RTTue, 11 Apr 2017 15:39 UTC
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Shocking footage has emerged showing police raiding a house in Birmingham and
pointing machine guns at handcuffed children as young as 15.The mobile phone footage shows armed officers storming the property on Pretoria Road before leading the youngsters out and forcing them to lie face down on the floor.
One of the children can be seen barefoot while some were still in their pyjamas when they were forced out of the house, according to one witness.
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman said the raid was carried out following reports of an armed man in the area.
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Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviation has warned the country's airlines of a possible ban on charter flights to Turkey, citing a "complicated political situation".
According to the head of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze, the restrictions are not yet in place but may be linked to the Turkish constitutional referendum on April 16.
"Taking into account the coup attempt in July last year, one cannot exclude that opponents of [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, dissatisfied with the outcome of the referendum will make some attempts to provoke unrest," the ATOR spokesperson said.
RTSun, 09 Apr 2017 12:11 UTC
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The detained individual is being questioned as a suspect, Oslo police service said on its official Twitter page.
Police have conducted a controlled detonation of the suspicious object, police spokesman Svein Arild Jørundland told VG, adding that at the moment it is unknown whether the device actually contained any explosive elements.
Comment: A Norwegian court has authorized a two-week arrest for the Russian 17-year-old suspected of plotting an attack. While his name hasn't been released, he comes from Russia's southern Caucasus region (Checnya, Dagestan, etc.). More
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...he came to Norway as a 10-year-old with his family and had applied for asylum. The Russian embassy in Norway confirmed that the detained teenager is a Russian national living in the Scandinavian country with his parents.
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The suspect was in possession of a device made of a "gas cylinder and strike elements," the media outlet reported.
Visitors or media interviews have been prohibited for the time the teen is under arrest.
Most of the hearing was conducted behind closed doors.
The young man was detained by police on Saturday night, after a witness alerted police of a person with a suspicious package, according to media reports. A bomb squad was deployed and the small object was destroyed with no one hurt in the incident. The teenager was later accused of possessing a primitive explosive device.
Norwegian police requested to keep the teenager in detention while investigating suspicions that he was plotting an attack with a "bomb-like" device. Under Norwegian law, two weeks is the maximum period allowed for a minor to be detained while being investigated under anti-terrorism laws.
The teenager's lawyer says the suspect pleads innocence.
"He is accused of having placed an object in a public place in Oslo. Security services thought that he was going to activate it. He says he was not going to harm anyone and that the object was of no particular threat," Aase Karine Sigmond told RT Russian.
The lawyer told Reuters the teen's actions were "a boyish prank."
Sigmond also told RT Russian that the teenager "considered himself to be a Norwegian." He was not going to apply for assistance to the Russian embassy, but was willing to cooperate with Norwegian authorities, she said. The young man denied talking to Russian diplomats, with the denial affirmed by the Russian embassy in Oslo.
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At least three people have been killed and eight seriously injured after a truck crashed into a department store in central Stockholm. Swedish PM Stefan Lofven said it was likely a terror attack.
The attack took place at 2:55 p.m. local time (12.55 UTC) on Friday.
Swedish police said that no arrests have yet been made, after earlier reports of at least one arrest.
The head of Swedish police Dan Eliasson told a press conference in Stockholm later on Friday that the police are looking at several leads.
Shots were reportedly fired and people in the area fled the scene, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported.
The hijacked beertruck reportedly rammed into the upscale Ahlens department store on the busy Drottninggatan street, a major pedestrianized shopping area in the center of the city and above the city's main railway station.
A spokeswoman for transport company Spendrups told the French news agency AFP that the truck "had been stolen during a delivery to a restaurant."
Comment: Updates from RT:
Swedish police have issued a warning to avoid Stockholm's city center. All Stockholm subway services have been shut down, according to TT news agency.
The city's central train station has also been evacuated. All trains to and from the station have been canceled for the rest of the day, Sweden's national rail company SJ announced.
All Swedish government offices have been closed following the attack, and all ministers are safe, a source told Reuters.
Security has also been tightened at other locations throughout the city.
Facebook has activated its safety check for people in the Stockholm area.
Update (April 8): The suspect has been
arrested. He's been identified as a 39-year-old Uzbek national, a "marginal character" previously named in "security information" but not under recent investigation. Big surprise, another terrorist previously known to the security services... Sweden's notoriously tight-lipped authorities haven't released anything else: how he got into the country, his name, whether or not explosives were found in the hijacked truck, only that some sort of "technical device" that shouldn't have been there
was there. Other reports identified this "something" as a bag of explosives that didn't detonate, but which did burn the suspect.
Update (April 9): Swedish police say the
suspect is "known to have expressed sympathies with extremist organizations", including ISIS. No word on what exactly that means, yet. He had been denied permanent residency
in June 2016 and was being sought for deportation after he went "underground" at that time. A second suspect has also been arrested in connection with the attack, and about 5 other people of interest remain in custody. Thousands have
gathered in Stockholm to commemorate the victims of the attack.
Update (April 11): The suspect, Rakhmat Akilov, has
admitted to committing "a terrorist crime", according to his lawyer Johan Eriksson. He will be kept in custody until at least May 11. The second person arrested is no longer considered a suspect, but is being kept in custody due to a "previous deportation order".
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The poll was conducted by TNS Global, one of the largest research agencies worldwide, for Sputnik International news agency
between February 16 and 22, 2017.
A total of 7,148 people across seven countries - France (1,004 people aged 16-64), Germany (1,014 people aged 16-64), Italy (1,050 people aged 16-54), Great Britain (1,037 people aged 16-64), the United States (1,027 people aged 18-64), Brazil (1,010 people aged 16-54) and Turkey (1,006 people aged 16-54) took part in the survey.
RTTue, 11 Apr 2017 15:22 UTC
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German security agencies have detained a Moroccan man suspected of plotting an attack at the Russian embassy in Berlin, Dresden prosecutors told RIA Novosti. The suspect apparently
planned to approach the embassy by mingling with a crowd of protesters.A 24-year-old Moroccan immigrant, identified in German media as Mohammed B.H., has been in police custody since Saturday and is said to have planned the potential assault.
"I can confirm that he is suspected of planning an attack at the [Russian] embassy," Steve Schulze-Reinhold, a representative for the prosecutor's office in Dresden, told RIA Novosti.
The investigation into the "serious, state-threatening act of violence" has been launched, but there is
still no arrest warrant issued for the suspect, he added.
William Turton
GizmodoTue, 11 Apr 2017 15:14 UTC
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United's market capitalization, essentially the current value of the company, has fallen by more than $750 million from $22.5 billion after a video showing a bloodied United passenger who was dragged off a flight made headlines on Monday.
At the time of publication, United's market cap has slid to $21.70 billion.
United's CEO Oscar Munoz has
stood by the decision to remove the man who refused to give up his seat on the overbooked flight to a United employee on stand-by. In a note to employees, Munoz wrote, "as you will read, this situation was unfortunately compounded when one of the passengers we politely asked to deplane refused and it became necessary to contact Chicago Aviation Security Officers to help. While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."
If you haven't seen, the passenger, David Dao, 69, was smashed into a armrest before being dragged off the plane. Later Dao ran back onto the plane, his face covered in blood, repeatedly muttering "just kill me."
Comment: Swift justice from the consumer.
© ReutersA migrant prays on the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) after being rescued off the coast of Libya, in June 2016. The International Organisation for Migration says migrants are being sold openly as slaves in Libya.
Migrants from West Africa are being openly traded in "public slave markets" across Libya.
As a departure point for refugees trying to get to Europe,
migrants arriving in Libya from sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable due to a lack of money and little in the way of documentation.
Survivors have told the International Organization for Migration (IOM) how there are slave markets and private prisons all over Libya.
APTue, 07 Feb 2017 14:59 UTC
A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after
authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said Tuesday.
Officer Maung Maung Yin said the monk was stopped Sunday as he drove in northern Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh. Authorities had been tipped off that the monk was carrying an illegal haul.
Maung Maung Yin said an anti-drug task force found 400,000 pills in the monk's car. A subsequent search of his monastery turned up 4.2 million pills along with a grenade and ammunition. A statement from the office of Myanmar's leader, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, said that one million kyats ($769) in cash was also found in the vehicle.
Myanmar is a major producer of methamphetamine, usually smuggled from the northeast to neighboring countries. It is also the world's second biggest producer of opium, from which heroin is derived.
Americans are up in arms over the alleged gas attack in Syria. Although there was no investigation, and many high-profile individuals have called it a sham, the US has pinned the blame on Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. So, we thought it would be a good idea to
remind our fellow Americans of an occasion where the federal government got away with gassing its own people, an action which, consequently, led to the deaths of 86 men, women, and children.Our source material comes from the FBI's own
vault, which contains two files on the case against Vernon Howell, also known as David Koresh. Koresh was the leader of the "Branch Davidians Seventh Day Adventists." According to the FBI case file, Koresh was believed to have been holding people against their will at his compound in Waco, Texas, potentially guilty of "involuntary servitude and slavery" charges.
In 1992, Child Protective Services (CPS) was called in to investigate the accusations. After a thorough investigation, CPS concluded no one was being held at the compound against their will, nor any child abuse, and the federal prosecutor, who reviewed the report, saw no reason to prosecute Koresh. On October 16th, 1992, the FBI closed the case against Koresh and the allegations he was abusing children and holding his followers against their will.
Comment: A Norwegian court has authorized a two-week arrest for the Russian 17-year-old suspected of plotting an attack. While his name hasn't been released, he comes from Russia's southern Caucasus region (Checnya, Dagestan, etc.). More from RT: