| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section. | Toronto mayor, caught ranting on video, admits drinking a 'little bit' | | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:01 AM | |
|  By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who pledged last year to go clean after a crack-smoking scandal, admitted on Tuesday he had been drinking again after a video surfaced of him ranting about police surveillance in a mock Jamaican accent in a suburban eatery. Asked by reporters outside his office at city hall if he had been drinking, Ford said, "Yes I was ... Little bit, yeah." In the video, shot from a low angle and posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Ford stands by the counter of a fast-food restaurant and rants about surveillance that police carried out last year during a drug investigation. For a link to the video, click on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpwflzSF4M&feature=player_detail page "Chase me around five months, man," he said, before using a Jamaican profanity. In much of the approximately 1 minute-long video, Ford speaks in a Jamaican accent.
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| Syrian warring sides to meet under world's gaze | |  By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Lesley Wroughton MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - Syria's government and its enemies come face to face on Wednesday for the first time as world powers try to set aside their own differences and push for an end to three years of civil war that is unsettling the entire Middle East. A day of formal speeches under U.N. auspices at a hotel on Lake Geneva has raised no great expectations, particularly among Islamist rebels on Syria's frontlines who have branded Western-backed opposition leaders as traitors for even agreeing to be in the same room as President Bashar al-Assad's delegates. A flap over a now withdrawn last-minute invitation to Iran, Assad's main ally, highlighted tensions between the West and Russia and the sectarian rift in the Middle East between Sunni Arabs who support the rebels and the Shi'ite rulers in Tehran. "The subject of the president and the regime is a red line for us and the Syrian people and will not be touched," Moualem, who will lead the Damascus delegation, was quoted by Syria's SANA news agency as saying.
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| Indiana's Purdue University shooting leaves one dead, man in custody | |  By Carey Gillam REUTERS - A man was shot to death at Indiana's Purdue University on Tuesday and a male suspect was taken into custody, police said, in an apparently targeted killing that follows a rash of shootings at U.S. schools this month. Cody Cousins, 23, fatally shot Andrew Boldt, 21, a teacher's assistant, at about noon in a basement classroom of the university's electrical engineering building, according to Purdue University Police Chief John Cox. "It's just a tragic situation," Cox said, adding that the shooter was taken into custody without a struggle shortly after he exited the engineering building. University officials said the campus was considered safe, though the electrical engineering building remained closed.
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| Ugandan women record statement before magistrate | | | New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Four Ugandan women who were allegedly victimised by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti and his party supporters in the intervening night of Jan 16 have recorded their statement before the magistrate Tuesday, police said. Their statement was recorded at the magistrate's office in south Delhi in the afternoon under section of 164 CrPC, a police official said. |
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