Daily Misfortune Monday March 9, 2015

Daily Misfortune Monday March 9, 2015 ---
Daily Misfortune Month March 2015 ---

*Reference

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2015_March_9
• http://rt.com/news/line/2015-03-9/
• snewsi

*Today

Headlines:

1. March 9, 2015 Putin gives Russia's top honors to two linked to notorious murders Ramzan Kadyrov
2. 40 injured March 9, 2015 Truck derails Amtrack train in Halifax NC. 
3. 10 killed March 9, 2015 Two helicopters crash in a remote area of northwest Argentina leaving at least ten dead. (AP)
4. March 9, 2015 U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the U.S. 
5. March 9, 2015 reward of $5 million for return of a former FBI agent Robert Levinson who disappeared March 9, 2007 in Iran
6. 5 killed March 9, 2015 A man kills five people in the Japanese city of Sumoto, Hyōgo in a prolonged stabbing attack. 
7. March 9, 2015 American film director Randall Miller pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in February 20, 2014 death of camera assistant by a freight train

Detail:

1. March 9, 2015 Putin gives Russia's top honors to two linked to notorious murders McClatchy Washington Bureau‎ Russian President Vladimir Putin gave two of the country's highest awards to men who have been center stage in its most prominent murder cases: the weeks-old shooting death near the Kremlin of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and the 2006 radioactive poisoning in London of a former Russian spy.  heaped praise on the suspects Russian police have arrested in the murder. ... He also said the awards had nothing to do with murder or murder plot. The recipients were the Chechen authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Andrei Lugovoi, who is wanted in the United Kingdom on accusations of using polonium to poison Alexander Litvinenko, a onetime Russian spy who became a journalist critical of Putin. Kadyrov has been a vocal advocate for the theory that Islamic radicals killed Nemtsov.. talk about Kadyrov concerned the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who’d been highly critical of Kadyrov’s brutal methods in running Chechnya, was shot to death outside her Moscow apartment in 2006. While two men were arrested and sentenced to life in prison for her murder, they appeared to be contract killers working on orders. human rights campaigner Natalia Estemirova, another harsh critic of Kadyrov’s rule. In 2009, she was kidnapped off the streets of the Chechen capital of Grozny and shot twice in the head. After the murder, her associates noted that she’d previously been threatened by Kadyrov and been told that he considered her a “personal enemy.”
2. 40 injured March 9, 2015 Truck derails Amtrack train in Halifax NC. Truck was apparently backing up trying to make a "difficult" turn towing a modular building. google. Similar to crashes in California and New York where vehicles are stuck on train tracks for poorly or unexplained reasons with no motive or cause. Two cars of the train derailing with several people receiving minor injuries. (AP via MSN)
3. 10 killed March 9, 2015 Two helicopters crash in a remote area of northwest Argentina leaving at least ten dead. (AP)
4. March 9, 2015 U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the U.S. (Reuters via MSN)(White House text of the order)
5. March 9, 2015 The U.S.'s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, James Comey, announces an increased reward of $5 million (up from 1 million, issued in 2012) for information leading to the return of a former FBI agent Robert Levinson (who disappeared March 9, 2007 in Iran and who was paid by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to gather information about Iran's nuclear program). (AFP via MSN)
6. 5 killed March 9, 2015 A man kills five people in the Japanese city of Sumoto, Hyōgo in a prolonged stabbing attack. (ABC and AFP via ABC Australia)
7. March 9, 2015 American film director Randall Miller pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing and will spend two years in county jail and another eight on probation in regards to the February 20, 2014 death of camera assistant Sarah Jones by a freight train on a bridge over the Altamaha River in Wayne County, Georgia (six other crew members were also injured) during filming of a biopic about singer Gregg Allman called Midnight Rider. (BBC)

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