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| Ireland to investigate bugging of police phone calls | | | Ireland is to investigate the illegal bugging of police phone conversations that has led to calls for the justice minister to resign. The government said it was informed on Tuesday about a system under which incoming and outgoing telephone calls were taped and recorded at a large number of stations of the Garda, the Irish name for its police service. The commissioner of the Garda, Martin Callinan, has retired from his position over the issue and the opposition has called for Justice Minister Alan Shatter to step down. It is not clear why the calls were being taped or who was doing so, or who informed the government. |
| Brotherhood head, 682 others, tried in Egypt after mass death sentence | |  By Treza Kamal MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - The leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 682 others went on trial on Tuesday on charges including murder, a day after more than 500 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi were sentenced to death. The mass trials and death sentences - the biggest in Egypt's modern history - are signs that the crackdown on Mursi's Brotherhood is intensifying ahead of presidential elections that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win. The Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, 70, and the others are being tried in the same court that one day earlier condemned 529 members of the Islamist group to death, a verdict condemned by foreign governments and rights groups.
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| Bin Laden son-in-law's fate in hands of U.S. jury | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury in New York on Tuesday began deliberating whether or not to convict a son-in-law of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden of conspiring to kill Americans and other terrorism-related charges. Prosecutors have accused Suleiman Abu Ghaith of acting as a spokesman and recruiter for al Qaeda in the days after the September 11, 2001 hijacked plane attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed the World Trade Center in New York. The 48-year-old Kuwaiti-born preacher is the highest-profile bin Laden adviser to face trial in a U.S. civilian court since the attacks. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in May 2011 at his hideout in Pakistan.
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| Gunmen kidnap two Westerners working for UN in Yemen - police source | | | SANAA (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped two Western nationals working at the United Nations office in Yemen's capital Sanaa, a local police source said on Tuesday, without giving more details. Kidnapping is common in Yemen, where the government faces an insurgency from Islamists linked to al Qaeda, a southern separatist movement and fighting in the country's north, as well as sporadic conflicts with armed tribes. (Reporting By Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Former top Croatian referee sentenced for match-rigging | | | Former vice-president of Croatia's football association (HNS) and ex-international referee Zeljko Siric was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for match-rigging, state news agency Hina reported. Hina said Siric was also banned from working for the HNS for eight years. "In the world of real soccer he acted as a sovereign ruler of a virtual soccer game," said Zagreb county court judge Gordana Mihaela Grahovac. He was once regarded as one of the best Croatian referees and often took charge of games between bitter local rivals Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split. |
| No action for destroying 1984 riots case files: Court | | | New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) A court here has dismissed an application seeking prosecution of four Delhi Police officials for allegedly destroying documents of a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau, in an order delivered Saturday, dismissed the plea filed by Special Public Prosecutor B.S. Joon for prosecution of the Delhi Police officials for allegedly destroying the documents in 1992. Stating that the documents were not relevant and their preservation was not required, the court denied framing of charges of destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy against Inspector Rampal Singh, who was then station house officer (SHO) of Nangloi police station, sub-inspector Dalel Singh, then assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Amarender Kumar Singh, and Inspector R.S. Dahiya. |
| Police arrest Indian Mujahideen leader involved in attack on Modi rally | |  Police have arrested the suspected head of the Indian Mujahideen militant group, believed to have been involved in a spate of bombings including an attack on a campaign rally of prime ministerial front runner Narendra Modi last year. Tehseen Akhtar's capture on the border with Nepal came days after four members of the Islamist group were picked up with a large quantity of explosives that police said may have been kept to attack next month's election.
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| Top Indian Mujahideen leader arrested | | | New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Tehsin Akhtar alias Monu, the outlawed Indian Mujahideen's (IM) current chief of Indian operations who is an expert in bomb-making, has finally been arrested, Delhi Police announced Tuesday, confirming the story IANS broke a day earlier. Delhi Police Special Commissioner S.N. Srivastava said 23-year-old Akhtar was formally arrested from near Kakarvitta on the Nepal border Tuesday morning while he was entering India. He was coming from Kathmandu. IANS Monday reported that Akhtar was already in police custody. |
| Prosecution wraps up case against Pistorius in murder trial | |  State prosecutors wrapped up their case on Tuesday against South African track star Oscar Pistorius, who is accused of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. Prosecutors are seeking to prove that the Olympic and Paralympic athlete tried to kill Steenkamp deliberately by firing four rounds from a 9 mm pistol through a locked toilet door after a heated argument. Pistorius, nicknamed the "Blade Runner" due to his carbon-fibre prosthetic limbs, has pleaded not guilty, saying he was deeply in love with 29-year-old Steenkamp and that he mistook her for an intruder hiding in a toilet at his luxury Pretoria home. Defence lawyers spent much of Tuesday going through some of the thousands of text messages the pair sent each other in the weeks before Steenkamp's death to focus on their "loving relationship".
