An explosion that rocked a cafe in central Donetsk city in eastern Ukraine killed the leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, and injured several other top officials.

Media reports said that Zakharchenko was severely injured as a blast hit a restaurant called ‘Separ’ in Donetsk city center. He died later in a local hospital.

“The head of the DNR, Alenksandr Zakharchenko, has died as a result of a terrorist act,” a spokesperson of the self-proclaimed republic’s administration told journalists, revealing no details of the incident.

https://www.rt.com/news/437357-head-donbass-republic-killed/

Up to 22 cars were burned or damaged in several fires across southern Sweden on Thursday. It will likely stoke claims that the current socialist government has abjectly failed at tackling the surge in crime.

Police in the southern city of Trollhättan are investigating a fire that left up to ten vehicles damaged, according to local news outlet Aftonbladet. Police and rescue teams were called to the area of the Kronegården at around 3:30 am to tackle a “fully-fledged” fire which had engulfed three cars before spreading to more.

https://www.rt.com/news/437339-cars-burned-fire-sweden-crime/

An Austrian speech therapist has been ordered to change her personalized license plate after it was found to be in breach of anti-Nazi legislation, which outlaws the use of the number 18 for this purpose.

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A woman identified as Andrea V was told to remove her ‘LOGO18’ license plate as the number 18 is used by far-right groups as code for Adolf Hitler. The combination of the numbers 1 and 8, denoting the alphabet’s first letter, A, and eighth letter, H, has been illegal since a change in the law three years ago. Now, Andrea has been left enraged after being ordered to change the plate that she has had for 15 years.

“For professional reasons, I’ve had the plate for years. I’m a speech therapist in the 18th district, ‘LOGO18’ is my brand,” she told the Austrian newspaper Heute. “It’s completely ridiculous.”

https://www.rt.com/news/437342-austria-licence-plate-nazi/

An explosion has hit one of the biggest Russian munitions factories in the Nizhny Novgorod region, reportedly killing at least three people and injuring several more. Some may still be trapped under rubble.

“We have discovered three dead in the rubble,” the local emergency services chief said after what the Sverdlov plant in Dzerzhinsk said was a “bang” at one of its mines’ disposal facilities. The official said that a part of the wall collapsed and it is too early to say whether any staff remain under the debris.

At least four people were injured in the accident, according to Interfax, citing the local governor. Earlier, Russian media reported that five people were sent to hospital, including a woman with 80 percent burns to her body.

It is thought ammonal explosive caused a blast in one of the workshops of the Sverdlov plant, and a fire engulfed an area of around 100 square meters. The blaze was completely extinguished by firefighters at around 1pm local time (10:30am GMT).

The Sverdlov plant is more than 100 years old and is currently one of the biggest munitions facilities in Russia, located around 400 km (249 miles) from Moscow. It produces industrial explosives, detonators and booster leads for the mining industry.

https://www.rt.com/news/437324-blast-russian-defense-plant/

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Another "Rocked" so that's up to 3 now

Louisiana State Police are being sued by a Harvard lecturer over their alleged refusal to release a list of anti-Trump petitioners that they had. He says it originated from a neo-Nazi website, and was named “Antifa list.”

Harvard Law School lecturer Thomas Frampton is suing Louisiana State Police (LSP) over its alleged failure to release a list of thousands of citizens who had signed a petition against US President Donald Trump. According to the lawsuit, the list comes from a hoax roster that originally showed up a year ago on neo-Nazi conspiracy theories website, 8Chan, WGNO reports.

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The list was discovered by New Orleans civil-rights attorney William Most. Frampton is now taking action against the LSP’s Baton Rouge police department on his behalf.

The LSP’s alleged implication with neo-Nazi groups drew the ire of the public, some of whom went as far as to accuse the “racist” police force of taking orders from white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan.

https://www.rt.com/usa/437361-louisiana-police-antifa-neo-nazi/

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