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BEX, Switzerland (AP) — A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.

Yves Rossy's performance in front of the world press capped five years of training and many more years of dreaming.

"This flight was absolutely excellent," the former fighter pilot and extreme sports enthusiast said after touching down on an airfield near the eastern shore of Lake Geneva.

Rossy, 48, had stepped out of the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter aircraft at 7,500 feet and unfolded the rigid eight-foot wings strapped to his back before jumping.

Passing from free fall to a gentle glide, Rossy then triggered four jet turbines and accelerated to 186 miles per hour, about 65 miles per hour faster than the typical falling skydiver. A plane that flew at some distance beside him measured his speed.

The crowd on the mountaintop below gasped and cheered.

Rossy's mother, who was among the spectators, told journalists she felt no fear.

"He knows what he's doing," Paule Rossy said of her son, who now flies commercial planes for Swiss airlines.

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Al Qaeda is planning to attack the Euro 2008 football championships in Switzerland and Austria in June, Swiss police say.

"The Euro 2008 tournament is a target cited by the Islamist terrorist network," federal police spokesman Juerg Buehler told Swiss newspaper La Liberte.

He said messages had been posted on Islamist websites and police were "following the situation very closely".

One of the messages urges terrorists to "transform the safest countries in Europe to the hell seen in Iraq or Afghanistan".

"The time has come for the fighters of the faith. They must make their voices heard," said another.

Authorities fear the global media coverage of the tournament will make it an attractive target for an attack.

Security will be tight in and around the grounds, and extra checks will be made on people buying tickets from "high-risk" areas in the Middle East, the newspaper reported.

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Italian police are being forced to protect Roma Gypsies who have come under attack from local residents in Naples two nights running.

Makeshift homes were set alight as demonstrators attacked two camps. The disturbance was sparked by an alleged kidnap attempt by a Roma teenager.

There is deep suspicion throughout the country of the Roma community.

The government is preparing controversial anti-immigration measures targeting Romanians in particular.

The incidents in Naples began when a 16-year-old Roma girl was caught inside an apartment last weekend, allegedly trying to steal a six-month-old baby girl.

Her arrest has sparked two days of bitter protests.

On Wednesday night, vigilante groups in the suburb of Ponticelli took to the streets chasing the Roma out of two squatter camps.

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►	Anonymous 08/05/14(Wed)22:09 No. 14341 FUCK YEAH ITALY

►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)14:39 No. 14500 Fucking Hitler didn't finish the job.

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Italian tolerance goes up in smoke as Gypsy camp is burnt to ground Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)20:00 No. 14560 File: 121090680475.jpg-(40.50KB, 500x605, IN4291941Firemen_ins_28252a.jpg) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/italian-tolerance-goes-up-in-smoke-as-gypsy-camp-is-burnt-to-ground-829318.html In cruel and unusual concert, Italy's new government, its police and paramilitary carabinieri, and even its gangsters, have turned their joint might against the nation's enemy number one: the Gypsies. Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI and a small number of left-wingers raised lonely voices in central Naples against the national hardening of hearts towards Europe's perennial outsiders. To little avail: the Pope's appeal for a spirit of welcome and acceptance was met with a hail of angry rejection in blogged comments on news websites. But what will remain scorched in the nation's memory – as a mark of shame, or a beacon pointing the way forward, depending on how you see it – are the flaming structures of the Gypsy camp burnt in the Ponticelli district of Naples on Wednesday. Residents of the former communist stronghold on the northern outskirts of Naples have been raising hell about the camp since Saturday, when a woman claimed a Gypsy girl had entered her flat and tried to steal her baby. The first Molotov cocktails descended on the improvised huts and cabins on Tuesday evening, after which the 800-odd inhabitants began moving out of the area in groups. On Wednesday the fire-raisers, said to belong to the Camorra, the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia, burnt the camp in earnest, watched by applauding local people and unchallenged by the police. When firefighters showed up to douse the blaze, local people taunted and whistled at them. The last Roma moved out under police protection. Only then did local politicians shed a few crocodile tears: Antonio Bassolino, governor of the Campania region, declaring: "We must stop with the greatest determination these disturbing episodes against the Roma." Rosa Russo Iervolino, the Mayor of Naples, chimed in: "It is unthinkable that anyone could imagine that I could justify reprisals against the Roma." But the first act Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

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BEIJING - Chinese media say the earthquake death toll in one Sichuan county is estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 people.

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The powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday, trapping nearly 900 students after their school collapsed, state media reported.

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that four of the dead were ninth-grade students killed when their high school collapsed. Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Xinhua did not say how many of the students were feared dead.

It said its reporters in Juyuan township, about 60 miles from the epicenter, saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building "while others were crying out for help."

Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."

The earthquake comes less than three months before the start of the Beijing Summer Olympics, when China hopes to use to showcase its rise in the world.

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►	Anonymous 08/05/14(Wed)16:41 No. 14290 >>14289 The latter would be a bit of a bummer, but personally I'd be quite happy if China shut themselves in.

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China says quake toll likely above 50,000 Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)19:43 No. 14557 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwvF8qmVLX2B-K3ko0o9TURF4iDg China said Thursday that over 50,000 people had likely died in the devastating earthquake that hit its southwest as time runs out to save survivors buried in the rubble of broken communities. Experts said the search-and-rescue operation was entering its most crucial phase yet four days after the 7.9-magnitude quake struck, with the chances of finding survivors diminishing by the hour. "The deaths are estimated to be over 50,000," state television said, citing figures from the national quake relief headquarters. Early Friday state Xinhua news agency quoted Prime Minister Wen Jiabao saying the quake had been even more devastating than one in Tangshan in 1976 which claimed about 240,000 lives. Although the current death toll is not as high as that, the epic scale of Monday's quake is becoming clearer -- and the number of dead rising -- as teams hike into the remote epicentre in Sichuan province. "If there are some survivors under such conditions, it would be a matter of luck, or a miracle," said Zhang Zhoushu, vice director of the state-run China Earthquake Disaster Prevention Centre.

►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)19:45 No. 14558 over nine thouuuuuusaaaanddd indeed.

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The central bank has issued a 500m Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth US$2, to try to ease cash shortages amid the world's highest rate of inflation.

The previous highest denomination note was for Z$250m, issued 10 days ago.

Meanwhile, the opposition has rejected the move to delay the presidential run-off, possibly until July, saying it was a government ploy to stay in power.

It called for an emergency regional summit, urging neighbouring countries to take "firm resolutions".

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai gained more votes than President Robert Mugabe in the first round on 29 March, but did not pass the 50% threshold to be elected, according to the official results.

Zec's decision cements the coup against the constitution

MDC's Tendai Biti

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Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)17:39 No. 14540 lol Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Our mission: The pursuit of the Bank's vision will express itself through leadership in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of policies and action plans for fighting inflation, stabilisation of the internal and external value of Zimbabwe's currency and of the financial system in a manner that gives pride of achievement to Zimbabweans across the board. http://www.rbz.co.zw/about/vision.asp

►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)19:05 No. 14551 lol, africa stupid niggers cant even farm without whitey, soon they will be begging for us back

►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)19:41 No. 14556 More sound monetary policy from the central bank of Zimbabwe.

  http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1534279220080515

Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Thursday offered to spend $365 million of the OPEC nation's record oil income per year on a fund for poor countries as world food and energy prices soar.

Chavez said the funding would kick in when crude prices rose above $100 per barrel. He also said European and Latin American nations should contribute to the program, and called on Europe to cancel the debt of Latin American and Caribbean countries.

"Three hundred sixty-five million dollars a year for a fund that will allow us to produce, buy and distribute food and medicines to the homes of the poorest families," he said at a news conference with foreign journalists.

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Witbank - Four bogus witchdoctors were arrested here for allegedly defrauding a man of R48 500, said Mpumalanga police on Thursday.

Captain Leonard Hlathi said the four illegal immigrants were arrested on Wednesday.

He said: "It all started when the man picked up a pamphlet from a distributor in town. Among other things, it informed the readers about doctors who could help to cleanse bad luck."

Hlathi said the 48-year-old man was interested and went to consult them.

He was told his ancestors wanted him to "buy" luck by purchasing it with thousands of rands, equal to his age.

"He was told to quit his job at Eskom so that he could give his money to the doctors, who would pray to his ancestors for his luck."

Put money in trunk

According to Hlathi, the man went to borrow R38 000 from the bank and borrowed R20 000 from his employer and gave the doctors R48 500.

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►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)17:41 No. 14543 LOL AFRICA

►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)19:07 No. 14552 >>14515 priests/imams

►	Anonymous 08/05/15(Thu)19:11 No. 14553 >>14552 My intention was to question what a non-bogus witchdoctor would be.

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Russia's military chief urged NATO Thursday to take steps to stop a build-up of arms in its neighbour Georgia and warned that conflict could break out if no action is taken.

"NATO has to take measures in order to prevent arms supplies to that region," Russian defence chief Yuri Baluyevsky told reporters at the military alliance's headquarters in Brussels.

"I don't exclude that there could be a conflict in Georgia, and the only way to prevent it is to stop the militarisation," he said, after talks with defence chiefs from the 26 NATO member nations.

"In the past several months and years it has been growing," he said.

In a statement Thursday, the Russian defence ministry named the United States, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic as among the main states providing military equipment, training and financial support to Georgia.

All are NATO members but are not acting under any NATO banner, officials at alliance headquarters said.

The defence ministry also said that a significant amount of military hardware was entering Georgia through Ukraine and that military cooperation with Israel was also growing.

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13-year-old caught doing 79 mph. With mom in the passenger seat
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