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| Islamist rebels in Syria claim kidnapping of 94 civilians - video | | | Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria have claimed responsibility for kidnapping at least 94 women and children belonging to President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, according to a video published on Thursday. The civilians were abducted in August from villages in rural Latakia, the president's coastal stronghold. The video, obtained by Qatari-owned television station Al Jazeera, said the rebels were ready to swap the civilians for 2,000 prisoners who have been detained for more than a year. It stipulated that most of the freed prisoners be from coastal areas of the country and that half of them be women and children, Al Jazeera said. |
| Death penalty reminds criminal that life is precious: Delhi HC | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court, while confirming the death penalty to Dec 16 gang rape convicts, Thursday said that such sentence is retained in law to remind such criminals in the society that human life is very precious. A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani said: "Society's abhorrence to the atrocious crimes perpetrated upon innocent and helpless victims has resulted in the death penalty being retained on the statute book to remind such criminals in the society that human life is very precious and one who dares to take the life of others must lose his own life." The judges' remark came while observing that courts of law have been faced with the eternal strife between the humanistic approach reflected in death sentence in no case doctrine favoured by the abolitionists and the retributive approach reflected in the death penalty in all heinous crimes favoured by the retentionists. The court said that the judiciary in India has been vested with the discretion to impose or not to impose the death penalty - one of the greatest burdens it must carry till the death penalty remains on the statute book. |
| Turkey's Erdogan condemns protesters as deaths fuel tensions | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan condemned anti-government protesters on Thursday as "charlatans" bent on sowing chaos in the run-up to local elections after Turkey's worst civil unrest since mass protests last summer. Two people died during protests on Wednesday, including a police officer in eastern Turkey who suffered a heart attack and a 22-year-old man shot in Istanbul in an apparent stand-off with a group of anti-government protesters. Several thousand people gathered for Burakcan Karamanoglu's funeral in Istanbul's conservative Kasimpasa district, where Erdogan grew up and still commands fervent loyalty, his death becoming a rallying point for government supporters.
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| Dec 16 gang rape brought major reforms: Delhi HC | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape brought about major reforms in criminal law dealing with offences against women. A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani observed that the incident sparked an unprecedented public movement where people from every strata of the society came on a common platform demanding justice for the victim. It said the outcry was for safety of women and punishment proportionate to the crime for the offenders and the demand was for amending the penal law, thereby prescribing death sentence in deserving cases of rape. "The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 was passed amending the Indian Penal Code to provide death penalty in rape cases that lead to death of the victim or leave her in a vegetative state," the court said. |
| Car slams into crowd near Texas SXSW festival, two killed, 23 injured | | | By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A car evading a police sobriety checkpoint plowed into a crowd at high speed outside a nightclub in Austin on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 23 near the South by Southwest festival, police said. The driver, identified only as a black male, fled from police and was subdued by an officer using a stun gun after the incident near the SXSW festival. The two people killed were a Texas woman who was riding on a moped and a Dutch man who was riding a bicycle, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told a news conference. The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. |
| Battle resumes over Richard III's final resting place | |  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - More than five centuries after he went down fighting, medieval monarch Richard III is in the middle of another battle - this time over where in England his newly discovered remains should be re-buried. The Plantagenet Alliance, which includes Richard's distant descendants, has asked England's High Court to rule on plans to re-bury their ancestor's remains in Leicester, the city where they were found two years ago under a municipal car park. The alliance says the Ministry of Justice was "unreasonable" to give permission to Leicester to bury him in its cathedral and argues the decision on the final resting place of the last Plantagenet king should have been a matter of public consultation. "It matters what happens when you identify the only king since 1066 whose remains were not identified," the alliance's counsel Gerard Clarke told the court on Thursday.
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| Ex-NFL star Darren Sharper ordered held without bail in Los Angeles | |  Former NFL star Darren Sharper, who faces accusations in several states of drugging and raping a number of women, was ordered held without bail by a Los Angeles judge on Thursday. Sharper, 38, who played 14 years in the National Football League and helped the New Orleans Saints win a 2010 Super Bowl championship, has been jailed since he was charged last month in Los Angeles with drugging four women and raping two of them. The former pro football star appeared in court handcuffed and wearing an orange jail jumpsuit as a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered him held without bail pending a hearing on March 24.
