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Cops, EFF Battle At Legislature – Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse defiant members of the Economic Freedom Fighters at the Gauteng legislature in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. Stun grenades were thrown inside the foyer of the Gauteng legislature where EFF leader Julius Malema and others were refusing to move. [iol]
MH17 News
U.S. Intelligence: Separatists, Not Russians, Killed MH17 – Moscow has been lying about what happened to the airliner but one thing they are saying may actually be true: it wasn’t a Russian who pulled the trigger. [beast]
Cockpit Of MH17 Found Sawed In Half At Crash Site – International monitors who have finally gained full access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine said Tuesday the Boeing 777’s cockpit inexplicably had been sawed in half while under the control of Russian-backed separatists. [usat]
EU Announces Further Sanctions On Russia After Downing Of MH17 – The European Union will expand its sanctions blacklist to target Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and draw up further broad measures including an arms embargo and financial restrictions on Russian businesses, EU foreign ministers have decided following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. [guardian]
Christian Radio Host Says Obama Politicized MH17 to Normalize ‘Sexual Deviancy’ – A Christian radio host believes President Obama is exploiting the crash of MH17 for the benefit of the gay agenda. [beast]
M&G Owner Weighs In On Indy Attacks – Mail & Guardian owner Trevor Ncube on Tuesday weighed in on what he called “attacks” from Independent Newspapers. [n24]
Airlines Suspend Flights to Israel After Hamas Rocket Falls Near Main Airport – Airlines in the United States and Europe suspended flights to and from Israel on Tuesday after a rocket fell about a mile from Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. [nyt]
Apple Readies a Big Bet on Big-Screen Phones – Prepping 4.7-Inch and 5.5-Inch Screen Sizes, Apple Tells Its Suppliers to Gear Up for a Record Initial Production Run. [wsj]
Apple Reports Q3 2014 Results: $7.7 Billion Profit on June Quarter Record $37.4 Billion in Revenue – Apple LogoApple today announced financial results for the second calendar quarter and third fiscal quarter of 2014. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $37.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $7.7 billion. [macr]
Queen’s Gold Cup-Winning Horse Fails Drug Test – Buckingham Palace says a positive test for banned substance morphine is thought to have come from a contaminated feed product. [sky]
Krejcir Boycotts Court Over Food – The trial of Radovan Krejcir and five others was disrupted in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, on Tuesday, when the Czech fugitive refused to return to court after lunch. [news24]
Alexander Litvinenko Death: UK Announces Public Inquiry – A public inquiry will be held into the death of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, the UK Home Secretary Theresa May has announced. [ibtimes]
No Point England Bidding For World Cup While ‘Kim Jong’ Blatter Is Fifa President – Chairman of the Football Association Greg Dyke has told a Department of Culture, Media and Sport Committee that the English FA won’t bid for any more tournaments while the game’s international governing body Fifa is led by Sepp Blatter – who he compares to North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Un. [ibtimes]
Cape Talk Interview With The People Behind ‘OurHood’ – SA’s Fastest Growing Private Social Network For Neighbourhoods – A new mobile and web tool designed to make it easy for people from a specific neighbourhood to connect and share information has been launched in Green Point as a pilot project for Cape Town. [capetalk]
Chinese City Sealed Off After Bubonic Plague Death – A Chinese city has been sealed off and 151 people have been placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague, state media said. [guardian]
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Music Label Sues YouTube Star Michelle Phan Over Copyright Infringement – Ultra Records has filed a lawsuit against the wildly popular makeup maven, claiming she used music from its artists without permission. Phan’s YouTube channel has more than 6.7 million subscribers. [nydn]
Brazil’s Newly Contacted Tribe Already Has the Flu, and It Could Wipe Them Out – It has happened many times before, and it’s happening again: Members of a previously uncontacted tribe that recently made contact with the outside world have gotten sick. Now, they’ve retreated back into the Amazon Rainforest, which is very bad news, as it puts the entire tribe at risk of infection—and possibly death. [vice]
The Bible’s A Mess, But A Designer Is Fixing It – ‘Bibliotheca’ is one man’s quest to make the Good Book better. [verge]
Miley Cyrus Takes Her Top Off In The Desert – Here a photo that Miley Cyrus just posted on Instagram of her sexy little self without a top and wearing only some flimsy cut-off denim shorty shorts in the middle of the desert. [popo]
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