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hey're the islands where World War II never ended and now they're the focal point of a rare meeting between the leaders of Japan and Russia.Russian President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Japan in 11 years on Thursday with Tokyo hopeful of progress in getting Russia to return islands in the Kuril chain that the then-Soviet Union seized three days after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.

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In 2011, a Hong Kong man lost the use of his lower body in a serious car crash. Exactly five years later, the man climbed his city's most famous mountain, scaling the 1,624 feet in his wheelchair.

Before his accident, Lai Chi-wai, 33, was the four-time winner of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships, Asia Wire Report (AWR) reported. Though restricted without the use of his legs, Lai took up boxing and other physical training to stay in shape.

For the Dec. 9 climb, Lai used ropes to haul himself up the vertical cliff face. Friends met him at the top and helped him reach the peak.

"Once more I sit on the mountaintop," Lai, now dubbed Hong Kong's "Lion Rock King," wrote on a social media post afterward.

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In 2011, a Hong Kong man lost the use of his lower body in a serious car crash. Exactly five years later, the man climbed his city's most famous mountain, scaling the 1,624 feet in his wheelchair. Before his accident, Lai Chi-wai, 33, was the four-time winner of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships, Asia Wire Report (AWR) reported.

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73 year old man with dementia shot and killed by Bakersfield police

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A Bakersfield police officer who fatally shot Francisco Serna, 73, has been placed on administrative leave, authorities said Tuesday.

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PREGNANT FLORIDA WOMAN SHOT, KILLED ANSWERING THE DOOR
The 86-year-old woman, dubbed the "granny gem thief," was arrested Tuesday at a mall in an Atlanta suburb where she's accused of trying to steal a $2,000 necklace, reports WXIA.

Police say Payne slipped the diamond necklace into her pocket at a department store and tried to leave, per the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The California woman was last arrested in October 2015 when police say she took $700 earrings from an Atlanta store. She was found to have a warrant in North Carolina, where she was accused of stealing a $33,000 engagement ring, but wasn't extradited due to health concerns.

Payne-whose crimes were chronicled in the 2013 documentary The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne, available on Netflix-had previously been arrested in Greece, Switzerland, France, and beyond. In a 2014 interview, she said she started stealing watches in her 20s to escape a life of poverty in West Virginia and kept up the habit in later life.

She's stolen $2 million worth of jewelry over her lifetime, per the Journal-Constitution, which notes she tends to serve only a short time in jail before getting let out for good behavior.
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Her life of crime has involved more than 20 arrests on two continents over six decades-and, apparently, Doris Payne isn't done. PREGNANT FLORIDA WOMAN SHOT, KILLED ANSWERING THE DOOR The 86-year-old woman, dubbed the "granny gem thief," was arrested Tuesday at a mall in an Atlanta suburb where she's accused of trying to steal a $2,000 necklace, reports WXIA.

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A 13-year-old boy in upstate New York who had attempted to build a snow fort died on Tuesday after being buried alive in snow, police said.

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A 13-year-old boy in upstate New York who was building a snow fort died on Tuesday after being buried alive in snow, police said.

The boy, identified as Joshua J. Demarast of Greenwich, New York, a seventh-grader at Greenwich Junior-Senior High School, ventured on Tuesday afternoon to an area in the town where snow is frequently dumped, Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said. While he was playing there, the boy became trapped, Bell said.

Demarast and a friend of his were playing at the dumping site, digging tunnels, when a truck dropped off snow it had plowed, Bell told ABC News today, adding that the snow was then pushed over onto the boys without the driver's knowing that they were there.

Buried alive, the two boys remained trapped under the snow for hours as police and rescue workers struggled to free them Tuesday evening, police said.

Police received a call for two missing boys around 5 p.m., and a K-9 unit was employed, police said. A dog located a sled the boys took with them, and the digging began. Demarast was found unresponsive under the snow and died shortly after 10 p.m., police said.

Bell said that he spoke to the survivor of the tragedy this morning and that the boy was recovering from the incident.

Demarast's family suffered two deaths on Tuesday, according to Bell, who said the boy's grandmother also passed away, at around 3 p.m.

"His family is dealing with both losses," Bell said.

Mark Fish, the superintendent of Greenwich Central School District, described Demarast at a news conference today as a good student who was well liked and loved the outdoors.

