| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Egypt court sentences Mubarak, sons to three years in jail | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case. Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison last May for diverting public funds earmarked to renovate presidential palaces and using the money to upgrade family properties. His two sons were given four-year jail terms in the same case. (Reporting by Michael Georgy; Editing by Toby Chopra)
|
| Ten Iraqi policemen, eight prisoners killed in jail break north of Baghdad | | | Ten Iraqi policemen and eight prisoners were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism, a security official and a police source said on Saturday. It was not clear if any high-profile prisoners were held in the prison or if any had escaped from the facility in Al-Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Diyala Province's security committee leader, Seyyid Sadiq al-Husseini, said. |
| Thailand questions 117 migrants as it races to meet crackdown deadline | | | By Surapan Boonthanom RATTAPHUM, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai authorities on Saturday questioned more than 100 migrants discovered in the country's south to determine whether they were victims of human trafficking, as Thailand races to meet a deadline to uncover people smuggling camps within its borders. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha announced a 10-day deadline to crack down the illicit trade. |
| Guatemala vice president resigns amid customs corruption scandal | |  By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's vice president resigned on Friday to face an investigation over her alleged involvement in a customs corruption racket, amid a scandal that has hurt the ruling party ahead of elections. President Otto Perez Molina announced the decision after reports linked Vice President Roxana Baldetti to a ring accused of taking bribes to avoid levying customs taxes that was purportedly led by her personal secretary. Baldetti has denied any wrongdoing, but her chief aide disappeared after joining her on a trip to South Korea in April. "This is a personal decision to submit to the needed investigations..." Perez Molina said.
|
| Australian police thwart imminent bomb attack, teen charged | | | By Morag MacKinnon PERTH (Reuters) - Australian police said on Saturday they had thwarted an imminent terror attack after discovering explosives at a Melbourne home and arresting a 17-year-old boy, in the latest example of the threat posed by radicalised teenagers in the country. Acting on a tip-off from the national security phone line, police and security agencies began investigating the youth and later raided his home in Greenvale, 20 kms (12 miles) north of Melbourne, on Friday when the threat was "imminent." The bomb squad moved three improvised explosive devices to a nearby park where they were "rendered safe" and said there was no longer a threat to the community, police told a news conference. "These are extremely serious offences and they did involve the use of improvised explosive devices," federal police deputy commissioner Mike Phelan told reporters. They did confirm, however, that there was no link to last month's terror raids in Melbourne and the subsequent arrest of five teenagers over the planning of an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack against police officers on the national ANZAC day holiday. |
| BP wins right to appeal some Gulf spill damages claims | | Friday, May 08, 2015 11:22 PM | |
|  A U.S. federal appeals court said on Friday BP Plc deserves the right to appellate review of some damage claims awarded to people and businesses in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could help BP limit its payout to victims of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 workers and caused the largest U.S. offshore oil spill. About $5.13 billion has been paid out so far to 63,597 claimants, according to a website maintained by claims administrator Patrick Juneau. In its appeal, BP complained that rules adopted by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier compromised its right to appeal awards he approved and which the company did not like to the 5th Circuit.
