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Indian Railway Police Throw Old Couple Off Moving Train, Woman Dead

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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NEW DELHI, India   (NNN-Bernama) -- In a shocking incident, an
elderly woman was killed and her husband wounded when the couple was thrown out
of a moving train by government railway police (GRP) personnel for boarding the
wrong train, said a report. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The incident occurred on Feb 27, around 10 am at Muzaffarnagar,
Uttar Pradesh state when the elderly couple, Rajeshwar Tyagi and his wife
Santosh, both above 70 years old, by mistake, boarded the Shatabdi Express,
Indo-Asian News Service reported. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">According to the report, Sub-inspector Ram Chandar and
constable Subhash of the GRP asked the couple where they were headed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The couple responded that they were on their way to <st1:city w:st="on">Saharanpur</st1:city>, which is 58 km from Muzaffarnagar, only to be
told that they were on the Shatabdi Express, which does not halt at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Saharanpur</st1:place></st1:city>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The railway police asked the elderly couple to deboard,
something, they pleaded; they could not do as the train had gathered speed by
then. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Incensed, the policemen opened the door of the compartment and
pushed the old couple out said the report. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The woman was hit by a train moving on a parallel track and
died instantly, while the man received minor injuries on the fall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A case against the two GRP policemen was registered at the
Muzaffarnagar railway station. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"We have sent the body of the deceased woman for autopsy.
Based on the statement of Rajeshwar Tyagi, we have lodged a case against the
two policemen," a GRP official told the news agency. -- NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indian Railway Police Throw Old Couple Off Moving Train, Woman Dead

NEW DELHI, India (NNN-Bernama) -- In a shocking incident, an elderly woman was killed and her husband wounded when the couple was t...

India to Launch Public Internet Database on Rapists

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<st1:city w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NEW DELHI</span></st1:city><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (RIA Novosti) - The government
of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
has decided to make a public internet database containing pictures, names and
addresses of people who were found guilty of rape crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Indian Minister for Home Affairs R.P.N.
Singh said the all-national database on rapists will be completed in the coming
months and its aim will be “to prevent new rapes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The move follows rallies last week in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Delhi</st1:city></st1:place> in support of a
gang-rape victim. Over 140 people, including 78 policemen, were injured after
law enforcers clashed with demonstrators using water cannons, batons and tear
gas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The protesters took to the streets in the
capital seeking justice for the 23-year-old woman who was raped by six men in a
bus two weeks ago. All the six accused have been arrested and the court trial
over them is scheduled for January 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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India to Launch Public Internet Database on Rapists

NEW DELHI (RIA Novosti) - The government of India has decided to make a public internet database containing pictures, names and addre...

Indonesia’s Police Seize Airsoft Guns

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Police display airsoft guns seized during the arrest of two men accused of
selling the illegal guns on Facebook at a press conference in Jakarta on 22
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Indonesia’s Police Seize Airsoft Guns

NNN--- Police display airsoft guns seized during the arrest of two men accused of selling the illegal guns on Facebook at a press c...

INDIA: Rise in Serious Crimes against Women

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">NEW DELHI, India (NNN-Bernama) -- Serious crimes against women have increased in the last few years and proper measures should be taken to penalise offenders, Home Minister Sushil kumar Shinde said Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">"Serious crimes against women have increased during the 2009-11 period. We<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">need to adopt appropriate steps for swift and salutary punishment to persons found guilty of violence against women," Shinde said while addressing members of the police force at an annual conference here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">"And in 2011 alone, about 60,000 children were reported to be missing in the country," he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed a 'Track the Missing Children Portal' which has been successfully piloted in West Bengal over the last three years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The Home Minister urged police chiefs to increase the number of women in their respective organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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INDIA: Rise in Serious Crimes against Women

NEW DELHI, India (NNN-Bernama) -- Serious crimes against women have increased in the last few years and proper measures should be taken to ...

1 Injured in Shooting Outside Mall near Indian Capital

NEW DELHI (NNN-Xinhua) -- At least one person was injured in a shooting outside a mall during an attempted robbery in Noida near the India...

