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USC music student, son of Oakland councilwoman, killed near campus: police

A student who is the son of an Oakland, California, city councilwoman was shot and killed in what might have been a robbery attempt near the University of Southern California campus, officials said.

Victor McElhaney, who was studying at USC's Thornton School of Music, was killed shortly after midnight Sunday about a mile from the campus, USC Annenberg Media reported.

McElhaney, 21, is the son of Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney, Zachary Wald, the councilwoman's chief of staff, told the Los Angeles Times.

UNIVERSITY  OF UTAH STUDENT, 21, KILLED BY EX-BOYFRIEND WAS ON PHONE WITH PARENTS BEFORE FATAL SHOOTING

On Sunday night, the councilwoman posted a statement mourning her son's death.

"I miss my baby. Please keep me, my family, and all of my son's friends in your thoughts and prayers," she wrote. "We are beginning a new chapter in this reoccurring circle of violence ... And it will take all of us together to make it through this tragedy."

Three or four men approached the victim at the corner of Maple Avenue and Adams Boulevard in what might have been a robbery attempt and one shot him, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez told Annenberg Media. The men fled in a vehicle, police said.

McElhaney was in critical condition when he was taken to a hospital, where he died, police said. He was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. Sunday, Annenberg Media said.

No arrests had been made in connection with the shooting as of Sunday afternoon.

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USC Interim President Wanda Austin sent a letter to students and faculty in which she praised the police investigation. "We appreciate the ongoing and diligent efforts of the Los Angeles Police Department to quickly identify and arrest those responsible for this senseless crime," Austin said.

The school, which is on spring break, has been in touch with McElhaney's family, she said.

McElhaney is from Oakland, where he was an instructor at Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, the university said. In the fall of 2017, he transferred from California State University East Bay to USC to pursue Jazz Studies.  He was an active member of USC's Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs.

"He believed in the power of music to touch lives, to heal, and to bring hope," Austin said in her statement. "Victor's loss will affect all of the faculty and students who knew him."

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The USC community has previously been hit by violent crime. On July 24, 2014, 24-year-old student Xinran Ji was killed after he was attacked by a group of four people as he walked home from a study group near the campus. He made it back to his apartment and died before he was found by a roommate.

The attackers were convicted of the killing and sent to prison.

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White power symbol found near fire at social justice center

Officials at a social justice center that trained the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders say a white power symbol was spray painted near the site of a fire that destroyed a building there.

The Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee, posted a news release Tuesday saying the symbol was found Friday, painted in a parking lot connected to the main office.

That office burned down Friday morning, destroying several decades of archives. It was one of 10 buildings on the center's rural property.

The release notes that "that the white power movement has been increasing and consolidating power across the South, across this nation, and globally."

The center has trained labor organizers and civil-rights leaders including King and Rosa Parks since 1932.

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Information from: Knoxville News Sentinel, http://www.knoxnews.com

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Is the Federal Bureau of Prisons Scamming Taxpayers With Its Pension System?

Bernie Madoff and the warden at his federal prison may have something in common. Except Bernie didn’t have the Justice Department backing him and a nearly unlimited supply of taxpayers whose paychecks he could tap into to keep the money flowing.

You see, when I first got to the Federal Bureau of Prisons MCC New York facility, which is curiously located in Park Row, Manhattan on some of the most expensive real estate in the world, it seemed that nearly all of the mid-level bureaucrats there were quite sure of when the warden would retire – almost down to the exact day. And he hadn’t yet announced his retirement nor been at the facility for very long.

You see, there’s been a sizable list of wardens at that facility, and certain other places in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) system, who retire a conspicuously short time into the gig before collecting lavish lifelong federal pensions, which appear to be derived in an unduly disproportionate extent from the paychecks of the taxpayers rather than from the bureau’s sound financial management of employee contributions.

Here’s how the system works and what perhaps needs to change.

Like many public employee pension systems, the yearly retirement payout for a given worker at the FBOP is not actually based on the total amount, which they paid into the system across their entire career. That would be fair, make common sense, and, one would hope, lead to the fiscal solvency of the pension fund, at least as long as it’s properly managed.

Instead, the yearly payout for a given FBOP retiree is based on their 3 highest years of salary. Once again, this is not uncommon in the public sector and it often leads to lavish golden parachutes, which have frequently become the subject of public scrutiny, especially when newly-promoted top earners retire shortly into their latest role and then collect disproportionately far more out of the pension system than it seems that their contributions could have produced in the first place, leaving taxpayers to make up the difference.

However, for its favorite wardens and other high-ranking officials, the Federal Bureau of Prisons appears to be taking things at least one step further.

