Monday, November 3, 2014
Italy: Corpse Found in Costa Concordia Wreck 'Assumed' to Be Russel Rebello
A corpse found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia is thought to be that of the last person unaccounted for almost three years after the luxury liner sank, Italy's coast guard said on Monday. Russel Rebello, an Indian who worked as a waiter on the ship when it hit rocks and sank off the Tuscan coast in January 2012, killing 32 people, had been the only person missing after the disaster whose body has not yet been found.
A Coast Guard spokeswoman in the northern port city of Genoa, where the 290-metre-long (957-foot-long) hulk was towed for scrap in July, told Reuters a body found on the ship was "assumed to be the last victim, Russel Rebello." In August, authorities announced they had found remains on the ship and would test them to see if they belonged to Rebello. Italian media later reported that those remains were determined to be lamb bones. The sinking of the Concordia, a floating hotel as long as three soccer pitches laid end-to-end, prompted a chaotic night-time evacuation and one of the largest maritime salvage operations in history.
see article: Costa Concordia last body found
INC News, 03/11/2014
Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out as Gay
MOSCOW - A memorial to Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs has been dismantled in the Russian city of St Petersburg after the man who succeeded him at the helm of the company came out as gay. The more than six-foot-high monument, in the shape of an iPhone, was erected outside a St. Petersburg college in January 2013 by a Russian group of companies called ZEFS.
Citing the need to abide by a law combating "gay propaganda," ZEFS said in a statement on Monday that the memorial had been removed on Friday -- the day after Apple CEO Tim Cook penned a piece about being gay. "In Russia, gay propaganda and other sexual perversions among minors are prohibited by law," ZEFS said, noting that the memorial had been "in an area of direct access for young students and scholars."
Pietroburgo, rimossa la statua di Steve Jobs: e i gadget di Apple diventano “simboli di sodomia”
vedi articolo: Apple simbolo di sodomia
INC News, 03/11/2014-via La Stampa
Tom Cruise da brividi, il volo è a 1500m d’altezza
Queste immagini impressionanti ritraggono Tom Cruise aggrappato a un aereo militare Airbus A400M durante le riprese del suo prossimo film Mission Impossible 5. L’attore 52enne si tiene stretto a una porta laterale del velivolo militare che decolla e vola a 1500 metri sopra la campagna britannica.
La nuova star di youtube è un senzatetto canadese che suona in strada
Probabilmente sarebbe rimasto tra le centinaia di invisibili che vivono per strada se Roslyn Polard non avesse perso qualche secondo del suo tempo per andare oltre le apparenze e filmare un senzatetto di Edmond, in Canada, che davanti ad un piano si trasforma. La sua performance lo ha fatto diventare una star di youtube.
Canada: l’incontro tra l’orso polare e il fotografo
Bill Drumm è un fotografo 29enne che ama catturare con la sua macchina fotografica in particolare la natura e gli animali. Quando si è recato a Churchill, cittadina canadese nel nord del Manitoba, non pensava avrebbe incontrato così da vicino un orso polare. Invece il piccolo Scar, soprannominato così proprio da Bill, incuriosito si è avvicinato per fare amicizia col fotografo che ha subito ripreso tutto con la sua macchina fotografica, regalandogli forse uno dei momenti più dolci della propria carriera. Il video è stato pubblicato su Youtube dal canale Caters Tv.
Il meteorologo non è pronto per la diretta
Il meteorologo Mike Seidel era evidentemente impreparato per la diretta, quando sul canale americano Nbc il conduttore Lester Holt gli ha dato la linea. Seidel si è fatto sorprendere di spalle, rivolto verso un cespuglio. La scena non è passata inosservata ai telespettatori che hanno subito caricato il video su Youtube. In molti hanno insinuato che il meteorologo stesse in quel momento facendo la pipì. Il canale ha subito smentito: "Seidel stava cercando il cellulare che gli era caduto dalla tasca dei pantaloni".
Un nuovo scandalo investe l'università di Yale. Secondo quanto riporta ilNew York Times, a essere coinvolta questa volta è una ricercatrice italiana. Dall'altra parte, l'ex numero uno di cardiologia Michael Simons, che dopo aver fatto avances alla donna, Annarita Di Lorenzo, si è intromesso nella relazione di lei con un altro cardiologo ricercatore sotto la sua supervisione, tentandone di ostacolare la carriera.
Vedi articolo: Molestie a ricercatrice italiana
INC News, 03/11/2014-via Corriere
India, padre invita a cena e tortura a morte lo stupratore della figlia
Dopo aver scoperto che la figlia quattordicenne, vittima di uno stupro due mesi fa, era incinta, ha deciso di farsi giustizia da solo. Un trentaseienne indiano, originario di Khajoori Khas, agglomerato urbano situato nel distretto di Delhi Nord Est, è riuscito a invitare a cena il presunto stupratore della ragazza e lo ha torturato fino alla morte. Poi si è recato nella più vicina stazione di polizia e si è autodenunciato del delitto.L’invito a cena con delitto è avvenuto venerdì scorso: il padre della ragazza ha prima legato sulla sedia il quarantacinquenne e poi ha cominciato a bruciare i suoi genitali con delle pinze infuocate. Infine dopo averlo seviziato ripetutamente, lo ha strangolato a morte. Agli agenti l’uomo ha raccontato dettagliatamente le sevizie inflitte alla vittima: «All’inizio ho bruciato i suoi genitali - ha raccontato ai poliziotti - e lui ha urlato dal dolore. Poi l’ho fatto una seconda volta e ha cominciato a tremare. Infine quando ho usato di nuovo le pinze infuocate non si è mosso più... Ma non volevo ucciderlo».
vedi articolo: Giustizia autonoma in India
INC News, 03/11/2014-via Corriere
Death with dignity advocate Brittany Maynard ends her life
Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old with incurable brain cancer who became an advocate for death with dignity laws in the last weeks of her life, died Saturday, according to a spokesperson.
Maynard was surrounded by family when she took lethal medication prescribed by a doctor, as she had planned, said Sean Crowley of the group Compassion & Choices. She teamed with the group after being diagnosed with a lethal form of cancer earlier this year.
Argentinian authorities temporarily suspend work of Procter&Gamble in the country
Argentinian authorities temporarily suspended operations in the country of one of the world leaders in consumer goods — the American company Procter&Gamble (P&G), Reuters news agency reported, citing the statement of the Federal Tax Administration of Argentina.Local authorities accused P&G of fraud associated with the company overstating its imports from Brazil for 138 million dollars. According to Argentinian tax authorities, such steps were taken by P&G in an attempt to siphon off their money and hide taxable income. The P&G representative Paul Fox told Reuters that the company is investigating the essence of claims raised in order to solve this problem.
P&G has been operating in Argentina since 1991, the company now owns three manufacturing facilities and two distribution centers in the country. In 2006, under pressure from the Argentinian government froze the prices of 31 kinds of products including shampoos and soap for at least a year in order to help contain inflation in the country.In the 2013-2014 fiscal year, the share of Latin America accounted for approximately 10% of total P&G revenue in the amount of 83.1 billion dollars. The company does not disclose financial figures for the separate countries.
INC News, 03/11/2014-via Tass
Finland’s food export to Russia in August down by 60% due to sanctions
Finland’s food export to Russia last August slumped by 58% against the same month of 2013, the Finnish Customs said on Friday.
“The nearly 60% slump reflects the fall in the export of dairy products. The export of meat has reduced insignificantly,” a customs official told TASS.In contrast to July 24, 2014 the export of foods from Finland to Russia in August was down by 63% Eighty eight percent of the decline occurred due to the reduction of dairy products export following Russia’s food embargo.The concern Valio is Finland’s largest supplier of dairy products to Russia. In 2013 its export to Russia exceeded 242 million euros, more than 85% of Finland’s overall export to which Russian sanctions apply.
See in Tass: Finland food export to Russia
INC News, 03/11/2014
Afghan policemen forced to sell their weapons due to lack of salary
In Afghanistan police have started to sell their weapons, ammunition and uniforms to the locals and militants of the "Taliban" movement, because of many months of delays of salary, Afghan Hama Press agency reports.
According to the agency, in Wardak, Logar and Ghazni provinces the personnel of the Local Police of Afghanistan (ALP, Afghan Local Police) have received salary for more than three months already. Many of the law enforcement officers that were previously on the content of the Afghan government and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), are forced to sell their personal weapons. Often, the buyers come from the local population, but sometimes the arms, ammunition and uniforms are transmitted directly to the militants of "Taliban" movement.
See in Tass: Policemen without salary in Afganistan
INC News, 03/11/2014
Body of last victim of Costa Concordia capsize found on board the vessel
The body of the last of 32 victims — Indian steward Russel Rebello — found on board the cruise liner Costa Concordia crashed in 2012, Italian media reported.
The remains of the man officially considered missing were found inside one of the cabins on the eighth deck. Costa Concordia, lifted and towed to the reef on July 28 in the port city of Genoa, is now on disposal, and Rebello remains were discovered during deconstruction of the vessel.
The cruise liner with 4,200 passengers and crew onboard struck a reef and capsized on January 14, 2012. Thirty-two people died in the accident. Costa Concordia’s captain Francesco Schettino is on trial in Grosseto for manslaughter and abandoning ship.
See in Tass: Costa Concordia
INC News, 03/11/2014
Germany and Italy say do not recognize elections in east Ukraine
German and Italian officials said on Monday their governments did not recognize elections of presidents and deputies of republican legislatures that were held on Sunday in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.Germany does not recognize the results of elections in both republics and finds them to be illegitimate, the German government’s officials spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference on Monday.
see in Tass, : Ukaine election
INC News, 03/11/2014-via Tass
Kazakhstan launches Almaty-Baiserke-Talgar gas pipeline
"Between promising and performing, a man may marry his daughter". When people of Essyk will get civilized life conditions?
For ages the population of Almaty oblast, namely Essyk has been looking forward to plug in centralized gas supply. In the article below prioritized
Talgar community and other regions within Almaty district. Who takes promises
for Essyk population? Where is the scheme of gas pipeline route
Almaty-Baiserke-Talgar?
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