[An Nahar] An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast 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... , the World Health Organization said Friday, after the virus caused three deaths in the area since April 22.
The WHO said the outbreak affects an equatorial forest region in Bas-Uele province, bordering Central African Republic.
The last Ebola outbreak in Congo in 2014 was quickly contained and killed 49 people according to official figures.
In a television address, Health Minister Oly Ilunga confirmed the outbreak while urging the population "not to panic".
The country "has taken all necessary measures to respond quickly and efficiently to this new outbreak," he said.
The WHO said it was working closely with DR Congo authorities to help deploy health workers and protective equipment in the remote area, which is difficult for teams to access, in order to "rapidly control the outbreak".
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[An Nahar] Venezuelan anti-government protesters who have been throwing human excrement at riot police during demonstrations are resorting to use of "chemical weapons," a senior Venezuelan official said.
Judicial inspector general Marielys Valdez spoke out Wednesday after protesters hurled jars of feces dubbed "Poopootov cocktails" during the latest in weeks of festivities in Caracas.
"That is a biochemical weapon... The use of biochemical weapons is fully classified as a crime and incurs strong penalties," she said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
channel VTV.
"The use of chemical weapons, in this case human and animal feces, has consequences... it can get into the water and cause terrible contamination" and disease, she added.
Daily festivities between demonstrators and security forces have left 38 people dead since April 1, prosecutors say.
Protesters blame elected President Nicolas Maduro for an economic crisis that has caused food shortages.
They are demanding early elections, accusing him of repressing protesters and trying to install a dictatorship.
Maduro, who blames the crisis on what he calls a US-backed plot, brands the protesters "terrorists."
He warned Thursday that people who say they are protesting and attack military bases will be tried in military courts.
"Anyone who is captured attacking military bases will go where they have to go: to justice," Maduro said, while again denouncing the opposition demonstrations.
Scores of people tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in protests in recent days have been brought before military courts, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups say.
The state prosecution service said on Wednesday that under the constitution, civilians detained in protests should be tried by civil and not military courts.
"Poopootov cocktails" were used last week in a demonstration during a protest in a suburb of Caracas and gained popularity through social media.
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Particularly if the donor has been eating a significant amount of jalapenos. Or brocolli.
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[DailyStar.uk] The North resumed airing the eerie numbers via its radio station in Pyongyang last June, using them to direct their spies in the South, it is believed.
But the ghostly broadcasts ‐ which usually happen at midnight ‐ were aired last night for the first time since Moon Jae-in was made the South’s president.
It had been hoped the politician’s Liberal views would ease tensions, but crazy Kim’s latest act is a strong sign he’s a man who won’t be tamed.
The new coded message was read out on Radio Pyongyang at 1.15am (4.15pm UK time) by a female announcer.
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Why are you always fuck!ng with US, Kim?
We hate the way you run that place and treat your people like shit. But we are not the provocatuer here. Many fuc&%d up Nations exist in the shadows because they don't try to play dangerous show off games with most of the world.
We know what you can do. We have seen it. But you are acting like a pirate and if anything happens, Judgment falls directly on you.
Where you are going when all is said and done, does not look good for you Kim.
My advice, become hermit again. Do not give me a reason.
And you are safe.
Temperature drives CO2, not the other way around. Interesting three-minute video from Down Under.
They must have different gasses down there!
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When I click on the link, I did have a hard time getting out of the video. I killed Firefox and started over.
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The CO2 percentage is basically irrelevant. What matters is how effective a greenhouse gas it is, and we can directly measure that, by measuring downward radiation at the wave lengths CO2 reradiates energy. Over 20 years no significant change was detected.
Which is why you rarely see claims about CO2 these days and the claims are about greenhouse gases overall. Much harder to debunk.
[AlAhram] Malaysia said on Friday it had deported three Turkish men to Ankara over suspected links to a group blamed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for a failed coup last year.
Human rights groups condemned the deportations and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said Malaysia's action raised serious concern for the safety of Turkish nationals in the region.
Authorities detained school principal Turgay Karaman, 43, businessman Ihsan Aslan, 39, and academic Ismet Ozcelik, 58, last week, saying they posed a threat to national security.
Rights groups said they were concerned the action had been taken against the men because of pressure from Turkey.
