Incidents - страница 173

US family shares dead crash son's last text A US family has published the last, cut-off text message written by their 22-year-old son who crashed his car and died while using his cellphone, in the hope of preventing similar tragedies.

14 April 2013

UN refugee chief meets some of thousands who fled C.Africa The UN high commissioner for refugees, Antonio Guterres, met some of the thousands of C. Africans who have fled to the DRC after rebels seized power in their home country.

14 April 2013

US billionaire wins $12 mln in damages in wine fraud case A New York jury on Friday awarded $12 million in damages to a US billionaire, who said he had been defrauded when he paid thousands of dollars for supposedly vintage wine that turned out to be fake.

13 April 2013

Strong 6.0-magnitude quake hits western Japan A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit western Japan early on Saturday, injuring at least 15 people and destroying some houses.

13 April 2013

US protesters demand closure of Guantanamo Rights activists across the United States held a series of protests on Thursday demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay as a hunger-strike at the jail entered a third month.

12 April 2013

West has 'hard evidence' of Syria chemical weapons: envoy Western nations have "hard evidence" that chemical weapons have been used at least once in the Syrian war but a UN investigation is now unlikely to get into the country.

12 April 2013

US billionaire wins fake wine trial A New York jury on Thursday backed a US billionaire who complained that wines he bought costing thousands of dollars a bottle were phony.

12 April 2013

Rakhat Aliyev fears kidnapping Rakhat Aliyev said in an interview to the European media he was ready to appear in Austrian court but feared of being kidnapped.

12 April 2013

German fake Rockefeller guilty of US murder A German fantasist who impersonated a member of the Rockefeller family, an English aristocrat and a Hollywood film producer, was convicted Wednesday of murdering his California landlord in 1985.

11 April 2013

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Syria's Al-Nusra pledges allegiance to Al-Qaeda The head of Syria's jihadist Al-Nusra Front has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, but distanced his group from claims it has merged with Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

11 April 2013

US college student stabs 14 in Texas attack A US college student stabbed 14 people, leaving two victims critically wounded, Tuesday in a rampage that ended when he was wrestled to the ground and taken into custody.

10 April 2013

Death toll at 37 as Iran wraps up quake rescue Rescuers Wednesday wound up operations after pulling 20 people from the rubble of an earthquake that struck near the port city of Bushehr.

10 April 2013

Most conflict-zone sex crimes are against children: charity Save the Children on Wednesday urged action after releasing a report claiming that most rape and sexual abuse victims in many of the world's conflict zones were children.

10 April 2013

Execution-free world getting closer: Amnesty The use of the death penalty is broadly diminishing around the world although a handful of countries that had not used capital punishment for several years resumed executions in 2012.

10 April 2013

Parcel bomb sent to Italian newspaper office A parcel bomb was sent to the offices of Italian newspaper La Stampa on Tuesday but failed to detonate when opened, prompting an evacuation of the building as bomb disposal teams were deployed.

10 April 2013

US budget cuts could delay Bin Laden kin's trial The highly anticipated New York trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law could be delayed because his court-appointed lawyers have been hit by US budget cuts.

09 April 2013

Ban says W. Sahara risks being drawn into Mali war UN leader Ban Ki-Moon called Monday for urgent international efforts to end the Western Sahara conflict because of fears the Mali war will spill over into the Moroccan-occupied territory.

09 April 2013

Fake Rockefeller faces murder charge verdict A German man who posed as a member of the famed Rockefeller family after allegedly killing his landlord in California likely killed the man's wife too.

09 April 2013

France launches major offensive on Mali Islamists A French force of 1,000 soldiers in a major offensive has swept a valley thought to be a logistics base for Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists near the Malian city of Gao.

09 April 2013