[Daily Caller] Great Mills High School in Maryland has been placed on lockdown after a shooting Tuesday morning, police confirmed.
Maryland State Police and ATF special agents announced they are responding to the incident, Fox News reported. The school is located in St. Mary’s County.
BREAKING: A school shooting has been reported at Great Mills High School in Maryland. The school is on lockdown, sheriff’s office is on the scene. pic.twitter.com/yGIeLh1wAp
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BREAKING: Special Agents from @ATFBaltimore Hyattsville I and II Field Offices are en route to a shooting reported at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County, Md. pic.twitter.com/V1GzaIpKJN
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3 wounded including shooter, SRO engaged them immediately but not before he wounded his main target (Female) and another student. The 3rd student is in stable, the other two in critical.
Apparently the SRO wasn't trained by Broward County since he didn't run outside to 'guard' the parking lot.
[PJMedia] A Romanian man is in a unique predicament: as far as the Romanian government is concerned, Constantin Reliu is dead. This was news to Constantin Reliu. "He says he's not dead. He will be soon."
According to the Associated Press, Reliu spent the last 20 years working as a cook in Turkey. While away, Reliu's wife had him declared legally dead. Reliu first left for Turkey in 1992; in 1995, he returned to Romania to learn that his wife had been unfaithful to him. In 1999, he decided to return to Turkey permanently. "Yer wife says yer dead."
"Oh yea? What does she know. If I'm dead, how come I'm talking to you?"
"Ya got me there, bub."
Unfortunately for him, the Turkish government booted him out of the country for having expired papers earlier this year. That's when things got bizarre.
"Upon landing at Bucharest airport," the AP reports, "he was informed by border officials that he had been officially declared dead and underwent six hours of questioning and tests." "I got better."
Finally, border officials decided it was him and allowed him to enter his home country. The courts, however, have been less understanding: "If we say yer dead, yer dead! Now scram!"
But authorities in Barlad were less convinced. He spent weeks trying to persuade them to issue him papers so that he officially "existed," he said. When that failed, he asked them to overturn the ruling on his death certificate, issued in 2016, which also ended in failure Thursday on procedural grounds.
It seems the problem was that his request was "too late." "It's too late to claim yer alive, because yer dead. This here death certificate says so."
"I am a living ghost," Reliu told the AP in a phone interview.
"I am officially dead, although I'm alive," he argued. "I have no income and because I am listed as dead, I can't do anything." At least he doesn't have to pay taxes.
The AP said they were unable to find Reliu's wife to learn her side of the story.
Of course, considering it's Romania, you'd think they'd at least be comfortable with the idea of a dead man not being as dead as he seems. They do have some history with legends along those lines.
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[Telegraph] The son of the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is to run as a candidate in the country’s presidential elections this year, according to local media reports.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was once the heir apparent to his father’s regime but is now wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during his father's brutal efforts to put down the 2011 rebellion against his rule.
His candidacy was announced by officials in the Libyan Popular Front party during a news conference in Tunis on Monday.
Khaled Guel told al-Araby al-Jadeed, a pan-Arab newspaper, that Libya needed to get past recent divisions.
"The humanitarian situation is deteriorating and the path forward is unclear. Therefore many Libyans now believe that the only way to save the country is through Saif al-Islam," he said.
Saif al-Islam had been held by a militia in the town of Zintan for six years after his father was driven from power by rebels.
In 2015 he was also sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Tripoli.
However, he was released in June last year, apparently after being granted amnesty by one of the country’s two competing governments.
[AFRICANEWS] Zim-bob-we’s first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman 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.... ’s long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday.
The polls will be the first major test of the new leader, who took power in November after a de facto military coup forced the 94-year-old Mugabe to resign.
They will also be the first without Mugabe’s name on the ballot since independence from Britannia in 1980.
"As a nation, party and government, we are looking forward to very peaceful, transparent and harmonised elections in July this year," Mnangagwa told news hounds after a meeting with South Africans President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday night.
