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Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders have said they will not declare independence from Serbia without approval from the EU and the United States. |
proposal that was rejected by Serbia and its ally Russia. |
Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, said before Monday's talks in Brussels that all but one of the EU's 27 member states are prepared to accept independence for Kosovo without a UN resolution. |
He did not name the member state which seeks a UN Security Council resolution before accepting a declaration of independence by ethnic Kosovo Albanian leaders. |
Barnaby Phillips, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pristina, said there were distinct differences over the future of Kosovo. |
"The majority Albanian population will be hoping that the formal breakdown of negotiations means that independence is coming quite soon," he said. |
"A senior Western diplomat in the region told me that as far as he is concerned, there is no good solution to the Kosovo crisis... The US and the major European powers have decided that the least worst option is indeed independence. |
"Then of course, there is Russia, which has blocked any progress in the UN Security Council. It has stood firmly beside Serbia, which will not accept Kosovo leaving what it sees as an integral part of its territory." |
Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, warned on Monday against Kosovan independence, saying it was not in Russia's interests. |
"In that case those countries would be violating international law and we will not support the violation of international law," Lavrov told journalists during a two-day visit to Cyprus. |
"This will cause a chain reaction in the Balkans and other areas of the world and those making such plans must think very carefully about the consequences." |
Mediators are to debrief Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, in Monday in New York on the failed talks. |
In a separate development, Washington and its EU allies have agreed to keep Nato peacekeepers in Kosovo. |
The province has been a UN protectorate since 1999, when Nato led a bombing campaign against a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. |
EU member countries are divided over whether to recognise a Kosovan declaration of independence if Serbia disagrees. |
Countries with autonomous regions of their own, such as Spain, are concerned that recognition of Kosovo's independence from Serbia could boost separatist movements in their own territories. |
SKY NEWS reporter Katerina Vittozzi has revealed the latest information she has been told by police after the horrific Leicester helicopter crash. |
The Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha's helicopter crashed in a car park outside the club's King Power Stadium ground in a fireball horror on Saturday night. |
It is understood Mr Srivaddhanaprabha was in the helicopter when it came down. |
Fans have arrived at the scene to lay flowers and Vittozzi, who has been outside the stadium all day, has been told by Leicestershire Police that the Air Accident Investigation Branch are now investigating. |
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigates civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within the United Kingdom. |
There is a list of their current investigations on their website and the Leicester disaster, as yet, is not on it. |
However, it has not been updated since October 18. |
Leicester directors arrived on Sunday morning for a meeting regarding the incident. |
It was not known if manager Claude Puel would be present for the meeting. |
Reporter Katerina Vittozzi said: "As you can see behind me, there's a police cordon in place all around the King Power Stadium. |
"The car park where the helicopter crashed is just behind the stadium behind me. |
"Leicestershire Police have told me this morning that the investigation is being led by the Air Accident Investigation branch. |
"They will try and piece together exactly what led to this helicopter crashing just moments after it took off last night. |
"Just in the last 10 minutes or so, we have seen a few people arrive with flowers. It's testament to how important the owner is to the Leicester City Football Club fans. |
"He is a man who, when he bought the club, oversaw the most successful period in the club's history, leading it to the Premier League win in 2016. |
"He was a man who loved England, loved football and loved all things British including polo. |
"There is no confirmation he was on board this flight but we do know it was routine for him to use the helicopter both to get to games and to leave afterwards. |
"But as yet there's no details from the police about who was on board the aircraft and how it crashed. |
"There are a few fans who have turned up with flowers to the stadium. We can expect many more over the course of the day to come and apy tribute as they discover more and more details about what happened here last night. |
"Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was not just a stand-alone owner of this club. He was someone who was very much involved with its life, he'd offer things like free beer to spectators when they were doing welll. |
"He was from Thailand but he was very much an integral part of this club having bought it in 2010. |
"Fans here have spoken about their deep shock at this and their sadness as well." |
Leicester mayor Peter Soulsby issued a statement on the helicopter crash late on Saturday night. |
“Dreadful news from @LCFC #KingPower” he wrote on Twitter. |
Leicester Council are yet to release a statement on the incident. |
But Leicestershire Police tweeted on Saturday night: “The AAIB is leading an investigation after a helicopter crashed at the King Power Stadium. |
“It came down in a car park near the stadium shortly after 8.30pm yesterday evening (Saturday 27 October). |
Leicestershire Police have issued another statement on the Leicester helicopter crash on Sunday afternoon. |
“We understand that many people are waiting for an update about the helicopter crash at King Power Stadium last night,” they wrote. |
Leicester are yet to issue a statement following their brief message on Saturday night. |
An update is expected to provided in due course. |
Leicester play Southampton at the King Power on Tuesday night. |
It is not known if that game will still go ahead as planned. |
Leicester City Women have confirmed their game with Manchester United Women today has been postponed. |
“In light and in respect of the recent events at King Power Stadium our @FAWC_ fixture against @ManUtdWomen has been postponed,” a statement read. |
“A newly arranged date will be communicated once confirmed. |
“Our Reserves league match against Derby County Ladies has also been postponed. |
Meanwhile, former Leicester manager Sven Goran-Eriksen, who worked under Mr Srivaddhanaprabha between 2010 and 2011, has discussed the incident. |
“It’s frightening news,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live. “I saw the news, of course, this morning and I still hope it’s not true and he’s alive of course. |
Eriksson was sacked by the owner in 2011 and he the now-Philippines manager says it was the right decision. |
“He sacked me but he did well, he was right to do it,” the ex-England boss said. |
Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness recalled an encounter with Srivaddhanaprabha while appearing on the network’s coverage of Sunday’s Premier League action. |
It has now been reported Srivaddhanaprabha was one of five people on the helicopter when it crashed. |
In this Feb. 5 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. |
A lawyer for Julian Assange told The Hill that Manning's clemency did not meet the requirements for the extradition agreement. |
WikiLeaks made a big offer just five days ago. If President Barack Obama commuted Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange would allow himself to be sent back to the U.S. to face charges for disseminating classified information. |
That offer is being put to the test. On Tuesday afternoon, news broke that Obama had used his power as president to release Manning, a former army intelligence analyst, from prison as of May 17, 2017. |
WikiLeaks had made the offer in a tweet, which remains up. |
On Tuesday evening, WikiLeaks tweeted that Assange's UK lawyer Melinda Taylor has said "everything that he has said he's standing by" regarding the extradition "deal." |
The quote appears to have emerged from a conversation between Taylor and the Associated Press in which she said WikiLeaks remains unsure whether the American government has requested Assange's extradition from the UK to the U.S. |
WikiLeaks added that Assange was "confident of winning any fair trial in the US." |
Assange lawyer @themtchair on Assange-Manning extradition 'deal': "Everything that he has said he's standing by." |
If Assange does indeed allow himself to be extradited, he will face charges surrounding his organization's acquisition of documents from Manning, who leaked a massive trove of government documents to WikiLeaks. Manning was found guilty of the act and sentenced to 35 years in prison. She has served nearly seven years of... |
Assange: "Thank you to everyone who campaigned for Chelsea Manning's clemency. Your courage & determination made the impossible possible." |
Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks acknowledged the clemency on Twitter, but did not comment on Assange. |
In August, a lawyer for WikiLeaks claimed in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch that "there is no legitimate basis for continuing the [Justice] Department's lengthy criminal investigation of Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks," on the basis that it did not break any laws and provided a public good in informing peop... |
An email sent to the WikiLeaks lawyer was not immediately returned. |
UPDATE: Jan. 18, 2017, 2:04 p.m. AEDT New tweets added from @WikiLeaks regarding extradition. |
Laura Dern talks about portraying powerful female characters at CES. |
Fresh off her powerful acceptance speech at the Golden Globes for her role as Renata Klein in HBO’s hit Big Little Lies and her part as a leading character in the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Laura Dern wants to play more complex and culturally relevant characters, which is something she says audiences desire. |
During a panel hosted by Omnicom Media Group at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, Dern and Beth Altringer, Ph.D, founder and director of Harvard’s Desirability Lab, talked about the role that technology and innovation plays in Hollywood and filmmaking. |
Claudia Cahill, Omnicom Media Group’s chief content officer, moderated the 45-minute talk and asked Dern what she looks for in picking projects to work on. According to Dern, her upbringing by two actor parents—Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern—encouraged her to go after diverse roles. |
Take her latest Star Wars role, for example. Dern plays Vice Admiral Holdo, one of a handful of women characters that fans of the iconic franchise have praised as strong leaders in the film. |
“Star Wars in its storytelling looks forward to engaging in the area of diversity and sexuality—they talk about it a lot in this film,” she explained. |
Diversity and authenticity also drives how Dern plans to work with brands in the future. |
In terms of technology, Dern is a board member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (or AMPAS) and is working on including technology like computer-generated imagery as qualifications for actors to be nominated for awards. |
Altringer’s work at Harvard’s Desireability Lab focuses on using data to understand why people like or dislike certain things and what can be extrapolated from that data to help creators make better stories. |
In one example, Altringer and her team are analyzing taste and building a database of taste profiles to better understand how people determine what something tastes like. |
While brands and filmmakers are increasingly focusing on women, there is still much work to do. A few years ago, Altringer worked on a project to find out what the older woman equivalent of Dos Equis’ iconic Most Interesting Man in the World would be like. |
Lauren Johnson is a senior technology editor for Adweek, where she specializes in covering mobile, social platforms and emerging tech. |
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There’s a renaissance underway in American manufacturing. Even as rising wages and energy costs in China are leading more U.S. companies to bring manufacturing stateside, economic indicators point towards real industrial progress. TheInstitute for Supply Management’s monthly Report on Business shows that 15 of 18 manuf... |
Should the NFL allow one-and-done players? |
NFL dreams are going to come true in the NFL Draft, but studs like Clemson freshman Trevor Lawrence have to wait. Many people think it's unfair that the NFL requires athletes to be three years removed from high school before they're eligible to play. We let people over the age of 18 join the military and work anywhere ... |
High school graduates can make the choice to sacrifice their lives for their country, and yet college freshman can't decide to make money doing something they love? There's something wrong with that. |
Some freshman football players are ready to make the jump to the NFL. Even if they aren't starting, they can hone their craft in a professional setting without the distraction of schoolwork they have no interest in. Forcing players to play three years in college only hurts NCAA schools that have to deal with student-at... |
Even if they aren't ready, freshman players who feel they're ready should be able to make that mistake as an adult. They should be able to go straight to the NFL if they want. |
Which college football freshmen could be one-and-done if the NFL allowed it? |
Freshman footballers who think they can hang in the NFL will get beaten down by both the real world and grown men at the same time. |
No matter how big or strong freshmen are, they are nowhere near ready to take on the physical toll of an NFL schedule. Not only do they have to condition and work out constantly, but opponents are also looking to hurt them with more force than they have ever encountered. |
Mentally, NFL athletes have to memorize huge playbooks, analyze tape and deal with failure on a professional level where there are no excuses. There's a reason the NFL only allows players three years removed from high school to play in the league. Kids that young just aren't ready. |
Last week’s budget ensured that we will enter another election where both sides are fighting to convince voters that they will deliver a bigger (better!) surplus and that paying off debt is the greatest measure of determining a government’s economic credentials. |
It has also resulted in one of the more absurd predictions in a budget – that net debt will be reduced over the next decade as fast as it was during the greatest mining boom in our history. |
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