Waching daily Mar 27 2018

Protests Erupt In Pakistan After 7-Year-Old Girl Raped And Murdered

Faisal Mahmood / Reuters Member of Civil Society light candles and earthen lamps to condemn the rape and murder of 7-year-old girl Zainab Ansari in Kasur, during a candlelight vigil in Islamabad, Pakistan on January 11, 2018.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Protests broke out across Pakistan on Thursday after the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in a district south of Lahore, due to public anger at what is seen as the authorities' failure to investigate such cases.

It is the 12th such murder in the town of Kasur in a year, and has raised concern that a serial killer may be on the loose.

Two people were killed on Wednesday when police fired at angry protesters in Kasur, and a local resident said schools, offices, and markets remained shut in the town on Thursday.

Demonstrations were held in all cities between Faisalabad in the northeast down to Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi.

In Lahore, the provincial capital of the state where Kasur is located, protesters blocked a major road connecting the two, causing traffic between them to be suspended.

Police recovered the body of Zainab Ansari from a garbage dumpster in Kasur on Tuesday, four days after she was reported missing.

The chief minister of Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif visited Ansari's parents to assure them that the perpetrators would be apprehended soon, a provincial government spokesman said.

"(Sharif) has announced Rs 10 million ($90,000) for anyone giving information about the kidnapper," Punjab government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan told Reuters.

He said it could not be ruled out that the murders involved a serial killer.

Faisal Mahmood / Reuters Demonstratos chant slogans to condemn the rape and murder of 7-year-old girl Zainab Ansari in Kasur, during protest in Islamabad, Pakistan on January 11, 2018.  A police official speaking on condition on anonymity said two of Ansari's relatives had been interrogated and 26 locals are currently in custody and being questioned.

He added that police are waiting for forensic evidence to be collected and analyzed.

Ansari's family doubts justice will be done.

"We don't have any expectations from police, as we gave proof to police including the CCTV footage, but they could do nothing," her uncle Hafiz Muhammad Adnan told Reuters.

Adnan said the kidnapper waited to dump the body after search parties took a break after four days of looking.

"It appears as if the kidnapper is a local who developed familiarity with Zainab to take her along, probably telling her that he would take her to her parents," he said.

A number of police officials have been transferred out of the region for failing to investigate complaints of missing children since 2015, when authorities uncovered what they said was a pedophile ring linked to a prominent local family.

At least two people have been convicted in connection with that case, in which authorities say hundreds of children in the district were abused.

Writing by Saad Sayeed; Editing by Hugh Lawson    .

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( US News ) Pope Francis Warns About Danger Of Nuclear War: 'We Are At The Very Limit' - Duration: 3:12.

Pope Francis Warns About Danger Of Nuclear War: 'We Are At The Very Limit'

Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters Pope Francis speaks to reporters onboard the plane for his trip to Chile and Peru, January 15, 2018.

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By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Monday he was really afraid about the danger of nuclear war and that the world now stood at "the very limit".

His comment, made as he flew off for a visit to Chile and Peru, came after Hawaii issued a false missile alert that provoked panic in the U.S.

state and highlighted the risk of possible unintended nuclear war with North Korea.

Asked if he was worried about the possibility of nuclear war, Pope Francis said: "I think we are at the very limit.

I am really afraid of this.

One accident is enough to precipitate things." He did not mention Hawaii or North Korea.

Pope Francis has often flagged the danger of nuclear warfare and in November he appeared to harden the Catholic Church's teaching against nuclear weapons, saying countries should not stockpile them even for the purpose of deterrence.

As reporters boarded his plane bound for Chile, Vatican officials handed out a photograph taken in 1945 that shows a young Japanese boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders following the U.S.

nuclear attack on Nagasaki.

"I was moved when I saw this.

The only thing I could think of adding were the words 'the fruit of war'," Francis said, referring to a caption put on the back of the image.

"I wanted to have it reprinted and distributed because an image like this can be more moving than a thousand words.

That is why I wanted to share it with you," he said.

  (Writing by Crispian Balmer; editing by Ralph Boulton)    .

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BREAKING News Out Of Wisconsin… THEY'RE DEAD! - Duration: 3:08.

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District 25 catches up with the Arlington Heights News Update students - Duration: 3:56.

