Attempted murder on Donald Drumph

A 19-year-old man has been charged for trying to grab a police officer's gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas and use it to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

According to a complaint filed in the US District Court in Nevada on Monday, Michael Sandford tried to disarm the officer at the June 18 rally at the Mystere Theatre in the Treasure Island Casino before being overpowered.

It said the young man, who holds a British driving licence, told a Secret Service agent after his arrest that he had driven from California to Las Vegas "to kill Trump", and had been to a range a day earlier to learn to shoot as he had never fired a gun before.

"Sandford acknowledged that he would likely only be able to fire one to two rounds and stated he was convinced he would be killed by law enforcement during his attempt on Trump's life," the complaint said.

It said Sandford told investigators that he had purchased tickets for a rally in Phoenix where he "would try again to kill Trump" in the event his plan in Las Vegas failed.

Nationality unconfirmed

Officials would not confirm Sandford's nationality saying only that he had told investigators he had been in the United States for about 18 months, and had lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, before travelling to California.

A spokeswoman at the Las Vegas prosecutor's office said the young man was due to appear in court later Monday on a charge of act of violence on restricted grounds.
Earlier on Monday, Corey Lewandowski, the controversial campaign manager who helped Trump win the Republican Party's presidential nominating contests, was dismissed.

Trump's campaign issued a statement carried by a number of US media outlets saying Lewandowski "will no longer be working with the campaign" and thanked him for his hard work.

The firing was another shake-up for a campaign already at odds with many senior Republican figures over the presumptive nominee's policies, with the party's nominating convention in Cleveland less than a month away.
________________________________________________________  There was a small part of me that found this article extremely exciting, because I knew it was only a matter of time before we'd find an article that surrounds Donald Dhrump's assassination attempt. Now, the bias was extremely difficult at first to detect. But after reading a couple articles with the same topic, i've realized that this article is completely biased toward the attacker. In multiple articles, it talks of how the 20 year old man had severe issues such as OCD, multiple cases of violence, and multiple cases of attempted suicide. He was clinically insane. However in this article, you definitely don't get vibe.
Whats more, is that at the end of this article the author slyly mentions the recently dismissed director of Dhrump's campaign. That definitely sends off the message that he might have a play with this whole attempted assassination, when in reality the facts point toward mental instability.
My look on this is honestly a lack of surprise. After all the racist, and hateful "speeches" Mr. Dhrump has spoken, i'm honestly surprised that this hasn't happened earlier. Mr. Dhrump responded on his twitter with more pride, and saying "No one can put me down." and such things like that. No doubt that this will boost his awareness.
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Qatar to deport Dutch Women convicted of "illicit sex"

Doha, Qatar - A Dutch woman who alleged she was raped after being drugged in an upmarket nightclub in Doha was convicted of having sex out of wedlock by a Qatari court on Monday and given a one-year suspended sentence.

The woman, 22, was ordered to be deported to the Netherlands once the ruling was formalised, which is expected over the coming days, the ambassador to the Netherlands Yvette Burghgraef- van Eechoud told Al Jazeera at the courthouse.

The accused man in the case, identified as Omar Abdullah al-Hasan, was also convicted of having sex outside of marriage - a serious offence in this conservative Gulf state.

A court official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said that the man was from Syria.

Hasan will receive 100 lashes for illicit sex acts and another 40 lashes as punishment for public drunkenness, and will be deported.

Hasan and the Dutch citizen, identified as "Laura", were not present as the judge read out the verdicts.

The court official described the one-year suspended sentence as "lenient".

"Had she been a Muslim woman, she would have received at least five years in jail. No one can get out of such charges here in Qatar," he said.

Qatar: Dutch woman who alleged rape to appear in court

Van Eechoud said the woman had asked her to convey the message to the media and the public to respect her privacy at this time.

"We will do everything we can to get her out of the country as soon as possible. Under the circumstances, Laura is doing fine," she said.

Laura said she was drugged during a party in March at the Crystal Lounge nightclub at the W Doha Hotel, and woke up in an unfamiliar apartment when she realised she had been sexually assaulted.

She had been on holiday at the time, and reported the incident to Qatari police. She was arrested on March 14, and has been held ever since on charges of committing illicit sex acts.

Hasan has acknowledged having sex with the woman but said it had been consensual, according to Dutch media reports.

The Dutch embassy told Al Jazeera that officials have been in close contact with Laura and her family in the Netherlands of the past few months.

The victim's mother was quoted by Dutch media describing the ordeal her daughter was going through as a "nightmare".

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I remember hearing about this article back on Sunday, where a women was getting charged in Qatar for being raped. I remember feeling outraged, and a small part of me feels relieved after hearing that she will be deported. The original sentence was to be around fourteen years in prison for the poor woman. The whole situation brought the crooked side of the world together around the basis of how "she was asking for it." Alot of men were saying, if she was walking around in Qatar wearing "almost nothing", how could men react? Obviously, it is a poor excuse and I definitely agree with the bias in the article against the man who was found guilty.  This past week, the concept of rape has definitely got the world's attention, that even the world is trying to start to re-define what it is, and what it can include. I definitely agree with the author of this article, in how he depicts this as a foolish case. You can clearly hear the cry of the author, and his plea to spread the word; rape is one sided. It is not the woman's fault, in this case. 

Slavery in the Modern World

An Australian human rights group, founded by billionaire business magnateAndrew Forrest and backed by Hollywood actor Russell Crowe, has released research estimating that almost 46 million people are living as slaves.

The 2016 global slavery index, funded by Forrest’s Walk Free Foundation, says 45.8 million people are trapped in some form of slavery.

The report ranks incidences of slavery in 167 countries, with India having the highest number of slaves while North Korea has the highest percentage of slaves per capita. This year’s estimates are nearly 30% higher than in the previous report, which estimated 35.8 million people living in slavery in 2014.

Forrest says the rise is partially due to more accurate methodology but he also believes the number of people trapped in slavery is increasing year on year.

“It is time to draw a line and say, no more,” he said. “This isn’t Aids or malaria, it is a man-made problem that can be solved, and it’s time to take real action to free the world from slavery once and for all.”

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The index was launched in 2013 after Bill Gates, another billionaire philanthropist, challenged Forrest to quantify the scale of modern slavery. This year’s index was launched in London on Tuesday by Crowe with video messages of support from Tony Blair, Bono, supermodel Karlie Kloss and Richard Branson.

Forrest, who says he found and addressed slavery in his own supply chains, warned businesses that they must step up their efforts to address slavery or face the consequences. He also called on consumers to question their buying habits.

“At one point, it was common to see Australian truck drivers throwing litter out of the windows of their cars because everyone else was doing it. Now, there has been a huge public outcry against this behaviour and it has stopped. The same can be done for slavery,” he said.

“We need to make it unacceptable for people to buy something without asking the company where it was made and who made it and if they can’t answer that question clearly then the next question must be ‘how do you know it wasn’t made with slave labour?’”

Walk Free said slavery is found in all 167 countries in the index, with India home to 18.4 million slaves. This year’s index also claims that over half of the 45.8 million people living in modern slavery are in five countries: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan.

It calculated that more than 4% of North Korea’s population is enslaved, with Uzbekistan and Qatar the other countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery per capita.

The index has faced criticism for its methodology and rankings system since it launched. Despite naming 167 countries, this year’s index was based on interviews conducted by pollster Gallup with more than 42,000 people in 25 countries. In some cases, rankings and prevalence estimates are calculated using data from surveys conducted in other countries deemed to have an equivalent “risk profile”.

Kevin Bales, an anti-slavery campaigner who worked on collecting data for this year’s report, said he is “very confident” the estimations were an accurate reflection.

“Over the last few years we have really honed our methodology and have build a solid framework to build on year on year,” he said. “Measuring the problem is a hugely important factor in beginning to effectively tackle this enormous problem.”

Although modern slavery constitutes a huge illegal industry, deemed the third most profitable criminal industry behind drug and arms trafficking by the UN, data remains patchy.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that 21 million people are trapped in forced labour and other forms of modern slavery. The index says it hopes to work with the ILO to provide a single set of global estimates.

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This article was especially interesting to me on how the world should tackle slavery. In my honest opinion, I don't think the author is correct in this scenario. Of what I understand, this new program is out to solve slavery the same way that they slowed littering by publicly denouncing it, their evidence being that since denouncing littering, the crime if littering has gone down. See, in my eyes, slavery has been around since the beginning of man kind. Already hundreds of countries denounce it, and honestly i don't believe that this enormous situation can be solved through words. I believe that this organization and idea is a good idea, and made with good faith. However, this world isn't done by words. Talk is cheap, and in order to tackle this issue it requires true, hard, and dirty work. The article itself says that "21 Million people are trapped into forced labor and other forms of modern slavery." 21 million people won't be freed due to denouncing. I doubt that the slave ring owners care what other people have to think. In fact, I believe that they are well aware. And maybe the argument can be made that  it will slow the use of slavery, but then the same issue comes to light on how this problem only exists due to constant demand for it. An organization can say whatever they want, and it honestly wont make a difference. Again, believe me that I wish no ill upon this organization. I believe their intentions are true, however in order to make a difference, you have to do it with work.

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Kelly, Annie. "46 Million People Living as Slaves, Latest Global Index Reveals." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 01 June 2016. Web. 08 June 2016. <http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/01/46-million-people-living-as-slaves-latest-global-index-reveals-russell-crowe>.