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120 children of French jihadists detained in Kurdish camps in Syria - media

Man with child
© Muzaffar Salman / Reuters
At least 120 minors, children of French nationals who joined terrorist groups, have reportedly been detained in Syria, with Paris planning to review their fate on a case-by-case basis.

The children are held in Kurdish camps in Syria, TV channel France 3 reported on Thursday. According to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll, the minors "have not yet made any demands".

The authorities will "have to look at their case with the best interests of [these children]," she told the channel.

Paris will reportedly decide the fate of each child case by case. Teens who took part in the fighting alongside terrorists will not be repatriated. Data from the channel says that, all in all, some 400 French nationals are fighting in Syria.

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Elon Musk gets sued by the SEC for misleading investors

Elon Musk
© Patrick T. Fallon / Reuters
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of conning investors through his "misleading" posts on Twitter, in which he claimed that he had secured funding for taking his company private.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against the embattled tech entrepreneur on Thursday, asking the court to order Musk to repay any "ill-gotten gains he received as a result" of the series of tweets, in which he claimed that he had secured the funding for Tesla going private at $420 per share. Musk alleged then that the only issue in the way was that "it's contingent on a shareholder vote."

The tweet sent Tesla's stock surging by more than 10 percent. However, several weeks after the nothing-short-of-scandalous announcement, Musk backed down, saying that he agreed with the existing shareholders to keep the company public.

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'Misleading and inaccurate reporting': Report slams establishment media over Labour anti-semitism coverage

Jeremy Corbyn
© REUTERS/Yves Herman
The British media establishment has been damned in a new report over their coverage of the Labour anti-Semitism row. Media Reform accused all sides of the media of a "myriad of inaccuracies and distortions."

The report by the Media Reform Coalition, an independent group set up to defend ethical journalism, claims that there are "95 clear cut examples of misleading or inaccurate reporting on mainstream television and online news platforms."

The bad practices include "marked skews in sourcing, omission of essential context or right of reply, misquotation, and false assertions made either by journalists themselves or sources whose contentious claims were neither challenged nor countered."

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'We were poor kids, we didn't understand': RT sheds light on casual child abuse by Indonesian shamanic cult

Indonesian man
RT Documentary traveled to Indonesia to speak to both waroks, and their gemblaks.

"Once you gain the magic power and knowledge, should you become fond of a female being, your power shall dwindle or be gone. To prevent this from happening we prefer the masculine love of a gemblak," says Saadi, a warok, who currently has a pre-teen boy, Kadam, living in his house, who shows the crew his room, right next to his master's from which he can be called at any time of day or night.

"As a compensation a warok gets an assistant - a beloved assistant. Why is he beloved? Because it's a boy who understands a warok without words, they complete each other perfectly," says Jemarin, a warok from West Java.

The practice predates the spread of Islam, and Dirman, a former gemblak who now speaks out against the tradition, never questioned it at the time.

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Danish police seal off island of Zealand during search for kidnapping suspects

The Oresund bridge Denmark Sweden
© Harald Wenzel / Global Look Press
The Oresund bridge, linking Denmark and Sweden
Denmark's eastern island of Zealand, location of the country's capital, Copenhagen, was sealed off by a "major police operation," as a manhunt gets underway for three people involved in "serious crime."

Police announced the operation on Friday, and said that the Oresund bridge, which links Denmark and Sweden, and the Great Belt Bridge, linking Zealand with the Danish mainland, had been closed. Ferries to and from Germany and Sweden were also halted.

Police say they are searching for a Swedish-registered Volvo V90, with three people inside involved in "serious crime." Swedish news site Aftonbladet reported that the suspects are wanted in connection with a kidnapping.

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Iraqi social media star gunned down in Baghdad amid spate of female activist assassinations

Tara Faris
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Iraqi social media star Tara Faris has been killed by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad, according to reports, amid a string of murders across the country targeting female activists.

She was reportedly shot and killed while in her car in a Baghdad neighborhood.

Faris was recently listed as one of the most popular Iraqis on social media, with 2.7 million followers on Instagram. Faris, who was born in 1998 to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother, got her start as a beauty pageant contestant in 2015, according to Al Arabiya.

She then moved to Europe before returning to Iraq, living in Erbil and Baghdad.


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Moral free-for-all: Another reason why the #MeToo mob is out to get Kavanaugh

Metoo Anti-Kavanaugh mob
The far left really, really, really doesn't want Brett Kavanaugh seated on the Supreme Court. Presumably, that's over his supposed stance on abortion. And the disgraceful delaying tactics from the Democrats are obviously a "hold-ma-beer" bid to put off a vote until after the midterms, by which time they expect they will be running the Senate.

But there's something else going on as these increasingly fantastical charges come out of the woodwork, long after the harsh Senate confirmation hearings were completed, leaving it fairly obvious that Kavanaugh would be confirmed. Basically, it's a desire to paint all men, no matter what their cultural upbringing and values, as uncontrolled pigs with the endorsed morals of the left.

The character of these charges is the first clue. It starts with the second accuser:
The New Yorker reported on Sunday that Ramirez said Kavanaugh exposed himself to her when they were at students at Yale University in the 1980s. The magazine said she claimed that "he exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away."

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Death blow to sanctuary policies? Southern California judge rules sanctuary law unconstitutional

protests against undocumented migrants
© Sam Hodgson/Reuters
Demonstrators hold signs against undocumented migrants.
A judge in Southern California has dealt a blow to the state's sanctuary policies.

On Thursday, Judge James Crandall ruled the sanctuary law is unconstitutional and is an example of the state government overstepping its authority.

Crandall also granted the city of Huntington Beach's request to be freed from enforcing the policies he dismissed as "one size fits all policing."

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No charges for former deputy who trafficked date rape drug to his fellow officers

deputy James White
A Charlotte County deputy was caught trafficking a controlled substance which predators use to knock their unwitting victims unconscious to have their way with them. The investigation found that the deputy was responsible for shipping large quantities of the dangerous 'date rape' drug and tampering with physical evidence to cover it up, yet he's never been charged.

Former deputy James White was given a paid vacation last October following the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) opening an investigation into the corrupt cop.

However, before the investigation could conclude, another incident in which this sicko cop was seen flashing his genitals to patrons in a Punta Gorda establishment, was exposed. The incident, which happened in August of 2017, caught up to him ten months later and he was fired.

On Monday, the FDLE's investigation concluded and found that the former Deputy was indeed found to have been trafficking the substance, gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL), a chemical known to be abused and can easily be used to produce a form of a "date rape" drug.

According to WINK, experts say GBL is only used for two things: a steroid, and a date rape drug.

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Weird designer dogs are becoming a worldwide epidemic

Madeline Bernstein

Madeline Bernstein, pictured with her dog Mocha, has condemned the popularity of so-called designer dogs claiming many come from the 'lurid and criminal world of cross breeding'.
An international animal welfare activist has branded designer dogs such as Labradoodles as 'Frankenstein' animals created by ruthless breeders and criminals.

Madeline Bernstein, head of an animal welfare charity in Los Angeles, has written a book which she says is 'an expose into the lurid and very often criminal world of cross breeding'.

The designer dogs have become incredibly popular because thy have attracted the attention of celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston, Tiger Woods and Christie Brinkley.

Supermodel Elle MacPherson was one of the first celebrities with a labradoodle when she bought Bella in 2004.

Graham Norton and Jeremy Clarkson have also owned designer dogs.