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Michelle Obama goes to london to push education for girls where 98 million don't get because of forced

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The former first lady announces a new project, the Global Girls Alliance, aimed at connecting grassroots groups around the world with international organizations--and regular people--to help get girls into school. "The future of our world is only as bright as the future of our girls," she writes.

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Little girl awestruck by Michelle Obama's portrait believes she's 'a queen'

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Two-year-old Parker Curry was so awestruck by the towering portrait of Michelle Obama that every time her mother would try to get her to turn around to take a picture, she would not stop staring at it.

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The youngest billionaire was abducted. I'm just repeating the title oh well.

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The man said to be Africa's youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, police say.

Mohammed Dewji, 43, was abducted outside a swanky hotel gym where he was going for his routine morning workout.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident and two of the abductors were believed to be foreign nationals, police added.

The motive for Mr Dewji's abduction is still unclear.

Africa Live: More updates on this and other stories

Who is Mohammed Dewji?

Financial magazine Forbes puts his wealth at $1.5bn (£980m), and has described him as Tanzania's only billionaire.

In a 2017 report, it said Mr Dewji was Africa's youngest billionaire.

Mr Dewji is also a major sponsor of one of Tanzania's biggest football teams, Simba.

He promised in 2016 to donate at least half his fortune to philanthropic causes, Forbes said.

Mr Dewji, locally known as Mo, is credited with turning his family business from a wholesale and retail enterprise into a pan-African conglomerate, reports the BBC's Athuman Mtulya from Dar es Salaam.

His company, METL, has interests in textile manufacturing, flour milling, beverages and edible oils in at least six African states.

Mr Dewji served as a ruling party MP for a decade until 2015. He told the BBC in a 2014 interview that this possibly made it easier for him to meet top politicians, but it did not give him an unfair advantage, as other businessmen also had access to them.

Environment Minister January Makamba, a friend of Mr Dewji, tweeted that he had spoken to Mr Dewji's father and the family confirmed that he had been kidnapped.

What more do we know about his abduction?

The abduction took place in the affluent neighbourhood of Oysterbay.

The kidnappers fired shots in the air before driving away with the billionaire, eyewitnesses said.

Mr Dewji, a fitness enthusiast, had no security guards with him and had driven to the gym on his own, Dar es Salaam regional police commissioner Paul Makonda told reporters.

Two of the kidnappers were white men, he added.

Security personnel across Tanzania have been put on high alert in the hunt for the abductors, police said.

Are kidnappings common in Dar es Salaam?
By Athuman Mtulya, BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam
The city's name comes from Arabic, and literally means Abode of Peace. And Dar es Salaam is very safe, in comparison to Lagos or Johannesburg, the main cities in Nigeria and South Africa respectively.

Although Tanzania has seen a wave attacks and abductions of opposition politicians and perceived government critics, this is the first time a businessman of Mr Dewji's standing has been kidnapped in the country.

Businessmen have never felt at risk of being kidnapped and they often move around on their own. Some may have chauffeurs, but not bodyguards. So Mr Dewji's abduction has come as a huge shock.

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The man said to be Africa's youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam, police say. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was abducted outside a swanky hotel gym where he was going for his routine morning workout.

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With tension rising between the worlds two largest economies, the stock markets are put under pressure.

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The heads of the World Bank and IMF appealed Thursday to the U.S. and China to cool their dispute over technology policy and play by world trade rules, as tumbling share prices drove home potential perils from a clash between the world's two biggest economies.

Global economic growth is slowing but remains strong, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank annual meeting, being held this week on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Countries are mostly in a "strong position," she said, "which is why we believe we are not seeing what is referred to as 'contagion.'"

But the gyrations that rocked Wall Street the day before and Asia and Europe on Thursday, taking the Shanghai Composite index down 5.2 percent and Japan's Nikkei 225 nearly 4 percent, do partly reflect rising interest rates in the U.S. and some other countries and growing uncertainty over trade, she said.

