The VICE Morning Bulletin

Everything you need to know about the world this morning, curated by VICE.

• Guantanamo: Beginning of the End?
  The Pentagon has transferred five Yemeni detainees—held for more than a decade at Guantanamo Bay—to the United Arab Emirates. President Obama hopes to reduce Guantanamo's population to below 100 this year, then present a closure plan to Congress. —VICE News

• Alabama to Refuse Refugees
  Governor Robert Bentley plans to refuse the relocation of any Syrian refugees to Alabama after the terrorist attacks in Paris. Bentley did not explain exactly how he would block the US Refugee Admissions Program, which has resettled 2,000 Syrians so far. —The Washington Times

• Anger Erupts After Minneapolis Police Shooting
  Black Lives Matter protesters have marched across Minneapolis after police officers shot an unarmed black man. Witnesses said Jamar Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, but the police chief said a preliminary investigation showed he had not been cuffed. —Minneapolis Star Tribune

• Homicides Reach 300 in Baltimore
  Baltimore's homicide total has passed 300 for the year, the highest since 1999. The president of the University of Baltimore condemned a "subculture of violence" and called for the decriminalization of marijuana. —The Baltimore Sun

• Paris Attack Planned from Syria
  The terror attacks in Paris were planned from Syria, the French prime minister Manuel Valls has said. As France bombs Islamic State targets in Syria, police have carried out 150 raids across France and named Brussels-born Salah Abdeslam, 26, a key suspect. —BBC News

• Putin Urged to Change Course
  World leaders at the G20 summit in Turkey have urged the Russian president Vladimir Putin to agree to a peace process in Syria. President Obama held an unscheduled 35-minute meeting with Putin to discuss strategy on Syria and the Islamic State. —The Guardian

• UN Chief Goes to North Korea
  Ban Ki-moon will visit North Korea this week, the first trip to the nation by a United Nations leader in more than 20 years. He will meet with the country's leader Kim Jong Un to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program. —CNN

• Landslide in China
  More than 2,000 rescuers are searching for survivors of a landslide which engulfed homes and killed at least 25 people. Several days of rain caused mud to overwhelm the village of Lidong on the Zhejiang province. —[AP

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• Zuckerberg Expands Safety Check
  Mark Zuckerberg has been forced to explain why Facebook's safety check tool, which allowed people in Paris let friends know they were okay, was not enacted for last week's bombing in Beirut. It will be activated "for more human disasters going forward," he said. —TIME
• France's New Surveillance Laws
  In the wake of the Paris attacks, we look at how controversial new intelligence powers could be used. The government is allowed to collect metadata from phones and undertake "sneak and peak" searches of homes. —Motherboard

• Spike Lee: Hollywood Has Diversity Problem
  Speaking at the Governors Awards, the director said it was "easier to be the president of the United States as a black person than to be the head of a studio". —The Huffington Post

• School of Pot
  Oaksterdam University of California, the school teaching marijuana legal rights and horticulture, is to open a new campus in Las Vegas. The "cannabusiness" institution now has 150 instructors. —The Washington

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