Rapper Slim Dunkin slain in Atlanta music studio (AP)

ATLANTA ? Atlanta police say the rapper Slim Dunkin has been gunned down in a city music studio as he prepared to record a video.

Police Maj. Keith Meadows said the performer, whose real name is Mario Hamilton, was fatally shot in the chest after getting into an argument with another individual.

"It appears the victim was scheduled to do a photo shoot," Meadows told The Associated Press. "Before the video shoot took place, it appears the victim and suspect got involved in a verbal altercation. We don't know what that altercation was about."

"The suspect produced a weapon, discharged that handgun one time, striking the victim in the chest," Meadows said.

The performer was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Meadows said police have not been able to identify the shooter. He said 13 to 20 people were in the small office-type building at the time of the shooting, which took place around 5:30 p.m., but they were in different places.

"We've questioned a number of witnesses inside the recording studio at this time." Meadows said.

Police have not recovered the handgun that was used.

"Right now we're just trying to....identify who may have seen what, really just trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together," he said. "It seems everybody witnessed something very different. We're just trying to go back and make sense of everything."

Meadows said the victim was in his early 20s and resided in the Atlanta area.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111217/ap_on_en_mu/us_rapper_shot_music_studio

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The history of the Zuffa-owned UFC, as told by ?The Brady Bunch?

Earlier this week, Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta were named to the Sports Business Journal's list of the top 50 most powerful people in sports. In case you ever wanted to know how they took over the UFC, here you go.

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Russia trade vote will be "hard lift": U.S. lawmaker (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The White House faces a major challenge next year persuading the U.S. Congress to permanently normalize trade relations with Russia due to concerns about human rights and Moscow's relations with Iran, a senior Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday.

"I've counted a lot of trade votes in my time in Congress. This will be a hard lift," Representative Kevin Brady said in a speech to the Washington International Trade Association. "Even among our pro-trade members there is skepticism about Russia."

Members of the World Trade Organization meeting later this week in Geneva are expected to approve Russia's entry into the world trade body after nearly 18 years of negotiations.

That would require the United States to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) by revoking a Cold War provision known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations with state-controlled economies to the rights of religious minorities to emigrate freely.

Brady, who chairs the House of Representatives Ways and Means subcommittee on trade, said it was possible Congress could vote on PNTR for Russia in the first half of 2012, provided the White House lays the ground for a vote.

Unless Congress revokes the provision, trade experts say Russia would be entitled under WTO rules to deny the United States most or all of the market-opening concessions Moscow made to join the WTO. That would put U.S. companies at disadvantage in the Russian market to other suppliers.

Brady said it is "important for the Obama administration, for our private sector, business and agriculture, and the Russian government to educate Congress, to build a foundation as to why Russia's WTO accession is in our interest, in both countries' interest, so that we can get beyond the general distrust that members of Congress feel today."

He compared the upcoming vote on Russia to the bitter debate in 2000 over China's accession to the WTO. Congress approved PNTR for China but only after a major push by the administration of President Bill Clinton.

Members of Congress will use the PNTR debate to raise concerns on a number of issues "related to Russia, even if they are not related to trade, such as human rights, foreign and security policy and Iran," Brady said.

But he said he was not willing yet to endorse the need to create some kind of mechanism within the PNTR legislation to put pressure on Russia over human rights and other issues.

Instead, Brady said, he wants to focus on why it is important for Congress to remove Jackson-Vanik.

He urged Russia to improve the environment for votes in the House and the Senate by taking action on longstanding trade irritants, such as barriers to its agricultural markets.

"We need to build confidence in Congress concerning Russia's willingness to live up its new WTO commitments in areas such as ag trade," Brady said.

"Congress must also be confident that Russia is sufficiently addressing other trade concerns, like IPR (intellectual property rights) enforcement related to the Internet."

(Reporting by Doug Palmer; editing by John O'Callaghan)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111213/pl_nm/us_usa_russia_trade

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Party asks to exhume Neruda's remains in Chile

FILE - This Dec. 29, 1941 file photo shows Chile's poet Pablo Neruda, then consul-general in Mexico, while recovering from injuries police said were inflicted on him by a group of German nationals in Cuernavaca the day before, in Mexico City. Chile's Communist Party is asking to exhume the remains of the late Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda following allegations he may have been poisoned. P Officially, Neruda died of cancer only days after the 1973 coup toppled his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - This Dec. 29, 1941 file photo shows Chile's poet Pablo Neruda, then consul-general in Mexico, while recovering from injuries police said were inflicted on him by a group of German nationals in Cuernavaca the day before, in Mexico City. Chile's Communist Party is asking to exhume the remains of the late Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda following allegations he may have been poisoned. P Officially, Neruda died of cancer only days after the 1973 coup toppled his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - This Oct. 21, 1971 file photo shows Pablo Neruda, poet and then Chilean ambassador to France, talk with reporters in Paris after being named the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature. Chile's Communist Party is asking to exhume the remains of the late Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda following allegations he may have been poisoned. Officially, Neruda died of cancer only days after the 1973 coup toppled his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) ? Chile's Communist Party is asking a judge to order the exhumation of the remains of famed poet Pablo Neruda due to allegations that he may have been poisoned.

Party member Juan Andres Lagos told The Associated Press on Monday that the request will be reviewed by Judge Mario Carroza, who is probing deaths allegedly caused by abuses during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990.

Manuel Araya, who was Neruda's chauffeur and assistant, has told reporters in recent months that he and Neruda's wife received a phone call from him on the day of his death from a hospital where he was being treated for late-stage prostate cancer.

Araya reported that Neruda said to "come quickly, because while I was asleep a doctor entered and gave me a shot."

Araya said they received the call while he and Neruda's wife were at the poet's seaside home in Isla Negra, where they had gone to gather belongings a day before they planned to travel to Mexico and go into exile.

The 69-year-old poet, who had won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sept. 23, 1973, in the Santa Maria Clinic in Santiago.

Neruda died 12 days after the military coup that swept Pinochet to power and ousted socialist President Salvador Allende, who was a friend of the poet.

The Communist Party, to which Neruda belonged, is asking that his remains be exhumed due to the account of Araya, "who was someone very close to him," Lagos said.

The Pablo Neruda Foundation, which promotes the poet's artistic legacy and runs three museums, has discounted the theory raised by Araya. The foundation said in a statement in May that he has been "insisting without any proof other than his own belief."

Neruda died in the same hospital where former President Eduardo Frei died in 1982 while recovering from a hernia operation. A judge is investigating claims by Frei's family that he may have been poisoned by government agents just as he appeared to be emerging as a prominent opponent of Pinochet's regime.

The Communist Party in May asked Judge Carroza to investigate Neruda's death. The judge is also handling an investigation into Allende's death and those of 725 others during the dictatorship.

Allende's remains were also removed from his tomb in May for an autopsy, which confirmed he committed suicide during the coup. Allende's remains were reburied in September.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2011-12-05-LT-Chile-Neruda-Exhumation/id-f52f21446f5f48318a30e456bef72edf

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Activists raid French atomic site

5 December 2011 Last updated at 06:03 ET

Environmental activists have broken into a French nuclear power station, to highlight the "vulnerability" of atomic sites in France.

Greenpeace campaigners entered the site at Nogent-sur-Seine, 60 miles (95km) south-east of Paris, before dawn.

The activists climbed on top of a reactor building and unfurled a banner, said a Greenpeace spokesman.

The power company, Electricite de France (EDF), says the intruders were detected straight away.

Seven out of nine activists who entered the site have been arrested, said the firm.

The activists "were immediately detected by the security system and were permanently followed on the site, without a decision being made to make use of force," said an EDF statement.

Greenpeace also targeted two other nuclear sites in France at the same time.

Banners were unfurled at those sites, say police, but it is not clear whether the activists managed to gain entry.

The campaign group says it did succeed in putting up a banner on the Nogent-sur-Seine plant which read "Safe Nuclear Power Doesn't Exist".

"The aim is to show the vulnerability of French nuclear installations and how easy it is to get to the heart of a nuclear reactor," said a Greenpeace nuclear specialist, Sophia Majnoni.

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She said a recent security audit of French nuclear plants "did not learn the lessons of Fukushima," the Japanese nuclear plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in March.

'Irresponsible' action

French Industry Minister Eric Besson expressed surprise when told of reports about the Greenpeace action.

"That would mean there has been a dysfunction and that measures must be taken to ensure that it doesn't happen again," he told French radio.

An advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, said the Greenpeace action was "irresponsible", but acknowledged that it raised concerns.

"This does make one think about the security of access to nuclear power plants," French news agency AFP reported him as saying.

"Conclusions must be drawn from this."

France generates about 75% of its electricity from nuclear power.

The future of the nuclear industry has sparked heated political exchanges in the run up to next year's presidential elections.

The opposition socialists say they want to reduce the country's dependence on nuclear power, but the French government has accused them of undermining the industry to win Green party support.

Greenpeace has repeatedly targeted the French nuclear industry over safety concerns.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-16029572

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