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Biden, law enforcement to attend Boston memorial for slain officer

April 17, 2013 10:00
By Scott Malone and Samuel P. Jacobs BOSTON (Reuters) - Thousands of law enforcement agents from around the country plan to attend a memorial on Wednesday for a campus police officer who authorities say was slain by the accused Boston Marathon bombers, and Vice President Joe Biden is slated to speak at the ceremony. The service at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology honours 26-year-old Sean Collier, who police say was shot and killed by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the MIT campus on Thursday night.

Serbian U.N. official blasts "intimidation" over justice meeting

April 16, 2013 18:45
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Serbian president of the U.N. General Assembly accused his critics on Tuesday of trying to intimidate and pressure him into cancelling a special meeting on international criminal justice that the United States and other nations boycotted.

Plea deal talks under way for U.S. soldier accused in Iraq killings - lawyer

April 16, 2013 17:45
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier charged with killing five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a military counselling centre in Iraq is seeking a plea deal with Army prosecutors that would spare him from facing the death penalty, his lawyer told Reuters on Tuesday. Army Sergeant John Russell, under confinement at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, is accused of going on a shooting frenzy at Camp Liberty, adjacent to the Baghdad airport, in an attack his lawyers have insisted stemmed from combat stress.

UAE plot defendant allowed abroad for treatment

April 16, 2013 10:46
An Abu Dhabi court on Tuesday allowed a defendant in the trial of dozens of Islamists accused of allegedly plotting to seize power to seek medical treatment abroad, the justice ministry said. During the hearing, the court "accepted the request by one of the defendants to hand her over her passport so she could travel abroad for medical treatment," according to the ministry statement published by the official WAM news agency.

Rwanda seeks to block talk of ICC at Security Council

April 14, 2013 05:45
The United Nations has been hit by a second war crimes court dispute in a week with Rwanda trying to stop the UN Security Council praising the International Criminal Court. The storm comes only days after the United States boycotted a UN General Assembly debate where Serbia's president launched a fierce attack on international war crimes courts. Rwanda is organizing a Security Council meeting Monday on conflict prevention in Africa when traditionally the 15-member body would release a statement.

French prisoner escapes after taking hostages: official

April 13, 2013 04:30
A prisoner armed with explosives escaped Saturday from a prison in northern France after taking five staff hostage, officials said. The man quickly released four hostages after exiting the facility and kept one as he fled in a car that he abandoned along with the last hostage on a highway, local administrative officials said. mla/lc/fb

Mahmudur on 13-day remand

April 12, 2013 16:16
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on a 13-day remand in three cases filed with Tejgaon Police Station. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sahidul Islam passed the order when police produced him before the court with a 24-day remand prayer.At the court, Mahmudur defended himself without appointing any counsel and opposed the remand prayer. He even did not seek bail.”I know the bail petition won’t be granted …the remand prayers won’t be rejected either because there’s direction from the higher authorities.

SC to AFP: Present soldiers in Jonas Burgos abduction

April 12, 2013 12:19
The Supreme Court directed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Emmanuel Bautista to disclose to the court the location of the soldiers involved in the abduction of activist Jonas Burgos, based on the new evidence submitted by his mother, Edita. “The Court directed the incumbent Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines Lieutenant General Emmanuel T.

War Crimes Trial: Prosecutor suffers blow for making half truth

April 11, 2013 15:03
A prosecutor on Wednesday suffered a blow at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 for making ‘half truth’ about the political identity of detained war crimes suspect Mobarak Hossain of Akhaura, Brahmnabaria.At the start of making submission for framing charges against Mobarak in the dock, designated prosecutor Syed Haider Ali introduced the accused as a Rokan of Jamaat-e-Islami during the 1971 Liberation War.

Four bloggers sent to jail

April 11, 2013 15:03
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent four bloggers, arrested on charges of making derogatory comments about Islam and Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) through the Internet, to jail.Passing the order, Metropolitan Magistrate M Erfan Ullah also fixed April 15 for further hearing of two bail petitions filed by the lawyers of the accused in the presence of the investigation officers.They are: Asif Mohiuddin, Moshiur Rahman Biblop, (online pseudonym ‘Allama Shaitan’), Russell Parvez, 36, (‘Apobak’) and Subrato Shuvo, 25, (`Lalu Kasai’).DB inspectors Mynul Islam and M Sazzad Hossai
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