LAPD Not Fit to Investigate Itself in Shooting of Skid Row Homeless Man
Full Article Huffington Post
03 Mar 2015

At a news conference yesterday, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck presented photographic evidence to convince us the homeless man who was shot dead by police officers in Los Angeles on Sunday, had tried to grab one of the cop's guns. Although he obviously had no qualms about pushing his own theory, Beck admonished the rest of us schlubs to not "rush to...

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Suzette Shaw, left, a homeless woman, joins others protesting a police shooting of a homeless man on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in downtown Los Angeles.
photo: AP / Nick Ut

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LAPD Chief: Homeless Man 'Forcibly Grabbed' Officer's Gun |Skid Row Shooting News Conference VIDEO
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LAPD Skid Row Homeless Shooting, Jodi Arias Death Penalty + Aaron Hernandez
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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LAPD Caught On Video Shooting Homeless Man To Death on Skid Row
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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LAPD Chief: Homeless Man 'Forcibly Grabbed' Officer's Gun |Skid Row Shooting News Conference
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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Los Angeles Police Say Homeless Man Grabbed Officer&s; Gun Before He Was Shot Dead
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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Homeless Man Grabs Cop's Gun, Then is Shot to Death
How the U.S. and Iran found common interests in unlikely places
Full Article CNN
03 Mar 2015

(CNN)In 1984 Margaret Thatcher met Mikhail Gorbachev (before he became Soviet leader) for the first time. Asked of her impressions, she said: "We can do business together. We both believe in our own political systems. He firmly believes in his; I firmly believe in mine. We are never going to change one another." "Doing business together" might sum...

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File - In this Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen fire at Islamic State group positions during an operation outside Amirli, some 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Pledges Support for Iraq in Fight Against ISIS
updated 17 Jun 2014; published 17 Jun 2014
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U.S. Sends Special Forces Troops to Iraq as ISIS Insurgency Worsens
updated 24 Sep 2014; published 24 Sep 2014
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Good Atoms or Bad Atoms? Iran and the Nuclear Issue: Q&A; with Jo-Anne Hart
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Iran's Khamenei Says would Go Along With 'good' Nuclear Deal
updated 14 Nov 2014; published 14 Nov 2014
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ISIS Tilting the Chess Board: The Dawn of a New Middle East Balance of Power - H. van Lynden lecture
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[HOT NEWS] VIDEO PROPHECY ALERT- Iran Strikes ISIS In Iraq - Dec 04, 2014
Funeral Of Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Held In Moscow
Full Article Huffington Post
03 Mar 2015

MOSCOW (AP) — One by one, thousands of mourners and dignitaries filed past the white-lined coffin of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov on Tuesday, many offering flowers as they paid their last respects to one of the most prominent figures of Russia's beleaguered opposition. So many came, that when the viewing ended after its scheduled four hours,...

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Boris Nemtsov's mother Dina Eidman, center, relatives and friends stand at the coffin during a burial ceremony at Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev

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Boris Nemtsov Critic Shot Dead in Moscow | Борис Немцов УБИЙСТВО | (VIDEO)
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Boris Nemtsov Funeral: Russians pay final respects to murdered Kremlin critic
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Russia Bars Prominent Allies From Boris Nemtsov's Funeral
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Russian Opposition Bids Farewell to Slain Vladimir Putin Critic Boris Nemtsov
updated 04 Mar 2015; published 04 Mar 2015
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Was Boris Nemtsov the Last Hope for Putin Opposition?
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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Boris Nemtsov funeral. Russia restricts foreign mourners - Борис Немцов похороны. Россия
Libya government in Tobruk votes to return to UN talks
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Mar 2015

More to this story If we fail in Libya, is there hope in other places? Libya on brink of collapse four years after revolution Libya anniversary: 'The situation is just terrible' Libya's UN-recognised government has voted to return to UN-brokered talks on the future of the crisis-hit country, a week after suspending its participation, a politician...

