Ex-Soviet Moldova wants major powers to sign a declaration guaranteeing its neutrality, its president said, a step that could ease the way for a peace deal over its breakway Transdniestria region.

A 42-year-old woman, who police said made “threatening gestures with a knife”, was shot Tuesday by a Henderson officer and later died at a local hospital, according to a police report.

Kavkaz Center’s editorial staff received an e-mail containing a statement signed by Huzeifa, a deputy of the Amir of the Jamaat Kataib al-Hawl (Wilayah Iriston, the Emirate of Caucasus). KC is publishing the statement, which says that the operation aimed at eliminating Mark Metsayev, the ringleader of the “organized crime …