| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Microsoft releases emergency browser update; XP users get it too | |  BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said it is rolling out an emergency update on Thursday to fix a critical bug in its Internet Explorer browser that hackers have used to launch attacks. The software maker said that it would deliver the update to customers including Windows XP users, even though it had stopped supporting that version of its operating system earlier this month. (Reporting by Jim Finkle)
|
| N.Ireland rocked by Gerry Adams arrest over 1972 killing | |  By Maurice Neill and Conor Humphries ANTRIM Northern Ireland/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Police in Northern Ireland questioned Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Thursday after arresting him under an investigation into one of the province's most notorious murders, a move that stirred fierce political reaction in Britain and Ireland. Reviled by many in Britain as the spokesman for the Irish Republican Army in the 1980s, Adams reinvented himself as a Northern Ireland peacemaker and then as a populist opposition politician in the Irish parliament. His Sinn Fein party said he was arrested on Wednesday evening by police investigating the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 children. Adams, 65, who has always denied membership of the IRA, said he was "innocent of any part" in the killing, which he said was "wrong and a grievous injustice to her and her family".
|
| India orders gas price rises be backdated to April 1 | |  Oil minister M. Veerappa Moily has ordered that increases in gas prices, put on hold by the election authorities, be backdated to April 1, in a directive that has drawn criticism from a rival politician. A price increase was to come into effect just days before India started voting in the polls that got underway on April 7 and run to May 12. But the Election Commission in March unexpectedly requested a deferral. A rise would benefit top producers Reliance Industries and Oil and Natural Gas Corp. "When the proposal came to me, I rightly ordered that after the model code of conduct is lifted, (the) price may be announced for the quarter July-September and also for the quarter April-June, as per the approved guidelines by the cabinet," Moily said in a statement on Thursday.
|
| Peaches Geldof's death likely linked to heroin, inquest hears | |  Heroin was "likely" to have played a role in the death of Peaches Geldof, the daughter of Irish musician and Band Aid founder Bob Geldof, who was found dead by her husband in their country home last month, police said on Thursday. A post-mortem examination failed to establish the cause of her death on April 7 but an inquest was told on Thursday that a toxicology report found heroin in the 25-year-old's system. Geldof, a media and fashion personality and the mother of two boys, was the second daughter of Irish musician and campaigner Bob Geldof and television presenter Paula Yates, who died of a heroin overdose at the age of 41 in 2000.
|
| Maliki launches post-election bid to keep power | |  By Ned Parker and Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki launched his post-election bid to hold on to power for a third term on Thursday, saying Iraq had "paid the price in blood" for disunity and calling on rivals to back his bloc to lead the country. Iraq held a democratic national vote in the absence of foreign troops for the first time ever on Wednesday, despite levels of violence unseen since the darkest days of its 2005-08 civil war and a revived al Qaeda-inspired Sunni insurgency. Maliki, a member of the Shi'ite majority, addressed reporters with a confident winner's air and praised high reported turnout figures as a victory over insurgents who had vowed to kill anyone who voted. Maliki's State of Law bloc is competing against an alliance of two major rival Shi'ite factions to be the largest group, while parties representing Sunnis and Kurds will hold the balance of power.
|
| Netanyahu wants to define Israel as Jewish state in law | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would seek a new law declaring Israel a Jewish state, striking back against a Palestinian refusal to recognise that status in now-collapsed peace talks. "I will promote a Basic Law that will define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people," Netanyahu said in a speech in Tel Aviv that alluded to Palestinian rejection of his demand to recognise Israel as such in the U.S.-backed negotiations. Palestinians fear this label would lead to discrimination against Israel's sizeable Arab minority, which makes up a fifth of its population, and negate any right of return of Palestinian refugees from wars since 1948 to what is now Israel. Israeli enshrinement in law of the concept of Israel as a Jewish state - a definition that was included in its 1948 Declaration of Independence - could complicate any efforts to restart negotiations that stumbled over that issue and others.
|
| KKK neighborhood watch proposal makes Pennsylvania townsfolk uneasy | |  By Jeffrey B. Roth GETTYSBURG Pa. (Reuters) - When a Missouri-based Ku Klux Klan affiliate dropped leaflets on residents' lawns in a southern Pennsylvania township to announce the start of a neighborhood watch, the idea of a hate group patrolling their neighborhoods made many townspeople uneasy. But researchers from the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Policy Law Center who study the group contend the Klan's move over the last few weeks may have been more flash than substance, a last-gasp bid for relevancy by the 150-year-old white supremacist group in a nation that is leaving its movement behind. The type of angry white men who swelled the Klan's ranks after the abolition of slavery and returned during the civil rights era of the 1960s today may instead prefer the paramilitary trappings of newer hate groups to the KKK's infamous white robes and hoods, according to the ADL. The targeted towns in suburban Pennsylvania south of the capital Harrisburg, are hardly hotbeds of crime.
|
| Ukraine detains Russian military attaché for spying | |  By Natalia Zinets and Matt Robinson KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine ordered the expulsion of Russia's military attaché, saying it had caught him "red-handed" receiving classified information on the country's cooperation with NATO during an armed uprising Kiev says is directed from Moscow. Ukraine's security service said he was a Russian intelligence officer who had been collecting intelligence on "Ukrainian-NATO military and political cooperation". "On April 30, he was caught red-handed receiving classified material from his source," said Maryna Ostapenko, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's security service, the SBU. She described the source as a colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces.
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment