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Pakistani Christian burnt with heated rods after 'befriending' Muslim woman - report (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

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© clumpner / Getty ImagesThe victim is believed to have been taken to Lahore for treatment.
A Pakistani Christian man was tortured with heated iron rods after befriending a Muslim woman, according to local news reports. Images allegedly show Ansar Masih's charred body after the reported attack in Sheikhupura, eastern Pakistan, on April 1.

The 21-year-old man filed a police report against the father and two brothers of the Muslim woman, after the men allegedly kidnapped, beat and burnt him with iron rods, reported Dawn.

Activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir, who claims to be in touch with Masih's family, tweeted an image of him purportedly taken after the attack. The image allegedly shows his buttocks and the backs of his legs charred.

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Atlanta: Hazardous chemical spill causes 5 hour traffic jam

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© @erinjewell / InstagramDrivers faced long delays following the incident.
Some 250 gallons (946 liters) of toxic chemicals brought an Atlanta highway to a halt on Monday morning as hazardous material crews attempted to bring the spill under control.

An articulated truck carrying Benzoyl Chloride overturned on the interstate after colliding with an SUV.

Images and video from the scene show a crew in hazmat suits dealing with the spill that happened at 2am local time and closed the highway until 7:30am, reported AJC.

Benzoyl Chloride is mainly used for the production of peroxides and is considered hazardous but not life threatening.

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Disturbing, violent brawl captured in Michigan: 'This happened in Downtown Detroit last night'

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The caption says simply: "This happened in Downtown Detroit last night."

And then starts a video that shows about 25-40 men punching, kicking and brutally beating people on the streets of Greektown, one of Detroit's most popular hotspots. In the video, one man is lying with his head over the curb appearing unconscious and very badly injured. He gets punched and kicked as the cell-phone filming crowd of young men shouts and laughs.


Quickly becoming known as the Greektown brawl — the Saturday night fight was caught on video that was posted to Facebook.

By the time the police in Detroit were alerted to what was happening it was already over, they said. "All those people were out there with their cellphones, and instead of calling the police, they video it for Facebook," Chief James Craig told the Detroit News. "This is extremely disturbing."

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Crooked cop uses fake story about police raid to kidnap and molest woman

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Former Dundy County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Thibedeau remains behind bars today after his April 5th arraignment on felony kidnapping charges. The judge denied a reduction in the bond at the hearing and stated the former law enforcement officer is facing a minimum of 1 year in prison and a maximum 50 years in prison for the crimes he committed against a young woman.
According to Nebraska State Patrol Investigator Jeff Van Stelton's affidavit of probable cause filed in Dundy County Court on March 23, Thibedeau waived his Miranda rights and admitted verbally and in a written confession to falsely arresting and detaining a woman while he was on duty and insisting on seeing and touching her breasts.
The 26-year-old woman remains unidentified as is customary for all alleged sex crime victims. Prosecutors say Thibedeau concocted a story about a police drug raid which he told her was going to take place at her home. He met the woman, with the promise of telling her all he knew about the raid.

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Pessimism: Russian poll finds almost a third of Russians see possibility of war with US

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© Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters A sand sculpture of a bear in front of a U.S. flag, St. Petersburg
Thirty percent of Russians think that war between Russia and the US is possible, according to a recent survey. Russians have also changed their attitude to Donald Trump following the US strike on Syria.

The survey, conducted by state-run public opinion research center VTSIOM on April 11-12, reveals that, among those who answered 'yes' to the question about the possibility of war, 16 percent consider war between the two world powers to be "highly possible," while another 14 percent believe that a war is already underway.

More than half of the 1,200 participants, however, say that it is absolutely impossible or unlikely to happen, 16 and 47 percent respectively.

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Unexplained flight delays strand foreign journalists in North Korea

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© Lee Jae-Won / Reuters
North Korea's state-owned airline Air Koryo delayed its flights from Pyongyang to Russia and China without explanation. Foreign journalists were among those stranded in the airport, NK News reported.

Flights to Vladivostok, Beijing, and Shenyang were delayed on Monday, with airline authorities failing to provide a reason.

The Russian embassy posted an announcement on Facebook that Air Koryo had delayed the flights while providing "no rational basis for the delays."

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United Airlines under fire again: Company refused to allow disabled man to board with mobility scooter

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United Airlines has been called out for the alleged gross mistreatment of a disabled passenger.

Trey Harris, a former employee of both Google and Amazon, lives with spondylitis, a type of autoimmune spinal arthritis which makes it difficult for him to walk, requiring him to sometimes use a cane and sometimes a mobility device made by Segway.

Harris claims in a blog post that the airline refused to allow him to board a flight with his mobility scooter in spite of reassurances from US air transport authorities. UA also refused to check the scooter onto plane's cargo hold as oversized luggage, claims Harris.

The airline is suffering a public relations nightmare of late, as it copes with the public outcry following the violent removal of a doctor and a clumsy half-apology by its CEO. And the sting in the tail, a passenger was stung last week by stowaway scorpion.


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Hysterical Democrats push anti-Russian campaign at anti-Trump "tax day" protests

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Protests organized by the Democratic Party drew relatively small numbers in Washington, DC, New York City and more than 100 other locations throughout the United States on Saturday. The main demonstration at the US Capitol drew about 10,000 people, with several thousand turning out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York, and lesser crowds in other locations.

The protests were set for April 15, the day when income tax returns must usually be filed in the US, to highlight the demand that President Trump release his income tax returns, as all previous presidential candidates have done for the past half-century. Trump has refused to do so, giving the spurious pretext that his taxes are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.

Democratic Party representatives sought to link the tax return issue not to Trump's status as a billionaire who has taken advantage of various real estate tax dodges to pay little or nothing, but to their bogus allegations that Trump is a Russian stooge.

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Philippine's President Duterte wins TIME's 2017 most influential person poll

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been voted by TIME readers as the magazine's most influential person of 2017.

Duterte received 5 percent of the TIME 100 reader poll vote, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pope Francis, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg each receiving 3 percent of the vote.

The online poll asked readers who should be included on this year's TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people. Duterte was leading the poll for much of the voting, which closed Sunday night.

TIME editors will decide the final TIME 100 influential list, which will be announced on April 20.

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Small plane crashes near residential supermarket outside Lisbon, Portugal; five killed

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A small airplane crashed near a supermarket in a residential area outside Lisbon on Monday, killing five people, rescue workers said.

The private airplane crashed after taking off from the small Tires airport, which is located near the resort town of Cascais about 20 km (12.5 miles) west of Lisbon and used mainly by private aircraft.


Andre Fernandes, a spokesman for the local emergency services, said the plane was headed for Marseilles in France. Everyone on board the plane, three French and one Swiss, died.

Another person on the ground died when the plane crashed into a truck, setting off a fire, Fernandes said. The cause of the accident was not yet known.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa went to the site of the crash. There were more than 50 rescue workers at the site.