| US, UK will 'regret' seizing tanker off Gibraltar: Iran Guards Posted: 11 Jul 2019 04:05 AM PDT  Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Thursday that the United States and Britain will "strongly regret" the seizure of a tanker off Gibraltar, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported. "If the enemy had made the smallest assessment they wouldn't have done this act," said Rear-Admiral Ali Fadavi, deputy commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guards, referring to the seizure of an oil tanker late last week by Gibraltar's police aided by British Royal Marines.
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| New Orleans already underwater as tropical storm approaches Posted: 11 Jul 2019 11:26 AM PDT  Tropical Storm Barry is expected to strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall, and could bring another 20 inches of rain to the beleaguered Gulf Coast.
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| Former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka screamed in a journalist's face in the Rose Garden as supporters cheered Posted: 11 Jul 2019 04:21 PM PDT  An onlooker told the reporter that Gorka could "kick your punk a--" as some looked on in shock and others cheered in support of the former Trump aide.
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| EU to Cut the Flow of Funds to Turkey as Drilling Spat Heats Up Posted: 12 Jul 2019 08:31 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- The European Union is poised to freeze most high-level contacts with Turkey and cut the flow of funds to the country, while holding back for now on sanctions that could target Turkish companies involved in offshore drilling in the eastern Mediterranean.EU diplomats have agreed on the wording of a draft decision due to be formally adopted by the bloc's foreign ministers on Monday, two officials familiar with the talks said. The draft calls for suspending negotiations on an aviation agreement with Ankara, halting scheduled ministerial meetings, reducing aid and inviting the European Investment Bank to review sovereign-backed lending to Turkey.The bloc will also reiterate that it's working on targeted sanctions in light of Turkey's continuing controversial drilling practices, according to the final draft of the communique seen by Bloomberg. The statement was agreed on Friday afternoon after several rounds of redrafting, and it will be rubber-stamped by EU ambassadors on Monday before ministers sign off later in the day.Turkey and Cyprus are at loggerheads over offshore gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean that are claimed by the Cypriots and disputed by Ankara. Turkey has sent exploration vessels into the area, a move Cyprus calls a violation of its sovereignty.Deep-Sea ExplorationEU leaders have squarely sided with Cyprus in the dispute, declaring last month that they're ready to consider sanctions if Turkey continues drilling. That could target companies, individuals, and Turkey's deep-sea hydrocarbon exploration and production sectors, though such measures weren't officially on the menu of options debated this week.Still, the escalation marks a new low in EU-Turkey relations, which have been deteriorating since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed through constitutional reforms that Brussels claims weaken the country's democratic safeguards.The European Commission says Turkey has been drifting further away from the prospect of eventual EU membership, and some member states, such as Germany and France, have considered formally shelving long-stalled accession talks.The spat with Brussels adds to a climate of uncertainty weighing on Turkish assets, following the dismissal of the country's top central banker and the prospect of U.S. sanctions over Erdogan's decision to purchase Russian missiles. Washington has also called on Turkey to cease drilling off the coast of Cyprus.Maintaining CommunicationDespite renewed tensions in the Mediterranean, the EU is wary of an escalation that would risk a landmark 2016 migration agreement, under which Turkey stemmed the bulk of refugee flows to Europe in exchange for financial assistance. Even though options for targeted sanctions were mandated by the bloc's leaders last month, they are not being activated at this stage.An EU diplomat said the bloc in its Monday decision will seek a balance between sending a clear message to Ankara and agreeing on measures that won't harm the interests of EU nations or cut all ties with Turkey. The EU wants to keep some lines of communication open in areas such as migration and terrorism, the diplomat said, asking not to be named discussing sensitive issues.\--With assistance from Viktoria Dendrinou and Jonathan Stearns.To contact the reporter on this story: Nikos Chrysoloras in Brussels at nchrysoloras@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Chad Thomas at cthomas16@bloomberg.net, Jerrold Colten, Chris ReiterFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Wanted Louisiana woman comments on mugshot cops posted: 'That picture ugly' Posted: 12 Jul 2019 04:38 AM PDT  A wanted Louisiana woman seemed more concerned about how she looked in her mugshot than about the police.
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| 2020 Jeep Gladiator vs. 2019 Toyota 4Runner: Which Is the Better Bug-Out Vehicle? Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT  These two rugged utility vehicles can manage the daily slog yet excel when the pavement ends.
