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• Reports: Ferguson grand jury still undecided, reconvening Monday
• Barricades go up in St. Louis County as decision looms
• 'Moment of truth' nears in Iran nuclear talks
• Missouri town on edge awaiting grand jury decision on police shooting
• Volunteer snow shovelers hit Buffalo streets as flooding fears rise
• Four dead in murder-suicide on South Dakota reservation, police say
• Biden announces new aid for Syrian refugees
• Rising tension ahead of Ferguson grand jury decision
• Kerry says gaps remain in talks about Iran's nukes
• Civic group: No Ferguson grand jury decision yet
• Activist group: US-led Syria strikes kill over 900

Reports: Ferguson grand jury still undecided, reconvening Monday Posted: 22 Nov 2014 02:53 PM PST The 12-member panel is still reviewing the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Barricades go up in St. Louis County as decision looms Posted: 22 Nov 2014 12:00 PM PST On Saturday, grand jury watch started to feel more like a hurricane watch here in the heart of St. Louis County. Workers scrambled Saturday morning to barricade police headquarters and other government buildings, residents grabbed supplies at a corner store and some shop owners finished boarding up windows.

'Moment of truth' nears in Iran nuclear talks Posted: 22 Nov 2014 12:14 PM PST Iran and world powers still appeared a long way off from a nuclear deal late Saturday with US Secretary of State John Kerry and officials on both sides warning of major gaps two days before a deadline. Kerry, who on Friday postponed a trip to Paris to remain in Vienna, met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday afternoon, their fourth meeting in three days. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in the Austrian capital since Saturday midday, called this final weekend of talks, after months of negotiations, a "moment of truth". At stake is a historic deal in which Iran would curb its nuclear activities in exchange for broad relief from years of heavy international economic sanctions.

Missouri town on edge awaiting grand jury decision on police shooting Posted: 22 Nov 2014 03:56 PM PST By Daniel Wallis FERGUSON Mo (Reuters) - An uneasy quiet settled over Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday evening after another day without a decision from a grand jury on whether to bring charges against a white police officer for fatally shooting a black teen. With the St. Louis suburb and the rest of the country waiting for an announcement, activists and police have been taking steps to avert more street violence. The Aug. 9 shooting triggered months of protests and a national debate over police violence. ...

Volunteer snow shovelers hit Buffalo streets as flooding fears rise Posted: 22 Nov 2014 03:55 PM PST By Aaron Ingrao BUFFALO (Reuters) - As temperatures near Buffalo, New York, rose above freezing on Saturday, volunteers fanned out to help their neighbors clear the walls of snow that have paralyzed parts of the region this week, but the warming trend also raised the threat of flooding. More than 200 volunteers, called the Shovel Brigade Mob, armed themselves with shovels and headed into neighborhoods south of downtown Buffalo. The group said some residents were still stuck in their homes, days after a lake-effect system clobbered the region with up to seven feet of snow. ...

Four dead in murder-suicide on South Dakota reservation, police say Posted: 22 Nov 2014 09:55 AM PST SEATTLE (Reuters) - A South Dakota man shot and killed three people and critically wounded a fourth person before taking his own life at a residence on a Native American reservation, law enforcement officials said Saturday. Local police cooperating with Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Police had launched an early morning manhunt for the shooting suspect but later said the gunman was among the dead found inside a residence in the city of Sisseton, on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation. ...

Biden announces new aid for Syrian refugees Posted: 22 Nov 2014 11:02 AM PST Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan emerged from a nearly four-hour meeting Saturday, offering no indication that the U.S. and Turkey had bridged their differences about how to deal with Islamic State fighters or Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Rising tension ahead of Ferguson grand jury decision Posted: 22 Nov 2014 08:25 AM PST Tensions were high on Saturday in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, with a US grand jury poised to decide whether to prosecute a white police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager. US President Barack Obama has called for calm, Missouri's governor declared a state of emergency and activated the state National Guard, and the FBI has deployed an extra 100 personnel to the area. Police helicopters trained search lights over Ferguson late Friday as a small gaggle of protesters braved the cold to demand that officer Darren Wilson stand trial for shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown dead on August 9.

Kerry says gaps remain in talks about Iran's nukes Posted: 22 Nov 2014 11:47 AM PST U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned of "serious gaps" in talks about a nuclear deal with Iran, but as Monday's deadline approached his German counterpart said Tehran and six world powers have "never been closer" to agreement since they started negotiating more than six years ago.

Civic group: No Ferguson grand jury decision yet Posted: 22 Nov 2014 03:03 PM PST FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Crews erected barricades Saturday around the building where a grand jury has been considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, even as a grand jury decision seemed unlikely this weekend.

Activist group: US-led Syria strikes kill over 900 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 03:54 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) — A prominent Syrian activist group monitoring its civil war says U.S.-led airstrikes in the country have killed over 900 people since September, many fighters of the militant Islamic State group, though some civilians as well.

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