Mnangagwa, 75, said the elections would be free of the violence that gripped previous polls and which was one of the reasons for strained relations between Zim-bob-we and the West.
"I have already invited all political parties in Zim-bob-we to a roundtable where we all commit ourselves to non-violence," he added.
Mnanaggwa will have to announce a date in an official notice. He has said he would invite Western observers, who had been banned under Mugabe’s rule.
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[Al Jazeera] Russia has hit back with strong rhetoric as the UK continues to blame the country for the use of a nerve agent on British soil following the alleged poisoning of a former double agent.
Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian intelligence officer, was found in a collapsed state along with his 33-year-old daughter on a public bench outside a shopping centre in Salisbury, England, last month.
They remain at death's door.
The UK maintains that Russia is responsible and, in a joint statement last week, the leaders of the US, Germany and La Belle France backed Britannia's claim.
Russia maintains there is no proof.
"Sooner or later these unsubstantiated allegations will have to be answered for: either backed up with the appropriate evidence or apologised for," Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, said in a statement on Monday.
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Imagine. They could demand obutthole's birth certificate too...
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Pains me to agree with Peskov but; BMW door handles, BMW ventilation system, daughter's suitcase, others contaminated (possibly 100 or more) and at what locations, exact symptoms, precisely what BIO agent used, liquid, powder, aerosol. No discussion (open press) regarding the potential for a third party (non-Russian) actor.
Lots of guesswork going on. More facts should be available by now.
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Yes, the 'care' factor replaced by the classic Russian denial.
Jumping to 'blame the Russian' within minutes bothers me a little as well. 'Family members' (in this case, country of origin) are generally the first to be suspected in a any murder, but where is the hard evidence ?
Colonel Skripal obviously had an MI6 handler. Any reporting from him or her? What travels or visitations had Skripal made leading up to the attack (days or hours). Recent Skripal phone or mail, email contacts. Was Skripal provided no counter surveillance or physical security assistance, cams, monitoring devices? Seems odd that he would have a family member visiting from Russian and there would be no host-nation interest.
Why did we have to wait to learn...from a Russian, of the proximity of the attack to Porton Down (6 kms)? All of these rather obvious details are known. Where are they ?
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All of these rather obvious details are known. Where are they ? Probably where the details of the Las Vegas mass shootings are being held & revised.
The former Russian double agent poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury met his former handler from MI6 every month in a local restaurant.
Sergei Skripal was said to have spoken to the former intelligence officer in English and Russian and they also discussed his business in Poland. It raises the question of whether Mr Skripal, who was jailed for passing Russian secrets to MI6 but later given refuge in the UK in a spy swap, was involved in active intelligence work.
Just Googling around, other sources state Skripal's handler used a nym "Pablo Miller". This handler went to work with Christopher Steele's company after "leaving" MI6. Steele has not been seen for a while now. UK Telegraph has declined to publish Pablo Miller's nym, but you can find it with Google-fu. FWIW.
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Donald Trump was a staunch supporter of Brexit. Christopher Steele is/was an even stronger supporter of the status quo, or non-Brixit. I suppose we could make of that whatever we wish.
Recent news indicates PM Theresa May has essentially said the UK's relationship with Brussels and the EU will continue 'as is' until 2022. The UK 'Deep State' has spoken, the forgotten man be damned.
[The Hill] The CEO of the British data firm Cambridge Analytica was filmed saying that his firm used bribes and sex workers to trap politicians in compromising situations, an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News in London reported Monday.
Channel 4 reports that over a four-month undercover investigation, it discovered that Cambridge Analytica has secretly worked to influence more than 200 elections all over the world, sometimes using sub-contractors or a web of secretive front companies.
Alexander Nix, the company's chief executive, in one exchange talks about sending "some girls around to the candidate's house" in order to dig up dirt on political opponents.
He also talks of putting information "into the bloodstream of the internet" and watching to grow.
Nix did not appear to know he was being filmed when he made the statements at what Channel 4 said were a series of hotel meetings. The news organization said its reporter posed as the representative of a client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.
