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Walter Scott Killing: Cop's Dashcam Released

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 11 April 2015 | 16.15

By Sky News US Team

Dashcam video has emerged showing a black South Carolina man running from his car after a traffic stop by a white officer, who gave chase before shooting him dead.

The footage, released by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, does not show Officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott but does reveal more about the minutes before the killing in North Charleston last Saturday.

Slager, who has been charged with murder and dismissed from the police, is seen approaching a car and asking the driver for his licence and proof of insurance.

The patrolman tells Mr Scott he has been pulled over because of a broken brake light. After a brief exchange, the officer returns to his patrol car.

The 50-year-old gets out of the vehicle, and Slager tells him to stay in the car. Several seconds later he leaves the black Mercedes-Benz again and runs away.

After Slager gives chase, someone can be heard shouting: "Taser, taser."

The 33-year-old patrolman said in a call to a dispatcher that he fired his weapon because Mr Scott took his stun gun and he feared for his life.

But he was charged over the killing after a separate video, filmed on a mobile phone by an onlooker, showed the officer firing eight shots at Mr Scott's back as he flees.

In the second video, Mr Scott does not appear to be armed.

A post-mortem examination has found Mr Scott had multiple gunshot wounds on the back of his body.

His father has said his son, a father of four, may have run away because he owed child support money and did not want to go to jail.

Mr Scott owed nearly $7,500 (£5,100) in child support when he was pulled over by Slager, according to court records cited by the Associated Press.

He had been jailed three times for failing to pay child support, reports AP.

He was sentenced to six months in 2008 and then in 2011 spent a night in jail for missed payments, and again a year later.

The dashcam video emerged as a man who was hit with a stun gun by Slager in a 2013 incident said he would sue.

Mario Givens, 34, told a news conference Slager came to his house, pushed in the door and fired the stun gun at his stomach.

Mr Givens, who was unarmed, filed an excessive-force complaint at the time, but Slager was exonerated and allowed to remain on the force.

North Charleston police have said they will now review the case.

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Gallery: Walter Scott's Death Sparks Protest

Demonstrators rallied on Wednesday against what they described as a culture of police brutality

The protest came after a white officer, Michael Slager, was caught on video killing 50-year-old Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was apparently running away

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Pakistan Frees Mumbai Attack Mastermind Suspect

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The man accused of being the mastermind of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai has been released on bail by a Pakistan court.

The assault on India's financial capital resulted in the deaths of 166 people and seriously increased tensions between the two nuclear powers.

The lawyer for Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi revealed the Lahore High Court move, saying: "Lakhvi has been released and he is out of the jail now. I don't know where he will go now."

Lakhvi's release comes despite furious earlier protests from New Delhi which complained bitterly when a judge first granted him bail in December.

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Gallery: 2008: Mumbai Terror Attacks

From 2008: Scores of people have died and hundreds more have been injured in a series of terror attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. Guests had to be rescued from the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel after teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed the building.

Another guest is helped down from the fourth floor.

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An Indian National security guard runs for cover opposite the hotel.

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People duck as gunshots are fired from inside the building.

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A fireman speaks with foreign tourists who were rescued from the Taj.

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The Pakistan government subsequently issued a series of detention orders which judges then cancelled.

The latest bail order is conditional on a $20,000 (£14,000) bond.

India has called the decision to release him "an insult".

"This is a very disappointing announcement. An insult to the victims of 26/11 Mumbai attack.

"The global community should take serious note of Pakistan's double-speak on terrorism," said a government official.

India blames the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for the Mumbai attack in which 10 gunmen crept into the city by boat and took part in a terror and killing spree over a three-day period.

India says Lakhvi - who was arrested in 2009 over the tragedy - was the organisation's boss and has accused Pakistan of prevaricating over trials in connection with Lakhvi and six other suspects.

The suspects were charged in Pakistan but no-one has been brought to trial in more than five years.

India, which has urged Pakistan to either hand the suspects over or put them on trial, accuses its neighbour of playing a "double game" over terrorism, suggesting the country is supporting groups that may be useful for its own political gains.

Relations between the two countries - which have had three wars over a bitter dispute over Kashmir since independence in 1947 - are at an all-time low.

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Former Australian cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud who has died in a Sydney hospice, aged 84.

Benaud, widely regarded as the most respected person in the game's history, had been receiving radiation treatment for skin cancer since November.

Channel Nine, the Australian network where he took the lead commentator's position in 1977, said he had died in his sleep on Thursday night local time.

Nine's head of sport, Steve Crawley said: "You didn't have to know Richie to love him - everything about him.

"Best in the business bar none.

"We will miss him the way you miss loved ones. And at the same time we will thank our lucky stars he came our way at all."

Nine Entertainment Co's chief executive David Gyngell said Benaud's death had "robbed" the world of "not only a national treasure but a lovely man".

Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott tweeted: "What an innings. RIP Richie Benaud," He added: "This is the greatest loss for cricket since the loss of Don Bradman and for that reason I'm pleased to have offered the Benaud family a State funeral."

Hollywood actor Russell Crowe tweeted: "RIP Richie Benaud. My deep gratitude for all you gave to the sport of cricket as a player and as a broadcaster. Sad, sad day."

And Piers Morgan wrote: "RIP Richie Benaud. The greatest cricket commentator of them all & a wonderful man. Mourning Everyone."

Benaud played 64 test matches as an all-rounder between 1952 and 1964, taking 945 wickets in 259 first-class matches and making 11,719 first-class runs, scoring 23 centuries at an average of 36.50.

He was the first man to achieve 2,000 runs and 200 wickets at test level.

Australia's Test side did not lose a Test series under his captaincy, which he held from 1958 until his retirement.

Benaud will be remembered by millions for his measured, laconic brand of commentary and he was as popular in England, where he worked on television from 1963 to 2005, as he was in his homeland.

Speaking about his commentary work, he once said: "My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

"What I want most from being a television commentator is to be able to feel that, when I say something, I am talking to friends."

The news arm of Cricket Australia, www.cricket.com.au, described him as "an Australian test great who nurtured a generation's love for the game with his commentary".

They added: "After Don Bradman, there has been no Australian player more famous than Richie Benaud."

He became one of the greatest commentators in world cricket before a car crash outside his Coogee home in 2013 left him with two fractured vertebrae.

The injuries and cancer combined to keep him away from the job he loved in his final years, but he made occasional pre-recorded appearances on Channel Nine and he rallied to record a moving tribute to Phillip Hughes when the Australia batsman died last year after being struck by a bouncer.

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Walter Scott Killing: Cop's Dashcam Released

By Sky News US Team

Dashcam video has emerged showing a black South Carolina man running from his car after a traffic stop by a white officer, who gave chase before shooting him dead.

Slager, who has been charged with murder and dismissed from the police, is seen approaching a car and asking the driver for his licence and proof of insurance.

The patrolman tells Mr Scott he has been pulled over because of a broken brake light. After a brief exchange, the officer returns to his patrol car.

The 50-year-old gets out of the vehicle, and Slager tells him to stay in the car. Several seconds later he leaves the black Mercedes-Benz again and runs away.

After Slager gives chase, someone can be heard shouting: "Taser, taser."

The 33-year-old patrolman said in a call to a dispatcher that he fired his weapon because Mr Scott took his stun gun and he feared for his life.

But he was charged over the killing after a separate video, filmed on a mobile phone by an onlooker, showed the officer firing eight shots at Mr Scott's back as he flees.

In the second video, Mr Scott does not appear to be armed.

A post-mortem examination has found Mr Scott had multiple gunshot wounds on the back of his body.

His father has said his son, a father of four, may have run away because he owed child support money and did not want to go to jail.

The dashcam video emerged as a man who was hit with a stun gun by Slager in a 2013 incident said he would sue.

Mario Givens, 34, told a news conference Slager came to his house, pushed in the door and fired the stun gun at his stomach.

Mr Givens, who was unarmed, filed an excessive-force complaint at the time, but Slager was exonerated and allowed to remain on the force.

North Charleston police have said they will now review the case.

Mr Givens' lawyer, Eduardo Curry, said there was "a systemic problem" in the city's police department.

Slager, meanwhile, has hired Charleston lawyer Andy Savage - whose previous clients include convicted al Qaeda operative Ali al-Marri.

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Gallery: Walter Scott's Death Sparks Protest

Demonstrators rallied on Wednesday against what they described as a culture of police brutality

The protest came after a white officer, Michael Slager, was caught on video killing 50-year-old Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was apparently running away

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Clinton To Launch Presidential Bid 'On Sunday'

By Sky News US Team

Hillary Clinton will launch her long-expected campaign for the 2016 presidential race at the weekend, reports say.

The Guardian and the New York Daily News reported that the former First Lady and former secretary of state will launch her bid for the Democratic nomination on Sunday via social media.

Her campaign is expected to begin with a stop in Iowa, and will initially focus on intimate events rather than large rallies.

Mrs Clinton, 67, will become the first Democratic hopeful to formally enter the race, and is widely seen as a front-runner.

She has endured several scandals, from Bill Clinton's infidelity with White House intern Monica Lewinsky to the couple's investment in a failed land deal known as Whitewater.

More recently Mrs Clinton has been engulfed in a row over her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state.

Mrs Clinton insists that she has complied with the rules and she merely used a private account as a "matter of convenience".

Two Republican hopefuls have already thrown their hats in the ring, senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Senator Marco Rubio is due to announce his bid on Monday, and Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and brother of former President George W Bush, is widely expected to run.

It will be the second shot at the presidency for Mrs Clinton, who battled it out with Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but ended up losing.

There has never been a female presidential candidate for a major party in America, though two women have been nominated for vice-president: Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Mrs Clinton moved to Arkansas to marry Bill Clinton in 1975 and became a prominent lawyer.

She served as first lady during her husband's two stints after he won elections in 1992 and 1996 and later went on to become a US senator for New York.

Mrs Clinton served as secretary of state during Mr Obama's first term.

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EU Was 'Looking Into German Air Safety Issues'

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 09 April 2015 | 16.15

European Union authorities began looking into German airline safety procedures regarding "a number of issues" long before the Germanwings crash, it has been reported.

An EU official, who asked not be named, said the issues included health checks on pilots, although he did not elaborate further.

It has emerged Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who deliberately flew his Airbus A320 into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board, had suffered depression.

Investigators have also said they found a sick note for the day of the crash at Lubitz's home, but it was never given to the airline.

He was reportedly being treated by psychologists and neurologists and authorities believe he was trying to hide this from his employers.

Doctors working for the German aviation industry have suggested that pilots should undergo more extensive medical checks after the tragedy.

"We are calling for more frequent and comprehensive laboratory tests for pilots," Hans-Werner Teichmueller of the German Pilots' Doctors Association told Welt newspaper.

"We need to see results that can also show traces of psychotropic drugs and narcotics."

The annual physical taken by pilots only includes tests of urine, haemoglobin levels and in some cases blood sugar.

The EU official told the Associated Press that the examination of German procedures followed a routine inspection by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

He said that last November EU authorities "had asked for clarification to make sure all airlines actively observe rules".

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Gallery: Tributes Laid Near Crash Site

A memorial, carved in French, German, Spanish and English, in memory of the victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash, in the small village of Le Vernet, French Alps

The chapel prepared for the families of the victims and the medico-legal tents for investigators at Seyne les Alpes near the crash site

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US Soldier Killed In Afghan Insider Attack

An Afghan soldier was shot dead after opening fire on American troops - killing one and wounding several other people.

The attack was believed to be an attempt to assassinate a senior US diplomat, sources told Sky News.

The Afghan soldier opened fire after a meeting between Afghan provincial leaders and Donald Yamamoto, a former ambassador to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, in the compound of the provincial governor in Jalalabad.

According to sources, a convoy was leaving the compound when the Afghan soldier shot at the last car using a vehicle-mounted machine gun.

Mr Yamamoto, who was recently appointed as special advisor to Afghanistan, had already left the compound by this stage and was unharmed.

The American soldier, who has not been named, was part of a unit training and advising Afghan forces

General Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, police chief for eastern Nangarhar province, said American troops immediately returned fire, killing the Afghan soldier.

An Afghan interpreter working with the US troops had previously said no American soldiers had died in the incident.

It is the second insider attack in the country this year, after an Afghan soldier killed three American contractors on 29 January.

The Western-backed Afghan government's 13-year war against the insurgents has intensified as both sides seek to strengthen their positions ahead of possible peace talks.

However, the Taliban did not immediately claim responsibility for the latest attack and many such attacks are believed to stem from personal grudges and cultural misunderstandings.

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Iran Warning On Final Nuclear Agreement

Iran has warned it will not sign a final nuclear deal unless the six major powers lift all sanctions imposed on the country.

"We will not sign any deal unless all sanctions are lifted on the same day," President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Thursday.

"We want a win-win deal for all parties involved in the nuclear talks."

A tentative deal reached last week between Iran and the six powers on curbing the country's nuclear programme has revived hopes of an end to sanctions.

Iran wants them lifted altogether and at once - but the United States made it clear on Monday sanctions would have to be phased out gradually.

Under the accord reached in Switzerland last Thursday, Iran would reduce its reserves of enriched uranium, which some nations fear could be used to produce a nuclear bomb.

It would also dismantle nearly 13,000 centrifuges and allow "invasive" inspections of its nuclear plants by international bodies.

In return, many sanctions would be lifted, providing £100bn of relief to the Iranian economy.

President Barack Obama hailed the deal as "our best bet", while Mr Rouhani said it would "remain in the historic memory of the Iranian nation".

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would give Iran a "free path to the bomb" and could lead to the destruction of his country.

In a statement, he said: "Israel demands that any final agreement with Iran will include a clear and unambiguous Iranian commitment to Israel's right to exist."

Iran has always maintained its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.

Iran and the six powers - the US, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China - are expected to meet shortly for more discussions.

Diplomats have said tough negotiations lie ahead of the deadline to reach a final agreement on 30 June.

Mr Rouhani came to power in a landslide election victory two years ago, pledging to bring decades of international isolation to an end.

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Hundreds Of Flights Cancelled By France Strike

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 08 April 2015 | 16.15

Hundreds of flights to and from Britain have been cancelled due to a strike by air traffic controllers in France.

No frills airline Ryanair said it had axed more than 250 services while British Airways has warned of significant delays for the next 48 hours.

Departure and arrivals boards at Heathrow suggested most European flights were either delayed or cancelled, affecting tens of thousands of passengers during the Easter break.

Easyjet has axed 118 flights. Most of these are within France, but some are to and from UK airports.

The airline said in a statement: "We can assure our passengers we are doing everything possible to limit the inconvenience of this strike on them."

British Airways said: "Unfortunately there will be some knock-on delays to other parts of our short-haul network as a result of the strike action, given how much airspace in Europe will be affected. We are sorry for any disruption to customers' travel plans."

Passengers voiced their frustration on Twitter:

John Reynolds tweeted "Another great example of @Ryanair customer service - they tell you at 5.30pm that your flight is cancelled then close all comms down!"

While Darren Sutton asked Ryanair via twitter "my flight today has been cancelled and nothing available until Monday. What do I do now I'm stuck in Spain with no money or hotel?"

The effects of the strike have been felt far beyond France. Dave Garwood tweeted "daughter stranded in Marrakesh as Ryanair flight cancelled".

The moves by airlines were a response to advice from the French aviation authority, the DGAC, which had urged companies to cut their flights to and from France by 40%.

Airlines have warned the action will have a knock-on effect for short and medium-haul flights across Europe, due to the large number of flights that normally use French airspace.

The strike has been called by France's largest Air Traffic Controllers union, the SNCTA, in a dispute over working conditions.

The union is planning further action on 16-18 April and 29 April to 2 May.

The SNCTA delayed a strike planned a strike for 25-27 March due to the Germanwings crash in the French Alps.

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