| Full Charlottesville Mayor: 'It's on the President to Say Enough' Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:08 PM PDT  Mayor Michael Signer joins Meet the Press to talk about the aftermath of violent protests in Charlottesville, saying "the healing has just begun."
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| Trump: If North Korea attacks US, it 'will regret it fast' Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT  BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday issued fresh threats of swift and forceful retaliation against nuclear North Korea, declaring the U.S. military "locked and loaded" and warning that the communist country's leader "will regret it fast" if he takes any action against U.S. territories or allies.
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| American Man Punched for Nazi Salute in Germany Posted: 13 Aug 2017 07:49 AM PDT  The 41-year-old may also have run afoul of German laws banning Nazi symbols and gestures.
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| Charlottesville Violence Highlights Worsening Race Relations in U.S. Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  Nearly three-quarters of American voters say that race relations in the United States are "bad", worse now than in the 1990s after the O.J. Simpson verdict and the L.A. riots.
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| Faith, history and community in Bosnia Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Faith, history and community in Bosnia]( "Faith, history and community in Bosnia") Bosnia's religious leaders say politicians are standing in the way of peaceful coexistence between Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities trying to forgive and forget after the atrocities of a devastating 1990s war. Hundreds of churches, mosques and synagogues bear witness to more than five centuries of Bosnia's pluralistic past, and the capital Sarajevo is known locally as a "small Jerusalem" with its main ethnic groups — Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks — all worshipping within yards of each other.
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| Nigeria's Buhari 'feels ready to go home', awaiting doctor's OK Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:47 AM PDT  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said he feels ready to return home from medical leave in Britain, and is awaiting his doctor's permission, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Buhari's extended absence for an undisclosed ailment, his second this year, left many in Nigeria questioning whether he was well enough to run the country. The president has spent more time since the beginning of 2017 in Britain than in Nigeria.
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| In Tucson, Competing Interests Fight for Solar Energy Profits Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:15 AM PDT  A proposed rule change in the Arizona city would see new rooftop solar customers pay as much as $100 in additional fees per year, pitting solar users up against power companies.
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| Graphic video shows moment when car drives through protesters Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:11 PM PDT  A disturbing video from Charlottesville, Va., shows the moment a driver appears to purposely ram through a crowd of people protesting a rally of white nationalists. At least one person died and 19 were hospitalized as a result.
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| What You Need To Know About Unite The Right Rally Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:42 PM PDT  Brawls erupted at the University of Virginia on Friday night, a day before the Unite to Right rally is set to take place in the Emancipation Park and McIntire Park, Charlottesville.
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| Trump's Tweets on North Korea 'Dangerous and Wrong' Posted: 12 Aug 2017 07:59 AM PDT  An attack on the rogue state would require a substantial military build-up in the region.
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| Nepal revives railways as China, India vye for influence Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:05 PM PDT  Three years after its last train hit the buffers, landlocked Nepal is building a new railway network to boost its ailing economy -- helped by the rivalry between its powerful neighbours, China and India. The railway to India was a lifeline for the small southern frontier town of Janakpur, used to import everything from sweets to clothes and cosmetics and fuelling a vibrant border economy. Now it is being rebuilt with Indian backing, one of three new rail lines -- one funded by China in the north and a third by Nepal itself -- that the country hopes will help boost international trade.
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| At least eleven dead as post-election unrest erupts in Kenya Posted: 12 Aug 2017 10:10 AM PDT  By Katharine Houreld and Maggie Fick NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police have killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta erupted in the western city of Kisumu and slums surrounding the capital, officials and witnesses said on Saturday. Odinga has rejected the poll and its result as "massive" fraud. The eruption of violence has revived memories of a decade ago, when Odinga, now 72, lost an election in controversial circumstances that sparked a wave of political and ethnic unrest in which 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 displaced.
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| Kidnapped glamour model Chloe Ayling hits out at the 'lies' about her ordeal in one of her first interviews Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:47 AM PDT  A British model has hit out at claims she fabricated her kidnap ordeal describing indepth how she was paralysed with fear after being drugged, handcuffed and gagged in a bid to sell her as a sex slave. Chloe Ayling, 20, has spoken of her week-long ordeal which saw her drugged with ketamine, taken by balaclava clad men and chained to a chest of drawers in a remote Italian farmhouse after being lured to Milan with the promise of a spoof modelling contract. Critics have questioned her account after she was seen buying shoes with her captor and laughing and joking with him in coffee shops and admitted to sharing a bed with him during her ordeal. But in an interview on Sunday, the model claims she was "desperate" to try and "build a bond" with her alleged captor Lukasz Herba in the hope he would set her free. "I understand why people have questions. People need to understand that everything I did was so I could survive," the model told the Mail On Sunday. "I was in a crazy situation and I was terrified." Miss Ayling was put in a bag in the boot of a car by kidnappers who then tried to to sell her as a sex slave in an online auction. She says it was the "worst day of her life" when her captors told her they were part of an online organisation called 'Black Death' and threatened to sell her on the 'deep web' if her agent failed to pay a ransom of $300,000 (£270,000). "I was in shock. That will always be the worst day of my life," she said. The place where a man identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, held a young British model Credit: ITALIAN POLICE PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT "Then he said he wanted to help me because I had been taken by mistake. He asked me what my family had to offer. It was just me and Mum at home, there was no way we could afford a ransom. I gave him the names of three people who might help.' I spent the first night seminaked and handcuffed to the chest of drawers." She was told that she would probably by trafficked to the Middle East where, once the man who bought her bored of her, she would be passed on to someone else or fed to the tigers. Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, a Polish national who lives in the UK, has been arrested by police and confessed to the kidnapping which investigators described as an elaborate plot that involved months of planning. His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, has been raided by British officers. It was reported last night that Milan magistrate Dr Giovanna Campanile had ruled Mr Herba was "highly dangerous to society" and should remain in custody ahead of his trial later this year. What is the dark web? 01:33 "There is grave evidence of the guilt of the arrested person, who has admitted to the Public Prosecutor that he was involved in the kidnap," he said. It is claimed Mr Herba has also implicated nine men in the plot, three from Birmingham, but has made no mention of Miss Ayling. Miss Ayling told Italian police that her agent had booked her a photo shoot in Milan on July 11 but when she turned up at the abandoned building she was attacked. "A person wearing black gloves came from behind and put one hand on my neck and one on my mouth to stop me from screaming,"she said in her statement. Photo released by police of a man identified as identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency Credit: Italian Police Photo via AP "A second person wearing a black balaclava gave me an injection in my right forearm. I think I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was wearing a pink bodysuit and the socks I am wearing now. "I realised I was in the boot of a car with my wrists and ankles handcuffed, adhesive tape on my mouth. I was inside a bag and was only able to breathe through a small hole." She claims she was initially forced to lie on the floor next to a chest of drawers and was handcuffed but later was allowed to move freely and sleep in the same bed as her alleged captor. She added: "People might think I'm gullible. It's easy to say that if you've not been through what I've been through. "I didn't want to upset him – he had told me he was a killer. Anyone in my position would have done the same. "I couldn't run. I was paralysed with fear. I thought they would track me down." They had taken compromising photographs of her whilst she was unconscious which were posted on the dark web with the view to auctioning her off. A screenshot of a "Black Death Group" document on a laptop belonging to Lukasz Pawel Herba, Credit: REUTERS However, one of them confessed to her that they had made a mistake seizing her because she was the mother of a young child. He said it was against the "rules" of his organisation and his superiors were angry. They later released her and drove her to the British Consulate in Milan on July 17. The day before the pair had been seen in a shop together buying shoes, and Miss Ayling told police that she "made him believe we could be more intimate when the incident ended" so that she could escape. Since her release Miss Ayling has been helping Italian police. She told police she had met Mr Herba a few months earlier on a shoot that was aborted in Paris.
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| Amazon wants to send you pre-cooked meals thanks to military technology Posted: 12 Aug 2017 10:19 AM PDT 
Amazon is already web's largest retailer, and having mastered the digital sale and delivery of everything from audio books to baby wipes, it was only a matter of time before the company tackled ready-to-eat meals, too. As reported by Reuters, the ecommerce giant is hard at work on a system that would allow it to provide fully pre-cooked meals to customers without the need for expensive and complicated refrigeration requirements. The report is sourced from a startup that is pitching the technology, and alleges that Amazon is already working out the logistics of how it would market and distribute pre-cooked meals to customers using its existing warehouse structure. The plans could get off the ground as soon as 2018. If the company does indeed plan on adopting this approach, Amazon's ready-to-eat meals would be made possible by preservation technology originally pioneered by the military to provide food for troops. Called microwave-assisted thermal sterilization, the system uses microwaves to eliminate bacteria while also sealing the meal to prevent any contamination. Thanks to this combination of cleanliness and preservation, the meals can remain viable for up to 12 months before spoiling. Such a product offering would put Amazon in a heated battle with other meal delivery services like Blue Apron and Plated. Those services provide mail-order meal packages that include all the ingredients needed to prepare a meal, but still require the customer to actually do the preparation and cooking. Cutting out those steps with completely pre-cooked meals which require just reheating would seemingly fit perfectly with Amazon's convenience-above-all-else approach, but it remains to be seen whether customers would be comfortable with such non-refrigerated meal packages.