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| Virginia university back to normal after bomb threat | | | A George Mason University campus resumed normal operations after a bomb threat was investigated on Thursday, the Virginia school said. Buildings had been evacuated and shuttle bus service was suspended as authorities sought information about who made the bomb threat. Nearly 33,920 students attend George Mason, according to the website. The bomb threat came a week after a written threat was found at George Mason's Fairfax campus. |
| Cantona arrested for suspected assault in London - reports | |  LONDON (Reuters) - Former Manchester United striker Eric Cantona, the catalyst for the club's first English league title win for 26 years in 1993, was arrested on Wednesday following reports of assault, British media reported. The 47-year-old Frenchman, who retired as a player in 1997, was detained near Regent's Park in London, Sky News said on Thursday. Police refused to confirm the identity of the man but said in a statement they had arrested a male in his mid-40s. ...
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| India joins search for missing Malaysian plane | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) India Thursday joined the search for the missing Malaysian aircraft, pressing into service its Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard. The decision was taken after a formal request in this regard was received from the Indian High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur, a government statement said here. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 passengers and crew onboard vanished without a trace after taking off from Kuala Lumpur Saturday. The focus of the search has shifted westward towards the Andaman Sea now, the release said, adding that the search has been expanded to cover an area stretching from South China Sea to Andaman Sea. |
| Syria-fuelled fighting in Lebanon's second city kills two - sources | | | Fighting between rival sects in Lebanon's second city killed two people including a 10-year-old girl on Thursday, security and medical sources said, in violence stoked by the war in neighbouring Syria. Clashes between Sunni Muslims and members of the Shi'ite-derived Alawite sect in the northern city of Tripoli broke out after gunmen shot a Sunni man who had Alawite family members and lived in a mostly Alawite area of the city, the sources said. The man later died of his wounds and at least 14 people were wounded in the ensuing clashes, including two soldiers and one gendarme after Lebanon's security services sent reinforcements in to restore order. A 10-year-old girl was also killed by sniper fire as residents in the Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawite Jabal Mohsen areas exchanged fire, Lebanon's National News Agency said. |
| Egyptian candidate questions Sisi's commitment to democracy | |  By Yasmine Saleh and Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi says he doubts Egypt's army chief will bring democracy if elected, citing alleged rights abuses since he toppled the country's first democratically chosen leader. Sabahi endorsed Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last July, but argues that the repression Egypt suffered under autocrat Hosni Mubarak still taints the political landscape three years after his fall. Sisi is due to announce his candidacy within a week and is likely to win the presidential election by a landslide. Asked if Sisi could be a democratic leader, Sabahi said the military man's role in guiding Egypt's political transition so far "makes him bear a direct or indirect political responsibility for a list of rights violations".
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| Dec 16 gang rape: High court confirms death sentences, parents happy | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld death sentences for the four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, holding their "barbaric" act "not worthy of human condonation". Delivering the judgment in a jam-packed courtroom, a division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani said the "completely revolting, gruesome and spine-chilling act" of these convicts leave no chance for their "reformation". |
| Rain, snow claim 17 lives in Jammu and Kashmir | | | Jammu, March 13 (IANS) At least 17 people have died and 1,922 houses damaged due to heavy snowfall and rain in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Thursday. As many as 57 cattle have also perished in the recent rains, Abdullah said after a high-level meeting to review the efforts to restore essential services hit by the heavy snowfall in the Kashmir Valley and hilly region of Jammu. The 1,922 houses were damaged in Kashmir division while the damage to property in Jammu was being assessed, he said. An amount of Rs.5 crore has been released for Kashmir and Rs.1.2 crore for Doda, Reasi, Kishtwar and Ramban districts of Jammu. |
| Court sees graphic photos of Pistorius' home after shooting | |  By John Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African court saw graphic images on Thursday of the bloodstained bathroom in which Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend, as prosecutors unveiled more details of the scene of the Valentine's Day killing. Colonel Schoombie van Rensburg, the first policeman to arrive at the athlete's home in an upmarket Pretoria estate, described the grisly sight that greeted him in the early hours of February 14 last year. During his testimony, photographs of Steenkamp's face and body were also shown accidentally to the court, upsetting Pistorius, who vomited into a bucket for the second time since the start of the trial, now in its second week. Van Rensburg said that on his arrival at the home, he saw Steenkamp's body lying at the bottom of the staircase covered in towels and black bags.
