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Harvard's Lampoon magazine slammed for photoshopped image of Anne Frank in bikini: 'Hateful, ignorant, pedophilic'

RT
Wed, 15 May 2019 16:35 UTC

The Harvard Lampoon, a long-running campus satirical magazine, has apologized after publishing a photoshopped image of 15-year-old Holocaust victim Anne Frank in a bikini.

"Gone before her time: Virtual aging technology shows us what Anne Frank would have looked like if she hadn't died," read the headline above the fake image, with the accompanying caption, "Add this to your list of reasons why the Holocaust sucked."

Paulette Schuster, a student at Harvard whose grandfather survived the Holocaust, described the image, which was published and distributed to dorms on the Ivy League university's campus over the weekend, as "unfunny, hateful, ignorant, pedophiliac and dehumanizing."

Russia & China to ink deal for construction of two nuclear reactors

RT
Wed, 15 May 2019 16:19 UTC

A contract for the development of two new units at China's Xudabao nuclear power plant will soon be signed by Moscow and Beijing. It is part of the biggest nuclear energy deal between the two countries in a decade.

Under the deal, two Russian VVER-1200 units worth a total of $1.7 billion will be built by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) and Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom).

Construction of Unit 3 of the Xudabao nuclear power plant is expected to start in October 2021, according to CNNC. It will be followed by Unit 4 in August 2022. The single unit construction period lasts 69 months, and the construction interval between the two units is 10 months.

Bibi's son bashed Berlin, but is Germany's sweet talk towards Israel 'hypocritical'?

RT
Wed, 15 May 2019 16:15 UTC

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his son, Yair

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son has accused Germany of backing left-wing NGOs that seek the "destruction" of Israel. RT heard different opinions on whether Berlin is right to do so.

Yair Netanyahu, 27, lashed out at Germany on social media over the weekend, asking Berlin to "stop interfering in our internal business and stop funding hundreds of radical left wing NGOs in Israel that seek its destruction." He was commenting on a tweet by the German Foreign Ministry that said the nation stands "shoulder to shoulder with Israel." The tweet was meant to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel's admission to the UN.

Russia boosting gold & dumping dollar from foreign currency reserves

RT
Wed, 15 May 2019 16:11 UTC

The Central Bank of Russia reports that foreign exchange reserves saw a significant boost of nearly $3.3 billion in April as the country pursues a policy of increasing its forex funds and diversifying them away from the US dollar.

The latest growth of 0.7 percent brought Russian international reserve funds to nearly $492 billion against $487.8 billion seen at the end of March, the latest data published by the regulator shows.

The state international reserves are highly liquid foreign assets comprising stocks of monetary gold, foreign currencies and Special Drawing Right (SDR) assets, which are at the disposal of the Central Bank of Russia and the government.

Would you like fries with that? Austrian McDonald's will serve as mini US embassies for tourists in need

Cydney Henderson
USA Today
Tue, 14 May 2019 15:29 UTC

American tourists will soon be able to get more than a Big Mac at McDonald's in Austria.

The U.S. Embassy in Vienna announced on Facebook that Golden Arches restaurants in Austria will serve as mini embassies for American tourists, starting Wednesday.

"American citizens traveling in Austria who find themselves in distress and without a way to contact the U.S. Embassy can enter - as of Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - any McDonald's in Austria, and staff will assist them in making contact with the U.S. Embassy for consular services," the announcement read.

Consular services include reporting a lost or stolen passport or seeking travel assistance.

The post featured a picture of United States Ambassador to Austria Trevor Traina and Isabelle Kuster, managing director of McDonald's Austria, shaking hands over the signed agreement and a cup of McCafe coffee.

Multiple bodies found inside church operating as an unlicensed funeral home

Kurtis Ming
CBS Sacramento
Tue, 14 May 2019 15:13 UTC

Jesse E. Cooley Jr. Funeral Service

A Stockton family had no idea the funeral home they called to handle their father's arrangements closed three months before his death.

Daughter Carla Southerland says they called the number for Jesse E. Cooley Jr. Funeral Service in October from a list the hospital gave them after dad Robert Oliveira died. The person on the phone instructed them to drive to Boggs Tract Church across town to make the arrangements.

"The only way I identified where I was going, they had hearses out front," Southerland recalled.

Eleven days after paying for his cremation, the family says his remains weren't ready for his funeral service in Vallejo. Robert Oliveira's remains would not make it to his own funeral.

"I was like, 'Oh my God. How do you tell somebody I'm sorry he didn't make it here?'" Southerland said.

Overly sensitive Southwest Airlines attendant has man removed from plane over a vodka joke

Patrick Clarke
MSN
Tue, 14 May 2019 15:07 UTC

A Southwest Airlines passenger was removed from a flight at Sacramento International Airport last week after jokingly asking a flight attendant if the water being handed out was vodka.

According to KTXL, the May 8 flight from Sacramento, California to Austin, Texas by way of Los Angeles had been delayed for several hours because of a maintenance light and the subsequent need to refuel when flight attendants began to pass out water to passengers.

"He said something [like], 'They should be passing out vodka because we've been waiting so long,'" passenger Peter Uzelac told KTXL, referring to the unidentified man's witty remark.

Uzelac said the flight attendant, who he described as young, was not amused.

"She came by and was like, 'I don't think that and I didn't like your joke.' Then my wife tried to butt-in there and say, 'Look it, we've been on this plane for hours.' And she says, 'Well, so have I, so get used to it,'" added Uzelac. "Then all of a sudden, I see her on the telephone up in front."

Aggressive wild turkeys are scaring residents of Boston neighborhood

David Wade
CBS Boston
Mon, 13 May 2019 14:56 UTC

Sometimes nature can get a little too close for comfort, and sometimes that's due to wild turkeys. We saw a tweet Monday about just that from someone who lives in the Moss Hill section of Jamaica Plain.

She complained about aggressive turkeys pecking at people out walking. We checked it out, and found that she's not alone.

"It's extremely scary. It's frightening. If you're walking they come up extremely, extremely close to you and they come forward like they're going to bite you," says Kathy Milmoe who lives in the neighborhood.

There are three wild turkeys that are causing problems for some neighbors in the Moss Hill area. It wasn't hard to find people who have had a run in with aggressive turkeys.

Doctors remove 116 iron nails, a long wire & iron pellet from man's stomach in India

Kota
India Today
Wed, 15 May 2019 10:11 UTC

Photo for representation

Doctors at the Bundi government hospital removed 116 iron nails, a long wire and an iron pellet from the stomach of a 42-year-old man here.

Dr Anil Saini, a surgeon at the hospital, said most nails measured 6.5 cm and it took an hour-and-a-half to remove the objects from the man's body.

"I was stunned after noticing the objects in his X-ray report after which I recommended for a CT scan. That, too, confirmed the same after which the patient was operated upon on Monday, said Dr Saini.

Filipino maid tied to a tree by Saudi employers as punishment for leaving furniture outside

George Martin
Daily Mail
Tue, 14 May 2019 13:11 UTC

© Viral Press
Lovely Acosta Baruelo, 26, was reportedly tied to a tree in Saudi Arabia because she left an expensive piece of furniture out in the sun

A Filipino maid was allegedly tied to a tree as punishment for leaving furniture outside in the sun.

The woman, named Lovely Acosta Baruelo, 26, had been working for a wealthy family in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for several months.

But she is said to have angered her employers after leaving a piece of expensive furniture outside in the heat, where it risked being faded by the sun.

A colleague, also from the Philippines, took pictures of the alleged punishment showing Lovely tied by her wrists and legs to a tree in the family's garden on May 9.

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Society's Child

Harvard's Lampoon magazine slammed for photoshopped image of Anne Frank in bikini: 'Hateful, ignorant, pedophilic'

Russia & China to ink deal for construction of two nuclear reactors

Bibi's son bashed Berlin, but is Germany's sweet talk towards Israel 'hypocritical'?

Russia boosting gold & dumping dollar from foreign currency reserves

Would you like fries with that? Austrian McDonald's will serve as mini US embassies for tourists in need

Multiple bodies found inside church operating as an unlicensed funeral home

Overly sensitive Southwest Airlines attendant has man removed from plane over a vodka joke

Aggressive wild turkeys are scaring residents of Boston neighborhood

Doctors remove 116 iron nails, a long wire & iron pellet from man's stomach in India

Filipino maid tied to a tree by Saudi employers as punishment for leaving furniture outside

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