Thursday, September 8, 2016

NJ Transit cop saves man from oncoming train and other top stories.

  • NJ Transit cop saves man from oncoming train

    SECAUCUS – A New Jersey Transit police officer pulled a man off the train tracks at Secaucus Junction – seconds before an oncoming train arrived, the agency announced Sunday. NJ Transit Officer Victor Ortiz of the NJ Transit police pulling a man off the rails at Secaucus Junction in this security footage redacted by the agency to protect the man’s identity. A 34-second video of the incident, which occurred Friday, shows Officer Victor Ortiz wrangling with a..
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  • Arson attack damages Belgian crime lab

    Arson attack damages Belgian crime lab
    Belgian state broadcaster RTL reported a suspected arson attack heavily damaged Belgium's criminology institute in a Brussels suburb early on Monday morning but the building was empty at the time and nobody was injured. Prosecutors said authorities suspected the attack was an attempt to destroy sensitive files held by the federal justice agency which carries out scientific analyses in criminal cases. "The location was not chosen randomly," prosecutors office spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said..
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  • Russia's 'most powerful weapon'

    Russia's 'most powerful weapon'
    Biden Reassures NATO Allies and Dismisses Trump0:56U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden met with NATO allies to reaffirm America's commitment to the decades-old treaty, while also challenging Donald Trump's basic understanding of Article 5 and the principle of "collective defense." Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to be alarmed at the rising influence and spread of NATO in Europe. Pictured Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via APIT’S capable of causing widespread harm, but Russi..
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  • Schoolgirl killed herself over fears of online backlash over racially offensive Instagram snap

    Schoolgirl killed herself over fears of online backlash over racially offensive Instagram snap
    Phoebe’s headmaster described her as a ‘a confident, warm and caring girl’. Picture: Facebook.Mark Hodge and Ian MurphyThe SunA TEENAGER committed suicide after becoming concerned about an offensive photograph she had taken being shared online.Phoebe Connop, 16, had been speaking regularly online with a man who she called her boyfriend despite the two having never met.An inquest in the UK heard she shared an edited picture of herself where her skin tone had been darkened as she wore a scarf wrap..
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  • 15 killed in suicide attack on wedding in Iraq's Karbala

    Source:Xinhua Published: 2016/8/29 17:03:10 At least 15 people were killed and 16 others wounded in a suicide attack on a wedding party in Iraq's central province of Karbala, a security source said on Monday. The attack occurred on late Sunday night when a suicide bomber opened fire and threw hand grenades on a wedding party in Ayn-Tamur, a town some 120 km west of the provincial capital city of Karbala, and then detonated his explosive vest, a source from Furat al-Awsat Operations Com..
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  • British boy thought to be in IS video

    British boy thought to be in IS video
    By Hannah Stubbs and Ryan HooperPress AssociationThe father of a British boy apparently taken to Syria with his mother has claimed his son is one of the five boys allegedly involved in an Islamic State (IS) propaganda video.The footage shows the quintet standing in front of five men in orange jumpsuits, with one boy captioned as Abu Abdullah al-Britani (the Briton).The father, who asked not to be named, told The Mail On Sunday that he suspected al-Britani was his son.He said the boy's mother is ..
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  • Ohio man Jason Binkiewicz leaps to death moments after sentencing

    Ohio man Jason Binkiewicz leaps to death moments after sentencing
    Jason Binkiewicz as his sentence was read out. Picture: YouTube/WTOV9 NewsTHIS is Jason Binkiewicz moments before he is sentenced to 13 years behind bars. It’s also the last picture of him alive.Dressed in his orange jumpsuit, the 42-year-old from Ohio appears resigned to his fate. But he has other ideas.Moments after a judge hands down Binkiewicz’s punishment for a 2015 attempted murder, screams filled the courthouse.Binkiewicz, while being led to an elevator inside the Jefferson County Courtho..
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  • Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with Islamic State leader, says senior minister

    Indonesian church attacker
    Indonesian church attacker "obsessed" with Islamic State leader, says senior minister Posted August 29, 2016 16:26:04 A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group Islamic State, a senior minister said on Monday.Indonesian authorities are increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, driven in part by a new generation of jihad..
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  • More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway

    More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway
    More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway Posted August 29, 2016 20:11:41 More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in southern Norway, Norwegian officials say, in the largest such incident known to date.The 323 reindeer, including 70 young, were found on Friday by a gamekeeper on the Hardangervidda plateau, a national park where Europe's largest herd of some 10,000 wild reindeer roam freely.Television footage showed the animals' dead bodies..
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