How Syrian parents pick up their children from school.
— شبكة الثورة السورية (@RevolutionSyria) October 27, 2016
Mutilated by #Putin_Assad air strikes#Hass #Idleb #Syria 26-10-2016 pic.twitter.com/ApdricgxAK
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Syria - School air strike (Sick video)
Wildlife ranger accused over decapitated bison ( Cover-up)
Published: 27 Oct 2016 16:12 GMT+02:00
The bizarre crime against the protected animals caused outrage in Spain but now the case has taken a surreal twist with the arrest of the head of the wildlife park.
Carlos Álamo, the director of Valdeserrillas Nature park, had taken to social media to decry the death of two males in his beloved herd, animals that were brought to Spain last year as part of a bison reintroduction programme funded by the European Union.
But he appeared in court this week after being charged for negligence following a post mortem on the animals that appeared to suggest they had been starved to death.
The headless corpse of Sauron, the 660-kilo (1,455-pound) alpha male of the herd had been found in the park in mid-September followed a week later by the discovery of a second headless animal.
Initially investigators had followed the theory that the animals had been poisoned before their heads were cut off with an axe by trophy hunters, after poison pellets were discovered.
But the park director now stands accused of having behead the animals himself to cover up the fact that they had died of malnutrition.
The European bison, the continent's largest wild land mammal, once roamed across most of the continent but it was severely hunted until it finally became extinct in the wild in 1927, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
National Geographic's Afghan Girl Arrested in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - The Afghan girl, who became famous for her striking green eyes on a National Geographic cover in 1985, was arrested Wednesday for possessing a fake identity card of Pakistan, where she lives in a refugee camp.
Sharbat Gula allegedly obtained Pakistani identity documents for herself and her two children after bribing three officials, a representative of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency told EFE, on grounds of anonymity.
The 46-year-old Afghan refugee, who does not have Pakistan citizenship, will be moved to a prison for women, where she will be held until a court reviews her case, for which she could be sentenced to up to seven years in jail.
She could also be expelled from the country, according to the FIA official.
The police are also trying to track down Gula's two children to take them into custody.
The federal agency began investigating the case in February 2015 when several cases of Afghan refugees trying to obtain Pakistani documents to avoid deportation came to light.
Pakistan hosts 1.4 million registered and 900,000 illegal Afghan refugees.
Afghans began arriving in Pakistan following the 1979 Soviet invasion and are one of the largest and oldest displaced communities in the world.
Around 456,000 Afghan refugees have returned back home from Pakistan so far this year, mostly in the last three months, following a Pakistani government ultimatum.
Gula was immortalized by American photographer Steve McCurry in a refugee camp in Peshawar in 1985.
Her face, wrapped in a red shawl and her striking green eyes transformed her into an icon of contemporary photography.
McCurry photographed Gula again 17 years later in Afghanistan and said the woman, then aged 30 years, was ignorant of her fame.
Gunmen Kill 5 Vigilantes in Southern Mexico
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Five members of the UPOEG community self-defense group were ambushed and killed in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero by “heavily armed persons,” state police said.
The ambush occurred in the city of Juan R. Escudero as the vigilantes were returning from an operation, said the state police’s precinct chief in the town of Xalpatlahuac, Edith Baltazar.
The vigilantes left on Sunday for “the municipalities of Ayutla and Tecoanapa to conduct operations in the villages of Ocotito and Tierra Colorada, municipality of Juan R. Escudero,” Baltazar said in a statement.
The vigilantes’ convoy was traveling through the community of Villa Guerrero, located outside the city of Juan R. Escudero, when “they were ambushed by heavily armed persons, with the result that five community self-defense group members belonging to UPOEG, who were from different communities outside the cities of Tecoanapa and Ayutla, were killed,” Baltazar said.
“Meanwhile, communication was established with the community police command in Tecoanapa, who provided the same version to the precinct chief,” the Guerrero state police said.
Community police commanders in Tecoanapa said that “five dead bodies belonging to (members of) our organization (UPOEG) were brought in” on Monday afternoon.
“A group of six community police officers is missing,” Baltazar said.
UPOEG, whose members are armed, was created in January 2013 in the cities of Ayutla de los Libres, Teconoapa and San Marcos to protect residents.
The self-defense group controls access to the communities and polices them to fight drug traffickers and other criminals.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Trump Says U.S. Will Finance Border Wall, Be Reimbursed by Mexico
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated on Saturday that he will build a wall on the Mexican border, to be financed by the U.S. and “reimbursed” by Mexico, and that he will suspend immigration from regions known for terrorism.
During a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in which he described what the first 100 days of his presidency would be like, Trump confirmed that his law to put an end to illegal immigration would include financing for the wall, with the complete understanding that Mexico would “reimburse” the United States.
Up to now the Republican candidate had given the idea that it would be the neighbor to the south that would pay up front for building the wall to stop illegal immigration.
At Gettysburg – a historic place in American history where Abraham Lincoln in 1863 gave one of his most famous speeches during the Civil War – Trump again referred to his controversial idea of banning immigration from regions known for terrorism, though he gave no details about how this ruling would be applied.
On another subject, the New York magnate noted that he will cancel the “billions” of dollars being paid to the United Nations for climate-change programs.
Most of his proposals echoed previous announcements, such as his intention to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
He also criticized the excessive number of regulations, particularly in matters of climate change, imposed by the Barack Obama government.
Finally, he attacked his Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, charging her with defending the same old Washington policies.
“Hillary Clinton is not running against me,” Trump said. “She’s running against change and she’s running against all of the American people and all of the American voters.”
As the U.S. electoral campaign enters its final stage just 17 days from the elections on Nov. 8, the Republican candidate seeks to gain back some of the ground he lost in the polls following the scandals dogging him in recent weeks.
During a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in which he described what the first 100 days of his presidency would be like, Trump confirmed that his law to put an end to illegal immigration would include financing for the wall, with the complete understanding that Mexico would “reimburse” the United States.
Up to now the Republican candidate had given the idea that it would be the neighbor to the south that would pay up front for building the wall to stop illegal immigration.
At Gettysburg – a historic place in American history where Abraham Lincoln in 1863 gave one of his most famous speeches during the Civil War – Trump again referred to his controversial idea of banning immigration from regions known for terrorism, though he gave no details about how this ruling would be applied.
On another subject, the New York magnate noted that he will cancel the “billions” of dollars being paid to the United Nations for climate-change programs.
Most of his proposals echoed previous announcements, such as his intention to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
He also criticized the excessive number of regulations, particularly in matters of climate change, imposed by the Barack Obama government.
Finally, he attacked his Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, charging her with defending the same old Washington policies.
“Hillary Clinton is not running against me,” Trump said. “She’s running against change and she’s running against all of the American people and all of the American voters.”
As the U.S. electoral campaign enters its final stage just 17 days from the elections on Nov. 8, the Republican candidate seeks to gain back some of the ground he lost in the polls following the scandals dogging him in recent weeks.
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