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Loop Jamaica
April 2, 2018
Fire believed to be the work of an arsonist, destroyed a three-apartment concrete dwelling house at Tryall district in St Elizabeth last week, leaving an elderly woman homeless. Reports are that about 3:00 p.m., Attirella Gayle, an 83-year-old pensioner, was at home in Tryall with her 25-year-old grandson,ÃÂ ...
The Sheboygan Press
March 31, 2018
The term “friendly fire” came into public awareness during The Gulf War (1990-1991). As the American populace watched hostilities in real time for the first time, it became necessary to give a suitable name to such mishaps. Certainly, not new to military ventures, most friendly fire incidents happen in the fogÃÂ ...
Payson Roundup
March 23, 2018
The Thomas Fire was one of the megafires that hit California last year, driving the Forest Service wildfire budget to more than $2.5 billion. California fires killed 45 people. Photos courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service. Wallow Fire. A view of the Wallow Fire is pictured in the distance seen along the U.S. RouteÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
March 22, 2018
MADRID — Catalan separatists' third attempt to appoint a new leader since December's election came unstuck on Thursday, prolonging the political deadlock in the region. The four lawmakers from the radical-left CUP — the smallest of the three secessionist parties in the regional chamber — refused toÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
March 21, 2018
Hong Kong's leader faced a backlash from her own political allies on Wednesday for making a personal donation to the city's biggest opposition party, as four lawmakers were sworn in without the oath-taking drama that got their predecessors disqualified. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngorÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
March 21, 2018
A 20-year-old Israeli soldier died yesterday in a friendly fire incident at a military base in the country, the army announced. Sergeant Shachar Strug was killed by a bullet which was fired from the gun of his fellow soldiers; an investigation has been launched into the incident. Strug, from Unit 217 theÃÂ ...
Comicbook.com
March 21, 2018
When the friendly fire feature was turned off in Fortnite Battle Royale, it wasn't difficult to surmise why but the user experience lead researcher for Epic Games set the record straight once and for all. The decision to remove this particular feature in-game was one of the ways the developers were trying toÃÂ ...
Pensacola News Journal
March 20, 2018
One of the four suspects charged in what authorities have called a "friendly fire" shooting death pleaded no contest to third-degree murder on Tuesday. Demetric Milhouse, 23, stood before Circuit Judge Gary Bergosh and said it was in his best interest to plead no contest to a string of offenses related toÃÂ ...
Polygon
March 20, 2018
Epic Games' decision to get rid of the friendly fire feature in Fortnite: Battle Royale was completely driven by solving in-game toxicity. Ben Lewis-Evans, a user experience lead researcher at Epic Games who works on Fortnite, told Polygon that the team rolled out Fortnite with friendly fire on. They decided toÃÂ ...
Herald Sun
February 24, 2018
WHAT would you say to a friend who asks you to get a whooping cough shot so you can visit their new baby in hospital? Would you say: A. No way, Jose. Are you crazy? I've had three kids and I've never asked anyone to do that. I'm not visiting you and I'm going to find another home for the onsie I boughtÃÂ ...
Lawrentian
February 17, 2018
Throughout history, athletics have been popular. People enjoy partaking in, and rooting for, athletic teams. Times of war are no exception to this. However, when a nation's resources and its people, are devoted to warfare, friendlier competition is often affected. The first World War was no exception. DuringÃÂ ...
Lawrentian
February 16, 2018
Throughout history, athletics have been popular. People enjoy partaking in, and rooting for, athletic teams. Times of war are no exception to this. However, when a nation's resources and its people, are devoted to warfare, friendlier competition is often affected. The first World War was no exception. DuringÃÂ ...
The Star, Kenya
February 15, 2018
Local administrators said the Kenya Defence Forces troops were felled by friendly fire. "The APs returned fire after coming under attack by the soldiers who mistook them for bandits. They had been having lunch at their camp when the incident took place," one said. Six other officers were airlifted to NairobiÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
February 14, 2018
According to the officer in charge of the Rural Border Patrol Unit in Kitui County, Mr Nguyo Wambua, the two soldiers were killed by officers attached to the unit in what the local administration described as “friendly fire.” According to Senior Superintendent Wambua, his officers fatally shot the two soldiersÃÂ ...
