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At least 72 people died as a result of the fire, which has been described by RT's Nadira Tudor as the "worst loss of domestic life since World War Two."
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At least 72 people died as a result of the fire, which has been described by RT's Nadira Tudor as the "worst loss of domestic life since World War Two."
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Europe's largest prison Fleury-Merogis is in dire condition, the representative of the CGT Penitentiaries Union told RT. "Every day in France, there are prison supervisors who are attacked violently; every day we have security problems because all the proposals are not yet in place," Ambroise Koubi said. He added that the authorities offered to send in extra 1,100 supervisors, but so far it didn't happen.
"Fleury-Merogis is starting to explode already. Because we are tired of this. You are the first TV channel I'm telling this to, but yesterday we had a suicide," Koubi said, adding that the prison had 10 other suicide cases since January, with supervisors among the victims.
The prison, situated north of Paris, housed several well-known jihadists. Among them was Salah Abdeslam, who organized the Paris shootings in November 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, who attacked a kosher store in January 2015, and the Charlie Hebdo attacker Cherif Kouachi. The jail currently has over 120 radicalized inmates, says the penitentiaries union official.
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The Chilean, 64, was traveling with the group to a restaurant on Saturday when the incident happened.
Pellegrini's wife reportedly had her handbag snatched before the gang made off. The gunmen were later tracked down by police and became involved in a shootout, before driving off in a Porsche Cayenne which had reportedly been stolen two weeks prior to the incident. The vehicle was later found abandoned.
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India's Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said his country will import LNG from Russia worth an estimated $25 billion over the contract period of 20 years. Supplies will come from Gazprom's Yamal LNG project in the Arctic.
"Today will be considered as Golden Day in India's energy roadmap," Pradhan told reporters. "Four years back, we were importing LNG only from Qatar. Today we are getting LNG from Australia, US and now Russia."
The minister called the Russia-India deal very successful, saying the shipment of Russia's LNG was a "big achievement."He detailed that $1.5 billion worth LNG will be bought from Russia every year, adding that "Gazprom's price is very competitive."
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Under the 'gender-neutral' uniform policy, boys can wear skirts but not shorts.
Under the 'gender-neutral' uniform policy, boys can wear skirts but not shorts.
The advice issued by Chiltern Edge Secondary School came after the school introduced a 'more formal' uniform policy at the beginning of the school year, which stipulated that students' legwear may only be either trousers or skirts.
Following the policy change, requests made by parents inquiring if their sons could instead wear tailored shorts in lieu of trousers in warmer weather were rejected by the school, according to the Mail Online.
However, since the uniform policy was 'gender neutral,' boys could instead wear a skirt if they wished.
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While Westminster is at loggerheads over the much-debated issue of legalizing the drug for medical purposes, a new report published on Saturday by Health Poverty Action sets out huge economic and social benefits that the country could yield from cannabis tax income.
Martin Drewry, director of the non-profit Health Poverty Action, said: "This week Canada will become the first G7 country to vote to legalize and regulate cannabis, it is clear that the war on drugs has failed and that responsible regulation protecting public health is the way forward."
The report argues that the money gained by legalizing cannabis could be used to support public services. It singled out the NHS, which is facing an unprecedented staff and funding crisis, claiming that revenue from cannabis taxation could write off the service's £1 billion ($1.3 billion) deficit.
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Sixteen-year-old Mohamed Wahdan, hit by IDF sniper fire.
Sixteen-year-old Mohamed Wahdan, hit by IDF sniper fire.
Western media takes the side of Israel. This is plain to see whether you watch TV, or if you read newspapers on or offline. It is a fact. No matter how conciliatory or understanding mainstream outlets and writers may seem, the Israeli narrative ends up dominating. Hamas becomes the villain no matter how many men. women and children vaporize in front of or beneath IDF guns, cannons, missiles, and bombs. In the end, it all looks like honest reporting. The Washington Post piece today by former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro is a Xerox copy of a now familiar style that boils down to "those poor Palestinians, victims of the dastardly Hamas henchmen." The story always goes like this, sweet and cuddly and defenseless Israel forced to shoot. In short, our media depends on stupid and gullible readership and viewers. It does not matter "why" our media sides with Israel, they simply do. This brings us to the next side of the situation.
The mandatory water conservation standards will be permanent, according to their wording, and not just for use in times of crisis. To make a long story short, now that these bills are law, it's illegal to take a shower and do a load of laundry in the same day because you'll exceed your "ration."
Here's the wording of the new laws.
Senate Bill 606 establishes a "governing body" to oversee all water suppliers, both private and public and will require extensive paperwork from those utility companies. Assembly Bill 1668 is where it gets personal. This establishes limits on indoor water usage for every person in California and the amount allowed will decrease even further over the next 12 years.
Supposed "hitman" Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk
To review, Ukrainian authorities announced last Tuesday that Babachenko had been assassinated after returning home from the store. On Wednesday, Babachenko appeared at a press conference with Ukrainian authorities who said that the faked assassination was an elaborate sting to bust an actual hit planned by Russia.
Only now we find that the hitman, Oleksiy Tsimbalyuk, is an outspoken critic of Russia who says he worked for Ukrainian counterintelligence - a claim Ukraine initially denied but later admitted to be true. Meanwhile the guy who supposedly hired Tsimbalyuk, Boris L. German, 50, also says he worked for Ukrainian counter-intelligence, a claim Ukraine denies as its immediately destroys the carefully scripted, if rapidly imploding, Ukrainian narrative meant to scapegoat Russia for what has been a "fake news" story of epic proportions, emerging from the one nation that not only was the biggest foreign donor to the Clinton foundation, but has made fake news propaganda into an art form.
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Yet most adults surveyed still do consider themselves Christians, even if they seldom go to church. Indeed, the survey shows that non-practicing Christians (defined, for the purposes of this report, as people who identify as Christians, but attend church services no more than a few times per year) make up the biggest share of the population across the region. In every country except Italy, they are more numerous than church-attending Christians (those who go to religious services at least once a month). In the United Kingdom, for example, there are roughly three times as many non-practicing Christians (55%) as there are church-attending Christians (18%) defined this way.
Comment: Everybody must get STONED.
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