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Gunman opens fire on Greek party HQ with AK-47


RT.com
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:06 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Aris Messinis
A police member stands on January 14, 2013 outside the headquarters of the New Democracy conservative party in Athens.
A gunman opened fire on the headquarters of Greece's ruling New Democracy party in a seemingly randomized shooting spree. The building was empty at the time of the attack, but one round hit the office where the Greek PM sometimes works.

Spokesperson for the Greek government Simos Kedikoglou told press that no party members were in the building at the time of the attack and that one of the stray bullets had hit the window of the office where the Prime Minister occasionally works.

Minister Antonis Samaras spends most of his time in a different office in the center of Athens.

"Of course there could have been (victims). There could have been a cleaner in the prime minister's office or a security guard at the site," Kedikoglou said. He stressed that the "government will take every action necessary to safeguard our democracy."
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Study: Teen victims of abuse more likely to engage in risky online behavior

Tia Ghose
Live Science
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:56 UTC
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An increase in mobile devices and social networking means that teens are more plugged-in than ever before.
Nearly a third of teenage girls have met people offline after becoming online friends, according to a new study. In many cases the identity of that online character was not fully confirmed before the teens set up a real-life meet-up.

In addition, one in 10 experienced some form of exploitation - ranging from creepy sexual advances to rape - during that offline interaction.

The study, published today (Jan. 14) in the journal Pediatrics, looked at teenage girls, half of whom had been abused in some way in real life. Those who faced abuse or neglect were likelier to exhibit "high risk" online behavior, such as having racy social media profiles or accepting online sexual advances. Risky online behavior, in turn, was tied to meeting Internet "friends" offline.

But because the study included a large number of at-risk youth, some experts doubt those numbers apply to the general population.
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Undercover with the neo-Nazis

Josie Le Blond
Salon
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:38 UTC
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Czech riot policemen clash with drunken skinheads in Kozolupy, some 100 kilometres southwest of Prague.
Elaborate disguises and pseudonyms were all part of one man's secret mission to infiltrate Europe's far-right scene.

This time around, he wore dark glasses, a bushy blond beard and a black beanie pulled down low. It was only his latest disguise, used to greet foreign press at a conference in Berlin.

The man who goes by "Thomas Kuban" must at all costs keep his identity a secret - after all, Europe's neo-Nazis would kill to get their hands on him.

For 15 years, Kuban, now in his mid thirties, risked his life secretly filming neo-Nazi rock concerts, events he says are the conspiratorial heart of Europe's diverse and burgeoning neo-Nazi scene.

His camera rolling, Kuban has witnessed hundreds of fanatics venerating the perpetrators of Auschwitz and calling for Jews and foreigners to be murdered. He has watched dumbfounded as crowds of thousands raise their hands in the Hitler salute shouting, "Sieg Heil," or as Austrian police shook hands with neo-Nazis.
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Berlin bank robbers dug 30-metre tunnel into safe


Guardian
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:09 UTC
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© Photograph: Tobias Koch/AP
Police say the 'very professional' tunnel dug by the robbers must have taken weeks or even months to complete.
Thieves set fire to the passage which led from an underground garage into the safe as they escaped with their haul.

Robbers dug a 30-metre (100-foot) tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as they left to cover their tracks, according to German police.

Berlin police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf said the tunnel led from an underground garage into the bank's safe deposit room.

Neuendorf told The Associated Press Monday that the tunnel was "very professional" and must have taken weeks or even months to complete. It was elaborately constructed and even had ceiling supports.
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Former Credit Suisse trader can be extradited to US, court rules


Guardian
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:05 UTC
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© Photograph: Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images
Former Credit Suisse trader Kareem Serageldin is accused of artificially inflating the prices of mortgage-backed bonds.
The extradition of a former Credit Suisse trader to the United States to face fraud charges has been approved by Westminster magistrates court.

The case of Kareem Serageldin will be sent to the home secretary, Theresa May, who under British law has the final decision over his fate. She is expected to authorise the extradition.
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Chicago-area Transportation Authority: United running 'sham' business

Don Babwin
SFGate
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:40 UTC
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© Photo: Nam Y. Huh
A transportation agency has filed a lawsuit alleging that United Airlines is falsely claiming to buy jet fuel out of an office in rural Illinois to avoid paying tens of millions of taxes in Chicago, where it says the purchases are actually being made.

The Regional Transportation Authority confirmed it filed the lawsuit Monday, as expected.
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More money for groceries: Food prices will be affected by drought, farm bill

Mike Fitzgerald
bnd.com
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:36 UTC
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Metro-east consumers will see higher food prices in 2013, while likely facing a harder time finding organic and locally grown food -- all thanks to the drought gripping the Midwest and the nine-month extension to the federal farm bill passed Jan. 1 as part of the "fiscal cliff" deal between the White House and the U.S. Congress.

As a result of the extension, farmers and agri-businesses lost out on the five-year window of certainty regarding crop insurance and subsidies they were seeking. Instead, they will face the threat of more partisan haggling in Congress leading up to the extension's Sept. 1 deadline.

Steve Koeller, who grows corn and soybeans near Godfrey, said he doesn't know what to expect as the extension deadline approaches.

"It's gotten to the point now where it doesn't seem like anyone wants to give an inch," said Koeller, the president of the Madison County Farm Bureau. "It's just so political and media-driven."

The federally subsidized crop insurance program remains intact for now, but anxieties about its future are building.

Last year, metro-east farmers, like farmers across the Midwest and Southwest, suffered through the worst drought in 50 years. About 80 percent of all agricultural land in the United States experienced drought in 2012, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report issued last month.
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Atlanta police officer shot in face, suspect held

Greg Bluestein
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:17 UTC
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Frank Emmitt Nance, 20, is charged with shooting a police officer during a foot chase in southwest Atlanta.
A 20-year-old with a long history of arrests was charged with shooting a recent Atlanta police recruit in the face during a foot chase Friday night.

Frank Emmitt Nance was booked into the Fulton County Jail overnight and charged with nine criminal counts, including aggravated assault against a police officer, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of cocaine.

Nance, of Atlanta, is charged with shooting Officer Reggie Robinson in the face around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard and Lee Street.
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Eye 1

Cops find suspects partying and playing video games after murders

Brian Stanley
The Herald News
Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:04 UTC
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Adam M. Landerman (clockwise, from top left), Alisa R. Massaro, Joshua F. Miner and Bethany L. McKee
Exactly what enticed Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins into the home on Hickory Street where they would be gruesomely killed, authorities still aren't saying.

What is certain, according to police, is that the two close friends were lured there and they didn't make it out alive. Police say they were strangled and their alleged killers tried to dismember them before going back to partying and playing video games.

"This is one of the most brutal, heinous and upsetting things I've ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement," Joliet Police Chief Mike Trafton said Friday in describing what police found at 1121 N. Hickory St. "Not only the crime scene, but the disregard for common decency toward human beings."

Four young adults have been charged with the murders - among them the 19-year-old son of a Joliet police sergeant.
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Bad Guys

Imani Green murder: How violence plagues Jamaica

Ross Sheil
Guardian
Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:57 UTC
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Imani Green, pictured aged four.
Poverty, gang violence, guns and the mistrust of police remain serious problems on the Caribbean island.

Owen Ellington, the commissioner of the Jamaica constabulary, has worked to increase public confidence in his officers and promised to crack down on crime and corruption, but still the island is plagued by violence.

While major crime is decreasing, and the murder rate fell almost 5% to 1,087 deaths last year - well down from its 2009 peak of 1,683 - poverty, gang violence and the ubiquity of guns remain serious problems, as does mistrust of the police.

While the number of people killed by police officers also fell last year, the first 12 days of 2013 have seen 18 Jamaicans die at the hands of officers.
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