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Day: October 20, 2017

British woman in jailed 15 years for forced sex with child
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

British woman in jailed 15 years for forced sex with child

    Dawn Davies, 37, threatened to hurt the boy and report him to police if he told anyone A paedophile mother has been jailed for 15 years after sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy on camera. Sick footage of Dawn Davies, 37, molesting the youngster was sold on a market stall, Manchester Crown Court heard. The traumatised youngster was subjected to a campaign of ‘corruption and depravity’ after being lured to Davies’ Salford flat. Dawn Davies has been jailed for 15 years after she sexually abused an 11-year-old schoolboy. On a string of occasions the mother-of-three violently assaulted the boy - and would threaten to ‘hurt’ him and falsely report him to police if he complained. The court heard the incidents occurred between January 2012 and April 2014 and that one was witnesse...
Obama delivers veiled but withering rebuke of Trump
America, ENGLISH

Obama delivers veiled but withering rebuke of Trump

    It was the night his supporters waited nine long months for. Barack Obama returned to the fray on Thursday with a fervent denunciation of Donald Trump in all but name, condemning the politics of division and rekindling the politics of hope. The former US president earned deafening cheers at a rally ostensibly for the Democratic candidate in a gubernatorial election in Virginia. In championing Ralph Northam’s cause, Obama expressed his views on the state of the nation in the strongest terms since the inauguration of his successor and antithesis. You’ll notice I haven’t been commenting a lot on politics lately, Obama told thousands of supporters in Richmond. But here’s one thing I know: if you have to win a campaign by dividing people, you’re not going to be able to govern t...
Brexit negotiations have hit difficulty for first time as Theresa May admits
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Brexit negotiations have hit difficulty for first time as Theresa May admits

    Theresa May admitted Brexit negotiations have hit “difficulty” as she urged EU leaders to clear the way for a deal she can sell to British voters. The Prime Minister made the concession for the first time at a working dinner with the heads of the remaining 27 EU states in Brussels. She said that before her key speech in Florence two weeks ago she had recognised the difficulty the process was in. I took stock, listened to what the people in the UK were saying, and what my friends and partners in Europe were saying, and I made a step forward, she said. Mrs May told leaders they face a clear and urgent imperative to give new impetus to stalled negotiations if they are to get an outcome which is acceptable to both the British public and their own people. The EU27 will declare ...
Oxford college drops Suu Kyi from common room’s name
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Oxford college drops Suu Kyi from common room’s name

    Undergraduates at the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove the leader of Myanmar’s name from the title of their junior common room because of her response to the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. In a vote on Thursday evening, students at St Hugh’s college at the University of Oxford resolved to eliminate the name of the 1991 Nobel peace laureate from the Aung San Suu Kyi junior common room with immediate effect, reports The Guardian. The motion criticised the ‘silence and complicity’ in her apparent defence of the country’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority, who have suffered ethnic cleansing and violent attacks by Myanmar’s military forces. The crisis has led to more than half a million Rohingya being driven out from northern Rakhine sta...
North Korea targeted President Trump directly: another threat of nuclear annihilation against the US
Asia, ENGLISH

North Korea targeted President Trump directly: another threat of nuclear annihilation against the US

    North Korea issued another threat of nuclear annihilation against the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to unleash an unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time. The warning comes as American military forces conduct ongoing joint naval exercises with South Korea. The U.S. is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones, North Korean state news agency KCNA said in a statement. The U.S. should expect that it would face unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time. North Korea also targeted President Trump directly. The rabid man in the White House … will first face the immense volley of nuclear fire if he hopes to settle (this) confrontation with nukes, KCNA said. Trump has engaged in a heated war of words with the rogue nation since taking offic...