A.M. Links: UN Uninvites Iran From Syria Peace Conference, Sarah Palin Asks Barack Obama Not to Use Race Card, Stray Dogs in Detroit Overestimated

  • detroit struttingThe United Nations
    rescinded
    Iran’s invitation to the Syria peace conference being
    held in Geneva after the Syrian opposition and the United States
    objected.  Iran, and fellow Syria ally Russia, have
    criticized
    the decision. Separately, the UN’s nuclear watchdog
    confirmed
    Iran is in compliance with the agreement arrived at last year. The
    U.S. and the European Union eased some sanctions in response.
  • The White House is
    lobbying
    Congress to pass legislation that would extend to the
    president more authority to negotiate trade deals with other
    countries.
  • US technology companies are
    reconsidering
    how to do business in China, where they are being
    targeted by local regulators over allegations of price-gouging and
    cooperation with American surveillance efforts.
  • Sarah Palin went to Facebook to
    ask
    President Obama to stop using the race card, in honor of
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • An Indiana police chief running for county sheriff accidentally

    shot
    himself while off-duty at a gun store.
  • A survey by an animal welfare group
    found
    that there are under 3,000 stray dogs on Detroit’s
    streets on any given day, far less than the 50,000 another group
    previously estimated.

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