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Over 20 arrested at U.S. London embassy protest
Fri,2 Dec 2011 02:20 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Police said they had made more than 20 arrests at a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in London on Friday. Twenty people had been held on suspicion of being members of a banned group while another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder. A Metropolitan Police spokesman declined to confirm a report that the protesters were members of Muslims Against Crusades (MAC), a fringe Islamist group. ... Full Story | Top |
Russian independent election watchdog found guilty
Fri,2 Dec 2011 02:16 PM PST
AP -  A court on Friday found Russia's only independent election watchdog guilty of violations, casting doubt on its ability to monitor Sunday's parliamentary election as voters complain of record violations by the Kremlin party.
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NH man sentenced in mentally ill wife's death
Fri,2 Dec 2011 11:53 AM PST
AP -  A New Hampshire man was sentenced Friday to 15 to 30 years in prison for beating his mentally ill wife to death with a flashlight after he came home to find she had strangled their 4-year-old son with a ribbon and tried to kill their 7-year-old daughter.
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Man sentenced for killing wife; she strangled son
Fri,2 Dec 2011 10:33 AM PST
AP - A New Hampshire man was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison Friday for beating his wife to death with a flashlight after he came home to find she had strangled their 4-year-old son with a ribbon and tried to kill their 7-year-old daughter.
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Over 20 arrested at U.S. embassy protest in London
Fri,2 Dec 2011 07:35 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Police said they had made more than 20 arrests at a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in London Friday. Twenty people had been held on suspicion of being members of a banned group while another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder. A Metropolitan Police spokesman declined to confirm a report that the protesters were members of Muslims Against Crusades (MAC), a fringe Islamist group. ...
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Jury to hear closing arguments in home invasion sentencing
Fri,2 Dec 2011 06:57 AM PST
Reuters - NEW HAVEN, Conn (Reuters) - The sentencing phase for a man convicted of a brutal home invasion drew nearer to a close on Friday as prosecutors and defense attorneys were set to make closing arguments over whether he should be executed. Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, one of two men found guilty in the 2007 Cheshire, Connecticut attack, faces the death penalty for the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her two daughters Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11. His accomplice Steven Hayes was convicted separately of similar charges and has been sentenced to death. ... Full Story | Top |
How Organized Crime Infested Japan Inc.
Fri,2 Dec 2011 06:40 AM PST
Time.com - Rarely in the history of Japan Inc. has there been a more remarkable board meeting. On Nov. 25, the directors of Olympus Corp. gathered at their Tokyo headquarters, their company under siege. Once a solid international brand, a maker of cameras and medical equipment, the company is now at the center of a global investigation as to whether, and to what extent, its top management was involved in funneling billions of dollars in allegedly illicit payments to offshore accounts. ... Full Story | Top |
Fugitive ex-Thai PM to get passport back soon: minister
Thu,1 Dec 2011 10:29 PM PST
Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's self-exiled, fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could be reissued his Thai passport within weeks as a "New Year present" from the government, the country's foreign minister said on Friday. Thaksin, who lives in Dubai to avoid jail in Thailand, should be granted a regular Thai passport because no court order was issued to revoke it when he fled in 2008, Surapong Towijakchaikul said. "We are considering returning the passport to former prime minister Thaksin and we expect to be able to do so within weeks," Surapong told reporters. ... Full Story | Top |
Talent manager arrested on child molestation charges
Thu,1 Dec 2011 04:43 PM PST
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A manager who represented child actors was arrested Tuesday in Santa Monica and charged with molesting an underage client, TheWrap has confirmed. Martin Weiss, 47, has been charged with two counts of lewd acts with a child, one count of forced lewd acts, two counts of continuous lewd acts with a child and three counts of sodomy, Los Angeles Police Det. Fernando Avila told TheWrap. Arraignment has been set for Thursday in a Van Nuys court. Weiss is being held on $800,000 bail at Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles, Avila said. ... Full Story | Top |
NY man arrested in Italian college student's death
Thu,1 Dec 2011 03:44 PM PST
AP - A man claiming to be under an evil spell went to the home of an acquaintance, a college student from Italy, and stabbed and choked her to death, then made a cryptic 911 call to authorities about the body, police said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Oklahoma teacher who photographed kids in lingerie arrested
Fri,2 Dec 2011 01:13 PM PST
Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A third-grade teacher who resigned this week after parents accused her of dressing their daughters in lingerie and photographing them at a Christmas party was arrested on Thursday. Kimberly Crain, 47, was arrested at her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and will face charges of manufacture of child pornography and lewd acts with a child, said District Attorney Richard Smothermon. He said she will be arraigned Friday and that he plans to request $1 million bail. ... Full Story | Top |
More charges coming in insider trading probe: sources
Thu,1 Dec 2011 05:10 AM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - A year after four hedge funds were raided as part of a sweeping probe into insider trading, agents are ready to arrest as many as three people who worked at the raided funds, sources familiar with the investigation said. These arrests are expected to take place in the coming weeks, and some of the people will plead guilty to charges of insider trading, the sources said. The sources declined to be named because the impending arrests have not yet been made public. ...
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Five Somali pirates sentenced to jail in France
Wed,30 Nov 2011 09:36 PM PST
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Five Somali pirates captured by French commandos in 2008 were sentenced to between four to eight years in jail by a Paris court on Wednesday for their role in hijacking a yacht in the Gulf of Aden that year and kidnapping two French citizens. The trial was the first of four to be held in France in a bid to increase the number of Somali pirates brought to justice and tackle a problem that has turned the waters off the Horn of Africa into some of the most perilous in the world. Piracy is rife in the waters off Somalia, with the international community powerless to act. ... Full Story | Top |
Texas man sentenced to 37 years for fire bombing church
Wed,30 Nov 2011 08:24 PM PST
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas man who prosecutors said wanted to "gain status" with the white supremacist gang The Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced to more than 37 years in prison on Wednesday for fire bombing an African American church in an admitted attempt to murder a parishioner. Steven Scott Cantrell, 26, a resident of the tiny west Texas town of Crane, pleaded guilty in federal court in Midland, Texas, to charges of damaging religious property, arson, and interfering with housing, all prosecuted with a bias crime enhancement. ... Full Story | Top |
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