Fish, speaking to ABC News today, described his district as "small and rural" and a "place where everybody knows just about everybody."

Counselors were made available to students in the wake of the tragedy, he said, and after-school programs were canceled because they didn't feel appropriate, given the shock surrounding Demarast's death.

Greenwich, in upstate New York near the border with Vermont, is no stranger to snowfall, but the town received only 4 or 5 inches earlier this week, Bell said.

School was canceled on Monday because of snowfall but was reopened on Tuesday, the day of the incident. The boys decided to play together after school, officials said.

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A 13-year-old boy in upstate New York who was building a snow fort died on Tuesday after being buried alive in snow, police said. The boy, identified as Joshua J. Demarast of Greenwich, New York, a seventh-grader at Greenwich Junior-Senior High School, ventured on Tuesday afternoon to an area in the town where snow is frequently dumped, Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said.

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The US anti-ISIS envoy said the campaign has winnowed ISIS' ranks to between 12,000 and 15,000 "battle ready" fighters, a top US official said on Tuesday.

The figures mean the US and its coalition partners have taken out vastly more ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria than currently remain on the battlefield, two years since the bombing campaign began. Last week a US official said the coalition had killed 50,000 militants since 2014.

But it's also clear Obama will depart office without fully quashing the terror group, leaving a still-significant battle for Donald Trump when he becomes commander in chief in January.

Speaking at the White House Tuesday, Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, said the terror group is no longer able to replenish its ranks, predicting the number of fighters would continue to dwindle.

"The number of battle-ready fighters inside Iraq and Syria is now at its lowest point that it's ever been," McGurk said, describing the update he gave the President to reporters after the meeting. He noted that the flow of foreign fighters to ISIS had been stemmed by tighter surveillance and border controls.

President Barack Obama was updated on the ISIS battle by McGurk and other US officials in the White House Situation Room Tuesday. The US and regional forces are currently waging a battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, where additional gains against ISIS are expected, though McGurk declined to provide a timeline for the conclusion of that offensive.

The air campaign, led by the US and begun in 2014, has conducted 17,000 strikes against ISIS targets, McGurk said. The vast majority were conduced by US planes; only 4,500 were carried out by other members of the coalition.

The most recent targets included three ISIS leaders the US says were responsible for planning attacks in Paris and Brussels last year. They were taken out in Raqqa, ISIS' self-described capital in Syria.

Attempts to take out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have fallen short, however. McGurk insisted Baghdadi, who hasn't been seen publicly in several years but released an audio message last month, was demonstrating deep vulnerability.

"Issuing audiotapes deep in hiding is not really a sign of a confident leader, particularly in today's media age," McGurk said. "So eventually, we will find and eliminate him as well, but the leadership ranks continue to diminish."

As Obama prepares to hand the anti-ISIS mission to Trump, McGurk noted it's only the second wartime transition in 40 years.

"It's complex," he said. "The direction very clearly from President Obama is to make sure were doing all we can to ensure it can be a seamless transition."

He indicated there were "constant transition meetings going on, particularly in the State Department" to discuss the ISIS battle.

Tuesday's Situation Room discussion also covered the dire humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, where Syrian government forces are poised to retake the city after a brutal crackdown on rebels. The fighting has prompted tens of thousands of civilian residents to flee.

Obama "directed his team to take all steps, in concert with allies and partners, to deescalate the violence, push for humanitarian access, and for an opportunity for those trapped in the besieged city to be allowed a safe egress, if desired," according to a description of his meeting released by the White House.

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The US anti-ISIS envoy said the campaign has winnowed ISIS' ranks to between 12,000 and 15,000 "battle ready" fighters, a top US official said on Tuesday.

The figures mean the US and its coalition partners have taken out vastly more ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria than currently remain on the battlefield, two years since the bombing campaign began. Last week a US official said the coalition had killed 50,000 militants since 2014.

But it's also clear Obama will depart office without fully quashing the terror group, leaving a still-significant battle for Donald Trump when he becomes commander in chief in January.

Speaking at the White House Tuesday, Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, said the terror group is no longer able to replenish its ranks, predicting the number of fighters would continue to dwindle.

