[Mail] More than 100 migrants have been taken into custody after being caught on camera scaling a border wall in Arizona - one week after 376 others had dug their way in near the same location.
'On Monday #CBP #YumaSector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 110+ Central Americans who illegally scaled the wall with the assistance of a smuggler with a ladder,' read a tweet from the agency's verified Twitter account, posted on Wednesday afternoon.
Video shows person after person hopping down to US soil after coming over the the top of the wall from the Mexico side.
On January 14, officials said 376 Central Americans migrants entered the US illegally through holes below the structure at the Arizona border.
Being a product of my age, the word "nurse" looks odd to me. The perp is in fact male.
[FOXNEWS] A licensed practical nurse who was supposed to care for a woman in a vegetative state at a long-term Arizona nursing facility was arrested and charged with raping her after she gave birth to a baby last month, officials announced Wednesday.
Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said at a news conference that 36-year-old Nathan Sutherland was arrested and will be charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse for the incident at the Hacienda Healthcare facility in Phoenix.
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The headline definitely looks odd, and should have read, "Male nurse arrested &c"
Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965)[1] is an American director, producer, and writer of film and television. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced or co-produced almost all of the films he has directed.
[WashingtonPost] One of the most severe cold air outbreaks in years is possible from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast next week as the jet stream crashes south and a large lobe of the polar vortex plunges toward the Great Lakes.
Computer models forecast the brutal cold to crash into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest starting Tuesday. The core of the frigid blast would grip the region from the Dakotas to the eastern Great Lakes on Wednesday and Thursday, sending cities such as Minneapolis, Des Moines, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit into a teeth-chattering [with some maximum temps below 0F]
freeze. much of the east has a high water table from the rainy summer and fall. Water expands when it turns to ice (and even continues to expand a bit until it hits about -40F) and all kinds of problems result.
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They use govt provided data as well as privately acquired data and produce various forecast products, some of which are broadcast..
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[AppleNews] The United States is on track to produce more crude oil and liquids than Russia and Saudi Arabia put together by 2025, consultancy Rystad Energy said on Thursday.
U.S. liquids output is expected to surpass 24 million barrels per day over the next six years, Rystad said, assuming average U.S. crude prices of $58 a barrel during the period.
[PULSE.NG] Zim-bob-we Congress of Trade Unions Secretary General Japhet Moyo was jugged Please don't kill me! on Monday as he flew into the country at Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... International. He denies the charges against him.
"He is facing charges of attempting to overthrow a constitutionally elected government... (and) incitement to public violence," his lawyer Alec Muchadehama told AFP at the courthouse in Harare.
"He totally denies these scandalous charges," the lawyer told the magistrates court during an early evening hearing.
Moyo is one of a number of high-profile activists arrested after the strike turned into nationwide protests with some rioting and looting.
At least 12 people died after a brutal crackdown by the military and the police, while hundreds more were arrested.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Irish police officers could be deployed to guard the border with British-run Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the European Union without a withdrawal pact in March, the Irish Independent newspaper said on Thursday.
The future of the border between EU-member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which will be Britain’s only land frontier with the bloc after its departure, is proving a major hurdle in the ratification of the Brexit divorce deal in London.
Citing a meeting of Police Commissioner Drew Harris with senior staff on Wednesday, the newspaper said the emergency plans were being drafted as part of discussions on a "worst case scenario".
About 600 officers could be required to man the estimated 300 border crossings along the 500-km (311-mile) frontier, it said, quoting sources.
A notice is expected to be issued next week seeking volunteers for secondments of six to 12 months, it added.
Reuters could not immediately reach a police spokesman to seek comment.
Something I noticed about #Venezuela this morning: Maduro ordered US diplomats out, but Trump refused - putting Maduro in the weird spot of perhaps forcibly ejecting them. Violating international norms to spark a reaction in order to justify intervention is a very Russian move.
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Trump has recognized Guaido as Venezuela President, thus not acknowledging Maduro's authority to order diplomats out. The US is not the only country to have recognized the coup - so have Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
Back when Bernie was barnstorming thru Michigan to great effect during the campaign for Prez, people were giddy for socialism. I happened to be at a tech meetup where most of the guests were 20-30 somethings. The topics of PHP and socialism came up. (tl;dr: PHP bad. Socialism good) When I mentioned Venezuela, not one of them knew what I was talking about.
