[An Nahar] Spanish authorities have seized over 800 kilos (1,700 pounds) of cocaine from a yacht in the Atlantic, smashing a ring that smuggled drugs from Latin America to Europe, the interior ministry said Thursday.
Police jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 16 people and seized the yacht as well as a catamaran, several vehicles, a gun and cash in the probe, the ministry said in a statement.
Spanish authorities intercepted the yacht on September 2 in international waters north of Portugal's Azores islands and arrested its four crew members -- two Estonians, a Serbian and a Spaniard -- after finding more than 800 kilos of cocaine on board.
Police arrested another 12 people in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia suspected of involvement in trafficking of the narcotics.
"With this operation, a network of drug-traffickers who offered their services to South American drug suppliers has been dismantled," the statement said.
The police did not say how much the drugs were worth.
In July, Spanish authorities seized 500 kilos of cocaine from a yacht off the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, breaking up a ring that smuggled drugs from Latin America to the Spanish archipelago.
Spain is a key entry point for drugs bound for Europe.
Spanish authorities seized 20.7 tonnes of cocaine last year, 24.9 percent more than in the previous year, and 325.5 tonnes of hashish, down 8.5 percent from 2011, according to the interior ministry.
That represented 41.2 percent of the total amount of cocaine seized in Europe last year and 74 percent of the hashish.
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On a long voyage to avoid taxes in Massachusetts?
[MYNEWS13] Orange County deputies said a man accused of trying to rob the gift shop at the Catholic Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe didn't get far, thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.
Deputies said Anthony Garcia, 31, walked into the gift shop at the shrine, on Vineland Avenue in south Orlando, around 1:30 p.m. and demanded the cashier hand over all the money in the drawer.
Investigators say Garcia grabbed the entire drawer from the register.
But as he tried to run, his pants started to slip off his waist, deputies say. "Pants on the ground,
Pants on the ground,
Lookin' like a fool
Witcher pants on the ground!"
"Now, remember: He's holding a drawer," said Jane Watrel, with the Orange County Sheriff's Office. "Both hands are on the drawer. So, he tries to take one hand pull up his pants. Well, the director of maintenance saw his opening, caught up with him, pulled his pants down and then put him in a cradle."
Two deputies who were near the shrine on Vineland Avenue in the area who were able to get to there quickly.
As for the man who made the tackle, he says he only acted because Garcia didn't have a weapon.
Garcia was on probation at the time of the robbery, deputies said.
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You got to realize that there is an outlet mall just up the street with deputies sitting there to direct traffic. So the response time would be about zero. Is it police brutalilty if they all point and laugh?
Pennsylvania police said a minivan with two clowns inside crashed outside the Syrian Chemical Weapons talks York Fair around 6 p.m. Wednesday when the driver missed the entrance and collided with reality an SUV while making a U-turn.
The minivan was also pulling a trailer with Congress a clown car.
Police said the driver, Barak Obama 83-year-old James Billingsley of York, also known as Obumbles "Dimples the Clown," suffered a major foreign policy defeat minor bump on the head. His passenger clown, John "Lurch" Kerry 77-year-old Norman Clouser of York, was unhurt.
Police said "Obumbles" "Dimples" was wearing a huge ego clown shoes and the ego but the oversized footwear apparently did didn't play a role in the crash.
West York Borough police Sgt. Brad Thomas said both vehicles had to be scrapped towed. He didn't know if the clowns ever made it to the peace talks fair.
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I thought "Feral Pig Drinks 18 Beers, Fights Cow, Loses, Sleeps It Off Under Tree" might not fit as a headline.
Sometimes I miss the old country, and this is one of those times.
[MAGHAREBIA] In an attempt to offer an outlet for Algerian youth, a trio of journalists on Saturday (September 7th) transformed the "suicide bridge" in the heights of Algiers to a "bridge of love".
Inspired by the "Pont des arts" in La Belle France and other bridges around the world, the organisers invited lovers to hang a padlock on the highly symbolic bridge in Telemly.
The operation was a huge success. Even the mayor of Algiers hung a padlock.
There were, of course, lovers but also people who wanted to express their love for Algeria, or for a child, or to celebrate a lasting friendship. The three initiators wanted to create a symbol for young people, who constantly suffer humiliation and who think only of migration.
And then the salafists showed up.
Armed with pliers, they cut the padlocks. They also unfurled their salafist flag.
Idir Tazerout, one of the organisers, could not hide his disappointment. He told Magharebia that although the operation was a failure, it opened up a debate on love in Algeria.
It'd be a shorter debate if you just shot the salafists...
"It will remain a case study that has allowed us to speak about love without complexes and to face each other," he said, noting this was symptomatic of two clashing social projects. "If we have to do again, we will," he added.
"I stopped on a bridge where 25 suicides had taken place so far including that of a journalist from APS. If only our colleague had not did away with himself. If only she had waited for this day, to see that the youth of her country still believe in tomorrow, still believe in love and want Algeria to move forward," Tazerout wrote in L'Expression.
He responded to those accusing him of launching an initiative copied from the West, saying "No, we are not launching a war against religion. No, we are not at war with our customs."
"We are against obscurantism which prefers to silence noble sentiments in favour of expressions of hatred, which prefers Jihad Annikah to an innocent couple who hangs a padlock and promises to always love each other," he said.
Journalist and co-organiser Mehdi Mhenni said that a salafist wanted to spoil the celebration by describing the action as "heresy" but love had triumphed - at least for a day - over "hysteria".
Some could not hide their disappointment at the salafist reaction.
But unfortunately they didn't take their disappointment to its natural end and shoot them...
"It is unfortunate that in a country where dirt piles up on the sidewalks, corruption is rampant and crimes continue to gain momentum, there is nothing better to do than condemn love and pull down its symbols," Telemly resident Noria Rahmouna told Magharebia.
Mourad Mouhoubi, an executive, said that it was necessary to draw lessons from this initiative. "It concerns us insofar as it is essential to be aware that when we no longer sow love, hate takes over with all that its implied consequences, including terrorism," he said.
"Algerians are just a little too conservative and shy. This western action offended their customs and they feel a bit attacked. For once, we tried to make sense of love away from taboos in a country maimed by violence and permanently sowing hatred," said Karim in a hurt voice.
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And then the salafists showed up.
Armed with pliers, they cut the padlocks. They also unfurled their salafist flag.
[Al Ahram] Ailing Bouteflika's massive reorganisation of the cabinet, in which he gave key posts to close allies, aims to ensure he has control over his succession next year, analysts and media say
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Russia is celebrating its eighth annual 'day of conception' as couples in the eastern region of Ulyanovsk are being advised to stay at home to procreate.
Governor of the region Sergey Morozov has urged bosses to allow men and women the 12th of September off work in order to try and reproduce. Lends a new dimension to "hump day," doesn't it?
In past years prizes have been awarded to couples who give birth in exactly nine months from the unofficial public holiday. In 2012 the winning pair were presented with a jeep, while in 2011 the award was a jeep. I wonder what they'll give away this year? And wouldn't a minivan be more appropriate?
The regional celebration is part of a gesture to increase Russia's struggling birth rate.
In 2006, during his televised State of the Nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent crisis facing Russia was its demographic crisis. At the time, the country's population was declining by at least 700,000 people a year.
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...yep, a Pride Parade won't lead to a new crop of future little tax payers running around in 9 months. Putie can read demography and doesn't have to worry about pandering for votes next year.
[An Nahar] Icelandic Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson said Thursday the island had suspended European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... accession talks indefinitely, following up on an election promise made earlier this year.
"We have dissolved our task force and negotiation teams, and there won't be any other summits," Sveinsson told parliament.
A Euro-skeptic center-right coalition won legislative elections in April, running on a program that included an end to accession talks.
"The government is in agreement on this subject. The process has been suspended. But nothing has been closed down, and we will improve our communication and strengthen our ties with the EU without actually joining," Sveinsson said.
Public opinion on the island has so far been against membership of the EU, with fisheries posing a major obstacle.
Reykjavik and Brussels have tried, but so far failed, to resolve a dispute over mackerel, with the EU threatening trade sanctions if Iceland does not reduce its quota.
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[Al Ahram] Police used water canon and tear gas overnight Wednesday in a bid to break up fresh anti-government protests across Turkey, media said.
Thousands of people angry over the death of a 22-year-old demonstrator in southern Turkey on Monday clashed with police in Istanbul, the capital Ankara, the western city of Izmir as well as in the southern cities of Mersin and Atakya.
In Istanbul, the Turkish commercial hub where an unprecedented wave of anti-government protests erupted in June, around a thousand protesters clashed with police who fired tear gas and water canon, the CNN-Turk television channel reported.
Several protesters were hurt and around 20 were tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... during the demonstrations in Kadikoy Square, it said.
In Izmir, a large city in the west, more than 2,500 people marched through the city centre in defiance of police who fired tear gas, the newspaper Hurriyet said.
It said the crowd shouted "AKP murderer," denouncing the governing Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Similar festivities occurred in Ankara, Mersin and in Antakya, the city in southern Turkey near the Syrian border where Ahmet Atakan, 22, died Monday night.
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[Dawn] An anti-terrorist court in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Thursday ordered a seven-day-long physical remand of former Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) politician Nadeem Hashmi who was earlier incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! on murder and terror charges over the killing of two coppers.
Hashmi, in charge of the MQM's North Nazimabad unit, was handed over to the police following the order of the ATC.
The former politician was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Tuesday killing of two coppers in a North Nazimabad locality.
He was apprehended in a raid on his house in North Nazimabad and booked under the anti-terror law, killing of two coppers and snatching their official rifles.
The raid was carried out by the police on the house of the former politician, who was booked in a case (FIR 181/13) under Sections 302 (premeditated murder), 397 (robbery or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the Pakistain Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 at the Hyderi Market cop shoppe.
The FIR was lodged on behalf of the state.
The Investigation Officer (IO) had requested the court for a two week long remand, whereas Hashmi's counsel Shaukat Hayat had said that no evidence was available against his client and that the remand should therefore last no longer than three days.
Speaking to news hounds outside the court today, Hayat said there was no need to send the former MPA on a week long remand, adding that no witnesses were named in the FIR against his client.
The counsel added that no arms and ammunition were seized from Hashmi during the raid on his residence.
Nadeem Hidayat Hashmi, 49, was elected an MPA in the 2013 by-election from a provincial assembly seat (PS-103) in North Nazimabad.
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[Dawn] The bodies of three migrant labourers who were kidnapped the previous night from near Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's port city of Gwadar were found dumped in the nearby hills on Thursday, officials said.
The victims had been picked up by unknown gunnies the previous night from a stone-crushing plant at Sansar, around 70 kilometres north of the Gwadar port.
Levies officers told DawnNews that all three bodies bore bullet wounds. The whereabouts of a fourth kidnapped man, the owner of the plant, were still unknown.
"Gunmen came during the night and attacked. They set fire to machinery at the plant, kidnapped the owner and three labourers," local official Dostain Baloch told news agency AFP.
"They took away all of them and later on, during the night, they killed the three labourers and discarded their bodies. The owner is still with them," he added.
Another local official, Mohammed Akbar, and Mohammed Omar, the partner of the kidnapped owner, confirmed the attack.
The bodies of the victims were later sent back to their families in their respective areas.
Pakistain's southwestern Balochistan province is believed to have substantial oil and gas reserves, but is beset by a Baloch nationalist insurgency.
Earlier this year, Pakistain approved the transfer of Gwadar from Singapore's PSA International to the state-owned China Overseas Port Holdings Limited.
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[Dawn] Enraged villagers lynched two policemen in Tarnol area in the dead of Tuesday night allegedly to avenge the death of a co-villager at the hands of the law enforcers.
Islamabad police were tight lipped over the gruesome street justice, delivered to ASI Mohammad Ramzan and constable Ansar Abbas of Ramna police station by the residents of Doray village.
Both the police and the villagers narrated contradictory versions of the bloody event.
Three senior police officers, however, confided to Dawn on condition of anonymity that their two colleagues had intercepted a man, Hayat, around 11pm Tuesday and found narcotics on him.
When the carrier told them that he had purchased the stuff from a drug peddler in Doray village, the two policemen headed for the village with an informer.
According to the three officers, Doray is notorious for "harbouring generations of criminals", so much so that police advise the households in its neighbourhoods not to employ anyone from the village as domestic servant.
When the two policemen and their informer reached the village about midnight, they were accosted by some villagers about their mission.
And that allegedly led to a deadly brawl between the villagers and the policemen in which one Raja Nadeem was killed.
That infuriated the villagers who seized the two policemen, pushed them into a room of a big house where the revenge seekers mercilessly stoned them to death.
A caller informed Rescue 15 about the brawl and gunshots which made Tarnol police send a force to maintain law and order in Doray village.
A search team, accompanied by senior police officers and assistant commissioner of Islamabad, also arrived to look for the incommunicado Ramna policemen.
Alerted by such big force, the murderous villagers fled the scene and the search party found one of the policemen dead.
The other died before their eyes, with a wall of the room red with their blood and stones and bricks strewn all around.
The police informer was luckier. He was found in another room, all naked and shivering, and was rescued, according to the senior police officers.
Villager Raja Imran registered a case with Tarnol police that the two policemen, accompanied by his family's "rival", raided their house which resulted in a brawl and the death of his brother Raja Nadeem by a shot fired by the policemen.
Islamabad police have also registered a case against more than 20 villagers on charges of murder, murder attempt, wrongful confinement, rioting with deadly weapons and unlawful assembly. Police named some of the accused in the FIR.
A villager claimed to Dawn that four persons intercepted Raja Nadeem and tried to snatch cash and valuables from him. His resistance "provoked the robbers", and one of them shot him fatally.
He said the gunshots brought villagers to the scene. Enraged at seeing Raja Nadeem lying on the ground dying, the crowd overpowered three "robbers" while the fourth one escaped.
The villager claimed the seized men were shifted to a house for handing them over to police.
Another villager said that relatives and friends of Raja Nadeem erupted in anger on hearing about his death.
Despite the intervention of village elders, they vented their anger on the policemen by stoning them which resulted in their death.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dr Mohammad Rizwan told Dawn that the district magistrate, Deputy Commissioner Amir Ahmed Ali, has appointed assistant deputy commissioner revenue Farasat Ali Khan to conduct an inquiry into the killing of two policemen and establish the facts, as soon as possible.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] The principal of Concord Carlisle High School in Boston issued an apology Wednesday after a Mohammedan poem was recited over the intercom on the 12th anniversary of 9/11, and the Pledge of Allegiance was not. Concord Bridge is about 5 miles down the road...
According to principal Peter Badalament, a "small number" of people were outraged at the poem, which was meant to promote "cross-cultural understanding," Boston.com reported. Apparently, the Pledge of Allegiance was not read because of some confusion. No confusion over reading the poem though...
"Yesterday was the first Wednesday of the school year; we were unaware that our student Pledge reader had an internship commitment on this day," Mr. Badalament said in the statement. "This was our responsibility to know. We humbly apologize that this oversight and communication gap occurred." So, of course, we couldn't do it. I mean he was the only one who knew the words. No, really...
Mohja Kahf's "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears," tells a granddaughter's account of watching her grandmother adhere to the religious Mohammedan custom of washing her feet five times a day, Boston.com reported. Next year it could be "My Kid Can't Recite the Pledge of Allegiance on 9/11 Because His Principal is a Lying Liberal Asshole"...
"Respectable Sears matrons shake their heads and frown," Miss Kahf writes, "as they notice what my grandmother is doing ... an affront to American porcelain ... a contamination of American Standards by something foreign and unhygienic requiring civic action and possible use of disinfectant spray." Where the hell did they dig up this piece of shit? It's almost as bad as, "I Rise"...
Mr. Badalament said the district will "integrate the feedback that has been offered into our future work with students," Boston.com reported. Here's some feedback...fuck you!
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They probably don't even remember what day 9/11 happened on.
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I live not far from this place and it is just one of the area's ultra-liberal rich cess pools. The people that live here are generally (not all but the large majority) snobs to the nth degree looking down their noses at anything patriotic or humble or "fly-over".
These communities is the place where the creme-de-la-creme of the Harvard elite congregate.
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Apparently, the Pledge of Allegiance was not read because of some confusion. "Yesterday was the first Wednesday of the school year; we were unaware that our student Pledge reader had an internship commitment on this day," Mr. Badalament said in the statement.
only one student can read the Pledge? Are they the only one that knows it? Wanna bet Principal Badalment didn't spend a lotta time looking for a quick fill-in? His story sucks
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studies on the Dept of Ed. website (and other places) show that on an average, more than 50 children a day will be molested by an employee of the district they attend (does not include repeat molestations). While schools almost uniformily report even suspected abuse at home to authorizes, many districts have policies in place to shield employees - even in cases of admitted sexual contact - from discovery or referral to law enforcement.
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...meanwhile the MSM will keep on hammer the Catholic priesthood every chance they get on the same issue. You'd think they were anti-Christian.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[MYNEWS13] Orange County deputies said a man accused of trying to rob the gift shop at the Catholic Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe didn't get far, thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.
Pennsylvania police said a minivan with two clowns inside crashed outside the 
[Dawn] Enraged villagers lynched two policemen in Tarnol area in the dead of Tuesday night allegedly to avenge the death of a co-villager at the hands of the law enforcers.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The principal of Concord Carlisle High School in Boston issued an apology Wednesday after a 
