2015年11月9日星期一

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U. of Missouri president, chancellor agree to resign over race complaints

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 04:34 PM PST

University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe speaks on the phone in a room in University Hall on campus near late Sunday night, Nov. 8, 2015, in Columbia, Mo. Earlier in the afternoon, Wolfe released a statement pertaining to a future "systemwide diversity and inclusion strategy" for the UM System. The statement was the latest response to growing unrest at on the campus, ranging from graduate student rights to a lack of response over matters of race and discrimination. (Bea Costa-Lima/Missourian via AP)Both leaders faced a campus revolt over racial tensions at the school.

Obama, Netanyahu minimize differences, renew call for peace

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 02:59 PM PST

President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. The president and prime minister sought to mend their fractured relationship during their meeting, the first time they have talked face to face in more than a year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON (AP) — Minimizing sharp differences, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed their commitment to seeking elusive Middle East peace on Monday, though prospects for an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians appear ever further out of reach.

Jeb Bush: ‘Hell yeah I would’ kill baby Hitler

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Pentagon to list alternative U.S. sites to Guantanamo prison

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 03:41 PM PST

File photo of detainees sitting in a holding area at Naval Base Guantanamo BayThe Pentagon is expected to unveil a long-awaited plan this week outlining how it would close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite fierce resistance in Congress to President Barack Obama's push to shutter the facility, officials say. The plan would have four sections, one detailing potential U.S. alternatives for detainees, including the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado, one of the more promising locations, one U.S. official said. A small Defense Department team has surveyed facilities including the Consolidated Naval Brig in South Carolina and the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado, the Pentagon has said.

Jordanian officer shoots dead two Americans, one South African at security training site

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 03:11 PM PST

Jordan's King Abdullah visits a man in hospital who was wounded in a shooting at a U.S.-funded police training facility, in AmmanBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian officer shot dead two U.S. government security contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a U.S. funded police training facility near Amman on Monday before being killed in a shootout, Jordanian authorities said. U.S. President Barack Obama said he was treating the attack at the King Abdullah Training Center, in which three Jordanians and one Lebanese citizen were wounded, very seriously and a full investigation was under way. The gunman was a police captain, a senior Jordanian official told Reuters.

University of Missouri president, chancellor out after race protest

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 04:13 PM PST

University of Missouri president resigns amid race protestBy Anthony Romano COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) - The University of Missouri's president stepped down on Monday and its chancellor moved aside after protests by the school's football team and other students over what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus. President Tim Wolfe's high-profile resignation, followed by news that Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin would be moved to a new job, was the latest shock to the state of Missouri, and the United States at large, which has been roiled for more than a year by racial tensions after police shot and killed an unarmed young black man in the state. Unrest at the university, widely known as "Mizzou," started on Sept. 12 when Payton Head, president of the Missouri Students Association, said on his Facebook page that he was repeatedly racially abused on campus by someone riding in a pickup truck.

2 Americans among 5 killed in rare Jordan police shooting

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 02:38 PM PST

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian police captain opened fire Monday on instructors at an international police training center in Jordan's capital, killing at least five people, including two Americans, before being shot dead by security forces.

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