If you get your news from NPR drive-time, it just never shows up on your radar.
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Another reason to make orbital microwave beam weapons. We can explode people while they are giving speeches. No need to put our people at risk, just a tunable, focused emitter, some large solar panels for power and ZAP!, another one bites the dust.
[NYP] US officials say they will not withdraw diplomats from Venezuela in three days ‐ despite President Nicolas Maduro ordering them to do so after the Trump administration recognized an opposition leader as president of the country.
"The United States does not recognize the Maduro regime as the government of Venezuela," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Wednesday night. "Accordingly the United States does not consider former president Nicolas Maduro to have the legal authority to break diplomatic relations with the United States or to declare our diplomats persona non grata."
The announcement comes after the Latin American country descended into chaos on Wednesday, with a sea of protesters taking to the streets of Caracas to call for Maduro to step down.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the interim president amidst the demonstrations ‐ and the Trump administration recognized him as the leader of the country.
Maduro responded on Wednesday by saying Venezuela is severing ties with the United States and ordering all US diplomats out of the country in the next 72 hours.
"The United States will take appropriate actions to hold accountable anyone who endangers the safety and security of our mission and its personnel," Pompeo warned in his statement.
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We're asking for trouble on this one. Let them sit it out at the US Mission in Bogota, Colombia. The US recognizing (non-elected) opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president ?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ...Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
said Caracas is breaking off diplomatic relations with the US, giving American diplomats 72 hours to leave the country, after Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... recognized the opposition leader as interim head.
Maduro announced the move to a large crowd of cheering supporters from a balcony of the presidential Miraflores Palace in Caracas, shortly after the US, and then several Latin American countries decided to recognize the opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Clashes broke in Caracas, on Wednesday, as opposition supporters rallied against the government administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... Earlier in the day, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself "Interim-President of Venezuela" during an opposition rally.
Juan Guaido, who is the leader of the opposition and the head of the National Assembly, declared the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro, on January 10, and swore himself in as Interim President of Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... was among the first world leaders to recognise Guaido as acting president. Other governments including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia followed suit.
Thousands of supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rallied in Caracas in protest against the announcement.
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BEIJING (AP) ‐ China on Thursday said it has detained a Chinese-Australian writer for allegedly "endangering China’s national security," a vague charge frequently leveled at critics of the ruling Communist Party.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying offered no details about the charge against Yang Hengjun, a novelist and online commentator, in response to a question at a daily news briefing.
"According to our understanding, the Australian national Yang Hengjun was suspected of engaging in criminal activities endangering China’s national security," Hua said.
"At present, the case is being handled according to law, and Yang Hengjun’s legitimate rights and interests have been fully guaranteed," she said.
Hua said Yang’s case was in the hands of the Beijing city branch of the national intelligence bureau, potentially raising it to a higher level of scrutiny by state authorities. She said Australia’s embassy in China had been informed of the measures taken against him.
Friends said Yang, 53, had been living in New York as a visiting scholar at Columbia University with his wife and her child and had returned to China last week. Australia raised the issue of his disappearance on Wednesday.
[Air Cargo News] Amazon Air is expanding its network with the lease of a further 10 Boeing 767-300 freighters from lessor ATSG, with options for even more.
The move will bring the e-commerce giant’s fleet of aircraft to 50 ‐ it leases a further 20 from ATSG and 20 from Atlas Air ‐ when all the aircraft are delivered in two years.
The ten aircraft will be leased from ATSG subsidiary Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) and operated by one of the company's airlines.
CAM will deliver five of the B767s in 2019 and the remainder in 2020. All of the leases will be for 10 years, with the possibility to extend them for up to three more years.
Amazon will also have the option to lease a further 17 cargo aircraft by January 2026 if it increases its shareholding (see details below) in ATSG.
The deal will also see ATSG extend its five-year leases of twelve B767-200F aircraft by two years into 2023, with an option to extend for up to three additional years, and its existing seven-year leases of eight B767-300F aircraft by three years until 2026 and 2027, with an option to extend for up to three additional years.
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Saw my first Amazon ground delivery truck the other day. I guess they figure they can reduce the big delivery cost center by moving it in house and squeezing out UPS, FedEx and the USPS. They will control the whole process of retailing using the old John D Rockefeller Standard Oil business model.
[CNBC] U.S. President Donald Trump has found support from an unlikely source in Europe - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte - who told CNBC that the controversial president could be a catalyst for reform.
“The U.S. has voted and Trump is the president and maybe he will be re-elected ... so we have to work with him, and I think he is an opportunity,” Rutte told CNBC’s Geoff Cutmore at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“He is an opportunity to make changes to some of those multilateral institutions that we hold dearly, like the World Trade Organization (WTO) which is not functioning very well. Or take the United Nations or European Union -- there are many issues to solve,” he added.
MILAN (AP) ‐ Europe’s human rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox financial damages for police failure to provide legal assistance and a translator during a long night of questioning following the Nov. 1, 2007 murder of her British roommate. But the court said there was insufficient evidence to support claims of psychological and physical mistreatment at the hands of police.
The European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France, said in its ruling that Italy hadn’t succeeded in proving that "the restriction of Ms. Knox’s access to a lawyer ... had not irreparably undermined the fairness of the proceedings as a whole." It ordered damages that Italy must pay Knox 18,400 euros ($20,000) in damages, costs and expenses.
"Ms. Knox had been particularly vulnerable, being a foreign young woman, 20 at the time, not having been in Italy for very long and not being fluent in Italian," the court noted.
After more than seven years of legal battles and flip-flop decisions, Knox, now 31, was definitively acquitted of Meredith Kercher’s murder by Italy’s highest court in March 2015, but a damaging conviction for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner of the murder was confirmed, leaving a cloud over her acquittal.
Nothing subtle about that bit of econ blackmail.
[Bus Insider] PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus warned on Thursday it could shift future wing-building out of Britain in the absence of a smooth exit from the European Union, predicting "potentially very harmful decisions" for its British operations in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit.
In a direct appeal to Britain's divided parliament to avoid such an outcome, Chief Executive Tom Enders acknowledged there would be no immediate change in its industrial presence, but issued his sharpest warning yet that future jobs are at risk.
"The UK's aerospace sector now stands at the precipice," Enders said in a video released on Airbus' website.
"If there is a no-deal Brexit, we at Airbus will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the UK."
The world's second-largest aerospace group employs 14,000 people in Britain, including 6,000 at its main wings factory at Broughton, Wales, and 3,000 in Filton, western England, where wings are designed and supported.
Critics of previous warnings by Airbus have cast doubt on whether the France-based group would move significant operations out of Britain, arguing Broughton is an efficient factory and that the case for staying is buoyed by a weak sterling.
German-born Enders insisted Airbus was not bluffing, adopting a more partisan tone than in previous statements.
[NYP] As the number of extremely wealthy people worldwide has grown, so too has the market for private flights.
Despite global warming being one of the major issues discussed at Davos every year, some 1,500 private jets are expected this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to an estimate from Air Charter Service, up from 1,300 last year. "We have had bookings from as far as our operations in Hong Kong, India and the US," Andy Christie, private jets director at ACS, said in a statement. "No other event has the same global appeal."
"There appears to be a trend towards larger aircraft, with expensive heavy jets the aircraft of choice," Christie said. "This is at least in part due to some of the long distances traveled, but also possibly due to business rivals not wanting to be seen to be outdone by one another." Over the past five years, most private jets have come from or are going to Germany, France, the UK, the US, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, he added.
PrivateFly.com, a private jet service, expects between 1,200 and 1,500 private jets in and out of local airports around Davos, double the average daily volume of flight traffic to the area. "The primary airport used by private jet customers flying to Davos is Zurich Airport. This is 91 miles away, or 1 hour 45 minutes by road. So some visitors will also charter a helicopter for a faster transfer time," the company said.
Air travel comes with a hefty carbon footprint, generating greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Davos attendees will have an opportunity to discuss that issue in depth, with "Safeguarding Our Planet" the title of one of the panel sessions scheduled for Tuesday. "The World Economic Forum Climate Initiative provides a global platform to help raise ambition and accelerate climate action," according to the WEF. "Public- and private-sector collaboration is essential to create a marketplace that will enable dramatic reductions in emissions and build resilience."
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] ST. LOUIS • As a French diplomat pinned his country’s most distinguished medal to Alfred C. Villagran’s chest, the World War II veteran thought of the five men in his B-17 bomber crew who were killed in combat.
"I think they would be very proud of me," said Villagran, who was 19 when he served in the Army Air Forces as a B-17 radio operator and gunner. "But I like to think that I accepted this not only for myself but for all the guys that fought for France and Western Europe. There are a lot of deserving guys who didn’t make it back."