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| Another F-18 Aircraft Crashes, This Time In Bahrain Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:38 AM PDT  A U.S. fighter craft, F-18, crashed on the runway of Bahrain international airport Saturday causing the airport to shut down. Several similar incidents have been reported in the past that involved the aircraft.
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| The Latest: French leader urges calm in North Korea crisis Posted: 12 Aug 2017 07:22 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the North Korea crisis (all times local):
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| A Sonic Attack in Cuba? How an Acoustic Weapon Might Work Posted: 12 Aug 2017 05:58 AM PDT  A supersecret sonic weapon being used to attack diplomats in a foreign country may sound like the start of a sci-fi novel, but that's exactly what several U.S. diplomats in Cuba may have been exposed to, the U.S. State Department recently announced. The physical symptoms, which the State Department would not confirm, but which some news reports have suggested included hearing loss, got so bad that some of these officials had to be recalled from their duties in Havana. "Some U.S. government personnel who were working at our embassy in Havana, Cuba, on official duties — so they were there working on behalf of the U.S. embassy there — they've reported some incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptoms," Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said in a news briefing Aug. 9.
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| 'Most Wanted' MS-13 Gang Member Caught in Virginia Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:35 PM PDT  FBI had been on a four-year manhunt in search of Gomez before he was captured in Woodbridge, Virginia.
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| Kindhearted Firefighter Adopts Dog He Helped Save From Fire: 'It's Great For Titus' Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:19 PM PDT  The puppy is recovering well.
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| Palestinian woman stabs, wounds Israeli in Jerusalem: police Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:19 AM PDT  A Palestinian woman stabbed and wounded an Israeli man near an east Jerusalem flashpoint on Saturday, before she was arrested, police said. The woman, a Jerusalem resident aged about 30, was arrested at the scene, police added. The Old City is located in east Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel in 1967 and later annexed in a move never recognised by the international community.
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| Shoplifter gets job after police officer buys him interview clothes Posted: 13 Aug 2017 05:31 AM PDT  A policeman who bought a would-be shoplifter clothes for an interview has revealed he got the job. Constable Niran Jeyanesan arrived to arrest a potential thief at a Walmart in Toronto, but decided to buy the 18-year-old the clothes after hearing what he wanted them for. Mr Jeyanesan was intrigued because the man was attempting to steal a shirt, socks and tie.
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| Lebanon's Hezbollah says U.S. can't hurt it, dismisses sanctions Posted: 13 Aug 2017 11:01 AM PDT  The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday dismissed the prospect of tougher U.S. sanctions against his group, which is backed by Iran, and said the U.S. administration had no way to harm it. "The American administration, with all available and possible means, will not be able to damage the strength of the resistance," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address to mark the anniversary of the end of Hezbollah's 2006 war with Israel. Nasrallah said Lebanon was being subjected to intimidation and threats over Hezbollah - which is part of the Beirut government but classified as a terrorist group by Washington - and alleged that Lebanese officials had been told that Israel could launch a war.
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| Top South Korean official: U.S. government moved from 'strategic patience' to 'strategic confusion' Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:42 AM PDT  ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports on the North Korean nuclear threat from Seoul, South Korea.
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| Fire blocks route for dozens in Glacier National Park chalet Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:50 AM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildfire has cut off the return route for dozens of people staying in a Glacier National Park backcountry chalet, leaving them the choice of remaining until rangers tell them it's safe or hiking out along a longer and more difficult trail, park officials said Friday.
