University of Missouri president leaves over race complaints

University of Missouri president leaves over race complaints
Obama, Netanyahu emphasize need for Mideast peace
Jordan policeman kills 5, including 2 Americans
White House says still doing 'legwork' on Guantanamo closure plan
Jordanian officer shoots dead two Americans, one South African at security training site
University of Missouri president resigns after race protest
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Posted: 09 Nov 2015 10:45 AM PST

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The president of the University of Missouri system resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions at the school.

Obama, Netanyahu emphasize need for Mideast peace

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 08:22 AM PST

$President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. The president and prime minister sought to mend their fractured relationship during their meeting, the first time they have talked face to face in more than a year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)$ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday insisted they had not given up on the pursuit of Middle East peace, even as the prospect of an elusive agreement between Israelis and Palestinians appears further out of reach.

Jordan policeman kills 5, including 2 Americans

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 11:20 AM PST

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian police officer opened fire Monday at a regional police training center in the Jordanian capital, killing two Americans, two Jordanians and a South African before being shot dead, the Jordanian government spokesman said.

White House says still doing 'legwork' on Guantanamo closure plan

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 10:54 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that the U.S. Defense Department is still doing "legwork" on developing a plan to close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The White House has said Defense Department personnel are touring facilities within the United States where the prisoners might be transferred. (Reporting by Julia Edwards and Susan Heavey)

Jordanian officer shoots dead two Americans, one South African at security training site

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 11:00 AM PST

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian officer shot dead two U.S. government security contractors, a South African trainer and a Jordanian translator at a U.S. funded police training facility near Amman on Monday before being killed in a shootout, authorities said. U.S. President Barack Obama said he was treating the attack at the King Abdullah Training Center - in which four Jordanians and one Lebanese citizen were wounded - very seriously and a full investigation was under way. The gunman was a police captain, a senior Jordanian official told Reuters.

University of Missouri president resigns after race protest

Posted: 09 Nov 2015 11:13 AM PST

By Anthony Romano COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) - The University of Missouri's president announced he would step down on Monday after protests by the school's football team and other students over what they saw as his soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus. The high-profile resignation was the latest shock to the state of Missouri, and the United States at large, which has been roiled for the past year or so by racial tensions after police shot and killed an unarmed young black man in the state. Unrest at the university, widely known as "Mizzou," started on Sept. 12 when Payton Head, president of the Missouri Students Association, said on his Facebook page that he was repeatedly racially abused on campus by someone riding in a pickup truck.