POLITICO.eu
February 8, 2018
BERLIN — Angela Merkel is facing unrest within her conservative ranks over a coalition deal that gives key ministries to Social Democrats and appears to have passed over rising stars in her own party. Officials in Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are particularly unhappy at having given upÃÂ ...
Politico
February 8, 2018
A throng of Republican senators is holding up the confirmations of some of President Donald Trump's nominees — even as he continues to blame the logjam on Democratic “obstruction.” At least 11 Republican senators in recent months have disclosed they're blocking votes on nominees for agenciesÃÂ ...
Yahoo News
February 2, 2018
TOPSHOT - Smoke is seen billowing from the northern Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin on January 31, 2018. Turkey and allied Syrian rebel groups launched operation Olive Branch on January 20 against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which controls the Afrin region. / AFP PHOTO / Ahmad ShafieÃÂ ...
Comicbook.com
January 14, 2018
Epic Games has turned off the friendly fire feature in Fortnite to prevent teammates from trolling each other. Friendly fire is always a tricky subject in games, and Fortnite is no exception. With friendly fire enabled in the Battle Royale mode, players had to strike a balance between taking out their enemiesÃÂ ...
Bleeding Cool News
January 14, 2018
Those of you who love to do team killing when your crew isn't doing that great in Fortnite, your trolling just got cut down significantly. According to the game's Reddit page, the devs have disabled the Friendly Fire feature due to the massive amount of complaints from people reporting team killing. So those ofÃÂ ...
A Magazine of American Culture
January 10, 2018
At that second site, the residence of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the special operators apparently encountered no resistance at all, even though several Americans were wounded due to friendly fire and a helicopter crash. In 2001, U.S. special operators were targeting just two enemy forces:ÃÂ ...
Daily Detroit
January 9, 2018
Admission is free to the family-friendly Fire & Ice Festival. The festival takes place Friday, Jan. 19 – Sunday, Jan. 21. Hours run The Fire & Ice Festival runs from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20; 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21; and 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22. Fireworks are at 8 p.m. FridayÃÂ ...
Horn Observer
January 9, 2018
MOGADISHU (Horn Observer) Four Somali Soldiers were killed on Sunday through friendly fire outside Mogadishu, local media reports. The killing of soldiers follows after an IED exploded in the outkirts of Mogadishu followed by firefight between government soldiers as reported by Somalia's Dalsan radio.
Tampabay.com
December 21, 2017
Boris A. Stern was a 19-year-old Army sergeant from Chicago when German forces came pouring westward on Dec. 16, 1944, in the snowy hell of Belgium's Ardennes Forest. He's now 92 and living in Carrollwood and I've been lucky enough to catch up with him a couple of times since Veterans Day.
Siliconera
December 16, 2017
Given that these magics would be dangerous in the hands of a trained mage, there is the potential for some real danger when untrained wizards get a hold of them, which is shown through the game's friendly fire system, where careless players can hurt their co-op allies. They can also revive them, though,ÃÂ ...
49ers.com
December 14, 2017
Rewind back to 2010 where Buckner, a four-star recruit at Punahou School in Honolulu, faced off against the Saint Louis School quarterback Marcus Mariota under the Hawaiian Friday night lights. Less than two years later the former high school rivals joined forces more than 2,500 miles from their homesÃÂ ...
Armenpress.am
December 11, 2017
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. A 21 year old soldier of the Artsakh military has died after being accidentally shot by a fellow soldier. The soldier, identified as Narek Adibekyan, was shot and killed in the evening of December 11 while on duty in a northern military base of Artsakh. The defenseÃÂ ...
Cyclingnews.com
December 31, 1999
Geraint Thomas downed by friendly fire at Volta ao Algarve. Welshman settles for second as Kwiatkowski makes the right move, at the right time. Geraint Thomas hugs Michal Kwiatkowski after stage 5 at Volta ao Algarve. 1 / 5. Geraint Thomas hugs Michal Kwiatkowski after stage 5 at Volta ao Algarve.
Police News
December 31, 1999
In 2010, the New York State Task Force on Police-on-Police Shootings published an in-depth analysis of blue-on-blue shootings. The report provides details of 26 police officer fatalities that occurred between 1981 and 2009, and indicates near-miss situations occur more frequently than we realize.
The Shillong Times
November 23, 2017
TURA: Minister Deborah C Marak, who represents Williamnagar constituency, is facing rivalry both within and outside the party. While ticket ...
Malaysiakini
November 21, 2017
Raja Chulan: Why must former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad apologise for something he did not do? DAP's Skudai assemblyperson Dr Boo ...
CBS News
November 12, 2017
The root cause of the friendly fire incident hasn't been adequately addressed yet. There's an aircraft carrying out close air support missions that ...
Patheos (blog)
November 10, 2017
Google defines friendly fire as “weapon fire coming from one's own side, especially fire that causes accidental injury or death to one's own ...
St. Louis American
November 9, 2017
“Victory has a thousand fathers,” said President John F. Kennedy, “but defeat is an orphan.” The wisdom of Kennedy's quote is apparent in the ...
CBS News
November 9, 2017
Three former U.S. soldiers dispute the official investigative report that blames human error for a friendly fire accident that killed six others, ...
Polygon
November 2, 2017
One shocking circumstance that keeps playing over and over in my head is how I found myself struggling to avoid friendly fire deaths in the ...
Toronto Star
October 31, 2017
Canada's leader of the official opposition will have his work cut out for him trying to come across as something more than the puppet of Stephen ...
Canarsie Courier
October 25, 2017
A man was fatally shot in broad daylight last week, and eyewitnesses at the scene said the shooter was a “friend” and the two had been ...
TVNZ
October 10, 2017
National's Chris Bishop and Labor's Kris Faafoi exchanged friendly fire after the Greens' offer to talk to NZ First was not taken up.
CTV News
September 29, 2017
OTTAWA -- A Canadian special forces soldier has been awarded the Medal of Bravery in connection with a deadly friendly-fire incident in Iraq ...
New York Magazine
September 25, 2017
But in 2005, government officials informed Tillman's family that he had actually been killed not by enemies, but by friendly fire. The Army and ...
Cricbuzz
September 21, 2017
Ajinkya Rahane can be tetchy against short-pitched bowling. New Zealand tried and exploited it to good effect during their visit in 2016.
Billboard
September 15, 2017
What kind of person gives the world a present on their own birthday? Jas Davis, that's who. And if you're like "that's who?" he's the ...
The Hill
September 12, 2017
Many people say that Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonChris Murphy's profile rises with gun tragedies DNC, RNC step up cyber ...
Los Angeles Times
September 9, 2017
Gunshot wounds that two Huntington Beach police officers suffered Thursday as they responded to reports of a man with a knife were the result ...
PCGamesN
December 31, 1999
Though it's not quite such a famous problem as it is in other games, Rainbow Six Siege suffers its own toxicity issues. It's something the ...
PC Gamer
December 31, 1999
Ubisoft is considering removing friendly fire from casual playlists in Rainbow Six Siege in a bid to crack down on toxic team killers, it has said.
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
"For those struggling to make sense of a senseless world, Friendly's Fire is for you," said Producing Artistic Director and show director Rick ...
White Mountain Independent
December 31, 1999
In confrontations involving firearms, sometimes friends shoot friends by mistake, such as Wild Bill Hickok's shooting his deputy. Today's story is ...
Axios
September 16, 2017
Both are lapping up a slice of media acclaim amid widespread friendly fire: Trump, for his second "Chuck and Nancy" deal, and Hillary Clinton for a book that hasÃÂ ...
Business Observer
September 15, 2017
Many bankers, feeling put upon by what they say is a tax-free ride the federal government gives credit unions, aren't likely to join a unity paradeÃÂ ...