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File - Bernardino Leon, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), briefs journalists on talks taking place in Geneva, aimed at bringing peace to Libya, 14 January, 2015.
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferre

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Libyan government army declares ceasefire
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Libya crisis: UN talks between rival governments suspended
updated 23 Oct 2014; published 23 Oct 2014
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Intervention in Libya ‘unacceptable,’ Turkish government says
updated 24 Feb 2015; published 24 Feb 2015
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VOA news for Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
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Libya supreme court 'invalidates' elected parliament
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Al-Thini Calls for Naval Observer Force Off Libyan Coast
Obama: Iran should halt nuclear work for decade
Full Article BBC News
03 Mar 2015

President Barack Obama has said Iran should agree to at least a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if a landmark deal is to be finally reached. In an interview with Reuters, Mr Obama also said the odds were still against such an agreement happening. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to oppose a deal in a speech to...

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President Barack Obama says Iran should halt nuclear work for decade
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Obama: IRAN should halt Nuclear work for Decade
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Barack Obama: 'nothing new' in Benjamin Netanyahu's Iran speech
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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Obama Seeks Iran Nuclear Freeze as Netanyahu Speech Nears: Breaking News
updated 03 Mar 2015; published 03 Mar 2015
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Obama Iran Should Halt Nuclear Work For Decade
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Obama seeks Iran nuclear freeze as Netanyahu speech nears
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Obama Iran should halt nuclear work for decade

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Al Jazeera
The political rift between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become evermore personal with the latter's visit to Washington this week. But...
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CNN
(CNN)Over the weekend, Los Angeles Police Department officers shot a man known as "Africa." The killing was caught on video by bystanders as well as by currently un-released...

A Cambodian monk reads a booklet on the U.N,-backed genocide tribunal at a Battambang university in Battambang province, some 290 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, May 6, 2011, as the court officers distribute recent verdict books of Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch.
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Kong Sothanarith PHNOM PENHCambodia's U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has formally charged two more suspects with crimes against humanity, a development that comes days after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned against such a move. The international...
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Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, during a meeting to discuss the spread of the Ebola virus with government officials and health workers in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history surpassed 700 deaths in West Africa as the World Health Organization on Thursday announced dozens of new fatalities.
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Lisa Bryant, Benno Muchler PARIS/MONROVIA— Leaders from the three West African countries hardest hit by Ebola are calling for more international aid to help them emerge from the devastating outbreak. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation before the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
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VOA News Likely 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used a personal email account to conduct official business as secretary of state, according to the State Department. The New York Times reported the revelation, saying Clinton may have...
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File -  An Iraqi army soldier from Charlie Company 1st Battalion 1st Brigade 4th Infantry Division searches an Iraqi civilian at a traffic checkpoint setup by the Iraqi army just outside the city of Bayji, Iraq. 13 January 2006.
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We air the second part of our two-day interview with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. Chomsky is institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught for more than 50...
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Blindfolded Mahmoud Asgari, 16, left, and another unidentified teenager are set to be publicly hanged, in Mashhad, Iran, on charges of raping boys in this photo taken on July 19, 2005.
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Reuters GENEVA— Iran had a “deeply troubling” number of executions last year and did not keep a promise to protect ethnic and religious minorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday in its annual report on Tehran's human rights...
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President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete and Deputy Secretaries.
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Reuters DAR ES SALAAM— Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete promised to end a wave of killings of albinos, saying the witchcraft-related murders were shaming his east African nation. Activists said attackers have killed at least 75 albinos in...
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In this Saturday, May 17, 2014 photo, Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter addresses a press conference in Benghazi, Libya. The death toll from fighting over the weekend in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi between troops loyal to Hifter, a rogue general, and Islamist militias has risen to at least 70, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. In a statement late Saturday, Libya's interim prime minister, parliament speaker and the head of military warned Hifter against further pursuing his offensive and threatened the troops cooperating with him.
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Benghazi , March 02: A once-retired general leading a sweeping offensive against Islamists has been named Libyan army chief, an official said today, in a move expected to deepen divisions in the conflict-riven country. "I've chosen Major General...
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