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Airplane

Lucky pilot emerges unscathed after fiery plane crash near Seattle speedway


RT
Wed, 03 May 2017 18:58 UTC
plane explosion Seattle Mukilteo Speedway
© Simon Li / YouTube The plane hit power lines as it came down.
The jaw-dropping moment a plane crashed over a Seattle speedway was caught on dashcam as a stomach-churning explosion lit up the sky. Amazingly the pilot survived unscathed.

RT verified the location of the video, matching visible billboards against Google Maps to the junction of the Mukilteo Speedway and Harbour Pointe Boulevard. Details of the crash appeared in the Seattle Times and were also confirmed by the local police department on Twitter.

No serious injuries were reported in the crash, which led to brief power outages in the area.

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Cell Phone

Russia blocks several messaging apps for 'not complying with law'


RT
Tue, 02 May 2017 19:59 UTC
cell smart phone app
© Hitoshi Yamada / Global Look Press
Russian communications regulator has blocked four platforms, including BlackBerry, Line and Imo messengers as well as Vchat video service. The services have failed to comply with Russian law, according to the regulator.

The messengers are unavailable any more in Russia, the country's main media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, confirmed Tuesday.

The addresses of these services are on the register of restricted websites, the press secretary of Roskomnadzor, Vadim Ampelonsky, told RIA Novosti.

Under Russia's data privacy law passed last year, all companies processing the personal data of Russian citizens are obliged to store it on servers within the country's borders for a half of the year and provide it to law enforcement if necessary. The regulator sends the companies a request to comply with the law and therefore approves or bans their services.
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Pirates

IDF soldiers shoot and kill Israeli settler during alleged 'knife attack'


Ma'an News Agency
Wed, 03 May 2017 19:36 UTC
Israel checkpoint
Israel's Hizma checkpoint, north of Jerusalem
Israeli forces shot dead a 19-year-old Israeli settler, mistaking him for Palestinian, after the young man allegedly attempted to carry out a knife attack on Israeli soldiers Tuesday on the occupied East Jerusalem side of Israel's Hizma checkpoint, which leads to the occupied West Bank.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in an initial statement that a Palestinian attempted to cross "from Jerusalem to Palestinian lands," and "apparently attempted to stab a security officer" at the military checkpoint.

Israeli forces noticed the man approaching, and "immediately neutralized him without any injuries being reported among them," she said, referring to the fact that no Israeli security guards were injured in the alleged attack, and failing to confirm in clear terms that the alleged assailant was shot.

A short while later, al-Samri declared that the man succumbed to fatal gunshot injuries.
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Ambulance

3 dead, 9 injured in car accident at Massachusetts auto auction


RT
Wed, 03 May 2017 17:54 UTC
Massachusetts car crash
© Screenshot from ABC News video
At least three people were killed and multiple others injured when an SUV drove through a crowd and slammed into a wall at a North Billerica auto auction in Massachusetts.

"The preliminary investigation at the scene of the crash at Lynnway Auto Auctions in Billerica indicates that there are fatalities among the multiple victims," state police said in a statement.

"At this point, there is no evidence or information to suggest the incident was caused by an intentional or terrorist act. All evidence and information at this time suggests an accidental cause."

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan says the dead were one man and two women. She says two of the nine who were taken to hospitals suffered life-threatening injuries.

"It was a tragic accident," said Ryan. She said the driver, who worked at the auction, is not hospitalized, but victims have head and back injuries

Police said the investigation was ongoing.
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Pistol

Murder-suicide leaves 2 dead in shooting at North Lake College near Dallas, Texas


RT
Wed, 03 May 2017 18:37 UTC
shooting north lake college irving tx
Police are investigating an alleged murder-suicide at North Lake College, northwest of Dallas, Texas, after a gunman killed one unidentified person before turning the gun on himself.

"We have what appears to be one victim deceased & the shooter has committed suicide," Irving Police tweeted. "There appears to be no continuing threat but police will continue to search to make the campus safe."

Irving Police confirmed three shots were fired on the campus just before noon, local time, according to media reports.
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Arrow Up

Texas cop who killed unarmed student fired after review of body-cam footage refutes original story


RT
Wed, 03 May 2017 09:51 UTC
Jordan Edwards
Jordan Edwards
Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver has been fired over the killing of black teenager Jordan Edwards. Contrary to the original story put forward by police, the department's chief clarified that the officer fired into a car full of teenagers that was driving away from officers to flee a party that had been reported to authorities.

