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| India hangs Yakub Memon for 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts | |  By Zeba Siddiqui and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country's deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, after the Supreme Court threw out his final plea for a stay of execution. Memon was convicted as the "driving spirit" behind the serial blasts in India's financial capital Mumbai, then known as Bombay. The execution drew wide public support but has stirred controversy about whether the punishment adequately reflected the help Memon gave authorities in solving the crime.
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| Three days, five killings and a year of pain in Baltimore | |  By Emily Flitter BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Kajuan Guinn was just 8, and recently reunited with his family after years in foster care, when his chronically ill mother died of complications from lupus. "He was always taking care of his mother," his sister, Ashley Terry said of Guinn, "He would empty her pan for her." Two years after his mother died, Guinn ran away, following his father's path into a world of gangs, drugs and violence on the streets of Baltimore.
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| Jailed Chinese loggers among thousands freed in Myanmar amnesty - officials | | | YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar released 6,966 prisoners in an amnesty on Thursday that included 155 Chinese citizens jailed last week for illegal logging, government and prison sources said. The release of the Chinese could help to placate Myanmar's influential neighbour China, which lodged a diplomatic protest and expressed "extreme" concern about the verdict against its citizens, 153 of whom were given life sentences. They were among 210 foreigners included in the amnesty, prison and Home Ministry officials told Reuters, requesting anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media. ... |
| University of Virginia graduates sue Rolling Stone over rape story | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three University of Virginia graduates on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit in New York against Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher, Wenner Media, and a journalist, over a now-debunked 2014 article describing a fraternity gang rape. The three men, all 2013 graduates and members of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity at the center of the story, claim the magazine was negligent in publishing the article, "A Rape on Campus", by Sabrina Rudin Erdely. |
| In Las Vegas, mafia museum to display FIFA's 'rampant corruption' | | | A Las Vegas museum devoted to the exploits of Tommy gun-wielding mobsters will open a permanent display that explores the "rampant corruption" of global soccer's scandal-rocked governing body, which has drawn comparisons to organized crime. The new exhibit, announced Tuesday by a museum showcasing some of the most brutal and exploitative criminal activity in U.S. history, follows a corruption scandal that has created the worst crisis in FIFA's 111-year history. The Mob Museum will unveil the display of photographs, news articles, and original narratives called "The 'Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly", in September. |
| Zimbabwean charged over killing of Cecil the lion | | | By Philimon Bulawayo and Mike Saburi HWANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday charged a professional hunter with failing to prevent an American from unlawfully killing 'Cecil', the southern African country's best-known lion, in a case that has triggered widespread revulsion at trophy hunting. The American, Walter James Palmer, a Minnesota dentist who paid $50,000 to kill the lion, has left Zimbabwe. Local hunter Theo Bronkhorst appeared in a courthouse in Hwange, 800 km (500 miles) west of Harare, and was charged with "failing to supervise, control and take reasonable steps to prevent an unlawful hunt". |
| Cincinnati police officer indicted in shooting death of black man | |  By Steve Bittenbender CINCINNATI (Reuters) - A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted on Wednesday on murder charges in the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed black motorist who was stopped because of a missing front license plate. Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters called the July 19 killing of Samuel Dubose, 43, "senseless" and "totally unwarranted." Ray Tensing, the 25-year-old white officer who shot Dubose in the head, "wasn't dealing with someone who was wanted for murder," Deters told a news conference. "He was dealing with someone who didn't have a front license plate.
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