Thursday, September 8, 2016

Russia's 'most powerful weapon' and other top stories.

  • Russia's 'most powerful weapon'

    Biden Reassures NATO Allies and Dismisses Trump0:56U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden met with NATO allies to reaffirm America's commitment to the decades-old treaty, while also challenging Donald Trump's basic understanding of Article 5 and the principle of "collective defense." Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to be alarmed at the rising influence and spread of NATO in Europe. Pictured Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via APIT’S capable of causing widespread harm, but Russi..
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  • Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with Islamic State leader, says senior minister

    Indonesian church attacker
    Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with Islamic State leader, says senior minister Posted August 29, 2016 16:26:04 A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group Islamic State, a senior minister said on Monday.Indonesian authorities are increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, driven in part by a new generation of jihad..
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  • Suicide attack kills 18 in Iraq oasis town

    Suicide attack kills 18 in Iraq oasis town
    Suicide attack kills 18 in Iraq oasis town By Afp Published: 04:14 EST, 29 August 2016 | Updated: 04:14 EST, 29 August 2016 Attackers armed with suicide vests, rifles and grenades killed 18 people in the Iraqi oasis town of Ain al-Tamer, many of them guests at a wedding party, local officials said Monday."They were carrying Kalashnikovs, hand grenades. One of them blew himself up and the others were killed by the security forces," said the head of central Euphrates operations comman..
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  • US child hurled off a bridge into river

    US child hurled off a bridge into river
    A US mother has been vilified online for allowing a "stranger" to throw her four-year-old son off a bridge into a river. Police were called to the Devonshire Bridge over the Wynochee River in Washington state on August 25 after Facebook user Kaylub Fawley posted video of a man hurling the youngster off the eight metre high train overpass into the water below. The Montesano sheriff’s office said because the railroad bridge is private property, the man who tossed the boy has been handed a trespa..
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  • More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway

    More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway
    More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway Posted August 29, 2016 20:11:41 More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in southern Norway, Norwegian officials say, in the largest such incident known to date.The 323 reindeer, including 70 young, were found on Friday by a gamekeeper on the Hardangervidda plateau, a national park where Europe's largest herd of some 10,000 wild reindeer roam freely.Television footage showed the animals' dead bodies..
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  • NJ Transit cop saves man from oncoming train

    NJ Transit cop saves man from oncoming train
    SECAUCUS – A New Jersey Transit police officer pulled a man off the train tracks at Secaucus Junction – seconds before an oncoming train arrived, the agency announced Sunday. NJ Transit Officer Victor Ortiz of the NJ Transit police pulling a man off the rails at Secaucus Junction in this security footage redacted by the agency to protect the man’s identity. A 34-second video of the incident, which occurred Friday, shows Officer Victor Ortiz wrangling with a..
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  • Schoolgirl killed herself over fears of online backlash over racially offensive Instagram snap

    Schoolgirl killed herself over fears of online backlash over racially offensive Instagram snap
    Phoebe’s headmaster described her as a ‘a confident, warm and caring girl’. Picture: Facebook.Mark Hodge and Ian MurphyThe SunA TEENAGER committed suicide after becoming concerned about an offensive photograph she had taken being shared online.Phoebe Connop, 16, had been speaking regularly online with a man who she called her boyfriend despite the two having never met.An inquest in the UK heard she shared an edited picture of herself where her skin tone had been darkened as she wore a scarf wrap..
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  • Arson attack damages Belgian crime lab

    Arson attack damages Belgian crime lab
    Belgian state broadcaster RTL reported a suspected arson attack heavily damaged Belgium's criminology institute in a Brussels suburb early on Monday morning but the building was empty at the time and nobody was injured. Prosecutors said authorities suspected the attack was an attempt to destroy sensitive files held by the federal justice agency which carries out scientific analyses in criminal cases. "The location was not chosen randomly," prosecutors office spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said..
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