Independence and self-reliance help everyone

May 09, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

Even Mr. Putin must see the benefit of a Ukraine that is no longer a dependent.

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The pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine decided Thursday to go ahead with Sunday’s referendum on autonomy despite a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin to delay it. While Putin’s call on Wednesday to postpone the vote was seen as part of an effort to step back from confrontation and negotiate a deal with the West, he fueled tensions again on Thursday by overseeing military exercises that Russian news agencies said simulated a massive retaliatory nuclear strike in response to an enemy attack.

A rebel-claimed bombing Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo leveled a hotel near the ancient Citadel that government troops used as a military base, causing multiple casualties, activists and militants said. Syrian state television said the explosion struck the Carlton Hotel in a government-held area on the edge of a contested neighborhood in the old part of Aleppo.

South Africa’s ruling party led its rivals in early election results on Thursday after a campaign in which the opposition had tried to woo voters unhappy with alleged corruption and a lack of opportunities for the poor. Results released by the national election commission showed the African National Congress with about 58 percent and the opposition Democratic Alliance with 28.5 percent after about 3.6 million votes had been counted in Wednesday’s election.

Hundreds of National Guard members and police broke up four camps maintained by student protesters and arrested 243 people in an early morning raid, Venezuelan officials said Thursday. The camps consisting of small tents were installed more than a month ago to protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

A roadside bombing in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border killed nine paramilitary soldiers on Thursday, the Army said. The attack came as the Pakistani military test-fired a ballistic missile it said could carry a nuclear warhead, an exercise meant to showcase the nuclear-armed nation’s capabilities. Pakistan is under mounting pressure to fight militants in the volatile North Waziristan region along the boundary with Afghanistan ahead of the withdrawal of US-led international troops from the neighboring country by the end of the year.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 26,000 last week to 319,000, the latest sign that the job market is slowly improving. The drop follows two weeks of increases that reflected mostly temporary layoffs around the Easter holiday.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals agreed Thursday to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate while an investigation is conducted into last week’s botched lethal injection. The court reset the execution date of inmate Charles Warner to Nov. 13. Warner’s attorneys requested the 180-day delay, and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Thursday in a court filing he wouldn’t object to the stay.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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