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| 12,000 Years Ago, a Boy Had His Skull Squashed into a Cone Shape. It's the Oldest Evidence of Such Head-Shaping. Posted: 10 Jul 2019 05:40 PM PDT  Ancient people in China practiced human head-shaping about 12,000 years ago -- meaning they bound some children's maturing skulls, encouraging the heads to grow into elongated ovals -- making them the oldest group on record to purposefully squash their skulls, a new study finds.While excavating a Neolithic site (the last period of the Stone Age) at Houtaomuga, Jilin province, in northeast China, the archaeologists found 11 elongated skulls -- belonging to both males and females and ranging from toddlers to adults -- that showed signs of deliberate skull reshaping, also known as intentional cranial modification (ICM)."This is the earliest discovery of signs of intentional head modification in Eurasia continent, perhaps in the world," said study co-researcher Qian Wang, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. "If this practice began in East Asia, it likely spread westward to the Middle East, Russia and Europe through the steppes as well as eastward across the Bering land bridge to the Americas." [In Images: An Ancient Long-headed Woman Reconstructed]The Houtaomuga site is a treasure trove, holding burials and artifacts from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago. During an excavation there between 2011 and 2015, archaeologists found the remains of 25 individuals, 19 of which were preserved enough to be studied for ICM. After putting these skulls in a CT scanner, which produced 3D digital images of each specimen, the researchers confirmed that 11 had indisputable signs of skull shaping, such as flattening and elongation of the frontal bone, or forehead.The oldest ICM skull belonged to an adult male, who lived between 12,027 and 11,747 years ago, according to radiocarbon dating.The M72 skull is between 6,300 and 5,500 years old. Qian Wang Archaeologists have found reshaped human skulls all around the world, from every inhabited continent. But this particular finding, if confirmed, "will [be] the earliest evidence of the intentional head modification, which lasted for 7,000 years at the same site after its first emergence," Wang told Live Science.The 11 ICM individuals died between ages 3 and 40, indicating that skull shaping began at a young age, when human skulls are still malleable, Wang said.It's unclear why this particular culture practiced skull modification, but it's possible that fertility, social status and beauty could be factors, Wang said. The people with ICM buried at Houtaomuga were likely from a privileged class, as these individuals tended to have grave goods and funeral decorations."Apparently, these youth were treated with a decent funeral, which might suggest a high socioeconomic class," Wang said.An excavation at the site during 2010. Lixin WangEven though the Houtaomuga man is the oldest known case of ICM in history, it's a mystery whether other known instances of ICM spread from this group, or whether they rose independently of one another, Wang said."It is still too early to claim intentional cranial modification first emerged in East Asia and spread elsewhere; it may have originated independently in different places," Wang said. More ancient DNA research and skull examinations throughout the world may shed light on this practice's spread, he said.The study was published online June 25 in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. * 25 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries * The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth * Back to the Stone Age: 17 Key Milestones in Paleolithic LifeOriginally published on Live Science.
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| U.S. lawmakers expected to delay Mueller testimony by a week Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:35 AM PDT  Two U.S. House committees are expected to delay former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's planned July 17 testimony for one week to allow more time for lawmakers from one of the panels to question him, sources said on Friday. Mueller, who oversaw the federal investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is now expected to testify July 24 before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, sources familiar with the plan said on the condition of anonymity because talks are continuing. Lawmakers made conflicting statements about the hearing on Friday afternoon.
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| Palestinian child shot in head during West Bank clashes: ministry Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:36 AM PDT  A Palestinian child was seriously wounded Friday during clashes between Israeli forces and protesters in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and official media said. Official news agency Wafa named him as Abdelrahman Shteiwi, saying he was 10 years old and was wounded during clashes in Kafr Qaddum near Nablus in the northern West Bank.
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| New Orleans area braces for first hurricane of the season Posted: 11 Jul 2019 07:59 PM PDT  Thousands of Louisianans broke out sandbags or fled to higher ground Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry threatened to turn into the first hurricane of the season and blow ashore with torrential rains that could pose a severe test of New Orleans' improved post-Katrina flood defenses . National Guard troops and rescue crews in high-water vehicles took up positions around the state as Louisiana braced for the arrival of the storm Friday night or early Saturday. President Donald Trump on Thursday night declared a federal declaration of emergency for Louisiana, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts.
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| Ilhan Omar calls Tucker Carlson 'racist fool' after he says she proves 'immigration has become dangerous' Posted: 11 Jul 2019 10:11 AM PDT  "After everything America has done for Omar, and her family, she hates this country more than ever," Tucker Carlson said on his show Tuesday night.
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| Father chases down thief who stole car with children inside and beats him to death with help of bystanders Posted: 12 Jul 2019 06:10 AM PDT  A father chased down and beat to death a thief who stole a car with his children inside, US police have said.Bystanders also joined in the attack on the 54-year-old man, who later died in hospital of head injuries, said detectives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Three young children – aged seven months, 18 months, and five years old – were in the Hyundai when the carjacker stole it on Thursday evening.Their mother had left the car running as she went into a pizza takeaway where her boyfriend – who is the father of the two younger children – was working at 9pm local time.As the woman was speaking to her partner, the thief climbed into the car and drove off.The parents, both aged 25, ran after the car, which became stuck in traffic nearby."They were able to pull this car thief out of the vehicle," chief inspector Scott Small, of the Philadelphia Police Department, told local television station WPVI."He fled on foot about a half a block. And the boyfriend caught up to him and there was some sort of physical struggle that ensued," Mr Small said."Then other males from the neighbourhood intervened and began punching and kicking the male who took the vehicle."The man was taken to hospital with severe head and facial injuries. He was pronounced dead at 10.05pm local time.The children's parents were both taken into custody for questioning and were said to be co-operating with investigators.The police department's homicide unit and the District Attorney's Office will decide if the father will face charges.The three children were unharmed and stayed with other relatives on Thursday night.
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| Sebastian Gorka at the center of Rose Garden ruckus following Trump event Posted: 11 Jul 2019 05:26 PM PDT  After President Trump invited a group of right-wing and fringe media figures to the White House for a "social media summit" on Thursday, the event ended with a former presidential adviser and a CNN political analyst getting into a heated exchange in the Rose Garden.
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| Minnesota residents react to city council ditching Pledge of Allegiance Posted: 10 Jul 2019 07:06 PM PDT  Protesters demand city council reverse pledge ban; reaction from Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
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| This Is Iran's Sad Attempt at Reverse-Engineering an Old F-5F Fighter Posted: 10 Jul 2019 07:00 PM PDT  Rouhani called on the Iranian military to strengthen their readiness in the face of enemy threats in a speech during Tuesday's defense show. Iran says its new Kowsar fighter jet has flown. President Hassan Rouhani was on scene to see the jet – which is a carbon copy of the American F-5F – undergoing flight trials.Test flights of the Kowsar, took place on Aug. 21, 2018 on the eve of the National Day of the Defense Industry, according to semi-official Mehr News Agency. It was unclear whether the jet's first public display flight has yet taken place.The Kowsar can be used for "short aerial support missions" and is equipped with systems that "promote precision targeting," according to state media.Rouhani called on the Iranian military to strengthen their readiness in the face of enemy threats in a speech during Tuesday's defense show."When we say we are ready for defense, it means that we seek the establishment of sustainable peace," Rouhani said.
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| Swedish Government Won’t Sign ‘Problematic’ UN Nuclear Treaty Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:22 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Sweden has decided not to sign the UN treaty on nuclear arms, calling it problematic and unrealistic.The decision was announced by Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom at a press conference in Stockholm, who said the country will remain a "strong voice" against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.Reality is complicated and the treaty is problematic, but the decision was made as a militarily alliance-free nation, said Wallstrom. Sweden will become an observer nation to the treaty and won't close the door on signing it, she said.Backed by Sweden, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons passed in 2017 in the UN General Assembly by a vote of 122 in favor with just the Netherlands, a NATO member, voting against. The negotiations were boycotted by the world's nine nuclear-armed countries -- the U.S., China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the U.K. as well as most NATO members.Sweden, which has close ties with NATO, has been pressured not to sign the treaty by the U.S., newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has reported.To contact the reporter on this story: Jonas Bergman in Oslo at jbergman@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Afghan women note Taliban shift after Doha talks Posted: 11 Jul 2019 04:30 PM PDT  An Afghan campaigner who took part in breakthrough talks with the Taliban said Thursday that she saw subtle improvements in the attitude towards women of the insurgents, who severely curtailed their rights while in power. The conference, co-organized by Germany, came as the United States negotiates with the Taliban to pull troops from Afghanistan -- with women's rights not explicitly on the agenda. Asila Wardak, a women's rights campaigner who works for the Afghan foreign ministry, said she was surprised at the positive atmosphere in Doha as women mingled directly with the Taliban over dinner and tea breaks.
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| Wildfire on Hawaiian Island of Maui Forces Thousands to Evacuate Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:59 AM PDT  A wildfire spreading through Hawaii's Maui island forced thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate on Thursday, according to local officials.
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| Dolphin impaled in the head found dead, wildlife officials seek clues Posted: 11 Jul 2019 06:22 PM PDT  Investigators are looking for who or what made a gash in the head of a bottlenose dolphin found dead in May.
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| Jeffrey Epstein reportedly wired $350,000 to 2 people after a bombshell 2018 report, prosecutors say Posted: 12 Jul 2019 03:23 PM PDT  Federal prosecutors are asking for Jeffrey Epstein's bail to be denied in light of the new accusations of witness tampering.
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| 8-Year-Old Killed, Several Injured After Truck Crashes into Horse-Drawn Carriage on Missouri Highway Posted: 11 Jul 2019 09:14 AM PDT  The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash involving a pickup truck and a carriage. An 8-year-old died during the crash, according to police.
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| Warren's new U.S. immigration policy would end border crossing as a crime Posted: 11 Jul 2019 09:03 AM PDT  Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Thursday announced a broad immigration policy that would decriminalize undocumented border crossing and end the use of privately run detention centers if she is elected president. Warren's 22-point policy also called for creating a pathway to citizenship for current undocumented immigrants and raising the cap on refugees who can seek asylum. "We need expanded legal immigration that will grow our economy, reunite families and meet our labor market demands," Warren wrote in a post on Medium.com announcing the plan.
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| AOC weeps while hearing mother’s story of toddler who died after being detained by ICE Posted: 11 Jul 2019 02:08 AM PDT  US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was moved to tears by the testimony of a woman whose 19-month-old daughter died after being detained by immigration authorities.Yazmin Juarez told a House oversight and reform hearing in Washington that she had left her home in Guatemala to seek a safer life in the US. Instead she saw her baby Mariee die. After the pair were detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last spring, they were held with 30 other people including sick children, Ms Juarez said. Despite being healthy beforehand, she said her daughter fell ill with a high fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.Nurses at the south Texas family residential centre in the city of Dilley – the largest such facility in the US – failed to thoroughly examine the child, Ms Juarez said, merely sending her away with painkillers.Mariee eventually died of a lung infection some weeks after they were released, having spent two weeks in custody.Her death was "like they tore out a piece of my heart", Ms Juarez said. "I wanted to have a better life for her and a better future so that she could keep growing, but now we won't be able to do that and she is gone."She added, through a translator: "There are days I just want to give up. It's been so painful for me to see so many children and not my little girl."Ms Juarez said she missed being hugged by her daughter.As she recounted her story, tears could be seen rolling down Ms Ocasio-Cortez's cheeks. The 29-year-old Democrat, who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress last year, was seen wiping them away with a tissue. Six children have died in government detention in recent months, either in the custody of Border Patrol, where people are first held when they cross the border, or that of Health and Human Services, the agency responsible for sheltering unaccompanied children.Ms Juarez has filed a legal claim seeking $60m (£48m) from the government over her baby's death. She said she had testified because she wanted everyone to know about the conditions in which people are held under Donald Trump's administration after they migrate to the US or seek asylum.Lawyers, doctors and government documents have brought to light claims of people being served spoiled food, wrongly isolated, held in cells filled to double their capacity and denied access to showers while being detained for more than a month.Children have been made to sleep on the floor, blocked from washing their hands and refused clean clothes despite being kept in sometimes squalid cells.Mr Trump's hardline stance on immigration has been one of his signature policies. Last week, he tweeted: "If Illegal Immigrants are unhappy with the conditions in the quickly built or refitted detentions centers, just tell them not to come".Additional reporting by agencies
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| Hezbollah warns Iran able to bombard Israel if war started Posted: 12 Jul 2019 03:41 PM PDT  The head of Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah said Friday that US ally Israel would not be "neutral" if a war broke out between the United States and Iran. "When the Americans understand that this war could wipe out Israel, they will reconsider," Nasrallah said.
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| Cuba's Dependency on Venezuela Makes it Vulnerable to Economic Turmoil Posted: 11 Jul 2019 02:45 PM PDT ![Cuba's Dependency on Venezuela Makes it Vulnerable to Economic Turmoil]( "Cuba's Dependency on Venezuela Makes it Vulnerable to Economic Turmoil") The economic crisis in Venezuela has turned millions of its citizens into refugees who are fleeing the country's hyperinflation and shortages in food and medicine. A plunge in aid from Venezuela, along with a hardened trade embargo by the United States, has brought Cuba to its worst economic crisis since the post-Soviet depression in the 1990s, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, professor emeritus of economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and Pavel Vidal Alejandro, associate professor economics at the Pontifical Xavierian University in Cali, Colombia, write in their report.