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| Delhi HC recites 'Kamayani' while upholding death sentence | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court, while upholding the death sentences awarded to four convicts of the Dec 16 gang rape case Thursday, depicted the status of women through lines of Hindi poet Jai Shankar Prasad in his epic "Kamayani". A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani said: "While delicate physique of a woman has made her vulnerable, her place and role in the growth of society has made her command utmost respect. These characteristics of a woman have been depicted by great Hindi poet Jai Shankar Prasad in his epic, Kamayani." The court mentioned the following lines in its order. |
| Rajasthan court rejects IAS officer's bail plea | | | Jaipur, March 13 (IANS) A court here Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Rajasthan IAS officer B.B. Mohanty, who is accused of raping a 22-year-old woman, a lawyer said. Umesh Choudhary, lawyer of the woman, said that Mohanty Tuesday filed the anticipatory bail in the court of district judge, Jaipur, through his lawyer. "The application was transferred to the special court of woman atrocities cases. The court today (Thursday) rejected the bail application on the grounds that no relief could be granted to the accused as he has been declared an absconder and the crime is serious in nature," he said. |
| Afghan Taliban step up attacks on election officials, voters | |  By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants are stepping up efforts to destabilise Afghanistan ahead of next month's presidential vote, kidnapping election workers and executing villagers at random to scare people off voting, officials and campaigners said. The attacks follow the Taliban's warning on Monday that it would use its "full force" against anyone who takes part in the electoral process. President Hamid Karzai is constitutionally barred from running for a third term. On Thursday, police and elders rushed to negotiate the release of four election workers kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern Nangarhar province a day earlier, Afghan officials said.
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| Delhi HC cites 'Life of Pi' during gang rape verdict | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday said the movie "Life of Pi", which the Dec 16 gang rape victim watched before the incident, where a tiger and a boy find comfort in each other, must have been etched in the victim's mind. Dismissing the appeals of the four convicts - Mukesh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma - a division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani observed that the victim was returning with her male companion after watching "Life of Pi". |
| Egypt's army blames Muslim Brotherhood for attack on army bus | | | Egypt's army blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood for an attack on an army bus which killed one officer and wounded three others in the capital on Thursday, violence underscoring growing security threats to the military-backed government. The Muslim Brotherhood strongly condemned the attack in an emailed statement, saying the targeting of army soldiers and civilians is a "heinous crime that requires a thorough and transparent investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice." They accused the military-backed government of trying to implicate the Brotherhood in the attack for political reasons. An army spokesman said in a statement posted on Facebook: "Masked armed men belonging to the terrorist Brotherhood targeted a bus of the armed forces ... which led to the martyrdom of the Warrant Officer Yusri Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan." Islamist militants are expanding their insurgency in Egypt where army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July, is expected to announce he will run for president within days. |
| Delhi earned 'rape capital' title after Dec 16, says HC | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Delhi earned the title of "rape capital" after the horrific Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, the Delhi High Court said Thursday while confirming the death penalty of the four convicts. Dismissing the appeal of the four convicts - Mukesh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma - challenging the Sep 13, 2013 trial court verdict sentencing them to death, a division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani said the "crime was horrendous". Delhi earned the title of 'Rape Capital'," the court said. |
| Palestinian leader lashes out at rival, political tensions flare | |  By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused one of his main rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, hinting that he might also be behind the death of former leader Yasser Arafat. Arab media have reported in recent months that Dahlan has met Egypt's powerful army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and has also reached out to Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza who have always viewed him with deep distrust.
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