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Azov battalion soldier writes "All the best for the children!" on howitzer shells

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ

"All the best for the children" - The inscription on the Ukrainian howitzer shells. The man who is sitting nearby, pointing to the shells, prepared for the killing of the children of Donbass, is a fighter from the "Azov" battalion. His name is Yuri.

Ukraine soldier
"All the best for the children"
After a while the Ukrainian howitzer will send the shells to our side, and who knows, maybe one of them was the cause of the appearance of another line of mourning on the granite in memory of the children, the victims of the Ukrainian aggressors.

How many other Yuri's like him have sent shells onto the heads of our children - no one can say. Simply - no one knows. There are no such records. Counting "the Alley of Angels", the memory of the dead children, those who died still really had not even begun to live...

Let's talk, however, about Yuri - an "azovet".

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Stormtrooper

How U.S. schools discipline students: Paddles, stun guns & chemical sprays

corporal punishment
© Lauren Walker
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As Parrent speaks, her voice breaks and it is clear that Brian is still vivid in her mind's eye. "I remember that he was wearing a white shirt and when the teacher finally opened the door, he was covered in blood. My first thought was that he must have cut himself, but no. He'd had a nosebleed, something that happened to him all the time. It was awful. He might have deserved to be reprimanded; I don't know. What I do know is that more than 50 years later, I can still see the blood."

Fire

Wood deck blown off Wisconsin home after report of explosion, fire

Deck explosion
© Patrick Leary/Journal TimesNancy Smith, 69, awoke early Saturday to the sound of an explosion that blew her deck approximately 10 feet from the exterior of her house. The Racine Fire Department quickly extinguished several spot fires started by the explosion.
At 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Nancy Smith woke up suddenly to the sound of an explosion. "It was all of a sudden this boom and then flames," Smith said.

Smith, 69, who lives at 1400 Melvin Ave., awoke to find her deck blown approximately 10 feet from the exterior of her house, according to a Racine Fire Department news release. Smith, her daughter and her three grandchildren reacted quickly, calling 911 so firefighters could extinguish several spot fires on the back of the house.

"They were here so quickly," Smith said. "They had it out almost immediately. They were great."

The explosion was so loud that it woke up many of Smith's neighbors. "Our neighbors came running," she said. "Across the street, it shook their house."

One neighbor who heard the explosion was Jim Palmer, 62, who lives on the block behind Smith. "I woke up to a loud bang in the middle of the night all of a sudden," he said. "It rattled the house and rattled the windows."

According to the news release, the fire caused approximately $2,500 in damage to the home, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation. Smith mentioned that the fire was being investigated as possibly intentional, but Racine Police Sgt. Ryan Comstock could only confirm that the department was investigating the fire.

In the aftermath of the explosion, Smith has contacted her insurance and corresponded with We Energies, which helped restore power to the home. Smith's grandchildren are staying with a relative, as the house still has some lingering fumes from the explosion.

Mostly, Smith was thankful that no one was hurt. "It could have really been so much worse," she said.

House

Aleppo's iconic "Hotel Baron" opens its doors to refugees; once hosted Charles de Gaulle and Lawrence of Arabia

 Hotel Baron shelters refugees
© Khaled al-Hariri / ReutersA view shows the Hotel Baron in the Syrian city of Aleppo
Having fallen victim to the civil war, Syria's oldest hotel, which once hosted the likes of Charles de Gaulle and Lawrence of Arabia, now shelters refugees. RT went inside Aleppo's iconic Baron Hotel where "the history of Syria was written."

On a yellowing wall in the lobby, an advert from the 1930s can still be seen, proclaiming: "Hotel Baron, the only first-class hotel in Aleppo. Central heating throughout, complete comfort, uniquely situated. The only one recommended by travel agencies."

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USA

Is a Trump militia in the works? Twitter group vows to protect Trump supporters following clashes

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© William Philpott / ReutersU.S. Secret Service agents detain a man after a disturbance as U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at Dayton International Airport in Dayton, Ohio March 12, 2016.
Following scuffles at a Trump rally in Chicago on Friday and hours after a man attempted to charge his stage in Ohio, a Twitter account appeared announcing the formation of a volunteer group to protect Trump supporters from "violent far-left agitators."

Things got tense again at a Trump rally in Kansas City on Saturday night, as the GOP frontrunner's arrival prompted heated response from a crowd of protesters.

Kansas City Police pepper sprayed one group of anti-Trump protesters point blank, dispersing part of the crowd and prompting an angry social media response.

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Rocket

Two hellfire missiles discovered in plane bound for Portland

hellfire missiles
© U.S. Navy/Public DomainU.S. Navy soldiers loading a Hellfire missile onto a helicopter.
Serbia's authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for Portland contained two missiles with explosive warheads on a passenger flight from Lebanon.

N1 television said the package with two guided armor-piercing missiles was discovered Saturday by a sniffer dog after an Air Serbia flight from Beirut landed at a Belgrade airport.

Serbian media say documents listed the final destination for the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles as Portland. The American-made projectiles can be fired from air, sea or ground platforms against multiple targets.

Attention

Amtrak train derails near Dodge City, Kansas

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Passengers gather after a train derailed near Dodge City, Kan., Monday, March 14, 2016.
The Latest on an Amtrak passenger train that derailed in southwest Kansas. (all times local):

8:15 a.m.

Federal investigators are headed to the scene of an Amtrak train derailment in southwest Kansas.

National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway says the agency is sending a team to investigate Monday's derailment. He says more information will be released once the team arrives in Kansas.

An Amtrak statement says the train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago when it derailed just after midnight about 20 miles west of Dodge City. Amtrak says the train had about 128 passengers and 14 crew members on board.

Stock Up

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Moscow skyscrapers business
© Wikipedia/GURkenMoscow International Business Center
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The week ending March 2 saw passive investment in Russian equity funds grow by $19.4 million, while active investment grew by $30.1 million, for a total of $49.5 million. The week ending March 9, meanwhile, saw passive funds associated with Russia attract $156.2 million, and active investment grow by $21.3 million (for a total of $177.5 million).

"The last time Russia saw such an influx was a year ago, against the backdrop of the conclusion of the Minsk agreements [on peace in Ukraine]," Expert noted, citing Sberbank CIB, the Moscow-based investment banking and asset management firm.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that Russia's battered stock market has proven to offer the best risk-adjusted returns in 2016, adding that "equity investors who have shunned Russia as tumbling oil prices and international sanctions drove wild price swings may have a good reason to take a fresh look at the cheapest stocks in developing nations."

Info

Merkel's misery deepens as German elections deliver refugee rebuff

Angela Merkel
© REUTERS/ Fabrizio Bensch
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been left politically damaged after her Christian Democrat (CDU) party suffered significant losses in regional elections, as the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party put on significant gains in regional elections.

Merkel has been heavily criticized over her refugee policy, which has drawn anger from within her own party, Germany as a whole and within the European Union. In regional elections, which saw 12 million voting in the key states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt, the right-wing AfD party drew significant support.

People

3 million people take to the streets in Brazil's biggest ever anti-government protest

Brazil demonstrators
© Nacho Doce / ReutersDemonstrators attend a protest against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, part of nationwide protests calling for her impeachment, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 13, 2016.
Some 3 million people have taken to the streets of Brazilian cities to demonstrate their disapproval of the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, local media reported.

About 1.4 million people participated in the demonstration in Sao Paulo, and another million in Rio de Janeiro, according to Globo media outlet, citing the event's organizers and the country's security forces.

Protests took place in at least 17 regions across Brazil, Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported.

The nation's capital, Brasilia, saw some 100,000 demonstrators surround the National Congress building in the biggest protest since last March, when about 1 million people took to the streets.