India: Balkrishna Produced in CBI Court

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">DEHRADUN, India (NNN-UNI) -- Yoga guru Swami Ramdev’s close aide Balkrishna, who was arrested from Patanjali Yogpith in Haridwar in a case of securing passport fraudulently among others, was today produced before special CBI court here amid tight security</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Balkrishna was arrested by CBI yesterday</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since morning a number of Swami Ramdev and Balkrishna's supporters and Bharat Swabhiman activists gathered outside the CBI office here waving flags and placards and raising anti-CBI and anti-government slogans while hailing the Yoga guru and his close aide</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, CBI spokesperson said Balkrishna was arrested after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him by a CBI special court. He was to be produced before the court within 24 hours of his arrest as per rules</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The investigating agency will seek his remand while Balkrishna's counsel go for bail</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Medical test of the arrested was conducted at a government hospital here yesterday</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Balkrishna was arrested after the special court issued NBW against him when he failed to appear before the court where the CBI had submitted a charge sheet against him for allegedly obtaining passport fraudulently on fake documents, fake educational degrees and dual citizenship</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Earlier, the High Court had dismissed Balkrishna’s plea for stay against the charge sheet and asked him to surrender before the CBI court on July 20. He, however, failed to appear before the court</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, Baba Ramdev lashed out at the government accusing it of ''seeking vendetta'' against him for leading the anti-corruption and anti-black money campaign by targeting his friend and close aide. -- NNN-UNI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India: Balkrishna Produced in CBI Court

DEHRADUN, India (NNN-UNI) -- Yoga guru Swami Ramdev’s close aide Balkrishna, who was arrested from Patanjali Yogpith in Haridwar in a case ...

Russian Hacker Arrested in Cyprus over U.S. Attacks

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dmitry Zubakha was indicted by a Seattle Grand Jury in May 2011 for “conspiracy to intentionally cause damage without authorization to a protect computer” and for “possession of stolen credit card numbers” in a separate case.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to U.S. authorities, Zubakha and his accomplice, Sergei Logashov, carried out two “denial of service” attacks against Amazon.com in June 2008. Both attacks overwhelmed Amazon.com’s servers and caused their systems to crash.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Russian Hacker Arrested in Cyprus over U.S. Attacks

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) --- A 25-year-old Russian man suspected of staging cyber-attacks on Seattle-based Amazon.com and other U.S. online re...

Illegal Felling: Microchips to be Fitted in Sandalwood Trees in S. Indian State

Illegal Felling: Microchips to be Fitted in Sandalwood Trees in S. Indian State

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (NNN-PTI) -- In a bid to check illegal felling of sandalwood, trees will be fitted with microchips soon in south...

India: Rape of Girls Inside Juvenile Home Comes To Light

India: Rape of Girls Inside Juvenile Home Comes To Light

ALLAHABAD (NNN-PTI): In a shocking incident, the alleged rape of at least three girls aged less than 10 years inside a state-run juvenile ...

Software Piracy in Malaysia Worrisome Says Software Analyst

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Hanuratha Thamilselvan <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">KUALA LUMPUR (NNN-Bernama) -- Despite the authorities coming down hard on software piracy offenders, the increase in such piracy in Malaysia is worrisome, says a renowned software analyst. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"What a lot of people don't realise is that when they buy a software, they are actually buying a licence to use it, not the actual software. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"That licence is what tells you how many times they can install the software, so it's important to read it. If the buyer makes more copies of the software than the licence permits, they’re pirating," said Roland Chan, the Senior Director of Business Software Alliance, told Bernama. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A global software piracy study by the International Data Corporation for BSA Malaysia showed personal computer piracy rate was at 56 per cent in 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Software piracy is the unauthorised copying or distribution of copyrighted software via copying, downloading, sharing, selling or installing multiple copies onto personal or work computers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chan said the worth of pirated software in 2010 was estimated at US$606 million. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It's a bad sign that can harm the software industry. Malaysia needs to focus on addressing software piracy by taking measures to root out the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It's high time stringent intellectual property laws are enacted and implemented to deter people from indulging in software piracy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He said current laws like the Copyright Act 1987 must be enforced without fear or favour.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Under the Act, an organisation, its director and senior management personnel are liable to a fine between RM2,000 and RM20,000 and can be jailed up to five years for each pirated copy of a software programme. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last year, the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry mounted61 enforcement raids and seized 394 computers and peripherals, 1,416 copies of suspected pirated softwares, with a combined total estimated value of RM8.2 million, Chan said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Urging the people to stop pirating softwares, he said, the BSA was working closely with the ministry to educate the public on the many reasons why they should use only original softwares. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As part of efforts to educate the public, the ministry launched the Genuine Corporate Award programme last year. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Under the programme, the BSA recognises companies that managed their softwares well and used only original softwares. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"From over 2,000 companies that applied to join the programme last year, 228 met all the criteria," he added.--NNN-BERNAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Software Piracy in Malaysia Worrisome Says Software Analyst

By Hanuratha Thamilselvan KUALA LUMPUR (NNN-Bernama) -- Despite the authorities coming down hard on software piracy offenders, the increa...

Ex-IMF Head Strauss-Kahn Gets Charges in Prostitution Case

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The statement said that after the questioning, Strauss-Kahn was placed under the judicial supervision, was prohibited from contacting other people involved in the case and had to pay 100,000 Euros in bail.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If the 62-year-old former IMF head is found guilty on charges pressed against him, he may face up to 20 years in prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In 2011, Strauss-Kahn, who was considered French President Nicolas Sarkozy's greatest rival at the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for this month, was under investigation for sexual assault on a hotel maid in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The case was opened on May 14 after 32-year-old Nafissatou Diallo claimed Strauss-Kahn had assaulted her sexually at the Sofitel New York Hotel. Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty and said sexual contact with the maid was under mutual consent.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Ex-IMF Head Strauss-Kahn Gets Charges in Prostitution Case

PARIS (RIA Novosti) --- French investigators charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with...

Mexico Prison Knife Brawl Kills 31

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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">MOSCOW</span></span></st1:city></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;"> (RIA Novosti) - At least thirty-one inmates were killed and other 13 were wounded in a brutal fight inside a prison in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the state's public safety department said in a statement on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Clashes between prisoners wielding makeshift knives, clubs and stones took place in the Santa Amalia prison in the city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Altamira</st1:place></st1:city>, an overcrowded facility designed to hold 2000 inmates but which has a population of more than 3000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">The fight broke out when a group of inmates burst into a section of the prison they were banned from and attacked the prisoners housed there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Mexico Prison Knife Brawl Kills 31

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - At least thirty-one inmates were killed and other 13 were wounded in a brutal fight inside a prison in the north...

Unsolved Celebrity Murder Mystery Still Haunts Long Beach Harbor – Spies, Stars, Scandal Surround Nearly 80-Year Old Wanderwell Case

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjooFKe-pG9n3ZjRs0Ezuyfrlgw9-uQ8WhtZoYlTKWBjoMP6bLUpB9lfNK5JwFq4N73qC4kKl8B-nVoG4HHBmZhVpcdXdiIcSnFTZXCG4gaWTgJEQmCIdO0JPqM9KHY4NV9GjP88cB-2FE/s1600/11-1130-wanderwell_72dpi-799174.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681210938693612578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjooFKe-pG9n3ZjRs0Ezuyfrlgw9-uQ8WhtZoYlTKWBjoMP6bLUpB9lfNK5JwFq4N73qC4kKl8B-nVoG4HHBmZhVpcdXdiIcSnFTZXCG4gaWTgJEQmCIdO0JPqM9KHY4NV9GjP88cB-2FE/s400/11-1130-wanderwell_72dpi-799174.jpg" /></a></p><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">LONG BEACH</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">, <st1:state w:st="on">Calif.</st1:state></span></st1:place><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">, (</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Georgia; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">SEND</span></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Mobs surrounded the courthouse in 1933, where beautiful blonde adventuress, Aloha Wanderwell, was being questioned in the murder of her husband. "Once suspected as a German spy, world-traveler Walter Wanderwell was tabloid fodder long before his murder," says Richard Diamond, of AlohaWanderwell.com. Walter hobnobbed with <st1:place w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place> royalty, and ditched his wife to marry his young "ward" Aloha, now the center of international intrigue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">This December 5th marks the 79th Anniversary of California's most renowned cold case: The Wanderwell Murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">A former seafarer, world class hiker and traveler who had been briefly jailed in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> as a spy during the war, Wanderwell began his international expeditions in 1919 as an effort to promote world peace and the <st1:place w:st="on">League of Nations</st1:place>. Founding an organization he called the Work Around the World Educational Club (WAWEC), Wanderwell lured young men and women with the promise of romantic adventure. One such conscripted youth, Aloha, captured the married Wanderwell's attention and soon became the second Mrs. Wanderwell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">When not cavorting with stars such as Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, the Wanderwells toured Africa, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and war-swept <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, gaining notoriety and even numbering a British Lord among their crew. Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, son of His Grace the Duke of Manchester, was aboard the Wanderwell's yacht, The Carma, in the Long Beach harbor the night Walter Wanderwell was shot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></div>  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">But Aloha was not on board. Heralded as the first woman to drive an automobile around the world, the beautiful widows' whereabouts sparked a media frenzy amid rumors of espionage, fraud, and sex that rivals any contemporary scandal. With headline coverage in The NY Times, Detroit Times, LA Times, and the Long Beach Press Telegram, the 1932 murder of Walter Wanderwell remains one of the greatest unsolved murder cases of the 21th Century.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div></div></div>

