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Death toll rises to 20 with 50 injured in attack on Afghan president's deputy office in Kabul

Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:08 UTC

A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry earlier said that two out of four terrorists who attacked the electoral office have been gunned down by the police.

At least 20 were killed and 50 injured in attack on the electoral office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's election running mate Amrullah Saleh in Kabul on Sunday, the government said in a statement on Monday.

"The attack started at around 04:30 Sunday afternoon on Afghanistan Green Trend Office with a car bombing which was followed by armed men attack. The attack killed 20 people and wounded 50 more," the statement said.

On Sunday, at least two people were reported killed and 25 more wounded as a result of the bombing that occurred near Saleh's electoral office. Militants detonated an explosive laden vehicle at about 05:00 p.m. local time (12:30 GMT). The country's Interior Ministry said later in the day that the group of four militants stormed Saleh's office following the explosion.

No militant group has claimed responsibility for the bombing so far.

The attack came after electoral campaigns for the upcoming presidential election started earlier in the day. The vote is set to take place on September 28.

Near Old City's Jaffa Gate, a final showdown looms for Jerusalem's historic hotel

Sarah Helm
Guardian
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 04:00 UTC

Standing on a balcony at the New Imperial Hotel, overlooking Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, 75-year-old Walid Dajani last week declared a one-man war on Jewish settlers.

Officials from Israel's supreme court had served an eviction notice against Dajani following a ruling last month that the disputed 2005 sale of the historic 40-room hotel to a radical settler group was valid. The Jewish settlers' organisation Ateret Cohanim immediately branded him "a squatter" and threatened to seize the building. Such a move would establish a strategically valuable settler presence just inside Jaffa Gate, the main entrance to the ancient city's Christian Quarter.

According to Dajani, the settlers - who seek to create a Jewish majority throughout the Old City which, along with East Jerusalem, was annexed by Israel in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 - are enacting "the rape of Jaffa Gate". His family has owned land on nearby Mount Zion for 800 years, and has run the New Imperial since 1949. "From this moment I am embarking on the fight of my life," he said, calling on Christians, Muslims, Jews and world leaders to fall in behind him. "On my back, they will take me out."

Oh, baby! 36 nurses in Kansas City hospital NICU due to give birth this year

Kate Roush via GMA
ABC News
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:29 UTC

How many pregnant nurses does it take to save the lives of babies in need?

At this one intensive care nursery, 36 to be exact.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery (NICU) at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri, had an impressive number of 36 pregnant nurses due in 2019.

Allison Ronco, 32, a critical care education coordinator and nurse, was the first of three dozen to give birth, to a beautiful baby boy named Henry, on January 7.

Silicon Pravda: YouTube exec says 'new rules and laws' needed to tackle platform's 'bad actors'

RT
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:44 UTC

YouTube has grown so much that it needs new rules to handle "bad actors," its chief product officer claims. The company recently announced it would block racist content and disinformation amid accusations of biased censorship.

Comment: In practice, this means it will block anything critical of the Israeli state, and any alternative news that may happen to correlate with news provided by Russians - among other things.

"YouTube has now grown to a big city. More bad actors have come into place. And just like in any big city, you need a new set of rules and laws and kind of regulatory regime," Neal Mohan told AFP.

Comment: Not when you're imagining crimes where none exist.

The video platform and other tech companies are facing scrutiny and calls for regulation for their apparent failure to shut down content promoting hate speech, disinformation and the exploitation of minors. They are also accused of biased censorship which silences free speech, and of failing to enforce their own rules.

"We want to make sure that YouTube remains an open platform because that's where a lot of the magic comes from, even though there may be some opinions and voices on the platform that I don't agree with, that you don't agree with," Mohan said.

The company has faced a series of recent controversies, including an "Adpocalypse" (when major advertisers pull their ads) when it was revealed that an algorithm was directing users to videos of children which pedophiles were using to express their sexual thoughts in the comments and to share links to child porn. Many of the videos were monetized.

Comment: Ironically, with these policies - many of which are already in practice - YouTube is becoming more like the propaganda wing of a totalitarian fascist or communist regime.

NYPD in the grip of a mental health crisis; 5 suicides in two months

Doha Madani
NBC News
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:22 UTC

Another New York City police officer died by suicide amid what officials have declared a "mental health crisis."

The Sergeants Benevolent Association said on social media Saturday that the late officer was a sergeant, but neither the union nor the NYPD have identified the officer. Commissioner James O'Neill pleaded with his police force to seek help for any mental health issues that they may be facing.

