Tuesday, June 7, 2016

#South Africa - Britain and Australian govt warns citizens in SA after US terror alert: SABC Digital News

Published on 7 Jun 2016
Britain and Australia have urged their citizens to exercise high levels of caution while visiting South Africa.
Both countries updated their travel advisories for South Africa Monday.

It follows a warning by the US government over the weekend.

US embassies said it had received information that terrorists were planning attacks on places frequented by foreigners visiting Johannesburg and Cape Town, such as shopping malls.

The British embassy in Pretoria says the revised advisory should not be seen as a terror alert.
Earlier, the ministry of State Security, confirmed that they view the US government's warning in a serious light. 

The department added that terrorism is a concern globally.

Meanwhile South Africans are unsure of weather or not to take the United States terror alert seriously.
We spoke to the Director of the Afro Middle East Centre, Na'eem Jeenah.
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Ukraine - Rehab For Wild Ones: Helping an eagle fly again: UKRAINE TODAY

Published on 7 Jun 2016
A new treatment and recovery facility is now open in western Ukraine. But... its patients aren't whom you would think of right away. Getting healthy again is the priority for these wild animals, most of whom are listed in the Red Book of Endangered Species.

Halych National Nature Park located in western Ukraine is set to become the new home of two eagles and buzzards.

The birds all have a reason to come here. All of them fell victim to street photographers seeking quick cash from unsuspecting tourists. In an unprecedented court case launched by the Halych National Nature Park staff, the judge ruled against the photographers ordering the birds to be immediately confiscated and sent to the rehabilitation facility.
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#UK - How would Brexit affect you? | Guardian Explainers: The Guardian

Published on 7 Jun 2016
Membership of the European Union may come with certain strings attached, but there is a wealth of benefits to its citizens.
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GrooveMe’s market “much larger” than a year ago, says Chair: ProactiveInvestors Stocktube

Published on 7 Jun 2016
Alex Worrall, chairman of 3D hologram maker GrooveMe, tells Proactive Investors that the company has “come a long way” in a year, with 27 artists and 72 songs recorded.

The technology has a wide range of potential uses, and Worrall says the company has been in talks in India with members of Bollywood, but also with politicians, yoga instructors and other high profile individuals who might use the technology to reach all 1.5bn people in the country.

“Although we still look at our model as being basically and fundamentally the core is musicians,” he says, “…the thing [market] has spread very much larger than [when] we started”.

Joining Worrall is director Edwin Philpott, who adds “the brand opportunities here, not only to work with exciting brands within the music industry itself but activate relationships with potential sponsors and people who are interested to use what Alex said is a new media is very exciting”.
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“Trade what you see, not what you think” says BlackCabbieTrader: ProactiveInvestors Stocktube

Published on 7 Jun 2016
John Walsh, better-known as the BlackCabbieTrader, says the key for investors is to “trade what you see, not what you think”.

He says he invests for “weeks and months”, rather than a traditional day trader, and offers investors the opportunity to see his trades and replicate the trades themselves should they wish.

Walsh won a trading competition in 2011 by trading on technical data and charts, and he admits that he focuses on this so much that “I don’t even know what the companies do sometimes”.
To find out more about his trading style, investors can visit blackcabbietrader.com
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#Afghanistan - broken promise: Amnesty International

Published on 31 May 2016
“My children will die this winter” – Afghanistan’s growing displacement crisis and the failed promise of a national IDP policy.

The intensifying conflict in Afghanistan has taken a devastating toll on ordinary Afghans, hundreds of thousands of whom have been forced to flee their home. In the space of little more than four years, the number of those internally displaced by conflict has more than doubled in the country and today stands at more than one million. With levels of violence showing no sign of abating, there is every reason to believe that this trend will only continue in the near future.

Amnesty International recognises that the Afghan government is facing enormous challenges in terms of the worsening security situation and the flagging economy. Endorsing the IDP Policy was a significant and welcome step, and the implementation of such a comprehensive policy was never going to be a fast or straightforward process. The lack of progress to date is, however, alarming, in particular at a time when the number of internally displaced has exploded. The Afghan government and its international allies must act now to respond to the growing displacement crisis.
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#Malawi - Hunted For Their Body Parts: Amnesty International

Published on 6 Jun 2016
A surge in killings of people with albinism, whose body parts are used in ritual practices, has exposed a systematic failure of policing in Malawi and left this vulnerable group living in fear, Amnesty International has revealed in a new report.

The report, “We are not animals to be hunted or sold”: Violence and discrimination against people with albinism in Malawi”, reveals how the wave of violent attacks against people with albinism has increased sharply over the last two years, with four people, including a baby, murdered in April 2016 alone.
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#Turkey - 11 killed, 36 injured in Istanbul bomb attack: PressTV News Videos

Published on 7 Jun 2016
At least 11 people have lost their lives in an explosion that ripped through the Turkish business and tourist hub of Istanbul on Tuesday. 

