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Showing posts with label 2017 at 11:48AM. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 2, 2017
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
China invites foreign experts to help treat ailing dissident Liu
Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” after he helped write a petition known as “Charter 08” calling for sweeping political reforms.
He was recently moved from jail to a hospital to be treated for late-stage liver cancer.
The hospital, in the northeastern city of Shenyang, made the decision at the request of the family and in consultation with the doctors already treating him, the Shenyang Bureau of Justice said in a short statement on its website.
It provided no other details. Officials who picked up the telephone at the hospital said they were unaware of the case.
Source: China invites foreign experts to help treat ailing dissident Liu | Reuters
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Phoenix as temps hit 119f – 48.3c. Make Trump live there, without air/con!
Arizona, Nevada and California saw dramatic temperatures Tuesday as researchers say deadly heat waves like this one were going to grow more frequent.
Meteorologists in Phoenix said Tuesday evening the temperature topped out at 119 degrees_one that has only been matched or surpassed four other times.
The forecast called for a high of 120 degrees (49 degrees Celsius) in Phoenix, which it hasn’t seen in more than two decades. Death Valley, California, reached 125 and Palm Springs hit 121, still a degree lower than the same day last year.
The operator of California’s power grid called on people to conserve electricity during peak hours.
Workers at a construction site in a Phoenix suburb huddled under an excavator to find a sliver of a shade during a break. At another building site, men in hard hats and yellow vests labored and sweated in the heat, downing water to stay hydrated. Project superintendent Tommy Russell says his company has held weekly safety meetings to prepare for the heat, and he will send his workers home if it hits 120.
Las Vegas also baked. Visitors tried to stay inside air-conditioned casinos, and some tourists lugged packs of bottled water around the Strip. Others went to a bar w
Source: Cheering 1st day of summer? Not in Phoenix as temps hit 119
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
UPDATE: Fire engulfs London apartment block – NEW VIDEO
Two hundred firefighters and 40 fire engines are battling a large fire on a west London estate.
At least two people have been injured and flats at the 27-storey Grenfell Tower evacuated.
Footage on social media showed the building engulfed in fire, with flames stretching over a number of floors.
The tower block is on the Lancaster West Estate, near Notting Hall.
‘At this stage we are aware of two people being treated at the scene for smoke inhalation,’ local police said.
George Clarke, who presents Channel 4 show Amazing Spaces, told Radio 5 Live: ‘I’m 100 metres away and I’m absolutely covered in ash.
‘It’s so heartbreaking, I’ve seen someone flashing their torches at the top level and they obviously can’t get out.
‘The guys are doing an incredible job to try and get people out that building, but it’s truly
Source: Fire engulfs London apartment block
Monday, June 12, 2017
Trump insider pursuing bid for FBI building contract, raising questions of conflict of interest
In what ethics experts are calling a glaring direct conflict of interest, a significant business partner of both President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is pursuing a $2 billion government contract to build new headquarters for the FBI.
“It creates a huge conflict,” said Rep. Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat who sits on the House Oversight Committee. “It’s an enormous project. The exposure here for the Trump administration is very real.”
Vornado Realty Trust, a giant New York real estate firm whose founder and chairman, Steven Roth, is a longtime friend of and occasional adviser to Trump, is one of three finalists for the rights to develop a new FBI headquarters and campus in the Washington, D.C., region. Roth is helping head up Trump’s infrastructure advisory council and traveled with the president as he rolled out his plans last week, briefly sharing the stage with him in Cincinnati — with Trump introducing him to the crowd as one of “the greatest builders in America.”
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
ANOTHER jewellery store RAID. Five men smash their way into Melbourne shop
The masked thugs shattered the locked glass door of Jafari Jewellery in on Bourke Road in Malvern East just before noon on Thursday.
They broke open cabinets to steal the valuable pieces before fleeing in a silver BMW.
‘They just smashed the glass and came inside smashing everything with steel bars,’ he said on a call to 3AW radio.
Mr Jafari said he’d owned the store for three years and was never robbed before. He said police would use CCTV and the car’s licence plate to track them down.
It is the latest in a string of similar violent smash-and-grab Melbourne jewellery store robberies, and the second in two days.
On Tuesday a shop in Mulgrave was raided by masked robbers wielding axes and hammers who broke a front window to get inside.
A staff member bravely confronted the four men and was threatened with an axe during the brazen daylight robbery in a bust shopping centre.
Source: Five men smash their way into Melbourne jewellery store | Daily Mail Online
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Fairfax Media slashes 25% of staff in $30 million restructure
Fairfax Media will cut a quarter of its newsroom staff from metropolitan mastheads to save an estimated $30 million.
The major player in Australian media on Wednesday announced 125 full time equivalent (FTE) jobs will be cut in a massive restructure.
Staff have until next Tuesday to volunteer for redundancy.
The 125 redundancies includes 10 staff who have voluntarily left since the process began in April, according to an email supplied to Mumbrella.
Staff have been given until next Tuesday to volunteer for redundancy.
Contributors to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Australian Financial Review will now be paid per article instead of per word.
Casual staff and freelancers will also be dramatically cut across the mastheads.
Third-party deals are also being reviewed.
The cuts were announced in an email from Sean Aylmer, Fairfax Media’s Australian Metro Media editorial director.
‘While we will be looking across all parts of the newsroom, at the end of the redundancy program we expect there will be significantly fewer editorial management, video, presentation and section writer roles,’ the email said
MORE: Fairfax slashes 25% of staff in $30 million restructure | Daily Mail Online
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Dramatic drone footage shows deadly car bomb blast rip through Aleppo
Most of these types of videos are shot in Mosul making this clip from over the Syrian border slightly more surprising.
A car can be seen driving slowly round a bend in the city into a group of vehicles.
The motor draws in close to the collection of what appear to be 4x4s before bumping into one.
It is currently unknown how many people were killed in the blast.
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