"It's the combination of the two that is probably showing some of the tensions that we see in terms of indices, short-term indicators as well as possibly market volatility," Lagarde said.

The U.S. and Chinese exchanges of penalty tariffs in their dispute isn't helping, she said.

Her advice was threefold: "De-escalate. Fix the system. Don't break it."

She acknowledged that the World Trade Organization, based in Geneva, has made scant headway in recent years toward a global agreement on trade rules that can address issues like complaints over Chinese policies U.S. President Donald Trump says unfairly extract advanced technologies and put foreign companies at a disadvantage in a quest to dominate certain industries.

"Our strong recommendation is to escalate work for a world trade system that is stronger, that is fairer and is fit for the purpose," she said in opening remarks.

Somewhat obliquely, she said policies aimed toward an excessively "dominant position" were not compatible with free and fair trade.

The IMF has downgraded its forecast for global economic growth to 3.7 percent this year from its earlier estimate of 3.9 percent. It also issued reports this week on government finance and financial stability that warn of the risks of disruptions to world trade.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the World Bank is working with developing countries to brace for a further deterioration.

"Trade is very critical because that is what has lifted people out of extreme poverty," Kim said. "I am a globalist. That is my job. That is our only chance of ending extreme poverty. We need more trade not less trade," he said.

Kim said the World Bank has launched a "human capital index" to help rank countries by the level of their investments in such areas as education and health care.

Policies to build such human capital are among the "smartest investments countries can make," he said.

He praised host country Indonesia, a democratic, Muslim-majority country of 260 million, for fostering strong growth but noted there was much room for improvement. The country is ranked 87th of 150 countries in the list.

Indonesia has endured a slew of disasters in recent months. Before dawn on Thursday, an earthquake collapsed homes on Indonesia's Java island, killing at least three people just two weeks after a major quake and tsunami disaster in a central region of the archipelago killed more than 2,000 people and left perhaps thousands more buried deeply in mud.

Thursday's magnitude 6.0 quake offshore north of Bali shook the area where the IMF-World Bank delegates are meeting, but there were no signs of significant damage.

The annual financial meetings take place at a time of growing concern over trends other than trade, such as moves to raise borrowing costs in the U.S. and some other regions to help cool growth and keep inflation in check. Rising interest rates are drawing investment flows out of emerging markets in Asia and Latin America at a time when growth in their exports is likely to slow.

Argentina and Pakistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe are among countries grappling with crises. Concerns are growing, also, over slowing growth in China and rising debts among some developing countries resulting from projects associated with Beijing's "Belt and Road Initiative" to develop ports, roads and other infrastructure.

Lagarde said the IMF will send a team to Pakistan in the coming weeks after a meeting with its finance minister, Asad Umar, in which he requested emergency bailout loans.

The IMF chief did not say how much Umar had requested. Analysts say Pakistan is seeking $8 billion in loans to deal with a balance of payments crisis. Pakistan's currency plunged by around 7 percent earlier this week after word of the loan request was made public.

Asked whether IMF help might amount to a "bailout" for Chinese loans, Lagarde said any such help would have to be completely transparent.

"In whatever work we do we need a complete understanding and complete transparency about the nature of a debt that is bearing on a country," she said.

The annual summit for global finance brings together central bankers and finance ministers, development experts and civil society groups from across the globe.

Bali has suffered terrorist bombings in the past, and the event was being held amid tight security. A convoy of armed personnel carriers was lined up alongside a beach path and access to the area was tightly controlled.

Still, about a dozen activists concerned with land grabs and other issues sometimes associated with World Bank-sponsored projects staged a brief, peaceful protest over the cancellation by local authorities of a conference they were to hold in the nearby city of Denpasar.

"If they don't want to ever hear our voices, what kinds of projects are we expecting?" said Joan Salvador, a member of a Philippine women's group.

Those involved had badges allowing them to enter the tightly guarded venue, and an IMF official said she would convey their concerns "to the highest levels."

