Sunday, May 8, 2016

Deputy US principal facing charges for allegedly choking out girl while breaking up fight and other top stories.

  • Deputy US principal facing charges for allegedly choking out girl while breaking up fight

    Deputy US principal facing charges for allegedly choking out girl while breaking up fight
    Yahoo7 News on May 8, 2016, 4:39 pm Video Student choked out as principal tries to break-up school brawl A deputy high school principal in the US is facing criminal charges after he was filmed breaking up a fight between two girls and allegedly using a chokehold that knocked out one of the teens.Police are seeking to charge Kingstree Senior High School deputy principal Mack Henry Burgess with felony assault and battery after he was filmed manhandling one of the girls in the video publishe..
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  • Sadiq Khan: Labour needs to appeal to more than just its Corbynite activists to win votes

    Sadiq Khan: Labour needs to appeal to more than just its Corbynite activists to win votes
    Sadiq Khan of the Labour party became the new Mayor of London on Friday after securing a comfortable victory over his closest rival — the Conservative party’s Zac Goldsmith — with 1,310,143 votes. But his election wasn’t just a stand out win in the Mayor of London race — it was a a record number of votes for a single politician in the UK. This was a sharp contrast to Labour’s overall performance in the May elections. The unthinkable happened as Labour was beaten to second place by the Conservat..
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  • Greece has basically achieved its reform goals: Juncker - The West Australian

    AFP on May 8, 2016, 7:11 am Greece has 'basically achieved' its reform goals: Juncker Frankfurt (AFP) - Greece has "basically achieved" the objectives of the reforms required by its creditors and its eurozone partners will begin discussing possible debt relief for the country, according to European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker."We are now at the time of the first review of the programme (to aid Greece) and the objectives have been basically achieved," Juncker said in an inter..
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  • 2 Al Jazeera staff may face the death sentence in Egypt

    2 Al Jazeera staff may face the death sentence in Egypt
    By Associated PressSat., May 7, 2016CAIRO—An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death sentence against six people, including two Al Jazeera employees, for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.A verdict on Morsi, ousted by the military in July 2013 after one year in office, and four other defendants in the case, will be announced June 18, judge Mohammed Shirin Fahmy announced. M..
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  • Canada wildfire explodes in size, approaches oil sands project

    Canada wildfire explodes in size, approaches oil sands project
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Canada wildfire: Security system shows home burning Home security video shows a house in Canada's Fort McMurray being consumed by a massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of some 80,000 people. PT1M16S 620 349 Gregoire Lake, Alberta: A raging Canadian wildfire grew explosively on Saturday as hot, dry winds pushed the blaze across the energy heartland of Alberta and threatened to burn close to an oil sands project.The fire that has alread..
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  • Buses, fuel tanker collide in Afghanistan

    Buses, fuel tanker collide in Afghanistan
    Buses, fuel tanker collide in AfghanistanTwo buses and a fuel tanker have collided on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing at least 14 people.Dozens more people were wounded in Sunday's accident, which set all three vehicles ablaze, and the death toll is expected to rise, said Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of the eastern Ghazni province.He said 73 bus passengers were wounded and transferred to hospitals, but that documents show that 125 passengers were on both buses.The collision ..
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  • Indonesian summit to promote 'renovated' Islam in challenge to global jihadism

    Indonesian summit to promote 'renovated' Islam in challenge to global jihadism
    Indonesian Muslims pray between tombstones at the shrine of Sunan Gunungjati in Cirebon, West Java. Photo: Irwin Fedriansyah Cirebon: It's hard to know for certain what a Muslim saint who was born in 1448 might have looked like, but for a reasonable price you can wear his portrait on a T-shirt.Kiosks outside the pilgrimage site devoted to Sunan Gunungjati in Cirebon, West Java, do a brisk trade selling tourist apparel along with flower petals, fragrant incens..
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Conservationists welcome 49 new species being declared endangered .Elder keen to take first-up Mile honours .
Throwback Thursday: Coal blockade stops the harbour | photos .scientist discovers healing power of blood protein .

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