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According to the Kurdish Hawar News Agency, the explosives were hidden in a Hyundai car, which detonated at a checkpoint set at the entrance to the town near a bridge over the Khabur River.
The explosion was set off by a suicide driver, who was told to stop by the militia fighters manning the checkpoint.
There are conflicting reports on whether the attack resulted in causalities. The Kurdish agency says it did not, but some Turkish sources state as many as five people were killed by the explosion. Some reports say the checkpoint was attacked while a joint US-Kurdish patrol was passing by and that some US service members may have been hurt.
Tzipi Livni, a leader in the liberal opposition party Hatnua, was edited out of a billboard in densely populated Bnei Brak, while her male-colleagues remained. Livni posted a video of her standing in front of the sign to her Twitter account Saturday, offering criticism and worry.
"You understand, it's not my face they want to remove, but the faces of you the women of Israel, over 50% of the population," she told her online audience.
A local Israeli news station reported on the situation last Thursday, pointing out that another ad had been selectively edited to remove Knesset member Tamar Zandberg. Municipal authorities have refused comment so far.
Video footage of the 40-year-old principal, Zhang Pengfei - dressed in black and with a microphone in hand - leading his pupils through an energetic shuffle dance routine has been widely circulated online. One clip on Facebook was viewed seven million times in one day.
Along with beaming children, teachers are also seen in the video taking part in the dance workout in front of Xi Guan Primary School in Linyi county, Shanxi province.
Behind them, one of the slogans on the two-storey school building reads: "Enjoy happy education".
Mohamed Al-Gheiti was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 3,000 Egyptian pounds ($176) by the Misdemeanors Court in Giza, after he was charged with a litany of crimes including the promotion of homosexuality, incitement to debauchery, and immorality and contempt of religion, the Egypt Independent reported on Sunday.
Once released, he will be placed under surveillance for another year.
He was sentenced for a controversial interview last August, when Gheiti spoke to a gay man about his life, which included his job as a sex worker as well as his relationship with another man.
Statement of Nick Sandmann, infamous 'smirking teenager', regarding incident at the Lincoln Memorial
I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing.
When we arrived, we noticed four African American protestors who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what they were protesting, and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults at our school group.
Comment: This is a good illustration of how the outrage mob will fly off the handle about a perceived social injustice without having the whole story (or even the better part of it). Face it, if these kids weren't mostly white and wearing MAGA hats, this 'incident' would not have made the news.

The Duke of Edinburgh, 97, who was left "very shocked" and shaken when the Land Rover Discovery was involved in a collision near the Queen's Sandringham estate on Thursday afternoon.
Prince Philip was left "shocked and shaken" but unhurt following the collision on the A149 near Sandringham, Norfolk, yesterday afternoon.
Motorist Roy Warne witnesses the crash and has told how he helped the 97-year-old get out of his wrecked Land Rover through the sunroof.
He said the Range Rover collided with another vehicle before rolling all the way over and coming to a rest on its side.
Mr Warne, 75, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I was driving home and I saw a car - a black Range Rover - come out from a side road and it rolled and ended up on the other side of the road and there was a huge collision with another car.
Comment: 20th January 2019
AP reported yesterday, that the UK police have spoken with Prince Philip about the crash after being photographed driving without a seatbelt:
British police have spoken with Prince Philip after the husband of Queen Elizabeth II was photographed apparently driving without wearing a seatbelt - just two days after he was involved in a serious car crash.The Mirror provides more details on the crash itself and the testimony of the other driver:
British media on Saturday published a photograph showing the 97-year-old royal driving a new Land Rover near the royal residence at Sandringham in eastern England.
Norfolk Police said "suitable words of advice have been given to the driver."
Police said the advice given to Philip was "in line with our standard response when being made aware of such images showing this type of offense."
You can be sure that Prince Philip was not treated like just another citizen...
Buckingham Palace didn't comment on the images.
Philip was driving another Land Rover when he was involved in a violent collision on Thursday in which two women in a Kia car were injured. A 9-month-old baby boy in the Kia was unhurt. Philip had to be helped out of his overturned vehicle but wasn't injured.
The palace said Friday that Philip and the queen had privately contacted the other people in the crash and exchanged good wishes.
But Emma Fairweather, who broke her wrist in the collision, told the Sunday Mirror newspaper that she had not heard from the palace.
"I still haven't had any contact from the royal household," she said. "Maybe he should prioritize that over test driving his new car."
The 46-year-old said "it would mean the world to me" if Philip offered an apology.
Police haven't disclosed who was at fault for the crash, which happened after Philip drove onto a main road from a side road near the royal family's Sandringham estate, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London.
The queen and Philip have been on an extended Christmas break in Sandringham, their holiday tradition for many years.
Philip has been in generally good health and was photographed in December driving a horse-drawn carriage. He has largely retired from public life but still is occasionally seen at family occasions with the queen.
