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Danish prosecutors on Thursday said they planned to ask a court to upgrade charges against inventor Peter Madsen from involuntary manslaughter to the legal equivalent of murder in the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Eleven days after Wall boarded Madsen's 55-foot submarine and disappeared, a cyclist discovered a torso — missing the head, arms, and legs — that has been identified as hers. Wall, 30, was a widely respected and well-liked freelance reporter who was preparing to move to China with her boyfriend, and was working on an article about Madsen.
Source: The New York Times A high-speed train crashed into an empty train at a suburban Philadelphia station early Tuesday, injuring 33 people, four of them seriously. The cause of the crash is under investigation. "The conductor is in the hospital right now, I can't release his condition," Upper Darby Mayor Nicholas Micozzie said at a news conference. The inbound Norristown High Speed Line train slammed into the parked train at the 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby around 12:15 a.m. "My face hit the wall, put a big hole in the wall and I went straight down and I blacked out. There was blood everywhere," a passenger told NBC. "The driver is all banged up and there was this one girl bleeding out of her face pretty bad."
Source: USA Today, The Associated Press Spanish police said Sunday that they believed that Younes Abouyaaqoub, the 22-year-old Moroccan-born man media identified as the suspected driver of the van that mowed down pedestrians in Barcelona last week, could have crossed the border into France since the attack. "We don't have any specific information on this but it cannot be ruled out," Catalan police chief Josep Lluis Trapero said, although he said he could not confirm who was behind the wheel during the attack, which left 13 dead and scores more wounded. Spanish police set up 800 checkpoints across the Catalonia region and along the French border on Sunday as they searched for Abouyaaqoub and other suspects, who reportedly had planned to attack the iconic Sagrada Familia cathedral. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Source: Reuters, The Washington Post The wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, the American warship used to deliver parts for "Little Boy," the atomic bomb later dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was discovered after 72 years Saturday. The World War II heavy cruiser was sunk on July 30, 1945 by a Japanese submarine. It went down in just 12 minutes, too quickly to send a distress signal. About 900 of the 1,197 sailors and Marines on board survived the initial sinking, but only 316 were alive to be rescued several days later, when help arrived. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen led the team that found the wreck.
Source: BBC News, IndyStar Police in Finland arrested a man accused of stabbing eight people, killing two and injuring six more, on Friday in the southwest city of Turku. Police said they shot the 18-year-old Moroccan man in the leg after his alleged attack. "The act had been investigated as murder, but during the night we received additional information which indicates that the criminal offences are now terrorist killings," authorities said Saturday. Eyewitness reports of the incident offer conflicting accounts; some say the suspect was heard yelling "Allahu akbar," but others say the screams were people saying "watch out" in Finnish.
Source: Reuters, The Washington Post A van plowed into pedestrians along Barcelona's busy Las Ramblas district on Thursday, killing at least 13 people. Witnesses said the white van zigzagged through an area filled with tourists. At least 80 people were taken to hospitals. Spanish authorities arrested two people. Police also fatally shot five men in a car attack that injured pedestrians in a town outside the city hours later, and an explosion at a house in another town left one dead. The Islamic State claimed responsibility, saying through its Amaq news agency that the Barcelona attackers were "soldiers of the Islamic State" responding to calls to target members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Sunni Islamist extremist group. The attack was the latest in a string of deadly incidents in Europe in which terrorists have used vehicles to mow down civilians.
Source: Reuters, The Washington Post A tornado swept through Tulsa early Sunday, sending 30 people to the hospital, including two with life-threatening injuries. Most of the people injured were inside or outside of restaurants that were closing, authorities said. The National Weather Service's Mike Teague said the tornado had wind speeds of 111 to 135 mph, and not long after, two tornadoes with winds of 65 to 85 mph were seen on radar east and northeast of Tulsa. Power poles were damaged, signs were ripped off, and a TGI Fridays suffered major damage from the tornado. For a brief time, more than 17,000 customers were without power.
Source: The Associated Press Brazil's embattled president, Michel Temer, survived a key congressional vote that could have resulted in his suspension on a bribery charge on Wednesday. Temer needed just 171 members or one-third of the 513 person lower Chamber of Deputies to avoid disaster, and 263 deputies wound up supporting him, with just 227 voting against him and the rest abstaining or missing the vote altogether. Temer's triumph could be short-lived, however, as Attorney General Rodrigo Janot is expected to move on to charging Temer with obstruction of justice by the end of the month, which would prompt a second vote as the chamber's members get closer to a 2018 election in which all of their seats are on the line.
Source: The Associated Press Note: In case you're wondering. 1 + 7 + 1 = 9 5 + 1 + 3 = 9 2 + 6 + 3 = 11 2 + 2 + 7 = 11 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached the 22,000 mark for the first time in history on Wednesday with a boost from Apple, which gained 6 percent to an all-time high thanks to better-than-expected quarterly results and optimism over the next iPhone. It was the third time this year the blue-chip stock index pushed through a new 1,000-point mark. President Trump tweeted as the Dow neared the latest milestone, noting that the index "was 18,000 only six months ago." The Dow has surged by more than 3,600 points since Election Day, and for months analysts credited Trump's promises to deregulate businesses and cut taxes. The most recent jump, however, was fueled by a series of stellar quarterly earnings reports by major corporations, including Apple, Boeing, McDonald's, and Facebook.
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About This BlogCertain numerology has a strong connection with occultism. Various numbers from time-to-time appear in news articles, and one has to wonder if there isn't some occult significance behind this story. Archives
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