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Former Ljungby politician Rashad Alasaad, 27, was arrested by ten undercover police officers during a raid at his home on Wednesday morning.
"The person was taken for questioning and subsequently arrested. He is entitled to a public defender and that is being arranged," said police spokesman Ewa-Gun Westford.
Swedish paper Expressen recorded Alasaad with a hidden camera joking about how he had smuggled several people into Sweden for money, after entering the country along the smuggling route from Turkey, and offering to help smuggle a child from Greece to Sweden.
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US Embassy, Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq
US Embassy, Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq
Air raid sirens can be heard in video footage presumably captured in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday night. Multiple journalists in the city reported that two explosions rang out, apparently coming from the direction of the heavily-fortified 'Green Zone,' home to the US embassy.
Iraq's military said that "two Katyusha rockets fell inside the Green Zone without causing casualties." Police sources told Reuters that the rockets came within 100 meters of the US embassy, and caused a fire.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed the chargesheet in a special court, Chennai against the accused identified as Hassan Ali, Haris Mohamed, Mohammed Ibrahim, Mohamed Sheik Maitheen, Meeran Ghani, Gulam Nabi Asath, Ahmed Azarudeen, Toufiq Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohammed Afzar and Farook.
They were charged under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The NIA took over the case on July 9, 2019 and booked 16 accused persons from Tamil Nadu based on information received that they along with their associates, while being in the UAE, had conspired and conducted religious classes with the objective of establishing Islamic rule in India, through violent jihad and promoting unlawful activities.
Fourteen accused persons were arrested and detained in the UAE, in connection with the case, for "clandestinely conducting religious classes and meetings" with the intention of promoting violent jihad and other unlawful activities, the NIA said.
"They were arrested on their deportation from the UAE in July 2019. Hassan Ali, and Haris Mohamed were arrested from Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu in mid-July 2019 after recovery of incriminating materials during searches at their houses."
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Demonstrators protest the construction of a U.S. Marine air base in the remote Henoko part of Okinawa island, to replace the existing Futenma facility.
Demonstrators protest the construction of a U.S. Marine air base in the remote Henoko part of Okinawa island, to replace the existing Futenma facility.
Prosecutors charged him with assault on Sunday after he was taken into custody on Saturday at his home in Yamazato, Okinawa City. Monsalvogarza admitted to the charge, Iha said.
Lance Cpl. Jose Alejandro Araica, 20, of Camp Courtney, was arrested last Wednesday after being accused of choking a Japanese man at a bar in Matsuyama, Naha, said Naha Police Deputy Chief Shigenari Kinjo. Araica, still in custody on Monday, was intoxicated and said he does not remember the incident, according to Kinjo. He was also charged with assault.
Lance Cpl. Justin Delgado, 20-year-old Marine, of Camp Kinser, was arrested December 26 after stealing alcohol from a convenience store in Chatan's Ihei neighborhood, Iha said. He is also accused of trespassing onto a private home and stealing a drink from the refrigerator. "Delgado was heavily intoxicated when he was arrested," Iha said.
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Student Nick Sandmann • Native American Nathan Phillips
Student Nick Sandmann • Native American Nathan Phillips
The incident was caught on video and widely circulated. The media's collective condemnation of Sandmann and his classmates was deafening, but subsequent video footage showed that the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, had misrepresented the situation in his public statements to news outlets. Reason was among the first to criticize the media's rush to judgment.
Sandmann has sued CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC Universal for $800 million, and his lawyers have promised that additional suits are forthcoming. They had asked for $250 million from CNN: The amount of the settlement was not disclosed.
Sandmann's lawyers stressed that the massive amount of money they are asking for is intended to deter future media misbehavior. Indeed, it would be a good thing if more journalists refrained from tweeting knee-jerk reactions to news developments they don't fully understand, and were slightly more reluctant to escalate small moments involving non-notable people into major national firestorms.
The latest appeal — filed with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which does not have to take the case — focuses on four key trial issues, including the judge's decision to let five other accusers testify and to send Cosby to trial despite what he called a binding agreement with an earlier prosecutor that he would not be charged in the case.
Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term at a maximum-security state prison in Pennsylvania. His lawyers called the 2004 encounter consensual, but a jury found otherwise in April 2018, convicting him on all three felony counts in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
The appeal was filed as jury selection gets underway this week in the case that launched that national movement of people coming forward with accounts of sexual assault or harassment. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged in New York with raping one woman sexually assaulting another. Several other women are expected to testify about similar experiences with Weinstein.
Iran blames technical issues, Ukraine not so sure
Iranian authorities were quick to blame a technical fault for the fatal crash of the Ukrainian airliner which took off from Tehran bound for Kiev Wednesday morning, with all 176 onboard losing their lives.
Ali Abedzedah, head of Iran's civil aviation authority, attributed the cause of the crash to engine failure, and said there was no involvement of terrorism.
While Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky warned against "speculation and unchecked theories", his prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk told a press conference that he was not ruling out the possibility that a missile could have brought down the plane.
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House Del. Vaughn Stewart, a Democrat, wrote Jan. 3 that he will introduce "Homes for All" legislation that would "legalize the construction of modest homes in neighborhoods close to affluent schools, reliable transit, and good jobs."
"For too long, local governments have weaponized zoning codes to block people of color and the working class from high-opportunity neighborhoods, pushing them to the crumbling margins of cities and towns. We must act boldly to reverse decades of these exclusionary policies," he wrote.
The bill follows other efforts throughout the country to bring high-density housing to quiet neighborhoods of single-family homes, with advocates describing suburban neighborhoods with low crime rates and top-ranked schools as racially segregated.
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In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.
In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.
Offenders from England and Wales are travelling overseas to commit "extensive abuse" of children, including in eastern Asia and Africa, said the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
It said civil orders, such as travel restrictions, are rarely placed on offenders to stop them visiting other countries where poverty and corruption have left children vulnerable.
Police forces are also often not aware of Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which allows residents of England and Wales accused of sexually abusing children abroad to be prosecuted in the UK, the report found.
