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| Heroin valued at Rs.10 crore seized in Bihar | | | Patna, Feb 21 (IANS) Three people were arrested here Friday with heroin valued at Rs.10 crore in the international market, police said. "Heroin valued at Rs.10 crore in the international market was recovered and three people were arrested from a hotel in Goria Tola locality here," a police official said. Heroin was brought from Manipur by three drug smugglers, including two from Manipur and one from Uttar Pradesh. |
| Zimbabwe court orders deportation of former U.S. congressman | |  HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Friday ordered the deportation of former U.S. congressman Mel Reynolds after he pleaded guilty to staying in the southern African country on an expired visa. Reynolds, 62, was arrested at a local hotel on Monday but has denied additional charges of possessing pornographic images and videos. That case was due to continue later on Friday. Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe fined Reynolds $100 or five days in prison for the visa misdemeanour. His lawyer Arthur Gurira told the court the former Illinois congressman had suffered a mild stroke earlier this year. ...
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| Al Qaeda-linked militants attack Somali presidential compound | | | By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked militants al Shabaab attacked the Somali presidential palace compound on Friday, blasting through a gate with a car bomb and engaging in a fierce gun battle with African peacekeepers, police said. Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack on the heavily fortified compound in Mogadishu, known as Villa Somalia, but the Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was unharmed. Attack on Villa Somalia had failed. In the past few weeks, Mogadishu has been hit by a series of suicide bomb attacks claimed by al Shabaab, who were pushed out of the city in mid-2011 but have continued to wage a sustained guerrilla campaign. |
| Delhi Metro station shut after fire, re-opens | | | New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Delhi Metro travellers faced a tough time Friday when a metro station was shut down for almost half an hour after a fire broke out in a shop within the station premises, an official said. The busy Kashmere Gate metro station was shut down for close to half an hour following the fire. "No interchange facility was available at the Kashmere Gate metro station from 2.05 p.m. to 2.29 p.m. due to the smoke caused by the fire which broke out in a shop at the concourse level of the underground section of the station," the official said. |
| Barcelona innocent of tax fraud, insists club president | |  Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu has reiterated the club's innocence of tax fraud in the signing of Neymar and insisted the operation to bring the Brazil forward to the Catalan capital was "completely legal". In the latest twist to a saga that prompted Bartomeu's predecessor, Sandro Rosell, to step down last month, a Madrid court on Thursday charged the Spanish champions with defrauding the tax authority. The club was forced on the defensive after a member filed a complaint against Rosell alleging misappropriation of funds and when details of Neymar's move from Santos to Barca came to light the judge overseeing the case granted the public prosecutor's request to lay charges for tax fraud.
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| Gurgaon woman killed in daylight robbery attempt | | | Gurgaon, Feb 21 (IANS) A 37-year-old woman was Friday murdered in her house here during a robbery attempt, police said. The victim was identified as Sanjeeta Hooda, a housewife. "Four to five men entered the house on Friday at around 8 a.m. and strangled her to death," a senior police officer told IANS. "Prima facie, the matter seems to be a robbery attempt, but we are also investigating if there was a family dispute as the victim had no children after more than 15 years of marriage," the officer said. |
| Cop shoots waiter in UP, arrested | | | Lucknow, Feb 21 (IANS) A police official shot at a waiter in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur city, when he was asked not to drink liquor in the restaurant premises since the eatery did not have a permit. Kanpur's Director General of Police R.K. Chaturvedi told IANS that the incident took place Thursday at Neelam hotel in Collectorganj area. Sub-inspector Anil Sisodiya, of the 2013 batch of UP Police Service, went to the hotel with some of his friends and after ordering dinner, began to drink liquor. |
| Beauty queen the latest victim in Venezuela unrest | |  A local beauty queen died of a gunshot wound on Wednesday, the fifth fatality from Venezuela's political unrest, as imprisoned protest leader Leopoldo Lopez urged supporters to keep fighting for the departure of the socialist government. Tensions have risen in Venezuela since Lopez, a 42-year-old Harvard-educated economist, turned himself in to troops on Tuesday after spearheading three weeks of often rowdy protests against President Nicolas Maduro's government. The latest victims of the unrest included college student and model Genesis Carmona, 22, who was shot in the head at a protest on Tuesday in the central city of Valencia. Three people were shot dead in Caracas after an opposition rally a week ago, and a fourth person died after being run over by a car during a demonstration in the coastal town of Carupano.
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| Agra man kills American wife, blows himself up | | | Agra, Feb 21 (IANS) This one is straight out of a Bollywood potboiler. An American, who fell for an auto driver here and married him, was viciously stabbed to death by her husband. American social worker Erin White alias Kiran Sharma in September last year married Bunty Sharma alias Ashok, an auto driver. They had met when Erin, 35, visited Agra alongwith a group of Americans. |
| Four killed in Ghaziabad hutment fire | | | Ghaziabad, Feb 21 (IANS) Four people, including three children, were burnt to death in a fire that broke out around Thursday midnight in a hutment in Ghaziabad, police said. Those killed were identified as Rajo Devi (36), the mother, Manisha (14), Nakul (8) and Bhim (7). |
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