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'because she wouldn't show him her new puppies'

CHICAGO: A simple childish spat over a puppy led an 11-year-old boy to shoot and kill his eight-year-old neighbor in the US state of Tennessee, the girl’s grieving mother said.

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Latasha Dyer said when the lad requested to see her daughter’s puppy, she was playing outside. Small McKayla said “no,” and soon after was shot in the chest. Dyer was overcome with emotion as she spoke to the local television station from the front steps of a home in White Pine, Tennessee.

 

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“When we first moved to White Pine, the little boy was bullying McKayla,” Latasha Dyer told WATE 6 news in a video posted on the station’s website Sunday.

“He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her. I had to go the principal about him and he quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her.”

“I want her back in my arms, this is not fair. Hold and kiss your babies every night because you’re never promised the next day with them,” she said. “I hope the little boy learned his lesson because he took my baby’s life — and I can’t get her back.”

Dyer described her daughter as “a special little girl, she was a mama’s girl, however awful of a mood you’re in she could consistently get you grin.”

Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig said the lad was charged with first degree homicide.

A judge ordered him held before another hearing, that has been set for October 28 in a juvenile detention center, McCoig told AFP.

“It is a terrible event we have had that an 11-year old would take an eight-year old’s life,” the judge said in a telephone interview.

The lad was inside his house when he shot at the girl along with his dad’s 12-bore shotgun at about McCoig said. The firearm was legally possessed.

“It’s a tragic incident we’ve had that an 11-year-old would take an eight-year-old’s life,” he said in a telephone interview.

McCoig declined to release any additional details, describing that five other kids are now living in the lad’s house and two other kids are now living in the girl’s house and “we are attempting to shield the two, as much as they have been hurt via this disaster.”

“Our prayers are with the families that take part in the terrible event.”

“Attempting to comfort her mother and her aunt and her grandmother, and her grandpa and her sister and her brother: it is the most challenging thing I have ever done.”

Neighbours who have been caring for the pups of the family said they appeared to be searching for the girl.

One might be observed putting next to a makeshift memorial of flowers, balloons and stuffed animals on the steps of the mobile home of the family.

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Whistleblower says he’s offered to do time in prison within a deal to come back to US ‘we’re still waiting to allow them to call us back’

Snowden, after leaking thousands of top secret files, who’s needed, said he’d offered to do time in prison within a deal. “We’re still waiting to allow them to call us back,” Snowden said.

His remarks come only months after Eric Holder, who was US attorney general until April, said Snowden’s disclosures had “spurred an essential discussion”.

But senior figures in the security services in both UK and the US are unforgiving, desiring him to become a hindrance to others and also to serve an extended term both.

Former head of the NSA Michael Hayden, inquired by Panorama what would occur to Snowden, said: “If you are asking me my view, he is likely to expire in Moscow.

Snowden, in his first interview together with the BBC since he revealed the records two years back, said: “I have offered to visit penitentiary together with the government many times. What Snowden will not do is I will not function as a hindrance to individuals attempting to do the right thing in tough circumstances.”

Snowden would be attempted under the Espionage Act, which will mean no jury and he’d be studying least at 30 years as well as a life sentence, if he was to go back to the United States with no deal.

But Snowden has some influence. Some of his critics admit an essential debate world-wide has been started by him about privacy and surveillance.

Additional influence is the embarrassment variable to the United States from Snowden’s reception of prestigious awards and his general popularity, especially among the young: since beginning on Twitter a week past, he’s brought 1.36 million followers.

Snowden flew after leaving his job with an NSA facility. The following month Snowden revealed then, and tens of thousands of classified NSA files travelled to Russia, where he was later granted asylum.

Among the effects of the Snowden disclosures continues to be an increasing unwillingness on the section of societal media and internet service providers in handing over data to collaborate completely with police and security agencies.

Mark Rowley, the head of counterterrorism police operations in Britain, said in a speech in London that a few of societal media and the internet companies were not mature.

Rowley said: “Some only undermine us by embracing a policy that when they provide data to us they’ll inform the matter they’ve done that.”

Milner said: “Facebook doesn’t track terrorist content … However, what we do do is rely on reports from the 1.5 billion people using Facebook to let us know when they see things on Facebook that shouldn’t be there, including terrorist activity.”

Milner added: “There is no algorithm that finds terrorist content.”

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There, several states also will summarize strategies for tracking seafood imports result from increased pollution and to fight overfishing.

The brand new safe waters in America will be the first to be designated as such the White House said in a statement.

