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Obama to limit drone strikes restart Guantanamo closure

Obama will say Thursday. The president will also announce new limits to unmanned combat drone strikes, the officials said of the program that has been central to White House efforts to combat terrorism. Obama's 2 p.m. speech at the Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington will lay out how he intends to bring his counter-terrorism policies in line with the legal ...
Bronx ghetto tours stop amid residents outrage

A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New ...
With Weiner NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic

FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...
Qns. kid hangs herself

A 12-year-old Queens girl hanged herself in her family home yesterday after being relentlessly cyberbullied by her middle-school classmates, sources told The Post. Gabrielle Molina was found hanging by a belt from a ceiling fan at about 2:15 p.m. on 220th Street in Queens Village, cops said.The troubled tween left behind a heartbreaking note that recounted the torture she endured at the hands of ...
Dead Boston bombing suspect said involved in triple murder

Boston Marathon bombing suspect is now tied to a triple murder, officials said after an alleged accomplice was gunned down by an agent questioning him. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was fingered by Ibragim Todashev in Orlando, Fla., in a 2011 Waltham, Mass., murder in which three people had their throats slashed, federal law enforcement officials told several news outlets. Todashev also implicated himself ...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [Blu-Ray]

Shrouded in ashen cigarette smoke, heavy silences, backroom intrigue, and horridly despondent early 70s British interior dcor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes an ... ...

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2G ‘junk’ fine tossed

It was a big win for the little guy and common sense. A Manhattan appeals court this week overturned a $2,000 fine levied in 2011 against Brooklyn carpenter Albert Prince for taking a TV antenna from a pile of curbside trash. Prince, 58, who makes art out of recyclables, said he didn’t realize his scavenging activity was illegal. The Appellate Division panel called the penalty ...
Gambling suspect’s ‘safe’ bet

What happens in Vegas can’t happen at the Bellagio for a co-defendant in the high-stakes, illegal gambling case against Upper East Side art dealer Helly Nahmad.Professional poker player Abe Mosseri won permission from a judge yesterday to travel to Sin City for the upcoming World Series of Poker - but not to stay at the luxury casino.Defense lawyer Michael Bachner told the judge that ...
‘Cats’ in jam over legal fees

Mayoral hopeful and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis has to fork over nearly $3.9 million to the lawyers of workers who sued him for shortchanging them at his Gristedes stores, a Manhattan appeals court ruled yesterday.The billionaire Republican candidate sought to slash the hefty legal bill on grounds that it exceeded the $3.5 million settlement he struck with his employees on the eve of ...
‘Wired’ pol eyes old seat

Maybe he’ll run on the clean-up-Albany platform!Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who worked as an undercover informant against fellow Albany legislators, may run for his old Bronx seat, The Post has learned."To be honest, I’m really considering it," Castro said last night. He resigned April 8 as part of a perjury-charge plea deal that also required him to wear a ...
Life or death on 20th floor

Police officers yesterday rescue a woman who threatened to jump from a West 38th Street building’s 20th-floor balcony. It was not known why she wanted to kill herself. The officers finally came through the window and onto the balcony and grabbed the startled woman, whisking her to safety. She was taken to Roosevelt Hospital for observation. "Everything went according to plan," ...

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Moscow safer than New York: Russian minister

Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US.

Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in the number of residents and police personnel responsible for ensuring security," Kolokoltsev explained.

He claimed that, in some respects, parts of Moscow are even safer than New York, although he did not cite concrete statistics.

Kolokoltsev is in the US for a series of meetings with law enforcement officials on a range of issues from day-to-day crime, to drug trafficking and terrorism, a press release posted on the interior ministry web site Tuesday says.

Kolokoltsev also praised the recent reforms of Russia's police service, highlighting that they built on the New York police's experience, particularly in "the direct responsibility of a commanding officer for his subordinates' actions, including suspension or even dismissal".

In 2011, Russia launched sweeping reforms of the 1.2-million-strong police force, which has long been notorious for corruption and abuse of authority. ...