You see, unlike state and local public sector agencies, the FBOP is a national organization with a nationwide footprint. And it pays higher cost of living adjustments to wardens who operate facilities in expensive parts of the country, like for possible examples, Park Row Manhattan or South Slope downtown Brooklyn.

So, perhaps it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that many of these facilities, which are also money pits in a multitude of other ways and which have frequently proved very problematic for the bureau to operate, tend to see wardens who come from other parts of the country and who stay on the job for just long enough to max out their federal pensions.

This leads to questions about the seemingly inevitable shortfall in any Ponzi-like scheme where the withdrawals will exceed the available funds. For instance, how much of any such difference has been siphoned out of the pockets of taxpayers and for how long has this been happening?

My team is issuing federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in an effort to find out.

Further, the timing may be very good to ask these questions now. Very recently federal prison reform was the subject of a rare, successful, bipartisan bill which passed both houses to seemingly thunderous applause emanating from both sides of the aisle and that was just before incredibly poor management at the highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and its Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in expensive downtown Brooklyn led to yet another homegrown humanitarian crisis in one of the wealthiest cities in the world.

Somehow, an electrical fire led to a week-long blackout and loss of heat and hot water during a cold snap in a northeast winter. It seems this was only possible due to the blatant disregard of years-old calls for random, unannounced surprise audits and inspections of all the FBOP facilities in the region.

Yet, despite apparent on-the-job performance like the above, Warden Herman Quay stands to retire with a full federal pension which may have been enhanced by gaming FBOP’s retirement system. Did he deserve that job as a warden at such a high-profile facility? Is he competent to handle it?

Or was Warden Quay moved here for other reasons, leaving the inmates and the American public to pay the price through blackouts, tax dollars, and the tarnishing of America’s image abroad when it comes to humanitarian standards?

The author, Martin Gottesfeld, is an Obama-era federal political prisoner and conservative journalist. He wrote this article in “the hole” at MDC Brooklyn, into which he was thrown upon his arrival at the facility on Friday, February 15th, 2019, ten days after the aforementioned blackout. Warden Quay now claims that he is keeping Gottesfeld in “the hole” due to so-called “security concerns.” However, there are reasons to doubt Quay’s word in light of the dishonesty demonstrated during the blackout, not to mention his likely desire to keep his pension despite the millions of tax dollars which may be spent on the lawsuits originating during his tenure.

Warden Quay did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to whether he plans to reimburse taxpayers.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to whether Warden Quay was transferred to MDC Brooklyn to maximize his pension and whether it is considering firing him.

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Cutting-Edge Planet Finder Hunts for Habitable Zones, Liquid Water

A new astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State-led team of scientists provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars, allowing astronomers to detect planets capable of having liquid water on their surfaces that orbit cool stars outside our Solar System.

The Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) allows precise measurement of a star’s radial velocity, measured by the subtle change in the color of the star’s spectra as it is tugged by an orbiting planet, which is critical information in the discovery and confirmation of new planets.

The HPF, located at McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin, targets low-mass planets around cool nearby M dwarf stars in Habitable Zones, regions where liquid water might exist on a planet’s surface.

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M dwarf stars are known to host rocky planets, but these stars are faint due to their size and their magnetic activity manifests as spots and flares, which pose problems for existing visible light instruments. The HPF, coupled to the 10-meter Hobby Eberly Telescope, instead uses near-infrared light — a type of invisible infrared light closest in wavelength to the visible spectrum — to observe these stars at wavelengths where they are brighter and less active.

“The HPF was built to be incredibly stable, and we added a calibrator called a laser frequency comb to increase precision,” said Suvrath Mahadevan, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and Principal Investigator of the HPF project. “The laser comb, which was custom-built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), separates individual wavelengths of light into separate lines, like the teeth of a comb, and is used like a ruler to calibrate the near-infrared energy from the stars. This combination of technologies has allowed us to demonstrate unprecedented near-infrared radial velocity precision with observations of Barnard’s Star, one of the closest stars to the Sun.” These results appear in the Feb 20 issue of the journal Optica.

“We are especially interested in finding Earth-like planets that orbit in the habitable zone of the nearest stars,” said Mike Endl, senior research scientist at McDonald Observatory. “These planets around nearby stars represent our best chance to characterize and study them in greater detail. The laser frequency comb at the HPF enables us to reach the high level of precision required to detect these small planets.”

“Detecting near-infrared wavelengths also poses tremendous technical challenges,” said Mahadevan. For example, the instrument is so sensitive to infrared light that heat emitted at room-temperature blinds the detector, requiring operations at very cold temperatures. The HPF was designed to overcome these challenges, and also offers an extremely high level of control over temperature and pressure — essential to proper functioning of the instrument.

“The Habitable Zone Planet Finder was and is a unique opportunity to push beyond the known solutions for finding planets that could potentially harbor life,” said Fred Hearty, senior scientist of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and the systems engineer of HPF. “Each advance we have made in the development of this instrument has revealed deeper and more subtle challenges.”

(Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Flickr)

Larry Ramsey, distinguished scholar and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, and one of the original inventors of the Hobby Eberly Telescope design added “The research and development journey for precision instruments like the Hobby-Eberly telescope began in the 1980’s at Penn State. Over the next decades, this led to the construction of several instruments that have greatly improved our ability to search for potentially habitable planets — from the Fiber Optic Echelle Instrument and the near-infrared Pathfinder instrument testbed to the powerful Habitable Zone Planet Finder, which has incredible spectral stability and the velocity sensitivity when coupled to the Hobby Eberly Telescope.”

Mahadevan attributed the success of HPF and its laser comb calibrator to the multi-disciplinary and multi-institution HPF team. “We would not have been able to push these astrophysical limits without pushing technical and engineering limits here on the ground,” he said, “or without the hard work, commitment and creativity of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research associate, faculty, and industry partners who have worked on HPF for almost a decade. These results will pave the way to breaking barriers in the near-infrared, enabling discovery of terrestrial-mass planets in Habitable Zones.”

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EssilorLuxottica’s Sagnieres seeks to reassure in letter to French staff

FILE PHOTO: Lens producers Essilor' s logo is seen in an optician shop in Paris
FILE PHOTO: Lens producers Essilor' s logo is seen in an optician shop in Paris, France, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

March 27, 2019

PARIS (Reuters) – EssilorLuxottica’s executive vice chairman Hubert Sagnieres sought to ease concerns over the governance of the newly created Franco-Italian eyewear group, days after accusing the Italian founder of Luxottica of plotting to take control.

In a letter sent to Essilor staff, Sagnieres said that the search for a new CEO for EssilorLuxottica was a “priority” and that integration work was ongoing within the frame of 20 joint working groups.

“We must dedicate our energy to integrating the two businesses under strong leadership and implementing the synergies that we have promised to the market,” Sagnieres wrote on Wednesday.

France’s Essilor and Italy’s Luxottica merged last October, creating the world’s largest eyewear maker in a 54 billion euro ($62 billion) deal, and the two sides are supposed to have equal weighting in the leadership of the combined company.

The two sides, however, have accused each other of trying to gain the upper hand.

(Reporting by Matthias Blamont; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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Seattle homeless crisis: Historic cemetery overrun with drugs and prostitution amid worsening problem

Seattle’s homeless crisis has reached such catastrophic levels that a north-side cemetery has become home to drug abuse, drug dealing and prostitution.

Bikur Cholim Cemetery board member and city council candidate Ari Hoffman detailed the desperate effort to fight the epidemic and placed blame for how bad it has gotten squarely on the local government.

“The city council, city elected officials failed our city. They created a haven where it is OK for people to die on the streets through drug use, and to live on the streets people who have a mental illness,” Hoffman told “Fox & Friends.” “They are not offering treatment solutions, and they are failing us.

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A homeless encampment is pictured in Seattle, Washington. 

A homeless encampment is pictured in Seattle, Washington.  (Reuters)

Hoffman added: “Through 2013, the homeless population was relatively stable. And then what happened after that is it grew... because the policies they had enabled drug use behavior. It’s just absolutely tragic that we have people who are living inside of a cemetery, that are dealing drugs outside of a cemetery, and are running prostitution in a cemetery, but you see it on the streets all over Seattle.”

Hoffman, who is running for city council, then took aim at “non-performing non-profits” for not doing enough to combat the crisis and revealed what he believes is the first step to turn back the tide.

“You have to wonder where the money goes, the first thing we need to do is audit where all that money is going. There’s plenty of money, the city’s coffers are full, the money is just not being spent appropriately,” he told “Fox & Friends.” “According to Seattle’s own numbers, 78 percent of people want to be off heroin. They don’t want to have addiction problems, they want treatment. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough services – there aren’t enough mental health options for them… we need to make sure those services are available for people on the streets.”

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Groundskeepers frequently find trash and other debris at the cemetery. 

Groundskeepers frequently find trash and other debris at the cemetery.  (Ari Hoffman)

Cemetery groundskeepers have had to deal with cleaning up everything from used needles to human feces, according to a representative.

Cemetery groundskeepers have had to deal with cleaning up everything from used needles to human feces, according to a representative. (Ari Hoffman)

Hoffman went on to paint a dire picture of the scene at the historic Bikur Cholim Cemetery.

“They find needles, they find drugs, they find human feces all over the place and they have to clean it all up,” he said. “Our grounds-crew has been pricked by needles before, they’ve been assaulted by people they found living there, they’ve found people on the ground overdosed thinking they were dead.”

Federal data released in 2018 found Washington state’s homeless population had risen more than any other state in the country.

Seattle, King County, had a homeless population of 12,112 -- the third highest in the country behind Los Angeles and New York City.

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Pentagon Hasn't Discussed 'Cost Plus 50' Plan With Euro Allies

The Defense Department has not brought up with European allies President Donald Trump's controversial idea for countries to pay the full cost of stationing American forces on their land, plus 50 percent, a top Pentagon official told a House Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday, The Hill reported.

Acting assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs Kathryn Wheelbarger said the president's demand might have been raised with Pacific allies, but "it's not a conversation we've had in my portfolio at all."

In Trump's so-called "cost plus 50" formula, first reported by Bloomberg, he is demanding countries where American troops are based pay the full price of keeping those forces in their nation, plus another 50 percent, meaning they would have to pay at least five times more than they do now.

Former senior American military commanders have slammed the idea as a "colossal mistake" and "pure idiocy," according to Defense One.

Retired three-star general Ben Hodges, who was the most recent commanding general of U.S. Army Europe, said the idea "shows either a complete lack of understanding or a complete disregard for the value of the access we get from having bases in Europe . . . You can't defend America from Virginia, North Carolina, and California."

Politicians, including top Republican lawmakers, have also blasted the plan as harmful to American interests and its ties with needed allies.

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney added the proposal would be "absolutely devastating" to American diplomacy, according to The Hill.

Source: NewsMax America

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Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said Tuesday that a detailed plan for a merit-based immigration system will be presented to President Trump, giving priority to skilled immigrants rather than those with family ties to the U.S.

“I do believe that the president’s position on immigration has been maybe defined by his opponents by what he’s against as opposed to what he’s for,” Kushner said at the Time 100 Summit in New York City. “What I’ve done is I’ve tried to put together a very detailed proposal for him.”

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Kushner announced that the new immigration proposal, which Trump will receive this week or next, will resemble the point-based systems in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and will unify people by ensuring strong wages and secure borders while protecting humanitarian values.

“We want to protect our country’s humanitarian values. We want to make sure we’re reunifying families, and we want to do this in a way that allows our country to be competitive long term,” he said. “And my hope is we can really do something that unifies people around what we’re for on immigration.”

“We want to protect our country’s humanitarian values. We want to make sure we’re reunifying families, and we want to do this in a way that allows our country to be competitive long term. And my hope is we can really do something that unifies people around what we’re for on immigration.”

— Jared Kushner

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Kushner denied in the same talk that he has clashed with White House staffer Stephen Miller, who’s seen as tougher on immigration than others, adding that the plan was concocted with the help of Miller and Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

“And I say that If that if I can get Stephen Miller and Kevin Hassett to agree on an immigration plan, then Middle East peace will be easy by comparison,” Kushner joked, referring to the Israel-Palestine peace plan he’s working on.

“And I say that If that if I can get Stephen Miller and Kevin Hassett to agree on an immigration plan, then Middle East peace will be easy by comparison.”

— Jared Kushner

After the plan gets presented to Trump, it will likely undergo some changes and then he will decide when to proceed with it, Kushner said.

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“It’s very, very complicated, but it’s a very interesting issue, and if we can solve it, I do think it’s a critical component for America’s long-term competitive advantage,” he added.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said his government must make men aware of the dangers of poor hygiene after expressing dismay over the 1,000 penis amputations that apparently occur in his country each year.

“In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap,” he said while speaking to reporters in Brasilia after visiting the Education Ministry. “We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole.”

The far-right leader called the figure “ridiculous and sad,” Reuters reported. A spokeswoman for the Brazilian urology society told the news agency the number is based on its official data for penis amputations.

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The amputations were conducted out of necessity over untreated infections, along with complications from HIV and various cancers, she said.

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A top Russian diplomat says Russia is willing to negotiate a new nuclear weapons treaty with the United States and China.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Friday Moscow is closely following reports in the United States that the U.S. would like to reach a nuclear weapons deal with both Russia and China, and is “willing” to negotiate. The story was reported by CNN earlier Friday.

Ryabkov also said that Russia “would like to convince” the U.S. to adopt a joint statement that would condemn any use of nuclear weapons.

Ryabkov’s comments come just months after the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a cornerstone of the post-Cold War security, and Russia followed suit. Each claims breaches by the other.

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Government dysfunction and an intelligence failure that preceded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka are traced to simmering divisions between the president and prime minister after a weekslong political crisis that crippled the country last year.

The government has admitted to a “lapse of intelligence” after officials failed to act upon near-specific information received from foreign agencies. Suicide bombers exploded themselves last Sunday in three churches and three luxury hotels, killing 253 people and wounding 400 more. Authorities said eight Muslim militants blew themselves up at their targets while the wife of one of the attackers blasted herself on being rounded up by police.

The carnage has brought forth arguments that worshippers and holidaymakers fell victim to the rivalry and a lack of communication between the country’s two leaders — President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The Cabinet led by Wickremesinghe says neither he nor his ministers were informed of the intelligence received by the defense authorities. Sirisena is the head of state, defense minister, minister in charge of the police and head of the armed forces. He also chairs the National Security Council, which includes the heads of security agencies and departments. Traditionally the prime minister also plays an important role on the council.

According to Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, Sirisena has not included Wickremesinghe in national security affairs since a dispute between them came into the open in October last year. This is an unusual departure from the protocol, he said.

Senaratne said that Sirisena was overseas when the attacks took place and even after that, the National Security Council refused to meet with Wickremesinghe as he tried to give them instructions.

Sirisena has also said that he was not informed of the intelligence received and vowed to overhaul the leadership of the defense forces.

The top bureaucrat at the Defense Ministry, Hemasiri Fernando, has resigned at Sirisena’s insistence.

“It is a major factor,” said Jehan Perera, the head of local activist group National Peace Council, referring to the alleged lack of coordination between the leaders contributing to the failure to prevent the attacks.

“The primary responsibility has to be taken by the president, he did not give the information and he did not act,” Perera said. “He had the Ministry of Defense, took the police from the prime minister, chaired the National Security Council meetings and did nothing,” Perera said.

Kusal Perera, a journalist and political commentator, says security and intelligence officials should have acted on the information whether or not they received orders from politicians.

“If they (Wickremesinghe and his party) were not invited to the National Security Council, why did not they say in Parliament that they were not responsible for the security of the country any longer,” said Perera, who is not related to Jehan Perera.

“Saying that now is taking political advantage, not taking responsibility,” he said.

Sirisena and Wickremesinghe belong to different political parties but came together for Sirisena’s presidential campaign in 2015. Their relationships broke down and their differences exploded last year when Sirisena suddenly sacked Wickremesinghe as prime minister and appointed in his place former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, whom he defeated in the presidential election. The crisis crippled the country for more than seven weeks to the point of not being able to pass this year’s national budget on time.

A court decision compelled Sirisena to reappoint Wickremesinghe, but the two leaders have been rivals within the same government.

Rajapaksa, who is the minority leader in Parliament, blames the government for weakening intelligence and dropping its guard, which he had maintained to defeat the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels 10 years ago to end the 26-year-old civil war. He also criticized the government for the detention of intelligence officers accused of extrajudicial killings and abductions during the closing days of the war, which he said crippled the security apparatus before the bombings. According to conservative U.N estimates, some 100,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka’s conflict.

Sirisena summoned an all-party conference Thursday to which Wickremesinghe was also invited. At the conference, Sirisena stressed “setting aside all the political beliefs and difference (so that) everybody should collectively commit towards building a peaceful environment within the country,” a statement from his office said.

“It is not a secret that the disagreements between me and the government aggravated over the past two years,” Sirisena told the country’s media executives Friday. “One of the reasons for that is weakening of military intelligence and arresting military officials unnecessarily and my speaking up against it within and outside the government.”

Jehan Perera said that the security threat could prove politically advantageous to Rajapaksa and his family, with a presidential election scheduled at the end of this year. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a younger brother of Mahinda, was the powerful defense secretary during his brother’s reign and has expressed his interest to join the contest.

“People are saying we want a stronger leader and they are talking about Gotabhaya. It (the blasts) has worked to their benefit,” Perera said.

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Cyprus police are intensifying a search for the remains of more victims at locations where an army officer, who authorities say admitted to killing five women and two girls, allegedly had dumped their bodies.

Police said Friday’s search will concentrate on a military firing range, a reservoir and a man-made lake near an abandoned mine approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) west of the capital Nicosia.

On Thursday, the 35-year-old suspect told investigators that he had killed four more people than he had previously admitted to. All the suspect’s alleged victims are foreign nationals.

Police have already found the bodies of a 38-year-old Filipino woman and two as yet unidentified women.

Search crews are now looking for the daughter of the 38-year-old, a Romanian mother and daughter and another Filipino woman.

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