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• Headcam Footage Shows What It's Really Like To Fight For The Islamic State [Video]

  

  VICE News has obtained footage filmed from the headcam of a fighter for the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) — before his death – when his unit engaged Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. The video was released by VICE News on Wednesday. The Jihadi fighter who shot the video was killed in March in a battle with Kurdish peshmerga troops about 30 miles north of Mosul, a city in northern Iraq occupied by the Islamic State terrorist group since June 2014. VICE News characterized the found footage as showing..

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• Wicked Campers' offensive slogans hard to ban says expert

  

  Banning Wicked Campers on the basis of their offensive slogans would require a significant change to Australia’s sex discrimination law, a discrimination law expert has said. Related: Wicked Campers' repulsive slogans are nothing more than real life click bait | Jane Caro Two local governments on the New South Wales north coast have moved to ban the rental vans from driving on their roads, saying their trademark outlandish paint-jobs and offensive slogans, which say things like “I wouldn’t ..

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• wooden trestle bridge destroyed in spectacular fire

  

  Canadian wooden trestle bridge destroyed in spectacular fire in Alberta's Mayerthorpe Updated April 28, 2016 13:19:28 A spectacular fire that destroyed a wooden rail trestle bridge in the Canadian community of Mayerthorpe has been captured on camera by residents and aircraft.Canada's CBC reported that the fire is believed to have started on the ground near the base of the bridge, which spans the Paddle River, north-west of Edmonton, Alberta. Almost three dozen firefight..

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• Filipino firebrand Rodrigo Duterte jokes about ...

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Philippines candidate jokes about raped Aussie woman Watch presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte joking about the 1989 rape of female Australian missionary. PT1M24S 620 349 He vowed to pardon himself for murder, joked about his penis, said he would kill his own children if he caught them with drugs and took a new swipe at Australia over its policy on the South China Sea.Provincial crime-fighting politician Rodrigo Duterte continues to widen hi..

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• Threat to Bali nine's Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's legacy upsets families

  

  Myuran Sukumaran in the art room at Kerobokan prison in 2012. Photo: Michael Bachelard As the families of Bali nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran​ struggle with the anniversary of their execution, news that two Iranian inmates entrusted with their legacy have been suddenly shifted from Kerobokan prison has added to their anguish.Ali Reza Safar Khanloo​ and Rouhallah Series Abadi​ were among 63 prisoners moved this week from the Bali prison that was hom..

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• Saudi Arabia not ready for women drivers, says prince

  

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• 15 detained in connection to Bursa suicide attack

  

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• Italy to start fingerprinting migrants at sea

  

  AFP on April 28, 2016, 5:44 pm Italy to start fingerprinting migrants at sea Rome (AFP) - Italy is to introduce the fingerprinting of migrants crossing the Mediterranean as soon as they are picked up by rescue boats, officials say.The move could help to reduce mounting tensions between Italy and its EU partners over the large numbers of migrants who arrive in Italy but are not registered here and then travel on to northern Europe.If they are not registered in Italy, neighbouring cou..

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• Nauru asylum seeker treated in Australia

  

  Nauru asylum seeker treated in Australia

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• Thai police arrest three over UK family bashing caught on camera

  

  A British couple and their son have been savagely attacked during a family holiday in Thailand in the latest blow to the country's image as a welcoming tourist paradise. Police said Thursday they have arrested three alleged attackers and are looking for one more. A video of the attack, which was captured by overhead security cameras and posted this week on social media, has stirred shock and outrage over its brutality and the ages of the elder victims, a 65-year-old woman and 68-year-old man fr..

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