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Cambridge Analytica has secretly worked to influence more than 200 elections all over the world, sometimes using sub-contractors or a web of secretive front companies.
That really is an amazing coincidence. Think what could be achieved if they simply harnessed the power of Facebook?
More about Cambridge Analytica at Google. More about Google at.....
Moved to P.3: Non-WoT because Russia is only WoT when Muslims are involved.
More valid questions from Buchanan, particularly that of motive.
[Townhall] Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.
"We think it overwhelmingly likely that it was (Russian President Vladimir Putin's) decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the U.K."
"Unforgivable," says Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov of the charge, which also defies "common sense." On Sunday, Putin echoed Peskov: "It is just sheer nonsense, complete rubbish, to think that anyone in Russia could do anything like that in the run-up to the presidential election and the World Cup. ... It's simply unthinkable."
Putin repeated Russia's offer to assist in the investigation.
But Johnson is not backing down; he is doubling down.
"We gave the Russians every opportunity to come up with an alternative hypothesis ... and they haven't," said Johnson. "We actually have evidence ... that Russia has not only been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for the purposes of assassination but has also been creating and stockpiling Novichok," the poison used in Salisbury.
Why Russia is the prime suspect is understandable. Novichok was created by Russia's military decades ago, and Skripal, a former Russian intel officer, betrayed Russian spies to MI6.
But what is missing here is the Kremlin's motive for the crime.
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Novichok was created by Russia's military decades ago and, IIRC, there was a period of time after the USSR imploded where security & supervision at the old Soviet weapons of mass destruction labs was quite poor. The USA & the UK, both having been taking utterly by surprise at the disintegration of a powerful and heavily armed enemy, had to scramble to provide on-site supervision of the most dangerous stuff. For all we know, Christopher Steele was involved in these projects. He was based in Moscow for a time.
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Yes, that would be the same Chirstopher Steele whom we've not seen or heard from in many months now. Probably safe to assume his safe house is NOT in Salisbury.
There are also indications that it [Novichok] could have been smuggled out of the former Soviet Union as far back as 1993.
In September of 1993 as The Irish Times Moscow correspondent I obtained a list of chemical and biological weapons, including Novichok, that were being produced by Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union. I brought these documents to the recognised expert at the time Dr Thomas Stock of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Dr Stock’s reaction was that Russia immediately needed western financial help to stop Novichok and other chemical and biological agents being exported illegally by criminal elements. Western help arrived eventually but was it too late. The countries of the former Soviet Union, with the exception of the Baltic nations, were in chaos at the time.
There was money to be made in those days when inflation had reached 2,500 per cent in a single year. Those who became extremely rich by selling natural resources, military equipment or anything they could get their hands on became known as the Russian oligarchs, but not all the oligarchs were Russian. The main production plant for Novichok was in Uzbekistan.
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Yeah, they didn't get their war with Russia and they are super pissed off. Now, supposedly Putin commits a really egregious crime in public for...why exactly? They're really in love with false flag incidents. Remember the WMD memo that got us into war with Iraq? Gulf of Tonkin incident?
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We now have evidence that Colonel Skripal's BMW was a mobile, Level-4 Novichok manufacturing lab and that an accidental spill has resulted in this unpleasantness.
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After following all the counter Trump shenanigans after he was elected, I am strongly dis-inclined to believe anything coming from any agency of any government.
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Russia developed Novichok but how difficult is it to manufacture it? If it can be analyzed and identified, it can probably be manufactured by others than Russia? Or if it is still manufactured by Russia, how difficult would it be to smuggle it out of Russia?
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Apparently Vlad has little use for the wealthy Russian oligarchs who relocate to the UK either. Perhaps he would refer they remain in Russia and utilize domestic banking services.
I ran into an old colleague in D.C. a while back. He had lived in Ireland since his retirement from the US Army in the early 1990's. In our ensuing discussion, I was amazed at how one's views of U.S. politics and life in the U.S. in general, can change when one moves abroad.