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| Military Analysts List Indicators to Gauge U.S.-North Korea Hostilities Posted: 12 Aug 2017 05:47 AM PDT  For military analysts, who discount public saber-rattling, there are several indicators to determine whether hostilities could be around the corner:
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| Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:32 PM PDT ![Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership]( "Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership") TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former police officer facing a fourth trial for the death of his daughter's black boyfriend can't be tried in Oklahoma because the shooting happened on American Indian territory, his attorneys argued in a new court filing.
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| Kristoff St. John Still Angry Over Son’s Death Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:42 AM PDT  Kristoff St. John and his ex-wife, Mia, are still grieving their son's death.
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| Kenya opposition vows 'will not relent' as 11 die in poll protests Posted: 12 Aug 2017 04:32 PM PDT  Kenya's defeated opposition coalition vowed Saturday they would not halt their bid to overturn a "sham" election result, which sparked violent protests that have left 11 people dead. Protests flared in opposition bastions as soon as President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the victor on Friday night after an election his rival Raila Odinga claimed was massively rigged. Kenya is no stranger to post-election violence, and scars still run deep from a disputed 2007 vote which led to two months of ethno-political clashes, leaving 1,100 dead and 600,000 displaced.
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| Two girls aged 12 and 13 killed after 14-year-old crashes car during police pursuit Posted: 12 Aug 2017 10:28 AM PDT  According to the accident report, the boy was trying to outrun police when the car flipped over, ejecting three of the five passengers who were not wearing seatbelts. Katana Richley, 13, has been named as one of the victims. "[Katana and her friend] were supposed to be spending the night at my house.
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| Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says
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| How the West Can Stop Losing the War on Disinformation Posted: 13 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Russian disinformation is becoming a serious problem and The U.S. is showing a complete lack of leadership on fighting it.
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| The FCC is actively working against consumers Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:42 AM PDT 
The Federal Communications Commission is arguably the federal government's least-loved and geekiest body. 30 seconds of talk about rural broadband deployments and spectrum allocation is enough to send most people running from the room. But don't be fooled: the FCC wields a huge amount of power over one of the nation's most critical pieces of infrastructure, and right now, it's a mess.
The hot-topic issue in the FCC is net neutrality. We're not going to try and rehash the argument right now, but in a nutshell, Trump-appointed commissioner Ajit Pai is moving to roll back rules that allow the FCC to enforce net neutrality rules on internet service providers. Net neutrality is bad for the bottom line of internet providers, since it prevents them from using the regional monopoly power that they have to rip off customers. Pai has given lip service to being in favor of net neutrality -- he wants a gentleman's agreement with the ISPs to uphold the "spirit" of net neutrality -- but he's working to dismantle the framework that allows the FCC to make and enforce rules to protect net neutrality. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, claims (falsely) that net neutrality hurts investment by ISPs, and that the magic free hand of capitalism will protect consumers anyway (it won't). But the FCC's anti-consumer agenda doesn't end at net neutrality. In recent days, the commission has considered redefining "high-speed" broadband at a lower speed -- 10Mbps, to be specific, down from the 25Mbps it's currently at. Doing so would overnight make the US's internet market look a lot better. Right now, 80% of Americans have only one option for high-speed broadband at home, assuming they have any choice at all. That's because for most people, the only high-speed option is the cable network, and as you well know, most people don't have a choice of cable provider. But alongside the cable line running into your house, there's also normally a copper telephone line. It's possible to get ADSL internet speeds of up to 10Mbps over a phone line, which means that if you redefine "high-speed" as 10Mbps, many more Americans will overnight get a second option for high-speed internet. Expect President Trump to crow about how more Americans than ever before have access to high-speed internet in the coming days. Then, there's the FCC's new advisory panel. As The Daily Beast notes, Pai has filled the 30-person Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) with 28 reps from telecoms companies, and just two from local cities. The committee was supposed to work out how cities and companies can work together best to deploy high-speed wireless internet; instead, it will likely be a list of telecoms industry wishes that the FCC will use its power to push through local government. This isn't how it's supposed to work. Without wanting to wave the hammer and sickle while singing Les Mis, internet service providers are using valuable public resources -- our roads, airwaves, and federal subsidies -- to provide a valuable service. The FCC is supposed to regulate those services and ensure that our scarce resources are being used optimally, not work out how to best maximise profits for a handful of gargantuan corporations. You can guess which the current FCC is doing.
