| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Colombia's peace deal in limbo after shock referendum | |  By Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and Marxist guerrillas scrambled on Monday to revive a plan to end their 52-year war after voters rejected the hard-negotiated deal as too lenient on the rebels in a shock referendum result that plunged the nation into uncertainty. Any renegotiated peace accord now seems to depend on whether the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could accept tougher sanctions against them. Both President Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londono, the top FARC commander better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, put a brave face on the referendum setback after four years of negotiations in Havana between their teams.
|
| Kim Kardashian back after being held at gunpoint in $10 million Paris robbery | |  By Leigh Thomas PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reality TV star Kim Kardashian returned to New York "badly shaken" on Monday after being robbed at gunpoint in her Paris residence by masked men who stole some $10 million worth of jewelry. Kardashian, wearing sunglasses and with her head bowed, was pictured entering her Manhattan apartment with her rapper husband Kanye West. According to her publicist, Kardashian was "badly shaken but physically unharmed." She said nothing to waiting media upon her arrival.
|
| In new blow to campaign, Trump's foundation ordered to halt fundraising | |  By James Oliphant and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York's attorney general ordered Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's charitable foundation to immediately stop fundraising in the state, warning that a failure to do so would be a "continuing fraud." For Trump, the cease-and-desist order was the latest in a series of blows that has sent his campaign reeling. The New York businessman and his aides spent much of the weekend dealing with the fallout from a New York Times report that said Trump may have avoided paying federal income taxes for almost 20 years. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office said the Donald J. Trump Foundation was violating a state law requiring charitable organizations that solicit outside donations to register with the office's Charities Bureau.
|
| Britain to protect soldiers serving overseas from legal claims | |  Britain will protect its armed forces serving overseas from "vexatious" human rights claims by making it possible to suspend the European Convention on Human Rights in future conflicts, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday. The ruling Conservative Party has criticised what it calls spurious legal claims against British troops returning from war, especially from Afghanistan and Iraq, and the government has said it has spent millions of pounds on failed cases. "Our armed forces are the best in the world and the men and women who serve make huge sacrifices to keep us safe," May said in a statement.
|
| U.N. discusses urging end to all military flights over Syria's Aleppo | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will begin negotiations on Monday on a draft resolution that urges Russia and the United States to ensure an immediate truce in Syria's Aleppo and to "put an end to all military flights over the city." The draft text, seen by Reuters, also asks U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to propose options for a U.N.-supervised monitoring of a truce and threatens to "take further measures" in the event of non-compliance by "any party to the Syrian domestic conflict." The 15-member council began talks on the text - drafted by France and Spain - on Monday afternoon, diplomats said. The draft resolution urges Russia and the United States "to ensure the immediate implementation of the cessation of hostilities, starting with Aleppo, and, to that effect, to put an end to all military flights over the city." Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russia war planes and Iranian support, have been battling to capture eastern Aleppo - the rebel-held half of Syria's largest city, where more than 250,000 civilians are trapped.
|
| Trump says he 'brilliantly' used U.S. tax laws | |  By Emily Stephenson PUEBLO, Colo. (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday he "brilliantly used" U.S. tax rules to his advantage in trying to limit the amount he paid in taxes, arguing it helped him survive a difficult period in the real estate market. "I was able to use the tax laws of this country and my business acumen to dig out of the real estate mess ... when few others were able to do what I did," Trump told a crowd in Pueblo, Colorado. It was Trump's first extended comments since a New York Times report said he had claimed a $916 million loss on his 1995 tax returns, which experts said might have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for 18 years.
|
| Afghan hospital bombing reenacted in protest as bombs fall on Aleppo | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Geneva's main hospital became a fiery inferno on Monday night in a simulation to commemorate the deadly U.S. air strike on a Kunduz hospital in Afghanistan a year ago and to condemn alleged Syrian and Russian bombing of health centres in Aleppo. The #NotaTarget event was organised by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which had run the Kunduz trauma centre until it was destroyed in the one-hour bombing on Oct. 3, 2015. |
| Ex-detainees say CIA used makeshift electric chair in secret Afghan prison - rights group | | | Two Tunisian men who spent 12 years in U.S. custody in Afghanistan said CIA interrogators tortured them using previously unreported techniques that included threatening them with a makeshift electric chair and beating them with batons so brutally that they suffered broken bones, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday. The accounts, which could not be independently confirmed, raised new questions about how prisoners were treated in a former CIA prison in Afghanistan that remains shrouded in secrecy. Ryan Trapani, a CIA spokesman, said the "CIA reviewed its records and found nothing to support these new claims." But Daniel Jones, who led a Senate investigation into the CIA detention program, said the accounts given by the two men, Ridha al-Najjar, 51, and Lotfi al-Arabi El Gherissi, 52, were important because so little is known about the "Cobalt" black site, where an Afghan detainee froze to death in 2002. |
| Trump defends remarks on veterans and mental health | |  By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign defended comments he made on combat veterans and mental health on Monday, after some said his remarks implied service members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were weak. At an event with veterans in Herndon, Virginia, Trump called for better mental health services for those returning from combat, saying that while many are "strong," others "can't handle" what they have seen on the battlefield. The response struck some as insulting to veterans struggling with PTSD, as the Republican candidate works to motivate traditionally conservative military voters to support him in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
|
| Kidnapped Red Cross worker freed in Yemen and taken to Oman - agency | | | A Red Cross worker kidnapped 10 months ago in Yemen was freed on Monday and taken to neighbouring Oman, Omani state news agency ONA and the ICRC said. French-Tunisian, Nourane Houas, a staff member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Sanaa, had been kidnapped along with a Yemeni man by unidentified gunmen who intercepted their vehicle in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. |
| Here, there and everywhere; Kardashian suffers price of social media exposure | |  By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - On her way to a fashion show, selfies of her diamond teeth grillz, or casually Snapchatting with family back home - Kim Kardashian documented her days in Paris in detail on social media, right up until about an hour before she was held at gunpoint and robbed of some $10 million worth of jewelry. The pre-dawn robbery on Monday highlighted the pitfalls of notoriety built on heavy use of Twitter, Instagram and other social media that has made Kardashian one of the most visible celebrities in the world, security experts say.
|
| Media mogul's Sao Paulo win boosts backer's hopes of Brazil presidency | |  By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Millionaire media mogul João Doria's stunning entry into Brazilian politics with a crushing first-round victory in Sao Paulo's mayoral race has fanned mounting speculation about a presidential run by his main political supporter. Geraldo Alckmin, governor of Sao Paulo state, backed the political newcomer against resistance from nearly every other powerbroker in his Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), and in doing so undercut rivals for the presidential nomination in 2018. Capturing 53 percent of valid votes in Brazil's biggest city on Sunday, Doria demolished a re-election bid by Mayor Fernando Haddad, who took less than 17 percent as his Workers Party suffered fallout from a vast corruption scandal and the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff.
|
| Stunned Latin America exhorts Colombia to keep seeking peace | |  By Alexandra Ulmer and Mitra Taj CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) - Latin America bemoaned Colombian voters' rejection of a peace deal with Marxist insurgents but regional leaders urged Bogota to keep pursing efforts to end the longest-running conflict in the Americas. Havana hosted four years of peace negotiations while Chile, Cuba, and Venezuela acted as guarantor and observer countries. Nations from leftist-run Venezuela to center-right Peru lamented the outcome of Sunday's referendum, where the "No" camp won by less than half a percentage point.
|
| Colombia's ex-president Uribe holds keys after peace vote defeat | |  Since stepping down as president six years ago, Alvaro Uribe has relentlessly condemned the policies of his handpicked successor-turned-foe and chiseled away at support for his biggest goal: ending the war with Marxist rebels. On Sunday, the hardline senator scored his biggest victory yet against President Juan Manuel Santos, turning what seemed like certain victory for a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, into a massive blow to the government. Colombians' narrow rejection of the peace accord in a referendum shocked the world.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment