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| Obama, frustrated by Congress, plans unilateral U.S. gun control steps | | Saturday, January 02, 2016 2:23 AM | |
|  President Barack Obama, frustrated by Congress' inaction on gun control, will meet with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways of reducing gun violence unilaterally through measures that do not require congressional approval. Obama, in his weekly recorded address, said on Friday he has received "too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing." He has repeatedly urged Congress to tighten gun laws. "A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence," Obama said in the address.
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| Eight killed in Guatemala prison fight -official | | Saturday, January 02, 2016 2:21 AM | |
| | A fight at an overcrowded Guatemalan prison killed at least eight prisoners and wounded 20, the country's interior minister said on Friday. An altercation between two inmates turned into a battle between rival gangs at the prison in Puerto Barrios, about 185 miles (300 km) northeast of the capital, said Interior Minister Eunice Mendizabal, who arrived at the prison after the incident. Mendizabal said there were nearly 1,000 prisoners in the prison that was designed to hold 400. |
| Two shot dead in Tel Aviv, Israeli Arab named as fugitive suspect | | Saturday, January 02, 2016 2:17 AM | |
|  By Rami Amichay TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A gunman identified by relatives as a member of Israel's Arab minority killed two people on a bustling thoroughfare in central Tel Aviv on Friday before fleeing, an incident that ramped up tensions after three months of Palestinian street violence. Security camera footage showed the assailant, who appeared to be in his mid-to-late 20s and wore protective eyeglasses and a windbreaker, browsing dried fruit at a health food store on Dizengoff Street. "Large-scale police forces are conducting searches for him." Nati Shakked, owner of the next-door Simta bar where several people were hit while they celebrated a birthday, told Israel's Channel 2 TV: "It was a terrorist attack, without a doubt." Sami Melhem, an Israeli Arab lawyer, said the shooter was a relative of his, whose father, a police volunteer, had come forward to identify him to authorities after the security footage aired.
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| Turkish presidency says Erdogan's Hitler comments misconstrued | |  The Turkish presidency said on Friday comments by President Tayyip Erdogan about the system of governance in Hitler's Germany had been misinterpreted and that he had not suggested it was an example of an effective presidential system. Asked on his return from a visit to Saudi Arabia late on Thursday whether an executive presidency was possible in Turkey while maintaining the unitary structure of the state, Erdogan said: "There are already examples in the world. You can see it when you look at Hitler's Germany.
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| Belgium releases three held over New Year attack plot | |  Belgian investigators released three people on Friday after questioning them over an alleged plot to attack the capital on New Year's Eve which forced the cancellation of the city's annual fireworks display. Police had detained six people after searches at seven locations in and near Brussels on Thursday. In the same investigation, two Belgian nationals detained earlier this week and named as 30-year-old Said S. and 27-year-old Mohammed K., are being held on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, prosecutors said.
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| Two killed in shooting on Tel Aviv thoroughfare, Israel mystified by motive | | Security camera footage aired on Israel's Channel 10 television showed the assailant, who appeared to be in his mid-to-late 20s and wore protective eyeglasses and a windbreaker, browsing dried fruit at a delicatessen on Dizengoff Street. "Large-scale police forces are conducting searches for him." Nati Shakked, owner of the next-door Simta bar where there were several casualties, told Israel's Channel 2 TV: "It was a terrorist attack, without a doubt." Israel has seen a wave of Palestinian street attacks since October, fuelled in part by Muslim anger over stepped-up Jewish visits to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque complex, also sacred to Jews, as well as the lack of any progress towards peace with Israel. The violence has been encouraged by Islamist groups that preach Israel's destruction.
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| Return of Texas 'affluenza' teen delayed, mother jailed in U.S | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Dave Graham LOS ANGELES/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Texas teenager derided for his "affluenza" defense in a deadly drunken-driving case won a weeks-long delay in extradition from Mexico, while his mother was in a Los Angeles jail on Thursday after being deported. A court in Mexico granted fugitive 18-year-old Ethan Couch, who faces likely incarceration in Texas, a stay against deportation following his illegal entry into the country, a Mexican migration official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Ethan and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, entered the country by land earlier this month, according to Mexican officials, though it was unclear where.
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| British man arrested at Amsterdam airport for false bomb threat | | | Dutch police said they arrested a 29-year-old British man at gunpoint at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Friday after he shouted several times that he had a bomb. The man, whose identity is not being released in accordance with Dutch privacy laws, did not have a bomb, said spokesman Eric Vermeulen of the Dutch Royal Marechaussee, or border police. Vermeulen said the man is being interrogated to see what his motivation was. |
| Police says no bomb found in Moscow's railway stations - RIA | | | Security services have completed checks at two Moscow railway stations and found no bombs after they were tipped off about explosives being planted there, RIA news agency cited an emergency services source as saying. RIA had reported that around 500 people had been evacuated from Paveletsky station and the same number from Kursky station. Police in Moscow declined immediate comment. |
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