| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Senate report 'proves Lithuania hosted CIA jail' - detainee's lawyers | | Friday, September 18, 2015 12:16 AM | |
| | By Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate report on CIA interrogations proves beyond doubt that Lithuania knowingly hosted one of the agency's secret detention facilities, lawyers for an ex-detainee told the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday. Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah is asking the Strasbourg-based court to rule that NATO member Lithuania was part of a network of U.S. allies which agreed to host CIA "black sites" around the world where al Qaeda suspects were held and tortured. |
| Somali-American pleads guilty in Minneapolis to trying to help Islamic State | | Friday, September 18, 2015 12:02 AM | |
| | A Somali-American man from Minnesota pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to provide support to Islamic State militants, the second young adult in a week to do so in connection with a federal probe into the group's recruiting, prosecutors said. Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 20, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. The guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Michael Davis follows that of his friend and fellow defendant Hanad Musse, 19, last week in Minneapolis. |
| World Trade Center developer gets new chance for damages | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court has given the developer Larry Silverstein a new chance to recoup more money for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York, on top of the $4.1 billion of insurance proceeds he has received. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge incorrectly calculated that Silverstein lost just $2.805 billion on his 99-year lease for the site, signed six weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and deserved no additional damages because insurance more than offset it. Thursday's decision by a three-judge panel clears the way for Silverstein and his World Trade Center Properties LLC to seek more damages from United Continental Holdings Inc , American Airlines Group Inc , and dozens of financial, real estate and security companies.
|
| Corrected - Last bid to kill Iran nuclear deal blocked in U.S. Senate | | | (This story corrects to show the four Democratic senators voted to advance the disapproval resolution, in the eighth paragraph) By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation meant to kill the Iran nuclear deal for a third time, securing perhaps the greatest foreign policy win of President Barack Obama's six years in office and clearing the way to implement the accord. By a 56-42 vote, the Republican-majority Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the 100-member chamber. Despite an intense and expensive lobbying effort against it, all but four of Obama's fellow Democrats backed the nuclear pact between the United States, five other world powers and Tehran announced in July. |
| Mali militias clash near Algerian border, killing at least 15 | | | Fighting erupted between rival armed groups near Mali's desert border with Algeria on Thursday, reportedly taking at least 15 lives in a fresh violation of a U.N.-backed peace deal. "Fighting resumed this morning in Inafarak where pro-government militias arrived recently to prepare an offensive against the CMA," said Attaye Ag Mohamed, a representative of the separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements. Medhi Ag Almoubareck, spokesman for Platform's largest group GATIA, said its fighters were assaulted by the CMA early on Thursday and had fought back. |
| Corporate 'siloing' an obstacle to charging GM employees - prosecutor | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief U.S. prosecutor in Manhattan blamed gaps in federal law and "siloing" within General Motors Co for the failure so far to charge any individual employees who may be responsible for faulty ignition switches linked to 124 deaths. The lack of individual prosecutions infuriated GM's critics despite the company agreeing to pay $900 million to end a criminal investigation of the defects and a cover-up. GM, the No. 1 U.S. automaker, signed what is known as a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid a conviction on charges of fraud and hiding information from a regulator.
|
| India's dream of borderless trade grinds to a halt at checkpoints | |  By Sandhya Ravishankar and Rajesh Kumar Singh WALAYAR/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - At the Walayar checkpoint in southern India, lines of idle trucks stretch as far as the eye can see in both directions along the tree-lined interstate highway, waiting for clearance from tax inspectors that can take days to complete. Delays are so bad that textile entrepreneur D Bala Sundaram has stopped sending his trucks to the international container terminal at nearby Cochin, instead diverting them hundreds of kilometres to a smaller regional port and onwards via Sri Lanka. "Our containers would get stuck for four to five days," said Sundaram, who runs a firm with an annual turnover of $150 million.
|
| Croatia bans traffic on roads to seven border crossings with Serbia | |  The Croatian police said on Thursday it banned all traffic on roads leading to seven border crossings with Serbia. The traffic ban includes the border crossing of Tovarnik, near where most migrants entered Croatia from Serbia over the last two days. Police said 11,003 migrants have entered Croatia since Wednesday morning.
|
| FIFA suspends number-two official after ticket allegations | |  By Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - World football body FIFA put Jerome Valcke, its second-ranking official, on leave on Thursday just hours after an ex-footballer raised allegations he may have been involved in a deal to resell 2014 World Cup tickets for a lucrative profit. FIFA, which has been rocked by corruption investigations by Swiss and U.S. authorities, said in a statement it was made aware of allegations involving Secretary General Valcke and has requested a formal investigation by the FIFA ethics committee. Earlier on Thursday, former Israeli football player Benny Alon said at a news conference in Zurich that he agreed in 2013 to pay cash to Valcke to secure plum World Cup tickets in Brazil.
|
| Recall settlement frees GM CEO to confront new challenges | |  By Joseph White, Jonathan Stempel and Nate Raymond DETROIT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hours after General Motors Co agreed on Thursday to pay $900 million to settle criminal charges related to a bungled recall, Chief Executive Mary Barra said the legal and public relations crisis that has shadowed her for nearly two years was "a catalyst for meaningful change." Now, Barra must show investors and consumers that the change at the No. 1 U.S. automaker is real, and goes beyond the steps she ordered to attack the engineering and managerial lapses that resulted in GM waiting more than a decade to fix dangerous vehicle defects now linked to 124 deaths. GM shares rose modestly on Thursday as investors digested details of the criminal settlements, for which the automaker will take a $1.475 billion third-quarter charge, including $575 million for private litigation.
|
| Bergdahl deliberately snuck off post - U.S. military prosecutors | |  By Jon Herskovitz SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of war in Afghanistan held for five years before being swapped in 2014 for five Taliban leaders, deliberately left his post, U.S. military prosecutors said in opening statements on Thursday. The prosecutors told a preliminary hearing to establish probable cause that Bergdahl launched a plan that was weeks in the making and there was sufficient evidence to hold him for trial on charges of desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.
|
| U.S. report calls for release of immigrant children from detention | | | A stinging report released on Thursday called on the Obama administration to reverse course and stop detentions of women and children who entered the United States illegally but might qualify for asylum. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said it found evidence that the federal government "was interfering with the constitutional rights afforded to detained immigrants," including their access to legal representation. The commission, created in 1957, describes itself as an independent, bipartisan federal agency that helps develop civil rights policy and enhance enforcement of civil rights laws. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment