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| U.S. files death penalty charges against Benghazi suspect | | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:49 AM | |
|  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury issued a new indictment on Tuesday that includes a possible death penalty against Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a Libyan militant accused of involvement in the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The indictment supersedes earlier accusations brought against Khatallah in July, and adds 17 charges, including allegations he led an extremist militia group and conspired with others to attack the facilities and kill U.S. citizens. Khatallah was captured in Libya in June by a U.S. ...
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| U.S. to keep custody of marine suspect in Philippines murder case | |  MANILA (Reuters) - The United States will keep custody of a Marine suspected in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, the head of the Philippine military said on Tuesday, and U.S. officials said a number of U.S. warships would remain in the country. "Under the Visiting Forces Agreement, the custody of the erring soldier stays with the Americans," General Gregorio Catapang said after a meeting with Admiral Samuel Locklear, head of the U.S. Pacific Command. Chuck Little, a spokesman for U.S. Marines in the Pacific, said Locklear had told all U.S. ...
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| U.S. national shot dead in Saudi capital Riyadh | | | By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - A gunman killed a U.S. national and wounded another in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, officials said, heightening Western concerns over security in the world's top oil exporter as regional unrest rises. Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said a statement from the police, carried by state media. The apprehended man worked at the same company as the two victims and had recently been dismissed from his job, Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington said in a statement. ... |
| Kesha accuses pop producer of abuse in dueling lawsuits | |  By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Kesha and music producer Dr. Luke unleashed dueling lawsuits on Tuesday trading accusations of abuse and extortion as the "Die Young" singer says she wants out of her record contract with the hit-making producer. Kesha, 27, whose legal name is Kesha Sebert, has accused Dr. Luke in a civil lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court of sexual, physical, verbal and emotional abuse. The lawsuit accuses Dr. ...
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| Six months after girls abducted, Nigerians protest near president's house | |  By Tim Cocks ABUJA (Reuters) - Protesters demanding the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago by Islamist militants, demonstrated infront of the president's home on Tuesday, urging the government to do more to free them. Around 60 people in red T-shirts that read "Bring Back Our Girls" marched to the residence of President Goodluck Jonathan in a leafy part of the Nigerian capital, which was guarded by more than 150 armed police. Scores of other protesters were prevented from joining the rally by other police lines at the top of the street. ...
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| Prison would "break" Pistorius - defence witness | |  By Peroshni Govender PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African athlete Oscar Pistorius would be "broken as a person" if he were jailed for killing his girlfriend because of his disability and psychological problems, a defence witness at his sentencing hearing said on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Paralympic and Olympic athlete, whose lower legs were amputated as a baby, was convicted of culpable homicide last month for shooting dead his girlfriend, law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp, 29, on Valentine's Day 2013. ...
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| Mitt in 2016 highly unlikely, Ann Romney says - report | |  REUTERS - The wife of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he is strongly disinclined to mount a bid for the White House in 2016 but stopped short of ruling it out, the Los Angeles Times reported. "Done," the newspaper quoted Ann Romney as saying in response to a question about the possibility of her husband seeking the presidency a third time, including a failed bid in 2008. "Completely. Not only Mitt and I are done, but the kids are done," the newspaper late on Monday quoted her as saying, referring to their five sons. "Done. Done. Done. ...
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