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| Los Angeles man arrested over Twitter threat to shoot random pedestrian | |  A 20-year-old man has been arrested in Los Angeles after writing on Twitter that he would shoot a random pedestrian if people retweeted his message 100 times on the social media website, police said on Friday. Dakkari Dijon McAnuff posted a photo on his Twitter account earlier this week of a rifle resting on what appeared to be an upper floor balcony railing, pointed down at a darkened street, police said. McAnuff posted, "100 RT's (retweets) and I'll shoot someone walking," according to police, who did not say if the message had been retweeted 100 times. McAnuff was arrested on Wednesday at his downtown Los Angeles home, where they found an air rifle but not a gun, police said.
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| Venezuela's Maduro gives ultimatum to Caracas protesters | |  By Deisy Buitrago and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro warned protesters in Caracas on Saturday to clear a square they have made their stronghold, or face eviction by security forces. Plaza Altamira, in upscale east Caracas, has been a focus of anti-government protests and violence during six weeks of unrest around Venezuela that has killed 28 people. "If they don't retreat, I'm going to liberate those spaces with the security forces," Maduro added. "They have a few hours to go home ... Chuckys, get ready, we're coming for you." Students and other protesters have been using the square, in the pro-opposition Chacao district of Caracas, as a rallying point since a wave of protests started to gather steam in mid-February.
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| Armed police burst into Crimean hotel on eve of referendum | | | Armed police burst into a hotel in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, on Saturday night on the eve of a referendum aimed at deciding whether the Ukrainian region leaves Ukraine and becomes part of Russia. Witnesses saw around 30 men in balaclavas carrying automatic weapons inside the Hotel Moscow, a Soviet-era hotel popular with Western reporters covering Sunday's referendum. Crimean Defence Minister Valery Kuznetsov told reporters that police were reacting to an alert which turned out to be false. The incident occurred at a time when Russian state media has ratcheted up its anti-Western rhetoric, accusing the West of supporting what it says are fascist elements within Ukraine's provisional government. |
| Factbox - Indonesia's election year | | | Indonesia holds parliamentary and presidential elections this year in what could bring major change to the way the world's third largest democracy is run. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in the last year of his second term and is barred by the constitution from running again. DATES March 16 - Campaigning for the parliamentary election starts April 9 - Parliamentary election April 26 - Vote counting starts, until May 6 May 7 - Official result due to be declared July 9 - Presidential election July 26 - Winner due to be announced, if no runoff September 9 - Presidential election runoff if no clear winner in the first round September 26 - Winner due to be announced October 20 - New president inaugurated REQUIREMENTS A party, or coalition of parties, must win at least 25 percent of the national vote or 20 percent of parliamentary seats to nominate a presidential candidate. |
| Indonesia starts election campaign, voters set to choose radical change | | | By Jonathan Thatcher JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's raucous election season kicks off on Sunday with the promise of a fresh style of leadership in the world's third largest democracy, whose economic promise has been sapped by rampant graft, confusing policy and weak rule. An uncertain election outlook abruptly changed on Friday when the main PDI-P opposition party named the hugely popular governor of Jakarta as its candidate for July's presidential election. That lifted even further its chances of dominating the parliamentary election on April 9. Opinion polls suggest the presidency is governor Joko Widodo's to lose, with old-style contenders ex-general Prabowo Subianto and tycoon Aburizal Bakrie trailing far behind. |
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