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I was expecting something else. I had a client for a few years, pretty normal guy, not into politics that I could tell. Suddenly he gets the urge to move to LA and get into acting. Five years later he's a major lefty. We don't talk anymore.
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Former Russian spy defects to the UK and subsequently gets bumped off in a manner that other Russian spies considering defection are sure to notice. Sounds like Смерть шпионам to me.
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California echo chamber effects are very hard to resist over time. It’s an immersion in the fantasy soak of successful socialism, you just have to suspend belief in reality.....
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(1) Putin did it -- because Putin, (2) Old personal vendetta, (3) Russian mafia hit -- "its just business", (4) Coercion to Skripal's associate(s) -- 'be good or ELSE!', (5) other(?) -- "I dunno, do you?', (6) some, one, or all of the above,
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Yeah, they didn't get their war with Russia and they are super pissed off.
Liberals don't want war with Russia. They just want to virtue signal. Notice how Obama deliberately avoided shipping arms to Ukraine.
Conservatives don't want it either. No one's suggesting that we should invade Russia. However, clashes with the Russians in third countries isn't unprecedented. It happened over the skies of Korea as well as Vietnam.
Fact is that the Russians are our adversaries, and Russia is going through a period similar to what the Germans did after WWI. While we are fortunate that the Russian economy is nothing like the German one during the interwar years, the Russians do have nukes, and an unfortunate tendency to talk up those nukes to achieve their territorial goals, including preventing material aid to countries they've invaded. The question is whether we supply Russia's designated victims, or stand back and wait for Russia to cross NATO's boundaries before taking an active role to end its territorial expansion.
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Why did Vlad snuff Skripal in the U.K.--particularly in a way with such a distinctive signature? Vlad could have snuffed him while he was in Russia in a more innocuous way, say to look like an accident or a botched robbery or a drug overdose.
It was reported at wiki that we (U.S.) helped or oversaw the dismantling of the Russian Novichok production facilities.
What #6 said. Be skeptical of everything said until proven otherwise.
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Parliament just approved a £40+ million budget increase for their Porton Down facility. That's a buttload of laboratory test tubes and petri dishes. No reason given.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The imperialists are perpetrating open interference in the internal affairs of other countries and aggression on them under the deceptive slogans "peace" and "ensuring security" in a bid to achieve their hegemonic purpose. What? No Juche?
The world progressives and countries aspiring after independence have to see through the hegemonic moves of the imperialists veiled with falsehood and deception and counter them with vigilance. How about a bit of Songun Army First Policy?
The "peace" much touted by the imperialists precisely means the slogan for aggression for expanding the sphere of domination. No Sea of Fire?
They are finding their way out of ruin in escalating the invasion of other countries and the meddling in their internal affairs. Who writes this piffle?
The poor dears have been malnourished for an awfully long time. They’re doing the best they can.
It is proven by the present reality that sovereignty of countries and nations is violated and there are ceaseless wars and disputes in different countries due to the aggression and interference by the imperialist and hegemonic forces. Have him executed by antiaircraft guns and flamethrowers!
The moves to maintain and expand the sphere of domination by the U.S.-led imperialists are doomed to fail as they are outdated and reactionary ones going against the trend of the times toward independence. Not worthy to grace the pages of Rodong Sinmun!
The arbitrary practices and blusters of the imperialists rampant in the international arena are nothing but the last-ditch efforts of the doomed reactionaries of history. Barely froths at the mouth. I'd give it a C minus.
No challenge of the imperialists can ever stop mankind from building an independent world.
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[WarNewsUpdates] Turkish authorities have detained four men they claim are part of a criminal gang in possession of large quantities of a radioactive nuclear element they had hoped to sell on the black market for over $70 million.
According to the German news agency DPA, the four men were found to be holding just over 3 pounds of the synthetic nuclear element Californium, which is most commonly used to kickstart nuclear reactors and in mining.
The Turkish press reported that the identity of the buyer of the nuclear material remains unclear. Neither the Turkish security services, nor the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) have stated the origin of the highly radioactive material, which is now being safeguarded.