Unsolved Celebrity Murder Mystery Still Haunts Long Beach Harbor – Spies, Stars, Scandal Surround Nearly 80-Year Old Wanderwell Case

LONG BEACH , Calif. , ( SEND 2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Mobs surrounded the courthouse in 1933, where beautiful blonde adventuress, Aloha Wanderwell...

India: Kerala State Prisoners Using High-Tech Phones to Mastermind Global Terror Operations

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">By P. Vijian <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">CHENNAI (NNN-Bernama) -- Prisoners in Kerala state are suspected to be using high-tech mobile phones to 'call the shots' to mastermind international terror networks. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Suspecting such a link, the police in the south Indian state have launched a major probe after seizing 120 mobile phones, including satellite phones, in several raids last month. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The seizure has revealed that prison inmates made about 3,000 outgoing calls locally and overseas. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As a result, police investigators fear the prisoners could have possibly been in touch with terror operators in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> or abroad. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Anti-terror experts have revealed the seized modern satellite phones could be used to detonate bombs. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"There were several computer-generated numbers and we don't know who was on the receiving end. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"Calls could have been made to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region> or <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:place></st1:country-region> because at that time, these nationals were also in Kerala prisons. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"We don't have the facility to trace these calls and our central agency will carry out the investigations," Alexander Jacob, Additional Director General of Police (Prisons) told Bernama today. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Officials are clueless as to whether the alleged calls were linked to 'hawala' transactions (illegal money transfer), terrorist groups or criminal activities. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">"The fresh revelations lead to the suspicion that terrorist outfits have even spread their tentacles to the jails," said a recent report prepared by Jacob's department. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Based on the findings, Kerala state police have now sought the help of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe if prisoners lodged in the states' jails were linked to global terror outfits. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Over 35,000 inmates in nearly 50 jails across Kerala state are now under the scanner, following the report. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Anti-terror experts revealed the seized modern satellite phones could be used to detonate bombs and calls were hard to track, reported local media. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Prison officials were alerted after a jailed local politician was recently caught using a mobile phone. --NNN-BERNAMA</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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India: Kerala State Prisoners Using High-Tech Phones to Mastermind Global Terror Operations

By P. Vijian CHENNAI (NNN-Bernama) -- Prisoners in Kerala state are suspected to be using high-tech mobile phones to 'call the shots...

S.Africa: Conference Puts Piracy in The Spotlight

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">CAPE TOWN</span></place></city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (NNN-BuaNews): Transnet General Manager for Security, Major General Rodney Toka, has revealed that only a small fraction of the pirates operating in seas around the world are successfully prosecuted, following their arrest. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He said only around 1.4 percent were prosecuted. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Toka, along with his southern African counterparts, formed part of a string of delegates attending the Maritime and Coastal Security Africa Conference in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Cape Town</place></city> on Friday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He said African countries needed to coordinate forces to achieve successful maritime security.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Following his presentation, some of the delegates were of the view that terrorism legislation should not be used to fight piracy. They said that pirates, unlike terrorists, did not habour political agendas.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But others pointed out that, in some instances, the line between terrorism and piracy was blurred.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">South African Maritime Security Authority Chief Executive Commander Tsietsi Mokhele put the on-going piracy activities off the coast of <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Somalia</place></country-region> in the spotlight. In order to combat piracy there, he suggested that shipping companies who passed through the area should show interest in protecting the poor country.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Mokhele voiced concern against the dumping of toxic material into Somali waters which, among other things, killed fish. He said many pirates started off as fisherman whose livelihood had been compromised.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He said that maritime security should take into account developmental and socio-economic threats.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Mokhele called for an improvement in surveillance systems across <place w:st="on">Africa</place> to provide "comprehensive maritime security and environmental monitoring". </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"If we are calling for attention, we need to be relevant to the citizens, to the development of our countries and the continent," he said.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Yesterday, South African Commander in Chief of the Navy Vice-Admiral Johannes Mudimu told the conference that the recently accepted Maritime Security Strategy showed that they needed to focus not only on the symptoms of piracy off Somali waters, but address the root causes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">These included the ongoing political instability in the country, lack of good governance, lack of viability of the local economy and poverty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Simply put, the Maritime Security Agenda needs to be furthered within the context of the broader social economic revitalisation of the region and the continent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"This is important when considering that most matters of maritime crime originate on land. A solution which only addresses itself to the maritime dimension, without taking cognisance of the broader land-based complexities will achieve little," he said. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">-NNN-BuaNews</span></div></div>

