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Yahoo NEWS Share Hair left half-cut in Venezuela electricity chaos Maria Isabel Sanchez AFP April 29, 2016 1 / 3 A man reads in candlelight during a power cut in the border state of San Cristobal, Venezuela A man reads in candlelight during a power cut in the border state of San Cristobal, Venezuela (AFP Photo/George Castellanos) Less Maracaibo (Venezuela) (AFP) - Carmela de la Hoz sent a customer away with his hair half cut when the power went off in her salon. The customer will be back -- but so will the blackouts. The rolling electricity cuts the Venezuelan government ordered across the country starting this week have hit the city of Maracaibo hard. Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hair-left-half-cut-venezuela-electricity-chaos-023151955.html?ref=gs

Europe 400 arrested as left wing protesters clash with far-right in Germany Demonstrators burned tires on a motorway and threw fireworks and flares Peter Yeung   @ptr_yeung   13 hours  ago 162 comments 327 Left-wing protesters clash with police at Alternative für Deutschland's party conference  Getty Hundreds of left-wing protesters have clashed with people attending a far-right party conference in the German city of Stuttgart. Around 1,000 officers were deployed at the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party conference, as  400 arrests were made. Demonstrators burned tires on a motorway and threw fireworks and flares at officers, according to a police spokesman. A police helicopter was sent to the scene, while  water cannon and pepper spray were used on the crowds. Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alternative-fur-deutschlan...

EU military police carry out ‘extremely WORRYING’ civil unrest crisis training A MILITARY police unit have carried out European Union-funded special training, ready to be deployed in the event of civil unrest or war. By  VINCENT WOOD 06:24, Sat, Apr 30, 2016   | UPDATED:  19:14, Sat, Apr 30, 2016 4K 507 GETTY A German official described the exercise as  The training, which took place in the German North Rhine-Westphalia province was designed to prepare troops as part of the EU’s Lowlands Gendarmerie programme. Breitbart London reported that the exercise was attended by 600 members of various European police and military forces, in a bid to prepare the united troops of the European Gendarmerie Force. The military police group is made up of seven European nations, including Spain, Romania, Poland and Germany, and aims to quell post conflict scenarios within EU member states. Read mo...

The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed? In a Glendale case, the FBI wants the fingerprint of Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan so her iPhone can be unlocked.  (Carolyn Kaster / AP) Matt Hamilton  and  Richard Winton Contact Reporters As the world watched the  FBI  spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter's  iPhone , federal officials were quietly waging a different encryption battle in a Los Angeles courtroom. There, authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized from a Glendale home. The phone contained Apple's fingerprint identification system for unlocking, and prosecutors wanted access to the data inside it. Read more; http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-iphones-fingerprints-20160430-story.html

News Science Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest after study that shows choice could just be the brain tricking itself Research adds to evidence suggesting 'even our most seemingly ironclad beliefs about our own agency and conscious experience can be dead wrong' Andrew Griffin   @_andrew_griffin   10 hours  ago 198 comments 2K A woman looks at a human brain at an exhibition in Bristol  Matt Cardy/Getty Images Free will might be an illusion created by our brains, scientists might have proved. Humans are convinced that they make conscious choices as they live their lives. But instead it may be that the brain just convinces itself that it made a free choice from the available options after the decision is made. The idea was tested out by tricking subjects into believing that they had made a choice before the consequences of that choice could actually be seen. In the test, people...