[An Nahar] A quick-thinking worker at a takeaway food store in Sydney has stopped an attempted robbery by throwing a bucket of chilli at a would-be thief, leaving him with minor burns, Australian police said Monday. [SPLASH!]
"Aaaiiieeee!"
New South Wales state police said a man walked into the store on Sunday and ordered some food, but then argued with staff over payment and walked behind the counter and attempted to open the cash register. "I gotta pay? I don't gotta pay. Here, gimme some o' that dough!"
"Who the hell are you? Ned Kelly?"
The man struck the female worker across the chest "Take that, woman of little value!"
as she tried to stop him from getting to the money, police alleged, before she resorted to throwing the chilli in his face. "Nobody thumps my boobies! Take that!"
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"My eyes!"
"It appears that she's just fought back with whatever was close at hand," Inspector Ralph Deans told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I notice she didn't go for the burritos or the two-liter bottles of Pepsi.
"As you can imagine with a face full of chilli, he's received some burns to his face, and he was quite red-faced at the time police arrived to arrest him." "Get it off! Get it off!"
"Shoulda worn the bucket on yer head today!"
The 24-year-old was charged with assault with intent to rob. "Into the paddy wagon wit' yez, Kelly!"
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D *** NG, and here 'twas I thinking the Police Dogs followed the flatulence.
[An Nahar] Thieves robbed on Sunday night a van loaded with candies and sweets in the town of Zouk Halba in the northern region of Akkar, reported the National News Agency Monday.
It said that the van was loaded with almost 15,000 dollars worth of sweets upon the robbery.
It was later found on the side of a main highway in Akkar devoid of its products.
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[An Nahar] The world's first museum dedicated to Sweden's iconic disco group ABBA is set to open in Stockholm on Tuesday, offering visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the 1970s foursome with a little help from modern technology.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting the opening, with many sharing their excitement on the museum's Facebook page: "I'll be there," vowed Bea Schroeer of Berlin, while Alexander Kossovsky of Saint Petersburg wrote: "Can't wait to go!! Hurray! After all this time!!"
In Stockholm, rental bikes and cars brandishing the museum's logo have been criss-crossing the city for weeks. Ads have been running in newspapers and on television, and some of the band's costumes are even on display at Stockholm's Arlanda airport arrivals hall to promote the capital's newest cultural institution.
At "ABBA - The Museum" -- a wink to the title of the 1977 film "ABBA - The Movie" -- visitors can pretend to be the fifth member of the band, appearing on stage with the quartet and recording a song with them thanks to a computer simulation.
Another room dedicated to the song "Ring, Ring" features a 1970s telephone, to which only four people have the phone number: ABBA members Agnetha Faeltskog, Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Bjoern Ulvaeus. They are expected to occasionally call to speak live with museum visitors.
The group dominated the 1970s disco scene with their glitzy costumes, kitsch dance routines and catchy melodies such as "Voulez Vous", "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo", the song that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and thrust the band onto the international scene.
They have sold some 378 million albums worldwide, outdone only by Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
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Sniff, sniff, IS THERE NO LOVE FOR "FERNANDO"???
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"First" ABBA Museum - that sounds like a threat. "You will place a bag with unmarked bills in the following location by June 12th, or we will announce a *second* museum opening in Oslo in August."
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[An Nahar] Uncertainty was growing in Algeria on Monday over President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him... 's health, 10 days after he was hospitalized in La Belle France after suffering a mini-stroke and in the absence of official comment.
Rachid Bougherbal, his doctor in Algeria before he was transferred to Gay Paree, referred questions about Bouteflika's condition to the prime minister's office when contacted by Agence La Belle France Presse, with the latter declining to provide an update.
"The paralyzed state," ran the headline of an article in the independent Algerian daily El Watan on the "total blackout (which) surrounds the evolution of Abdelaziz Bouteflika's health."
The newspaper lamented that "after the terse statements about his hospitalization, followed by others reassuring about the state of his health, the political authorities suddenly decided to lock down communication channels."
Bouteflika was admitted to the Val-de-Grace military hospital in Gay Paree on April 27, after suffering a "transient ischemia," or mini-stroke, official sources said, sparking intense speculation that his 14-year rule might be drawing to a close.
El Watan said the president's return to Algeria had been "adjourned," following a statement by his doctor on April 29 that Bouteflika would return to Algeria in "not more than seven days."