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| Dozens of birds fall from the sky like 'a horror movie.' They were poisoned, experts say Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:44 AM PDT  Sarah King, founder of local nonprofit Casper's Bird Rescue, was contacted by a member of her staff who discovered corella birds falling out of nearby trees and the sky.
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| Harley-Davidson's electric Hog: 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds Posted: 11 Jul 2019 12:10 PM PDT  Harley-Davidson is releasing details about the electric motorcycle it's rolling out this year that it hopes will capture the imagination of a new generation of riders and put a charge into its diminishing sales. The LiveWire, which will soon be available in a limited number of dealerships, will cost nearly $30,000 and can go zero to 60 mph in three seconds. The company said Thursday that buyers will have access to free charging at participating LiveWire dealers for the first two years.
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| South Africa sends troops into 'warzone' township Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:56 AM PDT  South African president Cyril Ramaphosa ordered troops into the suburbs of Cape Town to quell a crime wave that municipal officials say has turned the city into a "warzone." Hundreds of soldiers will be deployed into sprawling area of townships known as the Cape Flats to combat gang-related violence that saw 14 people killed in 24 hours last week. More than 900 people have been killed in gang-related violence in the Cape Flats in the past year. Last Friday, six women between the ages of 18 and 26 were murdered by unknown gunmen at a home in a shanty town in the area. The next day another five men, aged 18 to 39, were shot dead and one was injured in two separate shooting incidents in the township of Philippi. The victims included three members of the same family: Sonwabo Zwilibi's, 17, and his brother Aphiwe, 18, and their cousin Sikelela Zwilibi, 25. Six policemen have also been shot and injured in the past week. Bheki Cele, the Police Minister, said the military deployment would last three months and see troops backing up police officers. "We'll go door to door, we'll collect every illegal firearm, we'll collect all criminals that we want, we'll collect all outstanding criminals that have been on bail and that is happening from two o'clock this morning," he said. The opposition Democratic Alliance, which control Cape Town and the Western Cape province, welcomed the move. "We have truly reached a state of emergency, which threatens the stability and reputation of the city," said Jean-Pierre Smith, a DA mayoral committee member for safety and security. He said the people of the Western Cape needed the army "because they want safety." More than 20,000 people, or 57 per day, were murdered in South Africa last year. Under apartheid, South Africa's Group Areas legislation assigned all the different racial groups to separate residential and business districts, mostly in urban areas Many people of mixed race who used to live close to the heart of Cape Town were uprooted from their homes in the 1950s and moved to the Cape Flats, a treeless, sandy area of ancient former beaches, so that the inner city would be exclusive to white people. "This situation has its roots in the history of South Africa. People were removed from their homes and dumped far away to areas where there was nothing, no society no shops, nothing," said Jakkie Cilliers, head of African Futures & Innovation at South Africa's influential Institute for Security Studies. "This created a generation of alcoholics which had a particularly violent impact in the Western Cape."
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| Hawaii's Maui Island wildfire forces evacuations Posted: 12 Jul 2019 12:44 AM PDT  The 3,000 acre brush fire in Maui's central valley was uncontrolled Thursday night, Maui Mayor Mike Victorino told a news conference. A National Weather Service satellite photo showing smoke hanging over the island was posted on local media and social media sites. The brush fire was reported about 10:30 a.m., local time, and steady winds of up to 20 mph fanned the flames, officials said.
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| Pete Buttigieg unveils agenda to help black Americans Posted: 11 Jul 2019 07:35 AM PDT  Facing dismal poll numbers among black voters, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a multipronged plan addressing everything from promoting black history and culture and ensuring Washington, D.C., statehood to tackling the racial wealth gap.