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| Qatar dismisses Iraqi charges that Doha funds "terrorism" | |  Qatar signalled its irritation on Tuesday with Iraq's accusation that it backed insurgents fighting Baghdad's rule, saying it was not appropriate for countries which failed to preserve national unity to accuse other Arab states of supporting "terrorism". The comments by Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, were the first official Qatari reaction after Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, this month accused Doha and Riyadh of funding insurgency. "It is about time for Iraq to get out of the cycle of rifts and violence and that cannot be achieved by sidelining segments of the population, or accusing it of terrorism, if they demanded equality and participation," Sheikh Tamim said. Saudi Arabia has already rejected Maliki's assertion this month that it and Qatar were funding Sunni insurgents fighting in Iraq's western Anbar province.
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| Nido Tania killing: Accused's judicial custody extended | | | New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) A court here Tuesday extended, till April 7, the judicial custody of the four people allegedly involved in Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania killing case. |
| Nigerian stabbed to death by friend | | | New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) A 34-year-old Nigerian was stabbed to death here by a compatriot at a birthday party, police said Tuesday. The two got into a scuffle with another Nigerian, Henry, while consuming alcohol, a police officer said. |
| Shakti Mills gang rape case adjourned till Wednesday | | | Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) A Mumbai court Tuesday adjourned hearing in the photojournalist gang rape case till Wednesday after the defence lawyer decided to move Bombay High Court, challenging the enhanced charges against three common convicts for repeat offences. Defence lawyer P. Falsingkar informed Principal Judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi that he would be filing an application in the high court challenging the new charges. The three accused, who were found guilty in the gang rape of a telephone operator July 31, were awarded life sentence till death, but they have denied the charges. Vijay Jadhav (20), Qasim Hafiz Sheikh alias Qasim Bengali (20) and Salim Ansari (27) were also found guilty in the gang rape of a woman photojournalist in the Shakti Mills premises Aug 22. |
| Eight charge sheeted for molesting foreigners on Holi | | | New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Delhi Police Tuesday slapped eight men with charges for molesting three foreigners during the Holi festival in the national capital. The charges were filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Ankita Lal. The eight men named in the charge sheet are Surjeet, Prince, Krishanjeet, Gurdeet, Jaspal, Vijay Singh, Sunny and Deepu. |
| 73 bombs seized from arrested IM terrorists | | | New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) A total of 73 live bombs have been seized from the suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists arrested by Delhi Police from Rajasthan, police sources said Tuesday. Sources in Delhi Police said the bombs were found in the possession of Waqar Azhar, Mohammad Mahroof and Saquib Ansari and were seized by Rajasthan Police. "Thirty bombs were recovered from Waqar Azhar, 14 from Mohammad Mahroof, 22 from Saquib Ansari, while seven bombs were recovered from another IM suspect, Barkat Ali, who is in the custody of Rajasthan Police," a source told IANS. |
| EC tightens grip on JMM candidate accused in murder case | | | Ranchi, March 25 (IANS) The Election Commission (EC) Tuesday took a strong stand on a complaint against ruling JMM's candidate from Giridih Lok Sabha constituency, Jagannath Mahto, who is an accused in a murder case. "We received a complaint against the JMM candidate from Giridih that police were taking no action against him in a murder case. Last week, a youth Santosh Pandey was beaten to death in Bermo of Bokaro district. There were nine accused in the murder, including JMM legislator Mahto. |
| China detains more than 1,500 in text spam crackdown | | | Chinese authorities said on Tuesday they have detained 1,530 people in a crackdown on the use of fake telecommunication base stations to send spam text messages to mobile telephones, a persistent problem in the world's largest cellphone market. The Ministry of Public Security said that the campaign, which began in February, had resulted in the seizure of more than 2,600 fake base stations and identification of 3,540 suspected criminal acts. Fake base stations are used by criminals to send spam messages to nearby mobile users using fake telephone numbers or disguised as messages from official sources, like government offices, the ministry said. One of the criminal groups discovered, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, is suspected of sending more than 200 million spam messages. |
| Taliban gunmen storm election office near Afghan presidential candidate's home | |  By Hamid Shalizi and Maria Golovnina KABUL (Reuters) - Suicide bombers and gunmen in Afghanistan attacked an election commission office beside the home of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday, rattling nerves in the Afghan capital less than two weeks before a crucial election. Kabul is on high alert ahead of the April 5 presidential vote that Taliban insurgents have threatened to derail through a campaign of bombings and assassinations. Ghani, a former World Bank official and frontrunner in the vote, was not at home at the time of the attack, for which the Taliban took responsibility. Security is tight in Kabul ahead of the election, which is designed to mark Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power.
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| RTI activist found dead at home near Pune | | | Pune, March 25 (IANS) The body of a prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist, Vilas Baravkar was found hanging in his house in suburban Chakan town near here Tuesday morning, police said. The police have recovered a suicide note from Baravkar's home in Chakan, 33 km from Pune, police officials told media persons. The two-page, hand-written suicide note on a Rs.100 stamp paper has named at least four dozen people, including well-known politicians, police personnel and lower-level government officials as responsible for his suicide. Investigating officer Kishore Patil said all details in the note would be investigated. |
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