Three young migrants have been charged with hijacking a merchant ship that was diverted to Malta earlier this week. Two of the suspects are minors, and all three face up to thirty years in prison if convicted.
In other news, the Danish government has decided that the children of “Danes” who traveled abroad to fight for the Islamic State will not automatically be granted Danish citizenship and given Danish passports.
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Bokhari: When Will Big Tech Stop Amplifying NewsGuard-Approved Conspiracy Theories?
Big tech has long since caved to the power of big journalism. The spread of the Russia collusion hoax, fully approved of by Microsoft partner NewsGuard, is only the latest example.
At the behest of left-wing activist writers from mainstream sources, YouTube deliberately suppressed pro-life videos in its search results. After months of hitpieces from the likes of CNN and BuzzFeed, Silicon Valley united to ban Alex Jones and InfoWars across every major social media platform.
Facebook is even funding mainstream journalism now. So are YouTube and its parent Google. Microsoft is in bed with NewsGuard, an establishment project that purports to “rate” quality journalism, but in reality just puts a green “trustworthy” tick next to links to mainstream news websites and stories as you browse the web, regardless of whether the stories are true or false.
The impetus behind the abandonment of the old ideal of cyberspace as an equal playing field was the panic whipped up by the mainstream media about the proliferation of “conspiracy theories” online. “YouTube unleashed a conspiracy theory boom,” howls the New York Times. “Tech’s biggest companies are spreading conspiracy theories,” thunders CNN. “Why your Facebook feed is full of conspiracy theories,” explains the Washington Post.
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Explosive Found Inside Antique Coffee Jar Will be Disposed of by Nebraska State Patrol
You never know what you’ll find in an old coffee jar.
Wednesday, troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol’s bomb squad were called in to examine what a person suspected was an explosive, found in an antique coffee jar. The jar was inside a box someone had bought at an auction, the patrol said Thursday.
The person who found the device notified the North Platte Police Department, which then contacted the patrol’s bomb squad. A hazardous device technician with the patrol X-ray’d the jar and determined it contained an old M-series explosive.
The device has been safely stored, the patrol said, and will be disposed of at a later date.
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Fed Judge: California’s ‘High-Capacity’ Magazine Ban Unconstitutional
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ruled Friday that California’s ban on ammunition magazines holding more than ten rounds violates the Second Amendment.
On June 29, 2017, Breitbart News reported that U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez blocked the implementation of California’s “high-capacity” magazine ban two days before it was to go into effect. He noted that the ban could not survive the test of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), noting: “When the simple test of Heller is applied … the statute is adjudged an unconstitutional abridgment.”
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Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly “Swatting” Hoax
Tyler Barriss, whose hoax call to Wichita police led to the shooting death of an innocent man, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Associated Press reports. The sentence in Kansas federal court is a stark reminder of the serious consequences of the deadly prank called “swatting.”
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Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty in ‘Vote Trump’ Church Arson
JACKSON, Miss. — A member of a black church in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to burning the church, which was also spray painted with the slogan “Vote Trump,” a week before the 2016 presidential election.
Andrew McClinton, 47, pleaded guilty to arson Thursday, the Delta Democrat-Times reported. His sentencing is set for late April.
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No — Muslim Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell — We Are Not Ashamed of Christian Prayers!
In the Pennsylvania capitol at Harrisburg, on her first day in office, Rep. Movita Johnson—Harrell, a Muslim woman, threw a hissy fit at her political comrades in the house for the leading prayer offered and read by GOP Rep. Stephanie Borowicz.
Some in the Democratic Party agreed that Christian prayers are Islamophobic and gave tacit support to Movita’s whining.
With only one Muslim Rep in the House and on only her first day in office the Democrats are using the worn out and now almost meaningless PC catchword—’Islamophobic’to stir the pot and frustrate the peace and unity of the body politic in the Keystone State.
Christian prayers have been offered in the state house of U.S. states multiple thousands of times since this country began, how is it, that they are now labeled — “Islamophobic?”
In truth they are not and will never be Islamophobic, but America’s politicians and some Christians are wimping out for fear of being labeled Islamophobic.
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Nolte: Crybaby Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blames Unpopularity on Fox News, Breitbart
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has entered week two of her crybaby meltdown over disastrous poll numbers and now she’s blaming Fox News and Breitbart News for her unpopularity.
Quinnipiac is one of the most unreliable left-wing pollsters out there (not named Marist or CNN), so when the Q-poll has bad news for America’s Socialist “It Girl,” it is worth taking notice.
Quinnipiac found Ocasio-Crazy’s national favorability rating sits at a pathetic 23 percent; her unfavorable is 36 percent, which means she is upside down by double digits — 13 whole points.
But here is sweetest part of the song … only 47 percent of Democrats — Democrats, y’all — view Ocasio-Crazy favorably. Seven percent view her unfavorably and 44 percent have no idea who she is.
[Comment: Wingnuts never realize that they are the problem.]
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Philadelphia Archbishop: ‘Predatory Homosexuality’ Cause of Abuse Crisis
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput had strong words for the church’s top leadership this week, declaring that many bishops are upset with Rome for its failure to address the crisis of homoclericalism.
Many bishops are frustrated with Rome “for its unwillingness to acknowledge the real nature and scope of the abuse problem,” Chaput said in a meeting with seminarians in Ohio. “Not naming the real problem for what it is, a pattern of predatory homosexuality and a failure to weed that out from Church life, is an act of self-delusion.”
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Poll: 50% of Hispanic Voters Approve of Trump, GOP Regains Ballot Lead
As President Trump doubles down on his pledge to build a southern border wall, Hispanics are showing broad support for him, according to a new survey.
Some 50 percent of Hispanics approve of the president’s job, according to the latest McLaughlin & Associates poll of likely general election voters.
What’s more, the Republican Party has regained its edge over Democrats in the generic congressional ballot.
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Robert Mueller, Errand Boy for the New World Order
Robert Mueller was precisely the right person for the job of Special Counsel. Just as his appointment was not by accident, neither was his selection. It was necessary and calculated, but for all of the wrong reasons. His task was not to investigate but to obfuscate. His job was to deflect and divert American’s attention away from the actual criminals and criminality of not just the last eight years, but for the previous generation.
Moreover, he had the entire resources of the federal government at his disposal and used them with ruthless efficiency as he had done throughout his career. .
A stroke of his pen could upend and potentially destroy the lives of anyone in his sights. Just ask my friend Dr. Jerome Corsi, or Roger Stone, with whom I’ve been acquainted and worked or General Michael Flynn. Their lives have been forever changed by his insidious and unnecessary tactics of Deep State sanctioned terrorism under the guise of a legitimate investigation.
It was never a legitimate investigation. It was political payback and harassment in spades ordered by the upper echelon of a rogue “permanent state.” Robert Mueller was just their errand boy.
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Shootout at Church of Scientology Near LA Leaves Sword-Wielding Suspect Dead, 2 Cops Wounded
Investigators confer just down the street from the Church of Scientology after a shooting wounded two police officers and killed a sword-wielding suspect in Inglewood, Calif., on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
Two California police officers were wounded and a suspect was killed during a shootout Wednesday after police responded to reports of a hooded man with a sword entering the Church of Scientology of Inglewood, authorities said.
The suspect, who was not immediately identified, was shot in the head and later died at a hospital, Inglewood police Lt. Oscar Mejia told reporters at the scene.
One officer was struck in a hand, and the other was hit in an arm, officials said. The officers, both in their late 20s, were hospitalized in good condition with non-life-threatening injuries, police Chief Mark Fronterotta said.
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The country’s top bureaucrat warned Jody Wilson-Raybould that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “quite determined” to prevent SNC-Lavalin’s criminal trial from leading to job losses — and wanted to know why the then-justice minister hadn’t used a new legal tool to allow the company to avoid a criminal trial.
A recording made by Wilson-Raybould of a 17-minute Dec. 19 call between herself and Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick was released today, along with 43 pages of emails, texts and a written statement from Wilson-Raybould herself which were tabled to the Commons justice committee.
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A Year of Silencing Julian Assange
One year ago Thursday, Ecuador’s government under President Lenin Moreno silenced Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter Wednesday: “… March 28, marks one year that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been illegally gagged from doing journalism—any writing that expresses a ‘political opinion’? even on his own treatment, after pressure from the U.S. on Ecuador.”
On this date in 2018 Moreno imposed on Assange what Human Rights Watch’s legal counsel Dinah Pokempner described as looking “more and more like solitary confinement.” Moreno cut off Assange’s online access and restricted visitors to the Ecuador embassy in London where Assange has had legal political asylum since 2012.
[Comment: Article dated March 28, 2019.]