"The number of battle-ready fighters inside Iraq and Syria is now at its lowest point that it's ever been," McGurk said, describing the update he gave the President to reporters after the meeting. He noted that the flow of foreign fighters to ISIS had been stemmed by tighter surveillance and border controls.

President Barack Obama was updated on the ISIS battle by McGurk and other US officials in the White House Situation Room Tuesday. The US and regional forces are currently waging a battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, where additional gains against ISIS are expected, though McGurk declined to provide a timeline for the conclusion of that offensive.

The air campaign, led by the US and begun in 2014, has conducted 17,000 strikes against ISIS targets, McGurk said. The vast majority were conduced by US planes; only 4,500 were carried out by other members of the coalition.

The most recent targets included three ISIS leaders the US says were responsible for planning attacks in Paris and Brussels last year. They were taken out in Raqqa, ISIS' self-described capital in Syria.

Attempts to take out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have fallen short, however. McGurk insisted Baghdadi, who hasn't been seen publicly in several years but released an audio message last month, was demonstrating deep vulnerability.

"Issuing audiotapes deep in hiding is not really a sign of a confident leader, particularly in today's media age," McGurk said. "So eventually, we will find and eliminate him as well, but the leadership ranks continue to diminish."

As Obama prepares to hand the anti-ISIS mission to Trump, McGurk noted it's only the second wartime transition in 40 years.

"It's complex," he said. "The direction very clearly from President Obama is to make sure were doing all we can to ensure it can be a seamless transition."

He indicated there were "constant transition meetings going on, particularly in the State Department" to discuss the ISIS battle.

Tuesday's Situation Room discussion also covered the dire humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, where Syrian government forces are poised to retake the city after a brutal crackdown on rebels. The fighting has prompted tens of thousands of civilian residents to flee.

Obama "directed his team to take all steps, in concert with allies and partners, to deescalate the violence, push for humanitarian access, and for an opportunity for those trapped in the besieged city to be allowed a safe egress, if desired," according to a description of his meeting released by the White House.

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The US anti-ISIS envoy said the campaign has winnowed ISIS' ranks to between 12,000 and 15,000 "battle ready" fighters, a top US official said on Tuesday. The figures mean the US and its coalition partners have taken out vastly more ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria than currently remain on the battlefield, two years since the bombing campaign began.

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Spain is trying to kill the siesta:The labor minister Fatima Banez has this week revived a proposal to change the country´s clocks,saying the move would help ensure the working day ended at 6 p.m. and give workers more time with their families.

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Spain is hoping to kill off its famed "siesta" naps by moving to a new time zone.

Labor minister Fátima Báñez has this week revived a proposal to change the country's clocks, saying the move would help ensure the working day ended at 6 p.m. and give workers more time with their families. It's expected the move would boost worker productivity.

Spain has flirted with a change for years because the country's clocks don't jive with when the sun rises and sets, leading to longer work days.

Spain's long-time dictator Francisco Franco moved the country's clocks forward an hour to Central European Time in the early 1940s to align with Nazi Germany. But the change has stuck for more than 70 years.

This long-lasting quirk means Spanish workers tend to wake up in the dark, take mid-day siestas -- aka naps -- and eat late dinners. Bedtime for Spaniards can be well after midnight -- which means less sleep and lower productivity.

Related: Wild weather means world will have less wine to drink

A 2013 government report said the status quo doesn't give people enough evening time with their families.

Báñez wants Spain to revert one hour to Greenwich Mean Time -- in line with the U.K.

The latest push is part of a wider move to overhaul the Spanish labor market.

The country's unemployment rate is currently just above 19%, the second worst in Europe behind Greece.

Still, that's an improvement from 2013, when the rate surpassed 25%. Since then, well over 1.5 million new jobs have been created.

The International Monetary Fund has warned that even though Spanish growth has zoomed higher, more work needs to be done. It expects the economy to be held back in 2017 by "feeble productivity growth and high structural unemployment."

-- Samuel Burke contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (London) First published December 14, 2016: 10:56 AM ET

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U.S. officials claim that 75% of ISIS is dead due to airstrikes led by the U.S.

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The US anti-ISIS envoy said the campaign has winnowed ISIS' ranks to between 12,000 and 15,000 "battle ready" fighters, a top US official said on Tuesday.

The figures mean the US and its coalition partners have taken out vastly more ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria than currently remain on the battlefield, two years since the bombing campaign began. Last week a US official said the coalition had killed 50,000 militants since 2014.

But it's also clear Obama will depart office without fully quashing the terror group, leaving a still-significant battle for Donald Trump when he becomes commander in chief in January.

Speaking at the White House Tuesday, Brett McGurk, the US special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, said the terror group is no longer able to replenish its ranks, predicting the number of fighters would continue to dwindle.

"The number of battle-ready fighters inside Iraq and Syria is now at its lowest point that it's ever been," McGurk said, describing the update he gave the President to reporters after the meeting. He noted that the flow of foreign fighters to ISIS had been stemmed by tighter surveillance and border controls.

President Barack Obama was updated on the ISIS battle by McGurk and other US officials in the White House Situation Room Tuesday. The US and regional forces are currently waging a battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, where additional gains against ISIS are expected, though McGurk declined to provide a timeline for the conclusion of that offensive.

The air campaign, led by the US and begun in 2014, has conducted 17,000 strikes against ISIS targets, McGurk said. The vast majority were conduced by US planes; only 4,500 were carried out by other members of the coalition.

The most recent targets included three ISIS leaders the US says were responsible for planning attacks in Paris and Brussels last year. They were taken out in Raqqa, ISIS' self-described capital in Syria.

Attempts to take out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have fallen short, however. McGurk insisted Baghdadi, who hasn't been seen publicly in several years but released an audio message last month, was demonstrating deep vulnerability.

"Issuing audiotapes deep in hiding is not really a sign of a confident leader, particularly in today's media age," McGurk said. "So eventually, we will find and eliminate him as well, but the leadership ranks continue to diminish."

As Obama prepares to hand the anti-ISIS mission to Trump, McGurk noted it's only the second wartime transition in 40 years.

"It's complex," he said. "The direction very clearly from President Obama is to make sure were doing all we can to ensure it can be a seamless transition."

He indicated there were "constant transition meetings going on, particularly in the State Department" to discuss the ISIS battle.

Tuesday's Situation Room discussion also covered the dire humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, where Syrian government forces are poised to retake the city after a brutal crackdown on rebels. The fighting has prompted tens of thousands of civilian residents to flee.

Obama "directed his team to take all steps, in concert with allies and partners, to deescalate the violence, push for humanitarian access, and for an opportunity for those trapped in the besieged city to be allowed a safe egress, if desired," according to a description of his meeting released by the White House.

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The US anti-ISIS envoy said the campaign has winnowed ISIS' ranks to between 12,000 and 15,000 "battle ready" fighters, a top US official said on Tuesday. The figures mean the US and its coalition partners have taken out vastly more ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria than currently remain on the battlefield, two years since the bombing campaign began.

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MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota has suspended 10 football players indefinitely from all team activities.

Lee Hutton, a lawyer representing several of the players, tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune that that the suspensions stem from an internal university investigation into an incident on Sept. 2, hours after the season began. The unspecified incident also led to a police investigation, as well as a restraining order filed by a woman the paper reports is part of the team's game day operations against defensive backs Ray Buford, KiAnte Hardin, Dior Johnson, defensive lineman Tamarion Johnson, and running back Carlton Djam.

Four of those players -- Buford, Hardin, Johnson and Johnson -- were reportedly suspended the following weekfor an unspecified violation of team rules, but reinstated after Hennepin County prosecutors declined to press charges in the case.

The restraining order was lifted after a settlement on Nov. 2. That day, the alleged victim reportedly gave a statement in the Hennepin County Courthouse, saying: "I'm glad this is over. This has never been about punishing anyone, I just wanted to feel safe. Because of this resolution that we came to, now I do."

However, on Tuesday night, the school announced that the four players had been suspended again, along with Djam, defensive backs Antonio Shenault and Antoine Winfield Jr., running back Kobe McCrary, and quarterbacks Seth Green and Mark Williams.

The school cites "privacy restrictions relating to student educational data" in withholding further comment.

Minnesota plays Washington State in the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 27, and it would appear to be unlikely that the players would be available to play in that game.

First published on December 14, 2016 / 1:01 PM

© 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota has suspended 10 football players indefinitely from all team activities. Lee Hutton, a lawyer representing several of the players, tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune that that the suspensions stem from an internal university investigation into an incident on Sept. 2, hours after the season began.

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A 13-year-old boy in upstate New York who was building a snow fort died on Tuesday after being buried alive in snow, police said.

The boy, identified as Joshua J. Demarast of Greenwich, New York, a seventh-grader at Greenwich Junior-Senior High School, ventured on Tuesday afternoon to an area in the town where snow is frequently dumped, Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said. While he was playing there, the boy became trapped, Bell said.

Demarast and a friend of his were playing at the dumping site, digging tunnels, when a truck dropped off snow it had plowed, Bell told ABC News today, adding that the snow was then pushed over onto the boys without the driver's knowing that they were there.

Buried alive, the two boys remained trapped under the snow for hours as police and rescue workers struggled to free them Tuesday evening, police said.

Police received a call for two missing boys around 5 p.m., and a K-9 unit was employed, police said. A dog located a sled the boys took with them, and the digging began. Demarast was found unresponsive under the snow and died shortly after 10 p.m., police said.

Bell said that he spoke to the survivor of the tragedy this morning and that the boy was recovering from the incident.

Demarast's family suffered two deaths on Tuesday, according to Bell, who said the boy's grandmother also passed away, at around 3 p.m.

"His family is dealing with both losses," Bell said.

Mark Fish, the superintendent of Greenwich Central School District, described Demarast at a news conference today as a good student who was well liked and loved the outdoors.

Fish, speaking to ABC News today, described his district as "small and rural" and a "place where everybody knows just about everybody."

Counselors were made available to students in the wake of the tragedy, he said, and after-school programs were canceled because they didn't feel appropriate, given the shock surrounding Demarast's death.

Greenwich, in upstate New York near the border with Vermont, is no stranger to snowfall, but the town received only 4 or 5 inches earlier this week, Bell said.

School was canceled on Monday because of snowfall but was reopened on Tuesday, the day of the incident. The boys decided to play together after school, officials said.

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A 13-year-old boy in upstate New York who was building a snow fort died on Tuesday after being buried alive in snow, police said. The boy, identified as Joshua J. Demarast of Greenwich, New York, a seventh-grader at Greenwich Junior-Senior High School, ventured on Tuesday afternoon to an area in the town where snow is frequently dumped, Greenwich Police Chief George Bell said.

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Google is spinning off its self-driving car program into a separate company called Waymo.

Waymo CEO John Krafcik said Tuesday that its autonomous driving technology has reached an inflection point.

"We're close to bringing this to a lot of people," said Krafcik who declined to reveal when the general public would have a chance to ride in one of Waymo's vehicles.

Google is testing the vehicles in Washington, California, Arizona and Texas.

Waymo is currently a unit of X, the so-called moonshot division of Google . It will become a unit of Alphabet and be an independent company.

Krafcik said spinning off Waymo would give his team the best of both worlds. Waymo remains part of the Google family, giving it the resources of a large tech company, while also some advantages of a startup.

Related: A self-driving trucks hauls 51,744 cans of beer across Colorado

Google also revealed Tuesday that it gave a blind man the first ride in a fully self-driving vehicle in October 2015. Californian Steve Mahan flew to Austin for the test. It wouldn't have been legal in Google's home state of California.

Austin Mayor Steve Adler described his city as "the Kitty Hawk of driverless cars," a reference to the site of the Wright Brothers first flight.

In October, Uber and Budweiser teamed to deliver a truckload of beer across Colorado. But the truck had a test driver present in the cab and was surrounded by seven vehicles to ensure safety.

Related: Is Uber's push for self-driving cars a job killer?

Since Mahan's ride in 2015, Google's vehicles have driven a billion miles in simulation, and a million on public roads in autonomous mode.

Waymo lost a key executive in August when Director Chris Urmson left the program. Krafcik reassured reporters that Google remained focused on delivering fully self-driving vehicles.

"With inspirations like Steve driving us, that's the problem we need to solve. That remains our singular focus," Krafcik said.

He said that some Waymo vehicles, such as its Pacifica minivans, would continue to have a steering wheel and pedals due to regulations.

CNNMoney (Washington) First published December 13, 2016: 1:57 PM ET

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