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Woman stabbed at Art Basel Miami, gallery visitors confuse crime for modern art
Published time: 7 Dec, 2015 11:29
A
woman was stabbed at a Miami art gallery after accusing her attacker of
following her around and repeatedly bumping into her. But although the
victim was left bloody and fearing for her life, visitors didn't bat an
eyelid, assuming it was a performance.
The
victim, 33-year-old Shin Seo Young, said the Friday night altercation
at the Miami Beach Convention Center began after she accused her
attacker, 24-year-old college student Siyuan Zhao, of following her
around the Art Basel gallery and bumping into her numerous times.
Following
the short confrontation, Zhao stabbed Young in the shoulder and neck
with an X-Acto knife, according to The Miami Herald.
"I had to kill her and two more," and "I had to watch her bleed!" Zhao said, according to her arrest report. She also confessed to the stabbing during questioning, according to police.
Terrifying
final moments of doomed Russian jet: Flight data reveals plane lurched
up and down then passengers were sucked out in their seats - as US
satellite detects heat flash suggesting a bomb
Doomed Russian holiday jet lurched up and down before plunging 31,000ft after being blown apart, bosses claim
Travellers still strapped in seats sucked from stricken Airbus A321 through hole at back of jet when the tail blew off
Plane crashed into Sinai peninsula killing all 224 passengers and crew just 23 minutes after leaving Sharm El Sheikh
PM said security officials are ‘looking very carefully’ at whether there is a safety risk to Britons travelling to Egypt
Published: 18:52 EST, 2 November 2015 | Updated: 23:26 EST, 2 November 2015
A
doomed Russian passenger jet lurched up and down before plunging 31,000
feet after being blown apart by an ‘external impact’, airline bosses
have revealed.
Travellers still
strapped in their seats were sucked from the stricken Airbus A321
through a hole at the back of the jet when the tail blew off 23 minutes
after leaving the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, it was
claimed.
The plane twice abruptly
climbed nearly 3,000 feet in three seconds before falling 3,000 feet
moments later in the final minutes before disappearing from radar,
crashing in the Sinai peninsula with the loss of all 224 passengers and
crew.
The news comes as US officials
claim an American infra-red satellite detected a heat flash on the route
the aircraft was taking seconds before the plane fell from the sky,
suggesting there was some sort of explosion on board.
Egyptian
military approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet
bound for St Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana
WILL YOUR FLIGHT BE CROSSING A TERRORIST DANGER ZONE? GRAPHIC REVEALS NO FLYING ZONES IN PLACE
Passenger jets leaving Britain routinely fly over areas of the world where conflict on the ground could put them at risk.
The
risk was brought into tragic focus in July last year when a Malaysia
Airlines passenger flight was shot down in eastern Ukraine by a missile
launcher allegedly operated by pro-Russian separatists. All 298 people
aboard Flight MH17 were killed.
Since then, with the exception of direct flights into Kiev, most airlines have avoided Ukrainian airspace.
However,
MH17 is thought to have been destroyed by a sophisticated long-range
missile – not the shoulder-launched devices obtained by IS gunmen and
other rebel groups. These normally have maximum vertical range of 15,000
to 20,000ft, much less than the cruising height of commercial
airliners.
Aviation
authorities issue ‘Notices to Airman’ that place restrictions on
commercial flights operated by carriers crossing hazardous airspace. For
the world’s most dangerous areas – including Syria and Libya – all
flights are banned.
But
in others restrictions only apply to flights below a certain altitude,
usually around 26,000ft, depending on the perceived range of
anti-aircraft weapons available to gunmen in those countries. Warnings
issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration cover global hotspots
including Libya, Iraq, Yemen and parts of the Sinai Peninsular in Egypt.
They are regarded as an international standard.
The
Department for Transport’s list of flying restrictions for nine
countries issued to British carriers is almost the same but also
includes Pakistan.
Planes
flying over such areas are warned not to go beneath 26,000ft because of
the risk from terrorist or rebel fighters. In many cases – such as the
Ukrainian capital Kiev – the no-fly rule does not include direct flights
in and out.
Many
terror groups around the world have access to the shoulder-launched
surface-to-air missiles, known as MANPADS – or Man-portable air-defence
systems. They were developed by the US and Russia in the Cold War.
They
are a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters, and it is
possible they could be used to attack an aircraft taking off or landing.
In
February 2003, then Prime Minister Tony Blair sent armoured vehicles to
Heathrow in response to intelligence warning of an ‘extremely probable’
terrorist attack. While it did not happen, it is likely that such an
attack could have involved the use of MANPADS.
The
data does not show the heat flash travelling at any time, as would be
the case had a ground-to-air missile been launched in the plane's
direction.
Instead, the satellite evidence illustrates that there was just a single burst of ferocious heat on the jet's path.
That
has now opened up the possibility that a bomb on board, or an explosion
in a fuel tank or engine as the result of a mechanical failure, caused
the plane to come down.
The
French animal rights group, Cause Animal Nord, has come under fire
after a video emerged of the activists taking away a puppy from a crying
homeless man in central Paris.
The
video shows the man fighting for his dog, but eventually losing out as
three members of the group, including the organization’s president,
seized the puppy and ran away. The homeless man was left in tears.
The
cruel act has been condemned by the media and internet users. A number
took to social networks to express their disgust, while others left
highly critical messages on the organization’s Facebook page.
Yes, quite a shocker brought to you by the same
organization that bestowed the Peace Prize upon a man who talked a good
game. One who in truth has continued, expanded upon and mechanized the
wars attributed to war criminals Bush/Cheney. I suppose civilian deaths
by drone are not taken into account either?
Not
to mention the expansion of the continued erosion of the rights of
his own citizens by way of the former war criminals "Patriot Act",
NSA, Homeland Security and any number of Black Ops being funded by
taxpayer dollars at any given time . The very same war criminals in fact that many
nations wish to imprison for their crimes against humanity. But Obama
gets the Peace Prize and his killing spree continues without so much as
a peep from said organization.
All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action. (Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, 12 March 2007, Opening of the 4th Human Rights Council Session.)
Article
55 of United Nations Charter includes: “Universal respect for and
observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without
distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.”
In diametrical
opposition to these fine founding aspirations, the UN has appointed
Saudi Arabia’s envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council to head
(or should that be “behead”) an influential human rights panel. The
appointment was seemingly made in June, but only came to light on 17th September, due to documents obtained by UN Watch (1.)
…
Mr Faisal Bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador at the UN in
Geneva, was elected as Chair of a panel of independent experts on the UN
Human Rights Council.
As head of a five-strong group of
diplomats, the influential role would give Mr Trad the power to select
applicants from around the world for scores of expert roles in countries
where the UN has a mandate on human rights.
Such experts are often described as the “crown jewels” of the HRC, according to UN Watch.
The
“crown jewels” have been handed to a country with one of the worst
human rights records in the world. Saudi Arabia will head a Consultative
Group of five Ambassadors empowered to select applicants globally for
more than seventy seven positions to deal with human rights violations
and mandates.
In a spectacular new low for even a UN whose former
Secretary General, Kofi Annan, took eighteen months to admit publicly
that the 2003 invasion of, bombardment and near destruction of Iraq was
illegal, UN Watch points out that the UN has chosen: “a country that has
beheaded more people this year than ISIS to be head of a key Human
Rights panel …” (2)
In May, just prior to the appointment, the
Saudi government advertised for eight extra executioners to: “ … carry
out an increasing number of death sentences, which are usually
beheadings, carried out in public” (3.)
Seemingly: “no special
qualifications are needed.” The main function would be executing, but
job description: “also involves performing amputations …”
The advert was posted on the website of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of the Civil Service.
Fighting in Slavyansk on Monday, chaos in Odessa, and entrenchment on all elevates talk of open war
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Pro-Russia
gunmen on armored personal carriers passing by barricades on a road
leading into Slavyansk. (Photograph: Darko Vojinovic/AP)
Interim
president Oleksandr Turchynov on Monday was the latest to indicate that
the spiraling violence in an increasingly divided Ukraine looks more
and more like civil war as efforts to contain uprisings in the east
against Kiev's authority have only elevated the violence in recent days.
"War
is in effect being waged against us, and we must be ready to repel this
aggression," said Turchynov in a televised address from Kiev and
referring to violence in the cities of Odessa, Slavyansk, and elsewhere
over the weekend. According to Agence France-Presse,
the latest high-level warning from Kiev comes as Ukraine spirals
"further into a chaos that many fear could result in open civil war."
Turchynov
has called up additional forces and reintroduced conscription for
military-aged Ukrainians citing fear of a Russian invasion on the
eastern border.
This AFP video report shows how some regular Ukrainians are preparing for "civil war":
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajtkVurRoQ]
Meanwhile, in and around the city of Slavyansk on Monday, journalists reported that opposing factions were exchanging heavy gunfire and that loud explosions could be heard throughout the area.
And
in Donetsk, militias opposed to Kiev's rule and calling for a
referendum vote on their autonomy have now taken full control of the
city despite continued threats from the Ukraine army.
“What is
happening in the east is not a short-term action,” said Vasyl Krutov,
who heads the Kiev government’s military operations in the east. “This
is essentially a war.”
As the following map by AFP shows, the number of cities in open revolt against the Kiev government is growing:
The Associated Pressreports:
Ukraine
is facing its worst crisis in decades as the polarised nation of 46
million tries to decide whether to look towards Europe, as its western
regions want to do, or improve ties with Russia, which is favoured by
the many Russian-speakers in the east.