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Danish Parties Agree to Strip ‘ISIS Children’ Of Citizenship
In a landmark decision between the government and its right-wing allies, Denmark won’t recognize “ISIS children” as Danish nationals, and will make it easier to revoke citizenship from their terrorist parents in absentia, with no court involved.
The children of Denmark’s jihadists who left their country to join the terrorists’ cause in the Middle East will no longer be automatically granted Danish citizenship, according to a new agreement between the government and the right-wing Danish People’s Party.
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Denmark to Refuse Citizenship to Children of Islamic State Members
The Danish government has agreed this week to refuse to allow children born to Danish Islamic State fighters overseas to claim citizenship and a passport.
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EU Vehicles Could Soon Have Accident ‘Black Boxes’
All new vehicles in the European Union could soon be equipped with “black boxes” that record journey data that could be used in the event of an accident, in the same style as aeroplane flight recorders.
The measure could be introduced to help collect information, to determine the causes of any accident, and to help reduce future incidents. If the measure is passed, new vehicles would be required to have the journey recorder installed by 2022.
[Comment: That is Big Brotherism.]
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France: Yellow Vests Back on Streets After Elderly Protester Put in Hospital Last Week
PARIS (AP) — French yellow vest protesters are rallying to support an activist injured in a confrontation with police.
The demonstrators are undeterred by protest bans or repeated injuries in 20 weeks of demonstrations. So they’re marching again Saturday in Paris, Bordeaux and other cities to keep pressing President Emmanuel Macron to do more to help the working classes, redesign French politics — or step down altogether.
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Italy: Fingerprint Controls for Civil Servants to End Cheating
And iris checks
(ANSA) — Rome, March 28 — Civil servants and other public sector workers will soon clock into work with digital fingerprints and iris controls as biometric checks replaced swipe badges to stem an epidemic of clock-in cheating, according to a new article of the ‘concreteness’ bill approved at the committee stage Thursday.
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Italy: Camorra Widow Glitzy Wedding Slammed
Won’t allow ceremonies of dubious taste says councillor
(ANSA) — Naples, March 28 — Naples city council’s local police chief on Thursday slammed the “glitzy” wedding of a Camorra widow and a singer in the southern city’s ‘neomelodic’ tradition.
Tina Rispoli is the widow of Mob boss Gaeatano Marino, killed in Terracina near Rome on August 23, 2012. She married local crooner Tony Colombo on Thursday.
“We won’t let Naples turn into a stage to celebrate glitzy weddings, of dubious taste and without respecting the minimal rules,” said councillor Alessandra Clemente. The wedding was preceded by a lavish party Monday night in the central Piazza del Plebiscito.
On Thursday a wedding cortege with a horse-drawn carriage, horses and jugglers took place. photo: the scene of Marino’s murder
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In Brescia
(ANSA) — Brescia, March 29 — A dummy of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was burned in Brescia Thursday night at a traditional ‘burn the old woman’ event.
Salvini responded Friday: “They burn, I smile and go ahead with my work, with pride and without fear!”
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Italy: Priest to Give Flock Water Pistols to Protest Defence Law
Dean of St Eustachio in ‘ironic polemic’
(ANSA) — Rome, March 26 — A Roman priest is to give worshippers water pistols on palm Sunday to protest an upcoming law that makes it always legitimate to defend yourself against intruders.
Father Pietro Sigurani of the Sant’Eustachio Basilica (St Eustace’s Basilica) near the Senate said his move was an “ironic polemic” against the US-style stand your ground laws being brought in.
“It’s ridiculous. What with all the electronic (security) devices around today, do we really need guns?”.
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Italy: Ex-Aosta Governor Gets 4 1/2 Yrs for Corruption
Augusto Rollandin set be suspended as regional councillor
(ANSA) — Aosta, March 28 — Former Val d’Aosta governor Augusto Rollandin on Thursday got four and a half years in jail for corruption.
Rollandin, currently a regional councillor for the Union Valdotaine, was sentenced after a fast-track trial in which the prosecutor had requested six years. Proceedings will now be set in motion to suspend him as councillor.
Rollandin was among seven people probed in an investigation into alleged corruption involving companies the regional administration has stakes in.
Rollandin was accused of criminal association along with former manager Gabriele Accornero and businessman Gerardo Cuomo.
The case regarded alleged bid rigging and misappropriation.
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Italy: Salvini Calls for ‘Chemical Castration’ of Violent Rapists
Italy’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has called for the “chemical castration” of three men who allegedly filmed themselves raping a 19-year-old American tourist in Catania.