"To every member of the NYPD, please know this: it is okay to feel vulnerable," O'Neill said in a statement Saturday. "It is okay if you are facing struggles. And it is okay to seek help from others. You may not know this, and it may be hard to imagine, but you are not out there all by yourself."

African migrant in Frankfurt, Germany pushes mother and child in front of high-speed train, killing 8-year-old boy

Sputnik
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:25 UTC

According to Deutsche Welle, the suspect was arrested by the police after he had tried to flee the scene after reportedly trying to push other people onto the tracks.

An eight-year-old boy was killed after he was pushed in front of an oncoming train by a man at Frankfurt's main train station on Monday, media reports say.

According to Reuters, the man also pushed the boy's mother but she survived.

Jewish model subject to death, rape threats just for supporting Trump

Tea Party Pac
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:38 UTC

It is disgusting how the left treats minorities and people of color just for supporting Trump.

The people who claim to oppose fascism couldn't be more facistic themselves, calling into question whether or not the only thing they really oppose is true liberty and morals.

Jewish model Elizabeth Pipko is the leader of the pro-Trump movement "Jexodus" for former Democratic Jews who are sick and tired of the party's antisemitism and lies.

However, the model and activist says that there has been a violent backlash to her public support of Trump.

Teen who accused Indian legislator of rape seriously injured in 'suspicious' crash

RT
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:46 UTC

An Indian teenager who accused a lawmaker of rape in 2017 has been seriously injured in a 'suspicious' car crash that killed two of her relatives, her family said. It's the third fatal incident since the case came to light.

The Uttar Pradesh girl accused the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Sengar of raping her, and tried to self-immolate outside Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's residence to bring attention to her case. Sengar, a member of the Legislative Assembly, has been charged with criminal conspiracy, abduction of minor, rape, and threat and is currently in jail.

The teenager was travelling with her family and her lawyer on Sunday when their vehicle was hit by a speeding truck in Rae Bareli. Her aunt and her sister were killed in the collision and she was critically injured.

The truck involved in the crash had a blackened number plate, images shared on social media show. The truck driver fled the scene but he was later caught, and was the owner of the truck.

Massive rally urging to fix relations with Russia held in Georgia

RT
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:34 UTC

Thousands have rallied in Georgian port city of Batumi, calling to improve the rocky relations with Russia that strained even further over the last few months.

The gathering was staged by the county's major opposition party dubbed 'Alliance of Georgia's patriots. Despite the heat, the rally attracted at least some 20,000 people, according to the event's organizers.

"Our main demand to the [country's] leadership - is to see at last what the people really want. We should start a direct dialogue with Tskhinval, Sukhum and Moscow," the party's leader, Irma Inanishvili said as sited by RIA Novosti.

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Caitlin Johnstone: What the hell is going on here, anyway?

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC

Over the course of my young career here I've amassed a very eclectic group of readers from all across the political spectrum, which I quite enjoy. Sometimes I read the comments sections just to watch what happens when you bring people together from wildly different worldviews who wouldn't normally interact with each other very much and see how those reality tunnels dance together in a conversation or debate.

I can't rightly call my whole audience left-wing or right-wing, conspiracy theorists or anarchists, activists or intellectuals, or almost any other label I can think of. There's only one attribute that comes to mind which unites pretty much all of my readers and social media followers, and that's a drive to know what's really going on in the world. Their curiosity about what's going on in what specific field may differ from person to person, as do the conclusions they reach, but basically I think we're all united by a desire, perhaps often an obsessive one, to come to some understanding of what's really happening in the world.

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Death toll rises to 20 with 50 injured in attack on Afghan president's deputy office in Kabul

Near Old City's Jaffa Gate, a final showdown looms for Jerusalem's historic hotel

Oh, baby! 36 nurses in Kansas City hospital NICU due to give birth this year

Silicon Pravda: YouTube exec says 'new rules and laws' needed to tackle platform's 'bad actors'

NYPD in the grip of a mental health crisis; 5 suicides in two months

African migrant in Frankfurt, Germany pushes mother and child in front of high-speed train, killing 8-year-old boy

Jewish model subject to death, rape threats just for supporting Trump

Teen who accused Indian legislator of rape seriously injured in 'suspicious' crash

Massive rally urging to fix relations with Russia held in Georgia

Caitlin Johnstone: What the hell is going on here, anyway?

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