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At least 10 people were killed and 50 were injured when an explosion tore through a train carriage in the St.Petersburg metro system on Monday, Russian authorities said. Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying the blast, which occurred when the train was between two stations, was caused by a bomb filled with shrapnel. President Vladimir Putin, who was in the city for a meeting with Belarus's leader, said he was considering all possible causes for the blast, including terrorism. He was consulting with security services. Ambulances and fire engines descended on the
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Rescuers are digging through mud and debris in the hunt for those missing after devastating mudslides in Colombia left more than 200 dead. More than 1,000 soldiers and police are involved in the relief effort in Putumayo province. Heavy rain flooded the town of Mocoa in the country's south-west, with mud and rocks burying whole neighbourhoods and forcing residents to flee their homes. President Juan Manuel Santos said that 44 of the identified dead are children. "Until we have the last person identified we are not going to stop," said President Santos, who flew to the area on Saturday aft
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Batgirl is flying solo. The superheroine is getting her own standalone movie from filmmaker Joss Whedon. Whedon is nearing a deal to write, direct, and produce an untitled Batgirl pic for Warner Bros. as part of its DC Extended Universe. No other producers are currently attached. Toby Emmerich, president and chief content officer of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, is overseeing with Jon Berg and Geoff Johns. The new project originated in the past month. Batgirl is one of the most popular superheroes in the world, but has never gotten her own movie. The project will also feature oth
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Estimated retail revenues from recorded music in the United States grew 11.4 percent to $7.7 billion in 2016, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Streaming music revenue from companies like Spotify, Apple, Pandora, and YouTube accounted for 51.4 percent of that total and for the first time, contributed the majority of the year's revenue. At 11 percent growth, the music industry saw the biggest increase it's had since 1998, a time when six times more CDs were sold than today. Overall revenue continues to be half of what it was in 1999, and revenues from traditional unit
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"In glorious spring sunshine, tens of thousands of Germans in more than 50 cities took to the streets to celebrate six decades of European unity and to demand at least a further six. Mirroring similar marches all over Europe, some 10,000 Berliners turned out for Saturday’s March of Europe and Sunday’s weekly Pulse of Europe demonstration, drawing a diverse crowd from flag-waving children to glamorous grannies waving signs reading “EU are my Sunshine”. Dublin, Vienna and Copenhagen joined the growing “Pulse of Europe” movement on Sunday as, at Berlin’s seventh demonstration, Europe’s “Eras
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The US has announced a ban on large electronic devices from cabin baggage on passenger flights from eight Muslim majority countries. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said extremists were seeking "innovative methods" to bring down jets. Bombs could be hidden in laptops, tablets, cameras, DVD players and electronic games, it said. The measure will affect nine airlines operating out of 10 airports. Large electronic devices will only be allowed on board in checked baggage. Phones are exempt from the new rules. Will the new US travel rules affect me? The nine
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Latest update: Police confirm that four people have died in the London attack today, including one police officer and the attacker. Officers believe there was only one attacker at this stage. At least twenty people have been injured. Two people killed on Westminster Bridge Several others suffer 'catastrophic injuries' Attacker shot just inside Parliament gate, dead One police officer stabbed at Parliament, died at scene Police treating incident as terrorism Houses of Parliament locked down One woman rescued from River Thames At
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General News Imminent terror attack prevented in Germany
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"Police in the German city of Essen have ordered a shopping centre to remain closed on Saturday after a tip by security services of 'concrete indications about a possible attack'. It was reported by German newspaper Bild that multiple suicide bombers were plotting to attack the Limbecker Platz centre with explosives. 'The current state of our investigations points to the threat being exclusively at the shopping centre,' said the police in a statement. The shopping center and the adjacent car park stayed closed as about a hundred police officers positioned themselves around the c -
General News Axe Attack in Düsseldorf train station
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" A man armed with an axe reportedly went on a rampage through Dusseldorf station Dusseldorf train station is reportedly on lockdown as cops flood into the area. Anti-terror police have sealed off the station and trains have been ordered not to stop there. A passenger described seeing a "crazy man" start attacking people. It is believed a number of people have been hurt although the extent of their injuries is unclear." http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/595283/Dusseldorf-train-station-germany-axe-man-terror-alert-police sick world. -
"US citizens should be refused visa-free access to the EU in response to American visa rules affecting citizens from five EU countries, the European Parliament has said. Citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania are currently denied visa-free access to the US. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday. However, member states would have to approve the move, a process that could take years. Nevertheless, the resolution, passed by a show of hands, said the new visa rules should come into effect quickly and should remain in place until
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EW has revealed the Emmy-winning reality competition series’ ninth season will debut to a broader audience Friday, March 24 at 8 p.m. ET on VH1. The network is set to broadcast each of the series’ subsequent episodes for the remainder of the season, marking the first time Drag Race has shifted networks across its eight-year history, having previously aired over 100 episodes on Logo since 2009. Following their VH1 premiere, encore presentations of season 9 episodes will be shown on Logo. As previously announced, the season 9 premiere prominently features pop superstar Lady Gaga, who j
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"Merkel made the comments in her home region of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania as she received the formal nomination from her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to lead the party in this year’s federal election. 95 per cent of the roughly 140 delegates voted for Merkel who ran for the nomination unopposed. “There is no justification that small groups of our society presume to define who the Volk are, the Volk is everyone who lives in this country,” Merkel said. The comments made by Merkel were directed at the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, who last yea
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Rising to fame through a hardcore online fanbase and a guest spot on the biggest song of 2016, Halsey is set to release the follow-up to her 2015 debut Badlands. The 22-year-old singer announced a June 2017 release for her sophomore album by changing her Twitter bio a few hours ago: Despite being four months away from releasing new material, Halsey has been busy with a string of other recent projects and appearances lately. She was, of course, featured on the Chainsmoker's mega-hit Closer, she contributed a song to the new Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack and she took part in the
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The internet has been a little difficult for people to navigate on Tuesday. Amazon Web Services, the popular storage and hosting platform used by a huge range of companies, reported that it is experiencing intermittent outages. People are reporting outages and delays on services like Giphy, Medium, Quora, Slack, Trello, Sprinklr, Venmo and even Down Detector, which is the site that shows where real time outages are occurring. Affected sites said the outage began around 12:40 p.m. ET. The outage didn't just affect websites --
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Two attacks on Jewish cemeteries in the last week have resulted in an outpouring of more than $136,000 in donations from thousands of Muslims and others, who have also pledged to financially support Jewish institutions if there are further attacks. Jewish organizations have reported a sharp increase in harassment. The JCC Association of North America, which represents Jewish community centers, said 21 Jewish institutions, including eight day schools, had received bomb threats on Monday. Two Muslim activists, Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi, asked Muslims to donate $20,000 in a cro
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General News Hundreds jewish tombstones vandalized again
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"Philadelphia police say more than 100 headstones have been damaged at a Jewish cemetery in the northeastern part of the city. The vandalism occurred less than a week after a similar episode in a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis, where more than 150 graves were targeted. Local police arrived at Mt. Carmel Cemetery Sunday morning after getting a call from a man reporting that the headstones of three of his relatives had been damaged. WHYY's Bobby Allyn spoke with Shawn Zevit, a Philadelphia rabbi who described the vandalism as "a hateful act, an attempt to create fear and to tarnish the memo -
"Multiple Jewish centers received bomb threats on Monday and have been evacuated in another such wave sweeping the United States, according to local reports. This is the fifth such wave in less than two months. Last week on Monday, at least 10 Jewish centers in five U.S. states were targeted with bomb threats in a single day. The Levite Jewish Community Center in Birmingham, Alabama was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb threat, local reports said. This JCC was also targeted last week. The David Posnack Jewish Day School in Broward County, Florida was reportedly evacuated foll
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Struggling HMV Canada goes into receivership TORONTO — An Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved an application to place HMV Canada Inc. into receivership on Friday. HUK 10 Ltd., which lent money to the struggling chain, filed the application to the court Thursday. It claimed HMV owes it nearly $39 million and has received no cash payments since Nov. 2014. HMV would require between $2 million and $5 million annually in cash to stay open, according to court filings, and the company was losing $100,000 a day as customers turned towards online media in recent years. S
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"Hot on heels of President Trump’s directive, NASA announced it has begun assessing feasibility of sending astronauts to the moon as early as 2019, well ahead of its original timeline of 2021. NASA said it is investigating changes to be made to Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1), the first phase of an initiative that aims to send men eventually to Mars. These changes include hastening of critical ascent abort testing for the Orion spacecraft, which was flight tested in 2014. The Space Launch System (SLS) which will take Orion to space is under works. According to NASA’s existing timeline, the