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Angry police shun New York City mayor at funeral for slain officer
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Syria 'ready to participate' in Moscow peace talks
DAMASCUS
(AP) — Syrian state-run TV said Saturday that the government is
prepared to take part in peace talks hosted by Russia next month, but
the unnamed foreign ministry official it cited suggested the scope of
the negotiations would be limited to "preliminary" talks meant to pave
the way for a conference in Syria itself.Read More ...
Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes
It was supposed to be a joke. "Are you still president?" comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month.Read More ...
Former President Bush, 90, to spend weekend in Houston hospital
(Reuters)
- Doctors in Houston will keep former U.S. President George H.W. Bush
in the hospital through the weekend since his bout with shortness of
breath, though doctors "have begun discussing dates for his discharge,"
his office said Saturday. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston
Methodist Hospital on Tuesday night and admitted for observation after
experiencing breathing difficulties earlier that evening, according to
his spokesman, Jim McGrath. There has been no word on whether the
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Two snowmobilers die, one rescued after plunging into Montana lake
(Reuters) - Two men died and a third was rescued from a Montana lake when their snowmobiles plunged into the ice-covered body of water as they attempted to cross to the other side, local officials said Saturday. A group of five male snowmobilers were traversing a frozen patch of Seeley Lake, in western Montana, on Friday evening, but only two of them made it across, the Missoula County Sheriff's Office said. One man was "was saved by a friend in his group that belly-crawled on ice to recover him from the water," the sheriff's office said. ...
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School bans 'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts at tournament
A
high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has
become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police
killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of
concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words "I Can't
Breathe" during warmups.Read More ...
Death penalty states unmoved by botched execution
Oklahoma's
last execution went so badly that the state tried to cancel it before
it was over. With the inmate writhing while the lethal drugs seeped into
his body, his executioners drew the viewing gallery curtains,
concealing what the warden later described as "a bloody mess."Read More ...
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AP-Times Square poll: Most feeling good about 2015
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Americans are closing out 2014 on an optimistic note, according
to a new Associated Press-Times Square Alliance poll. Nearly half
predict that 2015 will be a better year for them than 2014 was, while
only 1 in 10 think it will be worse. There's room for improvement:
Americans give the year gone by a resounding 'meh.'Read More ...
N. Korea blames U.S. for Internet outages, insults Obama
SEOUL,
South Korea (AP) — North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey"
and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the
hacking row over the comedy "The Interview."Read More ...
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China's likely role in North Korea's cyber prowess
North
Korea may be facing explosive hacking accusations, but analysts are
questioning how an isolated, impoverished country with limited Internet
access could wage cyber sabotage -- and many experts believe China plays
a role. The US has accused Pyongyang of hacking Sony Pictures, which
was intimidated into initially cancelling the comedy film "The
Interview" that mocks North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, before deciding
to release it online and in selected US cinemas on Christmas Day. While
much of the focus has been on the so-called cyber warfare between
Washington and Pyongyang -- especially after North Korea's Internet
temporarily went down -- many analysts speculate China is a necessary
partner in facilitating any attack by the North. "North Korea's cyber
capacity relies on Chinese support in terms of both hardware and
software," Willy Lam, a politics expert at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong, told AFP.Read More ...
Islamic State claims Iraq suicide bombing that killed 38
The
Islamic State group on Friday claimed it carried out a suicide bombing
south of Baghdad that targeted Sunni fighters who oppose the jihadists,
in which 38 people were killed. IS spearheaded a sweeping militant
offensive that has overrun much of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland since
June -- areas that Shiite-led government forces have sought local Sunni
help to recapture. The Sahwa, or "Awakening" in Arabic, dates back to
the height of the US-led war in Iraq, when Sunni tribesmen joined forces
with the Americans to battle insurgents including IS's predecessor
organisation, the Islamic State of Iraq. The Sahwa were key to greatly
but temporarily reducing the violence, but when Iraq's government took
over responsibility for their salaries they were sometimes paid late or
not at all.Read More ...
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