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President-elect Donald Trump will likely not pull the US out of a nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers once he takes office, US President Barack Obama said Monday. During a press conference in Washington, Obama said that he sees a 'gap' between 'reality' and the 'rhetoric' of his successor, who has previously vowed to rip up the accord. Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. 'It becomes more difficult, I think, to undo something that’s working than undo something that isn’t working,' Obama said of the nuclear deal signed during his administration between Tehran and the P5+1 world powers. Advisers to Trump have said he plans to strictly police the Iran nuclear deal formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which the 45th commander in-chief has referred to as one of the worst ever negotiated in history.

The agreement lays out the lifting of sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran's curtailing of its nuclear program. Sweeping aside doubts that Iran would abide by the deal, Obama said evidence over the past year indicates that the Islamic Republic has heeded its stipulations. 'We now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the agreement. That’s not just my opinion.

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It’s not just people in my administration,' he asserted. 'That’s the opinion of Israeli military and intelligence officers who are part of a government that vehemently opposed the deal.

' In his warning that Trump will encounter a quick wake-up call when he enters the White House in January, Obama noted that the act of torpedoing the US end of the deal could ultimately lead to a situation in which Iran faces no repercussions in its pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Obama said he believed Trump would rollback on his campaign vows to completely scrap the deal after further review with congressional representatives and advisers. 'When you are responsible for the deal and preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, you’re more likely to look at the facts,' he said, adding, 'to unravel a deal that’s working and preventing Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon would be hard to explain, particularly if the alternative were to have them free from any obligations and go ahead and pursue a weapon. ' Obama also mentioned that the consequences of America's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal would impact Washington's relations with the five other world powers that signed the deal: Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany. According to Obama, for the US 'to pull out would then require us to start sanctioning those other countries in Europe or China or Russia, that were still abiding by the deal, because from their perspective, Iran had done what it was supposed to do. ' Following Trump's election last week, Iran urged the brash billionaire real estate mogul to remain committed to the international deal. On Sunday, a senior Obama administration official said the Treasury Department will offer Trump a policy toolkit on Iran full of hammers and screws when he becomes president.

Adam Szubin, who serves as acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, said he plans to present as many options as possible to his successor on Iran policy, after focusing for several years on the machinations of sanctions against Iran and its proxies. Michael Wilner contributed to this report. Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin Think others should know about this? Please share 2016-11-15 07:02 1.8 (10.99/15).

Two newly elected Hong Kong separatist lawmakers who altered their oaths by adding anti-China insults were disqualified from taking office in a court decision Tuesday. A High Court judge ruled that Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching of the Youngspiration party violated a section of the semiautonomous Chinese city's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, as well as laws covering oaths taken by officials. The judge sided with Hong Kong's leader, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, and Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen, who had filed a legal challenge aimed at preventing the two from taking their seats, arguing that they had effectively declined to take their oaths by distorting them at the swearing-in ceremony last month. The provocative tactics by Leung, 30, and Yau, 25, also included displaying a flag that said 'Hong Kong is Not China' and using an old-fashioned derogatory Japanese term for China. Yau inserted a curse word into her pledge while Leung crossed his fingers. In an unprecedented step, Beijing responded by handing down its own interpretation of the Basic Law last week, circumventing Hong Kong's courts and raising fears that the city's wide autonomy and independent judiciary under Chinese rule were being undermined. China's top legislative panel, the National People's Congress Standing Committee, sparked protests with its decision that anyone advocating independence for Hong Kong should be disqualified from office, ruling out a second chance for Leung and Yau to take their oaths.

Hong Kong courts are required to enforce such rulings, though Justice Thomas Au said it had no effect on his decision. 'By seeking to make a mockery of China and the People's Republic of China in a derogatory and humiliating manner, it is objectively plain that Mr. Leung and Ms. Yau refused to pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China,' the judge said.

Trump names Priebus and Bannon as top aides, California National Guard interpreters say they're owed bonuses, UC and Cal State are considering their first tuition hikes in 6 years, and L. Metro has a policing proposal. Students from Roosevelt High School walked out of class to join other students in an anti-Trump protest. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) Trump protesters march in downtown Los Angeles for a fourth night in a row. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Adam Mirghanbari is a self-proclaimed Rams super fan and is living his dream working for the team.

“People were scared to say they were voting for him,” Audrey Kaatz, 27, said about President-elect Donald Trump as she stepped away from the bang of a cash register and the thrum of hair dryers at the upscale salon in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she works. Video by Caitlin O'Hara / For The Times “People were scared to say they were voting for him,” Audrey Kaatz, 27, said about President-elect Donald Trump as she stepped away from the bang of a cash register and the thrum of hair dryers at the upscale salon in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she works. Video by Caitlin O'Hara / For The Times 2016-11-15 05:55 1.1 (8.99/15). MOSCOW -- Russia’s top investigative body says it has detained a long-serving Russian minister over an alleged $2 million bribe. The Investigative Committee said in a statement early Tuesday that Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev was detained late Monday after he allegedly received a $2 million bribe in a sting set by the FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency.

The investigators said Ulyukayev took the bribe for giving the green light to state-controlled oil giant Rosneft to take part in bidding for another oil company. Ulyukayev, who held the post since 2013 and worked as deputy minister for many years, is a known liberal figure. He has opposed Rosneft’s bidding for Bashneft, insisting that it would be wrong for a state-owned company to take part in a privatization drive. 2016-11-15 08:18 0.0 (8.99/15). United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he hopes Donald Trump will shift course on global warming and 'understand the seriousness and urgency' of addressing the problem. Ban said Tuesday that 'as president of the United States I'm sure that he will understand this, he will listen and he will evaluate his campaign remarks.

' Trump has called global warming a 'hoax' on social media and pledged during his campaign to 'cancel' the landmark Paris climate agreement adopted last year. Speaking to reporters at his last U.

Climate conference as secretary-general, Ban said he's sure the president-elect 'will make a good, wise decision and I'm going to discuss this matter more in person. ' 2016-11-15 07:54 2.1 (8.99/15). A 25-year-old pro-independence activist who has been disqualified from Hong Kong’s parliament has said she has no regrets over the crisis unleashed by her decision to defy Beijing. Yau Wai-ching, one of the leading figures of the Youngspiration party, became the youngest woman ever to be elected to the former colony’s legislative council in early September. But her decision, along with fellow Youngspiration activist Sixtus “Baggio” Leung, to attack China during a dramatic swearing-in ceremony last month, has sparked a bitter political row. On Tuesday, one week after Beijing took highly controversial steps to stop the pair taking office by tightening up the rules around the swearing-in ceremony, Hong Kong’s high court officially disqualified the two activists from assuming their positions in a move that is likely to provoke further protests. Speaking to the Guardian just before the ruling, Yau said she stood by her actions.

“We didn’t do anything wrong,” she said in an interview in the parliamentary office she must now vacate. “This is just what China must do to maintain their dictatorship, so we don’t think it is our fault.” On Tuesday, Yau told reporters outside Hong Kong’s high court that the ruling was not fair, “but it was expected”. She said: “[Since] the court adopted such measures to strip us of our lawmaker qualifications, I think you all have an idea what kind of society this is.” As recently as two years ago, Yau would never have anticipated playing a major role in one of the most severe political crises since Hong Kong was returned to Chinese hands in 1997. The pro-independence politician said her civil servant parents disapproved of television, so she turned to books. She studied Chinese classics at university where she penned her own versions, featuring homosexual relationships, of imperial love stories. After university, Yau got a job processing applications at the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. It was only in 2012 that she had her first brush with politics, taking part in marches against proposed reforms to Hong Kong’s education system that critics said was a Communist party attempt to brainwash the city’s youth.

Yau’s full immersion into the world of politics came during the 79-day umbrella movement street occupation, in 2014, which saw tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents take to the streets to demand greater democratic rights. Yau recalls looking on and feeling compelled to act as students, some of them still in secondary school, attempted to storm the legislature. “I thought I should take part instead of those students, they shouldn’t have to bear such a big responsibility. Adults like us should take more of a part.” When the umbrella protests ended, Yau decided to throw herself into conventional politics, first running unsuccessfully for a district council seat and then winning a seat in the 70-member legislature in early September.

She should have taken office last month following an oath-taking session on 12 October. But rather than read the formal oath, Yau and Leung sparked outrage in Beijing by holding up banners that read “Hong Kong is not China”. Yau went even further, declaring allegiance to a place she called the “People’s Refucking of Shina”. The incident outraged pro-Chinese opponents in the legislature and officials in Beijing. “It’s a tradition for the lawmakers to do something in the oath-taking session, so we did something, but we didn’t expect this reaction,” Yau said. Weeks of protests and vitriolic attacks from her critics have followed. One politician labelled Yau a “cancer cell” while a pro-China scholar referred to her as a “festering pustule”.

Even some pro-democracy activists and voters criticised her use of offensive language while still opposing China’s response to the incident. Eddie Chu, another newly elected politician who has promised to fight for greater autonomy from China, said the behaviour of Yau and Leung had “triggered a retaliation from Beijing”. “But it would have come sooner or later Beijing will try to create an atmosphere where a lot of pro-democracy legislators are in a firing range and they can pull the trigger whenever they want,” he said. Chu, who shouted “Democracy and self determination. Autocracy will die!” during the same swearing-in ceremony, is also in a vulnerable position in the current crisis. Pro-Beijing supporters are pushing for a review of whether he and seven other legislators should also be disqualified from office because of their protests at the oath-taking ceremony.

“I’m not worried at all,” Chu insisted of the potential case against him, which has yet to be accepted by the court. “I still have popular support.” In a sign of Beijing’s concern over growing support for the idea of independence in Hong Kong, President Xi Jinping recently declared that separating the country would be a “tragedy”.

“We will never allow any person, any organisation, any political party, at any time, in any way, to split from any part of China’s territory,” he said. Yau said she and her pro-independence supporters were a product of China’s hardline stance in dealing with issues it considers its “core interests”. “There will be a trend for more Hongkongers to be localist,” she said, using a term associated with a younger generation that hopes to distance the city politically from China. “If the government will keep up their actions and attitudes towards the public, most Hongkongers will turn into localists in the next few years. “If they don’t respect the values of Hongkongers, they can’t expect Hongkongers to fully obey.” She claimed that moderate pro-democracy politicians and activists had achieved little by working within Hong Kong’s traditional political system.

As a result she believed independence or “self-determination” were now the only ways to wrestle genuine democracy from Beijing. “We have to find another way to get what we want,” she said.

Political observers, however, fear the political climate in Hong Kong is likely to deteriorate as Beijing will not compromise with those daring to call for a split with China. “This is going to put a constraint on freedom of speech in Hong Kong,” said Ma Ngok, a politics professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Now political speech can get you disqualified from office It shows that China doesn’t care about the reaction of the people in Hong Kong.” 2016-11-15 07:09 6.9 (8.96/15). THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U. Armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says in a report, raising the possibility that American citizens could be indicted even though Washington has not joined the global court. “Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity on the territory of Afghanistan between 1 May 2003 and 31 December 2014,” according to the report issued by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s office on Monday. The report added that CIA operatives may have subjected at least 27 detainees in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania to “torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity and/or rape” between December 2002 and March 2008.

Most of the alleged abuse happened in 2003-2004, the report said. Prosecutors said they will decide “imminently” whether to seek authorization to open a full-scale investigation in Afghanistan that could lead to war crimes charges. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the U. Does not believe an ICC investigation is “warranted or appropriate.” “The United States is deeply committed to complying with the law of war, and we have a robust national system of investigation and accountability that more than meets international standards,” Trudeau said. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt.

Jeff Davis, said officials were awaiting more details about the ICC findings before commenting. Established in 2002, the International Criminal Court is the world’s first permanent court set up to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. More than 120 countries around the world are members, but superpowers including the United States, Russia and China have not signed up. President Bill Clinton signed the Rome treaty that established the court on Dec. 31, 2000, but President George W.

Bush renounced the signature, citing fears that Americans would be unfairly prosecuted for political reasons. Even though the United States is not a member of the court, Americans could still face prosecution at its headquarters in The Hague if they commit crimes within its jurisdiction in a country that is a member, such as Afghanistan, and are not prosecuted at home. So far, all of the ICC’s trials have dealt with crimes committed in Africa. Prosecutors say investigations also are reportedly underway in Poland, Romania and Lithuania — all signatories to the Rome Statute — into possible crimes at CIA detention facilities in those countries. The abuse allegations came in a wide-ranging annual report into the prosecution office’s so-called preliminary examinations, which involve studying reports of possible crimes to establish if they fall under the court’s jurisdiction. The same report said that Taliban and Afghan government forces also may have used torture and committed other atrocities in that country’s long and bitter conflict. The report says that the Taliban and its affiliates killed thousands of people and are suspected of committing war crimes including murder, recruiting and conscripting child soldiers and attacking civilians and humanitarian workers.

Referring to the alleged U. War crimes, the report said they “were not the abuses of a few isolated individuals. Donald Trump’s former campaign manager said Tuesday that former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani “could be” the next secretary of state.

“He certainly is a very close adviser of President-elect Trump’s,” Kellyanne Conway, who is now part of the presidential transition team, said on NBC’s “Today” program. “The mayor has [an] enormous skill set — would be an excellent member of the cabinet, and that’s where I’ll leave it,” she said. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Mr. Giuliani has “emerged as the favorite” for the job, with John Bolton, the former U.

Ambassador to the United Nations, also in the running. 2016-11-15 08:39 0.0 (8.78/15). Is slated to join protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. Also Tuesday, demonstrators across the county are expected to converge on Army Corps of Engineers offices and offices of banks that are financing the pipeline project. The protesters want President Barack Obama to permanently halt the construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline.

Kennedy is an environmental attorney and president of the New York-based Waterkeeper Alliance, which seeks to protect watersheds worldwide. The pipeline is to run beneath a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota that provides drinking water to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which says the pipeline threatens drinking water and cultural sites. The pipeline would deliver oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. 2016-11-15 08:19 2.2 (8.73/15).

Despite reports suggesting the contrary, a transition team official says Donald Trump did not request or begin paperwork to have his children gain top-level security clearance, according to a pool report. The official told the pool of reporters Monday that it wasn't something he was expecting right now. Three of the president-elect's children — Donald, Eric and Ivanka — as well as his son-in-law Jared Kushner, were named to Trump's ' Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee,' which includes high-profile advisers, donors and congressional lawmakers.

CBS News reported Monday that Trump had asked the White House for permission to give his family top security clearance, raising questions about possible conflicts of interest, considering his children's involvement in a business network the president-elect arranged and called a 'blind trust. ' 'I’m going to be a daughter,' Ivanka Trump told CBS News’ Lesley Stahl.

'But I’ve — I’ve said throughout the campaign that I am very passionate about certain issues. And that I want to fight for them.

' A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 2016-11-15 05:28 5.6 (7.99/15). 15 (UPI) -- Egypt's Court of Cassation on Monday overturned the death sentence of former President Mohamed Morsi, who now faces a new trial linked to the Arab Spring uprising that rocked the country in 2011. The court reversed a lower court's ruling from June 2015 to sentence Morsi to death for his involvement in jailbreaks and mass protests during uprisings in 2011 that removed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Morsi was democratically elected president in 2012, then overthrown the following year by a military coup. His party, the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, was outlawed, and thousands of supporters were arrested. In the ruling Tuesday, five of Morsi's co-defendants will be retried, and 21 more had their life sentences struck down.

Although Morsi was spared the death sentence by Egypt's highest court Tuesday, he remain jailed, sentenced to 45 years on other charges, including espionage on behalf of other countries. He also awaits additional trials on terrorism and other spying-related charges. In October the Court of Cassation upheld a 20-year sentence for Morsi for inciting violence. Egypt has seen regular incidents of protest and political violence since 2011. The activist organization Human Rights Watch has referred to the current administration of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as a 'human rights crisis' in which dissenters against the government routinely have their rights violated.

2016-11-15 08:16 0.5 (7.99/15). Russian authorities said Tuesday they have charged Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev with bribe-taking after he was detained on suspicion of taking a two-million-dollar payoff over a deal involving state oil giant Rosneft.

The Investigative Committee, the country's main federal investigative body, said in a statement it had charged the minister with 'receiving bribes' after he 'illegally demanded' that a Rosneft representative pay him to endorse its acquisition of a majority stake from the state in Russian oil company Bashneft. Investigators accused Ulyukayev of 'threatening, using his ministerial powers, to create obstacles to the company's activities in the future. ' 'Thanks to a timely report of the minister's illegal activities by representatives of Rosneft to law enforcement, Alexei Ulyukayev was caught red-handed as he received a two-million-dollar bribe,' the statement said. The Investigative Committee also reiterated that the acquisition of the Bashneft shares was not the subject of the criminal investigation. Ulyukayev is expected to appear in court later Tuesday for a ruling on his possible detention. The large-scale bribe-taking charge could see him face a jail term of between eight and 15 years.

The sale of the 50.07 percent stake in Bashneft, Russia's sixth-largest oil producer, came after months of wrangling that saw Rosneft -- headed by Igor Sechin, a powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin -- face down opposition from some in the government. Ulyukayev had originally opposed the sale but later endorsed it after President Vladimir Putin said it could help fill state coffers. 2016-11-15 06:50 0.5 (7.92/15). More than 50 percent of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland, Oregon, in the days following the election did not bother to vote. A search of state election records was conducted by a Portland television station which reported that of the 112 protesters that were arrested, 69 of them could not be found to have turned in a ballot or were not registered to vote in the Beaver State. The local NBC affiliate in Portland took the names and ages of those arrested to Multnomah County election officials who did a search on the state’s voter files, reported KGW-NBC. Only 25 of those arrested voted in 2016 in the state.

As of the remaining 17 arrested by the Portland Police Bureau, KGW reported that it is still trying to verify their voting records. Read more 2016-11-15 07:59 1.9 (6.99/15). Russia's Economy minister has been arrested on corruption charges, the most senior official ever detained under president Vladimir Putin, startling a country that rarely sees top functionaries punished despite rampant allegations of government misconduct. The minister, Sergei Ulyukaev, 60, was detained on Monday night “in the act” of receiving a $2 million bribe, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, a law enforcement body that handles major cases.

Ulyukaev is suspected of soliciting the bribe in return for approving a high profile oil deal. An Investigative Committee statement said Ulyukaev had been charged and that prosecutors would seek to have him placed under house arrest. If found guilty, Ulyukaev could face up to 15 years in jail. “These are very serious accusations, which demand very serious proof,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitriy Peskov told reporters, adding that only a court could determine Ulyukaev’s guilt. Peskov said that president Vladimir Putin had been following the investigation from the beginning. The arrest and charging of a serving official of Ulyukaev's seniority is unprecedented since Putin came to power in 1999, prompting speculation of an internal struggle among the country's elite.

A technocrat, Ulyukaev was tasked with overseeing Russia’s economic development policies, working closely with Russia’s prime minister, Dmitriy Medvedev. Speculation quickly followed that Ulyukaev’s arrest might herald wider shifts in the political balance of power in the country. It follows a series of arrests and reshuffles that have reshaped the top levels of Russian government this year. Putin has recently replaced his long-serving chief-of-staff, while overhauling Russia’s security agencies and appointing his former top bodyguard to oversee them. Ulyukaev is known as an economic liberal with ties to Medvedev. His fall is seen by some observers as potentially dealing a blow to Medvedev's sphere of influence in the government, in favor of hardliners in Putin’s national security council, who are known to press for more state control of the economy.

The oil deal that led to Ulyukaev's arrest has been at the center of a struggle at high levels of the government for months. Top officials sought to block the buyout of regional oil producer Bashneft by Rosneft, the state-controlled energy giant. Both Medvedev and Ulyukaev had come out against the deal, questioning whether Rosneft, already majority state-owned, should be permitted to take part in what was supposed to be a privatization.

Opposition to the deal was overruled by president Putin, and the struggle was finally settled last month, with Rosneft agreeing to purchase the state’s 50 percent stake in Bashneft for up to $5 billion, the Financial Times reported. The Investigative Committee today said the deal’s legality was not in question following Ulyukaev’s arrest. 2016-11-15 08:55 0.0 (6.99/15). The protesters who have taken to America's streets didn't see it coming, few in the media predicted it, and most of the pollsters got it wrong.

But a small software company in Cape Town, South Africa predicted Donald Trump's win. And they called the British exit from the European Union too. 'Because Trump was such controversial figure, we had a suspicion that how he was resonating with people might be different from what traditional media was saying,' says Jean Pierre Kloppers, the CEO of BrandsEye. Like regular pollsters, BrandsEye focused on key battleground states.

But they're not a polling company. Their day job is to track real-time social media sentiment for companies like Pizza Hut and Uber. Companies, and some governments, pay BrandsEye to alert them to significant swings in sentiment to put out fires and identify opportunities. Turns out politicians are like brands. MORE: Obama in Europe with message on Trump Using social media to track sentiment Starting in July 2016, their machines used artificial intelligence (AI) to pull messages from social media feeds relevant to the US presidential campaign, primarily mentions of Hillary Clinton or Trump. BrandsEye then put the word out to crowdsource human analysis of individual messages. 'We use people for what people are good at and machines for what machines are great.

And by using that interplay between the two, we are able to measure sentiment very deeply and by using computers we measure very deeply,' says Kloppers. While AI is great for pulling in vast amounts of relevant data, it still struggles with sarcasm, innuendo and colloquial language. They earn a few cents for each tweet they verify, earning around the same amount a waiter would for a day's work, says Kloppers. MORE: How people who found both candidates unfit voted Are social platforms more accurate than polling? For their campaign prediction, they collected more than 37 million public social media conversations from four million authors -- mostly on Twitter. And the combination of using AI to scrape social media data alongside crowdsourcing human verification of sentiment pointed squarely in Trump's direction. Their analysis showed more negative sentiment towards Clinton coupled with strong positive advocacy for Trump.

When all was counted and confirmed, the South African data firm claimed it had correctly predicted nine out of the eleven most competitive races. Craig Raw, the founder of BrandsEye, says that people are often more honest on social media than in polling questionnaires, as their sentiment is largely unfiltered. Of course, social media users don't necessarily represent the wider voting population, which is what the best polls try to measure. But as more people sign on, they believe it is useful to track trends in sentiment and volume of passion.

And Kloppers said that their technology shouldn't replace polling, but rather, work in conjunction with it. In recent days, critics have called out social media companies for helping create a so-called 'echo-chamber' in people's feeds and the role of fake news in whipping up voter enthusiasm. Raw adds: 'Social media really represents what people are saying. Regardless of whether they are reading a story that is true or false, nevertheless it represents an emotion and they are going to vote on that emotion. ' MORE: 'Knife-fight' over Trump's cabinet 2016-11-15 07:18 0.9 (6.99/15). Hundreds of police officers searched about 190 offices, mosques and apartments of members and supporters of the Islamic group 'The true religion' as the German government announced a ban of the organization Tuesday.

Police raided places in 60 cities in western Germany and also in Berlin seizing documents and files, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. Nobody was detained.

The group — also known as 'Read! ' — has been distributing German-language copies of the Quran across the country. The interior minister said that more than 140 youths had traveled to Syria and Iraq to join fighters there after having participated in the group's campaigns in Germany. 'The translations of the Quran are being distributed along with messages of hatred and unconstitutional ideologies,' de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin. 'Teenagers are being radicalized with conspiracy theories.

' Young men in long robes and bushy beards handing out German copies of the Quran has been a common sight in downtown and shopping areas across Germany for several years. The ban of the group comes a week after security authorities arrested five men who allegedly aided the Islamic State group in Germany by recruiting members and providing financial and logistical help. The recent operations suggest that the German government is trying to clamp down hard on radical Islamists. The German interior minister stressed that the ban does not restrict the freedom of religion in Germany or the peaceful practice of Islam in any way, but that the group had glorified terrorism and the fight against the German constitution in videos and meetings. 'We don't want terrorism in Germany.

And we don't want to export terrorism,' de Maiziere said adding that the ban was also a measure to help protect peaceful Islam in the country. 2016-11-15 05:14 0.8 (6.77/15). Russia announced a major air offensive in Syria on Tuesday as Syrian opposition activists reported the first airstrikes in three weeks in the besieged, rebel-held part of the northern city of Aleppo. The offensive began hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and U. President-elect Donald Trump discussed Syria over the phone and agreed on the need to combine efforts in the fight against what the Kremlin called their No. 1 enemy — 'international terrorism and extremism.

President Barack Obama's administration has been trying for months to negotiate a cease-fire in Aleppo, the epicenter of the war between President Bashar Assad and rebels fighting to topple him, some of whom receive U. Al-Qaida's local affiliate fights alongside the rebels, but the Islamic State group has no presence in Aleppo. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a meeting with Putin on Tuesday that the operation involves aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which made a much-publicized trip to Syria's shores last month.

He said Russian warplanes will target ammunition depots, training camps and armaments factories in the rebel-held province of Idlib and the central province of Homs. He did not immediately mention Aleppo. The activists reported strikes in all three places. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said missiles fired from Russian warships in the Mediterranean have struck areas in Aleppo and Idlib provinces. The Observatory said airstrikes also struck three neighborhoods in Aleppo city, but had no immediate word on casualties. Activist Baraa al-Halaby, who is based in eastern Aleppo, said via text messages that warplanes are firing missiles and helicopters are dropping barrel bombs on the eastern part of Syria's largest city. 'People are scared.

The bombardment is intense,' al-Halaby wrote. In mid-October, Russia said it would halt weeks of deadly airstrikes to allow rebels and supporters to leave eastern Aleppo.

The rebels refused to take up the offer and the United Nations failed to negotiate the delivery of aid into the besieged area. On Saturday, government troops repelled a rebel offensive on western parts of Aleppo that was designed to break the siege on the opposition-held east. Aleppo has been contested since 2012. The government siege has left an estimated 275,000 people trapped, with no aid allowed in since July, amid a punishing bombing campaign. In Geneva, meanwhile, two U. Agencies said food production in Syria has shrunk to 'an all-time low,' threatening to drive more people from their homes after 5-1/2 years of war.

The World Food Program and the Food and Agricultural Organization say factors like rising prices, poor weather, general instability and the lack of fertilizer and seeds could force some farmers to stop producing. A joint report released Tuesday says the planting area in the 2015-2016 season was the smallest ever in zones controlled by the government, ethnic Kurds and the armed opposition. WFP spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said information was lacking about areas controlled by IS. FAO regional representative Abdessalam Ould Ahmed said 80 percent of households lack food or money to buy it. ——— Associated Press writer Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed.

