dimanche 17 mars 2013

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Six arrested for gang-raping Swiss tourist in India

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:35 PM PDT

A Swiss woman with her face covered is taken to a hospital by police for her medical examination at Gwalior in Madhya PradeshBHOPAL, India (Reuters) - Police have arrested six men accused of the gang-rape of a Swiss tourist who was camping with her husband in an Indian forest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Russian lawmaker not reassured by U.S. missile defense plan

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:04 PM PDT

Pushkov, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on International Affairs, attends a news conference in MoscowBy Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) - A change in the United States plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe will not prompt Russia to drop its opposition to the system, a senior lawmaker allied to President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday the Pentagon would add 14 new anti-missile interceptors in Alaska, among others, after North Korea had threatened a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States. To free up funds for that, U.S. ...

Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:17 AM PDT

Trent Mays, 17, left, gets a hug from his father, Brian Mays, after Trent and co-defendant Ma'lik Richmond, 16, were found delinquent on rape and other charges after their trial in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)Inside a small Ohio courtroom filled with sobbing and exhausting emotion, Judge Thomas Lipps found Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond guilty Sunday in a case that rocked the nation.

CPAC: Why Marco Rubio could be the real winner

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:01 AM PDT

El senador Marco Rubio en la conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora en National Habor, Maryland, este viernesMarco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, came in second Saturday to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul in the presidential straw poll at the big annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

Prince closes SXSW with all-night private purple party

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 09:59 AM PDT

Prince Closes SXSW With All-Night Private Purple PartyOnly at an overbooked musicfest like Austin's South By Southwest would "secret" megashows by Justin Timberlake, Smashing Pumpkins, and Fall Out Boy be the respective second, third, and fourth gig choices of the week's final epic evening. Instead, the place to be on SXSW Saturday was Samsung Galaxy's private closing party headlined by the artist [...]

Duchess: Hoping for baby boy, William wants girl

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Britain's Kate Duchess of Cambridge, third left, stands with her husband Prince William, fourth left, before presenting traditional sprigs of shamrock to members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at the St Patrick's Day Parade at Mons Barracks in Aldershot, England, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Kate presenting the sprigs of shamrocks to the regiment Sunday, follows a century-old tradition inaugurated by Queen Alexandra, the wife of the then King, Edward VII back in 1901. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON (AP) — The Duchess of Cambridge said Sunday that she doesn't know the sex of her first child — but she hopes it's a boy.

12 candidates for Syrian rebel interim premier

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 08:26 AM PDT

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, anti-Syrian regime protesters raise up their hands as they wave Syrian revolutionary flags during a protest to mark the second anniversary of the their uprising, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday March 15, 2013. The chief of Syria's main, western-backed rebel group marked the second anniversary of the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad on Friday by pledging to fight until the BEIRUT (AP) — Twelve candidates are running for interim prime minister of a government to rule rebel-controlled areas in Syria, the country's main opposition group said Sunday.

Ohio teens guilty of rape, face year-plus in jail

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 08:11 AM PDT

Ma'lik Richmond, 16, top, hugs his mother Daphne Birden, after closing arguments were made on the fourth day of the juvenile trial he and co-defendant Trent Mays, 17, on rape charges in juvenile court on Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Steubenville, Ohio. Mays and Richmond are accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August, 2012. Judge Thomas Lipps said he would render a decision on Sunday morning, March 17. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided the Rust Belt city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community's athletes.

2 Ohio teen football players found guilty of rape

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 07:40 AM PDT

Ma'lik Richmond, 16, top, hugs his mother Daphne Birden, after closing arguments were made on the fourth day of the juvenile trial he and co-defendant Trent Mays, 17, on rape charges in juvenile court on Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Steubenville, Ohio. Mays and Richmond are accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August, 2012. Judge Thomas Lipps said he would render a decision on Sunday morning, March 17. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided the Rust Belt city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community's athletes.

Pope wades into crowd before 1st window appearance

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:53 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance to the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passersby and prompting cheers, then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican's tiny parish church. Dressed only in white cassock, Francis waved to the crowd in the street outside St. Anna's Gate and before entering the church, which serves Vatican City State's hundreds of residents, he shook hands of the parishioners and kissed babies. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy.

Boehner: 'Talk about raising revenue is over'

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:22 AM PDT

John Boehner: The 'Talk About Raising Revenue Is Over'House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told ABC News' Martha Raddatz during an exclusive interview for "This Week" that talk of including revenue as part of an effort to strike a so-called "grand bargain" to address the $16 trillion debt of the United States was "over,"...

Mandela's ex-wife shocked at possible prosecution

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 05:52 AM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie expressed "surprise and shock" that prosecutors are considering charges against her following the exhumation of bodies believed to belong to two young activists last seen at her home 24 years ago.

U.S. soldier accused of Afghan killings faces 'sanity' review

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 05:37 AM PDT

Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance is seen in a courtroom sketch as he is arraigned on 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WashingtoA U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 civilians, most of them women and children, near his Army post in Afghanistan is set to undergo a medical review on Sunday ...

Turkey: Man detained over NYC woman's death

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 05:21 AM PDT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An official says Turkish police have detained a man wanted in connection with the killing of a New York City woman in Istanbul.

A decade on, most are critical of the U.S.-led war in Iraq

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:51 AM PDT

Iraq war legacy: high suicide rates and PTSD among vetsTen years after U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad punctuated the start of the Iraq war, nearly six in 10 Americans say the war was not worth fighting ...

Cold, wet Dublin braces for St. Patrick's Day

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:21 AM PDT

U.S Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Tanner Marshall is kissed by a woman during a St. Patrick's Day parade, Saturday, March, 16, 2013, in Savannah, Ga. St. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)DUBLIN (AP) — Never mind the fickle Irish weather. A chilly, damp Dublin is wrapping up warm for St. Patrick's Day.

China's new premier rejects U.S. hacking claims

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:05 AM PDT

China's new President Xi Jinping, left, and newly installed Premier Li Kiqiang arrive to the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing China, Sunday, March 17, 2013. China's new leader pledged a cleaner, more efficient government Sunday as the country's ceremonial legislature wrapped up a pivotal session that installed the latest generation of communist leaders in a once-a-decade transfer of power. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)China's new premier, Li Keqiang, dismissed hacking accusations against China as "groundless" on Sunday and said his government was committed to strong ties with Washington.

Indian police detain 20 over Swiss tourist's rape

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 02:19 AM PDT

A security officer inspects the site where a Swiss woman was reportedly gang raped by a group of eight men while touring by bicycle with her husband, near Orchcha, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said. (AP Photo)NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in central India said Sunday that they have detained 20 men after a Swiss woman on a cycling trip with her husband was gang-raped.

Bus crash that killed Pa. coach being investigated

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:47 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by Seton Hill University shows women's college lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley. A tour bus carrying the Seton Hill women's lacrosse team to a game went off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013, and crashed into a tree. Authorities said the accident killed the driver and Kristina Quigley, who was about six months pregnant, and sent others to the hospital. (AP Photo/Courtesy Seton Hill University)CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Police are investigating what caused a bus carrying a college women's lacrosse team to veer off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crash into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child and the driver.

India police detain many over Swiss tourist's rape

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:32 AM PDT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police detained 20 men Sunday in central India's Madhya Pradesh state after a Swiss woman on a cycling trip was gang-raped.

Two killed in race car crash in northern California

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:32 PM PDT

By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - A race car struck and killed a teenage boy and a man at a northern California speedway during warm-up laps on Saturday, and authorities are investigating what led to the fatal mishap, a sheriff's official said. The 14-year-old boy and 68-year-old man were standing in the maintenance pit area alongside the dirt track of a sprint-car race at Marysville Raceway Park, about 100 miles northeast of San Francisco, said Yuba County Sheriff's Captain Ron Johnson. ...

Armed man kills self in Pa. sports store bathroom

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 11:01 PM PDT

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) — Police say an armed man who barricaded himself inside an eastern Pennsylvania sports store bathroom has killed himself.

Calif. sheriff's captain: Race car kills 2

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:45 PM PDT

A sheriff's captain says two people were killed when a speeding race car ran off the track into pit row at a California raceway.

FDA shuts New Jersey bakery for sugar in 'sugar free' treats

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:14 PM PDT

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver SpringFederal authorities shut down a New Jersey bakery after finding sugar in its "sugar free" goods and saturated fat in its "fat free" treats, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.

New China premier pledges strong ties with US

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 08:59 PM PDT

Chinese soldiers march outside the Great Hall of the People before the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)He says his government sees a strong outlook for trade and investment between the sides.
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