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The world’s oldest man has died at his home, a hot springs inn on Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, at the age of 113. Masazo Nonaka, who enjoyed watching sumo wrestling and eating sweets, died at home

Man convicted of notorious 2014 Koh Tao British Backpacker murders speaks out from death row Zaw Lin, one of the two migrant workers convicted of the murders of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the island of Koh Tao in 2014, has spoken out from behind the bars of Death Row in Bangkok’s notorious Bangkwang prison, A.K.A the Bangkok Hilton. After initially confessing to the crime both Zaw Lin and Co-convict Wai Phyo strenuously denied having anything to do with the deaths of the young British backpackers and told the court they were tortured into confession. The men only recanted their confession after receiving support from the Myanmar embassy days after their arrests. The men are now spending their fourth year behind bars after being convicted of the murders and sentenced to death. They lost their first appeal that was read at the same court in which were convicted. The case has caused much controversy and international outcry, including protests on the Thai Burmese border, due to lack of evidence, motive and a highly dubious police investigation into the deaths of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller. The fact that a local mafia figure and his nephew were implicated until the police chief in charge of the investigation was taken off the case has done nothing to calm the fears of those who believe there is a massive cover up going on! The plights of the two hapless migrant workers caught the attention of the international community who followed the case closely on social media sites, hundreds of thousands backing the men and heavily criticising the investigation and subsequent conviction. The organisation Anonymous made their concerns clear on a video you can watch by clicking here. or view at the bottom of this article In a world exclusive Zaw Lin has now told his version of events on the night of the murders including accusations of torture by local police and a set up to use him and Wai Phyo as scapegoats for the murders. He said – Mg Mg, Wai Phyo and I, we are not old friends. We are boys in Arakan State of Myanmar but we are not the same village and we did not know each other in Myanmar. I just knew them at Koh Tao of Thailand, because Mg Mg and Wai Phyo came and work my restaurant for one month and left and then Mg Mg got a job at A.C 2 Restaurant and Wai Phyo got a job at Safety Stop restaurant. We all were waiters at restaurants. I, Zaw Lin, worked at Brother Restaurant and normally I got to work at 5.50am, I get to my working place at 6.am. I work from 6am till 12pm and went back home and rest for 4 hours and after resting for 4 hours I went back to my working place again at 4.00pm and work till 10pm. About my friend Wai Phyo. He worked at Safety Stop Restaurant. He work 9 hours per day which is from 16.00pm to 10.00p. He sleep with one of his friends named Mg MG at the night, at the afternoon he stay with one of his friends named Awng Zaw Lin, Awng Zaw Lin room is nearby his restaurant, it is about 10 mins walk from his room to the restaurant where he worked. Wai Phyo stayed with his friend because his boss did not give him a room to stay. My friend, named Mg Mg, he worked at A.C.2 restaurant. He worked from 8am till 16.00 pm he rest from 16.00 pm to 5pm and then he went to work again from 5pm till 11pm. He lived very close to his work place, about 2 minutes’ walk from his place to the restaurant where he worked. The nightmare beginning on the 15th of September 1014. I am not mistaking about the actual date. Me with 2 of my friends, Wai Phyo and Mg Mg went to the beach to have fun. Just to play guitar and have some beer, and I am wearing my working uniform, red colour and black jeans. Wai Phyo was wearing black long staff shirt and black jeans and Mg Mg was wearing blue uniform shirt and short black jeans. First before we went to the beach me and (Wai Phyo) wait for Mg Mg at his working place A.C.2 restaurant close work. He close work at 11.oopm and we went to 7-11 together to buy some beer and we brought 3 big Chang beer and I packet of cigarettes and drove down to the beach on my motorbike. We get to the beach about 11.20 pm or so and stay under a tree, playing, singing and drinking beer. We were just having fun. At that time everywhere was dark that we cannot be able to see someone who is about 30 meters away and all the restaurant at the beach has already closed. By that time only A.C bar is open because it opens all night. Wai Phyo and Mg Mg change clothes because Mg Mg said that he was feeling cold and when we finished drinking the three bottle of beer that we brought from 7-11 Mg Mg left but I do not know where he goes. Then me and Wai Phyo drove to 7-11 with my motorbike to buy some beer and we brought 2 big bottles of Chang and went back to the beach where we were bfore at the beach under the tree. After about 10 mins time Mg Mg came back with one bottle of red wine and gave it to us, me and Wai Phyo and I asked him if he want to drink with us. He said not and asked me to borrow my motorbike because he wants to go and see his girlfriend. I gave him the key of my motorbike and he left about 12.20am. Now is only me and Wai Phyo left under the tree playing music and drinking and I open the red wine for us to drink and we find out that the taste is not good, I threw it into the sea and Wai Phyo and I stayed under the tree till nearly 26.00 am and then it started raining so we decided to go back home and Wai Phyo said that he wants to go swim before going home and we walked to the A.C 2 restaurant because it is very close to Mg Mg room and A.C 2 restaurant is before the A.C bar. At A.C bar there are a lot of people some are dancing, some are swimming and some are playing fire dancing. I think about 300 people and we kept our belonging at the A.C.2 restaurant and went to swim in front of the A.C 2 restaurant. Which we swim about 10 minutes more and came back to where we kept out belongings at A.C.2 restaurant and we could not find our belongings anymore and we search around the restaurant and could not find ‘my’ them. I mean we could not find my guitar, our shoes, and clothes. Then at about 26.20am and Mg Mg is not yet back, and there is no way I can go back home without my motorbike so I decided to sleep with Wai Phyo at Mg Mg room, because from A.C.2 to their bungalow was there stand is about 2 minutes walk, and when we got to the room about 5 minutes time Wai Phyo said that he wanted to go back to A.C.2 restaurant and look for the guitar and our clothes and shoes, and I said to him if you want to go you can go alone because I want to stip now and then he left and I slept off and woke up in the morning around 6am and saw Wai Phyo sleeping on the bed but Mg Mg was not there so I looked around the room. I saw my motorbike key on the table, so I thought Mg Mg might have left for work and I woke Wai Phyo and said to him lets go to my place where I stay, and I sent him to one of his friends named Aung Zaw Lin who is from his village and I drove to my place where I stay and that is all about that night. On the 2nd of October 2014 police burst into my room at 4am and I am sleeping at that time they arrested me and took me by car to a bungalow which I know will that place is not police station and they asked me if I kill 2 people that died on the beach on the 15th of September 2014. I said not but on the 15th of September 2014 I was with 2 of my friends, went to the beach to play guitar and have some beer and at the time we were there I did not see anything happen, I mean nothing happen at the beach when we are there. Sorry there is one man with them, he is a foreigner, first of all he said to me he will be my translator and when he speaks with me I find out that he is not from Myanmar because his Burmese speaking is not really correct. Really is a man looking I think like is from Bangladesh. Maybe he stayed in Myanmar before and when I said that I don’t know anything about the killing they the translator and the police they will start beating and kicking me on my face and chest and they brought a plastic bag and use it to cover my face so I cannot breath. About five of them in the room and each time I said that I don’t know anything about the murder they tortured me more and they said to me if I did not accept or sign the document they will shoot me, and no one will know what happened to me because nobody saw them when they pick me up at my house and no one know who they are. Then when they are saying these words to me one of them put a gun on my head and they said if I do not accept them they will kill me here and if I accept I will only spend 2 to 5 years in prison. They tortured me and threatening me for 2 days in that room, no food, no water to drink for days and nights, and they tortured me till the torture is too much for me that I cant bare it anymore and I don’t know what to do because I don’t want them to kill me there. I decided to sign for them and I sign the document for them, and they are very happy and they stop beating me and they took DNA from my mouth with one of cotton. In the morning they brought Wai Phyo to the same room where I am and we talk to each other and he told me what they did to him, the same thing they did to me they did to him also and then they now told us how we will act when the media come in. I mean they teach and show us what we do on the scam because they said to us that they are taking us to where the incident happened and the media are waiting for us there if we get there we should act as they have instructed us and they also instructed us not to speak in front of the media. If we disobey their order they will kill us after we finish with the media. They took us to the beach where the incident happened about 6,30am – 12.00pm so all those act people saw on news is fake its all their plan. After all thse with meida they took us to police station. We slept at police station one night and then next day they took us to Koh Samui prison. After my embassy came to visit us and we explain all this to embassy and the day embassy came to visit us at Koh Samui prison, Wai Phyo explain to embassy how must Mg Mg on the way between A.C.2 restaurant when we went back to A.C restaurant that early morning about 26.20 am and how found mobile phone at A.C.2 restaurant so after embassy left I ask Wai Phyo why he never told me anything about mobile phone when we were driving to my place where I stay to show it police whose phone this is and give back to its owner and I asked him again if he did steal it from someone and he said not. Really he found it beside the restaurant, and why he never told me that he met with Mg Mg on the way between A.C.2 resort about when he went back there and he said to me that he forget to tell me and now he explain everything to me in prison. And I do not understand why Mg Mg was not blamed by the police, only me and Wai Phyo were blamed by the police and were put in prison but I am happy for him to get set free by the police. That is all I remember. I hope you find out something to help me. Please extend spread this story all over the world by using your Facebook account and that they may find out the fact who read the story. Since the gruesome murders many other young British backpackers have lost their lives on the island in mysterious circumstances. The families of whom are also appalled by the police investigations. So much so one mother, Pat Harrington, whose son Ben died on the island, will be presenting a petition of 15,000 to Downing Street next month demanding the UK Government look in to British deaths in Thailand.

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The father of a Saudi teenager who fled from her “abusive” family bound for Australia has denied claims he physically and psychologically abused his daughter. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, had planned to enter Australia on a tourist visa and seek asylum before she was detained by Thai authorities on Sunday. The young woman, who said she feared being killed by her family if she were sent home to Saudi Arabia, has been granted UN refugee status. Australia is now considering granting asylum to the runaway teenager. However Ms Alqunun’s father, a Saudi government official who has 10 children, has told Thai police that his daughter fled while on a family holiday to Kuwait simply because she “felt neglected”, Nine News reports. The man, who has not been identified, arrived in Bangkok with one of his sons on Tuesday evening with the intention of speaking with his daughter. “The father and brother want to go and talk to Rahaf but the UN will need to approve such talk,” Surachte Hakpan, Thailand’s immigration chief, said. Overnight, Ms Alqunun shared a smiling photo on Twitter saying she was “happy” after the United Nations’ High Commission for Refugees decided she was a genuine refugee. View image on Twitter In a statement on Wednesday, the Australian government confirmed the UNHCR had referred the 18-year-old for refugee resettlement. “The Department of Home Affairs will consider this referral in the usual way, as it does with all UNHCR referrals,” a spokesperson said. “The government will be making no further comment on this matter. Ms Alqunun will be subject to Australian security and character checks as the government examines her suitability for refugee settlement. Before the referral, Australia signalled it would seriously consider allowing Ms Alqunun to settle in Australia after urging the UNHCR to process her case quickly. The young woman is seeking asylum after being detained in Bangkok airport trying to board a flight to Australia.Source:Supplied Ms Alqunun fled from her family and expressed fears for her own life. Picture: Twitter / @Sophie McNeillSource:Twitter Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said there would be no “special treatment” in Ms Alqunun’s case. “Nobody wants to see a young girl in distress and she has obviously now found a safe haven in Thailand,” Mr Dutton told reporters in Brisbane today. The teenager made a desperate plea for asylum after expressing fears her family would kill her if she were sent home. Health Minister Greg Hunt said Australia would consider giving Ms Alqunun a humanitarian visa if the UNHCR process found her to be a refugee. “Pending the outcome of that, if she is found to be a refugee, then we will give very, very, very serious consideration to a humanitarian visa,” he told the ABC. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wrote to Prime Minister Scott Morrison giving his support for the woman’s claim if she was found to be a refugee. “Should Ms Mohammed Alqunun be found to have valid protection claims and entitled to asylum, Labor would be supportive of any government moves to offer her humanitarian settlement,” Mr Shorten wrote. After being detained, the teenager renounced Islam and appealed for help from Australia, Canada, the United States, Britain and other European nations. Saudi Arabia has strict social rules, including a requirement women have permission from a male “guardian” to travel. The teenager’s case has again highlighted the cause of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. Human rights activists say many similar cases of female Saudi runaways will have gone unreported. https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/united-nations-referred-saudi-teenagers-refugee-case-to-australia-says-government/news-story/96639b9b97e1ea716b364e852c69ac84

Full account here. Pretty amazing effort https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/out-of-the-dark/10000580

Gary Numan 'utterly devastated' as tour bus kills elderly pedestrian in Ohio He should have stuck with Cars ..... 😊 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/25/gary-numan-utterly-devastated-as-tour-bus-kills-elderly-pedestrian-in-ohio

One-legged Australian performer Roya Hosini denied entry to Eiffel Tower, Paris catacombs A one-legged Australian woman, who was denied entry to two tourist attractions in France due to safety concerns, is angry after being told that granting her entry to one of the landmarks would be like "letting a blind person fly a plane". Roya Hosini, a performer from Melbourne, was born with one leg and has not used her prosthetic leg in years because she says it slows her down and hurts after just a few hours. Ms Hosini travels the world working as a performer and is living in Brussels where she is taking part in theatre production FRONTX, using her crutches to send her spinning and spiralling into the air. And while she has no problem rollerblading the streets of Paris on just one leg, getting into the city of love's tourist attractions has not been as easy. Last year she was barred by guards from heading to the top level of the Eiffel Tower, despite buying tickets at the bottom with her crutches on full display. "They said it was narrow and not safe and in case of an emergency … [I might be] blocking the traffic because I'd be going too slow," Ms Hosini said. She said having to descend the tower in full view of everyone was humiliating and made her feel "like s***". This month, Ms Hosini was barred entry into the city's catacombs, again over safety concerns. "They're just so fixed on the rules and it's so ridiculous because it's not like humans come in [one] exact shape, size [and] ability," Ms Hosini said. The catacombs are an underground chamber of tunnels decorated with the skulls and bones of French citizens. The distance covered at the tourist site is 1.5kms with 130 steps down and 83 steps back up to street level. "You can't just give one rule for people, especially people with disabilities," she said. "Every case is unique, even every case that has one leg or every case that's in a wheelchair. Every case is separate, you cannot just generalise that rule. "That's what made me furious." She said she had to watch on while larger people, older people, younger people and children were all allowed entry. Ms Hosini tried to argue her point with one of the guards, only to be told that granting her admittance would be like "letting a blind person fly a plane". She said she spoke with a manager on the phone but that he hung up on her. She said the guard refused to give his or his manager's name. Ms Hosini said while she understood there were safety concerns in the event of an emergency, she wanted tourist officials to be able to exercise greater discretionary powers when it came to granting entry to people with disabilities. Catacombs says guard's behaviour 'deplorable' A spokesperson for the catacombs said the matter was only raised with them when they were contacted by the ABC. "This is an unfortunate event that we deplore," they said. "We do not tolerate this kind of behaviour; on the contrary, we try to welcome everybody in our sites. "In case of a conflict with a visitor, the policy stands that the guard who has to enforce rules and procedures has to refer to his direct manager or to the site manager, which in this case didn't seem to have been done. "Our official will take any measure necessary to start a disciplinary action." The spokesperson said the physical aspect of the visit didn't allow disabled visitors. That included people with heart or respiratory problems, those of an anxious disposition, young children, and persons with reduced mobility. The catacombs spokesperson said those details were conveyed on entrance boards, as well as on the website and brochures. The catacombs spokesperson urged Ms Hosini to contact them so they could apologise to her directly. The Eiffel Tower has not responded to a request for comment. Varying levels of accessibility overseas A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said there was information on its Smartraveller website to assist Australians with disabilities to prepare for overseas travel. DFAT said it did so, recognising that accessibility provisions and regulations varied throughout the world. Lonely Planet's accessible travel manager Martin Leng said while extra planning for people with disabilities was essential, tourism staff also needed to play their part. "Disability awareness training among staff at tourist hotspots goes an awful long way in making the lives of people with a disability easier," he said. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-23/catacomb-guard-denies-entry-to-one-legged-australian/10291356

He would fit right in with the rascals

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He is in Business Class.....he can smoke if he wants to :shakehead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki_1eVEybuA

Reminds me of the story a few years back https://moti.news/video/video-woman-beheaded-in-broad-daylight-in-saudi-arabia I guarantee the rape of the young old was carried out by a family member or friend and blamed the maid and the broom stick to cover themselves from suspicion. Wonder if this was a similar situation