The accident - and Philip's subsequent driving apparently without using a seatbelt - is raising questions about his continued use of public roadways.
Buckingham Palace says Philip has a valid driver's license. There is no upper age limit for licensing drivers in Britain, although drivers over 70 are required to renew their licenses every three years and tell authorities about any medical conditions that might raise safety issues.
Philip passed a vision test Saturday as part of the investigation into the accident.
She tells the Sunday Mirror: "I'm lucky to be alive and he hasn't even said sorry.
"It has been such a traumatic and painful time and I would have expected more of the Royal Family.
"It could have been so much worse. Prince Philip apparently said to a witness that it was the sun that dazzled him but I can't see how that could be true when it was overcast."
The accident happened on Thursday near Sandringham - where Emma often visits on Christmas Day to catch a glimpse of the royals.
With her arm in plaster, the shaken mum went on: "I love the royals but I've been ignored and rejected and I'm in a lot of pain.
"It would mean the world to me if Prince Philip said sorry but I have no idea if he's sorry at all.
"What would it have taken for him and the Queen to send me a card and a bunch of flowers?"
Emma claims she received a phone call from police but had heard nothing from the royals or their household.
She says: "I was just advised not to speak to anyone and told to expect a call from the Palace yesterday.
"I know the Queen is a busy lady but I was really excited at the idea she might phone me.
"Instead, I got a call from a police family liaison officer.
"The message he passed on didn't even make sense. He said, 'The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh would like to be remembered to you.' That's not an apology or even a well-wish."
That was all about to change. They set off for home at around 2.30pm and horror struck just 30 minutes later.
Emma recalls: "We could see the Land Rover about 150 yards away from us at a junction, then it started to move.
"The speed limit was 60mph but my friend was doing no more than 50mph. I kept thinking he was going to stop but he didn't.
"It all went into slow motion as I watched the other car. As we approached I could make out that it was an elderly driver.
"My friend was braking and seemed so in control but I was terrified.
"But then we crashed. I don't think the vehicle spun, it just pushed straight across the road.
"Then it was just disbelief. I was in shock."
In the aftermath of the accident, terrified Emma tells how she repeatedly screamed from the front seat: "Get the baby out!"
He went to hospital later for precautionary checks and the Palace said he had "no injuries of concern".
Emma claims other onlookers told her that the prince had been advised by those around him not to apologise to her in person at the scene.
She says: "Someone told me Prince Philip had been keen to talk to me but a number of people advised him against it, but I can't be sure as I was very confused."
Emma then faced an agonising wait for an ambulance, before finally being taken to hospital two hours later.
She says: "I was pacing up and down because the pain was so bad. I feel like the impact of what has happened has been minimised because my injuries aren't as minor as they are being made out to be. I kept asking, 'Why is the pain getting worse'?"
As Emma waited to be treated in A&E, hospital TV was already showing footage from the crash scene. Emma, meanwhile, is still hoping the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will reach out to her.
And she says she would forgive Philip if he got in touch. She adds: "I still love him and the Queen. No one can change my views on that."
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: "A full message of support was sent to both the driver and the passenger."
The Yellow Vest protests quickly evolved into a general anti-government movement - with hundreds of thousands of angry French citizens taking to the streets for ten straight weeks of mostly peaceful protests marked with pockets of violence, looting and mayhem.
What's more - the movement has gone worldwide - with perhaps the most notable protests outside France taking place in Belgium, where Brussels riot cops have dealt with week after week of protesters blocking oil depot and throwing hard objects at them.
On December 8, Belgians attempted to breach a riot barricade while calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Charles Michel, resulting in around 100 arrests.
Comment: See also:
- Paul Joseph Watson: What they are not telling you about the Yellow Vests
- Social Contagion: 'Yellow Vest' protests spread among citizens fed up with corruption
- Will Macron's Yellow Vest Implosion Spread to Other EU Countries?
- The rebellion spreads: Yellow Vests plan protests across The Netherlands
- Yellow Vest anti-government protest movement launched in Ireland - Calls for 'revolution'
- 'Time to learn from the French!' 10 arrested after Yellow Vest protests spread to Israel
- 'Gilets Jaunes' movement spreading: Pro-Brexit protesters block London bridges, bring traffic to standstill
- NewsReal: Yellow Vest Protests, Brexit Farce - Revolutionary Climate in Western Europe?
In Tripoli, some of protestors had their mouths symbolically taped. The journalists held portraits of Ben Khalifa and slogans in Arabic, English and French languages, reading "Libya without media" and "Journalism is not a crime."
"He died while he was defending and demanding our rights as journalists," fellow reporter, Tariq al-Houni, said of his slain colleague.
