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world&nation WORLD Paramilitary force raids NYT reporter’s Pakistan home ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani paramilitary force raided the home of the New York Times’ national correspondent on Tuesday in what officials called a routine search operation for a terrorism suspect. The search at the Islamabad home of Salman Masood came more than two years after Pakistan expelled the Times’ bureau chief, Declan Walsh, during national elections. A team of the paramilitary Rangers force arrived at Masood’s house at around 7:30 a.m., he said, adding that the officers said they needed to search the home for a “terror suspect.” Pakistan’s interior ministry said in statement that the raid was “in no way reasonable or acceptable,” but did not elaborate why.
Suicide bomber kills 10 in Istanbul ISTANBUL — A suicide bomber thought to have crossed recently from Syria killed at least 10 people, most of them German tourists, in Istanbul’s historic heart on Tuesday, in an attack Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed on Islamic State. All of those killed in Sultanahmet square, near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia — major tourist sites in the center of one of the world’s most visited cities — were foreigners, Davutoglu said. A senior Turkish official said nine were German, while Peru’s foreign ministry said a Peruvian man also died. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said the bomber was believed to have recently entered Turkey from Syria but was not on Turkey’s watch list of suspected militants. He said earlier that the bomber had been identified from body parts at the scene and was thought to be a Syrian born in 1988.
English doctors strike for first time in 40 years LONDON — English doctors staged their first strike in 40 years on Tuesday over government plans to reform pay and conditions for working antisocial hours, in a move health chiefs have warned could put patients’ lives at risk. Junior doctors, or doctors in training, who represent just over half of all doctors in the statefunded National Health Service, said they would only deliver emergency care during the 24-hour walkout. The government expects some 4,000 non-emergency operations to be canceled during the stoppage, the first industrial action by doctors since 1975, as picket lines went up outside some hospitals. The doctors are planning a 48-hour stoppage later this month and a full withdrawal of labor, including emergency care, for nine hours on Feb. 10. — From wire reports
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Murdoch, Obama knocks anti-Muslim rhetoric Rupert ex-model Hall By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton Reuters
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama knocked Republican presidential candidates for anti-Muslim rhetoric and accused critics on Tuesday of playing into the hands of Islamic State in a speech aimed at setting an optimistic tone for his last year in office. Obama, delivering his last State of the Union speech to Congress before leaving office next year, said it was fiction to declare the United States was in economic decline or getting weaker on the international stage. In a direct slap at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Obama said insulting Muslims hurt the United States and “betrayed” its identity. “When politicians insult Muslims ... that doesn’t make us safer,” he said, drawing applause from the crowd in the House of Representatives chamber. “It’s just wrong. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world. It makes it harder to achieve our goals.” Businessman Trump is leading the Republican field in the race for the Nov. 8 election to replace Obama. Trump has called
NATION SCOTUS strikes down Fla. death sentence process WASHINGTON — Florida’s death penalty sentencing process violates the constitutional rights of criminal defendants by granting judges powers that juries should wield, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, siding with a man convicted of murdering a fried-chicken restaurant manager. The court’s 8-1 decision means death row inmate Timothy Hurst, 37, could be re-sentenced for the 1998 murder of Cynthia Harrison in Pensacola, potentially avoiding capital punishment. The case will return to the Florida Supreme Court to determine whether Hurst’s death sentence can be upheld on other grounds. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing on behalf of the court, said the right to an impartial jury guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s Sixth Amendment “required Florida to base Timothy Hurst’s death sentence on a jury’s verdict, not a judge’s fact-finding.” Conservative Justice Samuel Alito was the sole dissenter.
Fifth teen accused of New York gang rape in custody NEW YORK — The last of five teens as young as age 14 accused of raping an 18-year-old woman in a Brooklyn playground last week was taken into custody on Tuesday, New York City police said. Police initially said one of
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LONDON — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall got engaged over the weekend, announcing their plans to tie the knot in a classified ad on Tuesday in the Times newspaper, which is owned by Murdoch’s News Corp. The 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corp. and 21st Century Fox Inc. and Hall, 59, became engaged in Los Angeles, where they had been attending Hollywood’s Golden Globes awards ceremony on Sunday, the London newspaper reported. The three-times-married U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he delivers his final State of the Union address media tycoon and Hall to a joint session of Congress in Washington on Tuesday. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) — who is also a former actress and was the longtime romantic partner of for a temporary ban on and twisted souls plotting be “promptly” returned, Rolling Stones frontman Muslims entering the in apartments or garages, U.S. officials said. The Mick Jagger — began United States and a wall they pose an enormous event gave Republicans dating last summer after on the U.S. border with danger to civilians and further fodder to criticize Mexico to stop the flow of must be stopped. But Obama’s nuclear deal with being introduced by one of Murdoch’s sisters and his illegal immigrants, ideas they do not threaten our Tehran. niece while in Australia, Obama strongly opposes. national existence,” Obama Obama did not address The Democratic presisaid. the issue in his speech. The the Times said. dent said critics played The remarks were a White House expects the into Islamic State’s hands repudiation of criticism of situation to be resolved ‘DC’s Legends of by comparing the fight his strategy against Islamic quickly. 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An official with the Sum- going to do a story set in lence in New York on Tuesday by convening a new court the DC Universe version of in Brooklyn dedicated to handle gun possession cases mit County Sheriff’s Office the Old West, you simwhile also creating a police unit to focus exclusively on said the cause of the explogun cases. (Reuters/Mike Segar) sion was under investigation ply MUST include Jonah Hex in it. We’re thrilled and gave no further details. about bringing another the teens used a gun to order intolerance. The identities of the victhe girl’s father to leave the “South Carolinians have tims have not been released. well-known, beloved DC character to television.” playground in the downtrod- tirelessly worked to overThe children were ages 8 den Brownsville section of come a history of hatred and and 12, the news website Brooklyn on Thursday night bigotry, and there is no place Cleveland.com reported. Study: Percent of and then attacked her. in this state for anyone who female directors Four of the teens, who espouses hatred and bigNYC creates ‘gun range in age from 14 to 17, otry as a campaign slogan,” unchanged courts’ to reduce were charged with a single King’s resolution said. “He LOS ANGELES — count each of rape and sex is not welcome in the state of gun violence Female directors such abuse and two counts of South Carolina.” NEW YORK — New as “Pitch Perfect 2’s” participating in a criminal Elizabeth Banks and “Fifty York City will establish sex act, police said. The fifth Mom of Texas Shades of Grey’s” Sam special courts for gun possuspect, who was taken into ‘affluenza’ teen Taylor-Johnson scored at session cases and create a custody at about 11 a.m., is awaiting charges, police released from jail police unit dedicated to gun- the box office last year, related investigations as part but their popular success is said. He is 17. FORT WORTH, Texas of an effort to cut gun crime, an anomaly in an industry that remains dominated by — The mother of a Texas officials said on Tuesday. S.C. lawmaker men. teen who was derided for Project Fast Track, to Trump: You’re his “affluenza” defense in unveiled at a City Hall press Women comprised 9 percent of directors on the a fatal drunk driving crash conference, is an attempt not welcome top 250 domestic grosswas released from a county to ensure gun cases are CHARLESTON, S.C. ing films and 12 percent of jail on Tuesday and placed prosecuted quickly and ef— A Democratic legisladirectors on the top 500 dounder home confinement ficiently at all levels of the tor in South Carolina has mestic grossing films, acon an electronic monitor, a criminal justice system. a message for Republican cording to a new report by sheriff said. Mayor Bill de Blasio, U.S. presidential candidate the Center for the Study of Tonya Couch, 48, is joined by state and federal Donald Trump: Stay out of Women in Television and charged with helping her law enforcement chiefs, my state. son Ethan flee to Mexico, court officials and anti-crime Film at San Diego State Representative John King likely in violation of a University. That’s a slight, advocates, made the anfiled a resolution on Tuesday probation deal that allowed nouncement just a week af- 2 percent improvement saying the Republican front- him to avoid prison for ter President Barack Obama over the previous year, but runner’s “abrasive and racist the crash that killed four the same representation said he would take several rhetoric” did not belong women enjoyed in 1998, a people. He is being held executive actions aimed at sign of the durability of this South Carolina, a state that in Mexico while fighting reducing gun violence naparticular celluloid ceiling. King said has worked to extradition to the United tionwide. — From wire reports move beyond a past of racial States. — From wire reports
Ohio suspect hates mug shot, sends selfie to police By Kim Palmer Reuters
CLEVELAND — An Ohio man wanted for drunken driving, unsatisfied with his police mug shot, sent police a photo he felt was more flattering. Donald “Chip” Pugh, 45, posted a photo of himself wearing sunglasses in a car after he saw the two mug shots the Lima, Ohio, police department had posted on its Face-
MUST READ book page. “Here is a better photo that one is terrible,” Pugh wrote when he sent in the selfie. The police last week posted the mug shots after an arrest warrant was issued following Pugh’s failure to appear in court on a misdemeanor drunkendriving charge. Pugh is a person of interest in several other cases
including an arson and vandalism. Pugh’s post quickly captured the attention of police. “This photo was sent to us by Mr. Pugh himself. We thank him for being helpful, but now we would appreciate it if he would come speak to us at the LPD about his charges,” the police said on Facebook. Police said Pugh, who could not be reached for comment, is still at large.
Donald “Chip” Pugh is pictured in an undated booking photo, left, and in a selfie. Pugh, who is wanted on a drunken-driving charge, was so dissatisfied with the mug shots that police put on their Facebook page, he posted a “better photo” of himself in a car wearing shades. (Reuters/Lima Police Department)