Sweeden...

Sweden may reject the asylum applications of up to 80,000 migrants and should prepare to deport them, the interior minister says.  Charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants but it would take several years.

Some 163,000 migrants applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.The numbers have fallen significantly since Sweden imposed tighter border controls this year.

Along with Germany, the Scandinavian country is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally.

Sweden is stepping up efforts to deport illegal migrants after failed Uzbek asylum seeker killed five people in a truck attack in Stockholm.

Swindle...

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Dawn Bennett with running a $20 million Ponzi scheme.   

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland unsealed criminal charges against her, and an affidavit reveals Ms. Bennett's devotion to witchcraft.   This suggested "that Bennett had many times cast a 'hoodoo spell' in hopes of paranormally silencing the SEC attorneys investigating Bennett." 

Through her alleged fraud, Ms. Bennett swindled elderly clients of their life savings. To generate interest in the unregistered securities, she offered a whopping, out-sized return of 15% on clients' money.

International...

The voice recording server of First Bank's London branch was hacked into ahead of the theft of more than NT$80 million from some of the ATM machines in Taiwan.

An international ring used malware to have several First Bank ATM machines freely dispense money without the need of a bank card to access the machines. They stole more than NT$83 million.

Thirteen of the 16 suspects fled Taiwan, but police were able to arrest three suspects and retrieve about NT$60 million of the stolen money.

Dare Not...

Detour...

Are we going back to the Darkest ages of our lives?

Style...

A massive manhunt was underway  for one of France’s most notorious criminals  

In an elaborately orchestrated escape, heavily armed commandos landed a hijacked helicopter on the grounds of the lockup near Paris, overwhelmed guards and whisked gangster Redoine Faid to freedom in just a "few minutes," officials said.

Faid’s escape from Reau Prison, south of Paris, marked the second time in less than five years that he has absconded from a maximum-security penitentiary.  He was serving a 25-year sentence for a botched 2010 armed robbery in which 26-year-old French police officer Aurélie Fouquet was killed during a gun battle.

Crosshairs...

No change to this issue regardless who is chosen. But the two parties will be sounding the highest alarm they got.

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Struck...

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The Iowa Supreme Court struck down a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion, ruling that the restriction was unconstitutional and that "autonomy and dominion over one's body go to the very heart of what it means to be free."

Justices noted that the waiting period could force delays, increase costs and in some cases prevent a woman from legally obtaining an abortion. The court's 5-2 decision said the mandatory delay violated the Iowa Constitution because the restrictions on women weren't "narrowly tailored to serve a compelling interest of the state."

"At stake in this case is the right to shape, for oneself, without unwarranted governmental intrusion, one's own identity, destiny, and place in the world. Nothing could be more fundamental to the notion of liberty," the justices wrote.

Romaine...

Tainted irrigation water appears to be the source of a national food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, health officials said Thursday.

About 200 people were sickened in the E. coli outbreak and five people died. The outbreak, which started in the spring, is now over, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The illnesses in 36 states were previously traced to romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Arizona, which provides most of the romaine sold in the U.S. during the winter.

Earlier, officials tied eight illnesses at a jail in Alaska, unable to find a single farm or packaging or distribution site associated with the break.