The 875-square mile section of Lake Michigan extends to Two Rivers from Port Washington, comprising a set of 39 shipwrecks that are known. Fifteen are recorded on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Mallows Bay-Potomac River encompasses a 14-square mile section of the tidal Potomac River. Almost 200 boats, some are seen in the mostly undeveloped area that delivers habitat for endangered species of fish and wildlife.

The activities will be the latest in a number of environmental measures who last year set aside some 400,000 square miles of the central Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Distant Islands Marine National Monument has become the biggest marine reserve on the planet.

Chile was set to create a a statement that was similarly challenging, cordoning off a big region.

A coalition of local politicians and environmental groups has urged Chilean authorities to designate Easter Island, for its hundreds carved from volcanic rock, observed, as well as the neighboring waters as a safe marine reserve. President Michelle Bachelet vowed last week that such action would come “shortly,” and campaigners said the statement Monday would create the third-biggest safe zone world-wide.

Palau, Gabon, Kiribati, New Zealand and Britain have taken steps at the same time to shield segments of the sea.

A plan is expanding for finding boats that use lights to bring fishery capture during the nighttime and can execute it in three other states, the Philippines and Indonesia next year.

The so called “traceability” initiative is designed to begin for the most frequently exported fish species like tuna, cod, shrimp and crabmeat in September 2016. It could apply to all fish a year later and was created to offer a complete accounting of if exporters are managing in a sustainable manner and where they are becoming their catch. Anyone who would like to export fish to America will have to conform to the states.

The plan still needs final approval from lots of additional states and the Senate before entering into force.

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Two kids were the latest casualties of the airstrikes in Syria in Russia that have up to now killed up to 36 civilians, activists said.

The most recent air strikes hit on the district of Jabal al-Zawiya, in a place below the management of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria as well as other Islamist rebel groups, based on a British-based tracking group.

‘Four civilians, including a female as well as a young child, were killed in raids’ said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.’

Simply because they were established on Wednesday, 28 people have been killed by Russian air strikes on Syria, says the Observatory.

Syria’s main opposition group accused of killing 36 civilians in the central state of Homs on Wednesday Moscow, but the Kremlin has denied any civilians were among the deceased.

Meanwhile, the deputy chief of staff for surveillance and intelligence for the Air Force, Lt General Robert Otto, said cluster bombs happen to be dropping – also called ‘dumb bombs’ – a reference to munitions which are not precision-directed.

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Petroleum climbed on Friday, pushed higher by anxieties about escalating violence and on expectations that economical strength would be shown by data in America, the world’s biggest petroleum consumer.

The last session had closed down 68 cents. U.S. petroleum added 74 cents at $45.48 a barrel, after settling 35 cents lower in the preceding session.

The petroleum market was factoring in a risk premium where America as well as Russia are running bombing efforts.

“It is an indication the U.S. market is sound and robust and that demand from the world’s largest oil consumer can remain on the strong side,” he said.

Anxieties still on the probability of dislocation to U.S. East Coast petroleum facilities by Hurricane Joaquin, limiting cost increases.

U.S. petroleum production out of the blue rose last week despite a fall in active drilling rigs.

Even with the small increases on Friday, petroleum is down more than 1 percent this week, after it dropped 24 percent last quarter, with few analysts anticipating a restoration that is significant.

“Principles stay poor,” analysts at ANZ said in a note to customers.”

“We continue to see poorer principles drive crude oil costs lower in the short term.”

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The USS Ronald Reagan’s deployment indicates an upgrade, as the aircraft carrier it’s replaced in Japan, the USS George Washington, had complex systems and technology.

“Just just like a brand new automobile we’ve got the hottest and greatest, we’ve got GPS, we’ve got the back up mirror so we are able to see what’s behind us,” Captain Chris Bolt, the aircraft carrier’s commander, told a separate press briefing on the pier at Yokosuka naval base.

“We possess some incredible order and management abilities.”

In a tilt towards Asia, its forces are rebalancing, deploying 60 percent of its own navy to the area, including its most sophisticated boats.

In a retreat from 70 years of state pacifism, Japanese lawmakers approved legislation that would empower the military to fight abroad for the very first time since World War Two in Japan.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pursuing a doctrine of collective self defense as a way to counterbalance the military power of an increasingly assertive China, with allies intended to give his country a larger role in regional security.

The changes enacted last month are likely to lead to enhanced cooperation involving the Japanese and U.S navies.

“We’ve many, many activities that people do, we’re really interoperable due to our gear as well as our training.

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