Pro-Trump accounts tried to frame left-wing activist for Las Vegas shooting

Pro-Trump accounts spent hours trying to frame left-wing activist Geary Danley for the shootings in Las Vegas, saying he was a "liberal targeting Trump supporters". Police say at least 50 people are dead and more than 200 injured following a terrorist attack in Nevada. The attacker fired on concertgoers on the strip and has since been shot dead. The gunman has been named as 64-year-old local Stephen Paddock. But several pro-Trump accounts tried to frame Danley before police confirmed the identification of the...

Spanish police are now beating up Catalan firefighters

Spanish police have turned on fellow emergency service providers during the referendum riots. Videos have emerged of police forces using batons on firefighters as tensions flare in Spain. The videos have been released as videos from across the region have been published on social media showing police use violence against protesters, including women and children. The Spanish police are now beating up Catalan firefighters. This is an absolute shocker. #CatalanReferendum pic.twitter.com/zJeTATJQxJ — Owen Jones? (@OwenJones84) October 1, 2017 Catalan citizens voted...

Las Vegas shooting death toll rises – what we know so far about US deadliest mass shooting

A gunman firing down at an outdoor country music festival from an upper floor of a nearby Las Vegas hotel has left over 50 dead and 200 injured according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). He has been named Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old local man. The mounting casualties from last night make the tragedy the deadliest peacetime mass shooting in United States history. Last year 29-year-old Omar Mateen murdered 49 people and injured 53 injured in Orlando, Florida, storming into...

Brutal scenes in Catalonia as police resort to violence to stop independence referendum

Shocking scenes continue in Catalonia with reports that 465 have been injured so far in brutal police attempts to disrupt voting in an independence referendum for Catalonia that the Spanish government had declared illegal. Leftwing Spanish politicians and Catalonian figures have demanded that Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy resign after hideous scenes of police violently breaking up attempts to vote and the unprecedented protests that have broken out all over the Spanish state. Police is horrific scenes filmed below were...

Swansea’s announcement that the university is giving Hillary Clinton honorary degree has not gone down that well

Swansea University has announced that the Democrat's 2016 Presidential candidate will be given an honorary doctorate at the Welsh University on Saturday 14 October. And the decision does not seem to have gone down that well with its students. "We are proud to announce that we are awarding Hillary Rodham Clinton with an Honorary Doctorate at the Bay Campus on Saturday 14 October. The award is in recognition of her commitment to promoting the rights of families and children around...

Horrific aftermath of rush-hour stampede at a Mumbai railway station which killed 27 people

This is the horrific aftermath of a rush-hour stampede at a Mumbai railway station which has killed 27 people. The incident happened on a narrow footbridge two of the city's major local train lines, at Elphinstone station this morning (29). The horror crush has been blamed on heavy rain, overcrowding and some locals have speculated people began to run when rumours circulated the bridge was collapsing. A video shows the stairs which appear to lead from the bridge piled high...

Saudi Arabia lift the ban on women driving

Saudi Arabian state television announced on Tuesday evening that women will be allowed to drive in the kingdom, with driving licenses to be issued to men and women alike from next summer. The order was issued by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and was announced by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ultraconservative kingdom is the only country in the world to have until now forbidden women from driving, and it is common for foreign male chauffeurs, mostly...

Saudi Arabia accused of kidnapping Buthaina Al Rimi in twisted “film making” plot

The war in Yemen has taken a fresh twist after extraordinary claims emerged that Saudi government agents infiltrated a humanitarian charity to kidnap the most high profile face of the Yemen conflict, Buthaina Al Rimi. Mohammad Ali Houthi, President of the high commissioner the revolutionary Houthis, has exclusively confirmed to The London Economic that Al Rimi has been kidnapped from care after she became the face of an international appeal to end the war in Yeman. On Monday Sama Ahmed...

Tech jobs: What has the Trump effect really been?

Donald Trump wants to be remembered as the “jobs” president. Just read the transcript of his post-Charlottesville press conference. Controversially, he failed to treat the national tragedy with the seriousness it deserved, and he failed to condemn the “alt-right” neo Nazis in the way he should have. Instead, he tried to steer the topic of conversation towards jobs. “I’ve created over a million jobs,” he boasted. “What people want now, they want jobs.” When asked what needs to be done...

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