Two suicide deaths in Japan’s bullet train

Two people are reported to have died and many others injured following an apparent suicide bid in a bullet train in Japan – the dead are a man is his 70s and a woman. Another at least nine passengers had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
The man had doused himself in flammable liquid and lit a cigarette lighter to set the fire – at the time, the train was speeding through the Japanese countryside at up to 300km per hour.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 30 June 2015.

The train was a super-fast Nozomi bullet train and it was going from Tokyo towards Osaka when the fire broke out near Odawara, west of Tokyo.
It seems there was a blast heard from a toilet at the front of the train and the first carriage filled with smoke which led to one of the passengers to press the emergency stop button. Subsequently, it was known about the incident.
Two people died in the fire. The dead bodies were lying on the floor of the front car, but at opposite ends of the carriage – the man was aged 71, and there was also a woman. Apart from them, one man is believed to be in a serious condition in hospital, three others are badly hurt and around 20 were treated for smoke inhalation.
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There are fears that a serial killer is on the loose in Chillicothe, Ohio since six women have gone missing from this city – their bodies have been recovered from streams and creeks last year. One of them was shot in the head. The FBI is investigating these cases. Moreover, five of them had children and one was pregnant.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 25 June 2015.

As revealed by the Ross County Sheriff's Department – it is a small community and, in view of the number of females who have gone missing, and then the recovery of the bodies there are doubts on whether these are the work of a serial killer.
It seems most of the women had a history of drug use, and some of them had reportedly worked as prostitutes to pay for their drug habits.
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There is chaos and mayhem in France as taxi drivers go on strike to protest against the Uber cabs al across France and riot police were involved in running battles with the taxi drivers – Britons have got caught up in the ensuing snarl.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 24 June 2015.

Police had to resort to tear gas and baton charges around the major Paris airports due to massive traffic jams that got created during the morning rush hour. Access to the city's ring road was blocked off, along with entrances to Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports.
Clashes have been reported from other cities.
Moreover, burning tyres were put inside tunnels, causing thick black smoke and anyone caught in an Uber taxi had to face the ordeal of saw the vehicle being rocked from side to side or even tipped upside down.
It was a nationwide protest against car-sharing service Uber. The French cabbies are furious at competition from Uber, the rival service based on an increasingly popular app. UberPOP offers the cheapest prices hence regular drivers lose out on customers.
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Two girl suicide bombers kill at least 30 in Nigerian market

#suicidebomber #nigeria #bokoharam #mosque #ISIS Two teenage girls blew themselves up and killed at least 30 people in a twin suicide bomb attack. The venue of the attack was near a crowded mosque in a bustling market in Maiduguri. The people were from the Baga Road fish market and were praying during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Maiduguri is the largest city of northeast Nigeria and is considered to be the birthplace of Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 June 2015.

It is feared that the two girl suicide bombers had been captives of the Boko Haram terror group who forced them to blow themselves up. This was the fourth suicide bombing in Maiduguri over the past three weeks.
As explained by a military bomb disposal expert, most of the bombs carried by girls and women are installed with remote detonation devices which means the carrier cannot control the explosion.
It may be recalled that Boko Haram has sworn allegiance to ISIS in March and has kidnapped thousands of girls and women over the past few years. The increase in the number of females carrying out suicide bomb attacks on behalf of the militants would make one wonder whether these innocent captives are being forced to become suicide bombers and blow themselves up.
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Alert mother foils plan to blow up Buckingham Palace

Two teenagers had planned to make bombs and blow up Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, "a random shopping centre" and a public school. But, thanks to the alert mother of one of these boys, the plan was detected in time and foiled.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 22 June 2015.

The 16-year-olds had gone online to buy the material necessary to make the items and, one of the boy's mothers called the police after she found the substances that had been delivered to her home and became suspicious. Photos of fuses, pipes and some of the chemicals they had ordered were released by the CPS following the case.
The two of them have been locked up for a year after they admitted taking delivery of chemicals they bought online. It has been confirmed by specialists that the material discovered could have been used to manufacture viable explosive devices, similar to hand grenades.
One of the boys was described as a loner by his parents, and schoolmates knew he used drugs. The other boy was said to be prone to erratic behavior and suicidal thoughts. They had even planned escape routes and, potential suicide.
The boys have admitted to a conspiracy to make an explosive substance for unlawful purposes and have been sentenced to a 12-month detention and training order.
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#ISIS #Palmyra #SOHR #UNESCOHeritage The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has indicated that the ISIS militants is on a destruction spree and has laid explosives and land mines at the ruins of Palmyra in Syria. This has raised apprehensions that they would destroy the ancient heritage site and thousands of years of history would be lost forever.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 22 June 2015.