At 95, Villagran, of Chesterfield, was the youngest of three men and World War II veterans France awarded the Legion of Honor on Wednesday at Soldiers Memorial.
The French also gave Eugene J. Harmack, of Kirkwood, and Glenn A. Harrison, of O’Fallon, Mo., the honor, which was started in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte. Both men are 98.
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] France has been giving the award to veterans in America’s "Greatest Generation" for their aid in liberating the country from Nazi occupation. Past recipients include President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and hometown aviator Charles Lindbergh.
"Without these three gentleman here today, the French flag ‐ that was flying in St. Louis in the early 19th century ‐ would not be flying here today," Guillaume Lacroix, consul general of France for the Midwest, told an audience of more than 200 people, including dozens of the veterans’ family and friends.
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I have a distant ancestor who migrated from Burgundy in 1737 to help start an iron works in Quebec. In 1944 one of his descendants parachuted over St. Mere-Eglise with the 82nd Airborne, returning to liberate the old country with steel from the new country.
[PULSE.NG] Her train journey from Sweden took 32 hours, but Greta Thunberg is not tired. The teenager is dead-set in her mission to persuade the global elite in Davos to take climate action.
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"Sure lady, just step right into this booth right here and make the selection of your choice. I recommend slow and painful. Enjoy your sacrifice for the planet!"
I mean, if they are serious, why aren't they offing themselves?
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I seem to recall that air travel is actually pretty fuel efficient. Corrections welcome.
For real virtue signaling, Creepy Kid should have traveled by ox cart.
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Environmentalists that want to actually change things should make a very good case for that change and provide a reasonable solution, and folks will change. They want to do good.
Examples: Save the dolphins eat albacore instead.
McDonald's Styrofoam packaging. Stopping the pull-top pollution. Heck litter in general.
Yeah you actually have to have a good case, and a solution, the top down force the peasants to change isn't gonna cut it.
[PULSE.NG] A group of French "yellow vest" protesters announced plans Wednesday to field candidates in this year's European Parliament elections, with a 31-year-old health worker to lead a list that a poll suggests could win up to 13 percent of the vote.
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[PULSE.NG] Chronic overcrowding in cities like Venice and Barcelona is sparking an angry backlash from locals, who complain that a surge in visitors is making life intolerable. "Oh, please, please! Let us come back and spend money here!"
Locals complain that home-sharing sites like Airbnb are driving up rents in picturesque city centres, forcing locals out, and they voice concerns over the environmental impact of cruise liners.
"If there are too many people, if people don't want to come, if those who live here are upset and spend their days protesting, that affects us all. It is not sustainable," the head of Barcelona-based tourist firm Advanced Leisure Services, Angel Diaz, told AFP.
The issue is a central focus at the Fitur international tourism fair, which got under way Wednesday in Madrid with 10,000 exhibitors and an expected 250,000 visitors.
On the programme at the five-day event are several conferences dedicated to combatting overtourism and developing responsible, sustainable alternatives.
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One cure for overtourism is vastly higher prices. Charge $1000 per capita for a single day's visit to Venice, that should take care of their problems. If that isn't high enough, $10,000, or beyond!
I tell my own tribe to sell citizenship in the tribe to any interested parties for $50 million or so. Lots of wannabes out there with that kind of money to burn.
[DAWN] The leaders of France and Germany signed a new treaty on Tuesday to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord, aiming to reinvigorate the European Union’s main axis as growing euro-sceptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion.
At a ceremony in the German border city of Aachen, a historic symbol of The leaders of France and Germany signed a new treaty on Tuesday to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord, aiming to reinvigorate the European Union’s main axis as growing euro-sceptic nationalism tests the bloc’s cohesion.
At a ceremony in the German border city of Aachen, a historic symbol of European concord, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron sought to show they can provide fresh leadership for the troubled EU project.
But some analysts doubt that France and Germany can still lead an EU that has grown to 28 members with diverse and often conflicting interests and priorities.
The two leaders want the 16-page Aachen Treaty, negotiated over the past year to update the 1963 Elysee Treaty, to give an impulse to European unity that has been strained by Brexit, immigration and the euro zone crisis.European concord, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron sought to show they can provide fresh leadership for the troubled EU project.
