[Chicago Tribune] A teen was shot to death and at least 14 other people, including a 12-year-old boy, were maimed in shootings between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
The most recent shooting was a homicide that happened about 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and the boy killed was the seventh person shot in that area in the West Garfield Park and Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side.
The 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. Police had a difficult time finding the boy because the 911 caller gave a location of Jackson Boulevard and Pulaski Road before the boy was found in an alley about half a block west of Pulaski just north of the boulevard.
The boy was able to give his name and said, "Please don't let me die," according to police.
About 90 minutes earlier, three people were shot near the intersection of Lexington and Springfield avenues south of the Eisenhower Expressway in Lawndale, just blocks from where the teen was killed Saturday morning.
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The annual 'Winter Truce' goes into effect in about 6-7 weeks.
[Iran Press TV] Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has declared his bid for re-election in the country's first presidential vote since the ouster of former dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Marzouki was picked as president in December 2011 in a vote in the National Constituent Assembly, which was elected after the ouster of Ben Ali in a popular revolution earlier in the same year.
The 69-year-old started his re-election campaign with an attack on "dirty money" in politics on Saturday.
"My candidacy is an example of transparency," Marzouki said after registering for the vote, which is set to be held on November 23, adding, "We must not allow corruption in this first democratic experience."
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[Dhaka Tribune] The National Democratic Party (NDP) has threatened to quit BNP-led 20-party alliance if it is not run through national consensus.
The party issued a 72-hour ultimatum to BNP chief the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... to resolve a set of issues, otherwise it threatens to quit the BNP-led alliance.
NDP secretary general Alamgir Mojumder issued the ultimatum in a press briefing held in a hotel of Karail of capital on Saturday morning.
The party wants a clear statement from the 20-party alliance over the unresolved issues between Bangladesh and India, Mojumder said.
He said the national executive committee meeting of the party relieved its chairman Golam Murtoja and appointed Alamgir as acting chairman.
Alamgir Mojumder issued the ultimatum in a press briefing at the party's Kakrail office on Saturday morning.
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[Al Jazeera] Frank Bainimarama, a former coup leader, is on the verge of becoming Fiji's first elected leader in eight years, as international observers give the ballot a stamp of approval.
With 70 percent of the vote counted as of Thursday, the incumbent prime minister's Fiji First Party had 60.1 percent, well clear of its nearest rival, the Social Democratic Liberal Party (Sodelpa) on 26.7 percent.
"This was a credible election," said a statement from the 92-member panel drawn from 13 countries around the world as well as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
"While counting is ongoing and the results are yet to be finalised, we assess that the outcome is on track to broadly represent the will of the Fijian voters."
The election was conducted "in an atmosphere of calm, with an absence of electoral misconduct or evident intimidation".
Australia and New Zealand, who led global condemnation of Bainimarama following the coup, described the ballot as a "significant event".
"All early indications are that the conditions were in place for the people of Fiji to exercise their right to vote freely," Murray McCully, New Zealand's foreign minister, said.
Although Bainimarama was accused of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses and the Pacific nation subjected to international sanctions after he seized control in a 2006 coup, Brij Lal, a Fiji political analyst based at the Australian National University, said the outcome was no surprise.
"He had all the advantages of incumbency, name recognition, a public profile, media on his side, campaigning on the public purse, and a desire on the part of the voters for stability, which he promised," Lal told AFP news agency.
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Commodore Frank!
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"We can do it the easy (voting booth) way, or we can do it my way."?
[Iran Press TV] Three huge blasts have rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on the day when the country's army and pro-Russia forces were expected to begin implementing a new truce plan.
The powerful blasts occurred Saturday at a military plant in the pro-Russia held Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
"There was a direct hit at the No 47 industrial explosives shop, where some explosives were present. It detonated and caused another kaboom. Luckily it didn't hit the main storage facility where we have some 2.5 tons of explosives," said Ivan Prikhodko, deputy chair of the local community council.
He added that while the incident caused considerable damage, nobody was hurt.
The plant was reportedly used for manufacturing explosives and ammunition as well as for dismantling unwent kaboom! munitions collected on the battlefields.
The kabooms occurred just as a Russian humanitarian aid convoy was unloading relief supplies in the city. Some 200 trucks carrying 2,000 tons of aid crossed the Ukrainian border earlier on Saturday.
On Saturday, government forces and pro-Russia fighters were due to pull out their troops from a 30-kilometer buffer zone agreed on during talks in the Belarusian capital Minsk.
Based on the deal, all feuding sides will withdraw their forces 15 kilometers from frontlines and monitors from the European Security Organization, OSCE, will monitor the area. Pro-Russian groups will also keep their hold on Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
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[DAWN] Police officials on Friday grilled two professors of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University and an official of the NED University in connection with the murder of KU dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies Dr Prof Shakeel Auj.
Dr Auj was bumped off by two motorcyclists when he was travelling in a friend's car on University Road in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Thursday morning.
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Police officials on Friday grilled two professors.... Did they us a Jenn-Air ?
[DAWN] Three robbers rubbed out a constable at Akbar Chowk on Friday.
Faisal Town police said the constable was identified as Ghulam Mustafa. They said Muhafiz coppers rushed to Township on being informed about the presence of some robbers. Police signalled three suspects on two cycle of violences to stop near Akbar Chowk. The suspects shot up the police, injuring constable Mustafa, and beat feet from the scene.
The maimed policeman was rushed to Jinnah Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival.
Police cordoned off the area and started a search operation to arrest the absconding suspects.
ROBBERIES: Robbers struck thrice on Friday and looted cash and valuables worth Rs1.4 million. Three gunnies stormed into the house of Usman in DHA Phase I, held the family at gunpoint and took away cash, jewellery worth Rs500,000.
Two gunnies barged into the house of Zafar in Baghbanpura and looted gold bangles, cash and mobile phones worth Rs600,000.
Thieves broke into the shop of Rai Imran in Wahadat Colony and took away cash and valuables worth Rs350,000.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Chicago Tribune] A teen was shot to death and at least 14 other people, including a 12-year-old boy, were 
[Iran Press TV] Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has declared his bid for re-election in the country's first presidential vote since the ouster of former dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
[Al Jazeera] Frank Bainimarama, a former coup leader, is on the verge of becoming Fiji's first elected leader in eight years, as international observers give the ballot a stamp of approval.
[Iran Press TV] Three huge blasts have rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on the day when the country's army and pro-Russia forces were expected to begin implementing a new truce plan.
