[Star Tribune] SCHOHARIE, N.Y. ‐ A relaxed weekend afternoon turned into chaos at an upstate New York spot popular with tourists taking in the fall foliage when a crash involving a limousine left 20 people dead, officials said Sunday.
A person with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press that 18 of the victims in Saturday afternoon's crash at the Apple Barrel Country Store were in the limo and two were bystanders. The person was not authorized to discuss the preliminary information publicly and spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity.
Local officials told the Times Union of Albany that a limo speeding down a hill hit bystanders at the store in Schoharie, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) north of New York City.
The crash "sounded like an explosion," said Linda Riley, of nearby Schenectady, who was on a shopping trip with her sisters and had been in their parked car at the time at the store, which sits near a T-junction of two New York state highways.
When she got out of her vehicle, she saw a body on the ground and broken tree branches everywhere, she said. People started screaming.
State police confirmed the death toll and said the crash involved two vehicles.
[PRESSTV] US researchers say they have observed continued activity at a nuclear facility in North Korea which is accusing Washington of not implementing pledges made at a June summit of their leaders.
The researchers, who work for the Washington-based 38 North think tank, released on Friday satellite photos allegedly indicating continued activity at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center.
The photos, they said, also showed an ongoing dredging of a river near a pump house, which draws cooling water for the site’s reactor.
The group said the photos, taken on September 24, showed minimal movements of vehicles and equipment in the area, but the purpose of their activity was unknown.
The researchers, however, said they believed the reactor at Yongbyon was not operating as there was no steam coming from the generator hall.
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Why does the UN not have inspectors there daily?
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NoKo is not party to any inspection agreement that would allow UN inspections. Trump's negotiations may lead to one howver.
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Realistically they don't have much in the way of counter moves they can do to negotiate. They haven't shot any missiles over Japan lately and for now it remains a could be.
[IsraelTimes] Moscow is accused of waging a global campaign of cyber attacks since 2007, with hackers’ abilities developed from tradition of excellent computing skills dating back to Soviet era
During the Soviet era, the country’s top computer scientists and programmers largely worked for the secret services.
That practice appears to have resumed under President Vladimir Putin
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BREAKING: initial assessment of turkish police is that saudi journalist khashoggi was killed at saudi consulate in istanbul - two turkish sources tell @Reuterspic.twitter.com/pLZE6o2kLT
[CTVNews] This hipster twink can beat up on women. He should enjoy jail with actual men
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I think it's no accident that none of Fleming or LeCarre's spies worked as hairdressers for cover...
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This guy's a hoot! Here's one of his tweets:
Couple things I'm going to point out:
1. Kung-Fu masters like me have reflexes like none other and I was only defending myself.
2. I have a full time job championing women's rights.
3. I will never apologize for doing the right thing.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Moslem girl was tied to a tree and flogged mercilessly by a group of villagers in India’s Bihar state earlier this week for eloping with a Hindu boy.
The maiden of tender years, daughter of Mohammad Farid Ansari from southern Bihar’s Nawada district, had fallen in love with Rupesh Kumar, son of Arjun Rajvanshi, while both were studying in a local government school.
Reports said when the girl’s parents came to know about these affairs, they stopped her going to school and also warned against meeting the youth from other religion but she continued meeting the boy.
On September 30, she finally eloped with her boyfriend, much against the wishes of her family. After three days of extensive searches, she was recovered from a neighbouring village on Thursday although the boy expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Subsequently, her family members brought the girl along to their Jogia-Maran village which was soon followed by a hurried-convened village court. The court found the matter too serious and ordered for thrashing the girl in public, witnesses said.
Soon the girl was tied to a tree and badly thrashed by local villagers until she fell unconscious. She remained tied for about five hours before the local police could reach the spot and rescued her.
"I love the boy and will marry him come what may. I am ready for any punishment," she told the media.
She said she is an adult and can well decide about her future. "I don’t believe in castes or religions. I am 19-year-old and can well decide whom I should marry, whom I should not," she asserted.
The police are investigating the case. "We have started the paperwork but haven't done much else in this regard and raids are on to arrest the accused persons," local sub-divisional police officer Sanjay Kumar said on Saturday.
The girl’s father said he wanted to marry his daughter to a suitable boy from their own community but she slipped out of the home with some excuses when there was no power at night and bravely ran away.
’Love’ is still a taboo in conservative Bihar, and quite many who have defied the existing social order have paid with their lives, banished from their villages, imposed heavy fine or served other crude punishment.
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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.
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