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| South Korean, 73, linked to ferry disaster fails in asylum bid | |  A South Korean businessman and Christian sect leader, wanted on charges tied to a ferry disaster in which more than 300 passengers drowned, sought asylum at a Seoul embassy but was rejected, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Yoo Byung-un, 73, is wanted on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from his control of a web of business interests centred on an investment firm owned by his sons that owned the operator of the doomed Sewol that sank on April 16. "By international law, Yoo Byung-un is not a refugee but is a fugitive with an arrest warrant outstanding, so anyone who helps him flee will be deemed to be aiding his escape and will be firmly punished," a prosecutor said. Most of the 476 passengers were children and teachers from the same school on the outskirts of Seoul.
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| For fallen soldiers' families, Bergdahl release stirs resentment | |  By Andy Sullivan and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Andrews believes his own son might still be alive if U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had not gone missing from his Afghan guard post on June 30, 2009. As Bergdahl emerges from five years of Taliban captivity, former comrades are accusing him of walking away from his unit and prompting a massive manhunt they say cost the lives of at least six fellow soldiers, including Andrews' 34-year-old son, Darryn, a second lieutenant. "Basically, my son died unnecessarily, hunting for a guy that we shouldn't even have been hunting for," Andrews told Reuters. The sense of pride expressed by Obama administration officials over Bergdahl's release in exchange for five Taliban prisoners on Saturday is not shared by many of those who served alongside him in Afghanistan or the families of those said to have died trying to bring him back. The U.S. military has not said how Bergdahl fell into the insurgents' hands, but several of those from his unit say he became disillusioned with the war and abandoned his post during a nighttime guard shift, an act of desertion that would normally incur severe punishment. "I think he wanted to get away from our side of the war," commented Greg Leatherman, who says he was in charge of Bergdahl's unit the night he disappeared.
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| 6 shot at Chicago laundry facility | | | (Reuters) - Six people, two of them teens, were shot and another person was injured at a laundromat on Chicago's South Side on Monday evening, officials said. The shooting took place around 8:05 p.m. local time (0105 GMT), said Chicago Police Department spokesman Ron Gaines. There were no arrests and police were still working to determine the cause of the shooting, Gaines said. Three of the injured were transported to area hospitals in serious to critical condition, including a 14-year old victim, said Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department. |
| "Big Four" China accounting units in settlement talks with U.S. SEC - filing | |  By Sarah N. Lynch REUTERS - The Chinese units of the "Big Four" accounting firms are trying to reach a settlement with U.S. securities regulators to resolve a long-running dispute over regulators' access to audit documents, according to a regulatory filing released on Monday. News of the settlement talks comes just a few months after a Securities and Exchange Commission Administrative Law Judge handed down a harsh 112-page ruling that chastised the firms for failing to share audit work that SEC investigators believe could help them uncover accounting fraud. The Big Four's six-month suspension has been on hold since the January ruling because the firms opted to appeal the decision before the full five-member SEC commission. Monday's filing, which was posted on the SEC's website, marks the first time that regulators have publicly revealed they are involved in ongoing settlements talks with the firms.
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| Wisconsin girls, 12, charged with trying to kill classmate | | | By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls were charged as adults with attempted murder on Monday after authorities said they lured a middle school classmate into the woods in a Milwaukee suburb and stabbed her 19 times in an attack inspired by a horror website. The victim, also 12, was stabbed in the legs, arms and torso in Saturday's attack but survived despite having major organs injured, crawling out of the woods before being found by a bicyclist, authorities said. The two alleged attackers were charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court, being accused of attacking their classmate in a park in Waukesha, 20 miles (32 km) west of Milwaukee. A five-inch (13 cm) knife was found in a backpack of one of the girls after they were taken into custody on the day of the attack, authorities said. |
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