12/06/14 ~ The Raw Story

Saturday, 6 December 2014

Deadline approaches for US State Department to answer to Indian PM Narendra Modi's human rights violation charges

© Wikimedia Commons In 2002, the Indian province of Gujarat experienced one of the bloodiest instances of religious violence in the country's history. Following a train fire that killed 59 Hindus, riots erupted across the province that targeted the local Muslim minority. More than 300 mosques and other religious sites were destroyed. Muslim women were chased through the street, raped and burned alive. After three days of unrest, at least 1,000 people...

© AP Photo/ Evan VucciHouse Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) laughs as he walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Republicans are signaling that when they take control of the Senate in January, they'll try to change the way a key government watchdog does math. If they get their way, it will effectively put a thumb on the scale of all future legislation.The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) informs...

© AFP New federal restrictions on racial profiling will still allow some officials to use the controversial practice along the southwestern U.S. border and in screening of airline passengers, the said.The rules will ban racial profiling from national security cases for the first time and will bar the FBI from considering religion and national origin when opening a case, the newspaper said.The guidelines have been the subject of sharp debate within...

© USGS Event Time2014-12-07 01:22:00 UTC2014-12-07 11:22:00 UTC+10:00 at epicenterLocation6.537°S 154.455°E depth=10.0km (6.2mi)Nearby Cities116km (72mi) WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea124km (77mi) WSW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea342km (213mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea489km (304mi) ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea685km (426mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon IslandsScientific Data...

© USGS Moscow - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesian coast of Yamdena Island, the US Geological Survey reports.The quakes took place at around 10 p.m. GMT, with the epicenter 222 km (138 miles) to the northwest of Saumlaki town, located on Yamdena island. The quake happened at a depth of 117.3 km (72.9 miles).No damage or injuries have been reported in the area. Indonesia, which comprises thousands of islands, is vulnerable to earthquakes...

© YouTube Nearly everyone knows about the infamous video of a New York City police officer choking Eric Garner. But there is a second video, in the aftermath of the more well-known Eric Garner video.The second video shows the choking while one officer grabbed Garner around his neck, and threw him to the ground. It also, however, shows the seven minute long aftermath, where a disgusted bystander films the lifeless body of Eric Garner left on the...

© ABC News10/KXYV A 12-year-old boy took his own life. And tonight, that boy's family and friends, including the staff and students at Folsom Middle School, are searching for answers.Those close to Ronin Shimizu say he could not take the bullying anymore.The district confirms they did get a number of complaints from the parents of the boy. They say they followed protocol, but friends say it just wouldn't stop. Shimizu had a bright smile, but apparently...

© AFP Photo/Adem AltanTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu Turkey has banned the entry of over 7,000 suspected foreign jihadists en route to Iraq and Syria, the country's Foreign Minister has announced.At a two-day Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference in Basel, Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu told his counterparts that Turkey's "no enter" list now includes some 7,200 names, reports the Andalou Agency. Turkish authorities...

© AFP Photo/RaveendranBouthaina Shaaban, a cabinet-level adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Syria's government and opposition will hold talks in Moscow on the resolution of the Syrian crisis, advisor to the Syrian president Bouthaina Shaaban told RT Arabic.Syria and Russia agreed that the "intra-Syrian dialogue will begin in Moscow," Shaaban told RT Arabic during an interview in Damascus on Thursday.She elaborated that Damascus has been...

© AFP Photo / Mark Wilson / PoolUS Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on December 6, 2014. The US defense secretary Chuck Hagel on a visit to the Afghan capital Kabul has said that up to 1,000 US troops will not be withdrawn from Afghanistan as planned.The extra troops will cover a temporary shortfall in NATO forces as the vast majority...

© AFP /Faisal al-TamimiA US Airways plane makes an emergency landing in Rome after two passengers and 11 members of the crew are taken ill, Italian media report. A US Airways plane made an emergency landing in Rome on Saturday after two passengers and 11 members of the crew were taken ill, Italian media reported.The plane, which set off from Tel Aviv in Israel for Philadelphia in the United States, landed at the Fiumicino airport in the Italian...

© Flickr/ Alex Proimos French authorities in Marseille have abandoned requiring homeless people to wear yellow triangle ID cards that identify their suspected illnesses, The Local reported on Friday.The original intention of the initiative, a procedural streamlining for health workers in emergency situations, was slammed by human rights groups and government ministers, equating it to the Nazi-era Star of David, which the Jewish people had to wear....

© New England AquariumJuvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle, with lacerated front flipper and fractured shell, being evaluated at the New England Aquarium's sea turtle hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts. A mystery is unfolding on the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been washing up on the shore, sick and stunned by the cold ocean water. Biologists and volunteers are mounting an unprecedented rescue response...

© 2014, Daniel GriffinKevin Anchukaitis collects an tree-ring sample from a 300-year old blue oak in California. The last three years of drought were the most severe that California has experienced in at least 1,200 years, according to a new scientific study published Thursday.The study provides the state with breathtaking new historical context for its low reservoirs and sinking water tables, even as California celebrated its first good soaking...

Long range acoustic devices (LRADs) have been previously implemented by police at protests throughout the world.Thursday night at about 1am, at the intersection of 57 East and Madison Avenue in Manhattan - a populated area about four blocks from Columbus Circle - the NYPD used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to disperse about 100 protesters who were on the streets. Footage captured by YouTube user James C shows the weapon in use beginning at...

© USGSA map of the quake. A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica and Panama on Saturday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.The quake, which occurred at a depth of 36 kilometres, struck around 18 kilometres east of Punta de Burica in Panama, about 258 kilometres southeast of San Jose, Costa Rica.The quake caused reports of shaking across both countries, with reports of "strong" shaking toward the border region between...

© AFP Photo / Carl de Souza Sierra Leone said Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and the country now hardest-hit by the deadly virus desperately needs over 1,000 beds to treat victims.Sierra Leone's Finance Minister Kaifalah Marah painted a grim picture to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Friday of the challenges facing his West African nation which failed to meet a World Health Organization interim...

© Kenneth CataniaElectric eel (Electrophorus electricus) Electric eels are badass. Not only can they produce an incapacitating 600-volt zap -- five times that of a U.S. wall socket -- they can also remotely control their prey through water. The predatory eels create a variety of electric discharges that range from lower-voltage ones sent out as environmental sensors to high-voltage strikes that allow them to hijack the nerves of their prey -- immobilizing...

© University of ExeterLettuce roots are affected by Ibuprofen The drugs we release into the environment are likely to have a significant impact on plant growth, a new study has revealed.By assessing the impacts of a range of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and Plymouth University have shown that the growth of edible crops can be affected by these chemicals - even at the very low concentrations...

© weebly.comFollowing the disaster, Bhopal was in a state of death-laden chaos. The pattern of double standards, of privatising profits and socialising disaster runs through the pattern of corporate rule being institutionalised since the Bhopal tragedy.December 3, 2014, marks the 30th anniversary of the terrible Bhopal gas tragedy, which killed more than 3,000 people almost immediately, another 8,000 in the following days, and more than 20,000 in...

© UH HURL/NOAAThe U.S.S. Kailua, a sunken cable repair ship that was torpedoed in 1946, was recently rediscovered off the shores of Oahu, Hawaii. The ship's wheel, shown here, was still in its original location. A "ghost ship" that has been lost beneath the waves for more than 60 years has been discovered nearly a half-mile below the ocean surface off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.A small submersible vehicle came upon the shipwreck last year, researchers...

© AFP Photo / Rodrigo BuendiaUruguayan President Jose Mujica The Uruguayan president has restated his offer to assume responsibility for six detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention center, while urging the White House to end the decades-long embargo on Cuba.In an open letter published on his presidential website, Uruguayan President Jose Mujica called on President Barack Obama release the prisoners at Guantanamo, many who are being held without any...

© AFP Photo / Yuri KadobnovGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin A group of prominent Germans are urging their country and the West to open dialogue with Russia. They believe this is essential to ensure peace in Europe, rather than further isolate Moscow, which they say would be "dangerous for the world."The petition named 'New war in Europe? Not in our name!' was signed by 60 people from Germany's politics, economy,...

© Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins The Central Bank of Venezuela is adding diamonds, gold and other precious stones and metals to its foreign reserves which have fallen to an 11-year low.The bank said in a statement issued Thursday it intends to use a broader range of assets to increase international reserves, it will also include freely convertible foreign currencies.Venezuela may also use Chinese loans in yuan to bolster its international reserves....

An argument between anti-abortion protesters and a man asking the group to leave the London sidewalk where they were stationed was quickly ended with an impromptu argument by a pregnant woman who happened to be walking by. The exchange of words was captured by journalist Sunny Hundal, who uploaded the footage to YouTube.The YouTube clip begins with the anti-abortion protesters claiming that they were not filming women walking into the abortion...

A water buffalo tore through a small southwestern Chinese town in a mad rampage A water buffalo tore through a small southwestern Chinese town in a mad rampage, chasing down pedestrians and injuring at least 14 bystanders.In surveillance video footage released by state media, the water buffalo is seen wandering in the center of town in Jingyan County located in China's Sichuan province.In one shot, the buffalo is shown setting its sights on resident...

© AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber Two doctors from the West African former British colony of Sierra Leone have succumbed to Ebola on the same day, according to local officials; the overall number of doctors claimed by the virus in the country has reached ten."The worst Ebola outbreak on record has torn through some of West Africa's weakest health systems, killing nearly 350 medical personnel, including 106 in Sierra Leone, which is still rebuilding from...

A 55-year-old woman of Adhivarahapuram near Tiruttani was admitted to government hospital on Friday after she was attacked by a wild boar."Around 4.30 in the morning, Pattammal went out to the backyard of her house, where the animal attacked her, injuring her right hand. The victim raised an alarm but the animal disappeared," Forest officials said.A team of officials led by Tiruvallur District Forest Officer P. Muhammed Shabab visited the victim...

© Reuters/Jason Redmond Amid a recount of Oregon's ballot initiative over labeling of genetically-modified foods, the pro-agribusiness contingent, known as the "" tried to illegally place out-of-state election observers in at least four counties, opponents say.The statewide vote on - which, if passed, would demand genetically-engineered ingredients to be labeled as such - is subject to a hand recount given the original, computerized tally showed...

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