|
| Canada police investigate possible murder-suicide after Facebook confession | | Friday, May 08, 2015 10:40 PM | |
| | By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Friday they are investigating several deaths in the Vancouver area that may be a murder-suicide linked to a message on Facebook in which a man appeared to confess to killing his daughter, wife and sister. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said multiple members of one family, including the suspect, were believed to be dead at two crime separate scenes, in the Vancouver area and a nearby rural town. The RCMP said in a statement they were tipped off by "information obtained through social media that indicated a ... man had harmed his family members." The first body was found at a home in the Vancouver suburb of Langley on Thursday. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Friday posted a screen shot of a message on Randy Janzen's Facebook page, in which the British Columbia man confesses "over the last 10 days I have done some of the worst things I could have ever imagined a person doing ... now my family is pain free and in heaven." The post, written around noon on Thursday, details his daughter Emily's struggle with migraine headaches and depression, stating "I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine free." The confession then details how he killed his wife, Laurel, "because a mother should never have to hear the news her baby has died" and his sister, Shelly, to protect her from the shame he caused. |
| China accelerates land reclamation in disputed islands - Pentagon | | Friday, May 08, 2015 10:31 PM | |
| | By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China embarked upon extensive land reclamation efforts at five outposts in the disputed Spratly Islands last year, adding huge amounts of terrain to bolster its civil and military presence in an area claimed by rivals, a new Pentagon report said on Friday. Chinese building and land-filling efforts have accelerated this year, with the total acreage added to the outposts in the South China Sea growing from 500 in December to about 2,000 today, a U.S. defence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Spratly chain, where China has built at least one previously submerged reef into an island, is claimed by at least three other countries: the Philippines, Taiwan and Malaysia. "We do not support South China Sea land reclamation efforts by any party," the official said. |
| U.S. urges probe of U.N. handling of Central Africa abuse charges | | Friday, May 08, 2015 9:58 PM | |
|  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Friday described as horrifying accusations of sexual abuse of children by French and African troops in Central African Republic, and called for a separate inquiry into how the United Nations handled the allegations. An internal U.N. report detailed the alleged abuse by troops from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea between December 2013 and June 2014 at a centre for displaced people at M'Poko airport in the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. The accusations came to light in April after the U.N. report summarizing victim interviews was leaked. The soldiers from Equatorial Guinea and Chad were accused of sodomising children.
|
| Deadline may force compromise on U.S. surveillance law | | Friday, May 08, 2015 9:06 PM | |
|  By Patricia Zengerle and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leaders insist that spy agencies continue to have access to data on Americans' telephone calls despite a court ruling that the practice is illegal, but aides said on Friday they may have to compromise on proposed reforms of the programme before it expires on June 1. Senate aides said the deadline could force supporters and opponents of the bulk data collection programme to work out a deal before May ends. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican Majority Leader, and Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended the data collection shortly after a federal appeals court three-judge panel in New York ruled the practice illegal on Thursday. McConnell and Burr vowed to fight efforts to scale back the phone surveillance, a counter-terrorism measure in the USA Patriot Act, known as Section 215.
|
| EU, U.S. close to data sharing deal for security cases - sources | | Friday, May 08, 2015 8:31 PM | |
|  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States are close to completing negotiations on a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, three people familiar with the matter said. The two sides have been negotiating since 2011 over the so-called "umbrella agreement" that would protect personal data exchanged between police and judicial authorities in the course of investigations, as well as between companies and law enforcement authorities. The protection of personal data in the United States has been a sore point in the EU since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed mass U.S. surveillance programmes involving EU citizens.
|
| U.S. threatens Burundi sanctions, alarmed at arms spread | | Friday, May 08, 2015 6:52 PM | |
|  By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States threatened sanctions on Friday on anyone involved in violence in Burundi against those protesting the president's bid for a third term and expressed alarm at the spread of weapons among youth militia loyal to the president. Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of the country's capital for nearly two weeks, saying President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to run for office again violates the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war in 2005. Speaking to reporters after a closed-door United Nations Security Council meeting on Burundi, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said there was an "apparent lack of judicial impartiality that led to this decision." "The United States is very carefully monitoring the situation and we are prepared to take targeted measures, including visa bans or sanctions, against those who plan or participate in widespread violence," she said.
|
| U.S. asks China to investigate cyber attack targeting American sites | | Friday, May 08, 2015 6:02 PM | |
|  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it has asked Beijing to investigate reports that China interfered with Internet content hosted outside the country and used it to attack U.S. websites. "We are concerned by reports that China has used a new cyber capability to interfere with the ability of worldwide Internet users to access content hosted outside of China," State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said. "The cyber attack manipulated international web traffic intended for one of China's biggest web services companies and turned it into malicious traffic directed at U.S. sites," Rathke told a news briefing. He said the United States asked Chinese authorities to investigate the cyber attack and report its findings.
|
| Human traffickers killed by police in beach gunfight in Bangladesh | | Friday, May 08, 2015 5:30 PM | |
| | Three human traffickers were killed on Friday during a police raid on a meeting of people smugglers on a beach at Cox's Bazar, a town in southeast Bangladesh bordering on Myanmar, a police official said. The three were on the interior ministry's list of suspected human traffickers and faced several criminal charges, he added. Human trafficking from Bangladesh and neighbouring Myanmar is an active business. Thai police recently discovered suspected human trafficking camps in the southern province of Songkhla and recovered 26 bodies a shallow grave. |
| U.S. Justice Dept. opens civil rights probe into Baltimore police | | Friday, May 08, 2015 5:26 PM | |
|  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday launched an investigation into the Baltimore police department's use of force and whether there are patterns of discriminatory policing. The probe, announced by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, was requested by Baltimore's mayor in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who sustained fatal injuries while in police custody, and the outrage it sparked in Maryland's largest city. The Justice Department has conducted similar reviews of U.S. police departments. An investigation of police in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager last year, concluded in March that the department routinely engaged in racially biased practices.
|
| Thousands attend funeral for slain New York City policeman | | Friday, May 08, 2015 5:24 PM | |
|  By Sebastien Malo SEAFORD, N.Y. (Reuters) - Thousands of policemen from around the United States gathered on Friday at the funeral of a 25-year-old New York City officer who was shot in the head while on patrol, making him the third member of the NYPD killed in the line of duty since December. Services for the New York Police Department's Brian Moore at a Roman Catholic church in a Long Island suburb were attended by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner William Bratton and dozens of other dignitaries. Moore, who was promoted posthumuously to the rank of detective, is the latest reminder of the dangers faced by law enforcement officers in American cities.
|
| Norway court sentences three for joining, helping Islamic State | | Friday, May 08, 2015 3:59 PM | |
| | A Norwegian court sentenced three men to jail on Friday for joining or aiding the Islamic State militant group in Syria, in the first case of its kind in the Nordic region. Djibril Bashir, 30, and Valon Avdyli, 28, "shall be sentenced for participating in the ISIL terror organisation", the Oslo District Court said in its verdict, referring to the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria and is active in Libya. Bashir was sentenced to four years and three months in prison and Valon Avdyli to four years and nine months. A third man, Visar Avdyli, 25, the brother of Valon, was sentenced to seven months in prison for providing aid to the group. |
| PM Modi defends ban on Delhi gang rape documentary | | Friday, May 08, 2015 2:36 PM | |
|  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his government's decision to ban a controversial documentary film about the fatal gang rape of a woman in New Delhi, saying it was to ensure the dignity of the victim was protected. The film "India's Daughter" - which features an interview with one of the men who raped and tortured a 23-year-old woman on a bus in December 2012 - was banned in March as his comments were considered to be derogatory towards women. The director of the documentary, Leslee Udwin, said the ban obstructed free speech, and critics have said the move was aimed at concealing widespread misogynistic attitudes in India. In his first remarks about the case, Modi told Time Magazine that broadcasting the documentary would have "violated the dignity of the victim".
|
| Thailand wants meeting with Myanmar, Malaysia over human trafficking crisis | | Friday, May 08, 2015 2:19 PM | |
|  By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Friday called for a three-way meeting with neighbours Malaysia and Myanmar to try to resolve a regional human trafficking crisis following the discovery of a mass grave in the country's far south. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. Three suspected trafficking camps have also been found. "I have ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to liaise with Malaysia and Myanmar to hold a meeting to resolve this," Prayuth told reporters.
|
| Sahara agrees to pay bail to release jailed boss | | Friday, May 08, 2015 1:58 PM | |
|  Subrata Roy has been held in jail for more than a year after Sahara failed to comply with a court order to refund billions of dollars it had raised in outlawed bonds. Sahara, once one of India's most high-profile firms, has in the past made several failed attempts to raise the bail money using its prized overseas hotels that include the Plaza in New York and Grosvenor House in London. The Supreme Court in March allowed Sahara three more months to raise cash for the bail money. "All the formalities for the bail bond would be completed before Thursday," he said, declining to be named.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment