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The legendary Brazilian footballer Pele is recovering in a hospital after collapsing from exhaustion, news reports said, citing a statement by the Football Writers' Association.
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The legendary Brazilian footballer Pele is recovering in a hospital after collapsing from exhaustion, news reports said, citing a statement by the Football Writers' Association.
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Journalist and author Susan Braudy has claimed that actor Michael Douglas sexually harassed her in the late 1980s, including masturbating in her presence.
If a citizen speaks at a public meeting and says something a politician doesn't like, can the citizen be arrested, cuffed, and carted off to the hoosegow?
Suppose that, during this fraught encounter, the citizen violates some law-even by accident, even one no one has ever heard of, even one dug up after the fact-does that make her arrest constitutional?
Deyshia Hargrave, meet Fane Lozman. You need to follow his case.
Comment: The days of rational discussion are essentially over. Don't ask questions or get arrested and if you do, don't count on the courts being on your side. See also:
- The American police state's answer to free speech is brute force
- US: Supreme Court Will Hear Secret Service Agents' Immunity Claims Over Arrest at Cheney Event
- Veteran (Ray McGovern) bloodied, bruised and arrested for wearing 'Peace' t-shirt at Clinton speech
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Hwang Jun-ho of South Korea and other competitors in action
Hwang Jun-ho of South Korea and other competitors in action
Following the latest round of inter-Korean talks, North Koreans announced they would compete in the figure skating, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and women's ice hockey events. In addition, both sides agreed to host celebrations at the Onjonggak complex on the northern side of the border at Mount Kumgang on the eve of the Olympics. South Korea also said it would consider sending its skiers to Masikryong Ski Resort so both sides can train together before the opening ceremony at PyeongChang, South Korea.
The decision to send athletes to train to the Masikryong Ski Resort, which lies in the North Korean half of Gangwon Province, was met with skepticism by the South Korean opposition. Some argued that the move would violate the "bulk cash" clause of international sanctions, which forbids South Koreans from paying for anything in the North. Other critics said that the move would just boost Pyongyang's image. Government officials fought back, stressing that Seoul views it as a significant milestone on the way to the "Peace Olympics."
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"In the UK, the genuine cracking of the traditional family has been going on for quite a long time. And as a result, particularly among old people has benefited off its loneliness," said professor Rodney Shakespeare.
"It is also being reflected among younger people where the units are getting smaller and smaller. This combines with a decline of availability in the social housing. So the trend has been developing for quite a while and the government now wants a patch-up solution," Shakespeare told Press TV on Wednesday.
"I do think that loneliness is an aspect of a social breakdown, a type of disintegration of society," he added.
Comment: This epidemic of loneliness is a major symptom of the societal disintegration in the West.
- Why feminism wants to break up the family
- Why do we feel lonely in an over-connected world?
- Why loneliness is dangerous to health - humans crave connection
- Why loneliness is painful: Helping humans survive by motivating us to seek connection with others
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Pope Francis walks towards a police officer who fell from her rearing horse after it was frightened by the cheering crowd as he was passing in the popemobile.
Pope Francis walks towards a police officer who fell from her rearing horse after it was frightened by the cheering crowd as he was passing in the popemobile.
The officer fell off her horse while escorting the pontiff as he waved to crowds in the city of Iquique, northern Chile.
The pope reportedly waited by the stricken policewoman's side for several minutes until an ambulance arrived.
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Some 2,000 cubic meters of oil spilled over to the adjacent territory and flooded several streets of the neighboring Krasnoarmeiskoe village in Russia's Volga region. The oil then caught fire. A video posted on YouTube shows a wall of fire racing towards the village.
The flames engulfed three residential houses and a non-residential building, prompting the evacuation of 12 people, TASS reports, citing the local branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
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The boys, ages 12 and 13, have been charged with criminal mischief, agricultural animal facilities offences, burglary, aggravated misdemeanour and possession of burglar's tools. As they are underage, their names have not been released.
The damage to 50 beehives at Wild Hill Honey farm in Sioux City resulted in the honey bees freezing to death just days after Christmas
"They knocked over every single hive, killing all the bees. They wiped us out completely," co-owner Justin Englehardt told the Sioux City Journal.
Betty Turpin said she was in "total shock" to learn her 57-year-old son David Turpin and his 49-year old wife Louise Turpin could face torture and child endangerment charges. Police said they found the couple's 13 children, between the ages of 2 and 29, living in "dark and foul-smelling" conditions in their Perris, Calif., home Sunday after a 17-year-old girl escaped and called 911, claiming her parents were holding her siblings captive.
"We don't believe anything until we find definite proof," Betty Turpin, 81, told TIME on Tuesday. "It's just a one-sided story. You can't always go with that."
Comment: It's not unusual for friends and family members to express shock and surprise when those they thought they knew well are unexpectedly accused of criminal behavior. When they learn of the crime their first thought is that the person they know could not possibly be the perpetrator because it is totally "out of character." Stanton Samenow explains in his book, The Myth of the Out of Character Crime, that people always respond 'in character' and that those with a criminal disposition are very adept at concealing their true nature. What a person presents publicly often differs radically from what he is like privately. Behavior is a direct result of the way a person thinks and behind criminal conduct in every case there are 'thinking errors' which provide clues to the personality of the individual.
See also: Social workers take 13 children from home in California after one child runs away and claims abuse
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A 45-year-old woman from Co. Louth married the ghost of an 18th-century Haitian pirate after the couple met when she felt his presence laying beside her in bed in 2014. Amanda Teague, from Drogheda, Co. Louth, traveled to international waters to marry her pirate partner Jack through the means of a medium after telling the spirit that she was no longer happy to just have casual sex.
Teague, who has five children from a previous marriage with a living man, believes she has found her "soulmate" in Jack, who was executed over 300 years ago for theft at sea.
The Louth woman, who works as a "Pirates of the Caribbean" Jack Sparrow impersonator, believes it was the pirate link that brought her own Haitian pirate to her. She even claims the sex is better than with living men.
Comment: Michael Douglas forced to defend himself against "total fabrication" sexual harassment claim