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Global Justice Now hold anti-Trump protest outside SNP Autumn Conference
Global Justice Now member Bob Gillespie tries out a custom built Trump mask as the group hold a protest outside the SEC at the Scottish National Party (SNP) Autumn conference to highlight the dangers of post-Brexit trade deals with the US. Members of Global Justice Now hold a protest outside the SEC at the Scottish National Party (SNP) Autumn conference to highlight the dangers of post-Brexit trade deals with the US. October 9, 2017. Campaigners are concerned that a free...
Anxious Parents Speak Out Over Worry For Son Who Faces Three Years In UAE Jail For Accidentally Touching Man’s Hip
The parents of a Brit arrested in Dubai for accidentally touching another man's hip to avoid bumping into him have warned others to stay away from the country. Jamie Harron is facing three years in a UAE jail for "public indecency" after he placed his hand on a man so they did not bump and spill their drinks. And as his trial approaches Jamie's mother Patricia says she cannot even sleep out of worry for her son - and his...
Watch – Man had genitals reattached after they were “chopped off” by spurned lover
A man had his genitals successfully reattached after they were "chopped off" by a spurned lover when she found out he was marrying another woman, it is claimed. The injured man, named only as 26-year-old Irshad, met up with his lover, 30, for "one last time" before he was due to tie the knot with a bride of their parents' choice. The man known as Irshad who had his genitals chopped off by a spurned lover. They arranged a liaison...
British Firefighter On Dream Holiday Helped Dozens Of Victims In Las Vegas Shooting
A British firefighter saved dozens of people in the Las Vegas shooting after he stumbled on the massacre as he went from an evening stroll. Tony Dumbleton was on a dream holiday with wife Lucy when the atrocity, which left 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, unfolded on Sunday night (1/10). The couple, from Exhall, near Coventry, were staying at the MGM hotel when Tony went for an evening walk and heard shooting coming from the Mandalay Bay...
Monday was saddest day ever on Twitter
Monday was the saddest day ever measured on Twitter, according to Hedonometer. News of Las Vegas shootings combined with political turbulence in Europe, protests in Britain and natural events meant that sentiment dropped to an all-time low at the start of the week. The reading was lower than the terrorist attack in Orlando last year and the bombing of Boston marathon, along with several high profile deaths. Interestingly people were sadder about Donald Trump becoming president than Michael Jackson dying....
20-year-old blasted for sparking huge police manhunt after he secretly joined the French Foreign Legion
A gung-ho 20-year-old man has been blasted for sparking a huge police manhunt after he joined the French Foreign Legion - without telling his family. Charles Luck has since apologised and admitted his actions were 'idiotic', say family. He was last seen by relatives in June when he apparently left on his way to start a new gamekeeping job in the South of France. But he instead secretly signed up with the military service branch of the French Army, established...
Expert says hotels are a soft touch as there is no security
An American mass shooting expert says hotels are a soft touch for attacks like Vegas due to their lack of security. Professor Adam Winkler of UCLA is a gun law expert and has been cited in landmark Supreme Court cases, including opinions on the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms. And he added that with 320 million guns in the US, such massacres are impossible to stop. At least 50 people have been killed and more than 400 were...
Dad of cocktail waitress caught up in Las Vegas massacre recalls bone-chilling call where she told him: “Everyone is dying around me.”
The father of a cocktail waitress caught up in the Las Vegas massacre has told of the "bone-chilling" call he received from her as bullets rained down on her and her friends. Lexi Cheplak, 25, frantically dialled her dad Jon Cheplak at 10.17pm local time while in the audience of the bloodbath country music concert. The Las Vegas local, who attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival with a group of girlfriends, told horrified Jon: “Everyone is dying around me.” She...
More than 200 could be dead in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
By Max Bluer Reports are emerging of as many as 200 deaths in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria on the island last week. Although the official death toll remains in the teens, local press is reporting the deaths of at least two hundred people, mostly due to the unavailability of oxygen tanks for those with breathing difficulties, and a lack of electricity in hospital emergency rooms. People have also died of dehydration...