But some analysts doubt that France and Germany can still lead an EU that has grown to 28 members with diverse and often conflicting interests and priorities.
The two leaders want the 16-page Aachen Treaty, negotiated over the past year to update the 1963 Elysee Treaty, to give an impulse to European unity that has been strained by Brexit, immigration and the euro zone crisis.
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Seen this one before. So who are they planning to invade?
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Treaty of .... Aachen?
"I will take 'What Was The capitol of the Carolingian Empire?' for 500$, Alex." Last time Germany and France, or large parts of them, were one kingdom.
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'Friendship treaty' sounds like a school-girl tea party. Let's call it the German-Franco Co-Prosperity Sphere - something with some steel to it! We'll show those Eastern Euro upstarts who is boss.
Fregattenkapitän Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (11 December 1911 – 18 April 1986) was a submarine commander in the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was sixth among the top ten successful U-boat commanders during the Battle of the Atlantic against the Allies, in terms of tonnage of merchant ships sunk. He commanded four U-boats, and his most successful tour was commanding the U-96 a Type VIIC U-boat, which gained widespread recognition when one of its patrols was documented and publicized by an accompanying member of a propaganda company Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Lehmann-Willenbrock was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The story of the U-96 was eventually made into a mini-series and film called Das Boot, in which the captain was portrayed by Jürgen Prochnow.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted the appeal of Khadija Siddiqui ─ a law student who was stabbed 23 times in Lahore in 2016 ─ and overturned the Lahore High Court's 2018 acquittal of Shah Hussain, ordering his immediate arrest.
Siddiqui had accused Shah Hussain of attacking her on May 3, 2016, near Lahore's Shimla Hill where she, along with her driver, had gone to pick up her younger sister from school.
A judicial magistrate on July 29, 2017 had sentenced Hussain to seven-year imprisonment; however, Hussain was acquitted by the LHC the following year.
A three-member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, after hearing arguments from both sides on Wednesday, accepted Siddiqui's appeal to overturn the acquittal and declared the LHC's verdict null and void.
On the court's orders, Shah Hussain was taken into custody from outside the courtroom.
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[DAWN] A sessions court in Peshawar on Wednesday sentenced a man to eight years imprisonment and imposed Rs50,000 fine after declaring him guilty of harassing and blackmailing a woman and her family, DawnNewsTV reported.
The convict, Ahsan Sheraz, No relation to the wine...
had created a Facebook ID and uploaded pictures of a woman and her family and then blackmailed them.
A complaint was registered with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in 2017 against the convict by Syed Mehboob, the victim's father. Following an investigation carried out by the FIA's cybercrime wing, Sheraz was taken in custody and his laptop and smartphones were also confiscated.
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[DAWN] A man from Rawalpindi was tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on Wednesday after his daughter accused him of having raped and impregnated her, said police.
The 16-year-old girl alleged that her father had been sexually abusing her over the past year and she had finally decided to approach the police after learning that she has become pregnant.
Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the man on the complaint of his daughter under Section 376 of the Pakistain Penal Code.
According to the first information report (FIR), a copy of which is available with DawnNewsTV, the teenage victim is the second eldest child among three sisters and three brothers. The family lives on Rawalpindi's Girja road and her father works at a nearby brick kiln.
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Progress... of a sort. In the past they would have arrested her.
[DAWN] Three women accused of murdering a 15-year-old domestic worker in Lahore were handed over to police custody on a two-day physical remand on Wednesday. The case proceedings were held in a district and sessions court, where Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Zia Khan pronounced the court's decision.
On Sunday, the body of a teenage domestic worker was recovered by police from a stormwater drain in Lahore's Iqbal Town area.
Later on Tuesday, Superintendent Police (SP) Investigation Shazia Sarwar announced the arrest of three suspects in connection with the alleged murder of the domestic worker.
Subsequently, a case was registered against the three women ‐ owner of the house where the victim worked, the owner's daughter and her sister-in-law ‐ on the complaint of the victim's father under Sections 302 (punishment for qatl-e-amd), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Pakistain Penal Code.
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[SpaceNews] A partial government shutdown now nearly five weeks old is affecting a growing number of space companies and organizations as well as the agencies themselves shuttered by the lapse in funding.
Much of the federal government has been shut down since a continuing resolution, or stopgap appropriations bill, funding them lapsed Dec. 22. The shutdown, now the longest on record, affects NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies, furloughing most of their workforce and limiting them to essential operations only.
The shutdown is hindering activities of a number of companies and organizations that work with, need information or require approvals from affected agencies. In one case, Exos Aerospace, a Texas company that has already delayed a suborbital launch from New Mexico’s Spaceport America once because of the shutdown, said it’s pushing back that launch again because of effects of the shutdown.
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[National Review] The New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) this evening by a vote of 38-24, on the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which found that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion. The bill already passed the state assembly by a 92-47 vote.
Once signed by Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, who has long pushed for expansive abortion-rights legislation, the bill will expand the state’s already liberal abortion regime to allow late-term abortions when "the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health."
The legislation provides a further exception to permit abortion at any point during pregnancy if a health-care practitioner deems it necessary for the mother’s life or health ‐ the exception that was defined in Roe companion case Doe v. Bolton as "all factors ‐ physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age ‐ relevant to the wellbeing of the patient." In other words, abortion will be available to women essentially on demand up to the point of birth. The RHA will also decriminalize abortion, moving it from the state’s criminal code to the public-health code.
Earlier this month, Cuomo said he hopes to put abortion rights on the ballot next year and have expansive protections for abortion, similar to the RHA, written into the state constitution. Here’s more from Katie Yoder’s reporting on the bill at NRO earlier this month:
[Babylon Bee] ALBANY, NY—As the New York State Senate voted to legalize abortion until the moment of birth, remove legal protections for late-term unborn babies, and allow anyone with a pulse to perform abortion procedures, witnesses claim a demon lord was clearly visible in the gallery cheering on the decision.
"This dude in a dark cloak appeared in a flash of fire and started cackling and stuff," said one woman who also applauded the decision. "We thought maybe we should call security, but then we saw he was cheering right along with us, so we decided that he can't be all that bad."
The demon lord solemnly applauded as legislators passed the historic legislation, in which a human being can be murdered even though he or she has fully formed organs and can feel pain.
"We've been pushing for this legislation for a long time," the evil overlord told reporters after the session. "It just goes to show when you believe in your cause, scream loudly about it, ignore basic biological facts, and pray to Satan, you too can get people to cheer on the senseless slaughter of babies."
The demon lord then departed as he had pressing business to attend to at Planned Parenthood's headquarters.
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Evil Incarnate. How about this.. In order for this to take place, the baby will be delivered 24 hours prior to birth. The mother will then be required to perform the "procedure". You want the blood of innocents on your hands? So be it.
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Murder is now permitted in New York! Some smart lawyer needs to ask if you short the woman going in for a 9th month abortion if it would be charged as one homicide or two.
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Texas should pass a law that for every abortion in the state, the state must execute 10 criminals. If we run out of criminals, then we can use Antifa.
[10News recycles AyPee] Don't patronize/visit/spend any money at all in Bezerkeley
Patrons of restaurants and coffee shops in Berkeley, California, who don't bring a reusable cup for their beverage will have to pay a 25-cent fee for a disposable cup as part of an ordinance approved by city officials to eliminate restaurant waste.
Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the fee on single-use cups, which will take effect January 2020
"The goal is to transition Berkeley from throwaway to reusable food ware, to incentivize people to bring their own cup," said Councilwoman Sophie Hahn, who proposed the ordinance with Mayor Jesse Arreguin.
Restaurants would keep all proceeds, and it would be up to them to decide what to do with the extra money, Hahn said. She said it could be invested on more environmentally friendly food ware.
The ordinance also requires restaurants to provide takeout containers that are compostable by mid-2020 and to provide only reusable plates and utensils for those eating in. It also says other disposable items, like lids and stirrers, can only be offered when requested.
The single-use cup fee is the latest effort in the socially forward city to reduce waste. Bans on plastic bags received support in the city of 100,000 long before California imposed its own ban in 2014.
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I can't wait for the lawsuits over who is at fault when someone gets food poisoning.
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At our Texas place we have no garbage service and generally pack it back to Louisiana when we return every few weeks. So we compost what we can, burn what we can of the rest, take aluminum to the Church recycling bin (it's the only recycled product in the area) and pack out about one contractor bag of bottles & steel cans etc.
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In the future everyone will carry around their own drinking receptacle, plate, knives & forks and such. Restaurants will adapt but won't drop the prices. Environmentalists will still not be happy of course.
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