S.Africa: Conference Puts Piracy in The Spotlight

CAPE TOWN (NNN-BuaNews): Transnet General Manager for Security, Major General Rodney Toka, has revealed that only a small fraction of the p...

India Vows to Contribute to Int'l Efforts to Tackle Piracy

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NEW DELHI</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (NNN-Xinhua) -- <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> has pledged to contribute to international efforts to tackle the threat of piracy and armed robbery at sea and for the safety and release of hostages taken by pirates, reported Indo-Asian News Service Thursday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Indian delegate Dushyant Singh said during a UN Security Council meeting Wednesday that "<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> stands ready to contribute to international efforts aimed at increasing effective cooperation among States to tackle the threat of piracy," said the report. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The debate on Wednesday was aimed at the emerging threat in the <st1:placetype w:st="on">Gulf</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Guinea</st1:placename> in the <st1:place w:st="on">Atlantic</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"<st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> has been at the forefront of highlighting the menace of piracy off the coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region> and stressing the urgent need for the international community to work towards a comprehensive counter-piracy strategy," said Singh, also a member of the Indian Parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"<st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> is also concerned about new surge in piracy and maritime robbery in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Gulf</st1:placetype>  of <st1:placename w:st="on">Guinea</st1:placename></st1:place>," he said. "While the two situations are different in proportion at this stage, it is quite possible that the failure of the international community to act decisively against piracy off the coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Somalia</st1:country-region> could have spawned a new surge in piracy in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Gulf</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Guinea</st1:placename></st1:place>." -- NNN-XINHUA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India Vows to Contribute to Int'l Efforts to Tackle Piracy

NEW DELHI (NNN-Xinhua) -- India has pledged to contribute to international efforts to tackle the threat of piracy and armed robbery at s...

Eight killed as gunman opens fire in California beauty salon

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- Eight people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a beauty salon in the southern Californian city of Seal Beach, the Los Angeles Times said on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The gunman opened fire inside the crowded Meritage salon. Six people died immediately and three were rushed to hospital with serious injuries. Two of them later succumbed to their wounds; one person is still in critical condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The suspect offered no resistance to police and was arrested.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Eyewitnesses said the man targeted his ex-wife and that the two were involved in a custody dispute, but it is still unclear what triggered the violence. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Eight killed as gunman opens fire in California beauty salon

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- Eight people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a beauty salon in the southern Californian city of Seal Beach,...

11 cars burnt in Moscow overnight, police suspect arson

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- A total of 11 cars were burnt in the Russian capital early on Saturday in what police suspect to be a series of arsonist attacks, a police source said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The cars, mostly foreign-made models, were destroyed in a span of six hours in various districts of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Two cars were burnt under similar circumstances in south-western <st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city> last night and three cars were destroyed at a parking lot in southern <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city> the night before.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Police launched an investigation as some of the incidents bore clear signs of arson.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">A wave of arsonist attacks destroyed over a hundred cars in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city> in May-July 2008. Some 30 people, mostly minors, were detained on suspicion of involvement in these attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The arsons forced <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city> car owners to organize temporary evening and night vigilance in the yards and around parking lots at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

11 cars burnt in Moscow overnight, police suspect arson

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)- A total of 11 cars were burnt in the Russian capital early on Saturday in what police suspect to be a series of arson...

