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Alaska earthquake prompts tsunami warning

A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s Kodiak Island has prompted a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia while the remainder of the US West Coast was under watch. The quake was recorded about 250km southeast of Kodiak Island early on Tuesday morning. Warnings from the National Weather Service sent…

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Police arrest suspected rapist, killer of Zainab Ansari

Police have arrested the main suspect involved in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in the central Punjab province of Pakistan, a police official told Al Jazeera.  Zainab Ansari was found dead in a rubbish dump on January 9 in Kasur, several days after her disappearance. An autopsy revealed she had been raped and…

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Facebook originate sources Detectron

Today, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) open sourced Detectron — our state-of-the-art platform for object detection research. The Detectron project was started in July 2016 with the goal of creating a fast and flexible object detection system built on Caffe2, which was then in early alpha development. Over the last year and a half, the codebase…

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Assam forces accused of waterboarding detainees

Guwahati, India – On the night of January 9, a police team headed by officer Ranjit Hazarika raided the home of one Hasen Ali of No. 2 Atakata village in Mangaldoi district of the State of Assam in India’s northeast. Suspecting him of possessing illegal arms, the police barged into his home at midnight and…

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Turkey battles Syrian Kurds ‘on two fronts’ in Afrin

Turkish troops have taken control of 11 Kurdish positions and created « safe zones » in neighbouring Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin, according to Turkish media. Reports on Tuesday said the army, aided by Free Syria Army rebels, is pushing towards the southern part of the Syrian region with fronts on the west and the east. The…

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Large gas leak sparks evacuation in central London

Police and Transport workers at the scene of the gas leak this morning that sparked a mass evacuation (Picture: SWNS)Two major railway stations were closed and 1,450 people were evacuated after a gas main ruptured in central London. Heaven nightclub was cleared and guests at a nearby hotel were moved into emergency accommodation after the…

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Trump signs invoice to close authorities shutdown

President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that ends the government shutdown, and provides congressional negotiators with additional time to hammer out an immigration reform package capable of passing both the House and Senate. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are expected to return to work on Tuesday morning, after spending the day…

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Pellets and rubber bullets are doubtless to be now not ‘humane’

Amnesty International India recently launched a postcard campaign calling on the Indian government to ban the use of pellet guns in Jammu and Kashmir. Indian authorities argue that pellet guns are non-lethal and continue their use. There is some truth to India’s claims. Pellet guns overwhelmingly blind, injure, and maim, but do not instantly kill. They are, therefore, posited…