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Officials in Chicago urged protesters to be "peaceful" as a dash-cam video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting and killing a black teenager was released Tuesday. A state prosecutor said the release prompted her to move up the announcement of the officer’s murder charge out of concern the footage would spark violence. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the first-degree murder charge against Jason Van Dyke, who shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014, represented a "challenge" to the city, but that it also represented a moment of "understanding and learning." "It is fine to be passionate, but it is essential to remain peaceful," he told reporters at a news conference late Tuesday. Shortly after the video's release, protesters began marching through streets. Several hundred people blocked traffic on the near West Side. Some circled police cars in an intersection and chanted "16 shots." ...

Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini, another man suspected of helping orchestrate the series of assaults in Paris that left 130 people dead. The 30-year-old was seen in CCTV footage getting petrol on the Paris-Brussels motorway with another wanted man, Salah Abdeslam, two nights before the November 13 attacks, police said on Tuesday, adding that Abrini is dangerous and probably armed. ADVERTISEMENT In the footage, Abrini can be seen driving a Renault Clio used in the attacks. Meanwhile, authorities said GPS tracking has shown Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader behind the Paris attacks who was killed five days later in a shoot-out with police, had returned to the scene of the crime after French SWAT teams arrived. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said mobile phone footage places Abaaoud near the Bataclan concert hall while attacks there were still under way. The chief prosecutor also said on Tuesday that Abaa...

  Read the press statement from the presidency below... President Muhammadu Buhari has identified sabotage and theft of gas as factors undermining the efforts of the government to increase power supply in the country. To tackle the problem, the President announced that existing Military Task-Forces will be reorganized to ensure a successful protection of the network of gas pipelines.