#FreedomforVenezuela : One month of deadly violence in a poor and hungry country abused by the socialist "Bolivarian revolution"
May Day protests risk being rough in Venezuela on Monday as it marks one month since deadly clashes erupted in a political crisis with no end in sight. Protesters took to the streets from April 1 to demand elections after the courts tried to strengthen President Nicolas Maduro's grip on power. Marches in various cities erupted into clashes between riot police and protesters which have since left 28 people dead, according to public prosecutors. "We are not going to cool down the street," said senior opposition lawmake…
#SHOOTING : A man drinking a beer from one hand and brandishing a gun in the other wounding several people before being shot dead by police
A man drinking a beer from one hand and brandishing a gun in the other opened fire beside a pool at a San Diego apartment complex on Sunday, wounding several people before being shot dead by police, according to local media accounts. An apartment complex resident who witnessed part of the incident told television station KFMB-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, that five to seven victims were shot, before the gunman was slain on the scene by police. The condition of the wounded was unknown. San Diego police were not immediately availab…
#SexCrime: A suburban Philadelphia pastor,Jacob Malone, accused of sexually assaulting and impregnating a teenager.He has pleaded guilty
A suburban Philadelphia pastor accused of sexually assaulting and impregnating a teenager has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to three to six years in prison after a judge rejected an earlier plea agreement as too lenient. Thirty-five-year-old Jacob Malone, of Exton, was sentenced Friday after entering guilty pleas to institutional sex assault, corruption of minors and child endangerment. He also must register as a sex offender for 15 years. Malone and prosecutors had reached an earlier plea deal that called for a two-year minimum j…
#USPolitics 93% of Trump voters surveyed (University of Virginia poll) approve job .
At 44%, Trump’s approval ratings at the 100-days mark are the lowest of any newly-elected President on record, according to a recent survey. Nevertheless, Trump supporters remain firmly planted behind their man. At least those are the indications of a University of Virginia Center of Politics poll released Thursday, which show that 93% of Trump voters surveyed approve of the job he is doing compared to only 7% who do not, Politico reports. Those results — which have a margin of error of ±3.1 percentage points — are drawn from a nat…
#WarOnTerror : London police shoot woman during anti-terror raid on house
Dramatic video footage has showed the moment heavily armed police swooped on a north London house in an anti-terror raid last night. Armed police could be seen approaching the terraced house in Willesden, north London, before pointing their guns towards the windows. Five shots were heard ringing out on the quiet London street just before 7pm, just a few hours after a man was arrested with a 'bag full of knives' in Whitehall. A woman in her 20s was shot by police and taken to hospital, where she remains under police guard.…
#Hollywood - Ridley Scott said : ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night ? One day aliens will come for us'
Alien creator Ridley Scott has said that he is convinced that there are extra-terrestrials out there – and one day they will come for us. The veteran director said he believed in higher beings as he prepared to release the sixth episode of the sci-fi horror series, Alien: Covenant, next month. “ I believe in superior beings. I think it is certainly likely. An expert I was talking to at Nasa said to me, ‘Have you ever looked in the sky at night? You mean to tell me we are it? ’ That’s ridiculous .” Alien creator Ridley Scott …
#Business :Tokyo District Court ruled that former Olympus president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa must pay $529 million
A group of sacked Olympus executives have been ordered to pay more than half a billion dollars in damages for a massive accounting fraud that badly damaged Japan's corporate governance image. from the left :Tsuyoshi Kikukawa;Hisashi Mori ;Hideo Yamada The Tokyo District Court ruled on Thursday that former company president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and five others must pay the company some 58.8 billion yen ($529 million), the camera and medical equipment maker said. The men were key figures in a complicated fraud to hide about $1.7 billio…
#GruesomeCrimes : Hollywood Man Beat Wife to Death After Being Told She Was Pregnant by Boyfriend
After brutally pummeling his pregnant wife to death with a pipe wrench in front of their four children Wednesday night, Claude Sejour called 911 and waited outside his home for authorities to arrive, according to a Hollywood Police report. Claude Sejour, 48 years old When police arrived, they found Sejour, 48, with blood on his white button-down shirt, his hands and cheek. And inside the house, they found his wife’s lifeless body on the bed and the couple’s four children nearby. “ I did it, I finished her and called police and went o…
#DeathPenalty : Arkansas execution delayed as U.S. Supreme Court hears appeals
A plan by Arkansas to execute an inmate was delayed on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court heard last-minute appeals from the man convicted of murdering a cheerleader, who then escaped from prison and killed two other people before being captured again. The state, which had not held an execution in 12 years until this month, has already put three inmates to death since April 20. It had planned to execute Kenneth Williams, 38, by lethal injection at 7 p.m. CDT (0000 GMT) at its Cummins Unit prison. Arkansas had initially planne…
#Business,#TrueNews : Takata shares suspended on bankruptcy due defective airbags scandal !
Trading in Takata's shares was halted on Thursday after a media report said the embattled Japanese airbag maker was considering filing for bankruptcy and then rolling its key businesses into a new company. Takata, at the centre of the biggest-ever auto safety recall, declined to comment on the report in Japan's Nikkei business daily, which led the Tokyo Stock Exchange to suspend trading of its stock pending an announcement from the company. Takata has already agreed to pay a billion-dollar fine to settle lawsuits in the United …
#SocialMediaKilling : A Thai man videotaped himself killing his 11-month-old daughter and posted it to Facebook !
A Thai man videotaped himself killing his 11-month-old daughter and posted it to Facebook, then took his own life, police said Tuesday. The clip was visible on the father’s Facebook page for nearly 24 hours before it was taken down, authorities said. “ This is an appalling incident and our hearts go out to the family of the victim, ” a Singapore-based spokesman for the social media giant said in an email to Reuters. “ There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook and it has now been removed ,” the wire service report…
#Immigration : Illegal Mexican immigrants residing in the US has been decreasing over the past 10 years
A new report has found that the number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants residing in the US has been steadily decreasing over the past 10 years, and they no longer make up the majority of illegal immigrants. The Pew Research Center released a report Tuesday that estimates the population of unauthorized immigrants living in the US to have decreased from its peak of 12.2 million during the recession in 2007 to 11.3 million in 2016. For the first time, the population of unauthorized immigrants living in the US has fallen below the level i…
#Business : Asian shares continue rally for a fourth day
Asia's equity rally pressed on for a fourth day Wednesday following another record close on Wall Street and with investor optimism high as Donald Trump is expected to unveil his much-vaunted tax overhaul. After shooting out of the blocks Monday in response to Emmanuel Macron's election triumph in France's election first round, trading floors remain buoyant on a strong start to the US earnings season and Trump's expected stimulus. The positive sentiment has also been boosted by a slight easing of tensions w…
#HumanRights : Italian citizen,Gabriele Del Grande,journalist has been freed after two weeks in detention in Turkey
An Italian journalist arrested in Turkey while researching refugees near the Syrian border has been freed after two weeks in detention Now Gabriele Del Grande is back in Bologna . " I spoke to him just now and he's on his way back to Italy. I had the great joy of telling his family. We are waiting for him ," Alfano said. Del Grande was handcuffed by Turkish police on April 9 as he was interviewing people who had fled the war-torn neighbouring country for a book he is writing on the conflict and the birth of the Islamic …
#FrancePresElection : It's the end of traditional parties so starting the big challenge LePen-Macron
Emmanuel Macron, little known to the French public just three years ago, is now favourite to win the country's presidency after topping Sunday's first round vote, but faces his biggest challenge yet as he takes on far-right rival Marine Le Pen. According to an almost-complete count, Macron beat Le Pen by around 24 percent to 22 percent in Sunday's first-round of voting. The two will now face off in the decisive second round in two weeks time. It was a huge triumph for a 39-year-old never elected to public office who was v…
#SexScandal,#TrueNews: The shameful legacy left by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes
The shameful legacy left by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is proving hard to overcome for the company, which is already embroiled in multiple sex scandals. Now, several employees are adding a racial discrimination suit to the litany of alleged abuses. former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Fox payroll manager Tichaona Brown and payroll coordinator Tabrese Wright have accused co-worker Judy Slater of making “racially charged comments, including suggestions that black men were ‘women beaters’ and that black people wanted to physically har…
#SOSVenezuela: 20 dead in a few days full of hunger and violence for Maduro's madness
LAST DAYS OF A SOCIALIST BOLIVARIAN DICTATORSHIP Venezuela, mired in a political and economic crisis for months, has been rocked by violence over the past three weeks which has claimed 20 lives. Dozens of people have been injured and some 600 arrested since the crisis escalated in late March, according to the rights group Foro Penal. A chronology of key events follows: - Supreme court stokes fires - March 29, 2017: Venezuela's high court, which has consistently backed leftist president Nicolas Maduro, strips lawmakers of …
#AmericanDucks,US Justice Department chief said:'The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a US "priority,"
The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a US "priority," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, as media reports indicated his office was preparing charges against the fugitive anti-hero. " We are going to step up our effort and already are stepping up our efforts on all leaks, " Sessions, America's top cop, said at a news conference in response to a reporter's question about a US priority to arrest Assange. The Justice Department chief said a rash of leaks of sensitive secrets appeared unprecedented…
#BreakingNews:German-Russian was arrested in Germany on suspicion of bombing the bus carrying Borussia Dortmund
A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen was arrested Friday in Germany on suspicion of bombing the bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund soccer team in an attack last week that prosecutors alleged was motivated by financial greed. A Dortmund player and a policeman were injured in the triple blasts last week as the bus was heading to the team’s stadium for a Champions League match against AS Monaco. Investigators found notes at the scene claiming responsibility in the name of Islamic extremists, but quickly doubted their authenticity. Federa…
#DeathPenalty : Arkansas Executes Death Row Inmate Ledell Lee in First Execution Since 2005
Arkansas executed death row inmate Ledell Lee Arkansas executed death row inmate Ledell Lee late Thursday night shortly after the US Supreme Court denied emergency motions in his case. RELATED : #DeathPenalty:The court of Arkansas voted Wednesday to halt the execution of an inmate facing lethal injection #DeathPenalty : Arkansas inmates condemned to die Thursday are clamin' : ' We're innocent ! ' Lee was administered the lethal injection at 11:44 p.m. local time (12:44 a.m. ET) and pronounced dead …
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