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1.Delta plane makes emergency landing after passenger assaults flight attendant
and air marshal, police say

2.Evergrande can't pay its debts. China is scrambling to contain the fallout

3. Police in China send girl, 14, back to parents who allegedly tried to sell her into
marriage for $40,000

4. A U.K. court permits Assange extradition to the U.S. on spying charges

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1. Goalball player Sevda Altunoluk: 'I am the world's best'
2. Longannet former power station 600ft chimney demolished
3. Woman dies weeks after school bus hits her in New York

A. A woman who was hit last month by a mini school bus in Queens has died,
according to authorities. Vivianna Wolpe, 33, of Jamaica, Queens, suffered injuries
to her torso and legs after a 71-year-old man driving the bus struck her on Nov. 17,
the New York City Police Department said Thursday night in a statement. At the
time of the crash, she was crossing a street about 2 miles north of John F. Kennedy
International Airport. Wolpe was taken Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and died
Wednesday, according to police.

B. The 600ft chimney at the former Longannet power station has been demolished in a controlled
explosion. The Fife site produced Scotland's last coal-fired energy until it ceased operation in
2016.The chimney was the largest free-standing structure in Scotland and was a local
landmark for generations. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pushed the button to ignite 700kg of
explosives, bringing down the chimney stack.

C. Turkish goalball player Sevda Altunoluk believes in empowering visually impaired people by
encouraging them to compete in professional sports.Goalball is a sport in which teams of three
visually impaired or blindfolded players throw a ball embedded with bells into their opponents'
net. Speaking to BBC 100 Women, she said it was important to light the way for other people
with disabilities. Sevda has been top scorer at many international competitions, winning medals
in the European and World Championships. And she made it to the top of the podium in the
Paralympics, winning gold with her team in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The International
Paralympic Committee called her "the world's best player", after she finished as the top scorer
in Tokyo with a staggering 46 goals. She is one of the BBC's 100 Women for 2021.

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I. Family of oxford shooting survivors files two $100 million

lawsuits against school district

The family of a student who was shot during a deadly school shooting in Oxford,
Michigan, last week filed two lawsuits Thursday against the school district and
several school employees. The lawsuits, which seek $100 million in damages, say
the defendants' actions prior to the shooting "created the danger and increased the
risk of harm that their students would be exposed to." "The individually named
Defendants are each responsible through their actions for making the student
victims less safe," the lawsuit states. "The Oxford High School students, and
Plaintiffs in particular, would have been safer had the Individual Defendants not
taken the actions they did." On November 30, student Ethan Crumbley allegedly
opened fire at Oxford High School, killing four people and wounding seven others.
The 15-year-old suspect faces 24 charges, including one count of terrorism causing
death and four counts of first-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty. His parents,
James and Jennifer Crumbley, also face four involuntary manslaughter charges and
pleaded not guilty.
Riley Franz, 17, was shot in the neck, the lawsuit states. Her 14-year-old sister
Bella, who is also a student, "narrowly escaped the bullets discharged towards
her." The lawsuits, filed by attorney Geoffrey Fieger on behalf of the sisters'
parents, Jeffrey and Brandi Franz, claim both students now suffer from emotional
injuries as a result from the incident, including severe trauma, post-traumatic stress
disorder, fright, shock, terror and anxiety. 

Following the shooting, investigators said a "mountain of digital evidence" —


including a video the suspect made the night before the shooting where he
mentioned killing students and a social media post in which the suspect displayed
the gun believed to have been used in the attack — suggests it was premeditated. A
journal found in Crumbley's backpack detailed his desire to "shoot up the school,"
according to officials. 

The lawsuits accuse each defendant of violating the 14th Amendment, which
grants citizens equal protection of the law. The Franz family alleges that school
officials failed to expel, discipline or supervise Crumbley or notify police about his
social media posts and threatening messages, and thus encouraged the incident.
They also accuse Oxford High School's principal and superintendent of
inadequately training and supervising school employees, which "cultivated the
conduct" that then violated the Franz sisters' rights. 

"Riley Franz was shot in the neck as a direct result of each and every one of the
within enumerated actions of Defendants'," the lawsuit states. 

As well as financial damages, the lawsuit also seeks a trial by jury. 

In the wake of the shooting, superintendent Timothy Throne released a statement


saying the district has been "primarily focused on helping our students, families,
staff members, and community get resources to professionally trained crisis
counselors and trauma therapists."

"At the same time, we have been and will continue to be fully cooperative with the
Oakland County Sheriff's Office and Oakland County Prosecutor's Office with
their investigation. We haven't been able to say more because this is an on-going
investigation," he wrote on Wednesday. "We do not have all the facts and cannot
interfere with the prosecutorial investigation. We know this has caused frustration
and anger but we are doing our best under difficult circumstances."
II. Police in China send girl, 14, back
to parents who allegedly tried to
sell her into marriage for $40,000

Hong Kong (CNN)Police in northwestern China broke up the wedding of a 14-year-


old girl whose parents allegedly tried to sell her into marriage with a stranger for a
nearly $40,000 dowry, authorities said.

The teenager called police in Zhongning county, Ningxia region during the wedding on
November 24 to say she was being forced into the illegal marriage against her will, according to
a post by the local Justice Bureau Monday.
The post on social media platform WeChat described the local police's "quick and clever"
response to the call in a positive light, but has since been deleted after drawing controversy
online.
Police and other local officials rushed to the family home of the groom, surnamed Lee, and
stopped the ceremony, the post said.
The teenager's parents -- who had allegedly already bought gold jewelry with the money --
returned the dowry to the groom's family after mediated negotiations, police said.
The girl was also sent back to her parents, who police have not named.

Married young: Meet China's teen brides


Chinese law forbids the parent or guardian of anyone age under 18 from "allowing or forcing
minors to marry or concluding engagements for minors."
The legal age for marriage in the country is 22 for men and 20 for women, but there's no
specific penalty for breaching the law.
Legal experts say citizens have the right to choose whether and who they want to marry without
outside interference or coercion, according to state-run People's Daily.
Early marriage was customary in China's feudal past, and even today, teenage brides and
grooms are not unheard of in poor and rural regions, such as Ningxia.
But the incident has shocked urbanites, who criticized the girl's parents for allegedly coercing
her into marriage, saying they should be punished.
A study published last year in medical journal The Lancet found that in 2015, the rate of
marriage in girls age 15-19 in China's rural areas was three times higher than their urban
counterparts, with lower education levels exacerbating the difference.

Chinese millennials aren't getting married, and the government is worried


The study authors said a higher level of education reduces the risk of early childbirth for girls,
but the education gap between rural and urban areas has not improved much in past decades.
Experts say many in rural areas recognize a marriage if the couple holds a ceremony and
banquet, with official registration taking place once they are of age.
Many rural parents are keen for their children to tie the knot before they go off to work in factory
towns -- a common fate for many. This is especially true for sons who may struggle to find a
partner due to China's gender ratio imbalance -- worsened by the former one-child policy and a
traditional preference for sons -- which has especially impacted rural areas.
According to the latest government data, there are nearly 35 million more men than women in
China.

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