[Chicago Tribune] Shootings left three men dead and at least 15 others maimed from early Saturday afternoon to early morning Sunday, according to authorities.
In the most recent shooting, at 4:35 a.m. Sunday morning, a man was killed and three women shot near the intersections of Springfield and Wilcox avenues in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The man, 24, was dead on arrival at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering a shot to the chest, police said. One of the women, 21, was in serious-to-critical condition at Mt. Sinai after being shot in the chest and back. Another woman, 23, had her condition stabilized at Mount Sinai after being shot in both feet, and the third woman, 20, suffered a graze wound and refused transport to a hospital.
Additional details about the circumstances surrounding that shooting weren't immediately available.
In the first shooting death of the night, two men were shot, one fatally, about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the 0-100 block of South Parkside Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, less than a block from the Austin District cop shoppe.
The dead man, identified as 18-year-old Daquan Boyd by family members, fell in an alley trying to escape after being shot. He died there. The other man, also 18, was shot in the side and taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
The pair were outside of an apartment on Parkside when two young men on bikes drove up and opened fire before fleeing on their bikes. The attack happened about 11:30 p.m., reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Police Department News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.
About 11:50 p.m. Saturday, a 19-year-old man was shot to death in the 800 block of South Lawndale Avenue in the Homan Square neighborhood. The man suffered a head wound and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
He was identified as Antione Green of the 3100 block of West Douglas Boulevard by the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The man was leaving a park in the area when his friends heard a shot and saw him fall off his bike, police said. Police were coordinating with other city agencies to look for a weapon that may have been dropped in a sewer in that area.
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Another woman, 23, had her condition stabilized at Mount Sinai after being shot in both feet
round up known Chicago Paleostinians
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Chicago? HA! I win another round of Guess the City: Karachi vs Chicago. OK, I admit the odds were 50/50.
[Dawn] Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistain in the last two weeks and killed 108 others, disaster management officials said Sunday.
"The rains affected 334,764 people, killed at least 108 people and maimed 104," a senior National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) official told AFP.
The rains have hit 770 villages and completely destroyed 2,427 houses across Pakistain, he said.
The NDMA has established 44 relief camps in flood-hit areas to accommodate affected people, the official added.
Pakistain has suffered from monsoon floods for the last three years and has been criticised for not doing more to mitigate against the dangers posed by seasonal rains washing away homes and farmland.
But they can't possibly -- it might slightly inconvenience the major landowners.
Streets in all major cities including 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... , Lahore and Islamabad suffer intermittent flooding due to downpours, damaging roads and private homes.
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back in 2010, Bill Clinton went on TV and begged for people to give $ to help Pakistanis in a similar flood and Hillary worked the govt side to get the funds to the Paks (they also got Bill Gates to give a big check0
of course, some (possibly much) of the money was stolen and some of that (possibly much) was used for jihad but at least I don't think we'll see Bill or Hillary asking again for $ for Paks
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Good thing Pakistan doesn't manufacture hard drives -- or anything else that the rest of the world cares about.
[An Nahar] Former rebel leader Michel Djotodia swore in as president of the Central African Republic on Sunday, five months after seizing power in the violence-wracked country.
The former French colony's sixth president is tasked with restoring security in the impoverished state and steering the nation through a transition period leading to fresh polls within 18 months.
Djotodia swore the oath of office on the Transition Charter, which has substituted for the constitution since the ouster of Francois Bozize, who himself came to power on the back of a military coup in 2003.
He vowed "to preserve the peace, to consolidate national unity (and) to ensure the well-being of the Central African people" before members of the Constitutional Court.
"My greatest wish... is to be the last Central African to use force to seize political power, so finally constitutional order are not just empty words," he said.
After ousting Bozize from power last March, Djotodia's Seleka rebel alliance won de facto recognition from the international community and a shot at steering the nation through the transition period leading to fresh polls.
Five months on, however, the picture is bleak, with reports of widespread rape, recruitment of child soldiers and weapons proliferation prompting United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... to say the Central African Republic needed the world's "urgent attention."
Earlier this month, the U.N. warned that the country could become a "failed state."
Djotodia vowed to combat insecurity in an address marking the nation's 53rd anniversary of independence from La Belle France last Tuesday.
An African peacekeeping force has begun deploying in the capital Bangui, which seems to be stabilizing, even though gunfire could be heard overnight.
But no peacekeepers in the force that will eventually number 2,500 soldiers and 1,000 coppers are stationed outside of the capital, and people in the vast, lawless countryside live in a "permanent climate of fear", according to the U.N.
A U.N. report said that Djotodia's Seleka fighters, many of whom have not been paid in months, were to blame for much of the chaos and that the group's hierarchy is doing little to stop them.
It listed "arbitrary arrests and detention, sexual violence against women and kiddies, torture, rape, assassinations, recruitment of child soldiers and attacks, committed by uncontrolled Seleka elements and unidentified gangs throughout the country."
The International Federation for Human Rights said in July it had documented at least 400 murders by Seleka-affiliated groups since March. Bar a few arrests in Bangui, all those killings have gone unpunished.
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[Al Ahram] North Korea said Sunday it has agreed to South Korea's proposal to resume reunions for families separated since the 1950-53 war, in another apparent sign of easing tensions.
The North has agreed to hold the event during the traditional Chuseok holiday that falls on September 19 as suggested by the South, Pyongyang's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement on official media.
It also proposed a separate round of indirect family reunions via video conference around October 4 -- the anniversary of the 2007 inter-Korean summit, said the statement on the North's official news agency.
The move came days after the South's President Park Geun-Hye last Thursday urged Pyongyang to "open its heart" and agree to hold the first family reunions since 2010.
Officials of the Red Thingy from both sides will meet on August 23 as proposed by Seoul to discuss details, the North said, suggesting the Mount Kumgang resort in the North as the venue for the talks.
"Now is the time for the north and the south to make joint efforts for the improvement of the north-south ties and peace and common prosperity on the Korean peninsula," said the statement.
Seoul described Pyongyang's offer on Sunday "positive," but insisted that the officials' meeting to discuss the family reunion be held at the border truce village of Panmunjom, instead of Mount Kumgang.
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First you come visit, then the rifles come out.
Be careful, you're wanted as hostages.
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[Dawn] NOWSHERA: Two men and a woman were rubbed out for 'honour' here on Saturday.
A police official said Zeenat Khan and her father-in-law Wali Mohammad were rubbed out by the woman's brother Javed Khan with the help of his uncle when the dear departed were sleeping in their home late on Friday night.
Sources said Zeenat Khan had married Amjad Khan in a local court about two years ago and lived in Umer Abad. The bodies were taken to the district hospital for post-mortem.
Amjad Khan filed an FIR against Javed Khan and his uncle at the Akora Khattak cop shoppe for murder of his wife and father.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk. Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles. No, he said. Do you?... police found body of an Afghan man in Dagi Khel, Nowshera Kalan.
Police took the body to the district hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Police said the unidentified Afghan was accused of forcibly taking Shabeena Naz, daughter of Abdul Rasheed, to Afghanistan. They said it appeared that brothers of Ms Naz had killed the man as they were missing from their home.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Chicago Tribune] Shootings left three men dead and at least 15 others 
[Dawn] Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistain in the last two weeks and killed 108 others, disaster management officials said Sunday.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
North Korea
[Dawn] NOWSHERA: Two men and a woman were 
