Catalans Vow to Hand Over to Madrid Boxes Full of Pro-Vote Demands

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The Catalan government vowed on Tuesday to send four boxes full of pro-vote demands from some 900 municipalities across the independence-minded Spanish region of Catalonia to the central government and the top court, the regional government's spokesman Francesc Homs said.
As many as 920 out of 947 municipalities in this northeastern region submitted their requests. Homs said the sheer volume of demands would be enough for the government in Madrid and the Spanish Constitutional Court to see "with their own eyes" that Catalonia's desire to vote in the independence referendum should be taken seriously.
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Israel Not Looking for Escalation of Situation in Southern Lebanon: Foreign Ministry

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Israel does not want to escalate the situation in southern Lebanon, a spokesperson for the country's foreign ministry told the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency Tuesday.
"The Israeli side does not intend to escalate the situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border," the spokesperson said, noting that Israel shelled Lebanon's Kfar Shuba Heights on Tuesday in response to an earlier blast in southern Lebanon that wounded at least two Israeli soldiers.
The Hezbollah group has claimed responsibility for the blast.
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100,000 Chechens Attend Putin`s Birthday Rally in Grozny

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Up to 100,000 people have taken part in a birthday celebration rally in honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Chechnya's capital of Grozny, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Tuesday. The rally was launched at Minutka Square later moving on to Akhmad Kadyrov Avenue in Grozny, where "up to 100,000 Chechens attended the celebration", a spokesman for the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti. The participants carried 600 meter Russian and Chechen flags chanting "Russia!", "Chechnya!" The celebration will conclude with a birthday concert and Chechen folk dancing. This year, on October 7, Vladimir Putin celebrates his 62nd birthday. According to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Russia leader took a day off and left for the Siberian taiga to mark his birthday.

Photo: Pres. GEJ at Lake Chad Commission summit in Niger Republic

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 President Jonathan is in Niger Republic where he's attending the Lake Chad Commission summit. At the summit, GEJ and other Heads of Government will deliberate on further joint action to curb terrorism and insurgency within and across their national borders. See more photos after the jump

Short Selling Bitcoin, Buy and Hold Bitcoin

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 Buy & Hold Bitcoin

Many of those who have Bitcoins made a big profit a year ago by just holding the coins within their wallets. This really is still the simplest way to purchase the cryptocurrency phenomenon. There are lots of opportunities for further growth and more price surges in coming your way. Which means there remains a definite possibility that the coins could keep in increasing in value as fast (or even faster) as they've been up till now. If that takes place then simply buying and holding would end up being a really profitable investment opportunity indeed for this year.

 But obviously there's also a really real possibility that the purchase price could crash and you might lose most of the money invested. If you never mind holding your cash on a trade as opposed to in a budget all on your own computer then the good tip is to keep your coins within an account on a website such as for instanceBter, which pays a tiny amount of interest on all deposits. In the event that you click the web link in the line above to subscribe you may also get yourself a 6 month discount of 10% of any trading fees you incur -  

Dallas Tops Texas’ List of Counties With Highest Numbers of Women Killings: Reports

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Dallas County in the US state of Texas has topped a list of the state's counties showing the numbers of women killed in domestic violence, Dallas News reported.


"It is certainly not anything to be proud of as a community, and it's not a competition that we would want to win," Paige Flink, executive director of The Family Place shelter, told Dallas News Monday.
Dallas stands alongside Harris County, also in Texas, which has long held first place in the number of women who died as a result of domestic abuse, the newspaper said.
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Australia’s New Laws Could Damage Travelers’ Privacy: Reports

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New laws proposed in Australia to protect the country's security could damage the privacy of travelers' personal data through security checks such as Iris, thermal or biometric scanning, The Guardian stated Tuesday.


According to a statement published on the Australian Attorney-General's website, the second part of amendments to be made to the existing Australian legislation on security will give greater power to customs and immigration officers to collect and retain personal identifiers of people traveling to Australia.

Coalition’s Airstrikes Hit IS Positions in Syrian Border Town Kobani

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Airstrikes by the US-led coalition have hit Islamic State (IS) positions in the Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani shortly after IS fighters advanced into the city, The Guardian reported Tuesday.
"On Tuesday morning journalists on the Turkish side of the border heard the sound of warplanes before two large plumes of smoke billowed just west of Kobani," according to The Guardian .
IS tanks and artillery managed to enter into Kobani Monday evening, fighting street battles with the local Kurdish population.
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Oil Price War to Hit Both Sides Amid Flat Demand

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The rapid depreciation of oil seen in the recent weeks threatens to trigger a global price war, which will eventually damage all of its participants to different extents.


