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Items from crime fighter Eliot Ness up for auction
Mon,9 Jul 2012 10:43 AM PDT
Associated Press - A Massachusetts business plans to auction memorabilia from crime fighter Eliot Ness, the onetime Cleveland safety director and federal Prohibition Bureau agent whose unit brought down Chicago mobster Al Capone. Full Story | Top |
Singapore to relax, but not remove, death penalty: Deputy PM
Mon,9 Jul 2012 05:08 AM PDT
Reuters - SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's deputy prime minister on Monday said the country plans to ease its mandatory death penalty in some drug and murder cases but not abolish the ultimate punishment that human rights groups condemn as barbaric. The wealthy Southeast Asian city-state, which has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drugs and imposes long jail terms on convicted users, has hanged hundreds of people - including dozens of foreigners - for narcotics offences in the last two decades, Amnesty International and other groups say. ... Full Story | Top |
Ratko Mladic trial to resume with first witness
Mon,9 Jul 2012 03:57 AM PDT
Associated Press - Defense attorneys for former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic asked judges Monday to adjourn the case for six months, just hours before the first witness was due to take the stand, saying recent changes in rules for tendering evidence would "result in an extreme miscarriage of justice." Full Story | Top |
Sudan protesters teargassed, politician arrested
Sun,8 Jul 2012 08:17 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police in Sudan fired teargas at university student protesters in Khartoum on Sunday after authorities arrested an opposition politician the day before, in the latest crackdown on public dissent against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The Arab-African country has so far avoided the sort of mass unrest that overthrew rulers in Egypt and Tunisia last year, but small anti-government demonstrations have broken out over the last three weeks, driven by rising anger over austerity measures and Bashir's 23 years in power. ... Full Story | Top |
Minnesota Vikings star arrested after refusing to leave club
Sat,7 Jul 2012 04:41 PM PDT
Reuters -  HOUSTON (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was detained for resisting arrest early on Saturday after he refused to leave a Houston nightclub at closing time and shoved an off-duty police officer, police said. The off-duty officer, who was working a security assignment at Bayou Place, asked Peterson, 27, and others in his group several times to leave the downtown club at around 2 a.m., Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith said. ...
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Vikings RB Peterson arrested in Houston
Sat,7 Jul 2012 02:26 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was arrested on a charge of resisting arrest after an early morning incident where police say it took three officers to subdue him.
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Myanmar activists arrested on eve of crackdown anniversary
Sat,7 Jul 2012 03:12 AM PDT
Reuters - YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police rounded up at least 16 student leaders ahead of the 50th anniversary of a brutal army crackdown, activists and family members said on Saturday, raising doubts about the government's reformist credentials. The activists were picked up in four different cities late on Friday and taken to undisclosed locations on the eve of the military's suppression of student protests in 1962, the same year when late General Ne Win seized power to usher in 49 years of authoritarian army rule in the former Burma. ... Full Story | Top |
Fort Hood suspect's lawyers discuss jury screening
Fri,6 Jul 2012 02:14 PM PDT
Associated Press - Less than two months before the high-profile murder trial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, defense attorneys Friday continued questioning the jury screening process but received access to some documents. Full Story | Top |
Seven arrested in British anti-terrorism raids
Fri,6 Jul 2012 01:44 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Seven men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences in Britain after weapons were found in a vehicle stopped on a motorway, police said on Friday, as security forces are on high alert ahead of the London Olympics. The vehicle was pulled over in a routine stop on the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire, northern England, on Saturday and impounded on suspicion of the driver having no insurance. The suspects were believed to be linked to militant Islamism and were still being questioned but it was unclear what they planned, a security source said. ... Full Story | Top |
20 student leaders arrested in Myanmar: activist
Fri,6 Jul 2012 12:33 PM PDT
AFP -  At least 20 student leaders were detained in Myanmar Saturday, ahead of a rally to commemorate a 1962 suppression of a student movement, an activist said, in the biggest crackdown of its kind since the dissolution of the junta.
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Ex-assistant to U2 band member sentenced in theft case
Fri,6 Jul 2012 10:47 AM PDT
Reuters -  DUBLIN (Reuters) - A former personal assistant to U2 bassist Adam Clayton who embezzled 2.8 million euros ($3.5 million) of his money to fund a lavish lifestyle was sentenced on Friday to seven years in jail. Carol Hawkins, 48, from Dublin, nodded at the judge and smiled as she was led away to serve her prison term. "These were crimes rooted in greed and nothing else," said judge Patrick McCartan at the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin. ...
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