Pakistan’s Musharraf charged with Bhutto’s murder

A Pakistani court today charged former military ruler Pervez Musharraf with the 2007 murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, an unprecedented move against an ex-army chief.

It is the first time a former head of Pakistan's powerful army has been charged with any crime.

While few believe there is evidence to convict Musharraf, it sends a significant message that the power of the military has been challenged in recent years.

Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and ruled until he was forced out after Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party won elections in 2008, was charged on three counts.

"He was charged with murder, criminal conspiracy for murder and facilitation for murder," public prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told AFP at the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi hearing the case.

A car carrying former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is the head of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) political party, arrives at an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi today. The court in Pakistan has formally indicted former military dictator Musharraf today with the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in 2007.


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US man held after “Facebook murder” of wife

A US man was being quizzed by police yesterday after gunning down his wife and posting a gruesome picture of her dead body on Facebook, authorities said.

Derek Medina, 31, was being questioned by detectives in Miami after turning himself in earlier yesterday following the shooting death of wife Jennifer Alfonso, 26.

In a macabre twist, Medina had apparently posted a picture showing his slain wife's blood-soaked body on Facebook, under the caption "RIP Jennifer Alfonso," before giving himself up.

In a status update posted shortly before the photo was uploaded, Medina wrote: "You will see me in the news."

Screenshot from Derek Medina's Facebook profile showing the posted photo of the body of his wife, Jennifer Alonso (blurred). - The Malaysian Insider pic from Facebook, August 9, 2013.

 

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Indian school head arrested over mass poisoning

Police yesterday arrested the head of a school in eastern India where 23 children died after eating a free meal laced with a lethal pesticide, an officer said.

The children, aged four to 12, fell ill within minutes of eating the lunch of lentils, potatoes and rice cooked at their primary school in a poverty-stricken village in Bihar state on July 16.

"The principal surrendered... and we have arrested her for questioning," said Sujeet Kumar, police chief of Saran district where the incident occurred.

"We need to talk to her first before framing charges," the official said by telephone.

Police have been searching for the teacher, Meena Devi, who apparently fled shortly after the tragedy in Gandaman village, which also left some 30 children ill in hospital and sparked angry street protests.

Saran district administrator Abhijit Sinha told AFP that the teacher was key to resolving the issue of just how the deadly chemicals ended up in the food.

Indian villagers carry the dead body of a child who died of food poisoning, after consuming a midday meal served in a government primary school, at the school in the state of Bihar in Saran district on July 18, 2013. - AFP

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Juror says Zimmerman ‘got away with murder’

A juror in the trial of George Zimmerman says the former neighbourhood watch volunteer “got away with murder” when he was acquitted earlier this month in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.

The woman, who is part Hispanic and was identified in court as juror B29, said she would have liked to convict Zimmerman of murdering Martin but her hands were tied by a lack of evidence.

“You can’t put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty,” she said in an interview due to be aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America” today. “But we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence,” the woman said.



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Cannibal who hacked a homeless person to death and ate his eye and brain found NOT GUILTY

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Cannibal who hacked a homeless person to death and ate his eye and brain found NOT GUILTY of murder by reason of insanity

Tyree Lincoln Smith, 35, was found not guilty of the Dec 2011 murder, by reason of insanity
He hacked homeless man Angel Gonzalez to death, and then ate his eye and parts of his brain
Smith was arrested trying to flee to Florida in Jan 2012 and charged with murder
The three-judge panel found that the defense proved he was insane at the time
Smith is likely to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital

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British Couple open new hospital in india and get son murdered

British doctors' son, 8, kidnapped and murdered during opening ceremony of hospital they dreamed of running in India

Ishan Rawal, eight, was kidnapped and found strangled in Indore, India
His doctor parents had moved from East Yorkshire to open up a hospital
Ishan disappeared during the opening ceremony of his parents' clinic
An employee of the Rawals has admitted to the kidnap and murder of Ishan



Devastating: Ishan, pictured far right with his parents Drs Arvind and Nikita Rawal and brother Rusheek, was found murdered the day his parents opened their hospital in his new home country



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Woman executed in China for poisoning competitor’s milk

A woman received a lethal injection yesterday for lacing milk with nitrite which killed three children and sickened more than 30 others in northwest China, a local court said Wednesday.

Ma Xiuling and her husband Wu Guangquan, two dairy farmers from Pingliang City, Gansu Province, deliberately added nitrite, an industrial salt, to fresh milk produced by a business rival in April 2011, China's Xinhua news agency quoted a statement from the Pingliang Municipal Intermediate People's Court as saying.


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Rapist and murderer pictured walking to the gallows to face execution in Kuwaiti car park

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Egyptians Ahmad Abdulsalam al-Baili and Hajjaj Saadi executed in Kuwait
Saadi raped 18 young children while Baili killed couple in arson attack
Country restarted executions this year after 12-year moratorium

These haunting images show the last moments of two condemned criminals immediately before they were executed in Kuwait for crimes which have shocked the nation.

Ahmad Abdulsalam al-Baili and Hajjaj Saadi were both hanged today on a gallows set up in a car park outside the country's main prison.

Saadi, 33, was executed for abducting and raping 18 young children, while Baili had been convicted of murdering an Asian couple.



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