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Italians set fire to beds in anti-migrant protests

Residents in a chic Rome suburb and a northern Italian village staged angry anti-immigrant protests on Friday, with villagers setting mattresses ablaze in a bid to stop authorities from housing migrants. Authorities in the village of Quito plan to accommodate 101 immigrants in empty apartments, but several residents broke into one of the buildings, removed camp beds, mattresses and televisions intended for the newcomers and set them on fire outside.

Chattanooga shooting suspect's Mideast travel being probed

By Rich McKay CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are investigating trips that the suspect in the fatal shootings of four Marines in Tennessee took to the Middle East, including at least one to Jordan and a possible visit to Yemen, a source close to the probe said on Friday. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, identified as the shooter by the FBI, was shot to death in a rampage on Thursday

Utah police find girl, 12, dead in field; say likely homicide

The West Valley City Police Department said the girl’s mother approached two officers at a 7-Eleven store at 1:30 a.m. and told them her daughter had been missing since midnight. “Evidence of trauma and indicators at scene suggest 12-year-old girl’s death is homicide,” it said. West Valley City is a western suburb of Salt Lake City.

A year after Ferguson, U.S. civil rights groups gather pace

By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) – Taurean Russell was preparing to coach high school football in St. Louis last Aug. 9 when his Twitter feed began flashing images of a black teenager lying facedown on the street of a nearby suburb, shot dead by police.     Within hours came photos of the dead 18-year-old’s stepfather, stony-faced, holding a cardboard sign that read: “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!”