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Associated Press journalist Hau Dinh contributed to this report.

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The heads of the World Bank and IMF appealed Thursday to the U.S. and China to cool their dispute over technology policy and play by world trade rules, as tumbling share prices drove home potential perils from a clash between the world's two biggest economies. Global economic growth is...

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Anthony Foxx, former President Obama's secretary of the Department of Transportation from 2013-2017, will serve as Lyft's chief policy officer and advisor to its co-founders.

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The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has ruled the death of actor Verne Troyer as a suicide, officials said Wednesday.

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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County coroner's office has ruled the death of actor Verne Troyer as a suicide, officials said Wednesday.

The official cause of death was listed as sequelae of alcohol intoxication, according to a news release from the L.A. County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.

Troyer, best known for his role as Mini-Me in two of the "Austin Powers" comedy films, died earlier this year at the age of 49.

On April 3, he was transported by ambulance to a Van Nuys hospital from his home in North Hollywood, located in the 8000 block of Teesdale Avenue, after reported alcohol intoxication, the release stated.

Troyer died at the hospital on April 21.

An autopsy was conducted the following day.

His death came a year after he announced on Facebook that he was being treated for alcohol addiction, which he had battled in the past, according to CNN.

After Troyer's death, a statement on his social media accounts said the actor had undergone a "recent time of adversity."

"Verne was also a fighter when it came to his own battles," the statement read. "Over the years he's struggled and won, struggled and won, struggled and fought some more, but unfortunately this time was too much."

It continued: "Depression and Suicide are very serious issues. You never know what
kind of battle someone is going through inside. Be kind to one another. And always know, it's never too late to reach out to someone for help."

Important note: If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, please remember help is available through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. It provides free and confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can also call a loved one, member of the clergy or 911. Additionally, t he International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide can provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.

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'Austin Powers' actor Verne Troyer's death ruled a suicide

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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County coroner's office has ruled the death of actor Verne Troyer as a suicide, officials said Wednesday. The official cause of death was listed as sequelae of alcohol intoxication, according to a news release from the L.A. County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.

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San Francisco school drops Pledge of Allegiance before board meeting

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The San Francisco school board's new president broke with protocol Tuesday night by deciding to skip the Pledge of Allegiance before a meeting, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

In its place, Steven Cook recited a quote from the poet Maya Angelou: "When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

Cook told The Chronicle he chose not to enforce the pledge because of his disappointment with the political climate. He said the Trump administration "has been attacking our liberties."
ATLANTA SCHOOL BACKTRACKS AFTER DROPPING PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, ADDING 'WOLF PACK CHANT'
The Pledge of Allegiance, while required by state education code, is rarely enforced by schools, district officials said. District spokesman Gentle Blythe said it is not required for school boards.

"If you ask 10 Americans who wrote it, or when it was implemented, or why it is how we start our meetings, a lot of us would be hard pressed (to answer)," Cook said.

There are a lot of ways to express gratitude and appreciation for the country and its citizens. This is how I plan to do that.
- Stevon Cook

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Christian socialist minister. In the mid-1950s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Congress to include the words "under God," amid the rise of communism.

Cook reportedly told no one of his idea to skip the Pledge of Allegiance. Some board members were receptive to Cook's new idea.
TEXAS AG SUPPORTS SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LAWSUIT
"It feels respectful and it feels thoughtful," said school board member Rachel Norton. "Maya Angelou is an alumnus of (San Francisco's) Washington High School, so what better way to start a new tradition."

Cook said he will read an inspirational quote from influential Americans before each meeting.

"There are a lot of ways to express gratitude and appreciation for the county and its citizens," he said. "This is how I plan to do that."

Cook played down any parallels to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who drew controversy for refusing to stand for the national anthem before NFL games in the 2016 season.

"I'm no Colin Kaepernick. I'm Stevon Cook."

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The San Francisco school board's new president broke with protocol Tuesday night by deciding to skip the Pledge of Allegiance before a meeting, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. In its place, Steven Cook recited a quote from the poet Maya Angelou: "When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

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When a man attacked a Starbucks employee and beat her badly, a man took action and shot the attacker in the chest.

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A Utah man has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal trespass for allegedly attacking a Starbucks employee before being shot in the chest by an armed patron, according to reports.

The suspect, identified as Benjamin Scott Overall, 37, set off a panic alarm around 6 a.m. Oct. 4 inside a 7-Eleven store in Millcreek, a suburb of Salt Lake City, KJZZ-TV reported. A responding officer approached Overall, who then fled to a nearby Starbucks.

At the coffee shop, Overall then allegedly attacked a female employee, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported. A police "probable cause" statement said he punched her, hit her in the head with a metal basket, and kicked her.

"She couldn't get away from him, and he continued to strike her on her head, face, neck and shoulders," criminal charges stated.

The employee, Shelby Hamilton, 24, said she thought Overall was going to kill her.

"He just came in the door and ... hit me in the back of the head from behind," Hamilton told the Deseret News. "I was the first one he saw."

Overall then "aggressively approached" a customer who happened to have a concealed weapons permit, according to the criminal charges. The customer shot Overall in the chest before he could attack, police said.

Overall remained hospitalized Wednesday, recovering from his gunshot wounds, KSL-TV reported.

A police affidavit cited by KSL indicated that Overall attempted to go into a hotel room that was not his earlier this year. He was convicted of intoxication in Salt Lake Justice Court in May, according to court records.

Millcreek is about a 10-minute drive south of Salt Lake City.

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A Utah man has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal trespass for allegedly attacking a Starbucks employee before being shot in the chest by an armed patron, according to reports. The suspect, identified as Benjamin Scott Overall, 37, set off a panic alarm around 6 a.m. Oct.

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"Little Women" Star Melissa Hancock charged with a DUI death.

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'Little Women' reality star gets 16 years behind bars for DUI death

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Four-foot-tall reality TV star Melissa Hancock will be getting her own personal spinoff - set in a jail cell, after pleading guilty to the drunk-diving death of a New Jersey man. Daniel Dill, 29, was killed Nov. 4, 2017, while driving in Virginia Beach to pick up his wife from a birthday party.

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A couple arrested in Mexico while pushing a baby stroller filled with human body parts may have killed up to 20 women, according to the chief investigator on the case.

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A couple arrested in Mexico while pushing a baby stroller filled with human body parts may have killed up to 20 women, according to the chief investigator on the case.

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A woman was removed from a flight due to her strange support animal being a flying squirrel.

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Flying squirrels are a species, not a job description -- at least according to Frontier Airlines.

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A rocket carrying a Russian and American going to the ISS malfunctioned during takeoff. They were forced to make an emergency landing. They are investigation what went wrong.

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A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut are in "good condition" after a booster rocket on their spacecraft failed and forced them to make an emergency landing Thursday.

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The Soyuz MS-10 rocket took off at 4:40 a.m. local time on what was supposed to be a six-hour journey to the International Space Station. Instead, the rocket suffered a malfunction shortly after taking off from Russia's spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft's two-man crew, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, made an emergency landing in the craft's capsule in Kazakhstan. Rescue teams reached the landing site and confirmed that both men are alive and in "good condition," NASA wrote on Twitter.

"[Nick Hague] and Alexey Ovchinin are on helicopters, making their way back to Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Search & rescue teams report that they remain in good condition after a safe landing following an issue with their launch on a Soyuz earlier," NASA tweeted.

Russian state news agencies reported that the two men would be flown to the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan to undergo medical examinations.

The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, said that it was creating a state commission to investigate the cause of the crash, and deputy prime minister Yuri Borisov announced that Russia would be suspending manned flights until the incident could be reviewed.

The moment the boost rocket failed was captured on the live-feed of the launch carried on NASA and Roscomos' websites. In the video, a burst of light was seen around the rocket, which was still visible in the distance.

NASA has paid for places on Russia's Soyuz rockets for its astronauts to travel to the International Space Station since the American shuttle retired seven years ago.

Recently, the U.S. has been seeking to replace the route with contracts with commercial space companies, such as SpaceX, but the Soyuz currently remains the only way to reach the station.

SpaceX and Boeing are both scheduled to have unmanned test flights with their own spacecraft in January and NASA astronauts are training for flights aboard the two companies' crafts in June and August.

ABC News' Gina Sunseri contributed to this report.

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A New York man built a 200 pound bomb to drop at the National Mall in Wahington D.C. on Election Day next month.

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Federal authorities have arrested a New York man on charges of unlawfully manufacturing an explosive device, after they say he constructed a 200-pound bomb which he intended to detonate on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Election Day next month.

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Paul Rosenfeld, 56, was arrested in Rockland County after authorities got a tip from an unidentified individual in Pennsylvania that Rosenfeld was allegedly communicating with about his plot.

Sources familiar with the case told ABC News that Rosenfeld, who allegedly constructed the bomb in Rockland County, wanted to kill himself in the process of detonating it.

Letters and text messages that Rosenfeld allegedly sent to the Pennsylvania tipster detailed his plot, authorities said in a criminal complaint.

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"Rosenfeld's letters and text messages stated, in substance and in part, that he intended to 1) build an explosive device; 2) transport the explosive device to Washington D.C.; and 3) detonate this explosive device on November 6, 2018, on the National Mall in Washington D.C."

Rosenfeld adheres to an ideology called Sortition, which advocates that government officials should be selected by lottery rather than popular vote, according to the complaint.

He was arrested on Tuesday in Tappan, New York, by FBI agents and local authorities, according to the complaint. Armed with a search warrant, FBI bomb technicians discovered and removed a plywood box filled with eight pounds of gunpowder.

Rosenfeld had previously constructed several smaller explosive devices for practice, according to the complaint.

Rosenfeld was scheduled to appear in federal court in White Plains on Wednesday.

It was not immediately clear whether Rosenfeld had retained an attorney or been assigned a federal public defender.

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A Starbucks employee was assaulted last week by a man, who was known to be Benjamin Scott Overall, Benjamin went after one of the customers who tried to break up the fight and the customer who happened to have an concealed carrier permit. The concealed carrier shot Benjamin in the chest because he was in fear of his life when Benjamin came after him.

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A Utah man has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal trespass for allegedly attacking a Starbucks employee before being shot in the chest by an armed patron, according to reports.

The suspect, identified as Benjamin Scott Overall, 37, set off a panic alarm around 6 a.m. Oct. 4 inside a 7-Eleven store in Millcreek, a suburb of Salt Lake City, KJZZ-TV reported. A responding officer approached Overall, who then fled to a nearby Starbucks.

At the coffee shop, Overall then allegedly attacked a female employee, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported. A police "probable cause" statement said he punched her, hit her in the head with a metal basket, and kicked her.

"She couldn't get away from him, and he continued to strike her on her head, face, neck and shoulders," criminal charges stated.

The employee, Shelby Hamilton, 24, said she thought Overall was going to kill her.

"He just came in the door and ... hit me in the back of the head from behind," Hamilton told the Deseret News. "I was the first one he saw."

Overall then "aggressively approached" a customer who happened to have a concealed weapons permit, according to the criminal charges. The customer shot Overall in the chest before he could attack, police said.

Overall remained hospitalized Wednesday, recovering from his gunshot wounds, KSL-TV reported.

A police affidavit cited by KSL indicated that Overall attempted to go into a hotel room that was not his earlier this year. He was convicted of intoxication in Salt Lake Justice Court in May, according to court records.

Millcreek is about a 10-minute drive south of Salt Lake City.

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The suspect of a rape and murder case of a reporter in Europe has been arrested.

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Police in Germany arrested a suspect in connection with the rape and killing of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova, whose brutal slaying on Saturday elicited international condemnation and accusations that the 30-year-old had been targeted for her investigative journalism.

Bulgarian Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov said on Wednesday that the motive was likely sexual assault and "at this stage, it can not be said that the murder is related to the professional activity of the victim."

Tsatsarov said a 21-year-old man had been charged in abstentia with "rape and premeditated murder with particular cruelty and in a particularly painful manner for the victim."

The suspect hails from Ruse, the same northern Bulgarian city where Marinova's beaten body was found near the Danube river after she had gone out for a run, police said.

The man, who officials said already had a criminal record, is awaiting the completion of a European arrest warrant before being moved back to Bulgaria where he will be indicted.

Bulgarian Interior Minister Mladen Marinov said "sufficient evidence has been seized, linking the detainee directly with the crime scene and the victim," including DNA evidence.

Another suspect was briefly detained on Tuesday, before being let go.

Earlier in the week, European leaders were quick to draw a connection between Marinova's death and her work showcasing alleged corruption in a country where graft and lack of press freedoms are endemic.

"Again a courageous journalist falls in the fight for truth and against corruption," tweeted European Union Vice President Frans Timmermans on Sunday. "Those responsible should be brought to justice immediately by the Bulgarian authorities."

Another leader in the European Parliament called on Europol to stand ready to assist in investigating Marinova's death.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov took issue Wednesday with the input and said he had remained deliberately quiet about the investigation.

"I have read monstrous things about Bulgaria and none of those is true," Borissov said. "It is completely undeserved that our country was tarnished in such a way in a matter of days while everyone was working at one hundred percent."

In the first and last episode of a television program called Detector, which wasabout investigative journalism, Marinova profiled two journalists who alleged a Bulgarian building business had misused EU funds.

Marinova is the third journalist killed in the EU this year. Jan Kuciak of Slovakia and Daphne Caruana Galizia of Malta were killed after exposing corruption.

Reporters Without Borders says journalists in Bulgaria are "exposed to many forms of pressure and intimidation when trying to perform their reporting duties." It ranks Bulgaria last in the EU for press freedom.

But on Wednesday, Borissov sought to cast the treatment journalists within his country in a different light.

"You are not the fourth, you are the first estate right now," he said. "The freedom - to write, speak, and transmit information on any subject - this freedom is a fact."

Prosecutor General Tsatsarov noted Wednesday that the investigation was ongoing and "not a single scenario would be ruled out."

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Suspect Arrested In Germany After Bulgarian Journalist Raped And Killed

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In America, recent focuses have shifted towards the lives of women and their debatable freedom. While there are issues here in the U.S, we are evolving more than other countries. Many foreign countries don't tolerate such behavior, but that doesn't mean it's the right solution.

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Moshi, Tanzania - It happens twice a year at Arusha Secondary School. Each of the school's 800 female students are accompanied into a toilet and told to pee in a jar. Outside the cubicle, a teacher waits to make sure the samples are not swapped.

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Dad called lawyer before calling 911 about 'dead as a doornail' baby

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A Michigan man who, along with his wife, is facing felony murder charges in the death of their 10-month-old daughter, called a lawyer before calling 911 after finding the baby unresponsive in her crib in August, according to a recording played in court Wednesday.

When the 911 dispatcher asked if little Mary was beyond help when he found her, Seth Welch answered with certainty.

"Oh yeah," he is heard saying on the recording. "She was dead as a doornail."

Kent County prosecutors allege that Welch and Tatiana Fusari, both 27, allowed the child to starve to death, FOX 17 of West Michigan reported.

"It is as horrific as it gets," Judge Sara Smolenski said, according to MLive.com. "The skeletal-like posture of the child, in my opinion, speaks volumes, for how long the baby was not cared for properly. The 10-month-old baby weighed eight pounds at death."

"It is as horrific as it gets. The skeletal-like posture of the child, in my opinion, speaks volumes, for how long the baby was not cared for properly. The 10-month-old baby weighed eight pounds at death."
- Judge Sara Smolenski

A forensic pathologist said the girl died of "malnutrition associated with dehydration due to neglect of adult caregivers." But Welch's attorney argued the child suffered from a metabolic disorder that prevented her from absorbing nutrients.

The pathologist said he found no metabolic diseases or parasites in the girl.

Welch, who was visibly upset in court listening to the 911 call, told a dispatcher that he put Mary to bed at 3 p.m. the day before and checked on her at 10 a.m. in his Solon Township home.

When he found her not breathing, he said he first called his attorney.

"I called my lawyer ... to ask what's the best thing I can do, and they said wait until they're here to call police," Welch told the dispatcher. "I was waiting on legal counsel."

"I guess I don't know if this is the right place to report this to. ... One of my children is dead," he continued.

When the dispatcher asked how he was holding up, he said: "You know, just another day. It is what it is."

The couple told police that the child had been sick, but they didn't seek medical attention for religious reasons.

They didn't trust health-care providers because they were reported to Child Protective Services after they disagreed with a doctor recommendation for care of their older daughter, FOX 17 of West Michigan reported.

During a search of the home, authorities found limited baby food, flies and mice feces in drawers throughout the house, the paper reported.

Fusari told authorities she breastfed Mary before going to her job at McDonald's but neither parent fed the child after that. They did not go into Mary's room until the next day, the paper said.

An investigator said that Mary was skinny like her older sister was at that age and that Welch showed no emotion.

"To my recollection, during the interviews I conducted ... he has never expressed or shown any emotion regarding Mary's care or ultimate demise," the investigator said.

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Dad called lawyer before calling 911 about 'dead as a doornail' baby: reports

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A Michigan man who, along with his wife, is facing felony murder charges in the death of their 10-month-old daughter, called a lawyer before calling 911 after finding the baby unresponsive in her crib in August, according to a recording played in court Wednesday.

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Woman said she was given real knife instead of prop, stabs friend at haunted house

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A woman who stabbed her friend in the arm said she thought she was playing along with a scene and given a prop knife, according to a police report.

Tawnya Greenfield, 29, told police she and friends were waiting to enter the Nashville Nightmare haunted house with friends on Oct. 5 when a person she believed to be one of the characters and an employee at the venue asked if her friend James Yochim was bothering her. Believing she was playing along with one of the haunted house's scenarios, she said he was.

The person then handed Greenfield a knife and said, "Well here, stab him," according to her report to Nashville Metropolitan Police. Thinking the knife was a prop and she was continuing the gag, she then plunged the knife into Yochim's left arm.

Greenfield said, when she pulled back, she realized there was blood on the knife, a hole in Yochim's shirt and blood squirting from the victim's left arm, according to the report.

Nashville police responded to a stabbing call and the victim was taken to Skyline Emergency Hospital.

In the report, Greenfield told police that she did not intend to injure her friend.

Another friend, who witnesses the stabbing, also believed that the knife handed to Greenfield was a prop knife, the report said. He told police he heard the person who gave the knife to Greenfield said he did not realize that the knife was that sharp.

Police are investigating the case.

Nashville Nightmare said it has had a good reputation in the area, that their medical staff responded immediately to the incident and they are investigating further.

"As we have continued to review the information, we believe that an employee was involved in some way, and he has been placed on leave until we can determine his involvement," the company told ABC News in a statement. "We are going over all of our safety protocols with all of our staff again, as the safety and security of all of our patrons is always our main concern."

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Woman stabs friend at haunted house, says she thought knife was a prop

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A woman who stabbed her friend in the arm said she thought she was playing along with a scene and given a prop knife, according to a police report. Tawnya Greenfield, 29, told police she and friends were waiting to enter the Nashville Nightmare haunted house with friends on Oct.