Turkish police captured 1kg 441 gram Californium-252 that worths more than 70 million dollar in Ankara, a very expensive radioactive element used in #nuclear fusion. pic.twitter.com/Rquf1yLdlP
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He's talking 1.441 kg of Ca-252. Wikipedia says 2.73 kg of Ca-252 could be a critical mass.
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Rare stuff, created only by a few specific government nuclear reactors, and in tiny amounts. Nobody ever has near-critical masses of the stuff just laying around to be stolen for black market sale. It decays to nothing in a few years.
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Two sites in the world are responsible for the production of this metallic, radioactive element. One is the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The other is the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors, located in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, which produces 0.025 grams of the material each year.
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It's not Californium. Californium is a very strong neutron emitter. The ammount of shielding necessary for this is pretty high. One microgram (0.000001 grams) of californium-252 produces 170,000,000 neutrons per minute. It was first made at Berkeley in 1950.
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Americium might be a more likely material. It is widely used in home smoke detectors as an alpha particle generator. I couldn't find details on the mass of Am produced per year, but it would have to be fairly large to support the manufacture of so many smoke detectors, even though a very small amount of Am is used per detector.
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Saqib Nisar has taken suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of alleged embezzlement in over $5 billion financial assistance extended by the international community for rehabilitation of the survivors of the devastating earthquake of 2005.
The apex court has fixed March 26 for taking up an application moved by Sheraz Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi, a social activist from Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... , who has accused politicians and officials of embezzling the quake funds.
The SC has directed the respondents, including the attorney general, KP advocate general, director general Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority (Erra) Islamabad and the applicant Mr Qureshi, to ensure their presence in the court on the date fixed for the hearing.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court said on Monday that absconding police officer Rao Anwar "still" has a chance to surrender himself and become part of the investigation into the alleged extrajudicial killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud.
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, who was heading a three-member bench hearing a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case on Mehsud’s murder in the apex court's Islamabad registry, said the court will also determine who has been facilitating Anwar in remaining off the radar.
"The controllers of Rao Anwar will have to answer before the Supreme Court," the CJP warned, adding that Anwar will be "safe" if he appears before the court but will not get protection anywhere else.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... State Bank of Pakistain Governor Tariq Bajwa informed the bench that Anwar possessed two banks accounts, both of which have been frozen. "Anwar receives his salary in the same accounts but will be unable to withdraw it," Bajwa informed the bench.
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[DAWN] The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has suspended admissions for MPhil and PhD distance learning programmes administered by 13 universities over the latter's failure to meet various quality standards set by the commission.
The HEC's decision will impact nearly 4,000 students.
"Further admissions in any of the distance education programmes being offered by universities are stopped immediately till finalisation of recommendation[s] by the committee," read a missive sent to the varsities by HEC Quality Assurance Division Consultant Muhammad Ismail.
After conducting physical visits and reviewing documents, a committee of HEC experts concluded that the 13 universities lacked adequate faculty to run the MPhil and PhD programmes, the statement read.
"In some cases, [the] universities have not even got [sic] approval of their own statutory bodies," read the statement. It also accused some varsities of violating rules and taking advantage of "weak HEC policies about distance learning".
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[DAWN] Police submitted the final charge sheet in the murder case of 18-year-old Zafir Zubairi, who was bumped off 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... 's Do Darya area last year, to a judicial magistrate on Monday.
Prime accused Khawar Burney, his guard Abdul Rehman, his three underage brothers ‐ Haider Hussain Burney, Hasan Hussain Burney and Hasnain Hussain Burney ‐ as well as several absconding accomplices have been booked for the murder of Zubairi.
Zubairi was on his way to breakfast with friends near Seaview on Dec 3 when he hit motorcyclist Dr Abdul Raheem, who had been racing his cycle of violence on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue.
After Zubairi and his friend fled the site of the accident, Raheem's entourage which was travelling in a Vigo chased and opened indiscriminate fire on their car.
Police with the help of eyewitnesses had identified Khawar as the prime suspect in the case and said that he, along with the other suspects, had bumped off the teenager and injured his friend.
