ShareThisSeaweed forces EDF to halt Scottish nuclear reactors 24 May 2013 EDF Energy said on Friday it had halted both reactors at its 1,280 megawatt (MW) Torness nuclear plant near Edinburgh after a rising tide of seaweed threatened to clog its cooling system. "Around 1130 (BST) last night, Thursday 23 May, Unit 2 at Torness power station came offline due to increased seaweed levels as a result of the severe weather and sea conditions in the area," EDF said. "This was followed by a decision to take Unit 1 offline just after 3 a.m. today ...when it was clear that the seaweed levels weren't reducing."
ShareThisPakistan Airlines plane alert: Suspects' custody extended 25 May 2013 Two men continue to be questioned on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after RAF Typhoon jets escorted a passenger plane over the UK. Police boarded Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight, originally en-route to Manchester from Lahore, after it was diverted to Stansted on Friday. Both suspects are British nationals, aged 30 and 41, Essex Police said. The force confirmed their custody had been extended for 12 hours, from about 16:00 BST.
ShareThisGee, Looks Like Obama Really Is Setting Up 'Death Panels' --Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over 'kill courts' --President asks Congress to establish special court or board to authorise legal drone action 24 May 2013 Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating "kill courts" according to human rights campaigners who say Barack Obama's promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions. The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside warzones under a new counter-terrorism doctrine which he says will end the "boundless war on terror". But responses to his speech from leading campaign groups, though broadly welcoming, highlight how little change Obama is proposing to the underlying principle that the US has a legal right to kill suspected terrorists abroad without trial.
ShareThisTeenager arrested over Facebook comments about Boston Marathon bombers denied bail 25 May 2013 Cameron D'Ambrosio, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper from Methuen, about 30 miles north of Boston, was arrested on May 1 after he posted a note on his Facebook page that included the words "a boston bombinb wait till u see the s I do." D'Ambrosio was charged with "communicating terrorist threats" and faces as many as 20 years in prison if he is convicted. D'Ambrosio's lawyer and his family members argued at a bail review hearing this week that the teenager, who has also posted several expletive-laden rap videos online, posed no immediate threat and should be granted bail.
ShareThisNo need for U.S. bases in Afghanistan after 2014: Iran 25 May 2013 Iran has advised the United States not to maintain military bases in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country, which is scheduled to take place in 2014. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made the remarks in a meeting with UN special envoy to Afghanistan Jan Kubis in Tehran on Wednesday. On May 9, 2013, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Washington wants [sic] to maintain nine military bases after the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces at the end of next year.
ShareThisJudge rules against 'America's toughest sheriff' in racial profiling lawsuit 24 May 2013 Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions. The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by Hispanic drivers that tested whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling U.S. citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin.
ShareThisGunmen kill NATO driver in northwest Pakistan 24 May 2013 Heavily armed gunmen have opened fire at a convoy carrying NATO military vehicles in the troubled northwest Pakistan, killing at least a driver and destroying two trucks. Local security officials said Friday's attack took place near Landi Kotal, the main town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. "Gunmen opened fire from the nearby mountains on the convoy carrying NATO military vehicles after it entered Pakistan from Afghanistan and killed a driver and injured one of the helpers," local police official Khan Dad said. The trucks were carrying NATO vehicles to the southern port city of Karachi.
ShareThisUS tax dollars at work: Police in Dubai get fleet of supercars 24 May 2013 Police in Dubai have taken delivery of a fleet of exotic supercars capable of catching even the fastest felon. After unveiling a £300k Lamborghini Aventador last month, authorities have now added a Ferrari, Bentley, Mercedes and a £1.6m Aston Martin One-77 to the force. All vehicles, in full livery, are capable of doing over 190mph and some motorists are thought to have actually BEGGED to be arrested in the hope they can be taken back to the local nick in one of the mega-buck motors.
ShareThis2 FBI agents killed in Virginia were on 'very, very elite team' involved in arrest of Boston bombing suspect 20 May 2013 Two members of the FBI's elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a "significant distance." ...In interviews Monday, the founder of the Hostage Rescue Team and other former special agents called the unit "elite" while outlining the difficult training exercises members must endure. Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
ShareThisAfghan Taliban Guerrillas Kill One in Attack on UN Site in Kabul 24 May 2013 Taliban guerrillas stormed a Kabul guesthouse used by the UN International Organization for Migration, killing an Afghan policeman and wounding eight other people, including United Nations personnel, police said. The attack was the second major strike in the city in the past eight days. Four Taliban militants armed with heavy and light weapons stormed the guesthouse after a suicide car bomber targeted the entrance gate of the UN agency, Kabul Police Chief Ayub Salangi said in a phone interview. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed claimed responsibility in an e-mailed statement that said a squad of Taliban guerrillas targeted a guesthouse used by the CIA to train Afghan spies.
ShareThisPolice Reopen M6 After Van Terror Scare 24 May 2013 The M6 was closed by police in both directions amid reports of a suspicious van with a bomb on board. But after an investigation by police and members of the military, terrorism has been ruled out and the case is being treated as bulk fuel theft. The motorway has now reopened.
ShareThisMan Held In Met Police Terror Investigation 25 May 2013 A 31-year-old man has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism offences, Scotland Yard has revealed. The man was detained at 9.30pm on Friday by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command. He is being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. The man has been taken to a south London police station, where he remains in custody.
ShareThisTwo passengers arrested after RAF jets escort diverted Pakistan plane 24 May 2013 Two men have been arrested after a passenger jet from Pakistan was escorted into Stansted airport by RAF fighter planes following a security alert. The Pakistan International Airlines plane took off from Lahore with 297 passengers people on board and had been due to land at Manchester airport at 2pm local time. However, the Guardian understands that the pilot, concerned about at least one disruptive passenger who had started shouting 10 minutes before landing, asked to divert to Stansted as a precaution.
ShareThis'Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for no reason' 24 May 2013 Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful - and as it turns out, violent - detention. RT met with the lawyer of inmate Moath al Alawi, who has been shot by guards, denied medical treatment and force-fed. A reported 103 of Guantanamo's 166 prisoners are participating in the hunger strike, which has lasted for more than 100 days. RT spoke with Ramzi Kassem, who represents Moath al Alawi, a prisoner held at Guantanamo without charge for 11 years.
ShareThisUK sends fighter jets to escort Pakistani passenger plane 24 May 2013 Britain launched fighter jets on Friday to escort a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane arriving from Lahore in Pakistan to an airport near London after it was diverted from Manchester, the Defense Ministry said. Britain is on high alert after a soldier was hacked to death on a London street on Wednesday in what police are treating as a terrorist incident, but a security source said early indications were that the diverted plane was not the target of a terrorist attack. Flight PK709, carrying 297 passengers, landed at Stansted Airport, northeast of London - one of London's less busy airports, preferred as a location for handling airplane security incidents.
ShareThisParents of fallen SEALs speak out, blame US government for deaths --The families said a meeting with top military leaders after the crash led them to believe the men were not on the right helicopter and they were ordered not to fire back at the Taliban that night. 09 May 2013 Families of three Virginia Beach based Navy SEAL Team Six members and a national guardsmen are blaming President Obama and top military leaders for the August 6, 2011, helicopter crash that claimed the lives of 30 U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan. "The U.S. government and many high-ranking military people own more credit for the shoot-down than the Taliban," said fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn's father Billy during a Thursday morning news conference in Washington, D.C. Military leaders said the servicemen were all on one Chinook helicopter when Taliban members launched the rocket-propelled grenade that killed them.
ShareThisFather of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks son was tortured 24 May 2013 The father of a Chechen immigrant killed during questioning over his [alleged] links with one of the Boston Marathon bombings suspects said on Thursday he plans to travel to the United States where he thinks his son was tortured and killed. Ibragim Todashev, 27, was killed by a federal agent in his apartment complex when he [allegedly] became violent during questioning over his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of two brothers suspected of planting two bombs at the marathon on April 15. "I suspect that they tortured my son and that he suffered a painful death," said Abdulbaki Todashev, wiping away tears at the home in the mostly Muslim region of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus.
ShareThisI-5 bridge collapses in NW Wash.; people in water 23 May 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane bridge collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. Francis said he had no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths. He did not know what caused the collapse.
ShareThisUS Says 4 Americans Killed by Drones in Counterterror Strikes 22 May 2013 Attorney General Eric Holder has disclosed in a letter to Congress that four Americans were killed by U.S. drones in the course of the government's attacks on terrorists. "Since 2009, the United States, in the conduct of U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces outside of areas of active hostilities, has specifically targeted and killed one U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi," Holder wrote. "The United States is further aware of three other U.S. citizens who have been killed in such U.S. counterterrorism operations over that same time period: Samir Khan, 'Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaki and Jude Mohammed. These individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States," Holder wrote.
ShareThisBoy Scouts vote to lift ban on gay youth 23 May 2013 The Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to end its controversial policy banning gay kids and teens from joining one of the nation's most popular youth organizations, ditching membership guidelines that had roiled the group in recent years. Over 61 percent of Scouting's National Council of 1,400 delegates from across the country voted to lift the ban, BSA officials said. The final tally was 757 yes votes, to 475 no. The ban on gay leaders was not voted on and will remain in place.
ShareThisCars, people in the Skagit River after I-5 Bridge collapse 23 May 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday evening, injuring an unknown number of people. Both the northbound and southbound portions of the bridge dropped into the river sometime before 7 p.m., according to Washington State Patrol trooper Mark Francis. Francis said several cars were on the bridge when it collapsed, and many are now in the water.
ShareThisHolder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's private emails, official says 23 May 2013 Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a "possible co-conspirator" in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday. Rosen, who has not been charged in the case, was nonetheless the target of a search warrant that enabled Justice Department investigators to secretly seize his private emails after an FBI agent said he had "asked, solicited and encouraged ... (a source) to disclose sensitive United States internal documents and intelligence information."