In the last few weeks,
anti-government forces have stormed and seized government buildings and
police stations in a dozen eastern Ukrainian cities. Authorities in Kiev
– who blame Russia for backing the insurgents – have up to now been
largely powerless to react.
And since Russia has kept tens of
thousands of troops along Ukraine's eastern border – and annexed its key
Black Sea peninsula of Crimea last month – Ukraine's central government
fears Russia could try to invade and grab more territory.
Since
the government began trying to take back the buildings late last week,
Slavyansk has been under a tight security cordon. Movement in and out of
the city has ground almost to a halt, causing shortages in basic
supplies. Lines have been seen at grocery stores.
The goals of the
insurgency are ostensibly geared towards pushing for broader powers of
autonomy for the region, but some insurgents favour separatism, and the
annexation of Crimea looms over the entire political and military
discussion.
Following Friday's violence in Odessa and
the growing number of revolts in the east, former U.S. ambassador to
Moscow, Michael McFaul, spoke with Time magazine and made this warning: “The last 24 hours was a major escalation,” told TIME. “This is real. This is war.”
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School Stabbing Spree: 20 Hurt in Pittsburgh-Area Bloodbath
By Erin McClam
A
student flashing two knives went on a stabbing rampage through the
classrooms and halls of a high school outside Pittsburgh on Wednesday
morning, authorities said. At least 19 students and a security guard
were hurt, some with life-threatening injuries.
The
suspect, a 16-year-old sophomore, was in custody and being questioned
by police, authorities said. His motive was unclear, said Dan Stevens, a
Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman.
The first photo of the suspect emerged several hours after the mayhem. NBC News is blurring the face of the teen in the photo, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, because of his age. He had not been charged or identified.
Guy Wathen / Tribune-Review
A
suspect in the Franklin Regional High School stabbings leaves the
Murrysville Police Station on Wednesday. Image blurred to protect
identity.
The
student was “flashing two knives around” as he moved through the
classrooms and a first-floor hallway, said Thomas Seefeld, the
Murrysville police chief. A principal tackled the stabber, he said. The
security guard suffered a stomach wound.
The
attack happened at Franklin Regional High School, in the suburb of
Murrysville, just after doors opened for the day. A student described panic in the halls.
Published: 18:24 EST, 9 April 2014 | Updated: 18:27 EST, 9 April 2014
MURRYSVILLE,
Pa. (AP) — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy
with a "blank expression" stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security
guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school
Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him. At
least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose
liver was pierced by a knife thrust that narrowly missed his heart and
aorta, doctors said. The
rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of
their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off
a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought
teachers rushing to help the victims.
A
man and woman walk away from Franklin Regional High School after more
then a dozen students were stabbed by a knife wielding suspect at the
school on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near
Pittsburgh. The suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is
being questioned. (AP Photo/Tribune Review, Brian F. Henry) PITTSBURGH
OUT
Police shed little light on the motive. The
suspect, Alex Hribal, was taken into custody and treated for a minor
hand wound, then was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown
and charged with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of
aggravated assault. Authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult. The
attack unfolded in the morning just minutes before the start of classes
at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an
upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was over in
about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet
of hallway, slashing away with knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police
said. Nate
Moore, 15, said he saw the boy tackle and stab a freshman. He said he
going to try to break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face,
opening a wound that required 11 stitches. "It
was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt
the blood splash on my face. It spurted up on my forehead," he said. The
attacker "had the same expression on his face that he has every day,
which was the freakiest part," Moore said. "He wasn't saying anything.
He didn't have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression." Assistant
Principal Sam King finally tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a
Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the school
handcuffed him, police said. Doctors said they expect all the victims to survive, despite deep abdominal puncture wounds in some cases. King's
son told The Associated Press that his father was treated at a
hospital, though authorities have said he did not suffer any knife
wounds. "He
says he's OK. He's a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I
believe he's OK," Zack King said. He added: "I'm proud of him." "There
are a number of heroes in this day. Many of them are students," Gov.