According to Istanbul’s governor, seven of the victims were police officers who were killed when a remote-controlled bomb was detonated near their bus in the city’s historic quarter. Thirty-six others have been injured. The explosion damaged nearby buildings and some vehicles. There've been reports of shooting following the blast. There’s no immediate word about who is behind the attack. Several Turkish cities, including Istanbul and the capital Ankara, have been the scene of explosions by Daesh terrorists as well as PKK militants in recent months.
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#España - Comando actualidad 'Trueque o negocio' RTVE .es

Published on 6 Jun 2016
El trueque como posibilidad de ahorro, como fórmula para darle otra vida a lo que ya no usamos y, también, como posibilidad de ganar dinero. Compartir en vez de comprar, una tendencia de consumo que va a más, que mueve miles de millones de euros, que está poniendo en jaque a algunos empresas tradicionales y que en España carece de un marco legal. En la noche de los martes en La 1 y en rtve.es.
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#USA - How much will Clinton try to limit the Second Amendment? Fox News

Published on 6 Jun 2016
On 'Hannity,' insight into Hillary's plans to regulate guns
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#USA - Museum of Broken Relationships Displays Objects of Lost Love: ABC News

Published on 7 Jun 2016
The Hollywood-based museum provides a place for people to donate unwanted items from past relationships.
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#France - finance minister left with egg on his face as labour law protests continue; euronews (in English)

Published on 6 Jun 2016
Emmanuel Macron was left with egg on his face at an event in Montreuil.

France's Finance Minister was pelted with eggs when alleged supporters of the hardline CGT union closed in on him in the Parisian suburb.

Macron was launching a stamp to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Popular Front movement, a party credited with giving French workers new rights.

But the inauguration came on the sixth day of rail disruptions and in the midst of months of upset nationwide over planned labour r…
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#USA - Why We're Watching Devon Energy: TheStreet

Published on 6 Jun 2016
Devon Energy is selling properties in Texas and Oklahoma, with hopes to close the sales in the third-quarter. The largest transaction in the sale is for the assets in east Texas... which are worth about $525 million. Devon will use the funds to pay down its debt and boost growth. Real Money's Daniel Dicker believes Devon is 'finally acting like the kind of energy company that is worthy of your investment dollar.'

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#USA - Greta is one of Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women - again: Fox News

Published on 6 Jun 2016
What does it take to make the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women? Moira Forbes goes 'On the Record' to explain why Greta has consistently made the cut
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#USA - Hillary Clinton 'secures Democratic Party nomination' euronews (in English)

Published on 6 Jun 2016
* *Clinton 'reaches 2383 delegate threshold'*
* *Historic moment becoming first female nominee of major US party*
* *Bernie Sanders vows to fight on*

Hillary Clinton has secured the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic Party nomination for president. The claim, made by the Associated Press (AP), comes ahead of today's final Super Tuesday of the campaign when she is expected to collect the rest of the pledged delegates and so-called superdelegates needed to take her past the 2383 th…
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2016/06/07/hi...
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Trading Video: Yellen Rejects Dollar Save, Brexit Speculation Rears Pound Volatility: Forex News by DailyFX

Published on 6 Jun 2016
Talking Points:

• Janet Yellen's speech Monday was the last strategic opportunity for the Fed to change rate forecasts - she demurred
• Brexit speculation explodes to start the week with another poll suggesting the 'Leave' campaign gaining
• The risk of an 'accidental' volatility event triggering larger financial move remains dangerously high

Read the full article here:
https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/video/d...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

#Jordan - Manhunt in Jordan after attack on Baqaa refugee camp: Al Jazeera English

Published on 6 Jun 2016
A manhunt is under way for a gunman who killed five people in an attack on security office in Jordan. It happened at the Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp which is north of Jordan's capital Amman. A government spokesman described it as a 'terrorist attack'. Al Jazeera's Victoria Gatenby reports.-
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#USA - Mark Zuckerberg's been hacked: CNET

Published on 6 Jun 2016
It looks like a LinkedIn data breach lead to the Facebook CEO's Twitter and Pinterest accounts being compromised.
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#Ukraine - Trash Business: Escalating number of landfills endangers both environment, economy: UKRAINE TODAY

Published on 6 Jun 2016
Three firemen killed in the landslide at a Lviv region junkyard were laid to rest this weekend. The body of the fourth victim, an ecologist is yet to be found. The rescue operation had to be terminated due to the severely dangerous conditions at the Hrybovychi waste site.

The tragic incident certainly brought attention back to the systemic issues within Ukraine's recycling industry. According to ecologists, garbage sorting and recycling is nothing more than a myth to Ukrainians. Nearly all discarded stuff end up at landfills just like the one in Hrybovychi regardless whether it is glass, wood, or paper.

Ukraine does have one garbage recycling plant. Located in Kyiv, the facility that was built in 1986 continues to operate today, continuously converting waste to alternative energy sources.
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#USA - CDC Report: U.S. Counties at Risk of HIV Outbreak: Wall Street Journal

Published on 6 Jun 2016
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 220 counties in the U.S. at risk for an HIV or hepatitis C outbreak, based on analysis of pharmacy sales of prescription painkillers, overdose deaths, and unemployment rates, among other factors. Photo: Getty Images

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