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Protests across US over Ferguson ruling
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26 killed, 50 injured in China’s mine fire
Hong Kong cops arrest protesters
Panel to take call on US envoy
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Protests across US over Ferguson ruling
Ferguson, November 26 Two FBI agents were shot and wounded at a house in north St Louis County early on Wednesday, though the incident was "not directly related" to racially charged unrest in and around Ferguson, an agency spokeswoman said. One agent was shot in the shoulder and the other in the leg while assisting the police in executing an arrest warrant, FBI spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said in a statement. Their injuries were not life-threatening. President Barack Obama appealed for dialogue, and his attorney general promised that a federal probe into the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August would be rigorous. Officer Darren Wilson, the policeman who shot him, said his conscience was clear. Despite a beefed-up military presence in Ferguson, a police car was torched near City Hall as darkness fell, and police fired smoke bombs and tear gas to scatter protesters. A crowd of demonstrators later converged near police headquarters, scuffled with officers who doused them with pepper spray, then smashed storefront windows as they fled under orders to disperse. Still, the crowds were smaller and more controlled than on Monday, when about a dozen businesses were torched and others were looted amid rock-throwing and sporadic gunfire from protesters and volleys of tear gas fired by police. More than 60 people were arrested then, compared with 44 arrests on Tuesday night, police said. “Generally, it was a much better night,” St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters early Wednesday, adding there was very little arson or gunfire, and that lawlessness was confined to a relatively small group. “We saw some protesters out there that were really out there for the right reason," he said. "Unfortunately, there seems to be a few people who are bent on preventing this from happening in the most ideal way that it could.” The unrest surrounding Brown's death in Ferguson, a predominantly black city with a white-dominated power structure, underscored the often-tense nature of US race relations and strained ties between African-American communities and police. Monday’s racially charged protests were more intense than disturbances that followed the shooting itself, though much smaller than widespread rioting and looting that followed the acquittal of police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles two decades ago. An enlarged contingent of National Guard troops surrounded businesses damaged in violence. Groups of men also gathered on the roofs of some boarded-up stores to protect the buildings from further damage. Armed with fire extinguishers and, one said, guns, they planned to stay all night. The grand jury decision has shifted the legal spotlight to a US Justice Department investigation into whether Wilson violated Brown's civil rights by intentionally using excessive force — Reuters States on the boil
New York: Protesters try to block the Lincoln Tunnel and Triborough Bridge and march to Times Square, a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan. los angeles: Protesters set rubbish on fire in the middle of a street and swept onto a downtown stretch of Interstate 980, briefly halting traffic. Atlanta: Hundreds of people turn out for a protest march in one of the night’s biggest rallies. Police arrest 21 as traffic blocked. Boston: An estimated 1,500 people take to the streets. Inmates at a correctional facility in Boston taped Brown's name on a window in solidarity with protesters
‘Don’t destroy properties’
There are productive ways of responding and expressing those frustrations and there are destructive ways of responding. Burning buildings, torching cars, destroying property, putting people at risk, that’s destructive and there’s no excuse for it. Those are criminal acts. Never wanted to kill: Ferguson cop
washington: Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson says he "never wanted to take anybody's life" and feels sorry about the death of Michael Brown. During the confrontation withthe unarmed black teenager, he said: “The only emotion I ever felt was fear and then it was survival and training." Wilson said he only fired when Brown was facing him, and never when his back was turned. He further said in the teenager he saw “a high level of aggression and anger”. |
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Allowed drone strikes in Pak, says Musharraf Former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf (retd) has admitted to giving permission for a US-led drone strike in the tribal areas during his term. “I only gave permission once we were shown evidence against a prominent militant group,” he said. Musharraf is blamed for entering into a secret deal with the United States for allowing drone strikes in Pakistan. On the treason charges against him, he said these were politically motivated. Musharraf termed the proceedings as a mean of revenge against him, indirectly referring to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif whom he unseated and then jailed in a coup in 1999. He expressed hope that in the end justice would prevail.
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26 killed, 50 injured in China’s mine fire
Beijing, November 26 The fire was noticed in the early hours at the coal mine under Hengda Coal, a subsidiary of state-owned Fuxin Coal Corporation, a major producer in the province. In the blaze, 26 mine workers were killed and 50 others injured, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Fuxin Coal said the rescue was over and all injured workers had been hospitalised. Among those taken to hospital, mostly with burns and respiratory injuries, 30 were seriously hurt and four were in life-threatening condition. “Some of the injured are still in critical conditions and might need to be transferred to bigger hospitals in the provincial capital of Shenyang,” a medical worker with the general hospital run by the mine company told Xinhua. During initial investigations, it was found that coal dust in a shaft was ignited shortly after a weak earthquake with a magnitude of just 1.6 hit the mine. Local government is further investigating connections between the tremor and the fire. Operations have been suspended at the mine for safety checks. Built in 1978, the Fuxin mine is one of the largest coal producers in northeast China with an annual production of 1.5 million tonnes. It’s not the first time such an accident has happened in the mine, which has some 4,660 employees. — PTI
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Hong Kong cops arrest protesters
Hong Kong, November 26 Policemen swiftly cleared obstructions from the two-month-old protest site in Mong Kok, across Victoria Harbor from the main occupied area in the financial district. Some officers used shears to cut apart plastic ties holding together metal barricades while others tore down tents and canopies. Ranks of officers equipped with backpack pepper sprayers advanced down the street. The police said 116 people had been arrested for offences, including unlawful assembly and assaulting or obstructing police. One man was held for possessing offensive weapons, including an axe, hammer and crowbar. Among those arrested were student leaders Joshua Wong, the 18-year-old head of the Scholarism group, and Lester Shum, deputy secretary general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students. — AP
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Panel to take call on US envoy Washington, November 26 Verma, if confirmed, will be the first Indian-American to be the top US diplomat in New Delhi. He would replace Nancy Powell, who resigned early this year. Kathleen Stephens is the current chief-de-mission in India.— PTI
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