On Saturday in Washington DC, a group of Catholic school kids fell victim to this presumptive logic. The progressive media ran with a story that confirmed their intersectional priors and, in the process, damaged their credibility, established an unsustainable precedent, and unwittingly affirmed President Trump's demagogic "Fake News" mantra.
The prevailing media narrative in the immediate aftermath of the incident was roughly as follows:
- A group of boys from Covington Catholic High School were on a trip to attend the March for Life rally.
- The rally happened to coincide with an indigenous peoples' demonstration nearby.
- Motivated by white privilege and racism (rather than, say, garden-variety teenage obnoxiousness), the schoolboys began chanting to drown out the activists.
- Native American activist Nathan Phillips was then surrounded by menacing and entitled youths wearing MAGA hats.
- Phillips beat his drum and sang a tune intended to heal the boys.
- The boys responded by mocking him and yelling "Build the wall!" while one of their number smirked into Phillips's face, an act of effrontery that apparently reflects the entitlement and racism of white Americans, the moral arrogance of Trump supporters, the malevolence of privileged high school bullies like Brett Kavanaugh, and so on and so forth.

Rorschach test: Is this boy mocking the elder, or so confused by why a drumming native would be standing in his face, that all he can do is smile?
No one, apparently, attempted to talk to the students involved to hear their side or to see if there were any misunderstandings. One student who was in attendance emailed a local television station, then spoke to one of their reporters on the telephone, to share his version of events. WKRC's Adam Clements tweeted screenshots of the email.
Comment: The radical Left was quick to get out the knives:
The same far left media that ran with the junk Buzzfeed report on Friday is now smearing a group of pro-life high school kids in MAGA hats.Reason.com adds:
On Friday a group of pro-life high school boys who attended the March for Life went to check out the Lincoln Memorial.
While standing at the memorial a group(?) of Native Americans were beating drums at the public memorial.
One man, reportedly a Vietnam veteran, got up in one boy's face and started screaming and beating his drum.
The video is going viral.This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March. pic.twitter.com/jIb5K68vIs[Ed. note: "Talia" has deleted this tweet.]
- Talia (@2020fight) January 19, 2019
The children were chanting their school song.
A much older man approached a group of teenage boys who were ALREADY chanting a school song.
The native American man APPROACHED the kids!
Now the fake news media is blaming the children for harassing a Native American.
(Obviously, from the video the reverse is true - but we are talking about the fake news media.)
Now the left is blaming Trump and screaming holy hell at the high school children.
The Native American Nathan Philips said he was upset because he heard children yell build that wall.(?)
(They were chanting their school cheer.)
And now this...
The high school boy was doxxed by the liberal fascist mob.
The boys are from a Catholic HIGH SCHOOL in Kentucky!
Daily Beast doxxed the high school.
[T]he rest of the video-nearly two hours of additional footage showing what happened before and after the encounter-adds important context that strongly contradicts the media's narrative.
Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby. The BHI has existed since the late 19th century, and is best describes as a black nationalist cult movement; its members believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites, and often express condemnation of white people, Christians, and gays. DC-area Black Hebrews are known to spout particularly vile bigotry.
Phillips put himself between the teens and the black nationalists, chanting and drumming as he marched straight into the middle of the group of young people. What followed was several minutes of confusion: The teens couldn't quite decide whether Phillips was on their side or not, but tentatively joined in his chanting. It's not at all clear this was intended as an act of mockery rather than solidarity.
One student did not get out of Phillips way as he marched, and gave the man a hard stare and a smile that many have described as creepy. This moment received the most media coverage: The teen has been called the product of a "hate factory" and likened to a school shooter, segregation-era racist, and member of the Ku Klux Klan. I have no idea what he was thinking, but portraying this as an example of obvious, racially-motivated hate is a stretch. Maybe he simply had no idea why this man was drumming in his face, and couldn't quite figure out the best response? It bears repeating that Phillips approached him, not the other way around.
And that's all there is to it. Phillips walked away after several minutes, the Black Hebrew Israelites continued to insult the crowd, and nothing else happened.
You can judge for yourself. Here is video footage of the full incident, from the perspective of the black nationalists. Phillips enters the picture around the 1:12 mark, but if you skip to that part, you miss an hour of the Black Hebrew Israelites hurling obscenities at the students. They call them crackers, faggots, and pedophiles. At the 1:20 mark (which comes after the Phillips incident) they call one of the few black students the n-word and tell him that his friends are going to murder him and steal his organs. At the 1:25 mark, they complain that "you give faggots rights," which prompted booing from the students. Throughout the video they threaten the kids with violence, and attempt to goad them into attacking first. The students resisted these taunts admirably: They laughed at the hecklers, and they perform a few of their school's sports cheers.















Comment: The US Coalition confirmed its convoy was involved in the blast, but stressed that no US troops were injured, contrary to the Turkish report.
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