[FRANCE24] A dentist in the centre of Marseille was shot dead Tuesday by a patient, a man in his 70s who was himself killed during the subsequent police intervention.
Police sources said the pensioner, who had been involved in a legal dispute with the practice, had turned up at the surgery with two handguns, a pistol and a revolver.
Witnesses heard several shots, the building was evacuated and police called. The suspected killer of the dentist was shot dead after he opened fire on officers, police said.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
In France when we have a grudge against someone we tell "I have a tooth against him/her". Now you could think a dentist could have taken care of the probem and extracted that tooth.
[FRANCE24] Bosco Ntaganda, the Rwandan-born Tutsi rebel sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and an alleged leader of the M23 revolt in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, walked into the U.S. embassy in Rwanda on Monday and handed himself over, the U.S. government said.
A State Department spokeswoman said he asked to be taken to the ICC in The Hague. It was an unexpected move by an elusive insurgent chief whose name was widely feared in the Great Lakes borderlands region that has long been a tinderbox of brutal ethnic and political conflict fuelled by mineral riches.
Ntaganda, wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity - including recruiting child soldiers, murder, rape and sexual slavery - had suffered a humiliating reversal of fortunes in the last few weeks as infighting tore apart the M23 rebellion he had helped to launch in April last year.
Pursued by a more powerful rival M23 commander, Sultani Makenga, Ntaganda and hundreds of his fellow fighters fled in recent days to neighbouring Rwanda, in a split that could open the way for Makenga and his group to sign a peace deal with the government of President Joseph Kabila..
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
[Egypt Independent] Zim-bob-weans have approved a new constitution that curbs the powers of the president and puts the turbulent southern African country a step closer to holding full elections in the next few months, the election commission said on Tuesday.
Nearly 95 percent of voters in a referendum approved the new charter which was supported by President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, political rivals who were forced into a power-sharing deal after disputed elections in 2008.
The official turnout, at slightly more than half the 6 million eligible voters, was higher than many analysts had expected.
The new charter sets a maximum of two five-year terms for the president. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the limit will not apply retroactively, so Mugabe, 89 and in power since independence from Britannia in 1980, could rule for the next decade.
Presidential decrees will also require majority backing in the cabinet, and declaring emergency rule or dissolving parliament will need the approval of two-thirds of politicians, changes that will take effect after the next election.
A new constitution and a referendum were conditions of the 2008 power-sharing deal and Tsvangirai has said there would be no point in holding new elections without a new supreme law.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
Members of Ukraine's opposition Svoboda (Liberty) faction have scuffled with lawmakers from the ruling Party of Regions and the Communist Party in the nation's parliament.
The incident took place after the Communists and members of the ruling Party of Regions started shouting that Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok should not address parliament.
The parliament resumed its business after members of three opposition factions stopped blocking the podium. They had been blocking the podium for two weeks to protest the ruling party's initiative to strip opposition deputy Serhiy Vlasenko of his mandate.
Last month, the three opposition factions -- the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms, Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), and Svoboda -- blocked the parliament's podium for more than two weeks. That blockage ended with the adoption of a new law requesting the physical presence of lawmakers during voting.
Senior Chinese military officials have admitted for the first time that a frigate locked its radar on a Japanese destroyer during the two nations' row over disputed islands, Kyodo News reported Monday.
In one of the more serious incidents in an escalating wrangle over ownership of the islands in the East China Sea, Tokyo said the Chinese vessel effectively had a Japanese ship in its sights earlier this year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... three Chinese marine surveillance ships were seen entering the territorial waters extending 12 nautical miles off one of the islands at around 6:30 pm (0930 GMT), Japan's coastguard said.
Kyodo reported that the vessels left the area by around 9:30 pm.
State-owned Chinese vessels have intermittently cruised near the Tokyo-controlled Senkakus, which China claims as the Diaoyus, since Japan nationalised some of them last September -- at times inside territorial waters.
Beijing has consistently denied the allegation of the radar lock and has accused Tokyo of exaggerating the "China threat" in a bid to manipulate world public opinion against its giant neighbour.
But Kyodo News cited unidentified senior Chinese military officials as saying the weapons targeting had taken place. The officials, including "flag officers" -- those at the rank of admiral -- told Kyodo it was an "emergency decision" and not a planned action and was taken by the commander of the frigate, the report said.
"What kind of 'emergency'?"
"An emergent emergency!"
The Tokyo-datelined report said the comments were made recently but gave no specifics.
The radar incident marked the first time the two nations' navies have locked horns in the increasingly bitter island row.
The Chinese officials told Kyodo that on January 30 the frigate and the Japanese destroyer were three kilometres (two miles) apart in international waters 110 to 130 kilometres north of the outcrops, the report said. The commander of the frigate directed his vessel's weapons-targeting radar, based on the Chinese military's rules of engagement, without seeking instructions from the fleet command or navy headquarters, Kyodo cited the Chinese officers as saying.
It was not known if the commander had been reprimanded, Kyodo said.
Tokyo has also charged that a Chinese frigate locked its radar on a Japanese helicopter in the middle of January. China has denied the accusations and its defence ministry said on Monday that the truth was "very clear".
"The Japanese allegation of Chinese navy vessels targeting warships and airplanes of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces with fire-control radar does not fit the facts," it said in a statement faxed to AFP. "The Japanese side speculates from time to time on this issue, discredits the Chinese military and misleads the international community with ulterior motives."
A later statement from the Chinese navy carried by China's official Xinhua news agency said the foreign media reports had been "maliciously concocted".
The statement said the reports were "fabricated out of thin air" and accused them of trying to damage the Chinese military's image, mislead international opinion and win sympathy.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
03/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Apparently not everyone in the PLA thinks the Chinese vessel did.
