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Saturday, November 23, 2013 – Daily News 5B WORLD BRIEFING and contractor requirements, including questions about how thorough the background checks are for security clearances and whether more vigilant monitoring and reassessments should be done. Nation marks 50th anniversary of Kennedy assassination DALLAS (AP) — A half-century after rifle bullets cut through a presidential motorcade, the city that has long struggled with its own wounds from the Kennedy assassination paused Friday to honor the fallen leader, remembering a young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be ''linked in tragedy.'' On the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings presided over a solemn ceremony at the exact time and place where the president was gunned down in an opentop limousine. It was the first time the city had organized such a large event, issuing 5,000 free tickets and erecting a stage with video screens. ''We watched the nightmarish reality in our front yard,'' Rawlings told the crowd in Dealey Plaza, just steps from the Texas School Book Depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the sixth floor onto the motorcade. ''Our president had been taken from us, taken from his family, taken from the world.'' Somber remembrances extended from Dallas to the shores of Cape Cod, with moments of silence, speeches by historians and, above all, simple reverence for a time and a leader long gone. Two generations later, the assassination still stirs quiet sadness in the baby boomers who remember it as the beginning of a darker, more cynical time. Kerry, Russian foreign minister join Iran talks GENEVA (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers of other major powers lent their weight to the NKorea has confirmed it's holding an American Iran nuclear talks after envoys reported progress Friday in marathon negotiations to curb the Iranian program in return for limited sanctions relief. After a third day of talks, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said Kerry was en route to Geneva to ''help narrow the differences.'' Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Geneva late Friday. British Foreign Secretary William Hague announced he would also travel to Geneva. A French diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius would join the others here. The announcements followed a day in which diplomats appeared more and more optimistic that a deal could be struck. As talks adjourned, a diplomat said Iranian Foreign Minister and top European Union diplomat Catherine Ashton had made progress on a key sticking point — Iran's claim to a right to produce nuclear fuel through uranium enrichment Navy shooter had classified access pulled for 2 days WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that employed the Washington Navy Yard shooter pulled his access to classified material for two days in August when mental health problems became evident, but restored it quickly and never told Navy officials about the withdrawal, The Associated Press has learned. An initial Navy review revealed that the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company, The Experts, ordered computer contractor Aaron Alexis back to Washington, D.C., after a police incident in Rhode Island in August, according to senior U.S. officials. The company then withdrew his ability to access secret-level data for two days, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. It did not disclose why his access was reinstated. Less than six weeks later, the former Navy reservist gunned down 12 civilian workers in a Navy Yard building, and police fatally shot him. The Experts did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The classified access revelation has raised questions about whether the company's disclosure of the discipline could have brought Alexis to Navy officials' attention earlier and perhaps prevented the massacre. The Navy did an initial review into the matter, but it has not yet been released. Officials also have done a full investigation, including what prompted the company's decision and why the government was never told. Naval leaders now are reviewing that report. The shooting spree triggered several Navy and Defense Department reviews into base security WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday that North Korea acknowledges it is holding an American citizen but hasn't granted diplomats consular access so the person's identity is not yet confirmed. Expectation is that it will be Merrill Newman of California. The 85-year old Korean War veteran's family says he was detained at the end of a tourist trip to North Korea last month. Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Sweden has been informed by Pyongyang that it is detaining an American citizen. Because the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with North Korea, Sweden oversees consular issues for the United States there. Psaki says the Swedish Embassy is requesting access daily to the American. ''We are working in close coordination with representatives of the embassy of Sweden to resolve this issue. They have requested, actually on a daily basis, consular access,'' Psaki said. ''They haven't been granted that access.'' Afghan spokesman rebuffs US end-of-year deadline for agreement KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president on Friday rebuffed American demands that he sign a security pact allowing U.S. forces to stay in the country for another decade, while the U.S. defense secretary warned that planning for a post2014 military presence may be jeopardized if the deal isn't finalized by the end of the year. The stakes are high as Afghan tribal elders and other regional leaders met behind closed doors for a second day to debate the draft agreement seen as necessary to enable thousands of American soldiers to stay beyond a 2014 deadline primarily to train and mentor government security forces who are still struggling to face a resilient Taliban insurgency on their own. Karzai stunned the U.S. when he urged delegates on Thursday's opening day of the consultative council known as the Loya Jirga to approve the security pact but said he will leave it to his successor to sign it after the April 5 elections. His spokesman Aimal Faizi stuck to that stance on Friday despite U.S. pleas, saying ''there is no deadline for us except what the president said in his speech.'' The Obama administration has said it will pull all its forces out of Afghanistan without a security deal, as it did when Iraq failed to sign a similar agreement. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Karzai on Friday and warned that ''further delay is not practical, nor is it tenable,'' State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. All roads still lead to 'Obamacare' for the GOP WASHINGTON (AP) — All roads lead to ''Obamacare'' for Republicans. So much so that they acted like they had barely hit a small speed bump when Democrats voted unilaterally on Thursday to weaken century-old Senate filibuster rules and make it harder for the GOP to block confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees. Republican leader Mitch McConnell, with his eyes on the political road ahead and a GOPdamaging partial government shutdown in the rearview mirror, chalked the Senate shift up to ''broken promises, double standards and raw power — the same playbook that got us Obamacare.'' The calculation seems to be that there will be time for Republicans to retaliate for the Democratic maneuver that swept away generations of precedent in the traditionbound Senate. The change didn't eliminate filibusters, and a spirit of revenge actually may give the GOP an incentive to launch them in greater numbers. But not now, when the health care law is seen ever less favorably by the public, and has dragged the president's approval ratings to the lowest levels of his time in the White House. At least 51 dead after supermarket roof collapse in Latvia RIGA, Latvia (AP) — As Latvian rescue workers searched Friday for bodies in the rubble of a supermarket collapse that killed dozens, speculation about the cause turned to possible construction flaws in the award-winning complex where builders were putting a playground on the grass- and gravel-covered roof. The death toll from the Thursday evening rushhour roof collapse at the Maxima supermarket in Latvia's capital had risen to at least 51, including three firefighters, police said. Police opened a criminal investigation into the cause of the tragedy at the building — once vaunted as a place where high-rise residents could step out of their homes, stroll along a shady garden and pick up a couple of items for dinner. 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