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BTW: Just checked out a few Japan's west coastal Live Webcams using "worldcam.eu", "Youtube Live" , "EarthCam" and www.live-cam.pref.niigata.jp. All seem to be having connectivity issues.
[AFRICANEWS] A leaking tanker truck went kaboom! earlier this week as people gathered to collect gasoline, killing more than 40 people, Liberian authorities said Thursday.
Tuesday's explosion also injured at least 83 people in the town of Totota in the central West African country, according to health authorities.
Many of the dead were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday because their remains were unrecognizable, said Dr. Cynthia Blapook, a health official in Bong County. Health authorities said it was difficult to confirm the exact number of deaths due to the burned state of the bodies.
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[AFRICANEWS] Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi won reelection with more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said Sunday.
The preliminary results of the Dec. 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that put the validity of the outcome into question.
Tshisekedi was followed by businessman Moise Katumbi, who received 18% of the vote, and Martin Fayulu, who received 5%. Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a physician renowned for treating women brutalized by sexual violence in eastern Congo, got less than 1%.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un says Pyongyang realized the impossibility of any partnership with South Korea, which “is a de facto colony of the United States.”
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[GEO.TV] A French couple was arrested for planning to "sacrifice" their five-year-old son, who they believed to be "possessed", in the Sahara, Spanish authorities revealed on Saturday.
The couple was arrested on December 21 in the southern Spanish port of Algeciras, as the family was about to board a ferry to the Moroccan city of Tangiers, AFP reported.
The Guardia Civil police force said in a statement they had arrested a "couple of French origin" who "intended to murder their five-year-old son in the Sahara, believing him to be possessed".
Both parents had "psychiatric problems" and were the subject of a European arrest warrant for the abduction of a minor, the police added.
A judge in Spain has remanded the couple in jug, while the child is in good health and has been sent to a minors' reception centre before being returned to La Belle France.
This kind of case has re-emerged after more than a decade as such cases of children being trafficked to be sacrificed in other countries used to be quite prevalent in 2012 and the years that came before it.
According to The Standard, citing a 10-month leaked Scotland Yard study in 2012, boys from Africa were being brought to London churches to be murdered as human sacrifices in rituals by fundamentalist Christian sects.
“Christian”, anyway.
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There is child sacrifice in The Bible but not by folks who worshiped God. There is no fundamentalist Christian sect anywhere in the world that engages in the practice. Justin Martyr listed as one of the characteristics that differentiated The Way from other groups in the Roman Empire was that Christians did not practice child sacrifice. This couple is no more Christian than they are French.
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Child sacrifice among the Jews started when God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and stopped when God provided a ram trapped in a nearby thicket as Isaac’s replacement. The Christians inherited the idea that human sacrifice is forbidden, though they made a single exception for Jesus. My understanding is that Jesus as God enfleshed offered himself, in contrast to ordinary sacrifices which are taken, but I could be wrong.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Queen Margrethe II of Denmark will abdicate the throne on January 14, 2024, according to her New Year's greetings to her subjects, published on December 31 on the royal palace website .
She said she had back surgery in February, which ended well, but the Queen decided that responsibility for the state should be transferred on the anniversary of her accession to the throne.
“I decided now is the right time. On January 14, 2024, 52 years after I succeeded my beloved father, I will abdicate the throne,” Margrethe II said.
She will hand over the throne to Crown Prince Frederik.
Denmark passed a law in 1953 allowing women to take the throne. Margre the II has ruled the country since 1972. She turned 83 in April.
As Regnum reported, in May 2022, the Danish Queen rode the Roller Coaster and the Flying Suitcase in Copenhagen. In February 2023, due to health problems, she canceled her annual vacation to a ski resort in Norway.
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Unlike a 'figurehead' leader of another country that claws desperately to power rather than step aside for someone else of better acuity (at least doesn't have to be lead on and off a stage).
[GEO.TV] At least 30 people got maimed by stray bullets and 65 people were arrested for gun sex on New Year's night across the metropolis after Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... echoed with the sound of bullets as soon as the clock ticked midnight despite the ban and warnings of arrest under charges of attempted murder, Geo News reported on Monday.
Women and children are also among those who received bullet wounds. They were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medical treatment. Most of the firing incidents took place in the district central.
Just a day ago, the Karachi police chief had warned the citizens that they would be charged with attempted murder for gun sex on the occasion of New Year's Eve.
The firing incidents were reported in North Nazimabad, Liaquatabad C-I Area, Rizvia Society, Hussainabad, Bahadurabad, Shah Faisal Colony, Keamari, Native Jetty Bridge, Lyari, Ranchorr Line, Clifton Baldia Town, North Karachi, Sea View, Korangi, Dalmia, Gulshan-e-Iqbal 13-D, Lines Area, Mehmoodabad, PIB Colony, and Malir.
A video of a woman firing a gun at a Malir farmhouse last night is also doing rounds on social media.
A child was injured from a stray bullet in Korangi No 1 while four suspects were arrested in Keamari, Korangi and PIB Colony. Four people were maimed in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... Daryabad, Ranchorr Line, Dalmia and Clifton and two others got maimed in Gulshan 13-D area. 18 suspects were arrested from district central.
Speaking exclusively to Geo News on December 31, Additional Inspector General Karachi Khadim Hussain Rind had said charges of attempted murder would be included in the cases lodged against those involved in gun sex on New Year's night.
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[Breitbart] the batteries were on their way to Port of San Diego. Oh joy. "lithium-ion batteries, which contain highly flammable materials"
You've likely got one in your pocket.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Monday an out of control lithium-ion battery fire on a cargo ship is out after days of burning off the coast of Alaska.
The vessel is now heading for Dutch Harbor, one of the nation’s busiest shipping ports.
AP reports the 19 crew members aboard the 410-foot cargo ship, Genius Star XI, were uninjured. Technicians from the Salvage and Marine Firefighting team remain on the ship to ensure the fire doesn’t return, according to a U.S. Coast Guard press release.
“This protected anchorage … will allow the vessel to remain stable, minimizing risk of any re-flash of the fire as we continue our response,” Capt. Chris Culpepper said in the press release, which said an investigation into the fire’s origins will begin once response efforts wrap up.
Genius Star XI was carrying nearly 2,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries, which contain highly flammable materials, from Vietnam to San Diego.
The crew alerted the Coast Guard early Thursday morning to the fire, after pumping carbon dioxide into hold No. 1 — where the blaze began — and sealing it, fearing an explosion.
Arriving Friday, Genius Star XI was initially kept two miles from shore to mitigate the risks of toxic gases produced by the fire to the community and environment while responders worked to extinguish the flames, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Mike Salerno said in an email to the Associated Press.
There have been no oil leaks associated with the fire, according to the ship’s owners, Wisdom Marine Group.
Lithium-ion batteries have long been the subject of controversy with critics questioning their safety.
Last year the Washington Post reported in an op-ed titled “Tesla’s Big Batteries Aren’t the Fire Problem. Lithium Is,” that Americans should be questioning whether lithium-ion powerpacks should be used for applications such as electric vehicles.
The piece argued the science of lithium-ion batteries make them inherently dangerous.
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Sealed the hold except for 2 small access doors at opposite ends, and flooded CO2 from one end to the other. That'll take care of most oxidizing fires. Inspections at the turn of every watch is pretty much out, though...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Regnum] Queen Margrethe II of Denmark will abdicate the throne on January 14, 2024, according to her New Year's greetings to her subjects, published on December 31 on the royal palace website .
