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'Need to speak with President Trump': Woman arrested on White House grounds for 3rd time in a week


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:43 UTC
White House
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
A woman has been arrested for trying to scale the fence and get to the White House grounds for the second time this week. This, and her third arrest for violating a stay order, are all due her urge to "speak with President Donald Trump."

Marci Anderson Wahl, 38, was arrested after setting off an alarm while trying to scale the fence. She was charged with unlawful entry and contempt of court.

The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning on the southeast corner of the Treasury building, local ABC affiliate WJLA reported.

The woman previously tried to break onto the White House grounds as recently as last Tuesday when she was discovered by Secret Service dangling from the fence by her shoelaces.

Comment: See also: U.S. Secret Service stops intruder before reaching White House grounds

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'People under rubble': Over 30 injured in huge 'gas explosion' in NW England - Update


RT
Sun, 26 Mar 2017 06:29 UTC
Wirral gas explosion
© LewHopkins / Twitter
More than 30 people have been injured in a powerful suspected gas explosion that destroyed and damaged buildings in Wirral on Merseyside, the local ambulance service reported. Footage from the scene showed streets scattered with bricks and devastated businesses.

"Wirral incident update: 30 'walking wounded' patients (minor injuries) and 2 patients with serious injuries gone to hospital," the North West Ambulance Service wrote on Twitter. It later updated the total number of injured to 34.

Comment: UPDATE March 27 RT: Drone footage from a Wirral-based cameraman, who goes by the name Pixels In The Sky, has revealed the large scale devastation from the explosion. A local resident described the the scenes as something from a "war zone."


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Violence erupts in California beach town as Trump supporters clash with protesters leading to arrests (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:42 UTC
Trump protesters
© Patrick Fallon / ReutersA pro-Trump rally participant is punched in the face by an anti-Trump protester as the two sides clash at a Pro-Trump rally in Huntington Beach
The seaside community of Huntington Beach, California, was the scene of chaotic, violent, brawls as supporters and opponents of US President Donald Trump clashed, leading to four arrests.

Trump supporters were holding a rally Saturday in the popular southern Californian beach town when multiple fights broke out with demonstrators who had come to protest the event. The Los Angeles Times reported that the violence was sparked after one of the protesters pepper sprayed a woman who was one of the rally's organizers.

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Stephen Hawking appears at conference via hologram, discusses Trump and other topics


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:58 UTC
Stephen Hawking
© Anthony Wallace / AFP
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking appeared via hologram at a conference in Hong Kong, and had some interesting things to say about the rise of US President Donald Trump.

"Can you hear me?" Hawking asked the audience in his iconic computerized voice. "Yes!" came the enthusiastic response from hundreds of people gathered for the event in the Hong Kong Science Park.

In a speech that went on for more than an hour, the 75-year-old discussed a wide range of topics, including Brexit, Donald Trump, life on other planets, and his life and research, Global Times reports.
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Turning children into monsters: Mosul's lost generation of ISIS fighters

Francesca Mannocchi
Middle East Eye
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:03 UTC
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© ScreengrabAn IS video of children from its 'young lions' division
Iraqi soldiers have fought boys as young as 10 in Mosul. But being used by IS to kill is only one of many grim fates awaiting city's youth

Hasan thought he had seen everything after fighting Islamic State in Fallujah in Tikrit. Then he came to Mosul, and a boy no older then 10 tried to kill him.

"It was utterly shocking," says the 40-year-old soldier, dragging nervously on a cigarette as he remembers the child among a group of young IS suicide bombers.
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Avalanche kills 8, injures 30 on high school trip in Japan


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:31 UTC
Rescue workers carry victims near a ski resort in Nasu town, north of Tokyo, Japan, March 27, 2017
© Kyodo / ReutersRescue workers carry victims near a ski resort in Nasu town, north of Tokyo, Japan, March 27, 2017.
An avalanche has killed eight people, including at least seven students, and injured more than 30 on a mountain-climbing trip in Japan.