CHINA HAS SEEMINGLY ADMITTED IT + DENIED IT ALL IN THE SAME AFTERNOON???
#1
At some point if they take a bailout they should exchange their soveregnty. Become a territory ruled by others until the bailout is paid back and you'd see a lot of pride going towards avoiding bailouts.
[FRANCE24] Lawmakers in Cyprus rejected a controversial bank deposit levy on Tuesday, a key measure in a bill required to secure an international bailout for the troubled eurozone country to avert a possible default and banking collapse.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Update Cyprus warned over parliament's bailout rejection Germany's finance minister has warned Cyprus that its crisis-stricken banks may never be able to reopen if it rejects the terms of a bailout.
Wolfgang Schaeuble said major Cypriot banks were "insolvent if there are no emergency funds".
He was speaking after the Cypriot parliament rejected an international bailout deal that would have imposed a one-off tax on bank deposits.
Frantic talks are under way to try to agree an alternative plan.
#3
Infowars: Millions of Chase Bank customers were affected by an unfortunately timed glitch which resulted in their checking and savings accounts showing a zero balance for several hours yesterday,
At least they think it was a glitch.
#4
Update Cyprus seeks Russian bailout aid, EU threatens cutoff Cyprus pleaded for a new loan from Russia on Wednesday to avert a financial meltdown, but won no immediate relief after the island's parliament rejected the terms of a European bailout, raising the risk of default and a bank crash.
Finance Minister Michael Sarris said in Moscow he had reached no deal with his Russian counterpart Anton Siluanov, but talks would continue.
Russia's finance ministry said Nicosia had sought a further 5 billion euros on top of a five-year extension and lower interest on an existing 2.5 billion euro loan.
Cyprus has to seek Moscow's help after the euro zone's plan for a 10 billion euro bailout was cast into disarray on Tuesday when the island's parliament rebuffed EU demands for a levy on bank deposits to raise 5.8 billion euros.
Moscow has its own interests in ensuring the survival of Cypriot banks, which have served as an offshore financial haven for Russian businesses and individuals.
The European Central Bank's chief negotiator on Cyprus, Joerg Asmussen, said the ECB would have to pull the plug on Cypriot banks unless the country took a bailout quickly.
"We can provide emergency liquidity only to solvent banks and... the solvency of Cypriot banks cannot be assumed if an aid program is not agreed on soon, which would allow for a quick recapitalization of the banking sector," Asmussen told German weekly Die Zeit in an interview conducted on Tuesday evening.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said he could not rule out Cyprus leaving the euro zone, although he hoped its leaders would find a solution for it to stay.
#5
I recommend a small fee on all financial transactions. Dirty, carbon based payments might be a bit larger simply as a measure to assist in the development of clean energy. No one making under $ 250,000. per year will be unaffected.
Also to be considered might be a financial storage and insurance fee. For instance, depositors with accounts less than $ 250,000. would pay a monthly fee for backing services, accounting, checks, safety deposit box, paper, [non-viewable CIA internets] statements, etc. Since banks no longer pay interest on deposits, seems only fair that we pay them. Well, somebody needs to be paying, right?
Anyone note the lack of comment or condemnation from Washington ?
#6
B, Washington has been using the stealth method for years now by printing a butt load of currency creations, without any backing in value or productivity, basically reducing personal income by a heck of a lot more than what the EUcrats wanted to take from the bank holdings.
#7
Well in the liberal sphere of thinking, no bad idea ever dies, the Dems are probably thinking this is a grand idea just what the economic needs is for the Obamacrats to confiscate all private property. (Which by the way is about 2.5 TRILLION Less than our debt burden).
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
03/20/2013 10:41 Comments ||
Top||
[An Nahar] India's lower house on Tuesday approved a bill toughening punishments for rapists and other sexual offenders that was introduced following the fatal gang-rape of a student that sparked national outrage.
Members of the decision-making lower house of parliament gave their assent, following a seven-hour debate, to the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill which also contains new penalties for stalking, groping, voyeurism and acid attacks.
The legislation, which must now be approved by the nominated upper house, provides for a minimum 20-year prison sentence for gang-rape, that can be extended to life in jail.
It also provides for the death sentence if a rape victim dies or is left in a vegetative state.
"This is just a first step in a journey of 1,000 miles," said Harsimrat Kaur Badal, a woman MP from the regional Shiromani Akali Dal party, in the final moments of the debate.
Under the existing law governing sexual offences, a rapist faces seven to 10 years in jail.
The bill's approval by the lower house came four days after a 39-year-old Swiss cyclist was gang-raped in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in an attack observers said underscored risks women face in the country of 1.2 billion people.
It also came on the day a female British tourist suffered leg injuries when she jumped out of a hotel window in fear of being sexually assaulted in the Indian city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal.
A government-appointed panel in January recommended stiffer laws after a 23-year-old student was savagely gang-raped by six drunken men and attacked with an iron bar on a bus on December 16. She died nearly two weeks later of massive internal injuries.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FRANCE24] Bosco Ntaganda, the Rwandan-born Tutsi rebel sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and an alleged leader of the M23 revolt in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, walked into the U.S. embassy in Rwanda on Monday and handed himself over, the U.S. government said.
Members of Ukraine's opposition Svoboda (Liberty) faction have scuffled with lawmakers from the ruling Party of Regions and the Communist Party in the nation's parliament.
[FRANCE24] Lawmakers in Cyprus rejected a controversial bank deposit levy on Tuesday, a key measure in a bill required to secure an international bailout for the troubled eurozone country to avert a possible default and banking collapse.
