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| South African court orders Pistorius to undergo mental evaluation | |  A South African court on Wednesday ordered Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius to undergo evaluation for mental illness - a move which could determine whether he lacked criminal capacity when he shot dead his girlfriend. The prosecution had asked for the evaluation after a psychiatrist told the court on Monday that Pistorius, who is on trial for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp on Feb. 14 last year, suffered from an anxiety disorder. Defence lawyer Barry Roux had argued against the motion, saying it was premature to have the evaluation before he called other witnesses. But Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled that a mental assessment would ensure that Pistorius gets a fair trial, adding that she thought it \"strange\" that the defence had opposed the motion.
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| Pop singer Justin Bieber accused of attempted robbery: police | |  REUTERS - Pop singer Justin Bieber has been accused of attempted robbery, a Los Angeles Police Department official said on Tuesday, following media reports that he had tried to snatch a young woman's mobile telephone. Bieber, 20, has not been arrested or questioned, said LAPD spokeswoman Rosario Herrera. A spokeswoman for Bieber did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The incident occurred at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles.
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| New York's Sept. 11 Memorial Museum readies for its close-up | | | By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington is on the verge of opening, with wrenchingly familiar sights as well as artifacts never before on public display. Among the first visitors to the National September 11 Memorial Museum are victims' family members and others intimately involved in its creation who will attend on Thursday, after a Wednesday media preview. The museum's two main exhibition spaces, both underground, recall Sept. 11, 2001, when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people. An \"In Memoriam\" exhibition, on the footprint of the World Trade Center's South Tower, commemorates the lives of victims. |
| Beijing's smog police outgunned in China's war on pollution | |  By Kathy Chen and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) - Environmental inspectors in Beijing are scrambling to keep pace with a rising number of cases as the city tries to impose tough new standards on thousands of polluting firms, highlighting the growing logistical problems facing China's war on smog. The Chinese capital has been at the frontline of a \"war against pollution\" declared by Premier Li Keqiang in March, and 652 industrial facilities were punished for breaching environmental regulations there in the first four months of 2014. Beijing's efforts are part of a promise made by the central government to reverse the damage done by decades of untrammeled growth and beef up powers to shut down and punish polluting firms. \"We have a total of 500 inspectors throughout the city, and it is certainly far, far from enough to ensure proper oversight,\" said Li Xiang, an inspector with the municipal environmental protection bureau.
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| China jails gang selling poisoned meat from dogs hunted with crossbows | | | A court in central China sentenced 11 members of a gang to jail for selling meat from dogs they had hunted with crossbows using bolts dipped in poison, state media said on Wednesday. The gang killed around 1,000 dogs last year using bolts dipped in a highly poisonous chemical, called succinylcholine chloride, and stored their meat in a freezer, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a court in Hunan province. Police busted the ring last December, and seized 12 tonnes of frozen dog meat, but the meat from about ten dogs had already been sold. |
| Ukraine president will not be fully legitimate - Russian official | |  The president elected by Ukraine on May 25 will not be fully legitimate, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. His remarks signalled that Moscow will continue to question the legitimacy of the pro-Western leadership in Kiev after the election, although President Vladimir Putin has said holding the ballot will be a \"step in the right direction.\" \"We consider the current Ukrainian regime illegitimate,\" Sergei Naryshkin, a Putin ally who is chairman of the State Duma lower house, told state-controlled Rossiya-24 television. On Sunday, the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine voted for self-rule, deepening a crisis since President Viktor Yanukovich turned his back on a trade deal with European Union last November. \"I deeply believe that the crisis in Ukraine has gone too far... Still, there is a possibility of stemming this crisis, of limiting the escalation of the conflict,\" Naryshkin said.
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