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List of Trayvon Martin supporters making retaliatory attacks grows

Dabney Bailey
Opposing Views
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:05 UTC
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The Trayvon Martin case has sparked violent outbursts from angry protestors on both sides of the fence. Unfortunately, the list of violent incidents continues to grow.

March 25-26: At least seven white people were attacked by mobs of black people in Grand Rapids, Michigan. / "The detective also told Jacob that he believed the Trayvon Martin media frenzy is what prompted the attacks."

April 5: A 78-year-old Ohio man said that he was the victim of a hate crime after a group of young black men attacked him while shouting, "This is for Trayvon."

April 10: Police in Gainesville, FL investigated a "racially motivated" incident after several black men attacked a white man. The victim was punched in the face and was then struck several more times while he was on the ground. The attackers allegedly chanted, "Trayvon" before the attack.
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Miami considers JAILING homeless people for sleeping or eating in public places

Sam Webb
The Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:05 UTC
Homeless people could face jail under proposed changes to law

Activists say unavoidable parts of street life will be criminalised

But city chief says homelessness has become a serious problem

For years an uneasy truce has existed between people living rough on the streets of Miami and police officers.

Before the late 1990s, Miami police frequently arrested homeless people for sleeping on park benches, eating on paths, or congregating in public places - but after a landmark court case in 1998, officers were instructed not to make arrests for these minor offences and instead take them to a homeless shelter.

But now a Miami commissioner is petitioning the courts to renege on much of the settlement, Pottinger vs City of Miami, so many 'life-sustaining' aspects of street life are once again crimes.
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Miami city commissioner Marc Sarnoff wants changes to empower police to arrest homeless people for certain offences
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Chinese woman stuck between walls mistaken for a ghost, rescued 7 hours later

Ryan Grenoble
Huffington Post
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:02 UTC
A woman in China's Anhui province has been rescued after spending a night stuck between two walls.


According to the Independent, she'd taken a narrow path between two buildings, believing it to be a shortcut on her way home, then become lodged, unable to move, for seven hours.

Unfortunately for both the woman and the owners of the buildings she was pancaked against, her calls for help were believed to be the cries of a ghost. As such, they were ignored (as much as the incessant cries of a ghost can be) until the next morning, when passersby raised the alarm, CNN notes.

Once firefighters arrived, she was rescued in less than half an hour.

Shanghaiist reports the woman didn't suffer any major injuries and has recovered.

Earlier this year, firefighters in Portland, Ore., rescued a woman after she also became stuck between two buildings for more than four hours. The woman in that incident had fallen into the opening, though it isn't clear how she'd done so.
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May the best junkie win: It's impossible to win Tour de France without taking copious amounts of drugs - Lance Armstrong

John Lichfield
The Independent, UK
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 05:33 UTC
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Riding high as a kite: Seven times world junkie champion Lance Armstrong
Pat McQuaid, the president of world cycling's governing body the UCI, has hit back at claims by disgraced rider Lance Armstrong that the sport cannot change its doping image while the Irishman remains in charge.

Armstrong claimed McQuaid - currently facing a re-election challenge from British Cycling's Brian Cookson - must go if the sport is to clean up.

"Things just cannot change as long as McQuaid stays in power," Armstrong said. "The UCI refuses to establish a truth and reconciliation commission because the testimony that everyone would want to hear would bring McQuaid, [his predecessor] Hein Verbruggen and the whole institution down."

McQuaid yesterday released a statement of his own, which read: "It is very sad that Lance Armstrong has decided to make this statement on the eve of the Tour de France. However, I can tell him categorically that he is wrong. His comments do absolutely nothing to help cycling. Armstrong's views and opinions are shaped by his own behaviour and time in the peloton. Cycling has now moved on."
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Tourists hurt as Thai train derails


Press Association
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:27 UTC
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© AP Photo/Apichart WeerawongThe Bangkok to Chiang Mai route has seen another derailment
State Railway of Thailand governor Prapas Jongsanguan said the overnight train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai skidded off the tracks in Phrae province and seven of the 10 carriages flipped on to their sides.

Railway authorities believe the accident was caused by old tracks due for repair.

Mr Prapas said one passenger was seriously injured and the rest had minor injuries and were given free transport to their destinations.
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Mum told her daughter to lie about uncle rape, Irish court told

Jessica Magee
Independent.ie
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 03:15 UTC
A man who pleaded guilty in January of this year to raping his niece has been allowed to change his plea after the complainant admitted she had been lying.

The girl, who is now aged 18, told gardaí that her mother made her file a complaint to gardaí and social services when she was about ten years old claiming her uncle had abused her.

The 41-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had maintained his innocence until the trial but pleaded guilty on the day because he said he was "completely terrified" of going to prison. He believed a guilty plea offered the best chance of avoiding a jail sentence.

He had pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape and serious sexual assault, including penetrating the girl's anus with his penis, at a house in Galway city on a date between September 1, 2004 and February 28, 2005.
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Chicago church marquee: 'It is safe to kill BLACK PEOPLE in Amerikkka'


CBS Chicago
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:43 UTC
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A sign posted outside a south suburban church is generating a powerful debate over race in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict.

The marquee outside the First Baptist Church of University Park earlier this week read: "It Is Safe To Kill Black People In Amerikkka."

On Saturday, a jury of six women in Florida acquitted Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Several comments on the church's Facebook page took issue with the reference to the Ku Klux Klan in the word Amerikkka, with many saying the church's sign is hateful and divisive and implies that all white Americans are racist.
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20 children die after school dinner in India


Press Association
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:09 UTC
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© Associated PressSchoolchildren receive treatment at a hospital after falling ill soon after eating a free meal in India
At least 20 children have died and many others are sick after eating a free school lunch which was tainted by a heavy dose of insecticide, Indian officials said.

It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in the school in the eastern state of Bihar, though one official said the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked.

The children, aged between eight and 11, fell ill soon after eating their school lunch in Masrakh, a village 50 miles north of the state capital of Patna.

School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal of rice, lentils, soya and potatoes as the children started vomiting. The lunch, part of a popular country-wide campaign to give at least one hot meal to children from poor families, was cooked in the school kitchen.

The children were quickly rushed to a local hospital and later to Patna for treatment, said state official Abhijit Sinha. In addition to the 20 children who died, another 27 children as well as the school cook were admitted to hospital, he said. Ten of them were in a serious condition.
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Indian nun gang-raped for a week

Santosh Digal
AsiaNews
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00 UTC
A nun, 28, was abducted and raped for a week. One of her cousins is among the attackers. For the archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, "The perpetrators must be brought to justice [. . .]. What happened is a disgrace".
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Bhubaneshwar - A 28-year-old nun was kidnapped and raped for a week by a group of men in Bamunigam, Kandhamal District (Orissa). She was held between 5 and 11 July, but the case was made public only today. "The perpetrators must be brought to justice without delay and the law must take its course. What happened is a disgrace," said Mgr John Barwa SVD, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, who condemned the attack.

The nun, a Kandhamal native, lives in Chennai (Tamil Nadu), where she is studying in college. According to her testimony to police, she received a phone call from a woman about two weeks ago, who reported that her mother was very sick.

On 5 July, she took a train to Bamunigam, where two cousins ​​and some friends were waiting to take her home. However, rather than take her to the village of Minapanka, the men led her to a still unidentified place. Here the sister was gang raped for a week.
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Toronto officer disciplined for posing as flooded train passenger


Yahoo! Canada News
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00 UTC
Philip Cheung For The Globe and Mail
A GO Train full of passengers is stuck on the flooded tracks during a major rainstorm in downtown Toronto on July 8, 2013.
Toronto police Chief Bill Blair says an officer has been disciplined for posing as a stranded passenger on a waterlogged commuter train during major flooding last week.

Blair told radio station Newstalk 1010 the officer was "shameful" to pretend he was one of the 1,400 riders on the GO train when it became trapped by flood waters during the evening rush hour.

CBC said the officer was Const. Nickolas Dorazio. The network said he was working to help rescue the passengers, but told their TV crew he was stuck on the stranded train and even draped an orange towel around his shoulders for effect.

Blair says the force has disciplined the officer for his "stupid behaviour" that Monday night.

The police chief says the officer's conduct was an "eyebrow raiser" that undermined public confidence in the force.

Police and firefighters used small inflatable boats to ferry the trapped passengers a short distance to higher ground, with the evacuation taking some seven hours.
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