Hey, Arlington Heights. Adam Harris here, your Communications Coordinator

and I've been breaking news to you guys from District 25 for the last

Couple years that I've worked here via Facebook and via video,

but if you're looking for more news about the Arlington Heights community

I've got you covered with my news team right here. The Arlington Heights News Update.

That's what they do. They put together bi-weekly videos updating the Arlington Heights community on

anything Arlington Heights...events and things like that.

I'll let them tell you more about it in a second and they can tell you their website and everything like that

But the motivation came from them thinking there is a need for people to understand news

about their town.

Hyperlocal journalism, and they're doing this on their own, all outside of school

but it's a really cool thing. So we're gonna start off....

So we got got Danny right there. Yeah, that's Danny. That's Russell

That's TJ back there. That's Sanjay and that is Quinn.

We're gonna ask them to tell us a little bit about their organization...

So I help in

reporting local sports.

And I help in news if needed like filming and other stuff like that...honing the script.

So really the mission of the company is

to make the news in Arlington Heights accessible to more people in Arlington Heights

so you don't have to go like search on websites or

go get the newspaper pay for the newspaper because it's free on YouTube.

But you can easily just watch the video.

Find the stuff that you want. You can skip through it. So there's no searching needed, and there's no...

It's it's a lot more accessible and easier for you to find.

<off screen> Like on the go?

Yes, yeah

Yeah, we want it to be like if there's something in the community

People can just look at their phones, and they'll know what's going on

and then they can just have that information right there.

<off screen> Right you guys seem to be filling a need...

Yea, it really helps the community.

<off screen> And then what do you guys get out of it, personally?

<off screen> Like what do you like doing about it?

It just helps others.

It makes us feel good and helping others find news accessible and easy to access.

And it seems like it seems like they have a lot of pride in their community..

it seems like, you know, I mean this is something

that's very interesting to you, right?

What about Arlington Heights is most fascinating?

Just like the events like the library host many things and it's kind of nice that we have

us as a community have like many different things going on not just like the little little parties in the park

But like you know there's like the tree lighting ceremony that we get like the whole community together.

The big party in the park every August. I forgot it's called but

<off screen> Frontier days??

Yeah, there's Frontier Days...

It's great that, we as a community all come together.

Oh, um...night out...National Night Out.

<off screen> Well, keep talking about that.

<off screen> You're saying you as a community all come together

Us as a community all come together,

and it's nice to see everybody and like be with everybody and just kind of it's it's just nice to be with others that

sometimes you don't even know who they are and you've never met them before but you can meet new people...

You can spend time with others, and it's just it's just fun...

structured things that we [get to do].

<off screen> And you're letting people know about that.

And, you know I think that that's

You guys have a future in journalism if you want that or at least tech

or something that you're doing. The videos are AWESOME.

They're they're high-quality.

Probably even better than these selfie videos that I'm doing.

They're engaging and great, so if you want to know anything about the Arlington Heights community

what's the website?...

the AHNU dot com.

<off screen> Say it slower.

The AHNU.com.

<off screen> You guys bought that domain, right?

<off screen> That's yours forever. Yeah. All right, so you guys are updating Arlington Heights forever...

Yea, we have Instagram and Twitter and YouTube...

<off screen> So search Arlington Heights news update on all those?

Or A H N U

Cool yeah, all right anyways, Arlington Heights

They they got you covered, all right.

They're gonna make sure that everything that you need to know about Arlington Heights

you get to know. So you guys can, I don't know, say goodbye.

Yeah, see ya all right. Bye

For more infomation >> District 25 catches up with the Arlington Heights News Update students - Duration: 3:56.

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( US News ) Canadian Police Say Attack On Child Wearing Hijab Did Not Happen - Duration: 3:55.

Canadian Police Say Attack On Child Wearing Hijab Did Not Happen

TORONTO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - An alleged attack on an 11-year-old girl wearing a hijab as she walked to school did not happen, Toronto Police said on Monday.

Police had been investigating the incident as a hate crime after the girl said that a man wielding a pair of scissors cut her hijab as she walked to school with her brother on Friday morning.

By Monday police concluded that no crime had occurred.

"We put together a lot of evidence, we considered the evidence and came to the conclusion that what was described did not happen," Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash told Reuters, adding that the investigation is over.

The girl's family could not immediately be reached for comment.

Staff at the girl's school made the call to police on Friday, "as they would in any other case," Toronto District School Board spokesman Ryan Bird wrote in an email.

"We are very thankful that this assault did not happen." Monday's revelation comes amid heightened pressure on Canadian governments to combat anti-Muslim sentiment as the first anniversary of a fatal mosque shooting approaches.

Researchers have documented an increase in far-right extremist activity in Canada, much of it targeting Muslims.

A survey conducted last year by Ontario's Human Rights Commission found that more people reported harboring "very negative" feelings about Muslims than about any other group.

"All of us are deeply worried about the fallout of all of this," writer and human rights advocate Amira Elghawaby said, adding that the girl's false claim could make people less likely to come forward if they're the target of hate crimes, or less likely to be believed when they do.

"The biggest concern is that this would cause those who already hold hateful views of Muslims to use it as an 'aha' moment," she said.

On Jan.

29 last year six people were shot to death at a Quebec City mosque.

A French-Canadian university student has been charged with murder in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack." The National Council of Canadian Muslims has called on Canadian governments to declare the day of the mosque shooting a day of remembrance and action on Islamophobia.

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard on Monday said he opposed such a designation.

Trudeau has not said whether he would support it.

(Reporting by Anna Mehler Paperny; Editing by Leslie Adler)    .

For more infomation >> ( US News ) Canadian Police Say Attack On Child Wearing Hijab Did Not Happen - Duration: 3:55.

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TRON TRX, LITECOIN LTC, COINBASE, LITEPAY! CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET CRASH + BITCOIN BTC NEWS 2018! - Duration: 16:05.

what is going on guys Patrick here bringing you a brand new video today we

got another killer video for you guys full of information we're talking

litecoin we're talking Tron and we're talking coinbase there's so much

information to get to so let's jump right into this video before we get

started though guys if you guys are new to the channel and you have not

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ado let's jump right into this video so first piece of news I want to show you

guys is the CBOE recommends that the SEC allows Bitcoin exchange traded funds

this is good news as a sign of you know people are tell so the CBOE global

market they wrote a letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission with

the SEC recommending they not interfere in the development of a Bitcoin exchange

traded fund because they are similar to other commodity based ETFs this is our

March 23rd today it's March 27 or ready a little while back now this is good

news to me because I guess the US is struggling to adopt cryptocurrency

there's a lot of you know type of situations with the US and some other

countries as well but not many when it comes to cryptocurrency and we're seeing

other countries you know have no problem adopting it and I think going forward

it's going to be interesting to see how cryptocurrency kind of can change the

dynamics of who's on top because if you don't adopt this technology in another

country does and you know they adopt it well and it does super well for them

they could you know up and be the up-and-coming country and you know

eventually take over compete for you know biggest country in terms of economy

and everything in it so definitely something to watch out countries that do

not adopt this technology in my opinion could be left behind and that's not

something anyone wants so I guess the CBOE global markets kind of roll

letter to them is kind of saying come on now it's time come Bella you you you

don't want to be left behind let's get this rolling so this is good news to me

hopefully so that continues to happen people kind of push towards adoption and

countries and things that are doing that I'm doing them well already kind of can

you know I think the more proof we have that it works the more people are gonna

start adopting and whatnot but definitely I did like this article and I

like the fact that they brought a letter to the u.s. to the sec recommending that

they not interfere I thought that was pretty funny so second piece of news I

want to talk about South Korea's largest multi-billion dollar conglomerate enter

the cryptocurrency market so here is NH n entertainment corporation better known

as NH n is a 1.2 billion dollar company founded in 2013 so it's not that old

worth 1.2 billion dollars I wish that's what I've been doing since 2013 I really

do but it operates under the name hand game communications from 1999 ori

operated under the name hand game communication meant an end to 2013 ok so

they've been around for a little long alongside Nexen NH n remains the largest

gaming conglomerate in south korea with a market valuation of 1.2 9 trillion

Korean Won so on March 21st the local cryptocurrency focused media outlets

reported that the NH n founded OKC coin formerly the world's of the biggest

crypto currency exchanges China prior to the country's crypto currency trading

ban in 2017 was to launch OKC Korea so you guys can check out OKC coin it s it

is actually pretty cool um I'd know very little bit about it I know more about

the masternodes side of it and I was looking at it actually to make a video

about master nodes and how those things are set up so maybe I'll still do that

let me know if you guys are interested in that down below and the third

probably the coolest piece of information that I saw and something you

guys told me about yesterday and honestly they tweeted this maybe 20

minutes after I click stop recording on my video yesterday no joke it was like

it was crazy the timing but their excites when so coinbase tweeted we're

excited to announce our intention to a theory of ERC 20 technical standards

for coinbase in the coming months we are not

announcing support of any specific assets today so main thing do not pump

the price of a coin based on this do not buy into a coin I guess you could buy

into speculating but there is no confer confirmation there's no guaranteed

nothing but coin base is gonna add support for ERC 20 tokens and you guys

know there's a lot of the RC 20 tokens out there and a lot of I cos are now our

year see token 20s are ERC 20 tokens as well it's you know I guess coinbase

adding this they're realizing that they're falling behind when it comes to

what everyone else is doing no Finance has so many all coins it's my by far is

my favorite exchange and they are now wanting to add fee up to crypto for alt

coins so I guess coin base is kind of trying to do the same thing they're

gonna try and bring in some other all coins that you can therefore buy with

Fiat so that would be very interesting to see how that works again if they do

do this then it would be a great move forward for them cuz we know a lot of

people have been struggling because coin base has not been making any moves they

seem like they've kind of they're kind of content with where they were at

nothing that's the case is kind of what it came off as to me but now hopefully

we see these guys do a lot more things now obviously people are gonna say it's

Tron because Iran is probably the most talked about ERC 20 token only me are

see 20 token for now though can change and so let's see a Dex RPG I guess

that's he wants X rpm we see that every month we see people think that yeah x RP

is gonna be what's at point base x RP pumps we've talked about that anyways

but again so this is cool this is good news more coins on coin base would be

great we know coinbase said that in 2018 they want to add a lot more crypto

currencies a lot more alt coins and this is a step in that direction they say in

the coming months so still nothing is you know it's not anything recent we

have no idea which ones it's just they're going to be

to support it that's all that's going on right now and they wanted to give us

that update now let's take a look at the overall markets let's jump right says

cuz we do have a little bit of we have quite a decent amount of news in the

last hour everything looks to be pretty good however in the day we still have a

lot of red tron however being up 8.34 percentage when i talk about that in

just a bit but first what i wanted to go over was litecoin actually like coins at

a hundred and forty three dollars like ones looking very very cheap at the

moment let's jump right let's take a look at their charts yeah so looking

very very cheap similarly to the whole markets they have you know we had that

this chart basically is what the market looks like in the last few months so

huge pump corrected huge a pump again after and a correction so but it is down

to one hundred forty three dollars the Loic did over here one hundred twenty

nine so it's getting very close to that point it definitely might be another

buying opportunity for those people who want it now guys i just want to throw

this in before we continue that this is what i use to track my portfolio

everyone asks me how I track profits and loss I got so many questions yesterday

about this as well how do you track profits and losses how do you track

trades and everything trust me I hate having to put it in manually and that's

what I used to think I have to do but I use the bit universe app they have you

both on Android and iOS they have a ton of cool features which I'm gonna go over

later later on in another video so stay tuned for that

but for now just know this is what I use it's a great app you can sync everything

to it so that everything you do on Finance it'll update automatically on

here and it'll track your profits and it'll track everything so that's what I

use to track my portfolio I used to use black folio I moved over to bit universe

hopefully that answers a lot of the questions you guys had but back to like

coin what's basically going on with like coin and here I want to show a few

tweets that came out and an announcement that came out as well about light pace

so out of the top 20 coins this was by Charlie Lee the official Charlie Lee

account litecoin actually has held itself as um out of the top 20 coins

like coins ranked second in terms of drop from each coins respective all-time

high like coins actually fairly well in this bearish market so

basically like one hasn't fallen as much as other cryptocurrencies falling out of

the top 20 litecoin has been one of the ones to fall the least compared to other

cryptocurrencies in the top 20 cuz we know a lot of them have fallen over 50

percent from their all-time high which is a great buying opportunity but you

know Charlie wanted to state again harmonious coin obviously as he should

that like coins not doing as bad as other coins now another thing I did have

to go over with you guys is the whole like pace situation that was going to

happen so Charlie Lee tweeted again like everyone else we got too excited about

something that was too good to be true and we optimistically overlooked many of

the warning signs he started to have hyped it and again he tweeted he was

commenting on the tweet over here which is the litecoin foundation tweet talking

about an announcement regarding light pay which if you click on you get this

so what happened was the light Cohen Foundation was contacted by Kenneth um

asari CEO of light pay informing us that he has ceased all operation preparing to

sell the company so prior to that the foundation had approached Kenneth

regarding less regarding his less than transparent nature basically was go your

ons they had an agreement you know they were going to get that going and now

this guy decided to first he asked for more money and when like coin said no

because they didn't know where the funds was going because he wasn't being

transparent he then he has told them that he is seizing all operations and he

is going to sell the company now this is very unfortunate for like coin there was

a lot of prose going on with them and this whole thing it was a vlog people

are very very excited for it but this is not the end of the world as we can see

this didn't actually affect the price too much like coin had a nice little run

before and this was when you know the whole life pan then people were talking

about the fork that was coming out which was again not an actual like coin fork

by litecoin this was by someone else so I don't know if any of you guys got

involved with that but still um you know like when it is down for the whole

markets down so this isn't I wouldn't really attribute that to the reason it's

down three point 79% it's just a shame to see that happen

now they are going to continue looking to find another way to get you know that

whole infrastructure going and hopefully it works out well with them and

hopefully they manage to get that sorted here pretty soon if they do and

everything goes well again it's another opportunity for litecoin to make some

very very big moves and to you know make some very very big price moves hopefully

but again I'm gonna keep you guys updated with that for now all the only

information we have is that did not work now Tron is well actually out of all

coins in the red Tron is actually in the green today and in the week a lot of

coins are in the red as well but Tron is actually in the green as well in the

week just go into the it's actually go into the one-month let's take a look at

the one month one month look like so Tron had an all-time low here obviously

not an all-time low but it had a low point here at 2.4 cents so that's

basically half of where we are right now a little bit more than half but still

ever since then we've seen some nice price action that's because of

everything that's coming on it's gonna be happening in the next coming days

actually so day slash weeks I guess last month's 2 so we have you know there's

Exodus there's the test launch there's some there's the test net launch there's

a main net launch there's the beta launch the coin burn

started out too slow coin burn so it's not going to affect the price

immediately want to make sure that's clear I've mentioned that several times

in previous videos but I've seen a lot of you guys still ask me I don't want

you to be misinformed so it's gonna be a slow coin Brent's not going to affect

the price immediately at all but everything else everything else that's

coming a lot of people are preparing for that and they're buying their bags and I

know a lot of you guys have been holding this tron for a long long time and I

know some of you guys pick some up over here when I was commenting about how low

it wasn't we were getting close to at the time where I thought it was gonna

start picking up in price so for those of you guys who have picked them up over

here and on any of these prices actually congratulations you guys are up with

profit and hopefully it continues to do well for you now keep in mind guys

usually when it comes up to announcements like this

I personally sell usually the day before the things actually happen simply

because there's you correction after and I'm not saying

that's the case with Tron it really depends on a lot of factors but

personally that's just how I play it as a safe investment I sell if I'm thinking

short-term if you're thinking long-term again I wouldn't worry about if it

corrects it'll correct and then if it does well and goes back up after it'll

go back up after but you have to be confident your investment to see it go

down again because in the cryptocurrency market it's impossible to know if things

are gonna go up or things are going to go down and for how long in any market

it's honestly impossible to predict but Bitcoin dominance almost at 45 percent

would be another high and the market cap however at three hundred three hundred 1

billion dollars so again a little low but if we look at the technical analysis

which we have right here that we've been doing for some time we actually see that

I told you guys it would have to end down here yesterday and then today we'd

have to have another red day for me to claim that we have broken support and we

are going down now that wasn't the case we actually ended the day over here

start of the day here and we're still holding strong at the eight thousand

dollar support line currently prices 8040 so it's exactly at the support line

I drew basically a little bit more than that but yeah so things are looking

solid still I'm not concerned now can price drop of course price can we're

talking about we're all expecting big a big run in May which is some that I

talked about yesterday's video so if you guys haven't gone check that out make

sure you go check that out but we're expecting big money to flow in in May

and over the summer until then honestly it's gonna be a game

of ups and downs it's all about preparing your portfolio honestly I'm

preparing my portfolio for the next god like two years three years four years I

want that type of portfolio I want to buy coins now that I think are going to

last very very very very very very very few of severa of a very very small

percent of my portfolio is actually short term trading and short term buys

and sells to try and you know only if news comes out like you know the whole

nano thing the whole nem thing those types of things I'll buy and I'll make

some easy to 3x profits but for the most part I'm just buying the coins that I

think are here to stay and the coins that I think are going to

be big factors in the future so that's how I'm building my portfolio but I know

everyone does it differently so you guys don't have to do it my way at all

you guys can do it whatever way you want but guys hopefully you guys enjoyed this

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( US News ) Stricken Tanker Leaks 8-Mile Long Oil Slick In East China Sea - Duration: 8:01.

Stricken Tanker Leaks 8-Mile Long Oil Slick In East China Sea

TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - A burning Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea on Sunday in the worst oil ship disaster in decades has produced a large oil slick, Chinese media and Japanese authorities said on Monday, as worries grew over damage to the marine ecosystem.

Oil was spread over an area 13 km (8.1 miles) long and 11 km (6.9 miles) wide, the Japan Coast Guard said in a statement, although the slick was shrinking as patrol boats battled to contain the spill.

The Coast Guard said the fire on the sea surface was put out at around 0200 GMT, although according to other authorities and Chinese state TV CCTV black smoke continued to billow from the site of the sinking for several more hours.

A clean-up effort has begun and rescue teams have called a halt to the large-scale search for survivors, reducing it to "normal" operations, CCTV said.

The blazing vessel, which was carrying 136,000 tonnes - almost one million barrels - of condensate, an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil, sank on Sunday after several explosions weakened the hull.

The tanker Sanchi had been adrift and ablaze after crashing into the freighter CF Crystal on Jan.

Strong winds had pushed it away from the Chinese coast, where the incident happened, and into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

The Shanghai Maritime Bureau, under China's Ministry of Transport, said shortly before 0800 GMT on Monday that there was no more heavy smoke at the scene.

  CREW PRESUMED DEAD The sinking marks the biggest tanker spill since 1991, when 260,000 tonnes of oil leaked off the Angolan coast.

Japanese authorities lost track of the tanker as of 0840 GMT on Sunday, a spokesman for Japan's Coast Guard said.

The ship's last confirmed location was about 315 km (195 miles) west of Sokkozaki on the island of Amami Oshima, one of the northern islands in the Ryukyu island chain that includes Okinawa.

Japan sent two patrol boats and an airplane to the area to search for missing crew members and assess the latest situation, the Coast Guard spokesman said.

The Shanghai Maritime Bureau said these, along with a South Korean patrol boat, were among the vessels carrying out emergency response work on Monday.

A Chinese salvage team on Saturday recovered two bodies from the tanker, China's state news agency Xinhua reported.

Another body, presumed to be one of the Sanchi's sailors, was found on Jan.

8 and taken to Shanghai for identification.

The salvage team recovered the Sanchi's voyage data recorder, or "black box" from the bridge of the tanker, Xinhua also said on Saturday.

But the team was forced to leave the ship after just half an hour because the wind shifted and "thick toxic smoke" had complicated the operation.

"Finding the black box will be helpful for all parties in correctly determining the reasons for the accident," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Monday.

Lu said rescue and clean-up efforts had been a focus for China from the beginning, but that Beijing welcomed "other relevant parties" to participate in both the search and rescue and treatment work.

Iranian officials said on Sunday the remaining 29 crew members and passengers of the tanker were presumed dead.

The crew consisted of 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis.

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/ Reuters SINKING VS BURNING Experts worry the ship's sinking is potentially more damaging to the marine ecosystem than letting the condensate oil burn off.

The sinking will likely expel the remaining condensate and the tanker's bunker fuel, or the heavy fuel oil that powers a ship's engines, contaminating the surrounding waters.

Bunker fuel is the dirtiest kind of oil, extremely toxic when spilled, though less explosive.

Condensate is poisonous to marine organisms.

A harmful plume of condensate would likely be in the water, out of sight of observers on the surface, said Rick Steiner, a U.S.

marine scientist based in Anchorage, Alaska, who has experience of oil spills.

"As with all major oil spills, time is of the essence.

This is particularly so with condensate spills, as the substance is so toxic and volatile," Steiner said in an emailed statement.

The East China Sea is known for its rich, although already polluted, marine ecosystem, with whales, porpoises, seabirds and fish, he said.

Fuel oil is relatively easy to contain because volumes are lower and its viscosity means it's easier to extract from water, but even small volumes can harm marine life.

A Suezmax tanker can hold a maximum of 5,000 tonnes of bunker fuel.

The Sanchi may have been carrying about 1,000 tonnes by the time it hit the grain freighter CF Crystal, according to bunker fuel traders' estimates.

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( US News ) A Wallaby Hopped Across Sydney Harbour Bridge Through Traffic - Duration: 2:39.

A Wallaby Hopped Across Sydney Harbour Bridge Through Traffic

NSW Police A wayward wallaby was captured by police early on Tuesday after bounding across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Two Australian icons came together early Tuesday in Sydney, as a wallaby hopped across the Harbour Bridge through dawn traffic.

New South Wales police responded to reports of the marsupial crossing the bridge around 5 a.m., first spotting it on the northern end of the span before it crossed to the opposite side of the road and bounded toward the city.

The male swamp wallaby got to the other end of the bridge and well into the city before it was apprehended by bemused officers.

Police posted a video of the episode on Facebook, showing officers cruising next to the wallaby as it bounded across the bridge.

At one point, the wallaby stopped and an officer warily approached, before it hopped off again.

The video also shows a motorist slowly passing the wallaby in the overtaking lane.    "Officers took the startled macropod into police custody near the Conservatorium of Music, with the Police Mounted Unit arriving on scene soon after to take it to the zoo for veterinary assessment," police said in a tongue-in-cheek statement, adding that it "initially evaded officers." Police said the wallaby likely came from a golf course in the suburb of Cammeray, in the north of Sydney.

If so, that would be nearly a six kilometre (3.5 mile) hop before it was captured.

News program Sunrise captured footage of the wallaby being captured by police.

NSW Police have apprehended a wayward wallaby after it was filmed hopping across the Sydney Harbour Bridge! #Straya.

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( US News ) An 'African Gang Crisis' In Melbourne Is Roiling Australian Politics - Duration: 11:36.

An 'African Gang Crisis' In Melbourne Is Roiling Australian Politics

Jason Reed / Reuters Government officials have said gang crime in Melbourne is keeping people from going out.

But critics have pushed back, as city life appears to be bustling along as usual.

Many local leaders see racism behind the alarmism.

Recent reports of a wave of violence at the hands of young Africans in Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, have sparked a national debate and a fierce political fight about how to deal with the issue, but also whether there is a problem at all.

Over the holiday break, Australia's conservative media outlets reported extensively on a wave of violent crimes ― the robbery of a group of tourists, damage inside a McDonald's restaurant, a wild party that trashed a rented home and terrorized neighbors, and an assault on a police officer at a shopping center.

They blamed the incidents on "African gangs." A large gang of youths has bashed and robbed beachgoers and fought with each other in shocking scenes at Melbournes St Kilda Beach.

Police say the large gang, described as African in appearance, are wanted over a series of robberies and assaults at the beach.

#StKilda #7News pic.twitter.com/xH0YHvUUHM — 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) December 14, 2017 An "African gang" problem has long been a hot-button issue in the state of Victoria, with conservative media, commentators and politicians claiming the situation is widespread, while police and state government officials downplay concerns.

Sudanese and Somali refugees have recently settled in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia's second most populated city.

And for several years, Melbourne media have reported on the so-called Apex gang, a group of young African men allegedly linked to a string of violent crime including carjackings, home invasions, brazen robberies and riots across Melbourne.

The gang issue went relatively quiet for several months, with police claiming the gangs were a "non-entity" after leaders and key members were arrested and jailed.

But the recent reports were quickly picked up across the country, sparking a fierce spat between national and state political leaders.

Following the events, the state of Victoria's left-leaning Labor government resisted calls to label the incidents as gang-related.

State police said the young people involved in these crimes did not fit the standard profile of criminal gang members, lacking organization and sophistication.

Australia's conservative government, however, disagreed.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton have criticized the Victorian government and even claimed the  "political correctness" of the state's premier, Daniel Andrews, was to blame for the crime wave.

The federal government criticisms come despite the most recent Victorian crime statistics showing a reduction in property damage, burglary and theft.

Robbery figures rose by 12 percent in the last 24 months, but all other major crime categories remained stable, according to the state's Crime Statistics Agency.

Dutton said in a radio interview on Jan.

3 that "of course it's African gang violence," and claimed people in Melbourne are "scared to go out to restaurants in the nighttime." Many residents refuted the claims ― including State Treasurer Tim Pallas, whose west Melbourne electorate is one of the areas where incidents are taking place.

The Victorian government has now established a task force with members of the African community to work alongside police to not only tackle youth crime, but also deal with incidents of racism or vilification directed at people of African descent.

"We know that the vast majority of African-Australians in Victoria are decent, law-abiding people," Victoria's police commissioner, Graham Ashton, said in a statement.

"They are suffering as a result of the actions of a small cohort of young offenders.

The African-Australian Community can, and want to, play a role in providing solutions." Hey @PeterDutton_MP - quick note from Victoria.

Our cafes and restaurants are going great.

Thought you should know #springst pic.twitter.com/gcWMyf4Wo4 — Tim Pallas (@timpallas) January 11, 2018 Ashton said it was "complete and utter garbage" to say Melbourne was not a safe place.

"Victoria is one of the safest places in the world to live," the Victoria police commissioner said at a press conference last week. "I don't think anyone is sitting at home cowering with the sheets over their heads." "If you put it into context, you've got a few hundred offenders engaged in offending in a city of 4 ½ million people," he added. "We have some young people that are engaging in.

gang-related behaviors, we're not shying away from that, but I think it's important we keep it in perspective." The Victorian state government, arguably the most progressive in the nation, and the federal government have long been at loggerheads over social issues including refugees, domestic violence and energy policy.

The federal government sees the state and Premier Andrews as soft on crime and immigration.

Andrews has publicly castigated the federal government's harsh policies on refugees and offshore detention.

2018 is an election year in Victoria, and some commentators see the federal intervention into the gangs issue ― a state government responsibility ― as a ploy to boost the chances of the conservative opposition winning office from the left-leaning incumbents.

While Melbourne residents met Home Minister Dutton's hyperbolic remark with ridicule, the government's rhetoric had real-life repercussions.

South Sudanese and Somali community leaders warned that the federal government's stance on the issue further perpetuated stereotyping of the community.

South Sudanese community leader Kot Monoah accused the federal government of "scaremongering" on the issue, claiming not enough was being done to help educate and integrate African migrants and families.

"The current youth crisis has been in the making for the last 14 years," he said in a TV interview last week.

On Wednesday, David Anei, a Brisbane resident of Somali decent, posted a video of an angry, verbally abusive and physically imposing man he claimed had followed him and his family home.

Anei put the blame squarely on Dutton's and Turnbull's shoulders.

"[They bear] full responsibility for this racial attack on my family because they chose to be in the office to serve certain group of Australian communities NOT Australia as a whole country," he wrote on Facebook.

On Thursday, the government's Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission criticized the federal allegations and called on Victorians to "take a stand against racism and discrimination in the community." "Misleading claims of an African gang crisis in Victoria ― refuted by the Chief Commissioner of Police ― have already spurred race-based hate and threats towards African Victorians," the EOHRC said.

The issue of "African gangs" has been a favorite of Australia's conservative tabloid newspapers and TV stations for years. Reports peaked in 2016, when a group of young men of African descent dubbed the Apex gang sparked a round of street fighting during a Melbourne community festival.

The group was later accused of being behind a series of carjackings, home invasions and robberies in Melbourne.

While police say the gang had about 130 members at its peak, the deputy commissioner of Victoria Police said the group had become a "non-entity" by April 2017.

Police say this remains the case today, but graffiti tags of the words Apex and MTS ― standing for Menace To Society, another group allegedly linked to the series of crimes ― were found at the scene of some of the recent incidents.