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| U.S. Guantanamo board reviews case of 'Dirty 30' bin Laden bodyguard | | | By Ian Simpson ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - A suspected Osama bin Laden bodyguard held at Guantanamo Bay military prison for 12 years on Thursday faced a U.S. national security board weighing whether he should remain in detention there. Ali Ahmad al-Razihi, 33, is suspected of having been part of what U.S. intelligence officials called the "Dirty 30" security detail around bin Laden, a founder of al Qaeda who was killed in 2011 by U.S. forces in Pakistan. Razihi's hearing before the Periodic Review Board was to re-examine whether he should continue to be held without charge at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military prison in Cuba, or be transferred, possibly home to Yemen. One of the two U.S. military representatives for Razihi read a statement to the panel that said Razihi was focused on returning to Yemen, getting married and helping with the family fruit and vegetable business. |
| Afghanistan frees 77 prisoners despite UK, coalition warning | |  By Jessica Donati and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan on Thursday freed 77 prisoners captured by foreign troops, despite opposition from Britain and NATO-led forces which said they could pose a security threat. Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government has long complained that foreign forces have locked up many Afghans on dubious grounds and with no proper judicial process. A similar release last month caused tension with the United States. The latest batch walked free from Bagram prison, which was transferred to Afghan control last year as a milestone in the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
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| U.S. general reprimanded for adultery, avoids jail in court-martial | | | By Kelly Twedell FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (Reuters) - A U.S. Army general who had faced possible life in prison on sexual assault charges was reprimanded by a judge on Thursday but avoided any jail time for mistreating a captain during one of several improper relationships with junior female officers. Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair was ordered to forfeit $20,000 in pay but he also avoided dismissal from the Army for military crimes that were aired in a rare court-martial of a top officer. The married general admitted to various offenses this week in a plea deal that dropped the sexual assault charges involving the female captain, who said Sinclair forced her to perform oral sex when she tried to break off their adulterous, three-year affair. The one-star general and his defense team said they were grateful for the sentence, which caps a case that began two years ago and derailed the career of the former deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division who served five combat tours. |
| Pistorius to sell home where he killed girlfriend to pay legal expenses | |  By Tosin Sulaiman JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius will sell the luxury Pretoria home in which he shot and killed his girlfriend to pay his legal expenses due to an unexpected delay in the trial, his lawyer said on Thursday. The Olympic and Paralympic athlete is on trial for the murder of 29-year old model and law graduate Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. He has pleaded not guilty, saying he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder. Pistorius has been forced to sell his home in the upmarket Silver Woods estate because the legal process is likely to take longer than the three weeks initially indicated by the state, Brian Webber, the lawyer handling the sale, said in a statement.
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| U.S. Army general reprimanded for adultery, ordered to forfeit pay | | | By Kelly Twedell FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (Reuters) - A judge on Thursday reprimanded a U.S. Army general who pleaded guilty to mistreating a captain during an adulterous sexual affair and ordered him to forfeit $20,000 in pay over four months. The sentence for Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair did not call for any jail time, reduced rank or dismissal from the Army for his military crimes. The one-star general admitted to various offenses this week in a plea deal that dropped sexual assault charges involving the female captain, who said Sinclair forced her to perform oral sex when she tried to break off their illicit liaison. Government prosecutors on Wednesday had asked the trial judge, Colonel James Pohl, to dismiss Sinclair from the Army for the harm caused by his criminal acts. |
| Manipuri woman found dead in Delhi | | | New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) A 20-year-old Manipuri woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented accommodation here Thursday, police said. Sofia, who came to Delhi over a week ago, was staying at the rented flat of her Manipuri woman friend at Munirka village in south Delhi. |
| S.Africa opposition files graft charges against Zuma over home upgrade | |  By David Dolan JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition party laid criminal charges against President Jacob Zuma on Thursday, accusing him of "flagrant abuse" of public money over $23 million in upgrades to his home that included a swimming pool and a cattle enclosure. The Democratic Alliance (DA) filed eight charges of corruption against Zuma at a police station near his Nkandla homestead, a party spokeswoman said. The sprawling compound in rural KwaZulu-Natal province has become a growing headache for Zuma and his ruling ANC just six weeks before an election. South Africa's corruption watchdog on Wednesday said Zuma benefitted "unduly" from the state-funded security upgrades, accusing him of conduct "inconsistent with his office".
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| Turkish PM says killing of security personnel was "terrorist attack" | |  Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described the gunning down of three members of the security forces in the southern province of Nigde on Thursday as a "nefarious terrorist attack" but did not say who was responsible. Paramilitary and regular police officers were manning a checkpoint when the attackers opened fire from a truck, Turkey's Dogan News Agency (DHA) said. "A nefarious terrorist attack has been carried out against our gendarmarie and police in the Ulukisla district of Nigde," Erdogan said. Five other members of the security forces were wounded, local news agencies said.
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| Man killed, nine injured in Maharashtra train accident | | | Mumbai, March 20 (IANS) A man was killed and nine others were injured when five coaches of a suburban train derailed near Titwala in Thane district here Thursday, officials said. Five bogies of the Kasara-CST local train derailed between Titwala and Ambivali stations. The dead man was identified as 25-year-old Dhawal M. Lodha, said an official of the Central Railway headquarters at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. The incident - which occurred around 2.50 p.m. - disrupted train services on the Central Railway's suburban section for over two hours. |
| Former top China army officer under house arrest in graft probe - sources | |  By Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - A top retired Chinese general has been put under virtual house arrest while he assists with an investigation into the military's worst corruption scandal in almost a decade, two sources said, an indication the probe might be expanding. General Xu Caihou, 70, who retired as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission last year and from the Communist Party's decision-making politburo in 2012, was taken to an undisclosed location on Monday for questioning by anti-corruption investigators, the two sources told Reuters. "Xu Caihou's secretaries, bodyguards and driver have been changed to cut off his links with the outside world," one of the sources said, adding that members of his family had also been detained. The sources, who have direct knowledge of the matter, said Xu was helping with a probe into Lieutenant-General Gu Junshan, 57, who has been under investigation for corruption since he was sacked as deputy director of the logistics department of the People's Liberation Army in 2012.
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| French national arrested with drugs in Goa | | | Panaji, March 20 (IANS) A French national was arrested Thursday for possessing LSD and MDMA, synthetic drugs also known as acid and ecstasy, said police. |
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