Last Tuesday, Bouteflika addressed Algerians for the first time since arriving in Gay Paree, congratulating workers on the eve of the Labor Day holiday, in a message carried by national media, and insisting he was on the road to recovery.
The ageing president's health has been an endless source of speculation in Algeria since 2005 when he had surgery at the same Gay Paree hospital for a bleeding stomach ulcer and spent a long period convalescing.
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable in 2007 suggested he might be suffering from terminal stomach cancer, and since being re-elected for a third term in 2009 he has rarely appeared in public or traveled outside the capital.
Algerian politics is typically shrouded in secrecy, and some commentators have speculated that Bouteflika could even run for a fourth term in the presidential election next year, if he recovers.
But the media are increasingly questioning the implications for Algerian government of the president's latest absence, given his central constitutional role in running the country, with El Watan warning of a "perilous, multifaceted deadlock."
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hopefully they can medically save his combover
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[Al Ahram] Constitution Party founder Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. After stepping down from his IAEA position ElBaradei attempted to horn in on the 2011 Egyptian protests which culminated in the collapse of the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee. cited "popular" demands for a Cabinet reshuffle, appointment of a new prosecutor-general, and formulation of a committee to discuss the electoral law on his Twitter account on Monday, asking "where does the stubbornness and lack of vision come from?"
ElBaradei's posts seemed to implicitly criticise a presidential decision not to replace Prime Minister Hisham Qandil in an upcoming Cabinet reshuffle, expected on Monday evening.
"These are nationwide demands and a primarily solution to solve the crisis that has paralysed the country," he said on his official Twitter account.
The reshuffle, expected to be publicly announced at 8pm on Monday, will include 11 new ministers, a source told Ahram Arabic.
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Stubbornness and lack of vision? Sounds like His Obamaness. If only people would realize what geniuses they are - O and El B. Maybe in a hundred years.
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Zimbabwe's president says Africa's intelligence services must prepare for fresh onslaughts by foreigners and the continent's former colonisers to grasp its natural resources.
President Robert Mugabe said on Monday that Africa's vast reserves of resources and the world-wide recession have triggered a new scramble for control of its "raw wealth".
Opening a convention of the continent-wide 49-nation Committee of Intelligence and Security Services, Mugabe said outsiders have used at least 20 armed conflicts in Africa since 1990 to gather intelligence and deploy "stealth predator drones," unmanned surveillance aircraft, to spy on African countries.
He told Africa's annual meeting of security agents who work under the cloak of secrecy that they are now confronted by increasing human and drug trafficking, money laundering and internet terrorism.
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Know a bit about terrorism, killing civilians, etc, I'll give him that. Wise fellow that old Bob. He holds an honorary degree from Moorehouse here in Atlanta as well as honorary degrees from Michigan State and University of Mass. Brilliant chap I'd say.
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Zimbabwe's president says Africa's intelligence services must prepare for fresh onslaughts by foreigners and the continent's former colonisers to grasp its natural resources
[An Nahar] Uzbekistan has tightened controls on underage marriage by making it punishable with fines and even jail, a move officials in the secular but mostly Moslem country said was made out of concern for mothers and children's health.
Marrying age is set at 18 for men and 17 for women in Central Asia's most populous country. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... there has had been no actual punishment for breaches in the Uzbek family code until now.
"According to new amendments to the law, first there is a fine from five to 10 times the minimal salary (around $380) as an administrative punishment," said Svetlana Artikova, a member of Uzbek senate.
"If the marriage is re-committed within a year following administrative punishment, then there is criminal prosecution," she told AFP.
Underage marriages following administrative warnings are punishable by fines of up to $1,100, deductions in salary for a year, or imprisonment for three months.
Parents and guardians could face fines of nearly $2,000, two-years' salary deductions, or four months imprisonment, according to the changes.
The law also slaps three-year salary deductions and imposes prison time of six months on couples who renew their wedding at religious ceremonies.
The Uzbek authorities have spent years fighting fundamentalist Islamic influences in the country of 30 million people.
But some parents have still been marrying their children under Islamic rules before those marriages are registered with the state once the couples turn of age.
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E.G. MSN > NBC: NORTH KOREA IN "PROVOCATION PAUSE" | NORTH KOREA MOVES MISSLES AWAY FROM COAST.
IMO CHINA = NOKOR IS MORE INTERESTED IN SETTLING BORDER + ACCESS ISSUES THAN TRADE - iff the
Khurshid visit to Beijing + reciprocal ends wid no results as per borders + trade, many Perts believe China = NOKOR will resume its previous bellicosities e.g. send PLA troops back into Ladakh, or else initiate new border incidents.
Again, China wants Japan to leave the US security umbrella + come under its own, + desires to keep Russia out AMAP ALAP of any regional mil conflict. TAKEN COLLECTIVELY, IMO THIS INDICS OR INFERS THAT CHINA PREFERS TO WAGE A WHOLLY OR MOSTLY CONVENTIONAL MIL CONFLICT, OR AT WORSE A HIGHLY-CONTROLLED LIMITED NUCWAR [TacNukes only? Mixed = mostly TacNuke, some ICBM?].
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TAIWAN WILL DEPLOY THREE BATTERIES OF "PATRIOT" AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM [ADS-BMD] IN SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTRY.
IMO Taiwan is trying hard NOT to say it knows its one fo the first targets for the Motherly PLA Airborne + SPECOPS, where any sufferance of any massive or prohibitive PLA combat casualties to take Taiwan is NOT a major = important factor as far as Beijing is concerned.
VERSUS
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > FORGET LADAKH: FIRST SETTLE DOMESTIC INTERNAL ARMY, POLITICAL SPLIT | EX-DEFENSE MINISTER MULAYAM SINGH SAYS CHINA IS OUR [India's] BIGGEST ENEMY, CALLS UPA GOVT. INCOMPETENT + A "GOOD-FOR-NOTHING".
Oh my.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Business Insider] THE PARTY IS OVER, THE US IS JUST ONE RECESSION AWAY FROM JAPAN-STYLE DOOM.
* SAME > CENTRE MUST GIVE EXACT GROUND POSITION [of withdrawn Indian Troops] IN LADAKH: OMAR ABDULLAH [J&K Chief].
Where did India's Troops withdraw to, versus where did China's troops withdraw to.
* BIG NEWS NETWORK > SOUTH KOREA: CLOSE US ALLY + DEFENSE WELFARE QUEEN.
Just another Artic illustrating that it costs the Debt/Sequester-ridden Bammer USA too much $$$ to defend its Allies in East Asia???
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OTOH, China may NOT have to wage major war or demand the US payoff its Debt Payable, when it could as an option...
* INDEPENDENT.UK [old] > SCIENTISTS CLAIM "APPALLING IRRESPONSIBILITY", SENIOR SCIENTISTS ATTACK CHINESE RESEARCHERS FOR CRETING NEW STRAIN OF HUMAN INFLUENZA VIRUS IN A VETERINARY LABORATORY. EXPERTS WARN OF THE DANGER THAT VIRAL STRAINS CREATED BY MIXING "BIRD FLU" VIRUS WID HUMAN INFLUENZA COULD ESCAPE FROM THE LABORATORY AND CAUSE A GLOBAL PANDEMIC THAT WILL KILL MILYUHNS OF PEOPLE.
Gaaawd, a long Title.
Lest we fergit, China + Russia + Iran - MOST RECENTLY CHINA - have accused the US of waging or initiating unilateral, unjustified deadly BioWar = BioTerrorism agz their countries + populations, ala Bird/Avian Flu, Sars, etc. as part of a wily dastardly US Geopol + Econ Agenda.
TIT-FOR-TAT, PCORRECT-DENIABLE OOTW/MOOTW AGZ THE US???
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[An Nahar] A quick-thinking worker at a takeaway food store in Sydney has stopped an attempted robbery by throwing a bucket of chilli at a would-be thief, leaving him with minor burns, Australian police said Monday.
[An Nahar] Thieves robbed on Sunday night a van loaded with candies and sweets in the town of Zouk Halba in the northern region of Akkar, reported the National News Agency Monday.
[An Nahar] The world's first museum dedicated to Sweden's iconic disco group ABBA is set to open in Stockholm on Tuesday, offering visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the 1970s foursome with a little help from modern technology.
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[An Nahar] Uzbekistan has tightened controls on underage marriage by making it punishable with fines and even jail, a move officials in the secular but mostly 
