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33 The Herald-News • Sunday, November 8, 2015
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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS La. police arrest 2 officers staunch opponents in Congress that dangerous detainees who in autistic boy’s death NEW ORLEANS – Two Louisiana law enforcement officers remained jailed Saturday while colleagues tried to sort out the details that led to the death of a 6-year-old and the severe wounding of his father in a hail of gunfire. Derrick Stafford, 32, of Mansura, and Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, of Marksville, each faced charges of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder. They were being held in the Avoyelles Parish jail. The dead child was 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis, who was in a car being driven Tuesday by his father, Chris Few. Both officrers, who work as full-time officers elsewhere, were working part-time as deputy marshals when Tuesday’s shooting broke out, state police said. State police said there so far has been no evidence found that Few had a gun.
Plan to close Guantanamo expected in coming week
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s plan outlining the longstalled effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, expected in the coming week, includes details suggesting that the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado is one suitable site to send detainees whom officials believe should never be released, administration officials said. The plan represents a lastgasp effort by the Obama administration to convince
can’t be transferred safely to other countries should be housed in a U.S.-based prison. According to administration officials, the plan makes no recommendations on which of seven U.S. sites is preferred and provides no rankings. But it lists the prison sites in Colorado, South Carolina and Kansas that a Pentagon assessment team reviewed in recent months and mentions advantages and disadvantages for the facilities.
Sierra Leone declared free of Ebola; Guinea struggles
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Cheers erupted and people danced in the streets Saturday as Sierra Leone marked the end of the Ebola outbreak within its borders, although neighboring Guinea still struggles to stamp out the deadly virus that has killed more than 11,000 mostly in West Africa. Nearly 4,000 people have died in Sierra Leone of Ebola since the outbreak began in late 2013. The World Health Organization said 42 days have passed since the country’s last confirmed Ebola patient was discharged on Sept. 25 after two consecutive negative test results. Hundreds celebrated in the streets of the capital, Freetown, when a Sierra Leone representative for the World Health Organization declared the end of the Ebola outbreak.
– Wire reports
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An Egyptian policeman checks a Russian tourist’s passport Saturday at the main entrance to the Sharm el-Sheikh airport in Egypt.
Noise heard in last second of Russian jet’s cockpit recording By MARAM MAZEN and NOUR YOUSSEF The Associated Press CAIRO – A noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording from the Russian plane that crashed last week in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the head of the joint investigation team said Saturday. The statement bolstered U.S. and British suspicions that the plane was brought down by a bomb. However, Ayman el-Muqadem warned it was too early to say what caused the plane to apparently break up in mid-flight. Analysis of the noise was underway. “All scenarios are being considered ... it could be lithium batteries in the luggage of one of the passengers, it could be an explosion in the fuel tank, it could be fatigue in the body of the aircraft, it could be the explosion of something,” said El-Muqadem, who is Egyptian and leading the investigation committee that includes experts from Russia, France, Germany and Ireland, where the plane was
registered. El-Muqadem appeared alone at the news conference in Cairo. U.S. and British officials have cited intelligence reports as indicating that the Oct. 31 flight from the Sinai resort town of Sharm elSheikh to St. Petersburg was brought down by a bomb on board. All 224 people onboard, most of them Russian tourists, were killed. Islamic State extremists claimed they brought down the Metrojet flight, without offering proof, saying it was in retaliation for Moscow’s airstrikes that began a month earlier against fighters in Syria. El-Muqadem said debris was found scattered across a 13-kilometer (8-mile) stretch of desert, indicating the Airbus A321-200 broke up midair, but initial observations don’t shed light on what caused it. Some pieces of wreckage were still missing, while the recovered pieces will be taken to Cairo for analysis, he said. Egyptian airport and security officials told The Associ-
ated Press on Saturday that authorities were questioning airport staff and ground crew who worked on the plane and had placed some employees under surveillance. Also Saturday, Egypt’s foreign minister complained that Western governments had not sufficiently helped Egypt in its war on terrorism. Egypt’s past calls for assistance and coordination on terrorism issues from “the countries that are now facing the danger” had not been dealt with seriously, Sameh Shoukry told a news conference. Egyptian authorities have been trying to whip up support for a war on terror after the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. A crackdown on Islamists and a series of militant attacks on security buildings and checkpoints, mainly in the Sinai Peninsula, have followed Morsi’s ouster — with a Sinai-based affiliate of the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for some of the most devastating attacks.