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20 people brandishing knives attack women's event at Turkish university


Telesur
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:56 UTC
International Women's Day rally in central Istanbul, Turkey
© ReutersInternational Women's Day rally in central Istanbul, Turkey
A group of 20 people brandishing knives attacked an International Women's Day event at a university in Turkey's largest city Istanbul leaving several students with injuries including stab wounds, local media reported Tuesday.

The attack took place in the well-known Bilgi University and a video posted on Twitter by Turkish women's organization Yeryüzü Kadınları showed university security guards intervening to stop the attackers.
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Gender swap experiment finds Killary even less likable if she was a man, Trump more endearing and confident when portrayed as a woman

Amber Athey
Campus Reform
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:52 UTC
trump hillary cartoon
An experiment designed to reveal gender bias by reenacting the presidential debates with the candidates' genders reversed found that Hillary Clinton would have been even less likable as a man.

Maria Guadalupe and Joe Salvatore, two professors at New York University, planned to demonstrate the alleged gender bias Clinton faced in the 2016 election by acting out the presidential debates with Trump as a woman and Hillary as a man, reports NYU News.

The goal of the "Her Opponent" project was to prove that people would not have accepted Trump's aggressive behavior had it come from a woman, and that Hillary's debate style would be much more likable if she were a man.

The professors and audiences of the mock debates, however, were "unsettled" to discover that the opposite was true—Trump became more likable as a woman and Hillary became even less likable as a man.

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Thousands of Russians moving back to Russia from EU over increasing Russophobia


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:04 UTC
Zhukovsky international airport
© Emin Dzhafarov / SputnikPassengers go through passport control at the Zhukovsky international airport in the Moscow Region
About 150 thousand people returned to Russia from foreign countries in 2016, the interior ministry said. State support for repatriates and the anti-Russia campaign in Western countries were the top reasons given.

According to the report, quoted by Izvestia daily, the total number of people who returned to Russia from foreign nations in 2016 was 146,585. Most of them returned from former Soviet republics, but as many as 30,000 people returned to Russia from EU countries, the report reads.

Head of the Upper House Committee for International Relations Konstantin Kosachev told Izvestia that the phenomenon could be explained in part by the surge in anti-Russia propaganda in the West, and the general public's subsequent change in attitude to Russians after 2014. "The demonization of Russia, its citizens and ethnic Russians who live abroad is an additional motivation for people who make the decision to return to their motherland," the senator said.

One woman, identified as Natalia, told Izvestia that the "intolerable" levels of Russophobia had forced her to leave the Czech Republic where she worked as an art gallery director.
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Police make multiple arrests during 'Day Without Women' protest in New York


RT
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:26 UTC
Day without women protest
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersProtesters demonstrate outside the White House as part of "A Day Without a Woman" strike, Washington, U.S., March 8, 2017.
Police have made multiple arrests at the 'Day Without Women' protest in New York, where 400 people gathered to mark International Working Women's Day and picketed Trump International Hotel.

A crowed of roughly 75 percent women, many dressed in red, rallied outside Central Park and 59th Street before marching to Columbus Circle and rallying near the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday.

Police gave orders for the crowd to disperse but a handful of protesters engaged in civil disobedience and were arrested.

Among those detained were lead organizers of the Women's March on Washington, including activists Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez.
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DHS reports illegal immigration down 40% on southern US border


RT
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:28 UTC
Bordeer wall
Unauthorized border crossings decreased 40 percent after President Donald Trump's first month in office, the US Customs and Border Protection reports. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly credited enforcement and Trump's tough talk.

On Wednesday, CBP released figures showing that 18,762 undocumented immigrants were stopped at the US-Mexico border in February, a steep drop from the previous month when 31,578 were apprehended.

What made the 40 percent drop all the more notable was that typically there is an increase in traffic this time of year, according to Secretary Kelly.

"CBP historically sees a 10-20 percent increase in apprehensions of illegal immigrants from January to February," the DHS chief said in a statement Wednesday.
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Bad Guys

BBC's anti-Syrian propaganda forces one producer to tear up his contract

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:42 UTC
BBC propaganda
© Stephen Hird / Reuters
Robert Stuart, a tenacious blogger, has been picking away at a scab the BBC would rather leave firmly in place.

His forensic research concerns an edition of the BBC's flagship investigative current affairs show Panorama called Saving Syria's Children. It was broadcast more than three years ago, as many in the media were trying to push the British government into intervening in Syria with bombing raids against the Syrian government - in a move that would effectively have bolstered ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria.

The Panorama programme was one important piece of evidence advanced for such intervention. The footage it included was broadcast in several different formats, and purported to show the victims of a chemical weapon, or possibly incendiary, attack by the Syrian military on a school. The BBC reporter for Panorama was Ian Pannell.
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Slovene police conduct raids related to ongoing pedophile investigation

Slovenske Novice, Translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
pedophilia online predators
17 people throughout Slovenia had their homes searched on Tuesday due to being suspects in the national-level criminal investigation related to the abuse of underage children. The investigation began in 2015.

During the raids that began at approx. 6 am, local time, the Slovene Police seized about 1000 computers, smartphones, hard drives, and USB flash drives. No-one has been detained so far and no victims that would be under direct physical threat, were discovered.

The goal of the investigation is to discover and identify all of the victims as the identity of some remains unknown. The police are therefore asking the people to immediately report any relevant information on the abuses they might have. The perpetrators are said to have met the victims in online chatrooms and social networks and allegedly introduced themselves as their peers. Some of the victims are believed to have met with their perpetrators in real life as well.

Comment: Internet has become a 'pedophile playground': Sexual predators targeting increasing number of children online

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Who you gonna call? Ghostbuster-like pink slime spews from Canadian town's faucets


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:09 UTC
ghostbusters
© Mario Anzuoni / ReutersEnthusiasts wearing Ghostbusters costumes stand by an ECTO-1, the vehicle used in the movie "Ghostbusters."
Residents in the small Canadian town of Onoway were in for a surprise Monday when taps in the town began spewing eerie bright pink water.

Some of the small town's roughly 1,000 residents shared images and video of the pink ooze on social media, in an attempt to find out what exactly was the source of the mysterious liquid which resembles the slimy pink ooze from Ghostbusters 2.
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Fire

Guatemala: Orphanage fire kills 19, injures 25


RT
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:28 UTC
fire rescue
© Danilo Ramirez / AFPA girl rescued from a fire at the children's shelter Virgen de la Asuncion, March 8, 2017.
Guatemala's volunteer fire department has reported 19 people dead and 25 injured following a fire at an orphanage in the Las Anonas area of San José Pinula, Guatemala.

The fire is understood to have broken out following disturbances in the early hours of the morning, but details around the cause are not yet known.

A spokesman for the volunteer firefighters told local radio station Emisoras Unidas that 11 girls from the orphanage have been transferred to the San Juan de Dios general hospital, with nine in critical condition and three undergoing surgery, reports the AP.

A further six children were transferred to the Roosevelt Hospital with first and second degree burns.
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Baltimore cops indicted on federal racketeering charges, department still 'celebrates their work'

Justin Fenton and Kevin Rector
Baltimore Sun
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:44 UTC
Baltimore Police
© Reuters
Seven Baltimore police officers who served in a high-profile gun unit were indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges — allegations that throw into question scores of cases aimed at getting weapons off the streets.

The officers are accused of shaking down citizens, filing false court paperwork and making fraudulent overtime claims, all while Justice Department investigators were scrutinizing the department for what they concluded was widespread civil rights violations.

One of the officers was also accused in a separate indictment of participating in an illegal drug organization and tipping its members off to investigations.

Comment: Further reading: 7 Baltimore cops indicted & arrested for robbery, extortion, filing false reports & fraud

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