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Man Arrested in 1980 Slaying of 79-Year-Old California Woman

Source: Associated Press

Police arrested a 64-year-old man this week in connection with a 1980 cold case where a woman was found dead in her Southern California apartment, officials said Friday.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2021-04-30/man-arrested-in-1980-slaying-of-79-year-old-california-woman

Alabama Debates Removing Confederate Flag From Coat of Arms

Source: Associated Press


The coat of arms consists of a shield with the Confederate battle flag and the flags of Great Britain, France, Spain and the United States - intended to serve as a symbol of nations that have held sovereignty over Alabama.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alabama/articles/2021-05-01/alabama-debates-removing-confederate-flag-from-coat-of-arms

Turkish Police Detain Hundreds at Lockdown May Day Marches

Source: Reuters

Turkish police detained 212 demonstrators after scuffles broke out at May Day marches on Saturday amid a coronavirus-related curfew, according to the Istanbul governor's office and Reuters witnesses.

Riot police and plainclothes officers jostled with union leaders and other demonstrators and threw some to the ground before detaining dozens of them near Istanbul's Taksim Square, Reuters video and images showed.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-05-01/turkish-police-detain-hundreds-at-lockdown-may-day-marches

76,000 California Inmates Now Eligible for Earlier Releases

Source: Associated Press

California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier as the state aims to further trim the population of what once was the nation’s largest state correctional system.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-04-30/76k-california-violent-career-felons-get-earlier-releases

Netherlands won't ease lockdown further until at least mid May

The Netherlands has postponed a further easing of lockdown measures until at least May 18 as COVID-19 infections remain high and hospitals are struggling with large numbers of coronavirus patients, the government said on Saturday.

"We are passing the peak of the third wave. But the decline (of the infection rate) is not strong enough yet", health minister Hugo de Jonge said on Twitter.

The Netherlands eased its lockdown slightly last week, as a night-time curfew was lifted and bars and restaurants which had remained shut since mid-October were allowed to serve small groups outdoors between noon and 6 pm

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/netherlands-won-t-ease-lockdown-further-until-at-least-mid-may/46582228

Guantnamo Detainee Takes On CIA 'Black Sites' In UN Human Rights Case

A Palestinian man held in Guantánamo Bay is taking the US, the UK and five other states before a UN human rights panel for their role in the CIA rendition and detention of terrorism suspects at "Black sites" around the world.

The unusual case is being brought to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions by Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, known as Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained for 19 years without trial.

His lawsuit, sent to the UN panel on Friday, says he was held in arbitrary detention and tortured in secret CIA interrogation facilities in Thailand, Poland, Morocco, Lithuania, Afghanistan and the US prison at Guantánamo.

"How the Biden administration responds to international legal claims like this one will be a test of its newly stated commitment to international rule of law and human rights," said Duffy, who is also the director of the advocacy group Human Rights in Practice.

Read more at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/30/guantanamo-torture-abu-zubaydah-un-human-rights

Officials in Switzerland Push Back at Biden 'Tax Haven' Barb

Source: Reuters

Swiss authorities are taking issue with U.S. President Joe Biden's comment that many companies use Switzerland, and two other territories, as tax havens, with the Swiss Federal Department of Finance calling such a claim “inappropriate and completely out of date.”

The pushback reported in Swiss media on Friday comes after Biden said in his speech to Congress on Wednesday that “a lot of companies also evade taxes through tax havens in Switzerland and Bermuda and the Cayman Islands” — part of his call for the rich and corporations to pay their fair share of tax.

“Switzerland considers this highlighting of Switzerland as a tax haven by the USA as inappropriate and completely out of date,” said spokeswoman Isabelle Roesch of the Swiss finance department in an email. “Switzerland meets all international standards in tax matters.”

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2021-04-30/officials-in-switzerland-push-back-at-biden-tax-haven-barb

Biden Hasn't Decided on Requiring U.S. Military Members to Get COVID-19 Vaccine -NBC Interview

Source: Reuters

President Joe Biden said he has not decided whether all U.S. armed servicemen and women should be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to an NBC interview airing on Friday.

Biden said it would be a "tough call" and added that one consideration was that military personnel were often in close proximity to one another.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-04-30/biden-hasnt-decided-on-requiring-us-military-members-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-nbc-interview