[Dhaka Tribune] Indian police are investigating accusations that a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n embassy official repeatedly raped two Nepali maids at his home close to the capital, New Delhi, in a case that could reignite the debate over immunity granted to diplomats.
The two women, aged 30 and 50, told police they were raped, assaulted, starved and held hostage over several months after leaving Nepal to work for the official.
Police said a medical exam confirmed the women had been raped. Repeated calls to the Saudi Arabian embassy in New Delhi were not answered.
Commissioner of Police Navdeep Singh Virk said he had written to India's foreign ministry and the Saudi Arabian embassy asking if the man has diplomatic immunity.
A front man for India's foreign ministry said it had requested a report from the police and would decide on what action to take after reviewing the information.
Police cannot immediately arrest diplomats because under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations they enjoy immunity from arrest, criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits in the countries where they are posted.
The victims told the Times Now television channel they left Nepal to work at the embassy official's house in Saudi Arabia and they were never abused there. The violence only started when they arrived in India several months ago, they said.
"They would beat us every night and often there were more than one man who would torture and rape us," one of the women said. "We have marks all over our body."
Governments may press a foreign government to waive immunity in cases where serious crimes are committed.
"If they refuse then the only option left would be to kick the person out," said G. Parthasarathy, a veteran Indian diplomat.
Police said the women were rescued on Monday after police were tipped off by a non-governmental organization and officials at the Nepali embassy.
Thousands of women from Nepal, which is one of the poorest countries in the world, go to India and the Middle East to work as maids.
A bigwig at the Nepali embassy said his government was waiting for the Indian police to complete their investigation before launching a diplomatic complaint.
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A case of mistaken identity---thought them female goats (maybe even male goats)?
[The Telegraph] The founder of a cyber security company, who went on the run after the murder of his neighbour in 2012, announces that he will file papers to run in 2016. Bolstered by the recent Kanye West-Homo Naledi ticket news no doubt. Following two terms of the Champ, who could blame any of them ?
[Dhaka Tribune] A person has been hacked to death following previous enmity in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district.
Isn't that a tidal pond in Martha's Vineyard?
Deceased Rajbul Hoque was the son of Mofazzal Hoque of Namojjogonathpur Debhagi village.
Locals said miscreants took Rajbul and his brother Asharul Hoque to a mango garden in Kanchira Daktarpara village and hacked them around 8:30pm Tuesday. Hearing their scream,
"Aaiiiiieeeee! I am undone!"
locals went to the garden and rescued them. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the miscreants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
Later, they were taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital
...not a level I trauma center...
where Rajbul died at night.
Chapainawabganj ASP Motiur Rahman Siddique confirmed about the death to the Dhaka Tribune. He said six people have been tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in connection to the killing on Wednesday morning.
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[The Mail] Danish police were forced to close road and rail links with Germany to prevent thousands of migrants seeking to head north towards Sweden.
In one incident, around 300 refugees, including large numbers of women and children, set off on foot for Sweden, forcing police to shut the motorway near Padborg for a several hours.
The migrants had been housed in an old school building after arriving in the town but took to the road, saying they wanted to travel north to Sweden.
Some elderly migrants called off their 180-mile trek to Copenhagen, the jumping-off point for crossings by bus, train or car to Sweden.
The refugees refused to register with Danish authorities, which would mean having to apply for asylum in Denmark or returning to Germany, preferring instead to seek asylum in Sweden, where asylum conditions are more generous.
Sweden, one of many European countries struggling with the worst migration crisis since World War II, has become a top EU destination for refugees by issuing permanent residency to all Syrian asylum seekers.
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Seems like this is becoming colonialism in reverse. Kind of like cancer or a terminal disease, invade, occupy, become a parasite to the host, and kill the host.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish prosecutor in the southern province of Mersin demanded life imprisonment for three suspects on Sept. 9 over the brutal killing of 21-year-old-student Özgecan Arslan, whose death in February caused massive outrage around the country.
The prosecutor charged three suspects, Ahmet Suphi Altindöken, Fatih Gökce and Necmettin Altindöken, with various crimes including "merciless killing" and "attempt to rape," requesting life sentences for the three individuals.
During the trial, the prosecutor also asked the court not to reduce their punishment by finding mitigating circumstances for the suspects. The court can introduce such provisions to lessen punishment, which most predict as unlikely in this trial due to the nature and extensive coverage the case has drawn.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... the three suspects were not brought to court to avoid any disturbance inside or outside of the courthouse. Instead, they appeared at the hearing via video conference.
Outside the court, the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) staged a protest and called on the court to severely punish the three suspects.
The court in Mersin ruled that the three defendants in the murder case would continue to stay in prison until the next hearing, which will be held on Dec. 3. The three defendants will be brought to court for the third hearing.
In the first hearing on June 12, the defendants indirectly accused each other. Ahmet Suphi Altindöken was charged with murder and attempted rape, while his father and his friend were charged with helping him cover up the crime and conceal evidence.
On Feb. 11, Aslan was brutally murdered by Altindöken in Mersin after he diverted from the highway to a woody area, disregarding the young girl's objections.
Two days after she was reported missing, Aslan's burned body was discovered on Feb. 13 in a river bed in the Tarsus district.
Altindöken confessed during his interrogation at the gendarmerie that he had tried to rape Aslan, who had boarded the minibus he drove, and stabbed her to death before burning the body when he failed in his attack.
The brutal killing of Özgecan rocked the country, causing condemnation and sparking nationwide rallies over violence against women. On Feb. 18, around 15,000 people marched in Mersin to protest the brutal murder of Aslan.
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"That first launch will be a demonstration mission without a paying customer. That launch will be followed in September by the Space Test Program 2 mission for the Air Force, carrying 37 satellites. Rosen said the company was also planning Falcon Heavy launches of satellites for Inmarsat and ViaSat before the end of 2016, but did not give estimated dates for those missions."
First Falcon Heavy Launch Scheduled for Spring
[The Telegraph] Scientists find fossils of our ancient relative, who had surprisingly human-like features, in a remote cave near Johannesburg.
Early humans buried their dead in caves, scientists have found, after discovering a new species hidden in a burial chamber.
At least 15 skeletons of the species - named Homo Naledi - were found hidden deep in a cave dubbed the 'Star Chamber' in which is thought to be the earliest form of ritual burial ever discovered.
The early humans, which stood just five foot tall and weight 100 pounds. Their hips were similar to our earliest ancestor, the hominid Lucy, but their shoulders were well designed for climbing but legs and feet were human like. Their skulls are like early humans, but their brains are like tiny, just the size of an orange. Swartkrans site link
h/t Gates of Vienna
...The fallout from the budget crisis is far-reaching in the state with the latest example being Chicago's public school system (the third-largest in the country), which opened this week with a budget shortfall of nearly a half billion dollars.
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The CPS has a deficit every year. Every single year we go through this dance, and every year they paper it over somehow.
Good story to illustrate: some years back the then superintendent, Manfred Byrd, a life-long hack and apparatchik, was dealing with a multi-hundred million dollar deficit. A reporter noted that in the midst of the deficit that the central school board (meaning Manfred) was hiring 3,000 new employees. The reporter actually confronted him and asked, "why are you hiring all these people with such a shortfall?"
Manfred smiled gently and replied, "someone has to help me manage the shortfall."
That's the kind of people who run CPS. Of course they have a deficit. Every year.
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Fire the head of every department that is over budget; should save some money....
Kind of got mixed into the yearly cr*p that comes out of the folks at Madison & Dearborn.
My brother-in-law used to work down there. He said that most of the accounting department directors couldn't even add small sums in their heads and didn't have a clue about money management. It finally got so crazy that he retired early just to save his sanity (nice pension, though).
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Fire the head of every department that is over budget; should save some money....
Better yet take out the top five layers of management.
(and you just know they have more than 5 layers....)
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