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Campfire blamed and three men charged over 1,700 ACRE wildfire still burning out of control north of Los Angeles causing thousands to be evacuated

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Authorities say up to 2,000 people have been evacuated due to a wildfire that burned two homes and threatened neighborhoods in dangerously dry foothills of Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains wildfire.

Police say the fire was started by three people throwing paper in a campfire. They were booked on charges of recklessly starting a fire.The suspects were identified as Clifford Eugene Henry, 22, of Glendora; Jonathan Carl Jarrell, 23, of Irwindale; and Steven Robert Aguirre, 21, a Los Angeles transient.

At least two-and-a-half square miles of dry brush were charred in the wilderness area about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department deployed seven engines and three helicopters to the fire, which was reported around 5:50 a.m. (PST) and was growing rapidly.

 

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The stench of scandal: Activist unloads tonnes of horse manure in front of France’s parliament building in protest at Hollande

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For Francois Hollande, it would be fair to say the proverbial has hit the fan this week.

As if allegations the French president had a secret affair with an actress were not enough, several tonnes of horse manure have been dumped at the steps of his nation’s parliament.

Gendarmes apprehended a protestor before he could finish unloading a white articulated lorry full of dung outside Paris’s National Assembly today, witnesses said.

On the side of the truck was daubed a slogan: ‘Out with Hollande and the entire political class. Long live the SixthRepublic.’

The present-day FifthRepublic was founded in 1958 with Charles de Gaulle its first president after France lost much of its colonial power after the Second World War.

The pungent demonstration happened today outside the Bourbon Palace, a 16th Century monument next to the river Seine in central Paris which houses France’s lower house of parliament, the equivalent of the House of Commons.

Witnesses said the man was apprehended by police, who have since begun a mass clean-up.

The French magazine Closer published a seven-page report last Friday on Mr Hollande’s alleged affair with the actress Julie Gayet.

 

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West Criticizes Kiev for Anti-Protest Laws

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Ukrainian leaders are under fire from the West for passing sweeping anti-protest laws amid anti-government demonstrations that have rocked Kiev for nearly two months.

Despite noisy protests from the opposition, the Ukrainian parliament, dominated by President Viktor Yanukovych’s loyalists, passed a flurry of legislation Thursday that significantly curbs the rights to protest, free speech and the activity of non-governmental organizations.

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Friday she is “deeply concerned” by the new laws and called on Yanukovych to revise them. The bills have yet to be signed by the president. The U.S. State Department called the laws “undemocratic” and said they contradict Ukraine’s aspiration to a European future.

 

China starts televising the sunset on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog

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The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city’s natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises.

The futuristic screens installed in the Chinese capital usually advertize tourist destinations, but as the season’s first wave of extremely dangerous smog hit – residents donned air masks and left their homes to watch the only place where the sun would hail over the horizon that morning.

Commuters across Beijing found themselves cloaked in a thick, gray haze on Thursday as air pollution monitors issued a severe air warning and ordered the elderly and school children to stay indoors until the quality improved.

But the readings early Thursday for particles of PM2.5 pollution marked the first ones of the season above 500 micrograms per cubic meter.

Beijing authorities said the haze on Thursday had reduced the visibility to several hundred meters (yards) and that the severe pollution was likely to continue through Friday.

A level above 300 is considered hazardous, while the World Health Organization recommends a daily level of no more than 20.

 

Meet the young mum-to-be who is addicted to eating SOILED NAPPIES

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Pregnant Keyshia loves nothing more than chewing on a urine soaked diaper and claims they taste like sour sweets

A mum-to-be is addicted to eating soiled nappies – and says the dirtier they are the better.

The pregnant woman, known only as Keyshia, has strange cravings for pee soaked diapers – and can’t stop herself sniffing and chewing on them.

She relies on friends and even strangers to supply her stash of dirty nappies – which she claims taste like sour sweets.

The woman is looking forward to having her first child so she will have a constant supply of nappies.

Keyshia, 22, said: “I love it, it just tastes amazing.

“It has to have pee in it, the heavier ones that have more pee smell better.

“You know when you’re walking into a room and you smell a strong smell like food and you kind of taste it? That’s what it’s like.”

Keyshia, of Queens, New York, is featured in My Strange Addiction on satellite channel TLC.