GMP), investigated reports of child grooming before resigning over the Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) mishandling of the case.

Oliver said she is in contact with some of the victims and told many of the offenders are still living freely in the community.

Speaking before the launch of the BBC 1 drama 'Three Girls', which documents the experience of three of 47 victims, Oliver said: "I'm speaking to kids who are telling me that even to this day they are seeing offenders that they've named walking around Rochdale.

"Somebody saw one in London, another person told me that one has moved around the corner from her.

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'His death is his fault': Cop murders innocent man with his hands up and blames him for it

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 16 May 2017 13:47 UTC
Terence Crutcher
Terence Crutcher
Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher in September when he experienced car trouble after leaving night classes at Tulsa Community College. On Monday, Shelby testified in her own defense to attempt to justify the killing of this unarmed man — and shamelessly blamed him — stating she has "no regrets" about what happened.

Shelby, who faces up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter, blames Crutcher for his own death.

Incidentally, this is not the first time this killer cop blamed the victim. In a brazenly despicable fashion, Shelby went on 60-minutes in April and explained to host Bill Whitaker that Crutcher — who had no weapon on him or in his car — caused her to fear for her life, and her only option was taking his life.

"His hands were in the air from all views," pastor Rodney Goss of the Morning Star Baptist Church, who viewed footage from both dash cams and a police helicopter prior to the public release, told the Tulsa World in September. "It was not apparent from any angle at any point he lunged, came toward, aggressively attacked, or made any sudden movements that would have been considered a threat or life-threatening toward the officer."
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People

Labour voters 'prefer Corbyn to Blair' as socialist tightens grip on party


RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 13:11 UTC
Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn
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The Labour Party is now polling better under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership than it would have done under Tony Blair, a new survey has revealed.

According to pollsters GfK, 31 percent of the British electorate will be supporting Corbyn in the June 8 general elections, compared to only 23 percent that would rather have Blair back at the helm.

Other figures inside the party fared no better, with only 25 percent of those quizzed considering London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be a better alternative to Corbyn. A mere 24 percent would prefer to see former leader Ed Miliband or ex-Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in charge.
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Iraqi asylum seeker sentenced to 11 years for raping Chinese students in Germany


RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 12:32 UTC
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A German court has sentenced an Iraqi asylum seeker to 11 years in prison for the "brutal rape" of two Chinese students who were studying at a local university.

"Eleven years is a tough sentence. However, it is the price for what the accused did to the absolutely innocent victims for no reason," Volker Talarowski, judge at the town court in Bochum, western Germany, said as he pronounced the sentence. The public prosecutor's office initially requested between 12 and 14 years behind bars for the offender.

"It is the court's understanding that the accused had absolutely no idea about what he had done," the judge said, as cited by the German Der Western media outlet. Nor did he understand "what unending pain he actually inflicted on the women [he raped],"Talarowski added, pointing out that the man "malignantly grinned" after one of the two victims provided testimony in court.
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Info

Majority of Britain now backs Brexit as 'Remainers' switch support


RT
Wed, 17 May 2017 12:29 UTC
UK Britain Brexit
© Neil Hall / Reuters
The majority of Britons are now in favor of the UK leaving the EU as Remainers increasingly turn their support to Brexit, according to a recent poll.

Up to 68 percent of those surveyed said they want to see Brexit take place, while a mere 22 percent said they want Prime Minister Theresa May's government to ignore the result of the EU referendum of June last year.

The YouGov poll revealed that 23 percent of respondents - dubbed 'Re-Leavers' - voted to Remain, but now appreciate the majority of Britain's population voted for the UK to leave. Like it or not, they want to see the government accommodate the people's will.

Comment: Further reading: UK's Labour Party climbs to highest poll rating since 2015

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Bad Guys

Haiti's thirsty season

Dady Chery
News Junkie Post
Tue, 09 May 2017 14:15 UTC
Pan American Health Organization
© Pan American Health Organization
There is no shortage of water in Haiti. Yet, everywhere on the island, Haitians travel for miles to get water, pay dearly for it if they can find it, and sometimes die on their journey to collect it, like so many antelopes snatched by predators on their way to drink. How does a thing like that happen in a country that gets reliably drenched with more than 50 inches (130 cm) of naturally distilled rainwater per year? Haiti is blessed with two rainy seasons: April to May, and August to October, but even during the driest months of December to February, the country gets about 1.5 inches per month. The Artibonite River alone carries more than 26,000 gallons (100 cubic meters) of fresh water per second! Another 13,000 gallons per second flow through nine other rivers that crisscross the mountainous landscape. As if that were not enough, Haitians also sit on about 15 trillion gallons of groundwater.
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Cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko dies in Moscow


TASS
Wed, 17 May 2017 10:02 UTC
Russian cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko passed away in Moscow at the age of 82

Viktor Gorbatko
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS
Viktor Gorbatko
Russian cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko passed away in Moscow at the age of 82 on Wednesday, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS.

"He felt unwell recently spending the past two weeks in the Mandryka hospital where he died in the intensive care unit on Wednesday," the source said.
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