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| Latin America rejects Trump's military threat against Venezuela Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:49 PM PDT ![Latin America rejects Trump's military threat against Venezuela]( "Latin America rejects Trump's military threat against Venezuela") By Brian Ellsworth and Mitra Taj CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) - After months of attacking Venezuela's unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, Latin America came out strongly against U.S. threats of military action against the crisis-hit nation. U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise comments on Friday may bring the beleaguered Maduro some respite in the region, just as Venezuela was on verge of becoming a pariah over its recent installation of a legislative superbody, widely condemned as a power grab by the ruling Socialists. Following Trump's assertion that military intervention in Venezuela was an option, Maduro's critics are caught between backing the idea of a foreign invasion of Venezuela or supporting a president they call a dictator.
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| 'Cat on lead' trend is causing pets distress, RSPCA warns Posted: 13 Aug 2017 03:10 PM PDT  Pet owners should stop walking their cats around on a leash because they become stressed and agitated when they "lose control", the RSPCA has warned. Across Britain a growing number of pet owners are walking their cats on leads in a bid to give them more "enrichment", the charity says - but doing so is likely to do more harm than good. With many cats cooped up indoors for prolonged periods, particularly in urban towns and cities, there has been a drive in recent years to provide them with more freedom. Capitalising on the trend, well known pet brands have released their own line of cat walking products, with specialists including PetSafe UK and PetPlanet stocking a range of cat harnesses and leads. Meanwhile, social media is also believed to be encouraging the trend, with the hashtag #catwalking used more than 14,000 times on Instagram alongside pictures of owners taking their cats through city centres, on public transport and to country parks. They include actress Marleen Maathuis and interior designer Tim Van Cromcoirt, from south London, who recently took their Maine Coon cat, Ash, on a three day walking holiday to Snowdonia. Ash the cat surveys his surroundings in the rocky climbs of Snowdonia Speaking to The Telegraph, Ms Maathuis said that because Ash was unable to roam freely at home, they had trained him on a leash and now regularly take him on walks across the capital. "Just because we live in a flat and haven't got a garden, we didn't want him to miss out on the beauty of life," she added. 'Cats are curious animals, they like exploring. It would be a shame if he just stayed indoors because of the busy roads.' "Some people didn't notice, whilst others were amazed and struggled to grasp the idea that we were walking the cat. Other people walked by with their dogs and the dogs looked more surprised than they did. "In London, we see it often, people walking ferrets, rabbits - we even saw a guinea pig on a leash in the park recently. People don't have gardens and so they have to take their animals outside for a walk." However, the RSPCA warns that this well-meaning trend is having the opposite of the desired effect, because forcing cats to walk with a collar or harness removes their "sense of control". Unlike dogs, which eagerly await their daily walk, cats are more territorial and likely to become agitated when forced into new environments. Scientist builds incredible ladder for pet after landlord bans catflap 00:28 A spokeswoman added: "A sense of control is very important to cats and being walked on a collar or harness prevents them from having control," she added. "It may be more difficult for them to be able to move away or hide from anything which might scare or worry them. Therefore the RSPCA wouldn't recommend that cats are walked outside in this way. "Some loving owners who have cats that live indoors-only may feel that walking cats outside on a harness or collar is beneficial for their welfare. "However, we would generally suggest that for most cats taking steps to provide an indoor environment which has plenty of opportunities to be active and mentally stimulated is likely to be more beneficial for the cat's welfare than walking them on a lead." However, many animal behaviourists disagree, claiming that whilst some cats may lack the right temperament, the craze is largely beneficial to animals without alternative access to the outdoors. Laura Moss, the founder of the website Adventure Cats, said: "More people are leash training their cats. Taking a cat outside can be great for a cat's mental and physical health. "Many indoor cats simply don't receive enough stimulation and they may suffer from obesity or boredom-related behavioral problems."
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| MSF suspends use of largest migrant rescue boat Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:29 AM PDT  The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid group said Saturday it was halting operations of its largest rescue ship for migrants in the Mediterranean after Libya barred foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coast. "With NGOs more and more restricted in the Med & the #EU determined to trap people in #Libya, we've put the #Prudence on standby," MSF said on Twitter. Libya's navy this week ordered foreign vessels to stay out of a coastal "search and rescue zone" for migrants headed for Europe.