ShareThisAlabama mystery illness determined to be flu, cold or pneumonia 23 May 2013 Seven Alabama residents sickened by a mysterious illness this month that resulted in two deaths actually had cases of the flu, a cold virus or pneumonia, state health officials announced Thursday. State and local authorities had been conducting laboratory tests from samples taken from the seven patients in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The lab samples revealed a combination of influenza A, rhinovirus (the virus associated with the common cold), and bacterial pneumonia.
ShareThisPolice ponder conspiracy after soldier murder 24 May 2013 Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. Detectives were also questioning another man and a woman, arrested on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, as they tried to determine whether those responsible had links to militants in Britain or overseas.
ShareThisBill Drafted in Secret Would Block Release of Some Newtown Massacre Records --Options considered: Blocking release of 911 calls, photos, statements 'made by a minor' 21 May 2013 The staffs of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office have been working in secret with General Assembly leaders on legislation to withhold records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre -- including victims' photos, tapes of 911 calls, and possibly more. The behind-the-scenes legislative effort came to light Tuesday when The Courant obtained a copy of an email by a top assistant to Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane, Timothy J. Sugrue. Sugrue, an assistant state's attorney, discussed options considered so far, including blocking release of statements "made by a minor." The bill that's being crafted has not been handled under routine legislative procedures -- it hasn't gone through the committee process, which includes a public hearing, for example.
ShareThisU.K. Officials Add Homegrown Radicalism to Attack Mysteries 23 May 2013 The young man dripping with blood after the murder of a U.K. soldier declared in a south London accent that he was acting in defense of "our lands." He didn't mean Britain. The intent of the words and deeds are among the puzzles law enforcement has set to solving. As investigators piece together the attackers' path to a vicious daylight assault outside a military barracks in London, security experts are again confronting the issue of home-grown terror.
ShareThisCT House Approves Driver's Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants --As Many As 54,000 Could Qualify Under Legislation 23 May 2013 Following a debate that stretched on for more than seven and a half hours, the state House of Representatives approved a bill just after dawn on Thursday that offers undocumented immigrants the opportunity to obtain a Connecticut driver's license. The 74 to 55 vote broke along party lines, with all the Republican members of the House voting no and all but nine Democrats voting yes. Twenty one members did not vote.
ShareThisChief CT Attorney: 'Truthers changed Freedom of Information landscape, so release of Sandy Hook details must be blocked' --CT bill would suppress Sandy Hook crime scene photos 22 May 2013 A bill was brokered Wednesday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy [regarding the crime scene] photos from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. But civil libertarians oppose the legislation and Connecticut's newspaper and radio executives warned Wednesday that suppression of information could set a bad precedent and create unintended consequences. The bill, a draft of which was released by the governor's office late Wednesday afternoon, is crafted specifically to cover the crime-scene photos and 911 audio recordings of the December 14 shootings at the Newtown school. But it would also allow Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia to continue to withhold the death certificates for the 20 first graders and six adults murdered there... Chief State's Attorney Kevin T. Kane said Wednesday that while mainstream news media traditionally avoid the use of graphic photos, bloggers and so-called truthers -- who claim the Newtown murders are a hoax by officials with an anti-gun agenda -- have changed the Freedom of Information landscape. Kane was seeking broader powers to prevent photos and recordings of graphic 911 calls from public release, but the draft narrows the scope to those murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary.
ShareThisSecretly Drafted CT Bill: Sandy Hook Details Would Remain Blocked --The only reason the public was made aware of this bill, drafted in secret, was because The Hartford Courant obtained an email regarding the drafting of a 'special act.' Secretly Drafted Bill Would Leave Release of Some Newtown Investigative Records Up to Families 22 May 2013 A secretly drafted bill to block release of photos, tapes of 911 calls and death certificates related to the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre could be acted on in the General Assembly as early as the end of the week, officials said Wednesday. Family members of victims would have discretion over release of some of the records. A draft of the bill was released Wednesday afternoon by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office, which has been working behind the scenes in recent weeks on drafting the language with legislative leaders and the office of the state's top prosecutor, Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane. Word of the planned legislation was kept from the public until Tuesday, when The Courant obtained a copy of an email written by a Kane assistant that said Malloy's legal staff told him a draft of a "special act" would be quickly "forthcoming." A Courant story about the secret plan to withhold information on the Newtown investigation has sparked intense interest and concern in Connecticut and nationwide -- based both on what the bill would do and the way it was put together outside the normal legislative process, without a public hearing. Lawmakers at first were talking about trying to vote on the bill Wednesday, but they abandoned that idea as criticism mounted. [See also: Sandy Hook Shooting 'Oddities'.]
ShareThisWoolwich: 'Soldier Dead After Terror Attack' --A man is filmed trying to justify a deadly attack on a man thought to be a serving soldier. Warning: Contains distressing images. 22 May 2013 A man reported to be a serving soldier has been hacked to death in Woolwich, south east London, in what is being treated as a terrorist attack. Dozens of weapons - including a number of knives - and pools of blood could be seen on the ground in John Wilson Street, where a man said to be wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt was attacked by two men. Witnesses say the pair appeared to deliberately drive their car at the victim, before getting out with various bladed weapons and launching their attack.
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