 Indonesia says Denmark's decision to withdraw its diplomats was "hasty". Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said Indonesia had provided adequate protection for embassy staff and there was "no good reason" for the decision. On Saturday Denmark said it was pulling staff out of the Indonesian capital because of threats against them. Danish nationals have also been urged to leave over fears they may be targeted in the row over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. On Saturday, the Danish Foreign Ministry said it had "information about reliable security threats against staff at the embassy". It also cited "concrete information" that an extremist group planned to target Danes because of the cartoon row. But Mr Wirayuda said Indonesia did not have any specific information about the threats. ...
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 9 injured in latest jail riot in L.A. |
The latest outbreak of racially charged rioting at a Southern California jail sent eight inmates to the hospital Saturday with minor injuries, officials said. A ninth inmate was treated at the scene. The fight erupted at a housing dorm where 86 black and Hispanic inmates were separated by race, sheriff's spokesman Deputy Luis Castro said. Guards fired sting balls at the inmates to break up the riot. No deputies were hurt. ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-12-jail-riot_x.htm?csp=34
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| Woman, 3 kids found dead in Ohio home |
A woman and her three children were found shot to death in their western Ohio home, officials said.A handgun was found in the neat and orderly home, and investigators were interviewing the woman's boyfriend, who had recently moved out, Montgomery Sheriff's Maj. Ed Copher said."I wouldn't call anybody a suspect at this time," Copher said.Tonya Hawks, 31, and her three sons, ages 2, 4 and 5, had moved into the rented house last summer. The bodies were found Saturday in various locations in the house and appeared to have been dead for several days, Copher said."The house was secure. Nothing would suggest that it was an intruder," he said. "It didn't appear there was a struggle or anything."...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/12/ohio.4.killed.ap/index.html?section=cnn_us
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| Snowstorm Buries East Coast |
The region's first major storm of the season slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast states with nearly 2 feet of windblown snow early Sunday, canceling church services and shutting down air travel from Washington to Boston. Blizzard warnings were posted for much of the Northeast, with predictions of wind gusting up to 50 mph, the National Weather Service said. Heavy snow warnings were in place from eastern Kentucky to New England. The weather service predicted as much as 2 feet of snow across the New York metro region. By 8 a.m., a foot had accumulated in Central Park as the flakes fell at a rate of about 2 inches an hour. Philadelphia's northern and western suburbs measured up to 18 inches, the weather service said. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/11/national/main1307699.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=U.S._1307699
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| Shias nominate Jaafari as Iraq PM |
The Shia bloc set to lead Iraq's first full-term government has picked PM Ibrahim Jaafari as its candidate for prime minister in the new cabinet. Mr Jaafari won by one vote over Vice-President Adel Abdel Mahdi. Each was backed by two key factions in the United Iraqi Alliance, which fell just short of a majority in the poll. Correspondents say the question for Mr Jaafari is if he can win the support of Sunni and Kurd politicians, who have been critical of his time in office. His transitional government has been widely accused of poor performance and discrimination against Iraq's Sunni Arabs. The UIA had delayed a decision on a candidate until Sunday, after failing to agree on a choice in talks on Saturday. The discussions among factions within the umbrella UIA came after final poll results confirmed the alliance was the biggest bloc in the new parliament. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4705930.stm
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| British troops videoed 'beating Iraqis' |
Details emerged last night of a shocking video which appears to show a group of British soldiers brutally beating and kicking defenceless Iraqi teenagers in an army compound. The footage is said to show eight soldiers pulling four teenagers off the street following a riot and dragging them into their army base, before beating them with batons, as well as punching and kicking them. An urgent Military Police investigation was under way last night into the events shown in the video. The Ministry of Defence issued the following statement: 'We are aware of these very serious allegations and can confirm that they are the subject of an urgent Royal Military Police investigation. We condemn all acts of abuse and treat any allegation of wrongdoing extremely seriously.' But the emergence of the footage, given to the News of the World by an anonymous whistleblower, will spark a huge controversy about the conduct of the army in Iraq. There were also fears that it could lead to more attacks ...
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1708162,00.html
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