| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Three more women accuse Bill Cosby of decades-old assaults | |  By Katherine Davis-Young LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three more women accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault on Wednesday, providing detailed allegations of abuse they said the veteran television star subjected them to decades ago. Colleen Hughes and Linda Ridgeway Whitedeer said Cosby, 78, had sexually assaulted them in the early 1970s, while Eden Tirl said he sexually harassed her on "The Cosby Show" set in 1989. The women were speaking at a press conference hosted by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who represents 21 of the more than 40 women who have come forward in the past year accusing Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them.
|
| Islamic State's Egyptian ally says it beheads Croat - SITE | | | By Omar Fahmy and Igor Ilic CAIRO/ZAGREB (Reuters) - An Egyptian group allied to Islamic State has published a photograph it said showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday. Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the picture, which carried a caption that said: "killing of the Croatian hostage, due to his country's participation in the war against Islamic State, after the deadline expired." Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said authorities were examining the image. "I don't know if we will be able to do it in the coming days, but what we see does not look good ... I'm afraid that for the first time, what has happened to the citizens of other countries has happened to a Croatian citizen." The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of Sinai Province supporters, shows a man's severed head placed on his body, with a knife driven into sand next to it and the black Islamic State flag in the background. |
| At least six killed in Boko Haram attack near Nigeria's Maiduguri | | | At least six people have been killed during a raid by Boko Haram militants outside Nigeria's northeastern city Maiduguri, a police officer said on Wednesday. The militants "were in Bale Mamman to rustle livestock at about 7:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) on Tuesday. Bale Mamman is a village about seven km (four miles) southeast of the city of 2 million people. |
| Iraq PM sacks cabinet officials, says reform drive under threat | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister dismissed his cabinet secretary on Wednesday as part of an ambitious reform drive he said was under threat from corrupt politicians and Shi'ite militia leaders who use their armed followers for political ends. A year in office, Haider al-Abadi has launched the biggest overhaul of the political system since the end of U.S. military occupation, enacting a risky package of measures designed to enhance his own power and strip authority from political chieftains who have run Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The bold moves will strip some of Iraq's most powerful people of official titles, including Abadi's predecessor Nuri al-Maliki, whose post of vice president is one of those to be abolished.
|
| Iraq's Abadi dismisses cabinet secretary in reform push - official | | | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi dismissed his cabinet secretary and his aides on Wednesday as part of a push to cut "unnecessary government jobs", an official in his media office said. Abadi launched this week the biggest overhaul of the country's political system since the end of U.S. military occupation, enacting a package of measures to eliminate a layer of senior government posts, scrap sectarian and party quotas for state positions, and reopen corruption investigations. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Stephen Kalin; editing by John Stonestreet) |
| Carrard appointment shows FIFA serious about reform - IOC | |  Swiss Francois Carrard is the right man to head scandal-plagued FIFA's reform task force and his appointment shows football's ruling body is serious about changing, the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday. The 77-year-old, who was the IOC's director general for 14 years until 2003 and led the organisation through its own crisis following the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics vote scandal, was named head of FIFA's reform committee on Tuesday. "The appointment ... is a strong signal that FIFA is serious about adopting far-reaching reforms," IOC director general Christophe De Kepper told Reuters in an e-mail.
|
| Former Trinidad & Tobago player Nakhid to stand for FIFA presidency | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Trinidad and Tobago international midfielder David Nakhid is the latest to say he will stand in February's election to replace the outgoing Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA. Nakhid, who is based in Lebanon where he runs a football academy, has returned to the Caribbean seeking support from local officials. "I have put my hat in the ring and we are looking forward to the challenge," he said on Wednesday by telephone from Grenada, adding that he was "optimistic" of getting the five nominations he needs to press ahead. (Editing by Martyn Herman) |
| Riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri to remain in state of emergency - officials | |  By Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, will remain under a state of emergency for at least another night, county officials said on Wednesday. The state of emergency, which gives county police oversight of security in the city of 21,000 people, was declared following a shooting incident at a protest Sunday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014. The decision came after two nights of relatively peaceful protests, with the St. Louis Country police reporting no arrests or reports of injuries during a small demonstration by several dozen people Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment