[Al Jazeera] A 21-year-old man suspected of the rape and murder of Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova has admitted that he attacked her.
Handcuffed and surrounded by coppers, Severin Krasimirov spoke to news hounds inside a courtroom on Friday where he appeared for a custody hearing in Ruse, northern Bulgaria.
"I do not know what happened. I cannot remember everything. I went there and I slapped her, she fell. I want to move on but she grabbed me," Krasimirov told news hounds.
"Yes, I am guilty, I am very sorry. I cannot believe that I have done that," Krasimirov said in a wavering voice when news hounds asked whether he plans to tell the court he is guilty.
Authorities said she died from blows to the head and suffocation, and that she was raped after her death.
If convicted, Krasimirov faces a prison sentence of 10-20 years for the rape and a possible life sentence for the murder.
The body of the 30-year-old television presenter was found near a jogging path along the Danube in Ruse on October 6.
Authorities said she died from blows to the head and suffocation, and that she was raped after her death.
Prosecutors say there was no evidence her death was related to her work and pointed to a random sexual crime, though they said they are investigating all possibilities.
Investigators say DNA found on the victim matches Krasimirov. They have also collected additional evidence against him, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov said on Friday.
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[PULSE.NG] Five journalists at a newspaper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... were "kidnapped" on Friday, their managing editor said, after the publication of articles on the misappropriation of rations for police cadets.
The detentions come after a series of prosecutions of journalists in the troubled nation, which is just two months away from tense elections to replace President Joseph Kabila.
"The police proceeded early this morning to abduct five journalists from AfricaNews. Octave Mukendi, Bruce Landu, Roddy Bosakwa, Dan Luyila and Laurent Omba were taken to an unknown destination," AfricaNews managing editor Achille Kadima said in a statement.
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[PULSE.NG] Assoumani won a referendum in July allowing him to scrap the rotation of the presidency between Comoros' three main islands after one term, disadvantaging opposition-leaning Anjouan which was next in line
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[PULSE.NG] Dr Adamu Ningi, the WHO Bauchi State Coordinator, disclosed this at a meeting with the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Adamu, and the Chairman, Social Mobilisation on Immunisation and Emir of Dass, Alhaji Usman Othman, in Bauchi on Friday
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brutal repression, massive corruption,deprivation and deplorable conditions, packing the courts and gubbamint with party tools? What makes you think he's still not a Darlng Of The Left™
Oh and cool Dictator Brand aviator designer shades?
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[Al Jazeera] The Macedonian parliament has passed constitutional changes to allow the Balkan country to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia, as agreed with Greece.
A total of 80 deputies in the 120-seat parliament on Friday voted in favour of the name change.
The move could unblock the country's bids to join NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , long blocked by Greece, which argues that "Macedonia" implied territorial claims to a Greek province of the same name.
The two countries reached agreement on the name change in June.
But hurdles remain before the change can be formalised.
Friday's vote opens the name change procedure, allowing politicians to debate the issue over a period of three months or more, according to the parliament's rulebook.
The procedure to complete constitutional changes is lengthy and requires several rounds of voting, with Friday's being just the first stage. The procedure should be completed by January the latest.
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[PULSE.NG] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's top court on Friday ordered Poland to "immediately suspend" its decision to lower the retirement age of its Supreme Court judges, which it said threatens judicial independence.
The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm, last month took Poland's rightwing government to the European Court of Justice for lowering the age at which Supreme Court judges must retire from 70 to 65.
"Poland must immediately suspend the application of the provisions of national legislation relating to the lowering of the retirement age for Supreme Court judges," the European Court of Justice said.
The Commission had asked the court in Luxembourg to take a decision as "soon as possible", warning that Warsaw was accelerating retirements.
Speaking in Brussels, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said his government had during "the last few hours received the court of justice decision".
"We will certainly respond to it," he added.
"We will see what these (EU) institutions are proposing. When we take them into consideration, several possibilities will be analysed."
The court said the order to suspend retirements "is to apply with retroactive effect" after noting that several judges had already been forced to retire.
The court, which said it would issue a final ruling at a later date, could impose fines if it finds Poland in breach of EU law.
The Commission has expressed concern the new retirement age will hasten the departure of judges appointed under previous governments, allowing the appointment of figures seen as loyal by Warsaw's current leadership.
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"We will see what these (EU) institutions are proposing. When we take them into consideration, several possibilities will be analysed."
[Times of San Diego] The Navy will christen two new Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines just an hour apart Saturday at the General Dynamics Electric Boat facility in Groton, CT.
The future USS Delaware will be christened at 10 a.m. followed by the future USS Vermont at 11 a.m.
The Delaware is the 18th Virginia-class attack submarine and the Vermont is the 19th. The $2 billion submarines can travel over 25 knots, dive to over 800 feet and submerge for three months. They are armed with torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
San Diego is currently home to five Los Angeles-class submarines that will eventually replaced by the Virginia class, of which 66 vessels are planned
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"submerge for three months" and moving with mechanical balance. Vastly improved on the WW11 workhorse Gato class.I wonder how long before hunter killer submerged drones come into play.I would think flight and submersible dual abilities as well and mass produced.That would be my interest. Space travel as well. AI or human cloned consciousness(so to speak)downloaded. Doing all the functions of a human form.Risk being human consciousness believing it is alive and having rights to existence. Then add mixed consciousness of different people. No,that would come to no good end.Separation only as one would try to dominate the other.Eternal prison. I wander. A dilemma for another to explore.
(Reuters) - The remains of more than 60 infants and fetuses were found stashed in a Detroit funeral home, police said on Friday, calling the discovery "deeply disturbing."
The incident comes about a week after the badly decomposed bodies of 11 babies were found hidden in a false ceiling at a different funeral home in the Michigan city.
No connection between the two cases has yet been established, Detroit’s police chief said. He added city, state and federal investigators were looking to form a task force to investigate the improper storage of human remains.
Unrefrigerated boxes containing about 36 sets of remains were recovered from the Perry Funeral Home along with another 27 sets of remains in a freezer, police said.
"This is deeply disturbing," Detroit Police Chief James Craig told reporters on Friday. "I have never seen anything like this in my 41-1/2 years (on the force), ever."
Investigators are working to establish ages and identities.
An official with Perry Funeral Home, which offers burial and cremation services, declined to comment on the incident.
The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs said in a statement it revoked the funeral home’s license and shut down the facility after inspectors "found heinous conditions and negligent conduct at the home." Google curb photo
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They find over 60 unidentified infants and fetuses and they only find it 'deeply disturbing'?
Must be that Democratic concern for the children we hear so much about...
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A potential sequel to The Gosnell movie? The original just came out — in limited distribution — a few days ago.
Nota bene for those who hate Facebook: The link above is to the film’s Facebook page. No doubt there are websites and YouTube pages as well, but I like the FB page as an act if protest and support when I read that FB was essentially shadow banning it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Times of San Diego] The Navy will christen two new Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines just an hour apart Saturday at the General Dynamics Electric Boat facility in Groton, CT.
