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Female suicide bomber attacks police headquarters in Dagestan, Russia

Harriet Alexander, and agencies
The Telegraph
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00 UTC
A female suicide bomber has blown herself up in Russia's Dagestan region, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by.

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The latest attack comes days after two car bombs in Makhachkala killed four people and injured dozens more on May 20th
Dagestan, an ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea, has become the most violent province in the North Caucasus, where insurgents say they are fighting to carve out an Islamic state out of southern Russia.

The bomb was detonated after police stopped the car to check the driver's documents, 100 metres from the regional police ministry in the centre of Makhachkala, the regional capital.

The city is where Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's family came from, and the 26-year-old returned there to visit last year. American authorities are currently in the city to investigate Tsarnaev's possible jihadist connections there.

Police sources told local media on Saturday the only person killed in the suicide attack was the bomber, whom they identified as the former wife of two militants.

It is not unusual for women to carry out suicide bombings in the region, and they are often the widows of militants.
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Attention

Crane collapses and crashes into flats in Russia

Katie Stallard
sky.com
Mon, 27 May 2013 11:38 UTC
Residents in a Russian apartment block describe the moment the massive structure came crashing into their homes.


A huge construction crane has collapsed onto a block of flats in Kirov, Russia, smashing through several floors of the nine-storey complex.

Around 250 people live in the building, including 37 children, but despite extensive damage to the outside there were no reports of injuries.

Witnesses described hearing a loud noise and seeing the several ton crane rolling towards them, before it crashed into their flats.

Tenants reportedly ran into the hallways for shelter as the crane tore through balconies at the front of building.

Seven cars parked outside were badly damaged, one was said to have been crushed into a "shapeless heap of metal".

One resident told reporters: "We were in the kitchen and heard a loud rattle.
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Question

Pope Francis 'performs first exorcism'

Nick Squires
Telegraph.uk.co
Tue, 21 May 2013 08:36 UTC


According to TV2000, a Catholic television channel, the act was carried out in St Peter's Square after Mass on Sunday.

Smiling broadly, the Pope initially shook the man's hand, but the South American pontiff's expression changed dramatically after a priest from the Legionaries of Christ, a conservative order, leaned in close and spoke a few words to him.
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Handcuffs

Gambian parents jailed in Spain for circumcising daughters

Fiona Govan
Telegraph.uk.co
Thu, 23 May 2013 08:31 UTC
Gambian parents have been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Spain for circumcising their two daughters in a landmark case pitting Spanish law against African tradition.
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© Agency France Presse

Female circumcision is not a culture. It is mutilation and discrimination against women' said the written judgement.
In what is believed to be the toughest sentence in Europe to date for parents who allowed genital mutilation on their daughters, Binta Sankano and her husband Sekou Tutay, were sentenced to six years for each crime against their young daughters.

A panel of judges at the Provincial Court in Barcelona ruled that the parents, both of Gambian nationality and resident in Spain for 20 years, were criminally responsible for the clitoridectomy performed on both their daughters.

"The couple deliberately mutilated their young daughters either directly or through a person of unknown identity," said the written judgement. "Female circumcision is not a culture. It is mutilation and discrimination against women."
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Alarm Clock

Stockholm riots leave Sweden's dreams of perfect society up in smoke

Colin Freeman
Telegraph.co.uk
Sat, 25 May 2013 06:54 UTC
A week of disturbances in Sweden's capital has tested the Scandinavian nation's reputation for tolerance, reports Colin Freeman

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© Rex Features
Like the millions of other ordinary Swedes whom he now sees himself as one of, Mohammed Abbas fears his dream society is now under threat. When he first arrived in Stockholm as refugee from Iran in 1994, the vast Husby council estate where he settled was a mixture of locals and foreigners, a melting pot for what was supposed to be a harmonious, multi-racial paradise.

Two decades on, though, "white flight" has left only one in five of Husby's flats occupied by ethnic Swedes, and many of their immigrant replacements do not seem to share his view that a new life in Sweden is a dream come true. Last week, the neighbourhood erupted into rioting, sparking some of the fiercest urban unrest that Sweden has seen in decades, and a new debate about the success of racial integration.
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Pistol

Memorial Day weekend violence erupts across city of Chicago


ABClocal.go.com
Mon, 27 May 2013 06:48 UTC
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At least 17 people have been shot over the Memorial Day weekend, and six of them died.

The most recent victim was a man shot on the Near North Side just before 3 a.m. Sunday. Chicago police say the 42-year-old victim was shot in the head in the 1000-block of North Branch Street.

Another man died after he was shot in the head in a possible drive-by Saturday night in the 7300-block of South Dorchester.
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Bizarro Earth

Million people on the streets: Huge anti-gay marriage protest in Paris

John Lichfield
Independent.co.uk
Mon, 27 May 2013 06:44 UTC
About 400,000 traditionalists take to streets to oppose new law

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Activists against same-sex marriage took to the streets in Paris.
Riot police fought running battles with hard-right protesters in the heart of Paris at the end of a mostly peaceful demonstration against gay marriage.

About 200 young people, many of them masked, pelted police lines with bottles, stones, fireworks and flares. The crowd - led bizarrely at one stage by a lone bagpiper - chased and beat up TV crews and press photographers. Police and gendarmes responded with tear gas and baton charges.

There were surreal battle scenes on the Esplanade des Invalides beside the foreign ministry as 200 gendarmes in riot gear formed into defensive squares to beat off attacks from running bands of protesters. Although a hard core of about 200 hard-right youths started the fighting, many hundreds of other, soberly dressed, middle-class protesters cheered them on.

Comment: Meanwhile, Hollande has troops in multiple west African countries blowing things up and causing chaos in order to justify French military presence and secure Africa's natural resources for French multinationals like Areva, the world's largest uranium mining/nuclear energy company:

The conflict in Mali has nothing to do with fighting terrorists

In addition, French jihadists are waging proxy war on behalf of Hollande in Syria:

At least 50 French citizens 'waging jihad in Syria'

France's media admits that the Syrian "opposition" is Al Qaida, then justifies French government support to the terrorists

But don't mind those things; gays can now get married in France.

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Bomb

Teen caught with six bombs, planned Columbine-like attack on school

Paul Eide
Opposingviews.com
Sun, 26 May 2013 21:10 UTC
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A 17-year-old high school junior from Oregon planned a Columbine-style attack on his high school, manufacturing six different bombs and hiding them in a secret compartment in his bedroom.

Grant Acord will be charged as an adult, said Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson.

He said Acord had written plans, a checklist and a specific timeline for the attack. The bombs that investigators found included pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, a Drano bomb and a napalm bomb, Haroldson said.
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Wall Street

The end of the beginning of the end

Williams Rivers Pitt
Truthout.org
Sun, 26 May 2013 21:01 UTC
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

- Frederick Douglass
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© Shutterstock
Protected businessman.
I think my daughter's eyes are blue. They might be green. She hasn't been around long enough to tell just yet, but they are certainly something. She recognized me for the first time just a few days ago, and smiled up at me in a simple, sweet way that obliterated my heart. She cannot focus on anything more than a few feet from her face, but that, like everything else about her, will change in time. Someday soon, she will be able to see everything, and tragically, this will be the world within her view.

A report released early this year by the organization Oxfam International revealed that the combined income of the richest 100 people in the world is enough to end global poverty four times over, and that the gap between rich and poor has exploded by some 60% in the last 20 years. Rather than hinder this division, the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated it. Money does not disappear, you see, but tends to be translated up the income ladder in times of financial distress.
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Arrow Down

Nigerian 'factory' babies bought and sold

Cindy Wockner
News.com.au
Sat, 25 May 2013 14:13 UTC
Pregnant Teenagers
© News.com.au
Born To Order: Police discovered pregnant teenagers in a raid on a compound.
For nine months, the midwife had been giving the woman herbs to take and several things indicated she was indeed pregnant. Her stomach had swelled, so had her feet.

She had spent many years trying to conceive and now, at 61, she was finally with child, twins in fact - or so she thought.

Even when it came time to give birth, the woman still believed she was an expectant mother. She went back to the midwife, was given seeds to chew and started feeling drowsy.

The woman, Desope Cecilia, says the midwife told her to start pushing and that soon after she heard the cry of one baby and then another. Her miracle babies.

There was even blood, making the delivery scenario all the more real.

It wasn't until some time later, when she took the twins to be immunised, that someone smelled a rat and alerted authorities.

Tests confirmed that Cecilia was not the mother of the two babies. She had paid 1.5 million naira ($9800) for the services of the midwife, Oby George, in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's south.
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