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Putin's delegation finds out from media that guards at his Hamburg hotel were assaulted


TASS
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 10:44 UTC
German newspaper Bild reported on its website that unknown men attacked security guards at the hotel where Putin and his delegation are staying

Putin
© EPA/FELIPE TRUEBA
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Friday he was unaware of an incident at a hotel in the German city of Hamburg where Russian President Vladimir Putin is staying during the G20 summit.

"We've heard about this for the first time," Peskov said when asked to comment on media reports that the hotel's security guards were attacked.
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Nepali teen dies from snake bite in 'menstruation hut'


Al Jazeera
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:45 UTC
Menstruation hut Nepal
© ReutersThe chhaupadi practice has been banned in Nepal for more than a decade.
An 18-year-old girl has died in Nepal after she was bitten by a snake while banished to a shed because she was menstruating, under an ancient Hindu practice that has been banned for more than a decade, officials said.

Tulasi Shahi was bitten twice by a venomous snake and died on Friday morning in western Dailekh district, according to local officials.

"She survived for seven hours after the snake bite but died because medical treatment was delayed," local mayor Surya Bahadur Shahi told AFP news agency on Saturday.

Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and in parts of Nepal they are forced to remain in a hut or cowshed for day as part of a practice known as chhaupadi.

According to local media, her family took her to the village shaman for treatment instead of taking her to a hospital.

Local police confirmed that a girl had died but were unable to provide further details on the cause.
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Molotov cocktails and iron bars: G20 protests rage on in Hamburg, over 200 police injured


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:51 UTC
A police helicopter lights a street at anti-G20 protesters
© Hannibal Hanschke / ReutersA police helicopter lights a street as anti-G20 protesters burn fires in the middle of the Hamburg Schanze district, July 7, 2017.
Violent protests against the G20 summit in Hamburg continued for the second night with rioters attacking police, erecting barricades and trashing shops and vehicles. At least 143 people have been detained and over 200 police officers injured so far.

"We have never experienced this level of hate and violence," Hamburg police spokesman Timo Zill told the Bild tabloid.

Demonstrators were armed with Molotov cocktails and iron bars, police said in a press statement.

"At the interception Schanzenviertel district [in central Hamburg], the forces were permanently subjected to violent attacks," the statement added.
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Bad Guys

'Slaughtered': Islamist militants suspected of beheading 9 men and killing 3 policemen in Kenya


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:43 UTC
Kenyan soldiers
© Siegfried Modola / Reuters
Islamist militants are suspected in the beheading of nine men in an overnight attack on a village in Kenya, police have said.

The attack took place in the coastal district of Lamu, coming just days after another assault in which militants from the Al-Shabaab group killed three policemen in a nearby village.

Police and witnesses said Saturday that nine people were killed in the latest incident.

"They raided Jima and Poromoko villages and killed nine men. They were slaughtered like chickens, using knives," a witness told Reuters.
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Bad Guys

Modern day slavery: Police Chief warns that London is a hotspot for human trafficking

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 18:24 UTC
london slavery
As human trafficking scandals rock the world, London has been at the forefront of the child sex market. Now, it appears, they are also operating a massive modern day slave trade. According to a London top cop, Britain's capital has become a hotspot for forced labor and sex slavery.

There are an estimated 13,000 victims of forced labor, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude in Britain, according to Government data and the police have no idea how to handle it.

According to Detective Chief Inspector Phil Brewer, head of Scotland Yard's anti-slavery unit, human trafficking is now on the rise in Britain's capital.

The cases of slavery in 2017 that have been referred to the police are already nearing the totals for 2016. As of the end of June, 820 cases of slavery were reported to authorities as compared to just 1,013 in all of 2016.

Comment: Human trafficking is a worldwide problem. Here are just a few, out of hundreds, of stories on this epidemic:

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Black Lives Matter leaders sued by officer wounded in ambush that killed 3 cops in Baton Rouge, Louisiana


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:48 UTC
Black Lives Matter protest
© Demonstrators protest the shooting death of Alton Sterling near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US July 10, 2016 Shannon Stapleton / ReutersDemonstrators protest the shooting death of Alton Sterling near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US July 10, 2016.
A federal lawsuit filed in a US district court accuses the Black Lives Matter movement and several of its leaders of inciting violence that led to a deadly ambush of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year.

DeRay Mckesson along with four other Black Lives Matter leaders are named as defendants in the suit filed Friday on behalf of one of the officers wounded in the July 17, 2016, attack by a black military veteran, who killed three other officers before being shot dead himself.

"This is quite a world," McKesson said Friday, responding to a reporter notifying him of the lawsuit, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The suit doesn't name the officer, but the unidentified Baton Rouge police officer matches the description of East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Deputy, Nicholas Tullier, 42, according to AP.

Comment: See also: Insanity: 100,000 Americans sign petition calling for White house to declare "Black Lives Matter" a terrorist organisation

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Teen rape victim sentenced to 30 years for having stillborn baby


Hindustan Times
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 15:32 UTC
protest El Salvador
A court in El Salvador sentenced a teenage rape victim whose baby died at birth to 30 years' jail for murder, an abortion rights group said Friday.

Evelyn Hernandez gave birth in April last year in the makeshift bathroom of her home in the central Cuscatlan region. She was 18 years old and eight months pregnant.

She said her son was stillborn but a court in the city of Cojutepeque convicted her on Wednesday of murdering him, abortion rights group ACDATEE said.

A spokeswoman for the group, Morena Herrera, said Hernandez was convicted "with no direct proof" and that the court failed to take into account key forensic evidence.

ACDATEE cited a pathologist's report which it said indicated the baby had choked to death while still in the womb.

Prosecutors argued Hernandez was culpable for not having sought prenatal care, ACDATEE said.
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Colorado Springs: The short, unhappy life of a libertarian paradise

Caleb Hannan
Politico
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:37 UTC
Colorado Springs
The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here's what they got.

Colorado Springs has always leaned hard on its reputation for natural beauty. An hour's drive south of Denver, it sits at the base of the Rocky Mountains' southern range and features two of the state's top tourist destinations: the ancient sandstone rock formations known as Garden of the Gods, and Pikes Peak, the 14,000-foot summit visible from nearly every street corner. It's also a staunchly Republican city—headquarters of the politically active Christian group Focus on the Family (Colorado Springs is nicknamed "the Evangelical Vatican") and the fourth most conservative city in America, according to a recent study. It's a right-wing counterweight to liberal Boulder, just a couple of hours north, along the Front Range.

It was its jut-jawed conservatism that not that long ago made the city's local government a brief national fixation. During the recession, like nearly every other city in America, Colorado Springs' revenue—heavily dependent on sales tax—plunged. Faced with massive shortfalls, the city's leaders began slashing. Gone were weekend bus service and nine buses.

Out went some police officers along with three of the department's helicopters, which were auctioned online. Trash cans vanished from city parks, because when you cut 75 percent of the parks' budget, one of the things you lose is someone to empty the garbage. For a city that was founded when a wealthy industrialist planted 10,000 trees on a shadeless prairie, the suddenly sparse watering of the city's grassy lawns was a profound and dire statement of retreat.
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Boston's immigrant community anxious after ICE agents arrest prominent Irishman


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:36 UTC
ICE agent
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
The deportation of a well-known Irishman on an expired visa sparked outrage from immigrant communities who fear federal immigration officers are now targeting all undocumented immigrants, not just those convicted of serious crimes.

John Cunningham, 38, was deported to Ireland Wednesday night after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers showed up at his home on June 16.

Federal immigration officials called Cunningham an "enforcement priority" since he had overstayed his 90-day visa by more than 18 years.
"His significant overstay was cause and reason enough," ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls said, according to the Associated Press."Someone who overstays a visitor visa is flagrantly violating the granted benefit."
Cunningham has been in ICE custody since the time of his arrest a month ago. Officials said he was not entitled to a hearing under the terms of his visa.
"It's actually imprisonment. We use the word 'detention' but these detention centers are prisons. It's hard to prepare yourself to think you'll get home and then the next day you're in prison," Ronnie Millar, the executive director of the Irish International Immigrant Center in Boston, said, as reported by the Dorchester Reporter.
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London Bridge hero filmed shouting racial epithets near an anti-racism rally


RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:26 UTC
Roy Larner
© Louise Ann Aylott / FacebookRoy Larner
A hero of the London Bridge attack who became famous for his defiant cry of "F*ck you, I am Millwall" has been filmed shouting racial abuse at an anti-racism rally, in a video taken earlier this year.

Roy Larner, dubbed the 'Lion of London Bridge,' is a survivor of the terrorist attack last month during which he charged three armed terrorists, whilst shouting "f*ck you, I am Millwall." Millwall is the name of the football team that he supports.

Larner, who was unarmed at the time of the attack, suffered severe injuries to the neck and chest in his desperate effort to buy others time to flee.

He was only saved due to the fast response of armed police units.

The 47-year-old unemployed Millwall fan gained a significant social media following after the attack, and a campaign was launched to get him back on his feet, raising £50,000 ($64,400).

However, an old video has recently surfaced, showing Larner spitting at and racially insulting a photographer as he was walking his dogs near an anti-racism protest.
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