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Turkey says its patience with Russia ‘has a limit’

Turkey’s foreign minister said Ankara’s patience with Russia “has a limit” after Moscow’s “exaggerated” reaction to a weekend naval incident between the two countries, an Italian newspaper reported on Monday.

A Russian warship fired warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea on Sunday to avoid a collision and summoned the Turkish military attache in Moscow over the incident.

“Ours was only a fishing boat. It seems to me that the reaction of the Russian naval ship was exaggerated,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera in an interview.

The incident is likely to heighten tensions between the two nations, which are at odds over Syria and Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet last month.

“Russia and Turkey certainly have to re-establish the relations of trust that we have always had, but our patience has a limit,” the Turkish foreign minister said.

Aljazeera

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Marco Rubio Says He Has a Plan to Make Gay Marriage Illegal Again

Senator Marco Rubio outlined his plan to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage and wipe out protections for transgender people if he is elected to the White House next year.

“It is the current law. I don’t believe any case law is settled law,” the 2016 presidential hopeful said of the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide in an interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “Any future Supreme Court can change it.”

It’s not so much an issue of restricting liberty, but one of states’ right to their own legislative determination, the Florida senator told host Chuck Todd.

“I don’t think the current Constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate marriage,” Rubio said. “What is wrong is that the Supreme Court has found this hidden constitutional right that 200 years of jurisprudence had not discovered and basically overturned the will of the voters in Florida, where over 60 percent passed a constitutional amendment that defined marriage in the state constitution as the union of one man and one woman.”

Vice News

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“EMERGENCY” MEASURES MAY BE WRITTEN INTO THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION

JUST HOURS INTO A TERRORIST ATTACK that started on the evening of Nov. 13, and would eventually claim 130 lives, François Hollande announced that France was reestablishing border controls, and used a 1955 law to proclaim a state of emergency.

This 60-year-old law gives French law enforcement wide and sweeping powers, freeing them from much of the normal judicial oversight. The law gives prefects, the French government’s local representatives, the ability to place people under house arrest, based merely on the suspicion of the intelligence service that they pose a threat to national security. They can also order police raids targeting any place where they think information about terrorism may be found, without a warrant.

Initially intended to last 12 days, the state of emergency was extended on November 19 for an additional three months by both chambers of parliament. During the vote in the lower house, only six MPs voted against the extension.

In some instances, the concrete consequences of the state of emergency border on the Kafkaesque. There’s this man, who was challenging the requirement that he report frequently to a police station (one of the other features of the state of emergency law). Because his court hearing to challenge the requirement was late, he showed up 40 minutes past the time he was supposed to be at the police station. He was immediately detained. Then there’s this man, who was placed under house arrest in southwestern France because he was suspected of being a radical Muslim — except he is a devout Catholic. The police also raided a halal restaurant for no apparent reason.

Since last month’s attacks, there have been some 2,500 police raids, and nearly a thousand people have been arrested or detained. French local and national press are now full of reports of questionable police raids. So outrageous were some cases that the French Interior Ministry had to send a letter to all prefects reminding them to “abide by the law.”

The Intercept

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COP21: shows the end of fossil fuels is near, we must speed its coming

The wheel of climate action turns slowly, but in Paris it has turned. There’s much in this deal that frustrates and disappoints me, but it still puts the fossil fuel industry squarely on the wrong side of history.

Greenpeace

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Nations Reach Climate Deal in Paris; Protesters Say It’s Not Enough

Nearly 200 nations reached an accord in Paris Saturday to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet. The deal includes voluntary commitments by countries to cut carbon emissions as well as billions more dollars to help poor nations implement renewable energy and cope with climate change. President Obama hailed the deal even while acknowledging it’s not enough to stop global warming.

President Obama: “Even if all the initial targets set in Paris are met, we’ll only be part of the way there when it comes to reducing carbon from the atmosphere, so we cannot be complacent because of today’s agreement. The problem is not solved because of this accord. But make no mistake: The Paris Agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis.”

Many scientists and environmental groups say nations need to be far more ambitious to prevent global temperatures from rising. Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris Saturday to demand further action. We’ll go to the streets and talk more about the agreement after headlines.

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