The three Italian men, Roberto Mirabella, 20, Salvatore Castrogiovanni, 19, and Agatino Spampinato, also 19, were arrested on March 21st for the gang rape attack, said to have occurred on March 15th, Il Giornale reports.
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Macron’s France: Average of Three Church Attacks Per Day
French churches are coming increasingly under attack with an average of nearly three churches per day targetted for vandalism alone over the past three years.
A report from the Central Criminal Intelligence Service (SCRC) of the gendarmerie noted that from 2016 to 2018 there had been thousands of cases of church vandalism, peaking in 2017 with 1,045 cases, Le Figaro reports.
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Man in France, Accused of Sheltering ISIS Terrorists, Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
A man who was accused of harboring terrorists in Paris after one of the city’s most deadly attacks has been sentenced to four years in prison.
The Paris Court of Appeal sentenced Jawad Bendaoud on Friday.
Prosecutors argued that in November 2015, he hid two men, Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh, who were on the run after coordinated bombings and gunfire wreaked havoc at the Bataclan concert hall, cafes, bars and the national stadium.
The onslaught of violence in France’s capital killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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Muslim Leader Wants Spanish King to Apologise for Defeating Islam in 1492
A few days ago, the new president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Abrader, demanded that King Felipe VI ask for forgiveness for the conquest by Spain, and now a mosque in Seville is doing the same but for the Reconquista (the Reconquest, when the Muslim rulers were driven out of Andalusia-Spain).
The Ishbilia mosque has published a post on Facebook under the name of the Islamic Community itself and its president, Yihad Sarasua, in expressing “the sentiments among Spanish Muslims and those who for certain reasons, reside in Spain, for the lack of conciliation between the Crown and the heirs of the Andalusian legacy.”
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Pam Anderson Tweets About Missing Julian Assange
Pamela Anderson wrote a lovesick paean to her is-he-or-isn’t-he boyfriend Julian Assange on Friday, lamenting that she hasn’t been able to see him for a year.
“We all miss his voice. I miss his laugh, his mischievous smile and his curious and boy-like wonder,” she tweeted of the WikiLeaks founder, who is holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London with no visitor privileges or internet access. “A uniquely strong and dedicated man.”
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The Latest: World Cities Turn Off Lights to Mark Earth Hour
PARIS — The Latest on Earth Hour (all times local):
8:30 p.m.
Top tourist sites in coal-reliant Poland are turning off their lights at 8:30 p.m. in solidarity with global Earth Hour action calling for better climate protections.
In Poland’s capital city, Warsaw, the spired landmark Palace of Culture and Science was turning off its night illumination, along with some churches and Old Town walls, all popular tourist venues.
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Jon Snow, star anchor for publicly-owned Channel 4 News, has drawn criticism for appearing to racialise a protest in support of Brexit yesterday, claiming he had “never seen so many white people in one place”.
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A fraudster who raked in nearly £50,000 meant for Grenfell Tower survivors and claimed he was an undercover government researcher to cover his tracks has been jailed for five years.
Moses Ettienne, 49, said he was living in the Kensington residence when the fire broke out and gave a non-existent flat address to authorities in order to collect £47,415 worth of accommodation and living expenses at a Park Plaza Hotel in London.
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UK: Night of the Living Deal: May Wants Fourth Vote on Rejected Brexit Agreement
Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to give up on her thrice-defeated Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union, according to reports, and is attempting to organise a fourth parliamentary vote on it next week.
The Withdrawal Agreement was crushed by a record 230 votes when it was put to a so-called “meaningful vote” in the House of Commons in January, and by an only marginally less devastating 149 votes on a second attempt some weeks later.
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Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has told Breitbart London’s James Delingpole that he is ready to keep fighting for Brexit, and despite the ongoing betrayal of the 2016 vote by the British political establishment he remains upbeat.
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US Journalist ‘Locked in Surveilled Room’ To Meet WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange at London Embassy
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has “less rights than a prisoner” as he remains inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London after almost seven years, according to the editor of the anti-secrecy publisher.
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Pope Francis, Moroccan King Launch Joint Appeal for Jerusalem
Pope Francis and Moroccan King Mohammed VI launched a joint appeal Saturday, urging the protection of the status quo of Jerusalem as the common patrimony of “the followers of the three monotheistic religions.”
