[Iran Press TV] Four people were killed overnight in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... shootings.
Police say the most recent victim was a 17-year-old boy shot in the 2200 block of South Marshall at around 6 a.m. Sunday.
The victim was speaking with friends when two men approached the group shouting gang slogans and fired a gun. The teen was struck twice in the chest and taken to a local hospital at death's door where he was later pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made in the shooting that police say was gang-related.
Police say someone fired shots from a passing car at Ruth's Mini Club in the 8300 block of South Halsted at about 2:40 a.m.
A 30-year-old man was shot in the chest and later pronounced dead at a local hospital. A 39-year-old was shot in the buttocks and was listed in stable, pH balanced condition, a 32-year-old was shot in the chest and taken at death's door to Stroger Hospital, and a 41-year-old was shot in the left ankle.
No arrests have been made in the case.
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Shot in the ankle? By who? a really, really diminutive gangbanger?
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Slow in Detroit also. This slowing in trend may be attributed to a significant decline in population over the years. The weekend in the Detroit area, a man was shot while sitting in car outside Detroit seafood market. Investigators are also investigating a triple shooting in Warren. Also a man was killed, another wounded in shooting at a Detroit tire store.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... declared an Ebola outbreak in its northern Equateur province on Sunday after two out of eight cases tested came back positive for the deadly virus, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said.
A mysterious disease has killed dozens of people in Equateur in recent weeks but the World Health Organization had said on Thursday it was not Ebola.
"I declare an Ebola epidemic in the region of Djera, in the territory of Boende in the province of Equateur," Kabange Numbi told a news conference.
The region lies about 1,200 km (750 miles) north of the capital Kinshasa.
Numbi said that one of the two cases that tested positive was for the Sudanese strain of the disease, while the other was a mixture between the Sudanese and the Zaire strain -- the most lethal variety. The outbreak in West Africa that has killed at least 1,427 people in West Africa since March is the Zaire strain.
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The thugs are thinking "that citizen that I'm about to rob just might be armed and I might get my sweet arse blown away"? Could be. In other places, violent crime has declined when citizens carry. Not a stretch.
Intensive fighting near Ilovaisk in southeast Ukraina enters its fifth day, according to data supplied by English and Russian language news sources.
Since late last week Ukrainian army and police forces have been trying to drive a wedge between the two most critical cities in the Donbass conflict, Donetsk and Lugansk in several areas, namely near Krasnii Luch, but mostly near Ilovaisk, which is about 12 to 15 kilometers southeast of Donetsk.
According to the pro Ukrainian news website, as reported Saturday at Rantburg.com, Ukrainian military forces had reportedly abandoned their offensive near Ilovaisk after attempting several times since last Thursday for force a decision.
A report from pro Russian militia now holding Ilovaisk is that a counterattack from the west was defeated. Militia forces holding the line Zelenoye-Pridorzhnoye-Grabskoye west of Ilovaisk, said a Ukrainian force attempting to breach the line was stopped.
According to the Voice of Sevastopol, militia forces estimate that the number of Ukrainian forces of all kinds in the Ilovaisk region number 4,000 troops, the equivalent of two combat brigades, while militia forces number about 1,500.
Pro Russian militias report fighting in the Krasnii Luch region near Krasny Luch and Anthracite.
"Separate clashes with the punitive troops took place in settlements Bolshaya Vergunka, Stanichno-Luganskoye and Malonikolaevka.
During the heavy fighting near Petrovskoye Southeast Army soldiers have destroyed one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles..."
Pro Russian militia groups claim that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from Torez and Snezhnoye both of which are about eight kilometers southwest of Krasnii Luch.
Meanwhile, further north and north of Lugansk pro Russian militia have been counterattacking Ukrainian military forces attempting to push them away from the city, which is a terminus for Russian aid to the region.
Militia forces are fighting near Stanitsa Luganskaya, which just a few kilometers north of Lugansk.
About 40 kilometers north of Lugansk in Severodonetsk and Lisicansk , pro Russian militia infantry and motorized infantry troops have launched a massive attack against Ukrainian forces. Reports are Ukrainian units are in panic, although the report fails to note if they are in flight. Militia forces have already seized Belaya Gora and Borovskoe, which is just to the southeast of Severodonetsk. According to a separate report the firefight lasted three hours.
Just on the outskirts of Lugansk to the northwest pro Russian militia have established a defensive line near Petrovka
South of Lugansk, militia forces have attacked two settlements, Palievka and Lutugino. Another settlement, which was bypassed from the southeast Volnukhino, is now controlled by militia forces.
Shelling of Donetsk continued, according to pro Russian sources.
Artillery strikes were reported in Kalinin and Petrovsky districts, near the bus station Krasnogvardeiskoye highway and the Pokrovsky market. A militia checkpoint was reportedly fired on, but no injuries were reported. The highly effective Russian made Urugan MRL 220mm rocket launcher was used in this and other attacks.
Ukrainian forces also continue to attempt to bring in artillery spotter, and intelligence and special fores into the city, as well as press harder against the lines held by pro Russian militias.
Militia forces fired artillery against Ukrainian positions near Kutelnikovo, which is a few kilometers southeast of Donetsk. Further southeast of that location pro Russian militia claimed to have ambushed an armored personnel carrier near Amvrosievka.
Further east, fighting has been reported near Uspenka.
Also southeast a Ukrainian police unit reportedly lost one APC and 12 killed near Vasilievka.
[Iran Press TV] At least five people have been killed in an attack against a church in Ukraineâ™s eastern town of Kirovske as fierce fighting continues between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian forces.
The artillery attack against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church claimed five lives on Saturday, the church said on Sunday.
Three of the dead were attending a religious service when the shell blasted through the roof of the church.
âThe church (in Kirovske) is completely destroyed, three people died," said a message on the church's regional website about the attack, adding, âA shell from the same attack hit a hospital, leaving two dead.â
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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
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
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