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| Two bitcoin exchange operators charged in money laundering scheme | |  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two men who operate bitcoin exchange businesses have been charged with money laundering for helping drug merchants exchange $1 million in cash for bitcoins, the digital currency, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. Federal prosecutors in New York announced charges against Charlie Shrem and Robert Faiella, both operators of bitcoin exchange businesses, for attempting to sell $1 million in the digital currency to users of the underground black market website Silk Road, which was shut down by authorities in September. According to the charging document, Shrem, 24, chief executive officer of the exchange BitInstant.com, changed cash into bitcoins for Faiella, 52, who ran an underground bitcoin exchange through the username BTCKing on Silk Road's website. The criminal complaint says that Shrem, in addition to knowing that Faiella's business was funneling money into Silk Road, also used Silk Road himself to buy drugs, including marijuana-infused brownies.
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| Nigeria security service arrests deputy opposition leader | |  By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) arrested the deputy head of the main opposition coalition on Monday over comments he is reported to have made warning of electoral violence in presidential polls scheduled for February 2015. Nasir el-Rufai was quoted in the daily ThisDay as saying that the election was "likely to be violent and many people are going to die," as has happened in previous elections in Africa's most populous country and top oil producer. We are interrogating him over comments he made published by a newspaper on Thursday," SSS spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar said by telephone. The elections are expected to be the most closely fought since the end of military rule in 1999 and Nigeria is bracing for politically orchestrated violence.
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| Maryland mall to reopen after fatal weekend shooting | |  REUTERS - A Maryland mall where a 19-year-old gunman shot and killed two young store employees before apparently taking his own life was scheduled to reopen on Monday with increased law enforcement presence, police said. The popular retail complex in Columbia, Maryland, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Baltimore, has been closed since Darion Marcus Aguilar fired six to eight shots from a 12-gauge shotgun on Saturday as the mall bustled with weekend shoppers. Police are still investigating what drove Aguilar, of College Park, Maryland, to shoot and whether he knew the two employees of a clothing and skateboard shop who died. No evidence has revealed a relationship between Aguilar and the victims, Brianna Benlolo, 21, also of College Park, and Tyler Johnson, 25, of Mount Airy, Maryland, Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon said on Sunday.
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| Gunmen kill at least 62 in Nigeria, including in church | | | By Imma Ande YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected insurgents armed with guns and explosives killed at least 62 people in northeast Nigeria, including at a church service, in a region where Islamist sect Boko Haram is resisting a military crackdown, witnesses said on Monday. They killed 22 people by setting off bombs and firing into the congregation in the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege, witnesses said. President Goodluck Jonathan is struggling to contain Boko Haram in remote rural regions in the country's northeast corner, where the sect launched an uprising in 2009. Boko Haram, which wants to impose sharia law on a country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims, has killed thousands over the past four and a half years and is considered the biggest security risk in Africa's top oil exporter and second largest economy after South Africa. |
| IAS officer exploitation case: Police record girl's statement | | | Jaipur, Jan 27 (IANS) The statement of the 22-year-old girl who accused a senior IAS officer of sexually exploiting her was recorded Monday, police said. A first information report (FIR) was registered Saturday against B.B. Mohanty, an additional chief secretary rank officer, who is currently posted as chairman of Rajasthan Civil Services Appellate Tribunal. We will now soon summon the IAS officer for interrogation," said a police officer. The officer said that as per the girl, her hostel is near the Indian Administrative Service's (IAS) officer flat. |
| Man held in Goa for molesting Iranian child | | | Panaji, Jan 27 (IANS) A 31-year-old Mumbai resident has been arrested by Goa Police on charges of molesting a four-year-old Iranian girl, an official said Monday. |
| Six-year-old Delhi girl raped by neighbour | | | New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) A six-year-old girl was raped by her neighbour in the East of Kailash area of south Delhi Monday evening, police said. |
| Thieves steal Pope John Paul's blood from Italy church | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole a reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Franca Corrieri told Reuters she had discovered a broken window early on Sunday morning and had called the police. John Paul, who died in 2005, loved the mountains in the Abruzzo region. Polish-born John Paul, who reigned for 27 years, is due to be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in May, meaning the relic will become more noteworthy and valuable.
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| Kiev protesters shun state hospitals for volunteer clinics | |  By Jack Stubbs KIEV (Reuters) - Injured anti-government protesters fearing arrest are shunning Kiev's hospitals and choosing to undergo operations in field clinics run by an army of volunteer doctors. Since clashes between activists and security forces worsened last week, doctors have faced more serious injuries, colds and frostbite from the seering cold escalating to flesh wounds, gas burns and concussions from the violence. "When I worked in the emergency ward, any injuries caused by suspicious violence had to be reported," said Aleksandr Pyvovarov, 32, a former emergency physician from Kiev. "The people know this and they would rather get treatment on the streets than go to jail." Videos posted online on Thursday show police raiding an emergency ward in Kiev and arresting injured activists in their beds.
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| SC notice to Andhra, Odisha over labourers' torture | | | New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) Taking suo motu congnizance of media reports that the hands of two migrant labourers were chopped off in Odisha, the Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the state government and also to Andhra Pradesh, where the contractor who hired them was based. The bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi took cognizance of a news report on the two labourers who were allegedly subjected to the barbaric act for their refusal to comply with the wishes of the contractor who hired them. |
| Rwanda sending "chilling message" to dissenters - UN rapporteur | |  By Jenny Clover KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's track record of prosecuting politicians who criticise President Paul Kagame's government sends a chilling a message to opposition figures and rights campaigners, a U.N. Special Rapporteur said on Monday. Kagame, a rebel fighter-turned-statesman, has won plaudits for Rwanda's economic transformation since the 1994 genocide and for deploying peacekeepers to Africa's conflicts. But his opponents and rights groups accuse him of trampling political and media freedoms, something the government denies. Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai said that politicians who rejected what he called Kagame's 'consensus politics' ran into legal trouble, often facing charges of downplaying the genocide and sectarianism.
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| Rahul Gandhi accuses Modi of "abetting" Gujarat riots | |  Rahul Gandhi attacked the chief opponent of his embattled Congress party on Monday by accusing his regional government of 'abetting' religious riots in 2002. Indians are due to vote by May in what many see as a direct contest between Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi. "The government in Gujarat was actually abetting and pushing the riots further," Gandhi told Times Now television in a rare interview, adding that Modi was responsible because he was chief minister of Gujarat at the time. "The government in Gujarat was allowing the riots to happen," Gandhi said.
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| Bengal gang rape: Judge meets victim, inspects crime scene | | | Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) Following directions of the Supreme Court, a district judicial officer Monday met the 20-year-old tribal woman who was gang raped by over a dozen men in West Bengal's Birbhum at the behest of a village kangaroo court last week. Additional District Judge S.Mitra talked to the brutalised woman at the Suri Sadar Hospital where is she is recuperating. The Supreme Court earlier took suo motu cognizance of the incident. |
| Delhi court issues summon to DJB engineer | | | New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) A Delhi court has issued summons to a junior engineer of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and two others for their alleged involvement in a forgery case. |
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