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| Fugitive Italian mafia boss re-arrested in Britain Friday, Apr 04, 2014 06:23 PM PDT  Domenico Rancadore, the convicted Italian mafia boss who last week was told he was free to remain in Britain, has been arrested on a fresh international warrant, police said Saturday. A judge had told the 65-year-old that he was free to return to his life in the London suburbs, after prosecutors lost their appeal against a ruling that blocked his extradition to Italy. However, he was re-arrested at his home in Uxbridge, west London, on Friday evening by officers from Scotland Yard's extradition unit, on a European Arrest Warrant. Full Story | Top |
| Deputies: Man arrested near home of Selena Gomez Friday, Apr 04, 2014 06:11 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say they have re-arrested a man who was ordered to stay away from the home of Selena Gomez. Full Story | Top |
| Rapper Trick Daddy arrested in Florida on cocaine, gun charges Friday, Apr 04, 2014 01:34 PM PDT  Police arrested rapper Trick Daddy and charged him with cocaine and gun possession after a stakeout at his south Florida home on suspicion he was running a an indoor marijuana farm, according to a police affidavit. A report by the Broward Sheriff's Office said the rapper, whose real name is Maurice Young, was arrested on Thursday. If convicted, he faces at least three years in prison under Florida's mandatory minimum sentencing law. "He admitted that he just had powder cocaine in the residence and maybe marijuana roaches, but no grow house," according to the affidavit. Full Story | Top |
| 3 who raped journalist in India sentenced to death Friday, Apr 04, 2014 12:40 PM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court on Friday sentenced to death three men who raped a photojournalist inside an abandoned textile mill last year in Mumbai, India's biggest city. Full Story | Top |
| Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect arrested in France Friday, Apr 04, 2014 12:18 PM PDT  French police arrested a Bosnian Serb former soldier suspected of detaining civilians inside a house and then setting it on fire, killing 59 people during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, officials said Friday. Bosnian officials have requested Radomir Susnjar's extradition following his arrest, the war crimes prosecutor's office said in a statement. Susnjar is suspected of taking part in the June 1992 "killing of 59 Muslim civilians, among them women and children", in the eastern town of Visegrad. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia last year sentenced two Bosnian Serb paramilitaries for the same war crime. Full Story | Top |
| Six Preston players arrested in fixing probe Friday, Apr 04, 2014 11:08 AM PDT  Preston North End on Friday revealed their disappointment after six of the League One club's players were named as having been arrested in connection with alleged spot-fixing. The players named in a number of British media reports are club captain John Welsh, who was a pall-bearer at Preston legend Tom Finney's funeral last month, Keith Keane, Bailey Wright, David Buchanan, Ben Davies and Graham Cummins. Barnsley midfielder Stephen Dawson was also arrested and bailed, according to the reports. Full Story | Top |
| British man: If I testify in US, I'll be arrested Friday, Apr 04, 2014 10:54 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — A British man who quit a 2001 shoe-bomb plot and became a valuable witness at terrorism trials told a judge Friday that he does not want to testify in the United States because he'll be arrested on terrorism charges filed in Boston. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt deports activist with death penalty petition Friday, Apr 04, 2014 09:53 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities deported an activist who wanted to present a petition opposing the death sentences given to 529 supporters of toppled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, his international humanitarian organization said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Police: Rapper Trick Daddy arrested in Florida Friday, Apr 04, 2014 09:51 AM PDT FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say rapper Trick Daddy has been arrested in South Florida on several charges, including possession of cocaine and possession of weapon and ammunition by a convicted felon. Full Story | Top |
| Brit accused of arranging wife's murder extradited to S.Africa Friday, Apr 04, 2014 07:42 AM PDT  British businessman Shrien Dewani will arrive in Cape Town next week to stand trial on charges that he arranged the murder of his 28-year-old Swedish bride, it was announced on Friday. "After a successful extradition process, Mr Dewani is expected to arrive in the country on Tuesday 8 April," South Africa's justice ministry said. "(He) will immediately be escorted to the Western Cape High Court where he is expected to make his first appearance in a South African court." Dewani, 33, is accused of ordering the killing of Anni Dewani while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010. Full Story | Top |
| Three men sentenced to death for gang-rapes in Mumbai Friday, Apr 04, 2014 05:16 AM PDT  By Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Shyamantha Asokan MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Three men were sentenced to death on Friday for two gang-rapes last year in Mumbai, including an attack on a photojournalist that sparked protests in the city and raised fresh questions about attitudes to women in the world's largest democracy. A Mumbai court on Friday sentenced Vijay Jadhav, Kasim Bengali and Mohammed Salim Ansari to death, the first time capital punishment has been given for rape not involving the death of the victim. "There was no chance of reformation in these men and this sends a strong signal to society," special prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told reporters outside the court. In the Mumbai case, four men were convicted last week of gang-raping the photojournalist, who was attacked in the early evening of August 22 while on an assignment with a male colleague at an abandoned textile mill. Three of them were given the death penalty because they had also been found guilty of raping another woman at the same location in July. Full Story | Top |
| Thai fishermen arrested in Indonesian naval deaths Friday, Apr 04, 2014 05:08 AM PDT HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Police in Thailand said Friday that they have arrested four more Thai fishermen allegedly involved in the killings of two Indonesian naval personnel aboard a fishing boat in Indonesian waters last month. Full Story | Top |
| Serial killer executed with Texas' new drug supply Friday, Apr 04, 2014 04:28 AM PDT  A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug. Tommy Lynn ... Full Story | Top |
| Lithuania woman acquitted of suicide bombing plot Friday, Apr 04, 2014 03:40 AM PDT VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — An appeals court has acquitted a Lithuanian woman who was convicted by a lower court of plotting a suicide bombing against an undetermined Russian military target. Full Story | Top |
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