Tom Corbett said in a visit to the stricken town. "Students who stayed
with their friends and didn't leave their friends." He also commended cafeteria workers, teachers and teacher's aides who put themselves at risk to help during the attack. As
for what set off the attack, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld
said investigators were looking into reports of a threatening phone call
between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld
didn't specify whether the suspect received or made the call. The
FBI joined the investigation and went to the boy's house, where
authorities said they planned to confiscate and search his computer. While
several bloody stabbing rampages at schools in China have made
headlines in the past few years, schools in the U.S. have concentrated
their emergency preparations on shooting rampages. Nevertheless,
there have been at least two major stabbing attacks at U.S. schools
over the past year, one at a community college in Texas last April that
wounded at least 14 people, and another, also in Texas, that killed a
17-year-old student and injured three others at a high school in
September. On
Wednesday, Mia Meixner, 16, said the rampage touched off a "stampede of
kids" yelling, "Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!" The boy had a "blank look," she said. "He was just kind of looking like he always does, not smiling, not scowling or frowning." Meixner
and Moore called the attacker a shy boy who largely kept to himself,
but they said he was not an outcast and they had no reason to think he
might be violent. "He
was never mean to anyone, and I never saw people be mean to him,"
Meixner said. "I never saw him with a particular group of friends." Michael
Float, 18, said he had just gotten to school when he saw "blood all
over the floor" and smeared on the wall near the main entrance. Then he
saw a wounded student. "He
had his shirt pulled up and he was screaming, 'Help! Help!'" Float
said. "He had a stab wound right at the top right of his stomach, blood
pouring down." Float said he saw a teacher applying pressure to the wound of another student. The security guard was wounded after intervening early in the melee, police said. He was treated and released. About
five minutes elapsed between the time the campus police officer
summoned help over the radio at 7:13 a.m. and the boy was disarmed, the
police chief said. Someone,
possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm during the attack, Seefeld
said. Although that created chaos, the police chief said, it emptied out
the school more quickly, and "that was a good thing that that was
done." Also,
a girl with "an amazing amount of composure" applied pressure to a
schoolmate's wounds and probably kept the victim from bleeding to death,
said Dr. Mark Rubino at Forbes Regional Medical Center. Public
safety and school officials said an emergency plan worked as well as
could be expected. The district conducted an emergency exercise three
months ago and a full-scale drill about a year ago. "We haven't lost a life, and I think that's what we have to keep in mind," said county public safety spokesman Dan Stevens. ___ Associated
Press writers Mike Rubinkam in Allentown and Jesse Washington in
Murrysville, Pa., and AP news researchers Judith Ausuebel and Barbara
Sambriski contributed to this report.
A
police officer guards the entrance Heritage Elementary School as
students are dismissed after more than a dozen students were stabbed by a
knife wielding suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The
suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned.
(AP Photo/Tribune Review, Sean Stipp) PITTSBURGH OUT
Students
walk past a row of buses as they leave the campus of the Franklin
Regional School District after more then a dozen students were stabbed
by a knife wielding suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The
suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned.
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Students
are escorted from the campus of the Franklin Regional School District
after more then a dozen students were stabbed by a knife wielding
suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday, April 9,
2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The suspect, a male student,
was taken into custody and is being questioned. (AP Photo/Gene J.
Puskar)
Westmoreland
County emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens, left, looks on as
Franklin Regional School District Superintendent Gennaro Piraino pauses
while addressing the media during a news conference outside of Franklin
Regional High School on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.on Wednesday, April 9,
2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. More than a dozen students
were stabbed by a knife wielding suspect at the school. The suspect, a
male student, was taken into custody and is being questioned. (AP
Photo/Tribune Review, Brian F. Henry) PITTSBURGH OUT
A
parent holds hands with a Franklin Regional High School while picking
up the student after more than a dozen students were stabbed by a knife
wielding suspect at the school on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in
Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh. The suspect, a male student, was
taken into custody and is being questioned. (AP Photo/Tribune Review,
Sean Stipp) PITTSBURGH OUT
Protesters descend on Albuquerque City Hall to decry deadly shootings
Published time: April 08, 2014 03:59
Protesters
filled Albuquerque City Hall on Monday evening, forcing the city
council to clear its legislative agenda and turn the podium over to
citizens furious with police over a spiking number of fatal shootings.
City Council President Ken Sanchez told the Albuquerque Journal
that more police officers would be assigned to make sure the meeting
was peaceful, and that the meeting would be adjourned if tempers flared,
but said the council is mulling legislation that would create more
oversight over the department.
“We need to make some dramatic changes,” he said. “We’re confronting a crisis situation at this time.”
Tension have been building between police and the public for years. Wynema and Michael Gonzagowski told Cindy Carcamo of the Los Angeles Times
that, upon moving to Albuquerque, friends warned them to avoid the
police. They did not take those warnings seriously until they watched
police fatally shoot their neighbor, Alfred Lionel Redwine on March 25.
“I’ve never been scared of crops, but out here, the cops terrify me,” said Michael, age 39. “They treat you like you’re out looking to cause trouble every time they talk to you.”
Chief
Eden said in a press conference that Redwine brandished a weapon and
shot at police during a standoff at a public housing complex, forcing
the officers to return fire. Wynemda Gonzagowski disagreed, telling the
Times that Redwine had surrendered to police with his arms out when he
was hit.
“They didn’t warn him, they didn’t tell him to freeze and get on the ground or to put his hand behind his hand,” she said.
Guy Wathen / Tribune-Review