Police Chief Jonathan Haber confirmed the firing of Oliver on Tuesday evening, according to the Associated Press.

On Monday, Haber said he reviewed officer body-camera footage of the April 29 shooting and determined that the initial account of that night given by the department was incorrect.

Comment: No surprise: Cop's body cam refutes 'official story', shows he murdered innocent teenager for no reason

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Black Magic

Exorcism preceded woman killing, decapitating 63-year-old Kansas woman

Tim Potter
The Wichita Eagle
Tue, 02 May 2017 16:39 UTC
Rachel Hilyard
© Wichita EagleRachel Hilyard
Rachael Hilyard - charged with first-degree murder in the April 9 decapitation of 63-year-old Micki Davis - said Tuesday that church members performed an exorcism at Hilyard's house days before the killing.

Hilyard said the exorcism was done because of "evil spirits" at her south Wichita house. Hilyard, 35, said that God, not she, was responsible for the death.

"I feel horrible about this," she said without elaborating.

Her comments came during a 20-minute interview on Tuesday with an Eagle reporter through a video connection in the visitation area at the Sedgwick County Jail. The Eagle wasn't allowed to use a notebook or recording device.

At moments during the interview, Hilyard's eyes appeared to tear up. She often looked away as she spoke or went silent. She wouldn't answer follow-up questions to clarify what she did say.
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Snakes in Suits

Essex vicar who posted child sex stories to neighbors' houses avoids jail


RT
Wed, 03 May 2017 18:45 UTC
Priest clothing
© Global Look Press
Essex vicar Peter Low was spared jail despite writing a series of sexual stories involving children and delivering them to his neighbors.

Police investigating a reported burglary at Low's property matched his handwriting to the letters that had been reported.

Officers found no evidence of a burglary, Chelmsford Crown Court heard, but found a 'to do list' with handwriting that matched the letters.

Further investigation revealed indecent images of children on Low's computer.
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Eiffel Tower

Paradise lost: "Forgotten" rural French villages turn to far right

Adam Plowright
Yahoo News
Wed, 03 May 2017 18:31 UTC
French village
© Yann Coatsaliou/Agence France-PresseResidents of the village of Puget-Theniers in southern France voted overwhelmingly to cast the country's political leaders to the wolves in the first round of presidential polls.
Halfway between mountains and the Mediterranean, the southern French village of Puget-Theniers is old, idyllic and a picture of the quiet rebellion under way in rural areas.

In the first round of France's presidential election, residents here, an hour's drive from the city of Nice, voted overwhelmingly to cast the country's rulers to the wolves. Thirty-seven percent of 1,300 ballots on April 23 were for far-right leader Marine Le Pen and another 18 percent for Communist-backed firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon. A collection of other "anti-system" candidates from Trotskyists to a man who believes the European Union is a CIA-backed conspiracy won another 10 percent.

"We're fed up with our leaders favouring financial groups, insurance companies and bankers," said Leo Vellutini, a 56-year-old having an afternoon drink with locals in the pretty square at the centre of the village. He says the Le Pen vote has "spiced up our drinks together". While not everyone agrees, no one at the table has anything good to say about France's political leaders.
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Star of David

Poll: More Arabs positively view Israel than Jews


RT
Tue, 02 May 2017 21:03 UTC
arabs and jews stick figures
© United with IsraelReally?
Arab citizens have a more positive outlook on Israel than its Jewish citizens do, according to a recent poll released as Israel celebrates its 69th Independence Day.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan think tank Israel Democracy Institute, in conjunction with Tel Aviv University, asked 600 Israelis over the telephone how they felt about life in their homeland. Perhaps surprisingly, in some ways Israeli Arab citizens were more optimistic about the state of the country than the majority Jewish population.

Sixty-six percent of Arabs rated the situation in Israel as "good" or "very good," with only 12 percent giving it a "bad" or "very bad" score. This was higher than the Jewish respondents, only 43.9 percent of whom said it was either good or very good. And among Jews, the impression that Israeli leaders were doing a "good" or "very good" job of paying attention to what they want was a mere 2 percent, compared to 19 percent of Arabs. Arabs were also more confident about the economy, with 75 percent seeing it as good or very good compared to 62 percent of Jews.

Comment: Are the Jewish participants in this poll just more picky, self-serving or demanding? Or was this poll a propaganda stunt aimed at the 69th Independence Day festivities with Israel needing a show-and-tell Arab salve. Trump's missile launch question had predictably polarizing reviews.

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