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Baltimore officials: No immediate decision in Gray caseby By AMANDA LEE MYERS and DAVID DISHNEAU
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Having weathered two all-night curfews with no major disturbances, Baltimore officials are now trying to manage growing expectations they will immediately decide whether to prosecute six police officers involved in the arrest of a black man who later died of injuries he apparently received while in custody....
US Lowers Fluoride Levels In Drinking Water For First Time in 50 Years by The European Union Times
The United States government has finally lowered fluoride levels in drinking water for the first time in 50 years following research by Harvard and other institutions that high exposure to fluoride can lower your IQ and wreak havoc on your body.
It was around 3 years ago, after all, that the government actually backed the historic study by Harvard scientists on the subject of fluoride’s devastating effects on cognitive ability. As I detailed in July of 2012, authors published their conclusion online in the July 20th edition of the prominent journal Environmental Health Perspectives: a federal government medical journal stemming from the United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
In the research by Harvard, it is made even more explicitly clear just how toxic fluoride can be to the body. In a written statement, researchers state:
“The children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ than those who lived in low fluoride areas.”
Three years later, and we’re now seeing action by the government. As The Guardian reports:
“The government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride added to drinking water for the first time in more than 50 years…. Since 1962, the government has been advising water systems to add fluoride to a level of 0.7 parts per million for warmer climates, where people drink more water, to 1.2 parts per million in cooler areas. The new standard is 0.7 everywhere.”
While lower, these levels are still concerning. But with a possible ban on the horizon for Monsanto’s cancer-linked herbicides and top corporations being forced to remove dangerous additives from their products, perhaps fluoride may be next.
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UK tells UN of Iranian attempts to buy nuclear technology - report by Julian Borger Diplomatic editor
If confirmed, efforts to procure uranium enrichment equipment would violate security council resolutions at crucial time in nuclear negotiations
Britain has informed the United Nations
Iranian of attempts a year ago to buy uranium enrichment technology on the black market, it
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Iranian of attempts a year ago to buy uranium enrichment technology on the black market, it
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A massive student protest carved through the heart of Baltimore Wednesday evening. VOA's Victoria Macchi reports from the city’s downtown area, where residents have been staging demonstrations over the death of a 25-year-old black man in police custody earlier this month.
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A massive student protest carved through the heart of Baltimore Wednesday evening. VOA's Victoria Macchi reports from the city’s downtown area, where residents have been staging demonstrations over the death of a 25-year-old black man in police custody earlier this month.
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The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy: government is voted into power by the people, to act in their interests. The UK is also a constitutional monarchy, although Queen Elizabeth II has limited powers and is politically impartial. The countdown to a British General election starts with the prime minister paying a ceremonial visit to the Queen, to formalise the dissolution of parliament.VIDEOGRAPHIC
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National Guard in Baltimore: Armored vehicles, military gearby The European Union Times
Riots in Baltimore, Maryland have largely subsided since protests there, in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death, turned violent earlier this week, albeit in the shadows of a massive police presence amplified by the activation of the National Guard.
A week-long nightly curfew went into effect in Baltimore on Tuesday evening, and more 3,000 police officers were on the scene thanks to a collaborative effort between law enforcement from Maryland, New Jersey and Washington, DC, as well as the National Guard.
Clad in riot gear, flanks of police marched through sections of Baltimore late Tuesday evening to clear the city streets pursuant to the curfew.
Efforts to enforce the curfew proved largely successful, and much of the city was comparatively quiet during early Wednesday morning, a sharp contrast to the riots and looting on Monday night after Freddie Gray’s funeral.
Gray, 25, died earlier this month, a week after he suffered critical injuries while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department. Demonstrations, mostly peaceful, have been waged across the region since Gray’s arrest on April 12, and have become amplified following his death. Thousands attended Gray’s funeral on Monday and went on a peaceful protest after. It turned violent later in the day, prompting Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to activate the National Guard to restore order.
“People have the right to protest and express their frustration, but Baltimore City families deserve peace and safety in their communities and these acts of violence and destruction of property cannot and will not be tolerated,” Hogan said.
On Wednesday, Baltimore Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said that the city will be assessing the need to keep the curfew into effect “day by day, hour by hour.”
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Moody’s downgrades Greece credit rating over debt uncertaintyby The European Union Times
Moody’s rating agency has downgraded Greece’s credit rating further into junk territory over growing uncertainty about the country’s ability to make its debt payments.
