| Latest crime news headlines from Yahoo India News. Find top stories, videos, pictures & in-depth coverage on crime news from national news section.
| Slain Oregon occupier's family say seems his killing unjustified | | | (Reuters) - The family of an anti-government protester who was killed by law enforcement agents near an occupied U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon said on Friday it seems his death was unjustified and that he was shot in the back while posing no threat. The relatives of Robert LaVoy Finicum said they were not accepting at face value the FBI's statement that the 54-year-old rancher from Arizona had been armed when he was fatally shot after fleeing from a traffic stop on Tuesday. |
| Diamond League should ban dopers like we do-marathon boss | | | By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - Any athlete convicted of a serious doping offence should be banned from the Diamond League, following the "zero tolerance" approach of the London Marathon, the race's chief executive told Reuters on Friday. City marathons have, like the rest of athletics, been hit hard by doping in recent years. Russian Liliya Shobukhova, who won the London race in 2010 and was runner-up in 2011, has since been banned for doping and turned whistle-blower to help expose the extent of the problem in her country. |
| 'Making a Murderer' shines unwanted spotlight on Wisconsin city | |  By Brendan O'Brien MANITOWOC, Wis. (Reuters) - The television documentary "Making a Murderer," a gripping series about two Wisconsin men convicted of murder, has put this blue-collar city of 35,000 on the map, to the dismay of many residents. The wildly popular Netflix series, spread out over 10 episodes, details the case against Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey. The Netflix series may be a popular success but some residents are tired of hearing about it.
|
| Islamic State suicide bomber kills two at checkpoint in Yemen's Aden | | | Two people were killed and five wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Friday, the latest in a spate of deadly attacks by Islamic State militants. Police tried to stop the vehicle but it failed to slow down and blew up at the checkpoint in Aden's central Crater commercial neighbourhood, local officials and witnesses said. Medical sources said there were two dead and that five wounded were taken to the local hospital in Aden. |
| European, U.N. troops accused of sexual abuse in Central African Republic | | | By Stephanie Nebehay and Michelle Nichols GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Twelve more children in the Central African Republic have accused European soldiers and United Nations peacekeepers of sexual abuse, the United Nations said on Friday, with one senior official saying such abuse was "rampant" there. Foreign troops were deployed in Central African Republic after mainly Muslim rebels seized power in the majority Christian country in 2013, provoking reprisals and fuelling religious and inter-communal violence that has killed thousands. European Union troops were there from April 2014 to March 2015. |
| U.S. judge rejects challenge in FBI child porn website probe | | | A Washington state school administrator has lost a high-profile bid to suppress evidence against him secured by the FBI during an operation in which it secretly ran one of the Internet's largest child pornography websites in order to catch its users. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan in Tacoma, Washington, on Thursday rejected arguments by Jay Michaud, one of 137 people facing U.S. charges in the probe, that a search warrant that enabled the FBI to conduct the sting was unconstitutional. The Federal Bureau of Investigation had in February 2015 seized the server hosting Playpen, a child porn website that operated on the Tor network, which is designed to facilitate anonymous online communication and protect user privacy. |
| Electricity supply in Iraq's Kurdistan region hit by blast | | | A pipeline for gas used to generate around half the electricity in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region was blown up on Friday, knocking out power, a police chief and electricity official told Reuters. The explosion struck the pipeline in the Qader Karam district of Kirkuk, according to police chief Serhad Qader, who said it was caused by two homemade bombs. The pipeline feeds gas from the Khor Mor field to two power plants in the Erbil and Sulaimaniyah provinces of the Kurdistan region, which already suffers from electricity shortages. |
| 'Affluenza' teen left in juvenile detention in Texas, for now | | | By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas judge ruled on Friday that America's so-called "affluenza" teenager should remain in custody for now at a juvenile detention centre in Fort Worth, where he has been held since he was deported from Mexico on Thursday. Ethan Couch, 18, fled to Mexico last month with his mother after he apparently violated the probation deal reached in juvenile court that kept him out of prison for killing four people while driving drunk in 2013. Judge Timothy Menikos said he was considering a move to an adult prison for Couch. |
| FBI says video shows slain Oregon occupier reach for jacket pocket | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - The FBI released a video on Thursday investigators say shows one occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge reach for his jacket pocket before being shot dead by law enforcement, after speeding away from a traffic stop where the group's leader was arrested. Authorities said 54-year-old Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, was armed when he was stopped by police and killed on Tuesday afternoon. The aerial video taken by a law enforcement aircraft showed Finicum speed away from authorities in a white lorry and nearly strike a law officer, while trying to evade a police barricade before barreling into a snowbank and exiting the car.
|
| British mother convicted of joining IS in Syria with young child | | | A 26-year-old mother who took her toddler son to Syria and posted pictures of him next to a weapon has been convicted of belonging to Islamic State (IS). Tareena Shakil was found guilty at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday of joining IS and encouraging terrorism on social media. The 26-year-old boarded a plane to Turkey in October 2014 with her one-year-old boy, crossed the border into Syria and spent three months there, West Midlands police said in a statement. |
| UK Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan jailed for 23 years for raping followers | |  A Maoist cult leader, convicted of raping and beating his brainwashed British female followers and keeping his own daughter a fearful prisoner for more than three decades, was jailed for 23 years on Friday. Aravindan Balakrishnan, 75, known as Comrade Bala, used sexual degradation and physical and mental violence to keep the women under his control. Prosecutors said he turned his south London Communist commune into his own personal cult with members who believed him to be a god.
|
| Europe launches "most wanted" list, Paris attack suspects featured | |  Move over FBI: Europe now has its own "most wanted" list, with suspects in Islamist militant attacks on Paris looming large. European police agencies on Friday introduced the list on a website hosted by Europol, as part of a push to share more information about criminals across borders in the wake of the Islamic State assault on Paris in November 2015. The site, which draws comparisons with traditional FBI "most-wanted" posters in the United States, features photos and descriptions of fugitives convicted or suspected of committing serious crimes.
|
| British, French journalists free in Burundi, one day after arrest | | | A British and a French journalist arrested during a sweep for rebels in flashpoint districts of the capital were released on Friday, a witness said. Moise Nkurunziza, deputy police spokesman, said the police had picked up British photojournalist Phil Moore and Jean Philippe Remy, a French journalist, during raids in Jabe and Nyakabiga neighbourhoods in Bujumbura on Thursday. In a statement on its website, Le Monde newspaper had demanded the release of both journalists, saying they were the newspaper's special correspondents in Burundi. |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment