15 year old Palestinian, murdered by Israeli Sniper fire near the Gaza border
So far, 39 Palestinians have been brutally executed in by the Israeli military in Gaza, since the beginning of the 'Great Return March'.
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15 year old Palestinian, murdered by Israeli Sniper fire near the Gaza border
So far, 39 Palestinians have been brutally executed in by the Israeli military in Gaza, since the beginning of the 'Great Return March'.
Asifa Bano, who was kidnapped, gang raped and murdered in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir this month.
Suspect Uttam Sahu, 24, is accused of luring the child away from the party in the Indian district of Kabirdham in Chhattisgarh late on Wednesday night.
After promising to get her a cold drink, he took her 1.5km away near to a dark and deserted spot near a stream, it is claimed.
There he raped her and bludgeoned her to death with a cement brick before abandoning her half-naked body, police say.
An investigator said he didn't bother covering his tracks, returning to the wedding and partying as if nothing had happened with her blood fresh on his shirt.
Unfortunately for UC Riverside, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits “discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.”
BlaqOUT, the event in question, is a two day conference designed for people who identify as "Black/African American or of African descent that also identify as Same Gender Loving, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning or somewhere on the LGBT spectrum," according to the event page.
While it's relatively common to encounter on-campus events emphasizing or celebrating certain cultural groups or traditions, it is unheard of to deny someone admission to an event simply because they have a different skin color. Remarkably, this scenario appears to be exactly what BlaqOUT organizers are focused on establishing, as is explicitly listed in the event FAQ's.
"Can other people of color, white people and/or straight people attend?"
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Israeli snipers shoot at unarmed protesters with live fire, enjoying the open support of senior political and military leaders
Israeli snipers shoot at unarmed protesters with live fire, enjoying the open support of senior political and military leaders
It is now over a week since an Israeli sniper shot and killed Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja, as he covered the ongoing "Great Return March" protests in the occupied Gaza Strip. Incredibly, at the time of writing, the Israeli military has still not offered any explanation of why he was shot.
The killing of Murtaja has prompted widespread condemnation. He is, however, just one of 35 Palestinians killed - including three children - by Israeli forces since 30 March, with a further 1,500 protesters shot by Israeli live fire (see these AP reports).
Comment: The Israeli regime is clearly insane. They act according a reality they have created. And Palestinian pay with their lives.
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Zizzi restaurant where the Skripals dined, Salisbury, UK
Zizzi restaurant where the Skripals dined, Salisbury, UK
1. Both Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital (SDH) on 4th March 2018 and were said to have been in a coma in the weeks that followed. During this time, what actions were taken by the Hospital Trust to inform their next of kin of their condition - particularly Mr Skripal's 90-year-old mother (and of course Yulia's grandmother) -, and to keep them updated throughout their illness?
2. According to reports on 28th March, both Mr Skripal and his daughter were in a critical condition, and it was even suggested that the likelihood of either of them surviving was so remote that a judgement might be needed to make the "politically-sensitive decision over whether to maintain life support" for them. Yet just eight days later, on 5th April, it emerged that Yulia Skripal had contacted her cousin, Viktoria, by telephone, and that she had repeatedly stressed that "everything is fine" and "everyone is fine", including her father, who she said was "having a sleep". This suggests that the two of them had recovered a good while before the phone call. On what dates did the two of them regain consciousness?
3. The telephone conversation, which was recorded by Viktoria and played on Russian television, was the first public information that both Yulia and her father were no longer in a "critical condition". Why was this information not made public before her phone call was aired?
Comment: Slane's previous writing on the Skripal case:
- Twenty more Skripal questions: Spies, Novichock, BZ and BS
- Rob Slane: Theresa May must be impeached
- Rove's law: How the empire's "new realities" are reaching the end of the road
- There is slowly building anger in the UK at the Government's obvious bungling of the Skripal case
- The three most important points of the Skirpal case: Rush to judgment, ignoring the law, contradictions
- 20 more questions that need to be answered about the Skripal case
- May has some explaining to do! Porton Down did NOT positively ID nerve agent in Skripal case
- 30 Important Questions On The Skripal Case And The UK Government's Response That Journalists Should Be Asking
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"Imagine that you have the corpse of a murder victim," chemist Vladimir Uglyov told Current Time TV, the Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA. "The criminal has left clues, including fingerprints. But you don't have those fingerprints in your database. That means you can only identify the killer if you catch him."
The source of the poison used in the Skripal case, Uglyov said, is almost certainly "some beaker standing in some safe in some city in some country."
British officials and allied governments have blamed Moscow for the March 4 poisoning of the Skripals, which has prompted sanctions and diplomatic expulsions and threatens to further harm relations between Russia and the West. Moscow has maintained its innocence.
Although Uglyov believes U.K. authorities' assertion that a nerve agent called A-234 was used against the Skripals, he said he is puzzled by the lack of the basic symptoms of A-234 poisoning -- uncontrollable urination and defecation. Such symptoms, he said, should appear if a person is exposed to something approaching half the median lethal dose.
"Maybe the dose was too small, as happened to me," he said.
MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries inflicted by IDF snipers
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Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Thierry Saucier operates on the leg of an injured patient in Alqsa Hospital in Gaza.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Thierry Saucier operates on the leg of an injured patient in Alqsa Hospital in Gaza.
Medical teams in Gaza's hospitals prepare to face a possible new influx of wounded this Friday in the latest of the March of Return demonstrations. MSF surgeons in Gaza report devastating gunshot wounds among hundreds of people injured during the protests over recent weeks. The huge majority of patients - mainly young men, but also some women and children - have unusually severe wounds to the lower extremities. MSF medical teams note the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft tissue, and large exit wounds that can be the size of a fist.
Comment: Let it be noted that deliberately causing catastrophic injury and death to Palestinians is official Israeli policy.
- Israel suppresses unarmed protesters against siege of Gaza with chemical weapons and live gunfire from snipers: 16 Palestinians killed, thousands injured
- IDF shoot 500 protesters, 6 journalists, kill 9 - in one day - MSM actually notices
- Such tough guys: IDF shoot 12-year-old Palestinian boy during Gaza Land Day protests
- Israeli leaders who ordered calculated murders of Palestinian protesters bear personal responsibility for the deaths and injuries
- Gaza massacre: Israeli leaders should be prosecuted for war crimes in International Criminal Court
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People carry their belongings as they arrive in Southampton
People carry their belongings as they arrive in Southampton
The Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants' arrival dates in the UK, despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing residency difficulties.
A former Home Office employee said the records, stored in the basement of a government tower block, were a vital resource for case workers when they were asked to find information about someone's arrival date in the UK from the West Indies - usually when the individual was struggling to resolve immigration status problems.
Although the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has promised to make it easier for Windrush-generation residents to regularise their status, the destruction of the database is likely to make the process harder, even with the support of the new taskforce announced this week.
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On Saturday the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed on Twitter that its fact-finding mission team "visited one of the sites" in Douma "to collect samples for analysis in connection with allegations of chemical weapons use on 7 April 2018."
Comment: Given all the witness accounts collected so far, the OPCW should find no evidence of chemical weapons in the Douma "attack". The Russians have secured the area, so barring pressure on the OPCW from the West (which has happened before), their findings will hopefully corroborate the statements by Douma locals.
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Hassan Diab appears in the video of the victims of the 'chemical attack' in Douma. Later the boy explained to Russian media how the event was staged.
Hassan Diab appears in the video of the victims of the 'chemical attack' in Douma. Later the boy explained to Russian media how the event was staged.
- From the mouths of babes: Syrian boy caught in White Helmets FAKE chemical attack video reveals truth
- Another child confirms he was given food for participating in militant's staged chemical weapons attack in Douma
- Russian MoD reveals expert analysis of Douma soil contains no traces of chemical substances
- Investigative reporter interviews Douma residents, all say they witnessed no signs of chemical attack
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Ballerina at the original Bolshoi Theatre stage
Ballerina at the original Bolshoi Theatre stage
Moscow has slammed the US for "artificially" creating conditions to halt the issuance of visas. "Even during the Cold War it did not come to this," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday, adding that art has always served for easing tensions and "melting the ice of distrust."
Now "influential forces" in the US, which are preoccupied with trying to pressure Russia, "do not stop at anything," the foreign ministry said. "They are trying to fence off Americans from Russians with a visa wall, as we've said before, making trips of our citizens to the USA practically impossible," according to the statement.
Comment: UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov called for an investigation into the killing of the 15-year old, describing it as outrageous and adding that it "fuels anger and breeds more killing."