Palmyra had been overrun by ISIS fighters last month and there are genuine fears that they would try to destroy the city as they have already done with other heritage sites and smashed ancient artifacts in the museums of Iraq and Syria.
Palmyra is a UNESCO World Heritage site and thousands of visitors flock there to see for themselves the intricate works of art and architecture. That was before the start of Syria's bloody civil war.
Palmyra is renowned for its well-preserved statues, tombs, and columns, and was an active archeological site before the war. It is believed that the ISIS takes away many priceless items to finance their vicious activities of destruction and murders.
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It was an argument over a pack of cigarettes that led the 61-yer-old woman to kick and stamp to death her 64-year-old husband. The diminutive 5ft woman unleashed the brutal attack at their home on the Isle of Skye in February last year.
She has now been convicted of murder and jailed for a minimum of 15 years.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 June 2015.

The woman complained that her husband, a former paramedic, had hidden a packet of cigarettes on the night he was killed. Both of them had earlier tried to give up smoking.
The terrible murder took place at their home on the Breakish area of Skye, where they had moved to in the 1990s after her husband had left his former wife. The woman, during the trial, told the Court that she could not remember the assault.
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Vietnam is known for its bear bile farms in which ‘moon bears’ are kept captive and crude catheters are jabbed into their abdomen to drain out fluid twice a day. This fluid, then, is used in Chinese medicine as aphrodisiac and hangover cure. The 'moon bears' are named after the yellow moon-shaped crescents on their chests.
The media had reported last November about the Cau Trang bile farm in Halong Bay, Vietnam where 27 of the endangered animals has been kept captive in cramped metal cages. It has finally been closed down and, only of the bears has been rescued alive. It was found in a half-starved condition and gasping for life on the floor of his tiny cage at the farm.
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It is believed that the owner milked the bears for their valuable bile and sold them at huge profits to Asian tourists and must have either starved the bears to death or slaughtered them to sell off their paws and gall bladders.
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The Charleston Police Chief has waned that the gunman is "extremely dangerous" and both he and the Mayor believe it to be a hate crime.
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Kim Jong-un witnessed the test-firing of three KN-01 short-range missiles from a site near the city of Wonsan, as indicated by South Korea's defense ministry. The 'highly intelligent' rockets were reportedly fired around 4.30pm and the process lasted 26 minutes.
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Korean Central News Agency has revealed that the missiles had accurately detected and hit their targets but it was silent on the location where it took place. Neither has it provided any other details or specifications of the rockets.
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The situation in Eastern Europe is volatile and the US has plans to position military equipment like battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons to cater to approximately 5,000 troops in a number of Baltic and Eastern European countries. The intention is to counter any designs of a Russian aggression in Europe.
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The United States wants to reassure its European allies in the wake of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in March 2014. The proposal is likely to be approved by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and the White House. A meeting of NATO defense ministers would be held in Brussels this month and the approval could be accorded before that.
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These jihadists include half of the nearly 700 Britons who have travelled to Iraq and Syria – they have returned back in the UK and could be plotting attacks.
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He has said that these tactics are used by radicalized extremists to escape being caught by police and their actions were becoming 'increasingly sophisticated'. As a result, it becomes difficult for the security services to keep tabs on those who are determined to travel to the region.
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#ISIS #PakistanTaliban #AfghanistanTaliban It was a fight between two Islamist groups when extremists fighting for the Islamic State's fledgling outpost in Afghanistan brutally beheaded at least 10 Taliban members when they were fleeing a gun battle with government troops.
The attack happened in a remote area in the eastern province of Nangarhar and has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 8 June 2015.

The rival terror groups had declared war on one another in April after the Afghan Taliban branded the self-declared caliphate of ISIS illegitimate and refused to declare allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Since then, the rivalry between the two Islamic terror groups have intensified with the ISIS responding by launching recruitment drives deep into Taliban territory. Tis allowed them to expand rapidly – they have even replaced the Taliban as the dominant controlling force in one of the districts.
The influence of the ISIS is growing and Boko Haram in Nigeria and extremists in Libya have already entered the ISIS fold. As a result, other terror groups like the Al Shabaab in East Africa, Al Qaeda in the Middle East and the Taliban in central Asia are now faced with a dilemma ad have to take a decision on whether to join up with ISIS or risk becoming the group's enemies.
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Nearly half a million refugees are assembling in Libya to try and flee to Europe on the migrant boats that have killed thousands already. Thousands of them have already left in boats are believed to be stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.
This has been revealed by senior Royal Navy officers who are leading Britain's Mediterranean rescue mission off the Libyan coast.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 June 2015.

British flagship HMS Bulwark is reported to be on its way and is speeding across the Mediterranean to help rescue thousands of migrants who are stranded at sea having after having undertaken the dangerous journey from Libya to Europe.
In the opinion of HMS Bulwark's Captain, there are from 450,000 to 500,000 migrants in Libya who are waiting at the border and this is not going to stop in the near future.
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In what is being termed as the worst militant attack in 30-years, the militants ambushed troopers of 6 Dogra Regiment in Manipur and fired rocket-propelled grenades. The attack took place some 30-Km from the Myanmar border in Chandel district and left at least 18 soldiers dead in the deadliest single strike on the military wing anywhere in the country in nearly two decades.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 5 June 2015.

The Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang), the Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) have claimed responsibility for the attack.
The police have said that a militant was also killed when the troopers of the 6 Dogra Regiment fired back – soldiers of this Regiment are made up mostly of personnel from Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
The injured are being treated at the army hospital at Leimakhong. The army headquarters is located some 12-Km from Imphal. As indicated by a source in Assam Rifles, the casualty figure might increase.
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The multiplying effect of the online propaganda blitz of ISIS has put the US on the back foot and they have been forced to admit that there is no way to monitor the online encrypted communications of the terrorists.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 3 June 2015.

The ISIS was distributing its propaganda and recruiting messages to as many as 200,000 people on social media worldwide, and, with 200-plus social media companies, the problem aggravates.
Michael Steinbach, head of the FBI's counterterrorism division, has revealed that some of these companies build their business model around end-to-end encryption which adds to the problem. While the number of ISIS propagandists were a few thousand, technology was complicating efforts to monitor them.
In his opinion, evolving technologies were outpacing laws that allow law enforcement to intercept communications by suspects. It is a sensitive issue and has go be approached cautiously because with the advanced communication systems available, secrets can no longer be kept secrets for a longtime.
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This has been reported in zeenews.com dated 3 June 2015.

The cruise boat is owned by the Chongqing Eastern Shipping Corporation had the capacity to carry more than 500 people and was heading to the southwestern city of Chongqing from Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province.
It capsized and sank in the Jianli section of the Yangtze. The company runs tours along the Three Gorges section of the Yangtze and the passengers had booked their trips through a Shanghai-based travel agency.
The captain and the chief engineer, who were among the few to be rescued, have been detained by police for questioning. Preliminary investigation has revealed that the ship was not overloaded and had enough life vests for its passengers.
Since many of the dead were elderly Chinese tourists, Premier Li Keqiang wants a transparent investigation. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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The United States has seen two deaths daily by the police during the first five months of the current year – the total number of people who have fallen to police bullets is at least 385. The shocking part is that the rate of fatal killings maintained by the federal government over the past decade is officially is incomplete.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 1 June 2015.

Jim Bueermann, a former police chief and president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, a non-profit body dedicated to improving law enforcement has cautioned that reduction in the number of police shootings will not reduce unless there is a method to accurately track this information.
Interestingly, while half the victims were white, the other half was the minority. However, among the unarmed victims, two-thirds were black or Hispanic. At a rough estimate, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities.
Other facts - more than 80 per cent of victims were armed with potentially lethal objects, primarily guns, but also knives, machetes, revving vehicles and, in one case, a nail gun. Against this, forty-nine people had no weapon, and the guns wielded by 13 others turned out to be toys.
As to the age of victims – they were aged from 16 to 83 and eight were younger than 18.
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