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Africa refuses to act on Sudan war crimes warrant Friday 03rd of July 2009 05:11:22 PM by Griffin Shea SIRTE, Libya (AFP) -- The African Union decided Friday not to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional Authority.The refusal to arrest ... Read more	AU to shelter Beshir from war crimes warrant: delegates Friday 03rd of July 2009 02:55:37 PM SIRTE, Libya (AFP) -- The African Union has decided not to cooperate with a war crimes warrant against Sudan President Omar al-Beshir and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case, delegates said Friday.Two delegates from different countries sa... Read more
Demjanjuk found fit for war crimes trial Friday 03rd of July 2009 02:36:26 PM BERLIN, July 3 (UPI) -- John Demjanjuk, the former U.S. auto worker suspected of Nazi war crimes, has been ruled fit by doctors to stand trial, prosecutors said Friday. Demjanjuk, 89, was deported in May from the United States to Germany, where he was wanted for alleged involvement in about 29,000 killings as an SS guard at Sobibor, a World War II Nazi death c... Read more	Navy unsure sailor's death was hate crime Friday 03rd of July 2009 10:18:05 AM CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., July 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Navy officials said they had no indication that the shooting death of a gay sailor at Camp Pendleton, Calif., was a hate crime. Capt. Matt Brown, director of public affairs for Navy Region Southwest, said the military also couldn't confirm that Seaman August Provost was harassed in the days before he was killed, the... Read more
Bosnia jails Serb 14 years on warcrimes Friday 03rd of July 2009 10:12:20 AM SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 3 (UPI) -- A Sarajevo court has sentenced a former Bosnian Serb police officer to 14 years in prison for killing 200 Bosnian non-Serb civilians in 1992. Damir Ivankovic, who admitted he was guilty of war crimes charges, was sentenced by the Bosnia-Herzegovina court in Sarajevo for taking part in the shooting of more than 200 ... Read more	Police use stun gun on minister in arrest Thursday 02nd of July 2009 04:32:50 PM WEBSTER, Texas, July 2 (UPI) -- Texas police used a stun gun on a minister, then arrested him for allegedly interfering with a traffic stop in his church parking lot, police said. Officers also used pepper spray to disperse about 40 congregants who surrounded the arresting officer, police in Webster, Texas, said. Police Chief Ray Smiley told the Houston... Read more
Bangladeshi man arrested for beating tiger to death Thursday 02nd of July 2009 02:40:20 PM DHAKA (AFP) -- Police in southeastern Bangladesh arrested a man Thursday for beating an endangered Bengal tiger to death after it strayed into a village, a forest official said.The tiger had entered the village in Satkhira, which is close to th... Read more	Man arrested three times in just over week Wednesday 01st of July 2009 06:20:14 PM GRETNA, La., July 1 (UPI) -- Authorities in Louisiana say a man was arrested three times in a little more than a week for allegedly repeating the same crime -- not paying a restaurant bill. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said Michael Bryant, 36, of Tucson, Ariz., was first arrested June 22 after he refused to pay a $23 check at Melancon's Annex in Metai... Read more
Bosnia arrests Serb on alleged war crimes Wednesday 01st of July 2009 01:20:22 PM BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 1 (UPI) -- Police in Bosnia-Herzegovina said Wednesday they have arrested a 39-year-old Bosnian Serb on suspicion he killed 200 Bosnian Muslims in 1992. Bosnia's special police unit for investigation and protection arrested Sasa Zecevic at the Prijedor police station in northwestern Bosnia where he worked as a traffic offic... Read more	Zelaya faces arrest in Honduras as protests rise Tuesday 30th of June 2009 10:22:13 PM by Sophie Nicholson TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) -- Officials ordered the arrest of ousted President Manuel Zelaya if he returns to Honduras after being expelled in an army-backed coup, as thousands of protesters took to the streets here.And as the United Nations backe... Read more
Zelaya faces arrest in Honduras Tuesday 30th of June 2009 05:24:47 PM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 30 (UPI) -- The provisional government of Honduras announced Tuesday it would arrest ousted President Manuel Zelaya if he returns to the country. The Honduran foreign minister told CNN Espanol Tuesday Zelaya would face several charges. Military troops arrested Zelaya Sunday before a proposed referendum on presidential term l... Read more	Former supermodel Mulder arrested Tuesday 30th of June 2009 02:05:22 PM PARIS, June 30 (UPI) -- Former supermodel Karen Mulder was being held in a Paris jail for allegedly threatening a plastic surgeon, French police say. Mulder, 39, was arrested in Paris after the surgeon complained Mulder had made threatening telephone calls allegedly demanding she reverse an earlier procedure, Britain's Daily Mail reported Tuesday. An unn... Read more
Iran arrests UK embassy staff for 'role in riots' Sunday 28th of June 2009 09:35:24 PM by Jay Deshmukh TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, triggering London's fury and further exacerbating tensions with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic.The latest backlash against what Iranian le... Read more	Iran arrests British embassy staff for 'role in riots' Sunday 28th of June 2009 03:37:04 PM by Jay Deshmukh TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, triggering London's fury on Sunday and further exacerbating tensions with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic.The latest backlash ag... Read more
Rights group decries Honduran pres. arrest Sunday 28th of June 2009 02:55:19 PM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 28 (UPI) -- Human rights activists Sunday condemned the arrest of Honduran President Mauel Zelaya by the country's military. The apparent coup prompted criticism by Human Rights Watch, which called Zelaya's ousting a breach of democracy in Honduras and called for the Organization of American States to act quickly to push for... Read more	Honduran president arrested by troops in feared coup Sunday 28th of June 2009 02:02:13 PM by Ana Fernandez TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) -- Honduran troops arrested President Manuel Zelaya in an apparent military coup Sunday to stop him pressing ahead with a constitutional referendum, in a move triggering global concern."Troops have taken the pr... Read more
Obama concerned by Honduran pres. arrest Sunday 28th of June 2009 01:03:07 PM TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 28 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concern Sunday about the arrest of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by military troops in the Central American country. I am deeply concerned by reports coming out of Honduras regarding the detention and expulsion of President Mel Zelaya, Obama said in a statement released by... Read more	Iran arrests British embassy staff for 'role in riots' Sunday 28th of June 2009 12:08:31 PM by Jay Deshmukh TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, triggering London's fury on Sunday and further exacerbating tensions with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic.The latest backlash ag... Read more
Miliband: Embassy arrests 'unacceptable' Sunday 28th of June 2009 11:51:37 AM CORFU, Greece, June 28 (UPI) -- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband Sunday said Iran's arrest of nine Tehran embassy staffers is unacceptable and demanded their release. This is harassment and intimidation of a kind that is quite unacceptable, Miliband told reporters while attending an international security conference on the Greek island of... Read more	Fundraiser hostess arrested after melee Sunday 28th of June 2009 11:51:07 AM ENCINTAS, Calif., June 28 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies busted a congressional candidate's fundraiser in the San Diego area on a noise complaint, nabbing the hostess for battery and obstruction. Shari Barman, 60, who was booked and released in the Saturday incident, is to appear in court in August on charges of suspicion of obstructing a peace officer and batter... Read more