Kurdish demonstrators were killed by their own granatnya in Southeast Turkey

Diyarbakir, Turkey (Reuters)-A 19-year old Kurdish man was killed Sunday when a late night grenade exploded in his hand during Assembly demonstration in southeastern Turkey, which has a Kurdish majority, said local authorities on Monday.

The man was among 100 protesters who gathered in the city of Diyarbakir to protest ahead of the commemoration of the anniversary of the arrest of the Kurdish leader 14, Abdullah Ocalan, in Kenya on February 15, the AFP report.

He was preparing to throw the grenade the police when the gun went off in his hand, said Diyarbakir's Governor Mustafa Toprak, was quoted as saying the Government television channel TRT.

"He also suffered wounds in his ear, which makes us think that the grenade exploded when he was trying to throw it," said Toprak.

However, a number of witnesses who cited the network of pro-Kurdish Firat News said, the man was hit by a police armored vehicle during the protests.

"I don't see it brings something in his hand. But (the police) vehicles were speeding down the road, melindasnya, "said a shop owner who witnessed the events.

The investigation about the death of these men will continue to be done, the Governor said.

Ocalan, who was then a fugitive arrested in Kenya on February 15, 1999 in a secret operation Turkey after he was exiled from Syria, where he was based for a decade to organize the workers ' Party of Kurdistan (PKK).

The initial verdict against Ocalan death sentence converted to life imprisonment sentence on a prison island off the coast of Istanbul since 2002.

Each year the Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police to protest Turkey's arrest of their leader.

Turkey, the EU and the u.s. considers the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization.

Turkey's military launched air attacks and ground operations are limited to the northern Iraq since August 2011 following the wave of attacks, the PKK guerrillas after the traffic-jammed a ceasefire before.

The PKK launched attacks from their hiding places in the remote mountains of Iraq as part of their war to gain greater rights and autonomy for the Kurdish population.

More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK took up arms in 1984. (M014)

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Late-night shows are, by definition, irreverent, but Jimmy Kimmel may have taken it a bit far last week when he challenged parents to record themselves telling their kids that they'd binged on all their Halloween candy.

Last Monday, I took issue on Healthland with the mean parents who scheme to deny their kids of their Halloween loot: they collaborate with neighbors to hand out only healthy snacks, they let them trick-or-treat only to force them to hand out their stash to kids who ring their doorbell later in the evening; they whisk it away and leave books and toys in its place.

But Kimmel elevated the “trick” to a whole new level, instructing parents to title their kids' reaction, “Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy!” and upload the protests to YouTube.

As a third-party viewer, the footage was hilarious — the dire parental declaration predictably followed by tears and wails. My fave: the toddler at the end who chastises his mother (who reveals her good taste in candy by saying how much she enjoyed the peanut-butter cups): “You sneaky mom!” he cries out. Babble delighted in the dad who upped the reality quotient by strewing candy wrappers all over the dining room table. And TIME's Newsfeed warmed to the “adorable pair of brothers at the end who turned the tables and lectured their parents for the faux-transgression.”

I think I have a pretty good sense of humor, but I found the vigor with which parents delighted in deceiving their kids a little jarring. Cruel might be another word for it. It's kind of hard to imagine intentionally trying to make your kids cry — even for a few minutes of late-night glory. As a Huffington Post reader noted, “breaking your kids' trust for your amusement at their reaction and hurt feelings…is not cool.” Others dubbed it “emotional bullying" and “sadism masquerading as humor.”

What the parents didn't film was their rapprochement with their kids, post-lie. What must that have been like? I asked my kids if they would have forgiven me had I answered Kimmel's call. It wouldn't have come to that, they assured me. Said my 8-year-old: "We never would have believed you."

Guess the joke's on me.

Bonnie Rochman is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @brochman. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.

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In a tearful televised plea, Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin begged for the safe return of their missing 10-month-old girl, Lisa Irwin, who vanished from their home in Kansas City, Mo. Monday night.

Bradley said she put Lisa Irwin to bed at 10:30 p.m, and by 3:30 a.m. when Jeremy Irwin, an electrician, arrived home from a late-night shift, the baby was gone. The couple appeared before cameras, imploring their daughter's abductor to return Lisa Irwin somewhere safe, no questions asked. "We just want our baby back," Bradley said.

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Local law enforcement and FBI agents used dogs to search the family's home and neighborhood, knocking on doors for any information on tips or sightings. "All we know is that there should've been a 10-month-old in that house and we are doing everything we can to find the kid," Capt. Steve Young of the Kansas City police department told MSNBC. Young said authorities are not ruling anything out but there are no suspects thus far.

Police are unsure about how someone broke into the house, but are considering a small window without a screen as a possibly entry point, according to the Today show. Police also discovered there are three missing cell phones from the household. Lisa Irwin was last seen wearing a purple shirt with white kittens and purple shorts. She weighs between 26 and 30 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair.

Along with local and federal law enforcement support, the parents have also been in contact with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. According to the NCMEC,  since 1986, there have been 278 stranger kidnappings of infants and in all but 12 cases, the children have been safely returned, the Today show reports.

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French Schools Are Rationing Ketchup To Keep Their Children French

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French officials are implementing a saucy new restriction on school cafeterias.

In an effort to combat obesity and promote healthy and culturally French eating, The Times reports that ketchup "is to be rationed in primary and secondary school canteens to ensure that French children remain French." Apparently, officials are concerned that children are starting to neglect French foods in favor of "US-style snacks."

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The new rules state that cafeterias must offer four to five dishes every day, including a main course, a starter or dessert and a dairy product such as cheese or yogurt. Baguettes and bread should be available for every meal, but ketchup and its gloppy condiment cousin, mayonnaise, will only be allowed with certain foods. Ketchup will provided with fries; however, they'll only be served once a week.

"We have to ensure that children become familiar with French recipes so that they can hand them down to the following generation," Christophe Hebert, chairman of the National Association of Directors of Collective Restaurants told The Times. "We absolutely have to stop children from being able to serve those sorts of sauces to themselves with every meal. Children have a tendency to use them to mask the taste of whatever they are eating."

NewsFeed admits that Hebert has a point: kids do tend to smother their food in ketchup to mask the taste when they're in the school cafeteria. Perhaps Hebert has forgotten what canteen food tastes like, but NewsFeed pities the children who're forced to go whole meals without a little ketchup to negate the taste of cardboard.

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New York chain beauty store Ricky's is typically the place to go for your ridiculous, last-minute Halloween costumes. But the "Anna Rexia" costume the store was selling online brings scary to a whole new level. The skin and bones costume, complete with measuring tape to obsessively monitor lost inches, has reportedly been around for a while, however Ricky's has just pulled the costume after the backlash started. The costume is nowhere to be found on the site and a spokeswoman told the Village Voice that Ricky's was no longer selling Anna Rexia.
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Doesn't seem so sexy now, does it?

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