World and Local Briefs From The Gazette Wire
Multiple brief reports cover the Boston Marathon bombing case seeking the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Amanda Knox murder verdicts in Italy, a Muhlenberg County fire killing nine in Kentucky, and missteps in handling a South ice storm across Georgia and Atlanta.
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Washington
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Obama
Nashville
Kentucky
Chad Watson
Adam Brown
Muhlenberg County
Louisville
Atlanta
Georgia
Nathan Deal
Kasim Reed
GOP proposes legal status for undocumented immigrants
Republicans outline a plan to allow most undocumented immigrants to live legally in the United States if they admit fault, pass background checks, pay fines and back taxes, learn English and civics, and be self supporting without public benefits.
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Cambridge
House
Maryland
U.S
Yanukovich Goes on Sick Leave During Ukrainian Crisis
President Viktor Yanukovich announces illness and high fever after a tense parliamentary session amid protests and a government crisis. Analysts call it a strategic pause to avoid decisions as opposition pushes for resignation and a conditional amnesty for protesters remains in dispute.
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Reuters
Independence Square
Kiev
Ukraine
Viktor Yanukovich
Yanukovich
Mykola Azarov
Russia
Rostislav Pavlenko
Vitaly Klitschko
Udar
Punch
Mykhailo Chechetov
Party of Regions
Chechetov
U S says Syria stalls on chemical disarmament
The United States accuses Syria of open ended delaying as it pledges to pressure Damascus to surrender chemical weapons. Only 4 percent of Syria’s deadliest agents have been shipped out for destruction at sea amid civil war chaos and diplomacy pressure.
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United States
Syria
Barack Obama
U.S
State Department
Bashar al- Assad
Russia
Robert Mikulak
Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Hague
Mikulak
Clemency push seeks clemency for low level drug offenders
The Justice Department urged lawyers to identify incarcerated non- violent drug offenders who might be eligible for presidential clemency. Deputy AG James Cole said the program targets inmates with clean records, no gang ties, excessive sentences, and low risk to public safety, as part of reducing a bloated federal prison population.
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Washington
Justice Department
James Cole
York State Bar Association
Cole
U.S
Obama
Presi
Bureau of Prisons
Ter
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Italy
Florence
Amanda Knox
Raffaele Sollecito
Meredith Kercher
Knox
Sollecito
Seattle
Immigration
GOP
U.S. Senate
Senate
John Boehner
Ohio
Rica Matos
Fair Immigration Reform Movement
Chuck Schumer
New York
Democratic Policy Committee
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