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"More than half of construction of a concrete wall along the Turkish-Syrian border was completed, said the head of Turkey's housing agency. Ergün Turan, the president of Turkey's state-owned housing agency TOKI, said half of the 511 kilometer-long Syrian border wall has been completed. Turan said so far the construction of 290 kilometers of the wall along Turkey's border provinces of Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Mardin and Şırnak had been finished. "The construction works of about 221 kilometer part are ongoing and we will complete it as soon as possible," he added.
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General News India shatters satellite launch record
Firdawsi posted a topic in World News & Discussion
India launched 104 satellites from a single rocket on Wednesday, the most by any country in a single mission. The previous record was held by Russia, which sent 37 satellites into orbit in 2014. In 2014, ISRO put a satellite into the orbit of Mars, becoming the first Asian country to reach the red planet at fraction of the cost of a similar launch in U.S. and Europe. X -
"Vandals damaged and knocked-over more than 100 headstones at a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery. The station quoted police as saying that it was likely there was more than one perpetrator. The police have not yet confirmed whether the incident is being considered a hate crime. The incident coincides with waves of bomb threats directed at Jewish community centers across the US. On Monday at least 10 Jewish community centers were targeted with bomb threats, for the fourth time in five weeks. The threats have been called in to JCCs across the country, according to Paul Goldenberg, the direc
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After a video surfaced in which the 'alt-right' professional troll advocated for relationships between 13 year old boys and grown men, Simon & Schuster is pulling out on his $250,000 book deal. source 1 2 3
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http://m.tagesspiegel.de/politik/burka-verbot-bayern-beschliesst-verbot-von-gesichtsverhuellung/19421880.html?utm_referrer= Only found german source. Bavaria bans face veils (including burqa) in universities, schools, elections, kindergarten and places where safety needs to be priority. Reasons are that mimics etc. are not seen because of things that hide your face and that our society is build on open communication. Thoughts ?
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Disney’s Maker Studios has severed ties with YouTube star PewDiePie, aka Felix Kjellberg, after he released a series of anti-Semitic posts to his 53 million subscribers. Kjellberg, a 27-year-old Swede whose YouTube antics secured him multimillion-dollar deals with YouTube and Disney, posted a Jan. 11 video that included two men laughing as they held a banner that read “Death to all Jews." He made a total of nine other videos that made anti-Semitic comments or used Nazi imagery, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the news. "Although Felix has created a follo
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The 70th British Academy Film Awards, and for sponsorship reasons the EE British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 12 February 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to honour the best British and international contributions to film in 2016. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), accolades are handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality screened at British cinemas in 2016. The nominees were announced on 10 January 2017 by actor Dominic Cooper and actress Sophie Turner, La La Land had t
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The United States Tennis Association has issued an apology after a Nazi-era version of the German national anthem was accidentally sung at a tournament in Hawaii. Alison Riske beat Andrea Petkovic to put the United States up 1-0 on Saturday in a Fed Cup World Group tie. However at the ceremony ahead of the first singles clash, the soloist should have sang the words ‘Unity and justice and freedom for the German fatherland’ but instead sang ‘Germany, Germany above all else’ - a verse banned after the fall of the Berlin wall. 'The USTA extends a sincere apology to the German Fed C
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General News Imminent terror plot prevented in Göttingen
Simón. posted a topic in World News & Discussion
"The Lower Saxon interior ministry said on Thursday that one of the men was a 27-year-old from Algeria, while the other was 23 and from Nigeria. Police would not comment on the exact alleged plans by the two suspects, but they had reportedly been long active in the Islamist scene. Both had lived for years with their families in Göttingen. Police also said that the alleged plot was not exclusively related to Göttingen. Around 450 police officers were deployed in raids to search 11 buildings around Göttingen and one house in northern Hesse late on Wednesday night. The two were then arr -
The new Netflix original series Dear White People, based on the 2014 film of the same name, has caused white Netflix subscribers to boycott the company by deleting their accounts. Some claim that the show promotes "white genocide," and the director Justin Simien has been battling racist trolls on Twitter since the show was announced. One of these users, known as "Baked Alaska," posted a screenshot of his cancelled Netflix membership with his email address, and got added to 7,000 mailing lists including the Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood: source 1
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General News Superbowl Ticket Sales are a Disaster !
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From the bandcamp website: all day today (starting at 12:01am Pacific Time), for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union, who are working tirelessly to combat these discriminatory and unconstitutional actions. Since that announcement, over 400 Labels & Artists Join in Donating Today’s Profits to the ACLU. See the full list here.
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General News 6 teens found dead mysteriously in Germany
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"Six teenagers have been found dead in Germany after a party in a garden shed. The bodies were discovered on Sunday in the Bavarian town of Arnstein in central Germany. They were all aged between 18 and 19, Police say the cause of the deaths is unclear, but that there are no initial indications of a violent crime. The youths were found by the owner of the shed. He was looking for his children, who had not reappeared after the party the night before." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38791942 Weird, I guess gas was leaking somewhere -
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A Massachusetts man stood charged Thursday with attacking a Muslim airline employee at the Delta Sky Lounge at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Queens District Attorney’s office said Robin A. Rhodes, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was charged with assault, unlawful imprisonment, menacing and harassment as hate crimes, among other counts, in the incident Wednesday night. “The bigotry and hatred that the defendant is accused of manifesting and acting upon have no place in a civilized society – especially in Queens County, the most culturally diverse county in the nation,” Queen
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Down through the decades, Carolyn Bryant Donham (she would divorce, then marry twice more) was a mystery woman. An attractive mother of two young boys, she had spent approximately one minute alone with Till before, in view of others, the alleged whistling had occurred. (He may not have whistled; he was said to have a lisp.) Carolyn then dropped out of sight, never speaking to the media about the incident. But she is hidden no more. In a new book, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster), Timothy Tyson, a Duke University senior research scholar, reveals that Carolyn—in 2007, at age 72—co