NEWS IN BRIEF

Date: 07 March 2015 - 21:53

News ID: ۱۱۷۷۳

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two suspects have been detained in relation to the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov said on Saturday.
"I would like to inform you that the work that has been conducted has resulted in two suspects in this crime being detained today. They are a Gubashev, Anzor and a Dadayev, Zaur," he said in a video posted on state TV Channel One's website.
No further details were provided about the suspects, but RIA Novosti news agency quoted Bortnikov as saying that both were from the Caucasus.
Bortnikov told Channel One that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been informed of the detention and that the investigation was ongoing.
Nemtsov, 55, was shot dead near the Kremlin on the night of Feb. 27 as he was walking home and many European politicians and diplomats attended his funeral in Moscow on Tuesday.
The Kremlin has denied accusations that it played a role in his death.

WASHINGTON (Press TV) - A US senator involved in congressional efforts to pass anti-Iran legislation says he will not leave office although the Department of Justice has reportedly decided to bring criminal corruption charges against him.
Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on prosecutors' request to proceed with charges against Robert Menendez, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, CNN reported on Friday.
"I fight for these issues and the people of our country every single day," Menendez told reporters on Friday, "That’s who I am, and I am not going anywhere."
The 61-year-old lawmaker said that he has always abided by the law. He refused to answer reporters’ questions and said that "there is an ongoing inquiry”.
He also did not comment on the accusation that he accepted gifts in exchange for pushing the business interests of donor and friend Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist.
The prosecutors are currently looking into plane trips that the senator made as a guest to Melgen’s villa in the Dominican Republic.
When it first transpired that the Democratic lawmaker was under investigation in 2013, he decided to pay back Melgen $58,000 for the plane trips in 2010.
There is also another case which shows he supported Melgen's business interest in a Dominican Republic government contract.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wisconsin police fatally shot an apparently unarmed African-American teenager on Friday, prompting dozens of people to protest at the site of the killing, according to police and videos published on social media.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval told reporters that an officer responded to a disturbance at around 6:30 p.m. local time and later forced his way into an apartment that the 19-year-old, who was also suspected of a recent battery, had gone into.
Koval said that a struggle between the suspect and the officer ensued and the teen was fatally shot, according to a recording of the news conference published by broadcaster WKOW.
"The initial finding at the scene did not reflect a gun or anything of that nature that would have been used by the subject," Koval said.
The shooting comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of police violence against minorities across the country. Protests have been held in Los Angeles and Washington state in recent days over police killings of unarmed men from minority groups.
Videos published on social media showed around 100 protesters at the scene of the shooting chanting slogans like, "Who can you trust? Not the police," in front of a row of officers.
Many of the demonstrators then moved the protest to inside the Madison City County building, according to videos published on Twitter. It was not immediately clear if there were any arrests.