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8A Daily News – Tuesday, August 13, 2013 WORLD BRIEFING Man suspected of abducting girl shot rifle once or twice SAN DIEGO (AP) — California authorities say a man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old family friend after killing her mother and younger brother opened fire once or twice with a rifle before he was killed by FBI gunfire in the Idaho wilderness. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said Monday that Hannah Anderson was under ''extreme duress'' from the time she abducted. She didn't learn that her mother and brother were killed until she was rescued Saturday. Gore says the girl is recovering with family in San Diego. Hannah's father, Brett Anderson, says his daughter faces a long recovery. He thanked the horseback riders who reported seeing them to the authorities. Stop-andfrisk policy wrongly targeted minorities NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's largest police department illegally and systematically singled out large numbers of blacks and Hispanics under its controversial stop-and-frisk policy, a federal judge ruled Monday while appointing an independent monitor to oversee major changes, including body cameras on some officers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would appeal the ruling, which was a stinging rebuke to a policy he and the New York Police Department have defended as a lifesaving, crime-fighting tool that helped lead the city to historic crime lows. The legal outcome could affect how and whether other cities employ the tactic. ''The city's highest officials have turned a blind eye to the evidence that officers are conducting stops in a racially discriminatory manner,'' U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote in her ruling. ''In their zeal to defend a policy that they believe to be effective, they have willfully ignored overwhelming proof that the policy of targeting 'the right people' is racially discriminatory.'' Stop-and-frisk has been around for decades in some form, but recorded stops increased dramatically under the Bloomberg administration to an all-time high in 2011 of 684,330, mostly of black and Hispanic men. The lawsuit was filed in 2004 by four men, all minorities, and became a class-action case. About half the people who are stopped are subject only to questioning. Others have their bag or backpack searched, and sometimes police conduct a full pat-down. Only 10 percent of all stops result in arrest, and a weapon is recovered a small fraction of the time. AG Holder goes after mandatory drug sentencing WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation's prisons with lowlevel drug offenders and diverted crime-fighting dollars that could be far better spent. If Holder's policies are implemented aggressively, they could mark one of the most significant changes in the way the federal criminal justice system handles drug cases since the government declared a war on drugs in the 1980s As a first step, Holder has instructed federal prosecutors to stop charging many nonviolent drug defendants with offenses that carry mandatory minimum sentences. His next step will be working with a bipartisan group in Congress to give judges greater discretion in sentencing. ''We will start by fundamentally rethinking the notion of mandatory minimum sentences for drugrelated crimes,'' Holder told the American Bar Association in San Francisco. There are currently more than 219,000 federal inmates, and the prisons are operating at nearly 40 percent above capacity. Holder said the prison population ''has grown at an astonishing rate — by almost 800 percent'' since 1980. Almost half the inmates are serving time for drug-related crimes. Kerry says Israeli settlements won't derail Mideast talks BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the recent flap over Israeli settlement announcements likely won't derail Mideast peace talks, which are scheduled to resume this week. Kerry said at a news conference Monday in Bogota that he has talked about the announcements with the top Israeli negotiator. He is also trying to reach Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is recovering from hernia surgery. A State Department spokeswoman in Washington, Marie Harf, said that the U.S. had expressed its ''serious concerns'' about the announcement Sunday that Israel had approved building nearly 1,200 more settlement homes Sunday — the third in a week. It fueled Palestinian fears of a new Israeli construction spurt under the cover of U.S.-sponsored negotiations. Top U.S. negotiator Martin Indyk has arrived in the region for talks that begin on Wednesday. Palestinian officials already have complained about the settlement announcement, even as Israel released more than 100 Palestinian convicts as part of the deal to resume peace talks. Kerry said the U.S. government views the settlements as illegitimate. He added that criticism on the Palestinian side shows the need to get negotiations going quickly. Pro-Morsi sit-ins gain strength CAIRO (AP) — Supporters of toppled President Mohammed Morsi increased the pressure on Egypt's interim leadership by defiantly flooding into two protest camps Monday, prompting police to postpone moving against the 6week-old sit-ins because they feared a ''massacre.'' Morsi's Islamist backers have rejected negotiations with the military-backed government, leaving the most populous Arab nation in an uneasy limbo. Still, the delay by the security forces gave the Sunni Muslim world's top religious institution more time to try to ease the political tensions with a new initiative. Authorities also showed no signs of meeting key demands by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood to release top Islamists who have been detained and face criminal investigations. A judge ordered the deposed president, detained since he was overthrown July 3, to be held for 15 more days pending investigations of charges he conspired in 2011 with Palestinian militants, a judicial official said. Planned release of 26 prisoners stirs anger in Israel BRUKIN, West Bank (AP) — Mustafa al-Haj expected to die in an Israeli prison for killing an American-born settler hiking in the West Bank in 1989. Now lights decorate his home to celebrate the planned release of the 45year-old and more than 100 other Palestinian convicts in a deal that revived Mideast peace talks. While the Palestinians are joyful, the decision to free the inmates has stirred anger in Israel where victims' families say it is an insult to their loved ones. Israel published the names of 26 men, including al-Haj, to be freed before the first round of talks Wednesday. In all, 104 prisoners have been slated for release in four tranches over a period of nine months that the U.S. has set aside for negotiations. But their freedom is contingent on progress in the talks. 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