The group of 52 students and 11 teachers from seven high schools were on the last day of a three-day mountaineering trip when the avalanche struck in the town of Nasu, some 120km (75 miles) north of Tokyo Monday, reports Japan Times.

More than 100 troops were deployed to assist emergency services in a major rescue effort.

A weather warning for heavy snow and avalanches was issued for Sunday and Monday in the region by the Meteorological Agency. Some 33cm (13 inches) of snow fell in Nasu over an eight-hour period on Monday.

Most of the students killed were from Otawara High School in the Tochigi prefecture, according to AFP.
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Martin McGuinness: IRA commander, peacemaker

Adeyinka Makinde
adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.co.uk
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:27 UTC
Martin McGuinness never went to war. The war came to him. It came to his street, to his city.

~ Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin President
Martin McGuinness was a coward and a murderer.

~ Norman Tebbitt, former British Conservative Party government minister
What made Martin McGuinness a formidable foe also made him a formidable peacemaker.

~ Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister
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Martin McGuinness, left, at a press conference in the 1990s with Jeremy Corbyn
From the moment the death of Martin McGuinness was announced, it was a given certainty that the eulogies - in the widest possible sense of that word - would range from descriptions of his having been among the fiercest of the modern Irish Republican freedom fighters to that of a common terrorist-murderer.

But to friend, foe and neutral must have been unanimity in acknowledging an aura and legend surrounding the man. This after all was a person who rose to the ranks of the Irish Republican Army at a very young age. He was apparently a man of great charm and ruthless cunning. And his levels of personal discipline, organisational resourcefulness and ability to command loyalty did not escape the attention of the British intelligence services; his MI5 file recording the view that his talents as a strategic thinker made him "officer material".

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Police discover 7 kilos of cocaine hidden inside fake bananas


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:14 UTC
cocaine in bananas
© Ruptly
Spanish police have found 57 pieces of artificial fruit containing seven kilograms of cocaine mixed among real bananas, with another 10 kilos packed in cardboard boxes.

The video obtained by Ruptly video agency shows how officers smash the bananas open using screwdrivers and hammers.

One banana is cracked open to reveal the white powder "filling" it.

The fake bananas were found during an operation in the coastal cities of Malaga and Valencia on Sunday. The footage of the haul was shot in Valencia, the Ruptly news agency said.

Two people were detained on charges of drug trafficking, and a third person is now under investigation as a result of the operation, according to the police.

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Russia distributes 1.7 metric tons of aid to Syrians past 24 hours


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:56 UTC
Russian aid to Syria
© Sputnik/ Andrey Stenin
Russian center for Syrian reconciliation carried out six humanitarian events in Aleppo and Latakia Province, distributing 1.7 metric tons of humanitarian aid to civilians, the statement released by the Center said on Monday.

"Within last 24 hours, 2,850 citizens have received humanitarian aid. Total weight of humanitarian aid provided to the Syrian population has reached 1.7 [metric] tons," the statement reads, adding that a total of five humanitarian events were held in Aleppo and one more in Darmina settlement in the Latakia province.
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Manbij crossfire: Liberated from IS, Kurdish-controlled city now fears Turkish invasion


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 06:21 UTC
Manbij refugees
© Lizzie Phelan‏ / Twitter
Months after Kurdish-led forces kicked Islamic State out of Syria's Manbij, change is in the air with IS-imposed burqas replaced by a women's council. Now, however, the city finds itself on the edge of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, RT's Lizzie Phelan reports.

The US-backed, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberated Manbij, some 135 kilometers (84 miles) from the Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL) stronghold of Raqqa in August 2016. While many of the buildings still lie in ruins, the city's bustling hum is apparent, Phelan reports from Manbij.

Comment: It's great that the US-backed Kurdish fighters have brought relief and normalcy to the region, but they have to know that it comes with the price of doing Uncle Sam's bidding: Plan B, the creation of a Kurdish state in northeastern Syria and northern Iraq. If they settle for loyalty to Syrian (and Iraqi) state sovereignty, then great, but if they are goaded into making a break for independence, then we're likely looking at another round of violence in Syria and Iraq (and possibly Turkey and Iran).

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