Safeguarding international friendships

May 06, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

“If you believe everyone is a threat to you, in the end you will be without friends.”

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A Nigerian Islamic extremist leader threatened in a videotaped statement seen on Monday to sell the more than 200 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast of the country three weeks ago. Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, in a video reviewed by The Associated Press.

Ukrainian troops fought pitched gun battles Monday with a pro-Russia militia occupying an eastern city, and the government sent an elite national guard unit to reestablish control over the southern port city of Odessa. The twin moves reflected an apparent escalation of efforts to bring both regions back under Kiev’s control.

A yacht and a dinghy crammed with immigrants trying to enter Greece capsized Monday in the eastern Aegean Sea, leaving at least 22 dead, including four children, and potentially several more missing in one of the deadliest such accidents in Greek waters in recent years. Survivors told the Coast Guard that between 60 and 65 people had been on the 30-foot yacht and the six-foot dinghy that had set off from Turkey. It was not immediately clear what caused the overloaded craft to capsize.

The US Supreme Court said Monday that prayers that open town council meetings do not violate the Constitution even if they routinely stress Christianity. The court said in 5-to-4 decision that the content of the prayers is not significant as long as officials make a good-faith effort at inclusion. The ruling was a victory for the town of Greece, N.Y., outside Rochester.

An international panel of experts will reexamine all data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysian jet to ensure search crews who have been scouring a desolate patch of ocean for the plane have been looking in the right place, officials said Monday. Senior officials from Malaysia, Australia, and China met in the Australian capital to hash out the details of the next steps in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which will center on an expanded patch of seafloor in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia.

Target announced Monday that chairman, president, and chief executive officer Gregg Steinhafel is out nearly five months after the retailer disclosed a massive data breach, which has hurt its reputation among customers and has derailed its business. The third-largest retailer in the United States said Steinhafel, a 35-year veteran of the company and CEO since 2008, has agreed to step down, effective immediately.

A carabiner is the only piece of equipment investigators have found that failed in a circus accident in which eight aerial acrobats plummeted to the ground, a public safety official said Monday. Providence (R.I.) Public Safety Commissioner Steven Pare stopped short of saying the broken carabiner was the cause of Sunday’s accident at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus.

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