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'Get out of Canada': University of Calgary students feeling vulnerable after finding hate filled anti-Muslim flyers


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:30 UTC
anti-muslim activity University of Calgary
© Riley Brandt, University of Calgary
Muslim Students’ Association President Umair Tazeem talks to the news media, as University of Calgary students, faculty and staff rally to support the Muslim community.
Muslim students at the University of Calgary say they're feeling vulnerable after anti-Muslim posters making derogatory references to the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad were found on campus. The university says campus security will now be reviewed.

Around 40 posters were found by students at 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday. The flyers said "Dear Muslims, f**k your beheadings, f**k your Sharia, f**k your genital mutilations, f**k your TAQIYYA, f**k your [Muhammad], f**k your [Koran]."

They went on to state: "On the other hand, you can keep your barbaric ways, right where they belong, in your 7th century homeland!"

At the bottom of the posters was the hashtag #GetTheF**kOuttaHere.

Comment: Muslims have good reason to be concerned. Those provoking racial and religious hatred are becoming bolder, and innocent Muslims are their primary victims:

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20 killed, scores injured in ISIS-claimed suicide bomb attack at Syria refugee camp


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:05 UTC
Suicide bomb attack at Atma refugee camp
© Firat News Agency
A suicide bomb attack on a refugee camp in Syria has taken at least 20 lives, sources told Turkish media. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the terrorist act.

The attack took place at Atma refugee camp in the northwestern province of Idlib, near the Turkish border, sources told Anadolu Agency.

An eyewitness told the agency that a suicide bomber entered the camp through a checkpoint unobserved, before detonating his explosive vest.

The attack reportedly took place during a Free Syrian Army (FSA) shift patrol change. According to other sources, it targeted rebels backed by Ankara in its operation Euphrates Shield against both IS and Kurdish militants, which is unfolding further to the northeast, along a separate stretch of border.

In addition to at least 20 fatalities, "scores" of people were injured, Anadolu reported. Those who were slightly injured were taken to nearby field clinics, while people with more serious injuries were transferred to local hospitals.

IS claimed responsibility on social media for the deadly assault.
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Authorities bust international sex-trafficking ring leading to hundreds of sex slaves being rescued


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:22 UTC
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© Bogdan Cristel / Reuters
A two-year investigation into an international sex-trafficking ring has led to arrests in the US and other countries. The ring targeted impoverished women from Asia who spoke little English, for whom their American dream was turned into a living hell.

Authorities announced federal indictments against 17 members of the international sex trafficking organization on Wednesday. Four defendants remain at large, according to a statement from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"The 17 people charged in this indictment ran a highly sophisticated sex trafficking scheme," said Andrew Luger, US Attorney for the District of Minnesota, in the statement. The scheme drew in hundreds of impoverished women from Bangkok, Thailand who were held in the US with debt bondage.

"They promised women in Thailand a chance at the American dream, but instead exploited them, coerced them and forced them to live a nightmare," Luger said.
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'Grindr' serial killer drugged gay men before raping, killing them


RT
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:13 UTC
Victims of the Grindr serial killer
© Facebook/Twitter
Three of the victims: Jack Taylor, Daniel Whitworth, Anthony Walgate.
A chef who "had a propensity for sex with unconscious men" drugged the victims he met on gay networking sites before sexually assaulting and killing them, a court has heard.

Stephen Port, 41, from Barking, east London, appeared at the Old Bailey on Wednesday accused of four counts of murder, seven of rape, four of assault by penetration, and 10 of administering a substance with intent.

The court heard that he used social media sites, including the gay dating app Grindr, to set up a series of one night stands in which he allegedly spiked his dates' drinks or injected them with enough GHB - known as liquid ecstasy - to knock them out.

At the time, Port described himself as "70 percent more gay than straight" and was attracted to young boyish looking men in their late teens or early 20s referred to as "twinks," jurors were told.

The prosecution says between 2012 and 2015 he committed a series of sexual offences against 12 young men, four of whom died.

The bodies of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, and Daniel Whitworth were discovered in Barking between June and September of 2014. The body of another man, Jack Taylor, was also discovered in Barking in September of 2015.

Port is accused of dragging their bodies from his flat and leaving them in or near a churchyard.

Comment: Stephen Port has been found guilty of four murders and numerous other sexual offenses.

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Totally corrupt corrections officers among 80 people indicted for running prison criminal enterprise


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:58 UTC
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© Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters
A federal grand jury has indicted 80 defendants, 18 them corrections officers, for running a massive criminal enterprise in Maryland state prison that involved sex, drugs and violence. The case involved so many defendants that hearings were held in three courtrooms.

The case centered within the Eastern Correction Institution in Westover, Maryland and charged corrections officers, 35 inmates and 27 others outside the prison with a vast conspiracy involving officers taking bribes to sneak heroin, cocaine, cell phones, pornographic materials and other contraband into the facility.