2016-11-15 08:32 1.4 (6.58/15). KAIKOURA, New Zealand – Three New Zealand cows found themselves stranded on a small island of grass after an earthquake triggered landslides that swallowed the earth around them. Footage from New Zealand’s Newshub shows two cows and a calf trapped near the coastal community of Kaikoura, where the 7.8-magnitude quake struck Monday. We don’t know how the cows were eventually rescued — or if. Kaikoura is some 93 kilometers (55 miles) northeast of Christchurch.

It’s where the deadly quake struck just after midnight, and caused a series of aftershocks. A series of powerful earthquakes jolted New Zealand’s South Island Monday, triggering a tsunami and sending aftershocks across the country that left at least two dead, officials said. The first event, a 7.8-magnitude quake, struck just after midnight Monday near the coastal community of Kaikoura, some 93 kilometers (55 miles) northeast of the city of Christchurch, the US Geological Survey reported. Turtle Odyssey 2 Free Download Full Version Crack here.

It triggered waves of 2.49 meters (8 feet) above usual tide levels, the highest he has seen in his 38 years in New Zealand, Philip Duncan of Weather Watch New Zealand said. An initial tsunami warning was lifted but temblors continued Monday afternoon. A 6.2-magnitude quake struck around 1:30 p.m. 39 kilometers west-southwest of Kaikoura, further north of Christchurch. Prime Minister John Key posted a short video to YouTube after surveying the damage.

“It’s hard to see how those roads, neither north nor south, will be opened very easily,” he said. “In the short term what we’re trying to do is make sure that the people of Kaikoura and the likes have food, water, help and backup. “I’d say it’s billions of dollars worth of money that we have to spend here but we’re focused on what we’re doing and we’ll keep up the good work.” Aftershocks At least 42 seismic events have been recorded in the area in the last day, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

New Zealand is a South Pacific nation of islands, the two largest being the North and South islands, which are home to most of the population. Aftershocks from South Island reverberated all the way to Wellington, the country’s capital on the North Island, where residents were told to stay indoors Monday. The New Zealand Defense Force posted aerial images of a huge landslide in the northern part of the South Island, which blocked the road from Christchurch to Kaikoura.

“It is clear from the photos taken by our personnel that the major route from Christchurch to Kaikoura is impassable, Air Commodore Darryn Webb, Acting Commander Joint Forces New Zealand, said. “So is the road from Kaikoura to Hanmer Springs and the one from Blenheim to Kaikoura,” The Marlborough government emergency services Twitter account tweeted around 4 p.m. ET), that a dam on the Clarence River had breached and a “large wall of water” was “heading downstream.” Authorities urged residents to seek higher ground. The regional government also confirmed that a group of kayakers who had previously been feared lost on the river was found and evacuated. “Other groups are understood to be in the area, a well-known whitewater rafting location, however it is understood they are well above the danger area,” a media release states.

‘It’s going to be a long night’ In Christchurch, memories of a devastating 6.3-magnitude earthquake in 2011 are still fresh for many. That quake killed 185 people and injured thousands, and reduced swaths of the city’s historic area to rubble. “The land has been very peaceful for many, many months.

So this is bringing back all the rare memories,” said Chet Wah, owner of Designer Cottage B&B in Christchurch. “I just checked with all the guests. They are alright. It’s going to be a long night.” Christchurch, on the South Island’s eastern coast, has a population of more than 340,000 people, the most recent census shows. Powerful aftershocks Images on social media showed shattered windows, toppled grocery items on the floor of a supermarket and water sloshing back and forth in swimming pools from different parts of the country.

Mark A’Court, owner of the Fresh Choice in Nelson City, posted security video footage on Facebook showing wine bottles falling from shelves at his store. A photo of a road with a deep, wide crack down its middle served as sobering evidence of the temblor’s force.

“This is the strongest [earthquake] I’ve ever felt,” Tamara Hunt said. She was with her husband at their home in Whanganui when the earthquake struck. “It started off so small, like the cat moving in the bed, but then it started building and I had to run to the door. Stuff in the house was falling over and the doors were swaying really bad,” she said.

“Then we decided to get out, and that’s when we saw our pool had lost a lot of water. The earthquake went on for two minutes.” The South Island has been hit by a flurry of aftershocks, according to the USGS and New Zealand’s Geonet service, some with a magnitude above 6.0. Officials from the island’s second-largest town, Dunedin, called a state of emergency there. Life in a ‘collision zone’ The USGS initially reported the quake’s magnitude at 7.4 at a depth of just 10 kilometers — shallow enough to cause serious destruction to the immediate surrounding area.

It later revised the quake strength to 7.8, but changed its depth to 23 kilometers (14.2 miles), giving more of a buffer between the epicenter and the Earth’s surface. New Zealand is regularly hit by earthquakes, because it sits in a “collision zone” between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. It is part of the Pacific’s “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped belt around the ocean’s edges where many earthquakes and volcano eruptions occur. 2016-11-15 07:39 1.9 (6.46/15). Google and Facebook have announced plans to fight the spread of fake news by placing tighter restrictions on how such sites make money from advertising. Google has revealed it is working on a policy change to its AdSense online advertising network that will prevent websites with misleading content from using it to earn money, while Facebook has said it is updating its advertising policy to restrict adverts appearing alongside 'misleading or deceptive' content.

The announcement comes following criticism of social media over the role it played in the US presidential election, and the alleged spread of false information that may have influenced some voters. Google was also criticised on Monday after the tech giant's search engine promoted an article that contained misleading results of the popular vote in the US election when, in fact, votes were still being counted. Google apologised for the incident and a spokesman for the company said: 'The goal of Search is to provide the most relevant and useful results for our users.

In this case we clearly didn't get it right but we are continually working to improve our algorithms. ' The technology company said in a statement that it would restrict serving adverts, via AdSense, to websites and pages that 'misrepresent, misstate, or conceal information about the publisher, the publisher's content, or the primary purpose of the web property'. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also denied claims that the social network played any role in influencing the election result, claiming that '99%' of the content on Facebook was authentic. In a further statement to Reuters on its advertising policy, the social network said: 'We do not integrate or display ads in apps or sites containing content that is illegal, misleading or deceptive, which includes fake news.

' Facebook added that it would continue to scrutinise publishers on the site to ensure standards were met. However, the change in policy will not target fake news that is shared by users on their news feeds. 2016-11-15 09:01 1.8 (6.44/15). New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes, including the game-winner to receiver Sterling Shepard as the Giants toppled the Cincinnati Bengals 21-20 at MetLife Stadium. 'When we moved the ball and got in the red zone we scored touchdowns and that is what you have to do in this league,' Manning said.

'We finished strong and got the win. ' The Giants on Monday held a 14-10 halftime lead, but the Bengals started quickly by taking advantage of their first possession when play resumed. On the first play of the half, Alex Erickson broke free for an 84-yard kickoff return to give the Bengals first-and-10 on the Giants' 13. Two plays later -- both runs by running back Jeremy Hill -- and the Bengals were back on top of the Giants 17-14 thanks to Hill's nine-yard touchdown run, the first of 10 unanswered points by the Bengals. Then Erickson did it again a few minutes later, this time with an 18-yard punt return that gave his team excellent starting field position. The Bengals increased their lead to 20-14 on kicker Mike Nugent's 38 yard field goal. The Giants got on the board again at the beginning of the fourth quarter when Manning connected with Shepard for a three-yard touchdown pass on fourth down.

That score put New York back on top 21-20. 'Shepard ran a great route and got a big time play right there,' Manning said. With the win, the Giants improved to 6-3 on the season and retained their hold on second place in the NFC East. They'll close out their three-game home stand next week against the Chicago Bears.

The Bengals return home to host the Buffalo Bills next week. 2016-11-15 02:46 1.9 (6.42/15). Casino mogul turned President-elect Donald Trump is trying to game the system with a request to delay his Trump University trial and testify via a new videotaped deposition, the plaintiffs' lawyers argued in a filing Monday. “This trial, like so many Trump University student-victims’ credit card bills, is past due,” the paperwork filed in federal court in San Diego said.

The lawyers urged the court to deny Trump’s request to postpone his upcoming Nov. 28 trial until after Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, calling it the latest in a string of stalling tactics. “We do know that any delay would be a slippery slope because President-elect Trump’s life is only going to get more complicated and unpredictable as time goes by,” the filing obtained by the Daily News said. Here's why white supremacist groups love Stephen Bannon They also said Trump should be forced to appear live in front of the jury if he wants to testify beyond his three prior videotaped depositions. The underlying civil lawsuit names Trump as a defendant and claims his now-defunct Trump University defrauded students out of $40 million in course fees.

The case was first filed in 2010 and covers a class of some 7,600 students in New York, Florida and California. Uzi Pistol Serial Numbers. Defense lawyers previously asked for delays, citing Trump's schedule and the demands of his campaign. “In March, they asked for August. In May, they asked for November. In September, they asked for December.

Now, they are asking for January. Or who knows. This court has recognized that plaintiffs and the class have already waited too long for their claims to be adjudicated,” the lawyers argued. Mayor de Blasio urges all Americans to continue protesting Trump They said Trump’s stated willingness to sit for yet another taped deposition after the new year but before his Jan. 20 inauguration was proof he has “complete control” over his schedule and could testify live before the trial’s expected conclusion in mid-December. “He can simply shift his schedule one day, testify, and then pick up with the transition process right where he left off,” the plaintiffs' lawyers said.

They urged the judge to shoot down Trump’s request for another videotaped deposition, saying it would effectively reopen discovery and give him the chance to revise “tactical” decisions made during his prior 10 hours of videotaped sworn testimony. “Because President-elect Trump has failed to suggest, let alone establish, a single admissible fact that he will be unable to present at the currently scheduled trial, he has failed to establish good cause for delay,” the court papers said. In a reply filing Monday afternoon, defense lawyer Daniel Petrocelli said the prior depositions were only cross-examinations and contained no direct questioning by Trump's lawyers. 'The President-elect should be afforded the right to offer direct testimony at trial and the opportunity to do so when he is not devoting all his focus, time and energy on the transition process,' Petrocelli said. The defense could have asked questions during the depositions but chose not to, the plaintiffs' side has argued.

In his filing late Saturday, Petrocelli said a trial delay was needed due to his client's “unprecedented' circumstances. 'President-elect Trump is not seeking to stay this case indefinitely or until the end of his term. Instead, we seek a modest continuance of the trial to a date after the inauguration that is convenient for the parties and the court,” he wrote in the filing. Petrocelli said forcing Trump to divert his attention to a Nov. 28 trial could have “significant security implications” because “foreign enemies may perceive the United States to be more vulnerable during a presidential transition.

' Plaintiffs’ lawyer Patrick Coughlin scoffed at that suggestion in an interview with The News. 'I can't even believe that. It's crazy talk. We have a sitting president who's been in office eight years who can fully take care of everything until then,' Coughlin said.

'Now is the time (for trial), before he's in office. ' The judge hearing the case has yet to rule on the request for delay. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel denies the request, Petrocelli said he’ll seek an immediate stay on the proceedings so he can appeal to a higher court. Trump also is facing a related racketeering lawsuit in San Diego and a lawsuit brought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Petrocelli signaled last week that he would be willing to reopen settlement discussions related to the class action lawsuits. A source with knowledge of the settlement negotiations told The News last week it's unlikely Trump would agree to a piecemeal pact.

He's expected to push for a global settlement of all three lawsuits if the talks move ahead. A Schneiderman spokesman told The News late Monday that the AG's office has not been contacted by Trump's lawyers regarding renewed settlement negotiations and that it had no comment on the pending New York case, now in an appellate court. 2016-11-15 04:24 0.0 (6.35/15). ALEPPO, Syria, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- After a three-week pause, airstrikes targeting besieged, rebel-held eastern Aleppo resumed Tuesday, human rights watchdogs said. Aleppo's Haidariya, Masakin Hanano and Sheikh Faris neighborhoods were targeted, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Aleppo Media Center said at least three people have died due to the 'barrel bomb' attacks. Prior to the resumption of airstrikes in eastern Aleppo, a hospital in the Awaijel rebel-held village west of Aleppo was bombed -- the third bombing of a medical facility in less than 24 hours. Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad 's regime have been accused of committing war crimes due to their at-times indiscriminate bombing in civilian populations, particularly over their alleged bombing of hospitals and schools. Earlier this month, Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said peace negotiations between rebels and Assad's regime were postponed indefinitely due to rebel attacks. Russia, Assad's key ally, paused airstrikes mid-October to allow civilians and rebels to leave.

The resumption of airstrikes in eastern Aleppo indicates Assad will move ahead with a final offensive to defeat rebels in Aleppo to seize full control of the city, the Independent reported. CNN reported Aleppo residents received a text message, most likely sent by the Syrian government, on Sunday telling them to flee the city or die. In the message, residents were warned that Aleppo's sick and wounded should leave before a 'strategically planned assault using high-precision weapons occurs within 24 hours. ' In the same message, Syrian rebels were given an ultimatum to either lay down their arms and renounce their leadership -- or to be killed. 2016-11-15 09:02 3.4 (6.27/15). Eric Garcetti was speaking to AFP ahead of the Association of National Olympic Committees' General Assembly, which begins in Doha on Tuesday. 'Our bid transcends politics,' said Garcetti, when asked about the impact of Trump.

'Everyone knows the LA bid is quintessentially American. ' He added that the bid had received the backing of Trump and Hillary Clinton during the recent presidential election. There has been speculation that Trump's election victory could harm the chances of Los Angeles.

