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Report: Human Rights Deteriorating in Annexed Crimeaby webdesk@voanews.com (Zlatica Hoke)
Human rights conditions have deteriorated in Crimea since its annexation by Russia last year, with Crimean authorities accused of discriminating against minorities, suppressing freedom of expression, and forcing residents to assume Russian citizenship or leave, according to a new report. When Russian President Vladimir Putin officially signed Crimea's annexation to the Russian Federation in March 2014, much of the world questioned what made such a brazen move possible, and in such a...
Eye for an eye: Iran blinds man who carried out acid attackby Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Other acid attackers have been sentenced to be blinded in Iran but this is the first time it has been carried out, amid condemnation from human rights groups
In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, an Iranian man convicted of blinding another man in an acid attack has himself been blinded in one eye, marking the first time Iran has carried out such retributive punishment.
The convicted acid attacker, who has not been identified, was rendered unconscious in Rajaishahr prison in the city of Karaj on Tuesday as medics gouged out his left eye, according to the state-owned Hamshahri newspaper.
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Top US Lawman Calls for Police, Court Reform in Ferguson
Voice of America U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for "immediate, wholesale and constructive action" in police and municipal court practices in Ferguson, Missouri, a Midwestern city gripped by tension and intermittent violence since the August shooting death of an ... Ferguson police report: Most shocking partsCNN On Ferguson, A Stark Choice: Real Reform or Petty PoliticsHuffington Post Can Ferguson do what it takes to reform its police?Vox NBCNews.com -Bloomberg -Minneapolis Star Tribune all 3,274 news articles » |
Michael Brown's family to file wrongful death lawsuitby Tom McCarthy in New York
Lawyers for the family of 18-year-old killed in Ferguson said they would file a civil case, a day after DoJ said it would not bring charges against Darren Wilson
Lawyers for the family of Michael Brown, the teenager killed last summer in Ferguson, Missouri, said on Thursday they would file a wrongful death civil case on behalf of the family.
“We are officially in the process of formulating a civil case that we anticipate will be filed shortly on behalf of the family,” said Anthony Gray, an attorney for the family.
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A passenger plane has skidded off the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York where the ground is covered in snow.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities say a Delta plane from Atlanta has skidded off a runway while landing at LaGuardia Airport and has crashed through a fence....
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Plane skids off snowy runway at New York's LaGuardia airportby Jessica Glenza in New York
Delta plane appears to have made crash landing on day where travel woes caused by a winter storm are plaguing the US from the south-east to New England
A plane skidded off the runway at LaGuardia airport in New York on Thursday, the latest example of travel woes plaguing the US from Texas to Connecticut as a major storm stretches across the country.
Laguardia Airport: 131 passengers/crew on plane. 24 non-life-threatening injuries, 3 of whom transported at this time pic.twitter.com/UlvDtcuHUF
We just crash landed at LGA. I'm terrified. Please...
We have all been evacuated. Everyone is safe. Thank you for your prayers. God is good.
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In many respects, Karachayevo-Cherkessia is the poster child among the republics of the North Caucasus. But one trend that mars this picture is the apparent lack of professionalism and objectivity of the republic's courts.
Brown Family to Sue City of Ferguson, Officerby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The family of the unarmed black teenager slain last summer by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, plans to file a wrongful death civil lawsuit, their lawyers said Thursday. Daryl Parks, lead attorney for the family of Michael Brown, said the suit naming the City of Ferguson and officer Darren Wilson would be filed “soon.” The announcement comes the day after the U.S. Justice Department announced it would not bring civil rights charges against Wilson. But the department also...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union said on Thursday it had extended a freeze on the assets of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and 17 others suspected of stealing from the Ukrainian state.
Heroin addict Kelly Emery has been found guilty of the manslaughter of two-year-old Fenton Hogan
A heroin addict has been jailed for six years for killing her two-year-old son by feeding him methadone.
Kelly Emery, 34, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Fenton Hogan but cleared of giving him the heroin substitute on two other occasions before his death in July 2013.
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Boston Marathon bombing survivors, family and friends arrive to federal court Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Boston, during the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three and injured 260 people in April 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Passengers are evacuated from a Delta airlines plane after the aircraft skidded off the runway at LaGuardia airport in New York on Thursday. With the latest major storm stretching across the country, airports have reported deteriorating conditions causing cancelations and delays. More than 4,000 flights around the US have been canceled, as far south as Dallas, Texas, extending to LaGuardia in New York and Reagan National in Washington Continue reading...
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A Turkish warplane has crashed near the central Anatolian city of Konya, killing the two pilots. Report by Claire Lomas.
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In one of her final acts as a sitting MP, the former home secretary has written a report on the intelligence services that wasn’t leaked in advance
With Judi Dench breathing her last next to the grave of 007’s Mum on his ancestral estate in Scotland at the end of Skyfall, the James Bond producers missed an Oedipal trick in casting Ralph Fiennes as the new M. Given a little more time and imagination, they might have brought in Hazel Blears. Her credentials are impeccable. Former home secretary, the only woman on the intelligence and security committee and now, in one of her final acts as a sitting MP, she has written a report on the intelligence services that wasn’t leaked in advance. That’s a rare talent.
“Keep your hands off Moneypenny, Bond,” Blears snapped, as she prepared to make her announcement. Bond looked sheepish and sloped off to report himself to the MI6 diversity and equality committee. Up till now, the existence of that committee had been one of the country’s best kept secrets, but Blears wanted more transparency. In particular, she wanted more female spooks. At present, men account for more than 80% of those working for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ and Blears, quite reasonably, reckoned that it was about time more women got to take out foreign agents and leave their briefcases in Vauxhall pubs.
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Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service, suffered damaging leaks this week, literally. The question is: Who stole the taps?
NATO Official: Putin's Suppression to Blame for Nemtsov's Death by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Vladimir Putin is seeking to turn Ukraine into a failed state while silencing dissent at home, a top NATO official said on Thursday, suggesting the Russian President was ultimately responsible for the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. "President Putin's aim seems to be to turn Ukraine into a failed state and to suppress and discredit alternative voices in Russia," said NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow. "We've seen that the victims are not...
RIYADH/DOHA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is pushing for Sunni Muslim Middle East countries to set aside differences over political Islam and focus on what it sees as more urgent threats from Iran and Islamic State.
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A Delta flight went off the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, stopping just short of Flushing Bay.
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A senior NATO official says Russian troops are dying in combat in "large numbers" in eastern Ukraine, where they have been fighting along pro-Russian rebels since last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the late 1980s, support for gay marriage was essentially unheard of in America. Just a quarter century later, it's now favored by clear majority of Americans....
Motive Unknown in Attack on US South Korea Ambassadorby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The motive behind an attack on U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert is unknown, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. Lippert, 42, underwent two-and-a-half hours of surgery after he was slashed in the face and wrist by a knife-wielding Korean nationalist in Seoul about 7:40 a.m. local time Thursday (2240 GMT Wednesday). “We cannot speculate on a motive at this time,” the State Department statement said. The assailant, Kim Ki-jong, 55, was quickly subdued by participants...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Tuesday, taking aim at Iran's nuclear program. The fallout from the speech, which was deeply polarizing in the United States and in Israel, is still being gauged. Netanyahu heaped invective on the regime in Tehran, likening its agenda to that of the extremist Islamic State, and called on U.S. politicians to question the point of talking to Iran — much to the chagrin of the Obama administration, which is keen on reaching an accord with Tehran.Read full article >>
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Massive craters are appearing in one of the most remote places on earth. CNN's Lynda Kinkade reports on this deepening mystery.
Ukraine's Coal Pits Dangerous in Peacetime, Deadlier in Warby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Ivan Lazarenko, one of those pulled out alive after an explosion at a mine near the front line in rebel-held east Ukraine killed 33 workers, lay in hospital on Thursday, still unconscious and in bandages. If he recovers, it will not be the first time this year he had escaped death at the mine: he was trapped once in an elevator when the mine was hit by incoming fire, cutting power in the pit, said his wife Tatyana Kosenko. “Yesterday I was getting ready for work and they called me to...
While Europe's leaders wrestle with the challenges of a tortured present, Germany seems hauled back to its history, as if condemned never to overcome it.
The ex-wife of a high profile prosecutor who in January died under mysterious circumstances revealed a report by top forensic specialists on Thursday asserting that he was the victim of a homicide.
Iranian Official Says Caspian Legal Status Nearly Resolvedby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ibrahim Rahimpour has expressed optimism that the legal status of the Caspian Sea could finally be resolved at the next summit of Caspian littoral states.
(Reuters) - Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), led by President Mahmoud Abbas, decided on Thursday to stop all forms of security coordination with Israel, Palestinian officials said.
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