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| Danish police say mystery submarine seems to have been sunk on purpose Posted: 13 Aug 2017 05:15 AM PDT ![Danish police say mystery submarine seems to have been sunk on purpose]( "Danish police say mystery submarine seems to have been sunk on purpose") By Teis Jensen and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police said on Sunday they had found nobody in the wreck of a submarine owned by an inventor charged with the manslaughter of a woman who had been on board - but added the vessel seemed to have been deliberately sunk. Police have said that Swedish journalist Kim Wall, 30, is missing after taking a ride on Peter Madsen's homemade 17-metre sub, which sank on Friday morning. Madsen was rescued by the navy.
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| Protestors occupy Shell plant in Nigeria Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:30 AM PDT  Hundreds of protesters have occupied a Nigerian oil facility owned by Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, demanding that a local company take over its operations, a community leader said Saturday. "We want Shell to hand over the operations of the flow station to Belema Oil Company because it appreciates our challenges and needs," community leader Godson Egbelekro told AFP.
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| Violence in Charlottesville exposes nation's divisions Posted: 13 Aug 2017 11:45 AM PDT  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, is reeling after violent clashes erupted between a large gathering of white nationalists and hundreds of counter protesters. Three people were killed amid the turmoil that has exposed the nation's roiling racial and political divisions.
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| Video Captures Great White Shark Feeding On Whale Carcass Posted: 13 Aug 2017 05:16 AM PDT  A group of private whale watchers came across a rare sight of a pair of great white sharks eating a dead minke whale near the Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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| Today’s Amazon deal on Dyson’s Ball Animal vacuum is so good, it has to be a mistake Posted: 12 Aug 2017 05:51 AM PDT 
If you want Dyson's latest Ball Animal vacuum, it's going to cost you $400. For those who don't mind dumping that much money into a vacuum, it's well worth the price. But what if we told you that on Saturday, for one day only, you can snag a refurbished version of the original Animal for just $262? No, seriously, Amazon's deal of the day on Saturday slashes the Dyson Ball Animal Complete Upright Vacuum with Bonus Tools refurb to its lowest price ever — the previous low was $349 — and it'll probably never be this low again. Here's what you need to know from the product page: - This Certified Refurbished product is manufacturer refurbished, shows limited or no wear, includes all original accessories, and a 6 month Dyson limited warranty against original defects in materials & workmanship; warranty covers private household use in accordance with the owner's manual
- Tools included: Tangle-Free Turbine Tool, Stiff Bristle Brush, Soft Dusting Brush, Reach Under Tool, Up Top Tool, Mattress Tool, Stair Tool, and the Combination Tool
- Self-adjusting cleaner head for all floor types; active base plate automatically raises and lowers to seal in suction across all floors
- Instant release wand for high reach cleaning; wand and long-reach hose release in one smooth action, so it's easy to clean up high and under furniture
- Bagless with HEPA filtration; hygienic bin emptying, just push the button to release- no need to touch the dirt
- Turns on a dime; the vacuum is light to maneuver and steers easily into difficult places
- Recommended Surface Application: all floor types
- Weight 17.56 lbs.; Suction Power 245 AW; Bin Volume 0.55 gallons; Cord Length 35 ft.; Maximum Reach 51.7 ft.
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| Russia says bellicose rhetoric on North Korea is 'over the top' Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:40 PM PDT ![Russia says bellicose rhetoric on North Korea is 'over the top']( "Russia says bellicose rhetoric on North Korea is 'over the top'") By Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the risks of a military conflict over North Korea's nuclear program are very high, and Moscow is deeply worried by the mutual threats being traded by Washington and Pyongyang. "Unfortunately, the rhetoric in Washington and Pyongyang is now starting to go over the top," Lavrov said. "We still hope and believe that common sense will prevail." Asked at a forum for Russian students about the risks of the stand-off escalating into armed conflict, he said: "The risks are very high, especially taking into account the rhetoric." "Direct threats of using force are heard... The talk (in Washington) is that there must be a preventive strike made on North Korea, while Pyongyang is threatening to carry out a missile strike on the U.S. base in Guam.
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| How to Grill Lettuce Posted: 13 Aug 2017 07:00 AM PDT  This article, How to Grill Lettuce, originally appeared on Chowhound. When I think about lettuce, I usually think of salad. And when I think of salad, I don't usually think about throwing one of those bad boys on the grill. But it turns out that grilling lettuce is more than just possible—it's delicious. The smoky aroma and lightly charred taste takes eating lettuce from chore to summertime treat.
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