His remarks on policy issues during the campaign, especially regarding a potential ban on Muslims going to America and calling illegal Mexican immigrants rapists, could be particularly harmful to Los Angeles' bid outside the US. During the two-day meeting, the three candidate cities for the 2024 games -- Budapest, Paris as well as Los Angeles -- will give a 30-minute presentation on their bids. It will be the first detailed outline of each bid to ANOC members.

It is not yet known if the Los Angeles bidding team will address the recent presidential election in its presentation. More than 1,000 delegates have gathered in Doha for the meeting. Paris is seen as the favourite in a close-race for the bid to host the summer games. The International Olympic Committee will make its final decision in September.

Los Angeles previously hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984. If it wins, Los Angeles will be the first American city to host the Summer Olympics since Atlanta in 1996.

2016-11-15 09:29 3.8 (5.99/15). ATHENS, Greece (AP) — President Barack Obama opened his final foreign trip as president Tuesday with reassuring words about the U. Commitment to NATO even as he prepares to hand off to a Donald Trump administration, saying Democratic and Republican administrations alike recognize the importance of the alliance to the trans-Atlantic relationship. Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama told Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos that a strong NATO is of 'utmost importance' and would provide 'significant continuity even as we see a transition in government. ' Pavlopoulos, for his part, thanked Obama for the U.

Support of the Greek people in a time of social and economic crisis, and said he was confident that Trump 'will continue on the same path. ' Trump's election has generated significant unease in Europe because of his tough talk during the campaign suggesting the U. Might pull out of the alliance if other countries don't pay more. Obama is making the first visit to Greece by a sitting U.

President since Bill Clinton in 1999. Security was tight, with major roads shut down along Obama's motorcade route and a ban on public gatherings and demonstrations in swathes of central Athens and a southern suburb near a seaside luxury hotel where Obama was staying. Boats were also banned from sailing near the coastline at the hotel's location. More than 5,000 police were deployed in the capital's streets for the two-day visit.

Left-wing and anarchist groups have planned protest demonstrations for Tuesday afternoon, while an armed anarchist group has called for 'attacks and clashes' to disrupt Obama's visit. Clinton's visit, which came during the height of U.

Intervention in the wars ensuing from the breakup of Yugoslavia, was marked with extensive violent demonstrations. After his meeting with Pavlopoulos, Obama was holding talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, followed by a joint news conference. Pavlopoulos will host an official dinner for Obama at the presidential mansion in the evening. On Wednesday, Obama is scheduled to tour the Acropolis and give a major speech about democracy and globalization before flying on to Berlin.

From Germany, Obama will travel to Peru for an Asian economic summit before returning to Washington on Saturday. Obama said he was looking forward to visiting the Acropolis because 'if you come to Greece you've got to do a little bit of sightseeing.

' Obama's trip is sure to be dominated by questions and concerns about Trump. Obama has been working to reassure foreign leaders the U.

Won't abandon its partnerships and alliance obligations despite Trump's tough campaign rhetoric. Greece's government has hailed Obama's visit as being of 'huge importance' for both Greece and Europe. The country's left-led coalition government has been struggling to pull Greece out of six years of a vicious financial crisis that has devastated its economy and left more than a quarter of the workforce unemployed. Despite the U. Election, the government has pinned its hopes on the U. President to help persuade some of the country's more reluctant international creditors, such as Germany, to grant it significant debt relief. Without a cut in its debt, Athens says, it cannot hope to recover economically — an argument also supported by the International Monetary Fund.

Greece has been relying on emergency loans from three consecutive multi-billion euro bailouts from other European Union countries using the euro currency, and the IMF, since 2010. While the United States has not been involved in Greece's bailout, Athens has long seen it as an ally that could apply pressure on creditors. Has praised Greek efforts to overhaul its economy but has repeatedly stressed the country must continue with painful reforms. The country's bailout funds are disbursed following reviews by international debt inspectors of mandated reforms.

The government will also be looking for recognition of the country's role in Europe's refugee crisis, which saw hundreds of thousands of refugees pass through Greece from Turkey on their way to the more prosperous countries of the European north, and for U. Pressure on the rest of Europe to help shoulder the burden. Following the closure of Balkan land borders and the reluctance of some European countries to host refugees, more than 60,000 people are stranded in Greece, most living in often poor conditions in overcrowded camps dotted around the country. Rights organizations have urged Obama to use his visit to highlight these people's plight and Europe's response to the crisis.

Obama should 'shine the spotlight not only on abysmal conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece, but also on the failure of world leaders to adequately address the wider global refugee crisis,' John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Europe director, said in a statement. ____ Follow Josh Lederman on Twitter at and Elena Becatoros on 2016-11-15 08:33 1.4 (5.99/15). New Zealand begins rescue of tourists stranded by earthquake Associated Press - 15 November 2016 02:27-05:00 News Topics: General news, Disaster planning and response, Search and rescue efforts, Natural disasters, Earthquakes, Accidents and disasters, Building collapses, Coastlines and beaches, Structural failures, Accidents, Environment and nature People, Places and Companies: John Key, New Zealand, Wellington, Auckland Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

2016-11-15 05:00 4.6 (5.20/15). Evan Vucci / AP In this Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, file photo, Stephen Bannon, campaign CEO for President-elect Donald Trump, leaves Trump Tower in New York. Trump on Sunday named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP. By David Bauder, Associated Press Tuesday, Nov.

15, 2016 12:02 a.m. NEW YORK — Following the installation of Breitbart's chief executive to a top job in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, the news organization in its infancy when Barack Obama took office has big expansion plans and the goal of being the best source of news on the new administration. That scares its critics, which consider Breitbart News the home of cheerleaders rather than journalists — and often offensive ones at that. Despite the opponents, Breitbart is unquestionably on a high following the surprise election of Trump, whose candidacy the web site unceasingly backed both before and after its leader, Stephen K. Bannon, was brought in to run the general election campaign.

Trump on Sunday named Bannon chief strategist and senior counselor for his administration. Breitbart is planning a move into more spacious Washington offices, looking to add reporters in Germany, France, the Middle East and Asia, wants to add coverage of the media and technology to its conservative-framed news and hopes to produce more video, said Alexander Marlow, the site's editor in chief, on Monday. Its own cable network is a dream, but unlikely now, he said. 'We're going to be the best place for news on the Trump White House,' Marlow said. 'That is my intention and I have no reason to think that's not a fully attainable goal.

I think a lot of the mainstream media already consider that the expectation and they're none too happy about it, which of course is a delight to me. ' ComScore reported that Breitbart had 19.2 million unique visitors to its site in October, the most ever for the service founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart, a Los Angeles man intent on offering a conservative view on politics and the media.

Breitbart died of heart failure in 2012 at age 43, opening the door for Bannon's rise as top executive. The site adopted Trump as a champion as his campaign took off. There were objections from those who considered Trump not conservative enough, and Breitbart lost staff members last spring when it failed to back its own reporter after she was roughed up by then-Trump campaign chief Corey Lewandowski. Among the site's headlines Monday: House minority leader Nancy Pelosi 'continues to lead Democrats to glorious defeat'; 'Anti-democracy crybabies march by thousands nationwide'; and 'Dow Jones had best week since 2011 due to Trump win. ' A column on Trump's new appointment was headlined: 'Stephen K. Bannon, friend of the Jewish people, defender of Israel.

' 'Breitbart will continue to be what it has been during the campaign — it was just a propaganda arm for Donald Trump,' said Kurt Bardella, a public relations consultant who dropped Breitbart as a client this spring following the incident with reporter Michelle Fields and Lewandowski. 'This is as close as we're ever going to be to having a state-sponsored media entity that will effectively be operating out of the West Wing. ' Bardella said he believed Breitbart was on a path to being a more serious news organization before embracing Trump.

Ben Shapiro, a former Breitbart editor who also left following last spring and is now editor of the Daily Wire site, said he can't imagine Bannon not continuing to have input on what Breitbart publishes. 'The site will continue to be popular, although they could run into trouble if Trump decides to move away from the populist right and they're stuck shilling for him,' Shapiro said. Bannon has been on a leave of absence from Breitbart since he began running the Trump campaign, and Breitbart said he will take steps to leave the company in accord with government rules when he takes the White House job. Marlow said Bannon has had no formal communications with the company, although he said he talked to him Wednesday. 'He gave me a couple of war stories and I gave him a big hug,' he said. Marlow said Breitbart wouldn't be afraid to criticize Trump if he strays from the populist message that got him elected. He said Breitbart doesn't just have readers, it has fans; one of the first things visitors see on the site is a line of merchandise for sale.

The dismissal of its readers as haters 'was really rejected by the voters, who are much more savvy, much more sophisticated and much more informed than a lot of people at CNN think they are,' he said. But some of Breitbart's reputation comes from headlines that some readers could easily find offensive: 'Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy' and 'The solution to online harassment is simple: women should log off.

' Bannon was quoted before leaving Breitbart that he considered the site 'the platform for the alt-right' — a movement often associated with far-right efforts to preserve 'white identity,' oppose multiculturalism and defend 'Western values. ' 'I've never made an editorial decision based on whether the alt-right would like it or not,' Marlow said. 'I don't consider myself part of the alt-right. If I am, I don't even know it. 'The implication is that we're OK with racism and bigotry and we're absolutely not,' he said.

2016-11-15 04:02 0.0 (4.35/15). Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals missed another chance to get a statement win.

A road game on Monday night against a winning team was an opportunity for the Bengals to reach.500 for the season. The Bengals faltered in the fourth quarter, though, and lost to the Giants 21-20 to fall to 3-5-1. Cincinnati dropped to 11-23 on Monday night, including 4-7 under coach Marvin Lewis. The Bengals haven't won a road game on Monday night since the 1990 season, also the last season the team won a playoff game. The defeat also continued the Bengals' struggles against some of the NFL's top teams in 2016. They also have lost to Dallas, Denver, New England and Pittsburgh. 'We've got to find a way to flip the switch and get these games turned into wins rather than a tie in London and a one-point loss here tonight,' Dalton said.

'We've got to take a good, hard look at what we're doing and correct the things that are hurting us. ' Penalties, an inconsistent offense and an inability to contain Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr.

Combined to doom the Bengals. Dalton was 16 of 29 for 204 yards with a touchdown pass to A. Green and an interception. The Bengals finished with only 12 first downs and 264 yards. The defense, which entered ranked 25th in the league, allowed 351 yards, and the Bengals were penalized nine times for 60 yards. With his team trailing 21-20 early in the fourth quarter, Dalton was intercepted by Landon Collins. George Iloka intercepted Manning on the next play, but the Bengals were unable to take advantage as they failed to get a first down.

The Bengals were forced to punt on their next two drives as the Giants sacked Dalton twice. The fourth-quarter struggles overshadowed a strong start to the second half.

The Bengals used Alex Erickson's 84-yard second-half kickoff return to set up the go-ahead score. Jeremy Hill had a 9-yard TD run and Cincinnati later added Mike Nugent's 38-yard field goal for a 20-14 lead in the third quarter. But the defense couldn't hold the lead as the Giants went for it on fourth-and-goal from the 3 and scored on Manning's third TD pass of the game early in the fourth to retake the lead at 21-20.

Late in the second quarter, the Bengals missed an opportunity when they only mustered a field goal after Dre Kirkpatrick's interception gave them the ball at the 7. They were held to a 25-yard field goal by Nugent for a short-lived 10-7 lead. 'We have opportunities on offense to put more points on the board and we end up having to kick field goals and that ended up probably being the difference in the football game,' Lewis said. Manning then led a drive that ended with a touchdown pass to Beckham for a 14-10 lead at halftime. With no team in control of the AFC North, the Bengals fell further behind in their hope to reach the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.

They host the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. 'We're trying to figure out what we need to do to have these outcomes be different, and there's not one explanation for it,' Dalton said.

2016-11-15 02:39 2.1 (4.27/15). The chief of police in Los Angeles has said he will not target people who are in the city illegally, despite President-Elect Donald Trump's threat to deport all illegal immigrants. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told KNX radio in Los Angeles he had no plans to change the force's stance despite Trump’s pledge to toughen federal immigration laws and deport millions of people once he is inaugurated. 'We don't make detentions solely based on status, whether it's immigration or any other type of status.and we are not going to change any of that,' he said.

Mr Beck said deportation was a 'monumental' task as there were roughly 500,000 illegal immigrants in Los Angeles alone. 'If the federal government takes a more aggressive role in deportation then they will have to do that on their own,' added Chief Beck. Los Angeles is one of several so-called 'sanctuary cities' where the authorities have chosen not to prosecute people solely for violating immigration laws.

New York's Bill de Blasio, Chicago's Rahm Emanuel and Seattle's Ed Murray yesterday said they would fight Trump's plans and sought to reassure illegal immigrants. Mayor Murray said: 'Seattle has always been a welcoming city. The last thing I want is for us to start turning on our neighbors.' But the sanctuary city policy was criticized by Trump and many others after 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot dead by a Mexican national while walking along a pier in San Francisco last year. It later emerged that Francisco Sanchez, who was facing drugs charges, was in the country illegally and had been deported five times, had been released from San Francisco's jail despite a federal request to keep him in custody for deportation. Trump was also supported during the election campaign by the parents of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr, who was was murdered by illegal immigrant Pedro Espinoza, a gang member, in Los Angeles in 2008.

His mother Anita Shaw said she supported Trump's stance on illegal immigrants and, speaking of her son's murder, said: 'It felt like an American citizen living in the United States is not worth anything, but my son was worth something.' Los Angeles was the first of the so-called 'sanctuary cities'.

In 1979 then LAPD chief Daryl Gates stopped turning over people arrested for misdemeanors to federal agents for deportation and stopped honoring federal requests to detain illegals at the end of their jail sentences. 2016-11-15 07:35 4.2 (4.20/15). A man convicted as a teen in the case featured in the Netflix series 'Making a Murderer' faces a deadline to tell authorities where he plans to live once he is released.

Brendan Dassey has until noon Tuesday to give probation officers the address. A judge overturned Dassey's conviction in August and on Monday said he should be released while prosecutors appeal. It's not clear when Dassey will be released.

Authorities may need to inspect his home. Dassey's attorney, Steve Drizin, says he expects Dassey to be home by Thanksgiving. Dassey was convicted of helping his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Teresa Halbach. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in the 2005 slaying. The case won more publicity last year when Netflix first broadcast 'Making a Murderer. ' 2016-11-15 08:29 94.6 (4.17/15).

Authorities in central Florida say a man threatening to kill himself is dead after he exchanged gunfire with sheriff's deputies during a standoff. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that deputies responded Monday night to reports of a 38-year-old suicidal man in Ormond Beach. The sheriff's office says the unidentified man had multiple guns inside the home, and that his wife and three children between the ages of 2 and 14 were also inside the house. The man's wife and two younger children managed to get out of the house and were not injured. The 14-year-old was also not injured. The sheriff's office says the man opened fire on deputies, who returned fire. The office says it's unclear whether the man shot himself or was struck by deputies' gunfire.

2016-11-15 08:54 0.0 (4.13/15). Weather Underground Forecast for Tuesday, November 15, 2016 A low pressure system will continue to move northward along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, while a series of frontal boundaries affect the Northwest. An area of low pressure will strengthen as it pushes north northeastward over the coasts of the northern Mid-Atlantic and New England. This system will usher showers and isolated thunderstorms over the region.

A mixture of rain and snow will be possible in Upstate New York and New England. Conditions will be fairly dry in the Southeast and the Deep South on Tuesday. Meanwhile, temperatures will spike 15 to 25 degrees above normal for much of the central and northern Plains, as well as the upper Midwest. This will be a result of high pressure over the central third of the country.

Just to the north, a low pressure system will trek eastward across south central Canada. A warm frontal boundary associated with this system will produce showers in parts of northeast Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Out west, a cold frontal boundary will generate light to moderate rain and high elevation snow in the upper Intermountain West and the interior Pacific Northwest.

Another cold frontal boundary will move onshore over the Northwest. Snow levels are expected to drop across the Cascades, the Bitteroots, the Sawtooths and the Lewis Range. Rain will spread as far south as northern California and the northern Great Basin.

High pressure should keep most of the Southwest warm and dry on Tuesday. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Monday have ranged from a morning low of 12 degrees at Alamosa, Colo. To a high of 91 degrees at Miramar MCAS, Calif. 2016-11-15 05:33 0.4 (3.44/15). Barack Obama will not move to tighten the rules governing US drone strikes ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Guardian has learned. Trump will inherit the apparatus for what Obama calls “targeted killing” – the so-called drones “playbook” formally known as the 22 May 2013 Presidential Policy Guidance or PPG – that has turned drone strikes into Obama’s signature counterterrorism tactic. While the White House considers its standards for drone strikes to be scrupulous, much of the rest of the world considers them to represent an arbitrary, secret and dangerous apparatus of secret killing that Trump will soon have at his disposal..

“Maybe on the left no one would believe that Trump has a steady hand, but Obama has normalized the idea that presidents get to have secret large-scale killing programs at their disposal,” said Naureen Shah of Amnesty International USA. Begun under George W Bush, Obama vastly accelerated and codified drone strikes beyond officially declared war zones. Official estimates claim they have killed nearly 2,600 “terrorists”, though human rights activists consider that to be an undercount.

The footprint of the drones has become increasingly widespread, situated in airfields from Tunisia to Niger to Cameroon, they represent the outgrowth of a legal theory which was embraced by both presidents Bush and Obama, who considered the war on terrorism’s battlefield to be global. For Obama, the drone has been a calibrated, restrained instrument of death, an alternative to grueling all-out war. Trump will now be the one capable of harnessing their power.

The process Obama set for drone strikes were codified in 2013, but the PPG was kept secret until Jameel Jaffer, formerly of the American Civil Liberties Union, sued to compel its disclosure. In August this year, the 18-page top secret document was declassified.

Jaffer, now the director of the Knight First Amendment Center at Columbia University, has compiled the PPG and several other once-secret documents relevant to Obama’s institutionalization of targeted killing into a new book, The Drone Memos. The Guardian is publishing three of those documents, including the declassified PPG, as well as Jaffer’s introduction to his book. The PPG instructs that lethal force against “an identified high-value terrorist” shall be “as discriminating and precise as reasonably possible”. In all but “extraordinary circumstances”, such force requires “near certainty that the action can be taken without injuring or killing” civilians. A senior administration official said: “As the president has said, ‘near certainty’ is the ‘highest standard we can set’.” Yet critics of targeted killinghave pointed to several other aspects of the document that raise alarm. Those who implement the killings, the CIA and the military’s Joint Special Operation Command (JSOC), do not necessarily need to know who they kill. Instead, the PPG instructs: “When using lethal action, employ all reasonably available resources to ascertain the identity of the target.” Similarly, the document permits killing “terrorist targets other than identified high-value individuals”.

Should the CIA or JSOC wish to convince the president to do so, they must aver that they have “near certainty that the target is present”, civilians won’t be harmed, “capture is not feasible” and “no other reasonable alternatives exist”. Drone strikes and counterterrorism raids are supposed to occur outside the US, per the documents. But US citizens are not immune, despite the constitution’s prohibition on taking an American’s life without due process of law. The PPG entrusts the US justice department – soon to be in Trump’s hands – with performing “a legal analysis to ensure that such action may be conducted against the individual consistent with the laws and constitution”. In 2011, the CIA executed a US citizen turned al-Qaida propagandist, Anwar al-Awlaki; it then killed his 16-year old son in what former attorney general Eric Holder stated was a strike that did not “ specifically ” target the teenager. The administration has confirmed killing two other Americans overseas in drone strikes.

No court reviews these decisions. Only “the appropriate members of the Congress”, an undefined term, learn of them. A senior official told the Guardian this week that the protections for civilians within the PPG exceed those set by the law of armed conflict. “We are continually working to refine, clarify and strengthen our standards and procedures for using force to keep the nation safe from terrorist threats,” said the official, who would not be quoted by name. It is unknown whether Trump will also rely on drone strikes. On the campaign trail, he spoke more often about bombing “the shit” out of enemies than performing something more akin to assassination.

“I’d blow up the pipes, I’d blow up the refineries, I’d blow up every single inch, there would be nothing left,” he told an Iowa audience in November 2015. Observers consider use of drones less significant than the codification of targeted killing itself, whose rules Trump is free to revise. Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations, said: “Does he either personally allow for lowered rules of engagement and higher numbers of potential civilian casualties, or does he allow commanders to do that in the field?” Last year, Obama claimed drone strikes have killed between 64 and 116 civilians in 473 drone strikes between 2009 and 2015. Human rights groups consider that estimate of civilian-casualty figures to be far too low. But the secrecy that still surrounds drone strikes – both official and imposed by the hazards of reporting from dangerous places – complicates a more thorough independent accounting. Speaking in London last week, a former state department official urged Obama to place additional checks around what he called “the most awesome assassination machine ever known to man.” Jeremy Shapiro, a senior state department official during Obama’s tenure told an audience at the European Council on Foreign Relations that before the 2012 election, the Obama administration expressed alarm at potentially passing the apparatus of targeted killing to a successor. “When people looked at it, they thought ‘Christ, this is scary’ – what if we give this to the Republicans?” Disclosure: Naureen Shah, an employee of Amnesty International USA quoted in this story, is a colleague of the lead reporter’s wife.

2016-11-15 08:30 2.8 (3.37/15). She is not known for her leggy displays.

But Elizabeth Banks showcased her stunning stalks in an adventurous split-hem dress at the Glamour Women Of The Year event in Los Angeles on Monday. For the 42-year-old's gown boasted a plunging front that drew attention to her modest bust, and a racy split skirt that allowed her to display her perfect pins. She rounded off her look with an eye-catching pair of golden stilettos and a matching clutch purse.

Indeed her look was so impressive she managed to leave fellow fine fillies Cara Delevingne and Chelsea Handler in the shade. At times Elizabeth looked a little downbeat, and was perhaps still ruing the fact her idol Hillary Clinton, who she promoted on social media, had suffered an humiliating defeat at the hands of rank outsider Donald Trump in last week's presidential election.

It was particularly embarrassing, as it seemed a race it was easier for the Democratic candidate to win than lose due to her substantial leads in the polls. Elizabeth has been busy as usual as she continues to star in a number of films, including Power Rangers and the series Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later.

The actress will return to her role as Gail in the upcoming comedy Pitch Perfect 3, due for release on December 22, 2017. It will star Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld, and Anna Camp. Elizabeth will continue to direct as well, including the upcoming reboot of the 2002 film Charlie's Angels 2016-11-15 04:46 0.0 (3.34/15). BERLIN, Nov 15 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Tuesday for globalisation to be framed in multilateral agreements rather than see countries adopt protectionist measures, in a thinly veiled warning to U. President-elect Donald Trump. In his campaign, Trump argued that international trade agreements had hurt U.

Workers and the country's competitiveness. He has promised to 'get tough' with China and withdraw from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, which is still not finalized. Merkel, having last week offered to work with Trump on the basis of democratic values, used a speech to set out the case for strengthening international cooperation in the field of trade and avoiding a slide into protectionism. 'We are at the moment in a situation in the European Union, in our country and worldwide where there is an argument about how we want to shape globalisation,' Merkel told a meeting of Germany's BDA employers association.

'Globalisation is happening. We can arrange it such that we strengthen multilateral instruments. Or such that we seal ourselves off and become protectionist.

' 'I am pleased that you, like me, are convinced that we must fashion globalisation in a multilateral way,' added Merkel. She said she would make globalisation a theme for debate during Germany's presidency of the G20 next year. Merkel was the driving force in Europe behind the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an ambitious trade deal between the European Union and United States). That agreement, still in the negotiation phase, seems sure to die under Trump, whose protectionist promises, should they become reality, would hit few countries harder than Germany, whose economic strength depends heavily on the openness of the global trading system.

Looking ahead, Merkel said: 'This dispute over openness or sealing ourselves off (in trade) will keep us very busy in the coming years. ' (Reporting by Paul Carrel; Editing by Madeline Chambers and John Stonestreet) 2016-11-15 07:58 94.3 (3.30/15). THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement By Wesley Lowery 248 pp. Little, Brown & Company. “They Can’t Kill Us All” is a chronicle of black deaths; from Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

In the summer of 2014 through the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille in July of this year. The Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery traces his own evolution from jaded metro reporter to documenter of the perils faced by young black men as they negotiate their place in a society that fears them. And he poses the question of where the limits lie between a reporter’s responsibility and a life lived daily in brown skin. The book begins with Lowery’s account of the circumstances surrounding his arrest, along with that of a fellow journalist, in Ferguson — which instantly made him a national figure in his own right — and the progression of his grim beat covering serial police shootings of black men across the United States.

He offers us a reporter’s notebook: the stinging tear gas and militarized police response to the protests over Brown’s death; the pathos and sense of futility surrounding the killing of Tamir Rice; the outrage over the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, S. C.; and the riots that broke out after the death in custody of Freddy Gray in Baltimore. The book ends with the student protests at the University of Missouri, just 116 miles from Ferguson, which resulted in the resignation of the college president following a historic protest by the star players on the school’s football team. The solemn march from death to protest, from another death to another protest, from racist outburst to protest again, forces the reader to live in the feedback loop of the black psyche, as each horrific milestone produces momentary outrage but seemingly little more. Along the way, we are introduced to a familiar cast of protest leaders: Johnetta Elzie, DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett, as well as less nationally known activists like Charles Wade, a key fund-raiser for the movement. But Lowery maintains a reporter’s distance from the emotional core of the now well-known events; only occasionally does he give us glimpses into the personal toll of covering the deaths of people who look like him and his father and his college friends.

Instead, “They Can’t Kill Us All” offers a window onto the journalistic process, and the countervailing pressures to tell an important and awful story fairly, even while relationships with one’s subjects deepen and the repetitive narrative of suffering grinds away at even the steeliest reporter’s soul. Lowery is unflinchingly honest about the journalistic temptation to seek false balance. He describes grasping at a story of positive policing that turns out to be less than what it seemed. He questions the media’s tendency to put the dead on trial, noting that “a journalist’s portrait of the deceased is often used by the casual reader to decide if the tragic outcome that befell him or her could have happened to us,” or if it was “reserved for someone innately criminal who behaved in a way we never would.” And he recounts how his and other news organizations began to tally the grisly body count of deaths at the hands of police that the federal government had failed, over decades of civic struggle, to calculate. In doing so, Lowery asks why the burden of proving the inherent value of black lives is so frequently placed on the dead. For those seeking a philosophical treatise on the “why” of black death at the hands of police, or a recitation of the broader story of the modern-day civil rights struggle known as Black Lives Matter, “They Can’t Kill Us All” offers more questions than answers; and little in the way of psychic comfort. But perhaps that’s the point.

The affliction of human misunderstanding and interracial fear that too often culminates in the death of a black man or woman at the hands of the police — and that increasingly brings with it the looming threat of unrest and social upheaval — has presented us with few answers and fewer concrete solutions. Lowery is a skillful reporter and storyteller.

He takes the reader through the laborious task of reportage with a humanity and forthrightness, making this book more than just a catalog of tragedy. He succinctly presents a story of human grief: of mothers falling apart on streets stained with their teenage boys’ blood, tight-lipped and somber as reporters file in and out of their homes — or raging against the public show trials of their loved ones in the pages of newspapers and on cable TV, when no trial of their sons’ killers will ever come to pass. 2016-11-15 06:00 7.1 (3.28/15). DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016 In the morning, the President will arrive in Athens, Greece. The arrival at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport is open press. In the afternoon, the President will participate in an arrival ceremony with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

There will be pre-set pool coverage of this arrival at the Presidential Mansion. Afterward, the President will meet with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. There will be a pool spray at the top of this meeting. “We never thought we would get close to bowling them out in a session‚” Abbott‚ who took 6/77 in Australia’s second innings to complete a match haul of 9/118‚ said. Abbott’s accurate‚ penetrative bowling was the major reason South Africa were able to be done and dusted‚ winning by an innings and 80 runs‚ half-and-hour before lunch on the fourth day of a match in which the entire second day was lost to rain.

Coming on the back of South Africa’s 177-win in the first Test at the WACA‚ Tuesday’s triumph clinched the series 2-0. “From the start of the Test we speak about winning in the last session‚ taking it deep and being patient‚” Abbott said. “So when things speed up like that it is rewarding. “But we bowled really well (on Monday) evening and that was our investment session for (Tuesday) morning. “We knew we were one or two balls away from cracking open that middle order and it was proved (on Tuesday) morning.

“(Tuesday) was just reward for (Monday) afternoon.” Abbott‚ Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada beat the bat frequently on Monday but‚ unlike in Australia’s first innings of 85‚ they did not find the edge. The home side resumed on 121/2 yesterday and were firmly in survival mode. But this time the edge was found - six of the last eight wickets fell to catches in the arc behind the wicket. With Abbott firing mercilessly from one end and Kagiso Rabada‚ who took 4/34‚ from the other there was nowhere for the Australians to hide.

“Cricket is a ruthless environment‚” Abbott said. “That’s what we’ve wanted to improve on in this series‚ really fighting as hard as we can and being ruthless with the small stuff‚ from small stops in the field to crucial partnerships and creating pressure from both ends. “That’s what Test cricket is about - who can stand the pressure the longest and being ruthless and never being happy with what you’ve done and wanting more.” South Africa‚ who beat Australia 5-0 in a one-day series last month‚ can get still more when the third Test starts in Adelaide next Thursday.

– TMG Sport 2016-11-15 07:53 2.6 (3.26/15). By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 12:02 a.m. MEXICO CITY — Mexico is starting to seriously contemplate the possibility that millions of its migrants could be deported, and the picture is not pretty.

Under proposals put forward by President-elect Donald Trump, Mexico could see millions of people streaming back with no jobs available; the country might lose some of the billions of dollars in remittances sent home annually; and some jobless deportees could swell the ranks of drug cartels, sparking more violence. Hector Astudillo of the southern state of Guerrero considered the possible scenario over the weekend. At least a million Guerrero residents live in the United States, many without proper documents, and the state is already reeling from drug gang violence and poverty. 'Of course Guerrero is not in any condition to receive the million or more than one million migrants' in the U. S., Astudillo said. 'On the contrary, they have been an important mainstay in supporting the economy of Guerrero. ' Migrants sent home almost $25 billion in remittances to Mexico in 2015, and experts say most of that went to support the most basic needs of the poorest Mexicans.

Trump has suggested he might somehow seize the funds of those immigrants who are not deported to pay for a border wall. Mexico already has a shortfall of 800,000 new jobs for youths who join the labor force each year, let alone returning migrants, said Alejandra Barrales, head of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party. 'We need to close ranks and create (job) opportunities, not just for people who might be deported, but for the 1.2 million young people who join the labor market each year. ' The federal government announced an emergency program this week aimed at encouraging business to hire returning migrants, but Mexico City teacher Armando Osorio doubted that would be enough, given the government's poor track record on job creation. 'These people have no moral authority to say they will receive their countrymen with open arms,' he said. 'They are the ones who are mainly responsible for the forced exodus of millions of Mexicans who don't have enough to eat.

' Even if Trump seems to be walking back the idea of mass deportations, the prospect still remains frightening for people in Mexico. On Sunday, Trump said in an interview on the news program '60 Minutes' that 'what we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, a lot of these people — probably two million, it could be three million — and getting them out of our country. ' Central America's violent gangs, known as 'maras,' emerged in the 1980s when migrants who had fled El Salvador's civil war were deported by the U. After committing crimes as members of street gangs in Los Angeles. The deportees took their criminal knowhow back with them and started new gangs.

Government in 2012 estimated about 1.9 million immigrants were criminals and could face deportation. The Migration Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, estimated 820,000 of those are in the United States illegally. Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the U.

Drug Enforcement Administration, said at least some deportees will likely embrace drug trafficking, using already established U. Connections to increase the amount of heroin and other drugs sent across the border. Even deporting only the felons would backfire by causing more violence in Mexico and Central America, he said. 'What's going to happen is that these individuals are going to return back to Mexico and they have no jobs, so they are going to feed the ranks of the cartels there,' said Vigil, author of the book 'Metal Coffins: The Blood Alliance Cartel. ' 'That would lead to more violence, kidnappings in Mexico, and these areas (of Central America), which would cause a tsunami of undocumented immigrants coming into the United States, probably much more so than what he could actually deport,' Vigil said. There are cases of deported migrants assuming leadership positions in the region's gangs, such as Martin Estrada Luna, a high school dropout from Washington state with a rap sheet of petty crimes such as burglary. Two years after he was sent back to Mexico in 2009, he had transformed himself into a drug baron known as 'El Kilo,' leader of a ruthless cell of the Zetas gang who masterminded the mass killings of more than 250 people.

While millions of migrants in the United States illegally could ultimately face deportation, the process to find and deport all of them likely won't happen rapidly. Once in office, Trump could move to have immigration agents quickly start arresting people already under orders to leave for being in the U. There were about 88,000 people in that category as of 2015. But for immigrants with no criminal history, the wait for a judge's final deportation order could take years. There are about 521,000 cases pending in federal immigration courts currently, according to public data obtained by Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

Even in Mexico, many believe Trump will have to moderate his plans. 'Political reality will make it clear that many of the proposals against Mexicans are simply not feasible, neither the deportation of all undocumented migrants, nor the construction of the wall,' the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico City wrote in an editorial. 2016-11-15 04:02 3.0 (3.23/15).

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Kendrick Ray scored 23 points and Aubrey Williams added 18 with 20 rebounds, both career highs, to lead Kennesaw State to an 80-74 win over NAIA-member Brewton-Parker on Monday night. Kennesaw State (1-1) trailed by as many as 20 points in the first half but rallied after the break, taking the lead for good during a 17-2 run that put the Owls on top 71-62 with 3:52 left. Williams sank the go-ahead bucket during the run.

Nick Masterson added 11 points for the Owls, who shot 55.6 percent from the field in the second half. Williams’ 20 rebounds tied a Kennesaw State record in Division I for most in a single game. McKel Miller led Brewton-Parker with 18 points and 14 rebounds. Malik Wright added 17 points, Dava’Dre Puryear had 15 and Cameron Bokenham 10 for the Barons. Comments The full moon won't get this close for another 18 years, and it provided some spectacular views Sunday night. Have a look at views of the supermoon across the country and around the world.

2016-11-15 00:44 0.6 (3.21/15). Donald Trump’s former campaign manager said Tuesday that any inquiries into getting security clearances for President-elect Donald Trump’s adult children would have been made “very informally.” “I am not intimately aware of that particular line of questioning but I only know what I read, which is that the inquiries were made very informally,” Kellyanne Conway, who is now part of the presidential transition team, said on NBC’s “Today” program. Conway had been asked if the president-elect’s transition team had reached out to ask about getting security clearances for three of Mr. Trump’s children — Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka — and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law. All four are part of the transition team. “We are filled with questions in the Trump transition, and that’s just very logical,” she said. “I know everybody’s very concerned about security, which is a slightly separate matter.” “But at the same time, I am sure that the Trump children will be there to support their father in informal capacities, and I think these are just regular inquiries among many that are made when folks are transitioning into a new administration — for the Trump family, a new city,” Ms.

“Somebody leaked it — I don’t know if to embarrass or stir up trouble,” Ms. Conway said in a separate interview on “Fox & Friends.” Mr.

Trump’s adult children have been intimately involved with the family business, and having access to state secrets or classified information could seemingly present conflicts if that’s where they return after assisting in the presidential transition efforts. Such a move could also invite charges of nepotism from critics.

“I know that they will make public what their decisions are,” Ms. Conway said on Fox Business. “But obviously, they have a team of advisers who are counseling them on how best to do this.” “They are full, small-p partners within the company,” she said.

“This has been a family business at the Trump organization for decades. They all have very senior roles.” “This is an uber successful family as entrepreneurs and business people, but you can expect them to support [the] presidency,” Ms. 2016-11-15 08:28 4.5 (3.18/15).

Already one of the world's most popular means of communication, it seems WhatsApp now hopes to compete with services like FaceTime and Skype. The app has officially launched video calling, and the feature will be rolling out its over one billion users worldwide on iOS, Android and the Windows Phone app over the next few days. In keeping with WhatsApp's data security standards, the new video calling feature will be fully encrypted, protecting calls from being listened into. Scroll down for video 'We’re introducing this feature because we know that sometimes voice and text just aren’t enough,' the company said.

'There’s no substitute for watching your grandchild take her first steps, or seeing your daughter’s face while she’s studying abroad.' The move comes as privacy advocates worry about the potential for stepped-up government surveillance in the US under a Trump administration. WhatsApp, which boasts more than a billion users worldwide, adopted end-to-end encryption early this year, making it technically impossible for the company or government authorities to read messages or listen to calls. The new video calling service will provide another means for people to communicate without fear of eavesdropping though WhatsApp does retain other data such as an individual's list of contacts. WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said in an interview that video calls will be rolled out to 180 countries within hours after the feature is introduced at an event in India. 'We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want,'Mr Koum said at the company's unmarked Mountain View, California headquarters building.

'We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones.' Mr Koum told Reuters improvements in phone cameras, battery life and bandwidth had made the service viable for a significant proportion of WhatsApp users, even those using inexpensive smartphones. Apple offers its FaceTime video calls to iPhone users, and Microsoft's Skype offers video calls on multiple platforms.

But WhatsApp has built a massive installed base of mobile customers and has been steadily adding more features to what began as a simple chat applications. WhatsApp has operated with some autonomy since Facebook bought it in 2014.

Mr Koum and co-founder Brian Acton, longtime Yahoo engineers who started the company in 2009, now have 200 staff, mostly engineers and customer support, up from 50 when Facebook bought it. Mr Koum said Facebook has allowed WhatsApp to use its servers and bandwidth around the world for voice and now video.

That support will help spread the souped-up WhatsApp much farther and faster, he said. But the corporate allegiance also has a price. After years of pledging it would not share information about users with Facebook, which already has digital dossiers on its own 1.7 billion users, WhatsApp revised its privacy statement in August to say it would do exactly that. That means Facebook knows whom WhatsApp users contact and their phone numbers. Some users complained, but Mr Koum said he had not seen a shift in behaviour.

'In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages,' he said. The video service is well integrated and adds a few twists.

Users can move around the thumbnail video showing what their correspondent sees and flick a video call in progress to the side to minimize it while checking texts or email. Mr Koum said WhatsApp remained committed to security after the US election of Donald Trump as president last week heightened fears of increased surveillance. Trump, along with some leading congressional Republicans and FBI Director James Comey, has advocated requiring tech companies to turn over customer information in many circumstances, a position which, if put into law, could require companies including WhatsApp to completely redesign their services. Other countries including China and the United Kingdom also take a dim view of encryption. But Mr Koum said he not see a major threat to his service, noting that diplomats and officials use WhatsApp in many countries. 'It would be like them shooting themselves in the foot.'

2016-11-15 05:36 6.7 (3.14/15). LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday quoting a new survey that is forcing Nigerian officials to stop denying the crisis.

The Paris-based organization hopes that official recognition of the calamity in which “thousands are dying every day” will help bring urgent aid before older children also start dying, Natalie Roberts, emergency program manager for northeast Nigeria, told The Associated Press. A survey of two refugee camps in the northeastern city of Maiduguri shows a quarter of the expected population of under-5 children is missing, assumed dead, according to the organization. Northeastern Nigeria’s under-5 mortality rates are more than double the threshold for declaring an emergency, Roberts said in a phone interview from Paris. Speaking on her return from northeastern Borno state, the birthplace of Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising, she said the absence of young children was striking. “We only saw older brothers and sisters.

No toddlers are straddling their big sisters’ hips. No babies strapped to their mums’ backs. It’s as if they have just vanished,” Roberts said. Doctors Without Borders first sounded the alarm in June but Nigerian camp officials as late as September denied any child was suffering malnutrition. That was even after The Associated Press published images of matchstick-thin children fighting for their lives at Doctors Without Borders intensive feeding center in Maiduguri.

“The difference now is that our figures have been checked by the statistician general, and we have official recognition from the government that they believe this is happening,” Roberts said. An estimated 75,000 children could die within a year because donors have provided only one-third of requested funding and twice as much, $1 billion, is needed for the rest of the year and into 2017, says the United Nations. A vital funding conference in Geneva next month could save the day, otherwise “it won’t be long before we could be in the painful position of having to turn away sick and starving children,” says the U. S.-based Save the Children.

Some 2.6 million people including more than 1 million children have been driven from their homes by Nigeria’s 7-year-old insurgency that has killed more than 20,000 people, left food-producing fields fallow, disrupted trade routes and destroyed wells, bridges and entire towns. The crisis is aggravated by alleged theft of food aid being investigated by Nigeria’s senate. President Muhammadu Buhari last month set up a presidential committee to coordinate aid and the rebuilding of the northeast, even as an end to the rainy season has brought a predictable upsurge in attacks on military outposts and urban suicide bombings by the Islamic extremists.

Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 2016-11-15 07:58 2.4 (3.13/15). A rise in hate crimes against Muslims and Jews contributed to a 6.8 percent overall increase in 2015 incidents from the previous year, according to the FBI.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes reported to police rose by some 67 percent, to 215 incidents, from the 154 in 2014, the official FBI data released Monday showed. It marks the second highest number of crimes against Muslims since the national statistics began being reported in 1992. The highest number occurred in 2001, the year of the 9/11 attacks, with 481 incidents.

Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. The number of religiously motivated hate crimes was 1,244, some 21.3 percent of the total. Some 53.3 percent of the religiously motivated hate crimes, or 664 incidents, were directed at Jews, who make up less than 2 percent of the population. Crimes against Jews increased by about 9 percent from 2014. Over half of all hate crime, 3,310 incidents, or 56.6 percent, was committed on the basis of race, with 52.7 percent being anti-black.

The FBI tracks over 30 different types of bias motivations within the categories of race and ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity. Also Monday, the Anti-Defamation League expressed “deep concern” over “ongoing reports” of anti-Semitic and other hate incidents in the wake of the 2016 election results last week. Its Center on Extremism has been monitoring the proliferation of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism across the country, including the use of swastikas and other Nazi imagery including the name of President-elect Donald Trump, as well as reports of assaults and harassment, the ADL said in a statement. The ADL also established a mechanism in which the public can report anti-Semitic, racist or bigoted incidents, and encouraged social media users to promote the hashtag #ExposeHate. “Sadly, the contentious tone from the 2016 election has translated into a moment of ripeness for the haters to deface properties across the country with some of the most unsettling anti-Semitic and racist imagery,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the group’s CEO. “We must not let this troubling trend of hate define our society, which means that the onus is on our community leaders, religious clergy, elected officials and others to remain vigilant, report incidents when they surface and make clear that this level of vitriol will not be tolerated.” Relevant to your professional network?

Please share on Linkedin Think others should know about this? Please share 2016-11-15 08:50 1.3 (3.13/15). Stephen Bannon, Trump’s newly appointed chief strategist, will “run ideas” past the UKIP leader before speaking to May, according to prominent UKIP donor Arron Banks. “There is no doubt about it that Steve Bannon will talk to Nigel Farage before any other British politician and run stuff by them,” Banks told the Telegraph. Banks said Trump and Farage are old friends who spoke or texted each other “every day – they are best mates.” Farage, who traveled to New York after the presidential election last week, is the only high-profile British politician to meet with Trump. “When he opened the door it was like, ‘Come on in Nigel.’ They are as close as two people can be in politics,” Banks said.

The closeness of their friendship was “not going to go away,” Banks said, because “Nigel has a hotline to the president and the president’s chief adviser.” On Monday, Farage said his access to Trump means May should use him to “put the national interest first.” He says he could “provide instructions” and “start the necessary process of mending fences.” But Downing Street has dismissed Farage’s offer to build a relationship with the Trump camp after disparaging comments were made by ministers and No 10 aides during the presidential election campaign. May’s official spokeswoman claimed Trump has already said he wants a Reagan-Thatcher style relationship with the PM, adding: “I don’t remember there being a third person in that relationship.” She added that the government already had “well established” channels of communication with the US government. Farage responded, telling LBC radio: “It just amazes me that those ghastly little apparatchiks that work in Downing Street put out statements like this. “It just goes to show they are not really interested in the country or the national interest, they are more concerned about petty party politics and trying to keep me out of everything.

“If you think of America in terms of a business and think of them as a client we want to do business with, what would you do? You would use the person who has the connections. “Nobody in this administration in the UK has any connections with the Trump team at all, and yet they are prepared on behalf of the country to cut off their noses to spite their faces.” Downing Street has hinted that May is planning to visit Washington to meet with Trump earlier than expected, after originally intending to wait until Trump is sworn in as president in January. 2016-11-15 07:30 2.6 (3.13/15). Steve Bannon People are outraged that Donald Trump has chosen the head of Brietbart News Steve Bannon as his chief strategist. Bannon is a favorite among white nationalists and has been responsible for racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic headlines like these. Here's a primer on Bannon, and a list of advocacy groups uniting against him.

President Obama President Obama's asking rattled Americans to give Trump a chance, calling him 'sincere' and 'pragmatic. ' He took that message abroad today seeking to reassure deeply shaken foreign allies that Trump - the man he called an ' unqualified' peddler of 'wacky ideas ' -- isn't that bad.

Hot car verdict Georgia man Justin Ross Harris has been found guilty of murder in the 2014 death of his two-year-old son. The boy, Cooper Harris, died after being left in a hot car for hours as Harris worked and sexted with multiple women, some of whom were underage. Syria civil war Residents of Aleppo received a terrifying text yesterday: ' Flee or die. ' The text warned of an impending 'strategically planned assault,' and was probably sent by the Syrian government.

Still, many refused to leave despite the threat and the worsening shortage of necessities like food and medical care. Climate change There may be a chill in the air where you live, but a UN agency says this could be the hottest year. It's climate change, it said, which is also why extreme weather events like flooding and heatwaves are getting worse. Breakfast Browse People are talking about these. Newscaster Gwen Ifill has passed at 61 If you want to know what she meant to female journalists and journalists of color, read this moving piece by Lisa France. Mom's 'Make America Kind Again' signs are in high demand At least they won't cause any arguments over Thanksgiving dinner.

People are sad about Joe Biden leaving the White House So of course they are making hilarious memes about it. The Dakota Access Pipeline has been halted Engineers want to talk to the Native American tribe that opposes it. Could it possibly be. Rare watch sells for $11 million, breaking records With that kind of money you could buy, like, a lot of other wristwatches.

This is so satisfying Kinda into calligraphy right now, so watch this guy PERFECTLY recreate famous logos with just a few strokes of a pen. 2016-11-15 07:07 3.8 (3.12/15). Russian President Vladimir Putin and U. President-elect Donald Trump are not due to meet before Trump assumes office on Jan. 20, 2017, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

The two men spoke by phone on Monday night and agreed to work together towards 'constructive cooperation,' including on fighting terrorism. Trump had previously spoken of wanting to meet Putin, possibly before his inauguration. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday that no agreement to meet up before Jan. 20 had been reached during their first phone call since Trump won the U. He also said that the two men had not discussed the Ukraine crisis or the status of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. 2016-11-15 08:39 1.9 (3.12/15). LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — Even as their leads expand to 30 and sometimes 40 points, the Clippers swear they’re not paying attention to the spread.

For the NBA’s best team, it’s all about consistency. Chris Paul had 21 points and nine assists and Blake Griffin added 20 points in a 127-95 rout of the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night that improved the Clippers to 10-1 with their seventh straight victory. “We have a singular focus,” Paul said.

“No excuses, we said we’re going to come out the same way every night. It’s all about playing the right way. We got to keep building.” Los Angeles came in having outscored opponents by an average of 15.1 points, largest in the league. Brooklyn quickly found itself relegated to the Clippers’ growing scrap heap. “It’s actually good for our guys to see a team like this,” new Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said.

“They can see how well they are playing and their cohesiveness. They’ve been together for a while and they’re executing well. They turned us over and got us out of our game.” Nets coach Kenny Atkinson looks on during the second half against the Clippers at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Nov.

(Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) Bojan Bogdanovic led the Nets with 18 points and Sean Kilpatrick added 14. Brooklyn’s season-high 22 turnovers led to 35 points by the Clippers. Redick added 18 points, Luc Mbah a Moute scored 11 points and DeAndre Jordan had 14 rebounds for the Clippers, who shot 53 percent from the floor while extending the best start in franchise history.

Their 127 points were a season high. “The defense is so good right now our offense is allowed easy baskets,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “They’re angry when the other team scores.” Los Angeles raced to a 35-7 lead to start the game, highlighted by Jordan’s reverse dunk off Griffin’s alley-oop pass. The Nets didn’t score the rest of their 14 first-quarter points until the last two minutes of the period and finished with their lowest point total in a quarter this season. Brooklyn went on its only run of the game in the second, scoring 10 straight points to close to 51-34.

Paul re-entered and hit a 3-pointer that launched a 20-13 spurt to give the Clippers a 71-47 halftime lead. Leading 89-59 in the third, Griffin and Jordan energized the fading crowd with consecutive one-handed jams.

Griffin stuffed a pass from Redick, and on their next trip up the court, Jordan dunked in front of Justin Hamilton, whose only defense was to stick his arms straight up in the air. The starters’ work was done after that, with Griffin and Jordan joining Paul, Redick and Mbah a Moute in sitting for good. The Clippers’ bench increased the lead to 102-71 heading into the fourth, when Griffin was on his feet laughing and pumping his arm in the air. TIP-INS Nets: They haven’t beaten the Clippers in LA since 2010. Brooklyn fell to 1-4 on the road.

G-F Caris LeVert (left foot rehab) and G Jeremy Lin (strained left hamstring) sat out. Clippers: Jordan needs two made free throws for 1,000 in his career. G Jamal Crawford, the king of four-point plays, had one in the fourth, making a free throw after getting fouled on a 3-pointer he launched from in front of his team’s bench. He fell down and was quickly helped to his feet by giddy teammates.

Crawford led the bench with 17 points and Raymond Felton had 11. Wesley Johnson missed his second straight game with a left heel contusion. LESSON LEARNED Nets rookie reserve guard Yogi Ferrell had a close eye on Paul. “It’s very interesting playing against Chris Paul,” Ferrell said.

“I’m going to continue to be aggressive and push the ball and I’m not going to back down from anyone.” FIRST POINTS Clippers rookie Diamond Stone finished with six points, his first in the NBA. He played the game’s final eight minutes after making his debut on Oct. 30 against Utah. HE SAID IT “CP is into the hardcore metal rock so he gave me a little head bump.” — Jordan on his sideline head knock with Paul in the second half.

UP NEXT Nets: They remain in town to play the Lakers on Tuesday to complete a back-to-back. The Nets have lost two straight to them. Clippers: Host Memphis on Wednesday, with LA having gone 5-1 in the teams’ last six regular season meetings. (TM and © Copyright 2016 CBS Radio Inc.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.) 2016-11-15 07:42 3.6 (3.12/15). A racist Facebook post about Michelle Obama has caused a major controversy involving a town mayor in the US state of West Virginia. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local non-profit group in Clay County, referred to the first lady as an 'ape'. 'It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a Ape in heels,' she said. Local mayor Beverly Whaling responded with 'just made my day Pam'. Ms Whaling is mayor of the town of Clay, which has a population of just 491.

It has no African American residents, according to the 2010 census. In Clay County as a whole, more than 98% of its 9,000 residents are white. Despite the small population in the region, the controversial Facebook post spread across United States and international media outlets, and a petition calling for both women to be terminated from their positions has collected more than 85,000 signatures.

The Washington Post and New York Daily News reported that Ms Taylor was removed from her position on Monday. She told local news outlet WSAZ, which first carried the story, that she acknowledged her Facebook post could be 'interpreted as racist, but in no way was intended to be', and that she was expressing a personal opinion on attractiveness, not the colour of a person's skin. She told the news station she was considering legal action for slander against unnamed individuals. The Clay County Development group, of which Ms Taylor is the director, is partly funded through state and federal grants, and the group provides services to elderly and low-income residents. In a statement given to the Washington Post, Mayor Whaling said: 'My comment was not intended to be racist at all' and apologised for the comment 'getting out of hand. ' 'I was referring to my day being made for change in the White House!

I am truly sorry for any hard feeling this may have caused! Those who know me know that I'm not of any way racist! Owens Brown, director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People West Virginia chapter, said it was 'unfortunate that people still have these racist undertones'. 'Unfortunately, this is a reality that we are dealing with in America today. There's no place for these types of attitudes in our state. ' West Virginia Democratic Party Chairwoman Belinda Biafore issued an apology to Michelle Obama 'on behalf of my fellow Mountaineers', referring to a nickname for inhabitants of the state.

'West Virginia truly is better than this. These radical, hateful, and racist ideals are exactly what we at the West Virginia Democratic Party will continue to fight against,' she said in a statement.

The state voted for the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, in the presidential election, by a margin of 68.7%. 2016-11-15 14:01 3.1 (3.12/15). NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Cyprus' biggest bank says it's applying for a listing on the London Stock Exchange to boost its profile, attract investors and expand its access to capital. The Bank of Cyprus said Tuesday it intends to maintain a listing on the Cyprus Stock Exchange, but won't be listed on the Athens Exchange. The bank said in a statement that it has incorporated a holding company for the Bank of Cyprus Group in Ireland in order to be eligible for inclusion in the London Stock Exchange's premium listings. The bank was at the center of a multibillion-euro rescue deal Cyprus agreed in 2013 with its eurozone partners that saved it from bankruptcy. The island nation successfully completed the program in March.

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 2016-11-15 05:37 4.2 (3.11/15). Josh Hart scored 24 points and Darryl Reynolds added 12 to lead No. 3 Villanova to a 79-76 victory over No.

15 Purdue on Monday night. The Wildcats (2-0) have won eight straight games, including the six NCAA Tournament victories that gave them the national title last season. They also snapped the Boilermakers' nine-game home winning streak and became only the second team to beat Matt Painter in November since he became Purdue's coach in 2006-07. Isaac Haas scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half for the Boilermakers (1-1). Caleb Swanigan had 20 points, eight rebounds and four assists. 11 XAVIER 86, BUFFALO 53 CINCINNATI (AP) — J.

Macura scored 18 points and Xavier took advantage of 38 personal fouls by Buffalo. The Musketeers (2-0) quickly opened a double-digit lead and got the balance back in their offense after relying on career highs for points by Trevon Bluiett and Edmond Sumner in their opening 84-81 win over Lehigh. Bluiett and Sumner had 13 points apiece in this one. Nick Perkins led the Bulls (1-1) with 15 points. They shot only 31 percent from the field. 12 LOUISVILLE 91, WILLIAM & MARY 58 LOUISVILLE, Ky. King scored 17 points and Deng Adel added 16, including eight during Louisville's 10-0 run to close the first half against William & Mary.

Louisville (2-0) initially struggled against the Tribe's up-tempo style, going scoreless for 3:06 and allowing William & Mary to pull to 34-31 with 2:13 remaining in the first half. Adel took charge over the final 1:31 with five free throws and a 3-pointer during the spurt that gave the Cardinals some space entering the break. Quentin Snider and Jaylen Johnson each added 13 points for Louisville, which held William & Mary (1-1) to 23 percent shooting in the second half and 31 percent overall. 14 GONZAGA 69, SAN DIEGO STATE 48 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Jordan Mathews scored 17 points and Gonzaga held San Diego State to 28 percent shooting. Zach Collins added 15 points and Nigel Williams-Goss 10 for Gonzaga (2-0) in the ESPN College Hoops Marathon game. Trey Kell and Jeremy Hemsley each had 14 points for San Diego State (1-1).

San Diego State shot 16 of 56 and went long periods without a basket. The Aztecs made only five of their first 21 attempts and fell behind 23-12. 19 WEST VIRGINIA 107, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE 66 MORGANTOWN, W. (AP) — Nathan Adrian had 15 points and 14 rebounds for his first career double-double, helping West Virginia cruise past Mississippi Valley State. The Mountaineers (2-0) were sluggish at first, but Adrian and Jevon Carter fueled a 17-0 run that put West Virginia ahead 21-5 at the first media timeout. West Virginia shot 72.7 percent from the free throw line and scored 34 points off 26 turnovers. Teyvon Myers and Lamont West scored 12 points apiece for West Virginia.

Marcus Romain had 13 points for the Delta Devils (0-2). 20 IOWA STATE 73, MOUNT ST. MARY'S 55 AMES, Iowa (AP) — Monte Morris scored 18 points and Matt Thomas added 13 as Iowa State beat Mount St. Deonte Burton had 10 points and 13 rebounds for the Cyclones (2-0), who have won their first two games by an average of 30 points. Mary's (0-2) got within 10 early in the second half, but six Cyclones scored during a 15-1 run that put the game out of reach. Elijah Long, the brother of Iowa State's Naz Mitrou-Long, had 19 points to lead the Mountaineers. 21 RHODE ISLAND 107, MARIST 65 KINGSTON, R.

Matthews scored 22 points and Hassan Martin had 15 points and 10 rebounds to lead Rhode Island over Marist in the Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament. Kuran Iverson and Jared Terrell scored 14 apiece for the Rams (2-0), making their first appearance in The Associated Press Top 25 since 2007-08.

Khallid Hart scored 19 points and Brian Parker had 18 for Marist (0-2). URI shot 57 percent from 3-point range and outrebounded the Red Foxes 43-21. 23 TEXAS 80, LOUISIANA-MONROE 59 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tevin Mack returned from a one-game suspension with 14 points as Texas used a big second half to roll over Louisiana-Monroe. The Longhorns were back to full strength with the return of Mack and guard Kerwin Roach Jr., giving Texas (2-0) some of the muscle, speed and depth it lacked in a sloppy season-opening win over Incarnate Word. Louisiana-Monroe (1-1) cut Texas' lead to 46-40 before the Longhorns responded with a 16-4 run. Kendal Yancey scored five straight points, made a 3-pointer and threw down a dunk in transition that made it 62-44 with just under 8 minutes left.

Mack and Roach sat out the first game because of an offseason rules violation. Neither player started Monday night, but both were on the court within minutes after the opening tip.

Mack made four 3-pointers and Roach had 11 points and two assists. 24 CINCINNATI 74, ALBANY 51 CINCINNATI (AP) — Jacob Evans III had nine points during a run that put Cincinnati in control midway through the second half, and the Bearcats overcame cold shooting and a sloppy start to beat Albany. Evans' 3-pointer started a 13-2 spurt that allowed the Bearcats (2-0) to finally shake loose.

They went only 5 of 21 from beyond the arc, but Evans finished with 19 points. David Nichols scored 13 points for Albany (1-1), which self-destructed with 22 turnovers. Cincinnati outscored Albany 40-18 over the final 15 minutes. 2016-11-15 03:22 5.2 (3.08/15). BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — After pulling his lifeless son from the car where the toddler had been left sweltering and alone for hours, Justin Ross Harris insisted it had been a fatal accident. Police found the death suspicious — from the short drive during which Harris said he forgot about his son to the fact he returned to his SUV once without noticing the boy.

After a month-long trial and four days of deliberations, a jury Monday sided with authorities and convicted 35-year-old Harris of malice murder — concluding not only that he should be held criminally responsible, but that he left his 22-month-old son, Cooper, to die on purpose. Harris held a flat stare that showed little emotion as the verdict was read. He was found guilty of all eight criminal counts against him. The malice murder charge alone carries a sentence of life in prison, either with or without the possibility of parole. The trial judge scheduled a sentencing hearing for Dec.

“I believe categorically, unequivocally, that justice was served today,” Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds told reporters outside the courthouse, though he added “it’s not a verdict we celebrate.” Harris’ defense team vowed to appeal the verdict and to seek a new trial as well. “From the moment we met Ross Harris, we’ve never once wavered in our absolute belief that he’s not guilty of what he’s been convicted of,” defense attorney Maddox Kilgore told reporters. The toddler died after being left for seven hours in the back of Harris’ SUV on June 18, 2014. Harris said he forgot to drop his son off at day care that morning and drove straight to his job as a web developer for Home Depot, not realizing Cooper was still in his car seat.

Harris told police he didn’t notice Cooper until he left work for the day to go to a movie. Soon afterward, investigators found evidence that Harris was having sexual relationships — both online banter and in-person affairs — with numerous women, including a prostitute and a teenager. Prosecutors charged Harris with malice murder, saying he intentionally killed his son in order to escape the responsibilities of family life. Prosecutors ultimately prevailed with their argument that Harris must have known Cooper was in the car. Harris drove less than two minutes to work after strapping the child into his car seat when they finished breakfast at a Chick-fil-A restaurant just over a half-mile from Harris’ office.

Parking lot surveillance video showed Harris also went to his car after lunch and tossed in some light bulbs he had purchased, though he never got inside. Detectives testified Harris seemed too calm when answering their questions hours after his son died. “It wasn’t one thing that (jurors) said, ‘This proves malice,'” lead prosecutor Chuck Boring told reporters.

“It was everything.” Defense attorneys said Harris was responsible for his son’s death, but insisted it was an accident rather than a crime. Friends and family members testified he was a devoted and loving father, and the jury watched video clips of Harris trying to teach Cooper to say “banana” and letting the boy strum his guitar. The joyous moments had some jurors laughing aloud. Harris’ ex-wife, Leanna Taylor, also came to his defense. She divorced him in March and bitterly told the jury that Harris “destroyed my life.” But she testified he was a loving father who, regardless of how unhappy he may have been in their marriage, would not have harmed their son on purpose. Taylor was not in the courtroom Monday. Harris was alone, except for his lawyers, as the verdict was read.

An attorney for Taylor, Lawrence Zimmerman, said they were disappointed in the verdict. “Clearly it is our belief that this was not done with any malice,” Zimmerman said in an emailed statement. Jurors seen leaving the courthouse Monday declined to speak with reporters. Boring said he had spoken with some of them, and was told they were nearly unanimous when they began deliberations last week. He said they wanted to make sure and review the evidence, taking four days to deliver a verdict. Prosecutors said Harris left online clues to murderous intentions. Evidence showed that minutes before Harris locked the car door on his boy, he sent an online message: “I love my son and all, but we both need escapes.” Five days earlier, Harris watched an online video in which a veterinarian sits inside a hot car to show it reaches 116 degrees in a half-hour.

Harris was also found guilty of sending sexual text messages to a teenage girl and asked for nude photos of her pubic area. The girl testified Harris knew she was in high school the months they swapped sexual banter when she was 16 and 17, and Harris several times sent her photos of his penis. He was asking for a photo of her breasts the day Cooper died. Harris moved to Georgia from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2012. He lived in the Atlanta suburb of Cobb County, which is also where Cooper died. Because of intense pretrial publicity surrounding the case, the judge agreed to relocate Harris’ trial 275 miles away in the coastal port city of Brunswick.

Harris lawyers said he never spoke of the verdict when they met with him in a holding cell after the case ended Monday. “Instead he recognized he can now begin the grieving process he’s not been able to go through the last two-plus years,” Kilgore said. “He talked about Cooper and how much he misses him.” Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 2016-11-15 06:42 7.8 (3.07/15). The discovery of a 5-year-old girl wandering in the Port Authority bus terminal Monday led police to the child’s murdered mother in Connecticut and sparked a manhunt for the missing father, authorities said. Port Authority police found the unattended girl on the second-floor concourse of the Midtown bus terminal at about 10:10 a.m. Monday, officials said.

A conversation with the child led cops to find her mother dead in her Stamford apartment, police said. Authorities are looking to question the little girl’s dad, Elmer Gomez Ruono, 32. “We certainly want to talk to him at this point,” Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said.

The victim, a Guatemalan national in her 30s, separated from the child’s father and moved from New Jersey to the Courtland Glen Cooperative on Courtland Ave. Over the weekend, according to NBC News York.

“The apartment’s not completely unpacked,” he said. Her cause of death remains under investigation. A group of friends and relatives were at the apartment Sunday night and she was killed after the guests left, the TV station wrote. Police found signs of a struggle, Conklin said. Authorities believe Ruono traveled to Port Authority with the girl and left her there. The child was unharmed and in good health, Port Authority spokesman Joseph Pentangelo said. “She’s of course upset being abandoned down there,” Conklin said.

“She was well-fed and clothed.” Police describe Ruono as 5-foot-8 and about 140 pounds, with long black hair, a medium build and a medium complexion. Anyone with information is asked to either call Stamford police at (203) 589-3546, or the NYPD Crime Stoppers tip line at (800) 577-TIPS. 2016-11-15 04:57 0.7 (3.06/15). A giant sinkhole which swallowed a chunk of road the length of a city block in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka has been filled mere days after it appeared, a testament to Japanese engineering and efficiency. After the sinkhole appeared on November 8, subcontractors worked around the clock to fill in the 30 meter (98 ft) wide, 15 meter (50 ft) deep hole by the 12th with a mixture of sand and cement. The job was complicated by the water which had seeped in from sewage pipes destroyed by collapsing sections of road. After that it only took another 48 hours to reinstall all utilities -- electricity, water, sewage, gas and telecommunication lines -- and to resurface the road.

There were no reports of injuries. The gigantic sinkhole opened suddenly last week in Hakata ward in Fukuoka's business district, swallowing huge sections of road near underground work to extend a subway tunnel. City officials were working nearby to extend the subway from a nearby station to the city center along a 1.4-kilometer (0.86 mile) route.

Motohisa Oda, a crisis management officer from the city of Fukuoka, told CNN that the underground construction work may have triggered the collapse. The gaping hole -- which started off as two smaller ones before merging into the larger cavity -- appeared 300 meters from the JR Hakata station, one of the city's main transport hubs. The mayor of Fukuoka, Soichiro Takashima, said the affected ground had been strengthened by a factor of 30 because of the sand and cement refill. Previously comprised largely of sand, the soil's composition was suspected to be a part of the cause for the huge hole, according to local civil engineering experts. 2016-11-15 05:25 3.7 (3.06/15).

Levert, the son of lead vocalist, was a member of the R&B trio LeVert along with his older brother Gerald. In 1995 Sean released his only solo album, Other Side. The singer was jailed at the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland March 24, 2008, for failing to pay nearly $90,000 in child support. He died in jail six days later after being denied his prescribed anti-anxiety medication Xanax. According to Cleveland’s WKYC-TV, jail security cameras caught “disturbing images” of the singer strapped to a chair suffering from withdrawal. The coroner’s report said withdrawal from the medication contributed to Levert’s death. The settlement was reached late Wednesday between Cuyahoga County and a jail medical services contractor.

'No amount of money will bring my husband back,” Angela Lowe, Levert’s widow, told WKYC-TV. “I believe the county and staff were fair to my family. Now I must move on and take care of my sons.” The station noted that Lowe plans to speak with state lawmakers about passing “Sean’s Law,” which would “create a uniform standard for administering prescription drugs to inmates in jails across Ohio.” Click for the WKYC-TV story.