Police, in the charge sheet presented in court today, framed charges of murder, intent to kill, carrying of unlicensed weapons and damaging of public property against all the suspects in the case.
In a previous hearing of the case, Hammad, the man whose cycle of violence Dr Raheem was riding at the time of the accident, bravely ran away from court after the judicial magistrate cancelled his interim bail. The police have been unable to arrest the suspect since then.
At the moment, three of the five key suspects in the case are in police custody while two others ‐ including Hammad ‐ are absconding from court.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Monday observed that at this point it would be incorrect to say that there is no evidence of money laundering against Shoaib Sheikh ‐ the CEO of controversial 'IT company' Axact.
The observation was made by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa while hearing Sheikh's appeal regarding the rejection of his bail by Sindh High Court.
On February 26, the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) had tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Sheikh after the SHC rejected his bail request and accepted the agency's appeal against his earlier acquittal in a money laundering case.
During the hearing, Sheikh's lawyer insisted that his client and the company were not involved in any money laundering.
"All of the money my client brought into the country was through legal channels," the counsel said.
"The problem is not with the money that was brought into the country, it is with the money that was taken out of the country," Justice Khosa said while asking the counsel to explain why Sheikh wrote 116 cheques worth Rs170 million.
"The cheques were written between 2014 and 2015 for various vendors, including a courier company," the lawyer said while adding that Sheikh was arrested by the authorities in 2015.
" At this point, how can we say that there was no money laundering," Justice Khosa said.
Unable to satisfy the court on the matter, Sheikh withdrew his appeal against the SHC order as well as a fresh application for bail which he had entered in the apex court.
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[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Multan Home of the Multan Sultans... on Monday sentenced a man to death on four counts while also handing him a life imprisonment sentence after finding him guilty of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl.
The court also ordered the convict to submit Rs2 million as fine and provide Rs0.5 million as compensation for the bereaved family, DawnNewsTV reported.
A month ago, the convict, Ali Haider, had strangulated the minor girl to death after raping her in Lodhran district.
Haider was awarded death sentence on the very first day of hearing as the court finished trial proceedings in less than a month.
The convict was charge-sheeted earlier in the day after which witnesses recorded their statement following which court announced its verdict.
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From a few days ago; he's really getting into the fire & brimstone stuff. Or he's completely off his rocker.
Melting highways. Birds falling dead from the sky. Rain bombs. Flying rivers. Drought. Zero Day. Dogs and cats sleeping together!
Former US Vice President Al Gore didn’t mince words as he presented his vision of the future if humanity fails to act on climate change. Plagues of locusts!
Armed with his trademark PowerPoint graphics and statistics, Mr Gore used the closing plenary address on the final day of the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai on Sunday to bring attention to the "climate crisis," which he said was the "great challenge" of our modern times. The dead rising!
"Our future is at risk," said Mr Gore. "We have to change." A Republican Congress!
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I'm waiting for the old guy with the beard and the staff to part the seas that have risen and flooded the entire world...wait...didn't Noah do that? Errr...Moses?
The stuff Al Gore is talking about is the kind of stuff Moses used to persuade the Pharaoh. In a normal world you would call that "Biblical" but I don't think Al's constituency would appreciate him using that term.
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There was a trendy word for "storm" the weathertainment crowd was pushing a couple years ago, I can't remember it now. At the rate they are going, we are going to have "named raindrops" soon.
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He's still warning the world about ManBearPig...
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
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[Al Jazeera] Russia has hit back with strong rhetoric as the UK continues to blame the country for the use of a nerve agent on British soil following the alleged poisoning of a former double agent.
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The imperialists are perpetrating open interference in the internal affairs of other countries and aggression on them under the deceptive slogans "peace" and "ensuring security" in a bid to achieve their hegemonic purpose.
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Saqib Nisar has taken 
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[DAWN] The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has suspended admissions for MPhil and PhD distance learning programmes administered by 13 universities over the latter's failure to meet various quality standards set by the commission.
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