On Thursday, Moody’s slashed Athens’ rating to Caa2 from Caa1 and assigned it a “negative” outlook.
The rating is just two steps away from the level signaling that a default is imminent.
The rating agency said that talks between the debt-ridden country and its international lenders, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), show “no immediate prospect of agreement being reached on a new financing package.”
The rating reflects the agency’s overview of the economic, financial, and political risks in the country.
To meet the challenges caused by its debt, “Greece will need higher medium-term growth and political resolve,” Moody’s said.
“Recent events make both doubtful, raising further concerns over Greece’s ability to sustain financial support from official creditors over the coming years,” the agency said.
Moody’s said that the outcome of the talks would be determined primarily on a political level between the sides.
Debt-ridden Greece is in talks with the European Union (EU), the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) to receive the last tranche of its bailout – worth EUR 7.2 billion (USD 7.8 billion) – to help Athens avoid default and a possible exit from the European Union (EU).
The government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose leftist Syriza Party stormed to victory in January 25 elections, has tried to renegotiate the terms of the country’s bailout, which Athens had received in return for imposing harsh austerity measures.
Athens received two bailouts in 2010 and 2012 worth a total of EUR 240 billion (USD 272 billion) from the troika of international lenders following Greece’s 2009 economic crisis.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree and told police he was the mythical god Thor. Another ran nude down a busy city street in broad daylight, convinced a pack of German shepherds was pursuing him....
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JP Morgan prepares for global war, Unprecedented silver accumulation by The European Union Times
Silver stockpile of the largest US bank and major provider of financial services JPMorgan Chase has increased drastically for the last three years. In 2012 the amount of physical silver was at 5 million ounces, while for the current year it increased more than tenfold and accounts for 55 million.
Silver has always been regarded as a great investment tool. But the fact that it is estimated at that low as $15.66 an ounce implies that it is accumulated for the possible financial turmoil. Only in this case the stockpile can be paid off.
It can be seen in the letter of JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon in his letter to shareholders. As he stated, “Some things never change – there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial market.
The trigger to the next crisis will not be the same as the trigger to the last one – but there will be another crisis. Triggering events could be geopolitical (the 1973 Middle East crisis), a recession where the Fed rapidly increases interest rates (the 1980-1982 recession), a commodities price collapse (oil in the late 1980s), the commercial real estate crisis (in the early 1990s), the Asian crisis (in 1997), so-called “bubbles” (the 2000 Internet bubble and the 2008 mortgage/housing bubble), etc. While the past crises had different roots (you could spend a lot of time arguing the degree to which geopolitical, economic or purely financial factors caused each crisis), they generally had a strong effect across the financial markets.”
The preference to silver instead of gold can be directly explained with the current low price it has.
For the last two weeks, JP Morgan Chase has accumulated more than eight million ounces of physical silver.
In addition to this, JP Morgan Chase restricted the use of cash for selected markets and went so far as restricted its clients from using cash for credit cards payments, mortgages, equity lines and auto loans. There will also be no ability to store the cash in its safe deposit boxes.
The case tips at the anticipation of a new great economic crisis.
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IDF soldiers assault press in West Bankby The European Union Times
A video has emerged showing Israeli forces assaulting photojournalists near the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh. Despite being clearly marked as members of the press, the soldiers push the photographers to the ground and proceed to hit them.
One of the troops also throws a stone at a journalist.
The assault begins with soldiers shouting “Get out of here!”
One of the soldiers is then seen pushing one of the photographers to the ground with his helmet. Another soldier knocks the other photographer to the ground and then picks up a stone and hurls it at him.
The attack happened on Friday. Since then the Israeli army has stated that the area was a closed military zone and that dozens of Palestinian protesters gathered there and hurled stones at IDF soldiers prior to the assault of journalists.
However, an IDF spokesman later told Haaretz that “the behavior seen in the video is reprehensible and isn’t in line with the guidelines issued by the commanders in the region.”
“The IDF guidelines allow for free press coverage in the territory under control of the Central Command in general, and specifically during demonstrations,” he added.
The matter will be looked into shortly, the spokesman concluded.
It’s by no means the first time that the IDF has targeted journalists and assaulted them.
Last July, at least seven Palestinian journalists and media workers were killed in during the assault on Gaza and IDF forces directly hit at least four media offices.
During the November 2012 conflict, at least four Israeli attacks on media workers and facilities in Gaza were reported. In those attacks, two Palestinian cameramen were killed and at least 10 other media employees wounded.
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French leader vows punishment for any child rapes in Africa
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Margaret Rhodes, 89, has told how the Queen Mother prepared to protect her family from a possible Nazi raid by learning to shoot a pistol in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
Nearly 70 years after the end of the Second World War, the number of Germans who considered the conflict a defeat has fallen to just nine per cent - a 25 per cent drop in the last decade.
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A drug smuggler killed by an Indonesian firing squad was delusional and oblivious to what awaited him, it is claimed.
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Nicaragua's parliament has authorized the establishment of a ground station in the Central American
country for a Russian satellite network.
country for a Russian satellite network.
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Georgia woman used social media to threaten to kill police, authorities say
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People living in London are far more likely to be targeted by criminals who steal identities in order to open financial products in their name, research has shown.
Indonesia executed eight people Wednesday for drug smuggling, but one of them, a paranoid schizophrenic who also suffered from bipolar disorder, wasn’t aware he was about to be killed.
The priest who had been ministering to Rodrigo Gularte said the Brazilian inmate was “lost because he’s a schizophrenic,” the Guardian reports.
“He was hearing voices all the time,” Father Charlie Burrows said. “I talked to him for about an hour and a half, trying to prepare him for the execution. I said to him, ‘I’m 72 years old, I’ll be heading to heaven in the near future, so you find out where my house is and prepare a garden for me.’
But when Gularte was taken from his cell and put in chains, Burrows said he asked, “Am I being executed?”
Burrows explained, “I said, ‘Yes, I thought I explained that you.’ He didn’t get excited – he’s a quiet sort of a guy – but he said, ‘This is not right.’
Eight people were executed by a firing squad in Indonesia Wednesday for smuggling drugs into the country. One other was granted a stay of execution while her case is investigated further.
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Number of girls being treated for FGM
rises to 578 in March, as campaigners warn month-on-month increase looks set to continue
rises to 578 in March, as campaigners warn month-on-month increase looks set to continue
A total of 578 girls were treated for female genital mutilation in England
in March in what campaigners said was just the tip of the iceberg. The latest figures, from the Health and Social Care Information Centre, bring the total of identified cases to 3,963 since data began to be collected on FGM in September. Sixty of the newly identified cases reported involved under-18s.
in March in what campaigners said was just the tip of the iceberg. The latest figures, from the Health and Social Care Information Centre, bring the total of identified cases to 3,963 since data began to be collected on FGM in September. Sixty of the newly identified cases reported involved under-18s.
Tackling FGM has risen up the political agenda since last year, after high-profile campaigns gained public support.A Guardian petition saw the Department for Education write to schools about the dangers of FGM, while steps have been taken by the Department of Health and the Home Office to ensure cases are recorded and victims are better supported.
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Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the relationship between the government and Australia is
strained after Wednesday's executions of foreign drug convicts.
strained after Wednesday's executions of foreign drug convicts.
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Reclusive North Korean leader not coming to Moscow for Victory Day celebrations
The Globe and Mail The reclusive leader of North Korea won't be coming to Moscow next month for the Victory Day celebration, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman announced Thursday. The highly anticipated visit would have been Kim Jong Un's first foreign trip since taking ... and more » |
The Labour leader is using a speech to focus on the impact of cuts on family budgets, claiming voters have 'seven days to take your chance to make Britain run for working people once again'.
Turkey Detains 12 Policemen Probing Jihadist Activityby webdesk@voanews.com (Jamie Dettmer)
A Turkish court has ordered the detention of a dozen policemen who participated in probes against jihadists operating in the country in a move being seen here as the latest by the government to curtail the independence of police, prosecutors and judges. In the run-up to crucial parliamentary elections in June, a wave of indictments have been launched by the government against police officers, prosecutors as well as journalists, and midweek President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told...
Malala Yousafzai, who is now 17, was shot in the head in October 2012 when she was returning home from school with her classmates on a bus.
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Stalin Posters Removed From Public Spaces In Makhachkalaby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service)
Large posters with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's portrait that were placed in public spaces earlier this week in Daghestan's capital, Makhachkala, have been removed.
India's Oil Imports From Iran Jump in April: Report
NDTV New Delhi: India shipped in more than 17 per cent more Iranian oil in April than a year before, buoyed by prospects of a diplomatic deal on Iran's disputed nuclear programme by end-June, preliminary data from trade sources and compiled by Thomson ... and more » |
It has been confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not be attending events in Moscow next week. Report by Claire Lomas.
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How the World Learned of Hitler's Death
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