New plan for Syria aims at least to stop the suffering

June 10, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

Iran is now floating a peace plan.

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Investigators are looking into whether the husband and wife who shot and killed two Las Vegas police officers over the weekend had been at Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch during a standoff earlier this year, police said Monday. Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the two suspects, Jerad Miller and his wife, Amanda, had ideology that was along the lines of “militia and white supremacists” and that law enforcement was the “oppressor.”

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared a general amnesty Monday for prisoners in Syria, state media reported. It was not clear how many – if any – prisoners would be freed after the presidential decree, issued just five days after Assad had won a third, seven-year term in office amid the three-year-old civil war in his country.

Government forces traded fire Monday with pro-Russian separatists who control an eastern Ukraine city, after the country’s new president announced daily negotiations were under way toward ending the conflict.

The clashes come a day after President Petro Poroshenko said that negotiations had started in Kiev between Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Brazilian police and striking subway workers clashed early Monday in a central commuter station, with union officials threatening to maintain the work stoppage through the World Cup opening match here this week. Authorities are deeply worried about the strike because the subway is the main means of transportation for World Cup fans scheduled to attend Thursday’s opening match when Brazil takes on Croatia.

Relatives of five people on board the missing Malaysian jetliner are trying to crowdsource a $5 million reward for information about what happened to the plane. The group says it “wants to provide a substantial incentive for anyone who knows the truth to come forward.” The Boeing 777 disappeared March 8 while carrying 239 people from Malaysia to Beijing.

Fabled luxury car maker Rolls-Royce will soon be marketing its goods in one of the world’s poorest countries: Cambodia. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced Monday that it has joined with a Cambodian business partner to open a showroom in the Cambodian capital next month.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is embarking on a book tour this week that will feature overtones of a potential presidential campaign in 2016 and could offer a window into the former secretary of State’s stamina and how she might present her rationale for another White House bid. Clinton’s memoir, “Hard Choices,” will be released Tuesday.

A double bombing tore through Kurdish political party offices in northern Iraq in the deadliest of a series of attacks nationwide that killed at least 40 people, officials said. It was the second such assault in as many days.

Compiled from wire service reports

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The clashes come a day after President Petro Poroshenko said that negotiations had started in Kiev between Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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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