Ex-police chief: Mo. city told me to stop blacks
GANDHINAGAR - Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a voluntary organisation supporting the 2002 Gujarat riot victims’ quest for justice, has complained of manhandling of some key witnesses in the Odh massacre case by policemen assisting the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
BHOPAL - The Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly Thursday passed a stringent anti-terror law, despite strong resistance from the opposition Congress, the state government saying that it was the need of the hour and not targeted against any community.
Reputed mobster pleads not guilty in federal court
Honduran reporter hides in hospital after attacks
S. Calif. fortuneteller charged with raping teens
KABUL - UN envoy Staffan de Mistura Thursday met the representatives of Afghan warlord Gulbudin Hekmatyar’s Hizb-e-Islami party in a bid to broker talks between the Islamic group and the government, Xinhua reported.
Mexico arrests ‘King of Heroin,’ with ties to US
Vatican: No cover-up in US molestation case
3 plead not guilty in NY Madoff scam
NEW YORK — A former executive with disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s investment firm and two other ex-employees pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges that they were in on his massive Ponzi scheme.
USVI men convicted in attack on Pennsylvania man
Appeals court upholds NY forced labor conviction
1 trial for 2 men accused of arranging rape online
Spanish super judge closer to being charged
Mexico’s ‘King of Heroin’ busted
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say they have arrested a major drug trafficker known as the “King of Heroin” for the massive amounts of drugs he moved into the U.S. each year.
UK police asks Internet cafes to monitor customers
Rome police detain 4 US church abuse victims
Former NFL QB Ryan Leaf hoping for plea bargain
NEW DELHI - A city court Thursday granted bail to a Sikh militant, Parminder Singh Saini, who had masterminded the hijack of an Indian Airlines plane to Pakistan in 1984.
ISLAMABAD - At least 40 militants were killed Thursday in an artillery and air attack in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal district of Orakzai near the Afghan border, a security official said.
Hezbollah members questioned in Hariri case
SHILLONG - A Meghalaya minister has become the latest to receive an extortion demand from militant outfit, the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
CAIRO - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has in a new audio message threatened to kill captured US citizens if the alleged mastermind of 9/11 is executed, media reports said Thursday.
Kenyan police arrest American on terror watch list