[elonmusk] First Boring Company tunnel under LA almost done! Pending final regulatory approvals, we will be offering free rides to the public in a few months.
Super huge thanks to everyone that helped with this project. Strong support from public, elected officials & regulators is critical to success.
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Having used it a number of times my vote goes to the chunnel. An underwater explosion somewhere before it enters bedrock with a distracting accompaniment of riot/fire for cover at the Calais seaport end. Remote sensors, alarms and traffic monitoring generally preclude manual placement but sinking a LPG tanker would bypass these controls.
That displaces my former favorite, the Eisenhower tunnel on I-70 west of Denver. Unlikely to collapse from a blast it is certainly susceptible to a twofer. The first to block the flow, the second to create an inferno of the ensuing traffic jam.
An upcoming earthquake will take LA tunnels, and I don't care about NYC.
[PRESSTV] A dam has burst on a commercial flower farm in central Kenya after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a "sea of water" that smashed into two villages, killing at least 47 people.
The private Patel dam burst its earthen banks on Wednesday evening in Solai, near the Rift Valley city of Nakuru.
The walls of the reservoir, situated on top of a hill in Nakuru county 190 km (120 miles) northwest of Nairobi, gave way as nearby residents were sitting down to evening meals.
Media reports said emergency workers had spent the night combing through engulfed houses to retrieve bodies.
Local police chief Japheth Kioko said on Thursday that the corpse count could rise as more bodies are pulled from the mud.
"So far it is 47 dead. We are still on the ground," the officials said. Dozens of children are among those killed in the devastating flooding.
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Call in moochie and obozo they can CURE ALL ills? Just ax'em (sorry for the loss of life)
[Al Jazeera] Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese woman, was sentenced to death by a court for stabbing to death a man she was forced to marry after he raped her.
The death penalty for Hussein was confirmed by a judge on Thursday after her husband's family rejected financial compensation and insisted on retribution.
"The husband's family received the verdict with claps of joy and cheering," said Amal Habani, a Sudanese journalist and women's rights activist who attended the hearing in Omdurman, Sudan's second-largest city.
"But for Hussein's supporters at the courtroom, the news was very distressing," Habani told Al Jazeera.
Hussein's legal team has 15 days to appeal the death sentence.
According to another human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist who also attended the hearing, large crowds of supporters for Hussein gathered outside the court to protest the verdict, but police violently dispersed them.
"People protested carrying signs and posters to show their disapproval of the verdict," said Rasha Abualayla. "But the police snatched the posters out of their hands and even started beating some of them."
Rights activists have campaigned on behalf of Hussein on social media and a #JusticeForNoura hashtag has trended on Twitter.
Underage, forced marriage
At 16, Hussein was forced by her parents to marry her cousin, according to activists.
According to members of the #JusticeForNoura campaign, Hussein was forced to sign the marriage contract in 2014. She then fled to a relative's house in eastern Sudan before the wedding ceremony was completed.
Her father allegedly tricked her into returning to her husband. After six days of Hussein refusing his advances, he raped her with the help of family members who held her down, supporters say.
"She would not have sex with the man," Sarah ElHasan, a rights activist, told Al Jazeera. "He recruited some of his cousins and brought them [to his] home where they held her down while her husband raped her."
When Hussein's husband attempted to rape her again, she stabbed him to death before returning to her family, who then handed her over to police.
"We will try to appeal the decision in the next 15 days... We are hopeful that it will be possible," said a member of Hussein's legal team, who asked not to be named because of the case's sensitivity.
"Noura had lots of problems in her life and marriage, which should be taken into consideration... We are working on getting the judge to see those sides of the case."
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[All Africa] US President Donald J. Trump's administration, expressing displeasure with the government in South Sudan, has started a comprehensive review of its aid programs to that country.
In a sternly worded statement, the White House said that the leaders of South Sudan had "squandered this partnership [with the United States], pilfered the wealth of South Sudan, killed their own people, and repeatedly demonstrated their inability and unwillingness to live up to their commitments to end the country's civil war. The result is one of Africa's worst humanitarian disasters."
Announcing its aid review, the White House said: "While we are committed to saving lives, we must also ensure our assistance does not contribute to or prolong the conflict, or facilitate predatory or corrupt behavior."
South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, is grappling with a famine. More than seven million people are at risk of sever hunger without food aid, according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... The Trump administration's policy review should come as no surprise to South Sudanese leaders.
Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... , the US ambassador to the United Nations, delivered a stern message to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir in their meeting in Juba on October 24, 2017. The United States is "disappointed" in Kiir's leadership and he must not take US assistance for granted, she said.
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[HERALD.CO.ZW] President Mnangagwa says he will make wholesome changes to his Cabinet if he wins the forthcoming elections, dropping those not yet aligned to his vision of modernising Zim-bob-we.
The Head of State and Government said he intends to reform the Zim-bob-we Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) for it to work closely with law enforcement agencies.
President Mnangagwa told Zim-bob-weans based in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... on Tuesday night that the anti-corruption drive of his political administration would likely claim the scalps of Cabinet ministers.
ZACC, he said, was being aligned to other State agencies to make it effective.
"My administration is not going to tolerate any corruption at whatever level ‐ zero tolerance to corruption! To do this, my administration requires the support of other institutions: the police, anti-corruption commission, the Judiciary and the National Prosecuting Authority. We are in the process of making them pull in the same direction. I have no doubt that immediately after elections, many heads will roll," said President Mnangagwa.
Government, he added, had adopted a new work ethic and those not committed to duty, including Cabinet ministers, would be laid off.
"We now emphasise productivity, productivity and hard work. A new work ethic has arrived. Work ethics have changed in Government . . . including among ministers.
"We must put our all to what we are mandated to do. I would like to appeal to you that you must be distinguished as a Zim-bob-wean because of hard work. Hard work is the new mantra: Zim-bob-we is open for business, but it is necessary that you strive to achieve excellence in whatever you are doing," he said.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The countdown for the much-sought launch of Bangladesh’s first satellite, Bangabandhu-1, has begun as all the necessary preparations in this regard have been completed.
The authorities concerned, including the Bangladesh delegation and SpaceX, held a review meeting in New York over the launching preparation Wednesday morning (local time).
State Minister for Information Tarana Halim, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Shahjahan Mahmood had attended the meeting.
After the meeting, Tarana said: "SpaceX has informed us that Bangabandhu-1 is ready for launch at the launching pad. If the weather remains favourable, the satellite will be launched around 4:12pm local time."
Zunaid said: "Bangabandhu-1 will start its journey to space right on time."
Ah... it didn't! Flight Computer shut it down at T-58 seconds. Scrub! Retry on 11th at (Friday) at 14:14 PM EDT. Go to SpaceX.com for a Youtube link to a live feed. Weather is not nice at the landing ship. They might have trouble saving the 1st stage. See photo of ship conditions below.
Photo of conditions on landing ship.
Block 5 exceeds all NASA requirements for crew. And meets all Air Force requirements.
"Goal is to be most reliable rocket ever built." - @elonmusk
Elon Musk on Block 5 today:
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[PRESSTV] Colombia and ELN rebels renewed peace talks to end more than 5 decades of war in Havana on Thursday after original host Ecuador in April pulled its support for the negotiations as long as the guerrillas continued to wage attacks.
Both sides, which started talks 15 months ago in Quito, said on Thursday they wanted to focus on reaching a new ceasefire deal. Their first agreement ended in January and was followed by a period of increased violence and a 6-week pause in talks.
Colombia’s conflict between the government, rebel groups, paramilitaries and crime gangs has killed at least 220,000 people and displaced millions.
"We are conscious that we need to make decisive steps and the time has arrived to finalize a stable and more robust bilateral ceasefire," the Colombian government's chief negotiator Gustavo Bell said.
Colombia has been at war with the National Liberation Army (ELN), founded by radical Catholic priests, since 1964.
Cuba was also the host for the 4-year long negotiations between the Andean country's government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC) rebels who reached a peace accord in 2016.
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[Science Daily] A comprehensive evaluation by clinical researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania identified a neurological syndrome that left U.S. government personnel serving in Havana, Cuba with persistent memory and thinking dysfunction, as well as vision and balance problems after hearing unusual noises in their homes or hotel rooms. The team published their findings in JAMA.
"None of these patients have suffered any type of blunt head trauma, yet the symptoms they describe and evaluations demonstrate are remarkably similar to those found in persistent concussion syndrome," said the study's senior author, Douglas H. Smith, MD, the Robert A. Groff Professor and vice chair of Research and Education in the department of Neurosurgery and director of Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair. "It appears that we have identified a new syndrome that may have important public health implications."
In fall of 2016, U.S. government personnel serving in Havana began to report a variety of neurological symptoms often linked with hearing unusual noises in their homes and hotel rooms. Initial examinations were mainly performed at the University of Miami, revealing that the neurological signs resembled concussions. Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair was then selected to coordinate multidisciplinary evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of the patients, beginning in summer 2017. Participating Penn specialists included faculty from the departments of physical medicine and rehabilitation, occupational medicine, neurology, neuropsychology, neurosurgery, and neuroradiology.
[PRESSTV] The Armenian president has dismissed the heads of the country’s police and security service at the request of newly-elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
The press service of the office of Armenian President Armen Sarksyan said on Thursday that head of the police Vladimir Gasparyan and director of the National Security Service Georgy Kutoyan had been sacked from their posts after Pashinyan proposed they be dismissed.
Armenia’s parliament elected Pashinyan as the country’s new prime minister on Tuesday after he led weeks of street protests against the election of Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia’s president for the past 10 years, to the premiership office.
Pashinyan announced on Thursday that he had demanded that the president sack Kutoyan and Gasparyan.
Kutoyan had served as head of the national security service since February 12, 2016, while Gasparyan was head of police since November 1, 2011.
To appease his supporters, Pashinyan has showed that he wants to revise the course adopted by Sargsyan during his years in office as president.
He said Wednesday that he was ready for talks with neighboring Azerbaijan on the thorny issue of Karabakh, a region which is recognized as part of Azerbaijan but is dominated by ethnic Armenia separatists who have enjoyed support from the Armenian government.
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[Al Jazeera] Three Americans freed from prison in North Korea have arrived back in the US a day after their release. Surprisingly, they had the grace to thank the President, unlike the last guys he got sprung from China.
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... , alongside First Lady Melania Trump, welcomed the trio when they arrived at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland outside Washington, DC, on Thursday.
Kim Dong-chul, Tony Kim, and Kim Hak-song were held by North Korea for periods ranging between one and two years over alleged anti-state activities.
"We would like to express our deep appreciation to the United States government, President Trump, Secretary Pompeo, and the people of the United States for bringing us home," the three said in a statement released on their behalf by the US Department of State on Wednesday.
Their release follows US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to North Korea to finalise plans for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday its intention to denuclearize, unveiled at a historic inter-Korean summit, was not the result of U.S.-led sanctions and pressure, warning the United States not to mislead public opinion.
[ZH] After oil prices eclipsed $70 a barrel last week for the first time since the summer of 2014 - when oil prices suddenly plunged as the dollar strengthened and shale producers tried to pump their way to market dominance - we knew it was just a matter of time before gas prices reached another troubling milestone (for consumers at least).
And now they have. Because, as the Fresno Bee reports, gasoline prices in Fresno, Calif. have blown past $4/gallon this week as prices in California reached their highest level since 2014.
Meanwhile, the national average has climbed to $2.81 from $2.34. Gas in Fresno typically costs $1 above the national average, thanks largely to the Golden State's high taxes and demanding standards for reformulating gasoline.
What's worse, it's likely they'll rise further as $70 a barrel feeds through to gasoline at the pump - a process that typically takes a few weeks.
Though In California, which has the fifth highest gas tax in the country, prices are typically much higher. In addition to the taxes, the state has the strictest emissions laws in the country, which requires consumers to use a particular type of gasoline that only a few refineries produce.
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BS.We've been through this before. The price at the pump goes up as quickly as the market. It goes down weeks after a drop in the market.
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It's a game. Higher prices paid for gas already in the distributor's ground tanks (purchased at the old wholesale price).
When the wholesale price goes down.... price lowering at the pump sometimes takes a bit longer.
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...which can be counter posted with all their 'experts' saying high gas prices are good to reduce pollution an forced public transportation (for everyone else).
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“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” --Ronald Reagan
The oil industry is still moving... Despite the Left's best efforts.
[PRESSTV] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. says Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... can no longer rely on the United States for protection, urging European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states to take the bloc’s destiny in their own hands.
"It is no longer such that the United States simply protects us, but Europe must take its destiny in its own hands, that's the task of the future," the German leader said at an award ceremony in Aachen, a German resort city near the border with Belgium, where French President Emmanuel Macron received the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for his efforts in boosting EU integration and cohesion.
Merkel’s comments came two days after 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... declared that his country was pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying Washington would not only reinstate the anti-Iran sanctions lifted as part of the deal, but would also "be instituting the highest level of economic" bans against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The JCPOA came out of years of negotiations between Iran on one side and the P5+1 group of countries -- the US, UK, La Belle France, Russia and China plus Germany -- on the other, in July 2015.
The American leader announced his controversial decision after his European allies, including the UK, Germany and La Belle France, and a number of other countries failed to convince him not to pull out from the landmark accord. Trump also threatened all countries, the US allies included, with sanctions if they violated the US-embargoes against Iran, worrying Washington’s traditional allies in Europe.
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"...but Europe must take its destiny in its own hands, that's the task of the future,' the German leader said at an award ceremony in Aachen, a German resort city near the border with Belgium, where French President Emmanuel Macron received the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for his efforts in boosting EU integration and cohesion."
This twenty-year old photo shows she is capable of deep, deep thoughts. Many of us couldn't understand some of the nuances.
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Thinking? I thought that was a photo of her on the toilet.
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I've seen this movie before. Where an entitled brat loses their inheritance because the money managers embezzle the funds and they find themselves having to fend for themselves. Usually a comedy and from our prospective, it will be.
Well, Lady, you've utterly abdicated any attempt to defend yourself. Right now the Bundeswehr has exactly SIXTY operational tanks. The Luftwaffe has fewer than 25 operational Eurofighters, and the Navy's submarine force is COMPLETELY non-operational. Put another way, several US state National Guards have more operational tanks and combat aircraft right now.
Tell ya what, though. We'll promise to make sure our contribution to NATO matches yours exactly.
Mike
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Oh, they can afford a military just fine. It's that they don't want to pay for a military. And why should they, when they have a sucker to provide security for free? They take the savings and pay for a welfare state instead.
And then, and this is the part that really burns me up, they come back and criticize the fuck out of us for protecting them. Baby-killers, occupiers, murderers, get the fuck out of Europe you flatheaded racist morons. We all know the rest by heart, we've heard it so many times.
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60 tanks opperatiomal
Newly built German tanks are all being sold to the Islamic state of Turkey.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday passed five laws ‐ three of them related to the regularisation of doctors and other contractual employees ‐ one of which sparked debate in the house on, as the opposition benches argued, giving a "licence to kill" to individuals driving emergency vehicles. Having driven an ambulance in my day, I've seen the way nitwits in even a fairly law-abiding country like the USA refuse to get out of the way of flashing lights and sirens, hog emergency lanes, and do other surprisingly stoopid stuff.
The Provincial Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was tabled by Law Minister Zia Lanjar to amend the Provincial Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1965 to bring the rules in conformity with modern-day needs.
Among certain provisions in the bills, which the opposition benches countered, sub-clause 5 of clause 6 in the new law sparked controversy.
The new sub-section read: "No driver of an emergency vehicle shall be convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section (1) if he was responding to an emergency and was not exceeding the limit of 80km/hour."
Initially, Opposition Leader Khwaja Izharul Hasan said the bill should be reconsidered as the controversial clause absolving individuals from conviction while driving emergency vehicles would make things complicated.
"You should legislate in line with international standards but that should not give licence to kill to such individuals," he said.
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[DAWN] BADIN: The decomposed body of a woman found at a deserted place in Vidhri Chak area of Badin district within the limits of Nindo Shahar cop shoppe was identified as that of social and rights activist Jamila Ansari, 35.
Addressing a presser in his office on Wednesday, Badin SSP Irfan Hussain Samoon said Jamila was tortured to death by her husband Javed Lashari and her young stepson Junaid Ahmed Lashari in their house in Latifabad area of Hyderabad on May 4. They then took her body to Badin by car and dumped it near the banks of the LBOD with the help of accused Sher Zaman Loond on May 5.
"Javed, a car and vehicle dealer from North 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... , had contracted marriage with Jamila in 2013. Later they developed differences after she refused restrictions on her activities," added the SSP.
He said the police during thorough interrogation in the high-profile murder case traced the killers through phone calls, who had confessed to the crime.
"They took her to Hyderabad from Karachi a month ago and killed her," said Mr Samoon, adding that the murdered woman remained at the forefront in social activities and struggled against human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations in Karachi, Hyderabad and other areas of Sindh and the rest of the country.
He said that an FIR would be registered at Latifabad cop shoppe in Hyderabad on the complaint of her brother Shakil Ahmed Ansari under the relevant sections of the Pakistain Penal Code against three locked away You have the right to remain silent... accused.
The accused were handed over to Hyderabad police for further investigation.
Sindh IG A.D. Khowaja announced Rs100,000 for coppers who traced the killers of the woman. The body was handed over to Edhi Centre in Badin and later on was buried in the local graveyard of Badin town.
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[DAWN] Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, during a Supreme Court hearing in Islamabad on Thursday regarding the rights of brick kiln workers, ordered a worker and his family be freed from bonded labour in Sialkot.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Nisar was hearing a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case on the matter, during which reports from Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh were submitted before the court regarding the provision of rights to the kiln workers.
"Workers and their children are forced into labour at these brick kilns. The purpose of this suo motu notice is to free these workers and their children from bonded labour," remarked the chief justice.
During the course of the hearing, the deputy attorney general informed the court that 2,739 labourers and children were freed in Punjab, for which 15,000 raids were conducted, and 1,300 cases registered against the brick kiln owners for forcing the workers into bonded labour.
On the appeal of a brick kiln worker claiming his children and relatives are forcibly kept in "sweat factories" by certain brick kiln owners, the court ordered DPO Sialkot to free the family from bonded labour and present them before the court on Monday.
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[DAWN] A nine-year-old student of grade five was allegedly sexually abused by a student of 10th-grade in the hostel of Mirpurkhas Public School on Wednesday night, police said.
According to the victim, he was reportedly alone in his room when the accused came. After allegedly committing the heinous act, the teenage suspect hurled "threats of dire consequences" to the victim in case he informs someone about the matter.
The boy, however, managed to procure a cellphone from one of his school friends and called his father to tell him what had happened.
Upon hearing the boy's complaint, his father and uncle rushed to the school to obtain further information.
They demanded an explanation from Muhammad Paryal, the hostel warden, but failed to receive a satisfactory response.
This prompted them to approach the police who denied registering the case on Wednesday night, but on Thursday owing to the notice and intervention of DIG Mirpurkhas Mazhar Nawaz Shaikh, a case was registered on the complaint of the boy's father under sections 377 (unnatural offences) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The police also issued a certificate for a medical checkup of the boy and DNA testing.
After an initial examination conducted in Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas, it was established by Dr Ramesh that the boy had indeed been sodomised.
SHO Dawood Ahmed Dero when contacted confirmed that the accused, aged between 16 and 17, has been arrested.
"The accused was taken to Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas for a medical checkup which confirmed he had committed the assault," said the SHO.
The boy's father while speaking to Dawn said he wanted "justice by strict punishment to the accused". He further said that the hostel warden should also be held responsible as it was under his watch and due to his serious negligence that such an unfortunate incident took place.
Moreover, as panic rose among the students living in the hostel, he urged the school administration to take strict action against the hostel warden.
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[Science Daily] Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The study, co-authored by researchers from the University of Ulm in Germany and the University of Colorado Boulder, adds to mounting evidence supporting the "hygiene hypothesis," which posits that overly sterile environments can breed health problems.
The research also suggests that raising kids around pets might be good for mental health -- for reasons people might not expect.
"It has already been very well documented that exposure to pets and rural environments during development is beneficial in terms of reducing risk of asthma and allergies later in life," said co-author Christopher Lowry, a professor of integrative physiology at CU Boulder. "This study moves the conversation forward by showing for the first time in humans that these same exposures are likely to be important for mental health."
For the study, led by University of Ulm Professor Stefan Reber, the scientists recruited 40 healthy German men between 20 and 40 years old. Half had grown up on a farm with farm animals. Half had grown up in a large city without pets.
[Dhaka Tribune] Ninety-two-year-old Mahathir Mohamad was Thursday sworn in as the world's oldest elected leader after a stunning election win that swept Malaysia's establishment from power after more than six decades
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[Baltimore Sun] - Federal prosecutors have charged Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa with three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal taxes ‐ drawing an admission from him of wrongdoing, but support from the mayor and City Council members.
De Sousa, 53, willfully failed to file federal tax returns for 2013, 2014 and 2015 despite having been a salaried employee of the Police Department in those years, prosecutors said Thursday.
After the charges were unsealed, De Sousa admitted he did not file federal returns ‐ as well as state taxes ‐ for the three years. He said he filed taxes for 2016 and received an extension for 2017. I'm pretty sure DeSouza's tax returns are straightforward (W-2(s) and not much else) and would have resulted in refunds had they been filed on time. It's only when the IRS knows you would owe taxes that they would file on your behalf if you did not file yourself (AKA 'administrative assessment of tax'), so his refunds for 2013 and 2014, being over three years late, are forfeited.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Photo of conditions on landing ship.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[Science Daily] A comprehensive evaluation by clinical researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania identified a neurological syndrome that left U.S. government personnel serving in Havana, Cuba with persistent memory and thinking dysfunction, as well as vision and balance problems after hearing unusual noises in their homes or hotel rooms. The team published their findings in JAMA.
North Korea
[ZH] After oil prices eclipsed $70 a barrel last week for the first time since the summer of 2014 - when oil prices suddenly plunged as the dollar strengthened and shale producers tried to pump their way to market dominance - we knew it was just a matter of time before gas prices reached another troubling milestone (for consumers at least).
[PRESSTV] German Chancellor 
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday passed five laws ‐ three of them related to the regularisation of doctors and other contractual employees ‐ one of which sparked debate in the house on, as the opposition benches argued, giving a "licence to kill" to individuals driving emergency vehicles.
[DAWN] A nine-year-old student of grade five was allegedly sexually abused by a student of 10th-grade in the hostel of Mirpurkhas Public School on Wednesday night, police said.