"Prison corruption is a longstanding, deeply-rooted systemic problem that can only be solved by a combination of criminal prosecutions and policy changes," Rod Rosenstein, the US attorney for Maryland, said in a statement, according to the AP.
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Fracking gets go ahead, as govt overrules locals in 'denial of democracy'


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:38 UTC
Antri-fracking protesters in Preston, Britain
© Andrew Yates / Reuters
Antri-fracking protesters in Preston, Britain
Fracking will go ahead in the UK despite objections after ministers overruled a local government ban on the controversial drilling method.

The landmark ruling for Britain's budding shale gas industry steamrolled over a decision by Lancashire County Council to block fracking at the Preston New Road site in Little Plumpton, Lancashire.

Local activists reacted angrily to the decision, which found in favor of fracking company Cuadrilla, describing it as "a total denial of democracy."
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Southwest airlines flight evacuated after Samsung's replacement for exploding phone catches fire


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:49 UTC
samsung phone burns
A Southwest Airlines flight from Louisville to Baltimore was evacuated Wednesday after the smartphone, issued as a replacement to one of Samsung's recalled 'exploding' phones, started smoking inside the plane before the aircraft took off.

No injuries were reported as a result of the incident and an investigation is now underway by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration.

In September the South Korean electronics company announced a global recall of at least 2.5 million of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in 10 markets due to faulty batteries causing some phones to catch fire.

This latest incident comes just as it appeared Samsung had resolved its 'exploding phone' crisis with replacement devices issued and sales reportedly picking up.

Comment: Samsung investigates exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones in S Korea

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Failure to protect: UN peacekeepers abandon posts in South Sudan, refuse to help as rebels rape aid workers


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:38 UTC
UN Peacekeepers South Sudan
© Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP
Peacekeeping troops from China, deployed by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), patrol outside the premises of the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba on October 4, 2016
Some UN peacekeepers "abandoned their posts entirely," failing to "live up to the protection mandate" and care for civilians in South Sudan in July, a rights group says. It adds that peacekeepers refused to help as rebels raped at least five aid workers.

On July 11, up to 100 rebel soldiers attacked the Terrain compound in Juba, where they "proceeded to rape and gang rape at least five international aid workers, physically or sexually assault at least a dozen others, and execute a South Sudanese journalist—apparently because of his Nuer ethnicity," the report by Washington-based Center for Civilians in Conflict (Civic) said.

Although several departments within UNMISS received information about the attack shortly after it broke out, and a Quick Reaction Force (QRF) was ordered to respond, "no QRF ever tried to leave the UN House gates, however, with at least the Chinese and Ethiopian battalions refusing to go," the report said.

Comment: More on how the UN fails to do its job: Rampaging South Sudan troops raped foreigners and killed local journalist

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Ridiculous: Hospital charges family $40 to hold newborn son


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:16 UTC
baby
© Victor Ruiz Garcia / Reuters
There is no place for miracles when it comes to hospital costs, a Utah new father has learned after he had to pay $40 for his newborn son's post C-section "skin-to-skin" contact with mother. The extra charge did not blot out the couple's happiness, but hyped up Reddit community.

Ryan Grassley, of Spanish Fork, could not help but share his "laugh" by posting a picture of a hospital bill he received after his son was born.

"During the C-section the nurse asked my wife if she would like to do skin to skin after the baby was born. Which of course anyone would say yes too. We just noticed it in the bill today and had a laugh," he later wrote.

The September, 23 invoice specifically listed "skin-to-skin after c-sec" as a separated service which Utah Valley Hospital priced at $39.95.

"The nurse let me hold the baby on my wife's neck/chest," Grassley wrote. "Even borrowed my camera to take a few pictures for us. Everyone involved in the process was great, and we had a positive experience. We just got a chuckle out of seeing that on the bill."

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More young people in UK identify as bisexual than gay or lesbian


RT
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:08 UTC
pride parade
© Neil Hall / Reuters
The number of young people identifying as bisexual has overtaken the number of those who consider themselves gay or lesbian for the first time, new figures have revealed.

Figures for 2015 released by the Office for National Statistic (ONS) indicate that 1.8 percent of people aged 16-24 identify as bisexual, up from 1 percent in 2012.

Meanwhile, 1.5 percent of people in this age bracket identified as gay or lesbian, a 0.1 percent drop over four years.

The figures, collected as part of the Annual Population Survey, also show that overall, one in 30 young people in UK now identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), compared with one in 38 in 2012. The national average across all age groups is one in 60.

In every age group except the 16 to 24s, the number of individuals identifying as lesbian or gay was greater than that of those who identified as bisexual, according to the survey, which polled some 320,000 people.
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