UN study shows murder rates highest in parts of Americas and Africa

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8pt;">Forensic police officers examine<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 8pt;">evidence collected at a crime scene UN News Photo</span></i></div></span></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Young men in Central and South America and Southern and Central Africa are most at risk of being killed in cases of homicide, while women face an increased likelihood of being murdered in domestic violence, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report unveiled today.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Evidence points to rising homicide rates in Central America and the Caribbean, which are “near crisis point,” according to UNODC’s Global Study on Homicide, which blames firearms for the rising murder rates in those two regions, where almost three quarters of all homicides are committed with guns, compared to 21 per cent in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Men face a much higher risk of violent death (11.9 per 100,000) than women (2.6 per 100,000), although there are variations between countries and regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“The results of the report show the importance of the UN firearm protocol and the importance for countries to ratify and adopt the protocol to try to control the use of firearms, and their use in fuelling street crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“It also highlights the importance of preventive measures and in the case of women, of measures to protect them from domestic crime.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In countries with high murder rates, especially involving firearms, such as in Central America, one in 50 males aged 20 will be killed before they reach the age of 31 – several hundred times higher than in some parts of Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Worldwide, 468,000 homicides occurred last year. Some 36 per cent of all homicides take place in Africa, 31 per cent in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region>, 27 per cent in Asia, 5 per cent in Europe, and 1 per cent in <st1:place w:st="on">Oceania</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Countries with wide income disparities are four times more likely to be afflicted by violent crime than more equitable societies. Conversely, economic growth seems to stem that tide, as the past 15 years in <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place> have shown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Chronic crime is both a major cause and result of poverty, insecurity and under-development, the study points out. Crime drives away business, erodes human capital and destabilizes society.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“To achieve the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs], crime prevention policies should be combined with economic and social development and democratic governance based on the rule of law,” said Yury Fedotov, UNODC Executive Director.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Sudden dips in the economy can drive up homicide rates. In selected countries, more murders occurred during the financial crisis of 2008-09, coinciding with declining gross domestic product (GDP), higher consumer price index and more unemployment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Last year, 42 per cent of homicides were committed with firearms – 74 per cent of them in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region> and 21 per cent in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. Gun crime is driving violent crime in Central America and the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place> – the only region where the evidence points to rising homicide rates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“It is crucial that measures to prevent crime should include policies towards the ratification and implementation of the Firearms Protocol,” said Mr. Fedotov. He stressed that although 89 States are parties to the Protocol, which supplements the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime, many more countries could accede to that legal instrument.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Organized crime – especially drug trafficking – accounted for a quarter of deaths caused by firearms in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region>, compared to only 5 per cent of homicides in Asia and <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. That does not mean, however, that organized crime groups are not active in those two regions, but rather that they may be operating in ways that do not employ lethal violence to the same extent.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Crime and violence are also strongly associated with large youthful populations, especially in developing countries. While 6.9 persons per 100,000 are killed each year globally, the rate for young male victims is three times higher (21.1 per 100,000). Young men are more likely to own weapons and engage in street crime, take part in gang warfare and commit drug-related offences, according to the study.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Globally, some 80 per cent of homicide victims and perpetrators are men. But, whereas men are more likely to be killed in a public places, women are mainly murdered at home, as in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> where half of all female victims were killed by a family member. In <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, women comprised almost 80 per cent of all people killed by a current or former partner in 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“The results of the report show the importance of the UN firearm protocol and the importance for countries to ratify and adopt the protocol to try to control the use of firearms, and their use in fuelling street crime,” said Angela Me, chief of the statistics and surveys section at UNODC.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“It also highlights the importance of preventive measures and in the case of women, legal measures to protect them from domestic crime,” she told UN Radio.---UN News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

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Prosecutors: German Man Raped Daughter for 34 Years, Fathered Her 3 Sons

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Against-Women-Justice-Punishment/dp/0791042553?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Crimes Against Women (Crime, Justice & Punishment)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0791042553&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0791042553" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />German prosecutors have charged a 69-year-old man with repeatedly raping his daughter for 34 years and fathering three children with her.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prosecutors Tuesday charged the pensioner from Nuremberg in the southern state of Bavaria with 497 counts of rape. They say he is suspected of first forcing his daughter to have sex with him when she was only 12 years old and then abusing her several times a week for the next three decades. Two of the three sons he fathered with her later died.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The crime was uncovered when the daughter, now 46, was convicted of an unrelated crime and confided in her parole officer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prosecutors say the man, who has been in custody since March, admits to having sex with his daughter but says it was consensual.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The case is reminiscent of that of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man who was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 after being found guilty of keeping his daughter locked up in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fritzl also was convicted of murder for the death of his daughter's infant son, who was not given medical care after becoming ill. (VOA News)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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Prosecutors: German Man Raped Daughter for 34 Years, Fathered Her 3 Sons

German prosecutors have charged a 69-year-old man with repeatedly raping his daughter for 34 years and fathering three children with her. ...