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| Radioactive uranium, whiskey and rattlesnake found in stolen car pulled over by police Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:52 AM PDT  A pair of alleged car thieves were found with radioactive uranium, whiskey and a rattlesnake in their vehicle when they were pulled over in a routine traffic stop, police said.Driver Stephen Jennings and passenger Rachael Rivera were arrested after the unusual items were found in their car on Wednesday morning in Guthrie, Oklahoma.They were initially stopped after police noticed their vehicle's licence plate had expired, but officers soon noticed the timber rattlesnake in a box on the backseat.Mr Jennings, 40, then told police he had a gun in the vehicle and police discovered that the car was stolen."So now he's got a rattlesnake, a stolen vehicle, firearm, and somebody under arrest," Guthrie Police Sergeant Anthony Gibbs told local broadcaster KFOR-TV.After a further search of the car, police found an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey and a container of "yellowish powder" that was labelled "Uranium."Mr Jennings told officers he was trying to create a "super snake" after the uranium was discovered, ABC reported."When that happens, of course, we call in a company that deals with that specifically, and it's taken safely into possession," Mr Gibbs said. "The uranium is the wild card in that situation."Bodycam footage from the arrest shows one officer spotting the snake in the backseat, before saying: "That sucker is huge."Timber rattlesnakes are highly venomous and their fangs are long enough to penetrate clothing and boots, according to the Ohio Public Library Information Network.> Uranium, a rattlesnake, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe found after police pulled over a couple in a stolen vehicle in Guthrie. @kfor pic.twitter.com/6bh4MUuHcO> > — Cassandra Sweetman (@CassandraOnTV) > > July 11, 2019Mr Jennings was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, transporting an open container of liquor, operating a vehicle with a suspended license, and failure to carry a security verification form, ABC reported.Ms Rivera, 30, was charged with possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction.Mr Jennings had a valid lifetime hunting and fishing license so possession of the rattlesnake was legal.The pair were not charged in connection with the uranium as officers are still looking into a potential motive.
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| Vincent Lambert: French quadriplegic at heart of life-support debate Posted: 11 Jul 2019 12:54 AM PDT  Vincent Lambert, the man at the centre of a years-long life-support battle that played out right up until his death on Thursday, was the silent witness to the wrenching public feud between his parents and wife. Lambert was a rebellious teenager who had settled down and was due to become a father when was in a devastating car crash in 2008 that left him in a vegetative state. In the end, his wife Rachel and the medical team at Reims University Hospital prevailed, with doctors taking him off life support on July 2 after France's top court ruled that doctors could remove his feeding tubes.
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| ‘They tore out a piece of my heart’: Migrant mother describes toddler’s illness, death Posted: 11 Jul 2019 06:18 AM PDT  Yazmin Juarez, a Guatemalan immigrant, told lawmakers Wednesday about how her 19-month-old daughter Mariee died after falling ill in federal detention.
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| Police: Oilfield workers, truck driver killed in fiery crash Posted: 12 Jul 2019 04:45 PM PDT  Four oilfield workers from Texas and the driver of tractor-trailer rig are dead following a fiery head-on crash on a New Mexico road in the heart of what has become the busiest oil and gas region in the United States, authorities said Friday. The crash happened Thursday morning when the driver of a pickup truck carrying three passengers crossed the center line into eastbound traffic and collided with a tractor-trailer rig, police said. The four workers in the pickup truck and the semi driver were all declared dead at the scene.
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| Remains of Napoleon's One-Legged General Found Under Russian Dance Floor Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:52 AM PDT  An excavation in a peculiar place -- under the foundation of a dance floor in Russia -- has uncovered the remains of one of Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite generals: a one-legged man who was killed by a cannonball more than 200 years ago, news sources report.Gen. Charles Etienne Gudin fought with Napoleon during the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812. On July 6 of this year, an international team of French and Russian archaeologists discovered what are believed to be his remains, in Smolensk, a city about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Moscow, according to Reuters.After his death at age 44 on Aug. 22, 1812, Gudin got star treatment. His name was inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, his bust was placed at the Palace of Versailles, a Paris street was named after him and, as a sentimental gesture, his heart was removed from his body and placed in a chapel at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. [Photos: Archaeologists Excavate Battlefield from Napoleonic Wars]The researchers said that several clues suggested that the skeleton they found under the dance floor belongs to Gudin, who had known Napoleon since childhood. Both men attended the Military School in Brienne, in France's Champagne region. Upon hearing of Gudin's death, Napoleon reportedly cried and ordered that his friend's name be engraved on the Arc de Triomphe, according to Euronews.A portrait of Charles Etienne Gudin, who fought in Napoleon's Grande Armée. Photo12/UIG/Getty ImagesRecords from the 1812 Russian invasion note that Gudin's battlefield injuries required him to have his left leg amputated below the knee, Euronews reported. Indeed, the skeleton in the coffin was missing its left leg and showed evidence of injury to the right leg -- details that were also mentioned in those records, the archaeologists said, according to Reuters.Moreover, it was "with a high degree of probability" that the remains the team uncovered belonged to an aristocrat and a military veteran of both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, they said, according to Reuters."It's a historic moment not only for me, but for I think for our two countries," French historian and archaeologist Pierre Malinovsky, who helped find the remains, told the Smolensk newspaper Rabochiy Put (Worker's Journey), according to Reuters. "Napoleon was one of the last people to see him alive, which is very important, and he's the first general from the Napoleonic period that we have found."The general has known living descendants, so researchers plan to test the skeleton for DNA. That way, they'll be able to say for sure whether the remains are those of Gudin.Gudin, however, is hardly the only French fatality recently found in Russia. Earlier this year, scientists did a virtual facial reconstruction of a man in his 20s who was slashed in the face with a saber and died during the invasion of Russia. * 19 of the World's Oldest Photos Reveal a Rare Side of History * Photos: Mass Graves Hold 17th-Century Prisoners of War * Photos: A 400-Year-Old War Grave RevealedOriginally published on Live Science.
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| INTERVIEW-Serbia wants billions in foreign loans to invest in infrastructure - minister Posted: 12 Jul 2019 06:53 AM PDT ![INTERVIEW-Serbia wants billions in foreign loans to invest in infrastructure - minister]( "INTERVIEW-Serbia wants billions in foreign loans to invest in infrastructure - minister") Serbia plans to borrow billions of euros from China and other foreign countries in the coming years to fund investment in regional projects, its infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Friday. China views Serbia and other Balkan countries as part of its ambitious One Belt, One Road initiative to open trade links for Chinese companies. Serbia wants to join the European Union and to do so it must strengthen economic links with its neighbours including former Yugoslav republics, most of them foes from the bloody wars of the 1990s.
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| Venezuela seeks extradition of suspect accused of burning man to death Posted: 11 Jul 2019 03:37 PM PDT  Enzo Franchini Oliveros accused over death of Orlando José Figuera, 21, who was set alight during anti-government protestsVenezuela's government has insisted Figuera was the victim of a political hate crime, who was targeted for supporting the government. Photograph: Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/ReutersVenezuela is seeking the extradition from Spain of a man accused of burning another man to death during anti-government protests in Caracas two years ago.Enzo Franchini Oliveros is accused over the death of Orlando José Figuera, 21, who was beaten, stabbed, doused in petrol and set on fire during street clashes on 20 May 2017.Franchini was arrested on Monday in a town near Madrid, according to a Spanish national police spokesperson.Venezuela's top prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, made the arrest public on Wednesday, accusing Franchini of crimes including "attempted murder and terrorism".Protests against Nicolás Maduro rocked Venezuela for several months in 2017, prompting a brutal response from security forces. More than 130 people died in the unrest and thousands were injured – most of them anti-government protesters caught in the crackdown.Venezuela's government has insisted Figuera was the victim of a political hate crime, who was targeted for supporting the government.But the country's top chief prosecutor at the time of the incident, Luisa Ortega Díaz, concluded that Figuera was stabbed after an altercation over a job application. Figuera's assailant then accused him of being a thief; he was beaten, doused with petrol and set alight.Ortega now lives in exile, having broken with Maduro's government in August that year.The conditions that led to the 2017 protests continue today, as Maduro fends off challenges to his power from opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who is recognised as the legitimate leader by the US and most of the world's democracies.The United Nations' refugee agency estimates that 4 million Venezuelans have left the country to escape food shortages, insecurity and economic collapse.Last week, the UN's human rights chief accused Maduro's security forces of committing a series of "gross violations" against Venezuelan dissenters, including more than 5,000 extrajudicial executions.
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| Teenage rape victim in El Salvador handed 30-year prison sentence over stillbirth to face retrial for murder Posted: 11 Jul 2019 05:34 AM PDT  A teenage rape victim in El Salvador who was convicted for murdering her child and imprisoned for nearly three years after a stillbirth will now face a retrial next week.Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez was given a 30-year jail sentence in 2017 for aggravated murder by a female judge who ruled the teenager had induced an abortion.El Salvador has one of the harshest abortion bans in the world – it is even illegal in cases of rape and incest, when the woman's life is in danger or if the foetus is deformed.Ms Hernandez, now 21 and from a poor rural community, said she was raped and did not realise she was pregnant until she went into labour in a bathroom and gave birth to a stillborn baby.The Citizen Group for the Decriminalisation of Abortion (CDFA) said there was no proof that she tried to kill her baby and that she suffered a pregnancy-related complication.Miscarriages and stillbirths in El Salvador are often treated as suspected abortions, which have been considered murder under Salvadoran law since 1997. Abortion is a crime under any circumstance in the Central American country.The CDFA estimate around 20 women are in prison for abortion crimes in the socially conservative and Catholic majority nation when they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications – with some serving sentences of up to 40 years. The local rights organisation are campaigning for these jailed women to be freed.Ms Hernandez's sentence was annulled in February in an appeal before El Salvador's top court – signalling a victory for the CDFA.Ms Hernandez emerged from prison back then to chants of "Evelyn, you are not alone!" – having been allowed to live at home until the fresh trial. On Wednesday, her lawyers announced she would face a retrial next Monday. "We're convinced that Evelyn is innocent," Ana Martinez, one of Hernandez's lawyers at the CDFA, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "We hope that on Monday the rule of law and justice wins in this country."Ms Hernandez gave birth in the latrine of her home in a small rural community in April 2016. She lost consciousness after losing large amounts of blood.During her original trial, she said she had been repeatedly raped – with her lawyers saying she was too scared to report the rapes.Despite being in the third trimester, Ms Hernandez said she had confused the symptoms of pregnancy with stomach ache as she had experienced intermittent bleeding which she presumed to be her menstrual period. "I did not want to kill my son," she told the court.Mariana Ardila, managing attorney at advocacy group Women's Link Worldwide, said: "This new trial is an opportunity for Evelyn to find justice at last, and for El Salvador to stop criminalizing women who have medical complications during pregnancy."Women and girls all over the world deserve better health services, not jail. Judges must set aside their prejudices about women and adequately assess the context in which they live instead of condemning them for being poor and lacking access to health services during their pregnancies". Pro-choice activists say her retrial is key litmus test for El Salvador's new president's position on abortion. Nayib Bukele, who took office in June, has said he believes abortion should only be permitted if the mother's life is at risk."This case would be the first case that would be tried after the new president is in power," Paula Avila-Guillen, director for Latin America initiatives at the Women's Equality Center, a US-based reproductive rights advocacy group, said. "It will also send a message about what is the political mood."Although six other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have absolute bans on abortion, El Salvador stands out for its high number of convictions.The United Nations urged El Salvador in 2017 to issue a moratorium on applying its abortion law and to review all cases where women have been jailed for abortion-related crimes.However, attempts to pass a bill that would ease El Salvador's abortion ban have failed."One of the factors is a very religious and strong evangelical society," Avila-Guillen, a human rights lawyer supporting CDFA cases, said."There's no presumption of innocence. The moment that the word abortion gets thrown in a case, from that moment on women are guilty in the eyes of everyone."Amnesty International has argued El Salvador is "one of the most dangerous countries to be a woman". Women who are convicted of abortion in El Salvador are predominantly from poorer communities and have limited resources to fork out for a lawyer to defend them in court.
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| Four Britons held in China, two days after drugs bust Posted: 11 Jul 2019 09:01 PM PDT  Four Britons have been arrested in an eastern China province, the British embassy said Friday, two days after Chinese police announced a drug bust there involving 16 foreigners. Police in the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu province said on Wednesday that a total of 19 people were arrested in a drugs case centring on a local branch of a language school. "We are in contact with the Chinese authorities following the arrest of four British people in Jiangsu province, and are providing consular assistance," a spokeswoman with the British embassy in Beijing told AFP.
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| Colin Kaepernick's skin appears darkened in Republican campaign fundraiser ad Posted: 11 Jul 2019 06:45 AM PDT  A fundraising email sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee included a picture of Colin Kaepernick that appeared noticeably altered to make his skin darker, an attack ad tactic that is considered by many as racist.
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| Hurricane warning issued in Louisiana as Tropical Storm Barry gains strength in Gulf of Mexico Posted: 11 Jul 2019 07:59 PM PDT  Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to hit Louisiana and already-soaked New Orleans as a hurricane Saturday.
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| The Latest: Police say 5 Texans died in fiery NM crash Posted: 12 Jul 2019 04:43 PM PDT ![The Latest: Police say 5 Texans died in fiery NM crash]( "The Latest: Police say 5 Texans died in fiery NM crash") Authorities say all five people killed in a fiery crash in southeastern New Mexico's oil country were from Texas. New Mexico State Police say the crash happened Thursday morning on a state road east of Jal when the driver of a pickup truck crossed the center line into eastbound traffic and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer rig. Officer Ray Wilson said Friday it's unclear what caused the driver, identified as 22-year-old Arturo Barboza of Odessa, to cross the center line.
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