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The United States Senate will hold a public hearing on civil and human rights after a grand jury's decision to not indict a policeman who killed an unarmed black youth triggered violent protests, reports AFP.

  Police across the United States prepared for another day of demonstrations Tuesday after thousands of people in cities from Los Angeles and New York passionately protested a grand jury's decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, officer who killed a black 18-year-old, reports AP. Monday night's protests were largely peaceful but ended with violence and vandalism in at least a couple of major cities.

The ferocity of the attack on the fleeing Ukrainian troops was clear, days after the ambush by Russian-backed separatist forces, reports AP. More than 30 military vehicles lay in charred piles Tuesday. Villagers said dozens were killed, and some remained unburied. One soldier was blown out of his armored vehicle — apparently by a shell — his body left dangling from power lines high above.

The parliament of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, called on Tuesday for convening the United Nations Security Council to consider plans of sending peacekeepers to the conflict zone, reports Tass.

Ukrainian President, Mr Petro Poroshenko is holding an emergency meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies, Ukraine’s Deputy Interior Minister, Tigran Avakyan said on Tuesday, reports Tass. “The meeting is being attended by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and other law enforcement chiefs,” Avakyan said at a meeting of the Interior Ministry’s leadership with experts and members of the EU Advisory Mission, EUAM.

  ( Nigeria ) President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in N'Djamena, the Chadian Capital, reiterated the need for Nigeria and its neighbours to intensify joint actions and cooperation to defeat terrorism and insurgency. This is contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati from N'Djamena.

( Nigeria ) Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke has condemned in the strongest terms, the attack on the state secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Calabar on Monday. A minor explosion had rocked the state secretariat of the party ‎as the party was getting set to conduct its fresh ward congresses across the state, following the cancellation of the November 1, exercise.