| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Belgium charges three people in IS recruitment investigation | | | Belgian prosecutors have charged three of 10 people detained earlier on Tuesday on suspicion of operating a recruitment ring for militant group Islamic State. Belgium has been at the heart of investigations into the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris in which 130 people were killed as four of the suicide bombers had either been living in Belgium or were Belgian-Moroccans. The country has one of the highest per capita rates of participation in militant groups such as Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. |
| U.N. envoy wins Syria government green light for aid convoys - U.N. | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian government has approved access to seven besieged areas and U.N. convoys are expected to set off in days, the United Nations said on Tuesday after crisis talks in Damascus. U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who won the green light at talks with Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, said the world body would test the government commitment to allow access on Wednesday but gave no details.
|
| 9/11 suspect asks again to fire his lawyers in Guantanamo trial | |  By Lacey Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay moved to fire his attorneys for a second time on Tuesday, delaying a pre-trial hearing for five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Suspected al Qaeda training camp leader Walid bin Attash told Judge Army Colonel James Pohl he did not trust two of his three court-appointed lawyers. "I cannot work with someone who cheats me." In October, Pohl denied a request by bin Attash to fire Cheryl Bormann, his attorney in the death penalty case, saying he failed to show good cause.
|
| In Mexico gangland, Pope urges Church to combat graft, violence | |  By Philip Pullella and Christine Murray MORELIA, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis visited Mexico's gang-infested heartland on Tuesday, calling on priests to fan out and combat the scourges of corruption and drugs trafficking that have stoked a decade of bloodletting that the government has been unable to stop. Gang wars over the lucrative methamphetamine trade have torn the western state of Michoacan apart. The pope visited Morelia, Michoacan's picturesque capital known for its Spanish colonial architecture, amid tight security given scattered outbursts of violence in recent months.
|
| U.N. staffer killed in Iraq, first since 2010 | | | A local U.N. staffer in Iraq was killed after he was abducted from the eastern province of Diyala last April, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Amer al-Kaissy, the Diyala representative for the U.N. mission, was found dead in November near the city of Baquba with a gunshot wound suggesting he had been executed, a statement said. Several Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias operate in Diyala, which lies between Baghdad and Iran. |
| Cameron defends EU deal as lawmakers offer no guarantees | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - David Cameron fended off changes on Tuesday to a draft deal he has cut to help keep Britain in the EU, as other states demanded adjustments and the European Parliament said it could not guarantee to pass the reforms. After talks on Monday with President Francois Hollande, who argued the draft text may give British banks unfair advantages, the British prime minister visited Brussels to meet EU executive chief Jean-Claude Juncker and leaders of the EU legislature. Cameron made no public comment during his stay in Brussels and one person who met him said he appeared "very stressed".
|
| Americans kidnapped in Iraq last month released | | | BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. citizens who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month have been released with the help of the Iraqi government, the State Department said on Tuesday. Unknown gunmen seized the trio from a private apartment in the capital's southeasterly Dora district in mid-January and were thought to be held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, though Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi later dismissed the likelihood of Iranian involvement. "We sincerely appreciate the assistance provided by the government of Iraq, and its whole-of-government effort to bring about the safe release of these individuals," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. |
| Merkel ready to lift Russia sanctions if conditions met - party officials | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel would like to lift European sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict sooner rather than later but does not yet see the basis to do so, deputies from her party said on Tuesday. Russia denies these accusations.
|
| Lawsuit accuses Jessica Alba's Honest Co of dishonest labeling | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Honest Co, the online shopping company cofounded by actress and model Jessica Alba, was accused in a lawsuit of fraudulently labeling dozens of home and personal care products as natural, plant-based or chemical-free, causing consumers to overpay.
|
| Released American journalists have left Bahrain - relatives | |  By Yara Bayoumy DUBAI (Reuters) - An American journalist and her camera crew who were arrested in Bahrain accused of participating in an illegal gathering have left the country after being released earlier on Tuesday, their families said in a statement. Bahrain had said security forces arrested four U.S. citizens on Sunday while they were "participating with a group of saboteurs who were carrying out riot acts" in the village of Sitra. Demonstrators in Sitra, a Shi'ite village east of the capital Manama, have clashed with security forces in recent days as the country marked the fifth anniversary of Arab Spring protests.
|
| EU falling "silent" on Turkish abuses for help on migrants - rapporteur | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Anxiety about refugees streaming to its shores has led the European Union to turn an apparent blind eye to rights abuses in Turkey, whose help the EU needs to reduce the migrant influx, the European Parliament's rapporteur on Turkey said on Tuesday. The number of Syrian war refugees in neighbouring Turkey has swelled to 2.6 million and the EU has promised Ankara 3 billion euros to help it cope with them in the hope this will dissuade many from making onward journeys to Europe. EU officials have also voiced renewed support for Turkey's long-held aspiration of joining the 28-nation bloc if it does more to stem the outflow of migrants to Europe.
|
| Ukrainian government hangs by thread as confidence vote looms | |  By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Western-backed government faced collapse on Tuesday after President Petro Poroshenko called on the prime minister to resign, deepening the crisis in a country fighting a recession and a separatist insurgency. Ukraine's international backers have invested much money and political capital backing the government in its stand-off with Moscow after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 following the ousting of Kiev's pro-Russian president by protesters. Poroshenko said Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's government had lost public support and committed "more mistakes than achievements", though he added that Ukraine should try to avoid disruptive snap elections.
|
| U.N. envoy discusses ceasefire, aid with Syrian foreign minister - spokesman | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations will test the commitment of Syria's government to allow access for humanitarian aid on Wednesday, the UN Syria envoy said, indicating the world body is preparing to attempt to reach areas that have been cut off. Staffan de Mistura met Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem twice in Damascus on Tuesday at a time when government forces have been advancing rapidly with the aid of Russian air strikes, and just days before an internationally agreed pause in fighting is due to take effect. "The access to these areas is done by convoys, coordinated by the UN country team ... It is clear it is the duty of the government of Syria to want to reach every Syrian person wherever they are and allow the UN to bring humanitarian aid, de Mistura said.
|
| Eagles of Death Metal to give Paris concert for attack survivors | |  By Anca Ulea and Antony Paone PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. band Eagles of Death Metal, on stage when Islamic State attacked their venue and killed 89 people in Paris last November, expressed sympathy with those too traumatised to attend their concert at another Paris hall on Tuesday. With armed police on guard, workers hung the band's name in big red letters outside the Olympia concert hall in Paris. The three militants who attacked the crowd at the Bataclan were part of a co-ordinated assault in which 130 people died in the French capital.
|
| Athletics Kenya CEO to temporarily step aside over bribery allegations | | | By Edwin Waita NAIROBI (Reuters) - Athletics Kenya's chief executive has asked to step aside for 21 days pending an investigation into allegations that he sought bribes to reduce the doping bans of two Kenyan athletes who failed drugs tests, the federation said on Tuesday. Isaac Mwangi last week dismissed as "fabrication" accusations by Joy Sakari and Francisca Koki Manunga that he had asked each athlete for $24,000 to reduce their four-year bans. The two runners were caught doping in August at the world championships in Beijing, where Kenya topped the medals table. |
| Egypt court clears policeman over 2011 torture, killing case | | | An Egyptian court on Tuesday cleared a former security officer charged with torturing to death an Islamist detainee suspected of bombing a church in Alexandria shortly before the 2011 uprising. The verdict is the latest in a series of cases highlighting growing concerns over police brutality and impunity amid a crackdown by Egyptian security forces on political dissent. The officer, Hossam al-Shenawy, was accused of using violence to extract a confession from Sayyid Bilal, a follower of the puritan Salafi approach to Islam. |
| Britain, France decry Russia's role in Syria after "war crimes" | |  LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Britain and France criticised Russia's role in Syria's war on Tuesday and said Moscow must stop the conflict rather than fuelling it, after missile strikes killed dozens of civilians on Monday. Almost 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit at least five medical facilities and two schools in rebel-held areas of Syria on Monday, according to the United Nations, which called the attacks a blatant violation of international law. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed Russia for at least one of the missile strikes, when civilians and children were killed in a school and hospital in the town of Azaz, calling it an "obvious war crime".
|
| Syria govt has duty to allow convoys, "tomorrow we test this" - de Mistura | |  The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Tuesday that the Assad government had an obligation to allow the world body to deliver humanitarian aid to all Syrians and that this would be tested on Wednesday. Staffan de Mistura, in a statement issued in Geneva after his second meeting of the day with Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moualem in Damascus, said they had discussed the priority issue of humanitarian access to areas besieged by all parties to the conflict.
|
| Germany shuts down Islamic centre in Bremen, raids apartments | | | The northern German city-state of Bremen shut down an Islamic cultural centre on Tuesday after police raided it and the apartments of 12 of its members on suspicion of associations with Islamist militants. Bremen Interior Minister Ulrich Maeurer said The Islamic Association Bremen was closely linked to a similar cultural organization that was banned after some of its members joined the Islamic State (IS) insurgent group in Syria. Police also searched a car repair shop in Delmenhorst, just outside Bremen. |
| Israeli police briefly detain Washington Post bureau chief in Jerusalem | |  Israeli border police briefly detained the Washington Post's bureau chief in Jerusalem and a Palestinian colleague on Tuesday while they were conducting interviews at an entrance to the walled Old City. William Booth and the newspaper's West Bank correspondent, Sufian Taha, were taken to a police station and held for about 40 minutes before being released, the Foreign Press Association in Israel (FPA) said in a statement protesting against their detention. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, called it "a regrettable incident" and praised Booth as "an excellent journalist".
|
| U.S. will sign Paris Agreement and stick to it - Stern | |  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change this year regardless of the Supreme Court's decision to put a chunk of President Barack Obama's environmental action on hold, the U.S. climate envoy said on Tuesday. Todd Stern also said that Obama's successor, even if it is a Republican, would be unlikely to scrap the Paris deal as to do so would have negative diplomatic implications. The U.S. Supreme Court this month put on hold regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, prompting speculation the United States and other nations could delay formal signature of the Paris Agreement, reached in December.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment