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| Mistrial for Alabama police officer who threw Indian man | | Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:08 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday declared a second mistrial when a jury deadlocked again in the case of an Alabama police officer accused of throwing an Indian man to the ground, according to federal prosecutors. Eric Parker, 27, was retried on accusations that he used unreasonable force while working as a Madison, Alabama, police officer. During his first trial in September, another jury in Huntsville, Alabama, federal court also deadlocked, resulting in the first mistrial. |
| Insight: India takes tough line on trafficking victims who get special U.S. visas | | Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:02 AM | |
|  By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Ajay Ahir agreed to come to the United States, he had no idea the recruiter promising a high-wage welding job and legal residency in America was lying. After that visa expired and Eagle went out of business, the U.S. government recognised Ahir as a victim of human trafficking in July 2013, granting him a rare "T visa" that allows victims of forced labour to return home, collect family and re-settle in the United States.
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| New Pennsylvania prosecutor could be first to charge Cosby - experts | | Thursday, November 05, 2015 2:58 AM | |
|  A newly elected suburban Pennsylvania prosecutor could be positioned to bring the first criminal charges of sex assault against comedian Bill Cosby, though the clock is ticking, legal experts said on Wednesday. Kevin Steele, a Democrat, on Tuesday defeated opponent Bruce Castor, a Republican, in the race for district attorney in Montgomery County, where Cosby's first named accuser filed a 2005 complaint against the actor. The statue of limitations runs out in January on that case, in which the woman claimed Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in his mansion in 2004.
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| San Diego gunman in custody; flight diversions at airport end | | Thursday, November 05, 2015 1:31 AM | |
| | San Diego police took into custody a gunman who fired at officers responding to a domestic violence report on Wednesday after an extended standoff that prompted the nearby international airport to temporarily divert inbound flights. There were no reports of injuries, but all arrivals into San Diego International Airport were put on hold during the incident at an apartment complex in the city's Bankers Hill neighbourhood, at the eastern end of its runways. Police named the suspect as Titus Colbert, 33, and said he will be charged with attempting to murder a police officer. |
| Hundreds march in Central African Republic in support of army | | | By Serge Leger Kokpakpa BANGUI (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched through the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, part of a growing campaign seeking to rearm an army that many distrust and which has been sidelined since rebels seized power in 2013. Marchers, including members of the transitional parliament, demanded that the army be given weapons to combat militia violence and inter-religious reprisal attacks that have killed an estimated 90 people in Bangui since late September. Highlighting the escalating violence in Bangui, the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA) said a convoy it was escorting through the city was repeatedly attacked by Christian "anti-balaka" militia fighters. |
| San Diego gunman in custody; diversions at nearby airport end | | | San Diego police on Wednesday took into custody a gunman who had fired at officers responding to a domestic violence incident after an extended standoff that prompted the nearby international airport to temporarily divert inbound flights. San Diego International Airport lifted a hold it had put on all arriving flights during the incident at an apartment complex in the city's Bankers Hill neighbourhood, east of its runways. Police said they had been negotiating with the gunman, and reporters on the scene said teargas and flash bang grenades were also used before he was taken into custody. |
| Former IAAF head Diack targeted in corruption inquiry | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under formal investigation in France on suspicion of corruption and money laundering following a complaint from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). There is a large-scale corruption investigation at soccer's FIFA while athletics is fighting a desperate public relations rearguard battle in the face of continual doping issues. According to French news channel iTELE, the investigation is focussed on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing widespread doping of Russian athletes.
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| U.S. welcomes weapons pullback in Ukraine, criticizes cease-fire violations | | | U.S. officials on Wednesday welcomed signs that Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine are pulling some heavy weapons from the line of contact, but one official said the United States also was "disturbed" about a recent rise in cease-fire violations. "We are now starting to see for the first time some pullback of Russian and separatist weapons," Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. State Department spokesman John Kirby told a briefing later that while the United States welcomed the pullback of some heavy weapons, "we are disturbed by an uptick in cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks." "Throughout Donetsk and Luhansk, separatists have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian forces with small arms, grenade launchers, anti-aircraft weapons and high-caliber machine guns," Kirby said. |
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