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| Texas woman arrested after telling police she was sold bad pot | | | By Lisa Bose McDermott TEXARKANA, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas woman who complained to police that a drug dealer sold her a bad batch of marijuana that did not pack much of a punch has been arrested, police said on Tuesday. Evelyn Hamilton, 37, was jailed on Friday after also telling police in Lufkin, Texas, that the dealer refused to give her a refund. She was later released on $500 bail for a drug paraphernalia charge. She had in her possession a bag with a small amount of pot, said Lufkin Police Sergeant David Casper. |
| Pakistani baby taken into hiding after attempted murder charge | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Relatives of a nine-month old baby charged with attempted murder in Pakistan have taken him into hiding, one said on Tuesday, in a case that has thrown a spotlight on Pakistan's dysfunctional criminal justice system. Baby Musa Khan appeared in court in the city of Lahore last week, charged with attempted murder along with his father and grandfather after a mob protesting against gas cuts and price increases stoned police and gas company workers trying to collect overdue bills. Now they are trying to settle the issue on personal grounds, that's why I sent my grandson to Faisalabad for protection," the baby's grandfather, Muhammad Yasin, told Reuters, referring to a central Pakistani city. |
| Pistorius breaks down as he recounts Steenkamp's death | |  By David Dolan PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius sobbed in the witness stand on Tuesday as he described how, gripped by fear, he shot dead his girlfriend through a locked toilet door thinking she was an intruder. Taking the witness stand, the double amputee - accused of murdering 29-year-old law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp - recounted hearing a window sliding open in his bathroom in the middle of the night on Valentine's Day 2013. Conditioned by years of living in crime-ridden South Africa, Pistorius said the noises convinced him someone was breaking into his luxury Pretoria home and that he needed to protect himself and his lover. Pistorius said he felt in the dark with his fingers, grabbed a 9mm pistol lying under the bed, then moved on his stumps down the passageway leading from the bedroom towards the bathroom and the would-be intruder or intruders.
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| After a slap, Kejriwal fears threat to life | | | New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) AAP leader and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday said he faced a threat to life after being slapped by a man while campaigning for his party here. When they (attackers) are arrested, they repeat the (same) script," Kejriwal told the media after being attacked by an auto-rickshaw driver who first garlanded the AAP leader. "Why are all the attacks taking place only on us?" Kejriwal later asked. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supporters roughed him up after the incident. |
| UK says investigating spy and police agencies' use of private data | |  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's law enforcement and intelligence agencies may be overusing authorisations to access private communications data, the official who regulates the activity said on Tuesday, declaring he had begun an investigation into the matter. Interception of communications commissioner Anthony May said. He had also studied concerns raised by former U.S. intelligence operative Edward Snowden about Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency and cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency.
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| Fourteen killed in bomb blast on Pakistani train | |  By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fourteen passengers were killed and about 50 wounded on Tuesday when militants bombed a train in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, hospital sources and officials said. The blast came a day after Pakistani security forces said they had killed 30 separatist militants in one of the biggest clashes in months in the gas-rich province. The separatist United Baluch Army claimed responsibility, saying in a text message to Reuters the bombing was retaliation for the raids by security forces. Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique confirmed the death toll.
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| Inter-state arms suppliers gang busted, one nabbed | | | Gautam, 24, of Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested Sunday (April 6) from Bhalaswa Dairy in north Delhi with three 7.65 mm pistols and two country-made pistols when he was going in his car to deliver the consignment to one of his contacts. "The recovered weapons were hidden in the inner panel cavity of his car's back door and were manufactured with high proficiency skills," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav said. The accused who works for a gang based in Mainpuri used to supply illegal arms and ammunition in Delhi and the National Capital Region as well as Bhind and Morena districts of Madhya Pradesh. "Gangsters and criminals of Delhi and NCR use such illegal weapons in committing crimes in the national capital and other areas," said Yadav. |
| Pistorius trial adjourned to allow sobbing athlete to recover | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African court adjourned Oscar Pistorius' murder trial until Wednesday to allow the athlete to regain composure after he broke down in the witness stand while describing the moment he realised he had shot dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. (Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
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| I face threat to life, says Kejriwal | | | New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) AAP leader and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday said the recurring attacks on him were "scripted" and there was a threat to his life. When they (attackers) are arrested, they repeat the (same) script," Kejriwal told the media after he was slapped Tuesday while campaigning in the capital. "Why are all the attacks taking place only on us?" he said, adding that the emergence of the Aam Aadmi Party had spoiled the "setting" between the various political parties. "There will be more attacks, and we can also get killed," said Kejriwal, who was chief minister of Delhi for 49 days until Feb 14 at the head of a minority government. |
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