Oil prices have been trending downwards for some time now as new deposits have opened up new supplies to the world. One of the biggest is the North American shale oil boom, which has given America some energy independence for the first time in many decades.
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#VictoryForNigeria: Call For Court Martial Of Army Chiefs

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We stand by the brave men of the nation’s army any day and every day. Our prayers are with them and their families. Indeed these men at the battlefront are the only remaining vestiges of patriotism in this nation. They are making the ultimate sacrifice and losing their lives fighting a war created by free roaming Nigerian politicians, military Chiefs and friends of the Presidency. What greater sacrifice can a man make than to fight and die to protect the masses while the ruling Cabal associate with the sponsors of the enemy and regard them as their “siblings,” as President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan did to the dismay of Nigerians and international observers.

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Lt. Col, 15 Others to Face Trial over Chibok Girls

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The Nigerian Army has reportedly concluded arrangements to arraign 16 soldiers over the April 14, 2014, abduction of over 200 students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State.

A screengrab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram obtained by AFP shows girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location.
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Tyga & Kylie Jenner spotted on dinner date

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 There were reports that rapper Tyga, who's 25 years of age is dating 17 year old Kardashian reality star, Kylie Jenner. He took to twitter to deny it 2-3 weeks back but both ask them to have now been spotted on a cosy night time dinner and someone took a pic. A MediaTakeOut reader took a picture of both of them on a romantic date this weekend and sent it in... See the pic after the jump

Photo: Herdsman Kills his Master in Oyo State

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A 20-year-old herdsman, Abubakar Mohammed in Oyo State has confessed to killing his master because he refused to fulfil his promise of giving him a cow after serving him for a period of time.

Tribune reports Abubakar said instead, his master sacked him about six weeks to the date he was supposed to fulfil the promise. And right now, he is cooling his heels at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan, in Oyo State Police Command.
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Boy Dies after Drinking Pastor's Prepared Concotion in Delta State

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A pastor (names with­held) in one of the new generation churches in Ozoro, Isoko North Local government Area of Delta State has been arrested over the death one Evi Samson.

The pastor who is also a Registrar in a Magistrate Court in the state was said to have administered black concoction on the victim as an antidote for an ailment. SunNews reports that Uwhemwu who reported the matter at the police sta­tion, said he took his son to the pastor for prayer. He added that the sus­pect gave his son the black concoction to drink follow­ing which the victim devel­oped swollen head and eyes in the night of the same date and died afterwards.

Photos: Ex-Gov Orji Uzor Kalu & Dele Momodu Visit Prophet T. B Joshua

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 Former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu and publisher of Ovation International magazine, Dele Momodu recently visited Prophet T.B Joshua to condole with him over his building collapse tragedy. Dele, earlier on today took to his IG page to share photos from the visit.See more pics after the break.

Spanish Nurse gets infected with Ebola Virus

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In what is believed to be the first infection outside of Africa, an assistant nurse at a Madrid hospital where two Ebola patients died has contracted the virus herself. According to AFP, a spokesman for the health department of the regional government of Madrid told them:
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Yaba Tech Rector Gets Ex-Student Arrested, Detained By The Army

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According to a new report on SaharaReporters, the rector of Yaba College of Technology, Margaret Kudirat Ladipo, allegedly used the military to arrest and detain a former student of the institution, Usman Oloyede. 

Mr. Oloyede, who was fired from the school, was arrested on Thursday, September 25 after he agreed to meet a soldier who posed as the rector’s assistant. He said the rector had abused her influence with the military to ensure his illegal arrest after claiming falsely that he had threatened her.
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Europe Acts as Vassal State of Washington in Terms of Sanctions: Former US Official

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Many questions have arisen questioning Europe's ability to act independently after US Vice President Joe Biden recently announced that the US had forced EU countries to impose economic sanctions against Russia despite the fact that many of them were opposed to such measures.

The sanctions have more negatively impacted the EU economy, rather than Russia’s, as Russia has other alternative trade partners in the East and in the South American region, said Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, in an interview to Radio VR. He added that the sanctions could have positive effect on Russia’s economic development as they would make “the [Russian] Government realize that the dependency on Washington and the dependency on Europe is a strategic error of the highest magnitude.”
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Training Syrian Opposition in Georgia Inefficient Against IS

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The possible creation of a training camp for Syrian opposition fighters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is inefficient for the fight against the Islamic State (IS), Lionel Beehner, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University, has told RIA Novosti.


“It is hard to imagine the Georgians training thousands of Syrian fighters. Most of the training and cooperation will be done clandestinely, given the regional sensitivities and the real threat of ISIS [IS] seeping into the Caucasus … if they are pushed out of northern Syria and Iraq,” Beehner said on Monday.
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Hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists feared killed in Adamawa

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A fierce gun duel is taking place between members of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian troops who have been intensifying efforts to reclaim territories captured by the insurgents in Adamawa Northern zone.  Reports from the area indicate that about 200 insurgents may have been killed in this latest offensive forcing them to retreat as Nigerian troops took control of Michika.

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