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Prostitutes in the Name of God
With dark eyes that stared defiantly into a world — one in which the trademark pearl necklace of the devadasi that clung around her neck inscribed destiny, Sitavva Dundappa Jodatti would defy its age-old custom. A steadfast figure, she would become the voice of a new generation — one that screamed for the emancipation of the thousands of girls and women marked by those cursed pearls. In 2018, Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, awarded her with the Padma Sri, one of India’s highest awards, for her relentless efforts to eradicate the devadasi plight.
In the regions where the Indian states Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana meet, riverbanks twist around hills and centuries-old mythical legends are interlaced with them. It is here that the worship of the Goddess Yellamma began.,,
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Sonny Fatu, president of Mongrel Mob, admitted many of the gang’s estimated 1,000 associates owned illegal guns but would not be handing them to the New Zealand government.
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“Return to Middle Ages”: Venezuela Again Plunged Into Darkness, Red Cross Mobilizes
Ahead of broad opposition protests planned for Saturday, Caracas and other large cities across Venezuela were once again plunged into darkness Friday evening, just as the country struggled to fully recover from prior days-long outages.
The latest blackout began just after 7:00pm, leaving most of the capital as well as Valencia, Maracay, San Cristobal and Maracaibo without electricity, again crippling the country’s transport, communication, water, and hospital infrastructures.
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Border in Extreme Crisis: Shut it Down!
We have almost reached the point of no return for our country. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan delivered the following urgent plea this week: “On Monday and Tuesday, CBP started the day with over 12,000 migrants in our custody. As of this morning, that number was 13,400. A high number for us is 4,000. A crisis level is 6,000…13,000 is unprecedented!” The USBP is overwhelmed-which appears to be just what the leaders of this ongoing invasion planned— while Congress sits back and still refuses to do anything to stop it! Mexico has given us nothing but lip service and has allowed the invasion towards the US borders to continue without lifting a finger. And, have no doubts folks…this IS an invasion. .
These continual bands of illegal “migrants” have been continually crossing our Southern border for decades. Beginning in 2006 and for over a decade, I provided information from and interviews with former US Border Patrol Supervisor David Stoddard, who—for 27 years—was in charge of Calexico, California, Vermont, Yuma, Tucson Sector Headquarters, Naco, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico. The problems we had then were severe. However, now they have reached the red-alert crisis stage. If we don’t stop it now—immediately—the country will be gone due to the overwhelming of the US system by illegals…one of the Cloward-Piven ‘strategies’.
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Migrant Men Are Relentlessly Attacking Vulnerable Europeans, Young and Old
A 88-year-old German woman has died due to injuries she sustained following an alleged attack by a 17-year-old migrant from Chechnya who is now in police custody.
According to the German news outlet Bild, authorities in the small town of Schkeuditz in Saxony announced that they had the Chechen teen in their custody following a series of violent robberies and assaults on nine German pensioners including Ilse K., 88, who passed away shortly after he supposedly attacked her.
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Migrant Ship Hijacking: Three Teenagers Charged in Malta
Three teenage migrants have been charged in Malta after “hijacking” an oil tanker, which is considered a terrorist activity under Maltese law.
One has been named as Abdalla Bari, 19, from Guinea. Two others, 15 and 16, are from Guinea and Ivory Coast and, as minors, cannot be identified.
All three deny the charges. They face up to 30 years in jail if found guilty.
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Alt-Left Protesters of Family Congress Force Verona Into Lockdown
VERONA — Alt-left demonstrators descended on the Italian city of Verona Saturday to protest the World Congress of Families, sending the city into a security lockdown.
Riot police and army soldiers in camouflage gear set up roadblocks in various points around Verona’s massive Piazza Bra and its adjoining tributaries, site of the congress and epicenter of the radical feminist and LGBT protests.
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I Pledge Allegiance to the Tribe
Our divisions run deep. That’s not accidental.
You hear a lot these days about how the country just might be on the verge of splitting. I’ve even speculated about that myself, as there seems to be so little common ground left between how the left and the right view what’s best for America, or even what America has been and what it’s supposed to be.
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Peggy Noonan has an interesting take on where we’ve ended up in the Wall Street Journal today. In her column, she remembers how fractured the country was back when she grew up in the 1960s—Vietnam, the draft, women’s liberation, civil rights—but notes how much the divide has grown more personal, with partisans staking out territory and never giving so much as an inch.
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Physicists Constrain Dark Matter
Enigmatic material hardly interacts with anything, particularly with light.
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