At the time the men were detained, authorities did not say whether they were suspected of having ties to U.S.-based holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... Malaysian Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said the three were deported on Thursday on suspicion of being involved in FETO, a group of Gulen supporters that the Turkish government also calls the "Gulenist Terrorist Organisation".
The Malaysian police investigation found that the three men had been involved in FETO activities and were listed as individuals wanted by Turkish authorities, Khalid said.
The Turkish government had also cancelled their travel documents, he said.
"As such, their presence in Malaysia is invalid and their status declared as illegal immigrants colonists," Khalid said.
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[TownHall] A Tenessee woman was charged with felony reckless endangerment after allegedly chasing Congressman David Kustoff, who voted in favor of the American Health Care Act, down a highway and placing him "in fear of being run off" the road. Kustoff attended a meeting at the University of Tennessee unrelated to the AHCA where Wendi Wright, 35, allegedly tried to discuss her grievances with him. Kustoff drove off and "that's why she began following him," Weakley County Sheriff's Department Sergeant told BuzzFeed News. After Kustoff pulled into a driveway, Wright allegedly got out of her car and "began screaming and striking the windows" of his car, police told BuzzFeed News. "I've been led to believe she was upset over a vote he had cast involving health care," Plunk said.
[DAWN] NEW DELHI: India’s highest court on Thursday began considering the legality of a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to leave their wives instantly by reciting the word "divorce" three times.
"Triple talaq" is legal for Moslems under the Indian constitution but it has come under scrutiny with reports emerging of men divorcing their wives via letters, Skype and WhatsApp messages.
Several women divorced by triple talaq have petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the practice. "We told the court that the practice has no basis in the law or in the Koran," said Balaji Srinivasan, a lawyer for Shayara Bano whose husband split from her by writing "divorce" three times on a piece of paper.
The practice has been challenged in lower courts but this collective appeal is the first time India’s Supreme Court will consider whether triple talaq is fundamental to Islam and therefore legally binding.
A panel of five judges from India’s major faiths -- Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism -- will consider the matter and is expected to deliver a verdict next week.
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Say 3 times:
"I divorce you!"
"I divorce you!"
"I divorce you!"
[DAWN] NOWSHERA: A man killed his wife for ’honour’ here at Qamar Mella area on Thursday.
Police sources said that the victim woman had tied the knot with Imtiaz Gul of Jaroba about four months ago through court marriage. Soon after the incident, a raiding party led by DSP Akora Khattak circle Adnan Azam and SHO Nizampur was tasked to arrest the suspect.
The police tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Gul and also claimed to have recovered a pistol from him. According to the police, Gul confessed during preliminary investigations that he had killed his wife on suspicion of her having relations with another person. The body was brought to the district headquarters hospital, Nowshera, for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later handed over to her relatives.
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[DAWN] The case of a ’controversial’ marriage between an Indian woman and a Pak man reached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday as the husband requested the court to stop his wife from returning to India.
Tahir Khan, a resident of Buner in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , also requested the court to arrange his meeting with his wife Uzma at a neutral place, saying the recent application filed by her was a result of pressure from her family as well as officials of the Indian High Commission.
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[IsraelTimes] Majority of respondents see divide between Jews and Israeli Arabs as the greatest danger to Israeli society.
Going forward the Palestinians will have to give more to get less, should they ever decide to negotiate seriously, while the Arab-Israelis will become non-Jewish citizens of the Jewish state whose children learn Arabic as a second language. Jewish demographics defines their destiny, too.
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.
[An Nahar] An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast 
[TownHall] A Tenessee woman was charged with felony reckless endangerment after allegedly chasing Congressman David Kustoff, who voted in favor of the American Health Care Act, down a highway and placing him "in fear of being run off" the road. Kustoff attended a meeting at the University of Tennessee unrelated to the AHCA where Wendi Wright, 35, allegedly tried to discuss her grievances with him. Kustoff drove off and "that's why she began following him," Weakley County Sheriff's Department Sergeant told BuzzFeed News. After Kustoff pulled into a driveway, Wright allegedly got out of her car and "began screaming and striking the windows" of his car, police told BuzzFeed News. "I've been led to believe she was upset over a vote he had cast involving health care," Plunk said.
[DAWN] NOWSHERA: A man killed his wife for ’honour’ here at Qamar Mella area on Thursday.
[DAWN] The case of a ’controversial’ marriage between an Indian woman and a Pak man reached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday as the husband requested the court to stop his wife from returning to India.
