[TAMPABAY] Police shot and killed a man Sunday evening they say was suicidal and threatening two officers with a pair of scissors.
The man, identified by police as Arthur Dixon, 43, of 5411 Fourth Ave. N was shot in the upper torso. He was transported as a trauma alert patient to Bayfront Medical Center, where he later died.
His mother, who was temporarily staying at his house, called authorities about 6:10 p.m. to say Dixon had doused himself with gasoline and was threatening to set himself afire.
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[NY Times] The case of a fatal gang rape aboard a bus here last December, which set off an uproar across India, took a surprising turn on Monday when the body of a suspect in the attack was found hanging from a bedsheet noose in his jail cell. Officials called the death a suicide, but the suspect's family insisted that he had been killed. And the rest of the world should care precisely why?
The suspect, Ram Singh, was accused of being the driver of the bus in which a 23-year-old woman was beaten and raped. The woman had severe internal injuries from being sexually assaulted with an iron rod. Mr. Singh was found at 5:45 a.m. hanging from a bedsheet rope suspended from a ceiling grill, jail officials said.
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The Juvenile accused is reportedly the one who used the rusty iron rod to violate the girl.
Pity he only gets 2 years in a Juvenile facility if convicted.
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According to what my Grandfather told me many years ago, 'suicide' was a fairly common occurrence amongst rapists and child molesters once they hit prison.
It was widely publicized to the inmate population as to the nature of the newcomer's crime. 'Social Interaction' then ensued.
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When it comes to dealing with this divot, score one for golfer Mark Mihal.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the mortgage broker from Creve Coeur, Mo., is recovering after a sinkhole opened up beneath him Friday on the 14th hole's fairway of a southwestern Illinois golf course, swallowing him up into a pit 18 feet deep and 10 feet wide.
[Bangla Daily Star] An eight-year-old schoolboy has married a 61-year-old woman because the ghost of his dead ancestor told him to.
Sanele Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is already married and a mother-of-five.
The boy, from Tshwane, South Africa, said he had been told by his dead ancestors to wed and his family, fearing divine retribution, forked out for a wedding. They paid £500 for the bride and a further £1,000 for the big day, which was organised in just two months.
Dressed in a bow tie and tiny silver suit, little Sanele, the youngest of five children, exchanged rings in front of 100 guests and even puckered up for a kiss.
It's already shocked the community but the family has defended the ceremony, saying it was just a ritual and not legally binding.
Sanele's 46-year-old mum, Patience Masilela said: "This is the first time this has happened in the family.
"Sanele is named after his grandfather, who was never had a white wedding before he died so asked Sanele to get married. He chose Helen because he loves her.
"By doing this we made the ancestors happy. If we hadn't done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family.
"I didn't have a problem with it because I know it's what the ancestors wanted and it would make them happy."
The widow, who works at a recycling centre, added: "I would say that this is not wrong. Sanele was fine and he was happy about the ceremony and it was what he wanted. He was happy to get married and very excited."
Sanele and his bride did not sign a marriage certificate and do not have to live together. Both have gone back to their normal lives.
Sanele yesterday said he hoped he would have a proper wedding to a woman his own age when he was older. He added: "I told my mother that I wanted to get married because I really did want to.
"I'm happy that I married Helen -- but I will go to school and study hard. When I'm older I will marry a lady my own age."
Helen, who also works at a recycling centre, said: "I'm married and have five kids of my own, but I know that this is what the ancestors wanted -- and now they are happy.
"It is a ritual. We are just playing now, but it is a sign that he will get married one day."
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Religious nuts.
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Realtime Anthropology, right here on Rantburg!
Primitive tribes, ancestor worship, praying to ghosts, child sacrifices and exorcism ceremonies.
People(?) fill the empty spots in their heads.
...and they vote.
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People(?) fill the empty spots in their heads.
...and they vote.
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Mostly voting ANC however. Not familiar with the African National Congress (ANC)? Think - BCC on steroids with an outlawed Republican party. You've arrived!
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Wait a minute...the article says the bride was already married and a mother of five...so my question is: What did her current husband think about all this? Seems like it would have been a reasonable question for the reporter to ask and include the answer in his report.
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With that age range it likely has nothing to do with boinking. Without knowing the local culture, it could be a way to influence fortune, could be political, could be something the gifted kids do as an apprentice system. Heck, maybe they just wanted a good reason to throw a party, sure beats trying to gather everyone together to watch the KC Chiefs.
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The whole thing sounds mighty "un-Islamic" to me.
Since it took place in South Africa, it probably was.
It all sounds quite sweet: the boy is doing this for his dead grandfather, after whom he is named, who asked him to have the white wedding Gramps always dreamed of; the "bride" is someone he is fond of; there are no legal or behavioural expectations of the parties beyond the ceremony itself; and, the lad looks forward to marrying a girl of his own age for real when he is grown
[Al Ahram] The International Monetary Fund said Monday that it could provide an emergency short-term loan to Egypt if needed, as talks for a longer-term $4.8 billion financing program have bogged down.
But the global crisis lender said that in order for Egypt to receive a loan from its Rapid Financing Instrument program, Cairo has to show its commitment to a broader reform plan.
RFI loans are aimed at helping countries get past urgent balance of payments problems, often the result of short-term shocks.
The IMF said Egypt could apply for an RFI loan even while it is negotiating the terms for a long-term loan that would be tied to commitments to major economic and fiscal reforms. But the Fund suggested the Egyptian government needs to exhibit more movement toward a reform program.
"Egypt needs bold and ambitious policy actions to address its economic and financial challenges without further delay," an IMF spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"Use of the RFI could be an option if there is a need for interim financing while a strong medium-term policy program is being put in place. Ultimately, this is a decision the authorities will have to take."
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They can't/won't pay it back, you reeely want to throw away money?
I'll take a Million or so, I won't pay it back either.
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Kerry's $$$ + the IMF = lot of dough for the MusBro.
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Damage control in the sense that that the Euros don't want waves of Egyptian refugees, the current US administration has thrown its lot in with Morsi and the MB, and the 'developing' nations that are part of the IMF don't want to establish a precedent that may impact them.
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I concur. Whereas the Pro-Morsi crowd in Washington embrace the nocturnal emission of so-called moderate Islam, Europe has felt the Islamic sting and correctly senses a potentially tragic reoccurrence. I fear our cousins are ahead of us on this one. Notice how infrequently we hear the term "Arab Spring" coming out of the administration ?
[An Nahar] MPs engaged in heated debates Monday over plans to hold a vote in July on a much-delayed constitution and schedule new elections in October as part of efforts to resolve a political crisis plaguing Tunisia.
"We denounce this hastiness concerning the calendar" of the elections, Democratic Alliance party MP Mohamed Hamdi said after the office of the president of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) announced the proposed dates.
The calendar stipulates that the constitution should be completed on April 27 with a final vote set for July 8, as each article must be first debated and then approved by an absolute majority of MPs.
The date of October 27 was also proposed for the country's next legislative and presidential polls, after an electoral law is adopted on September 13.
MP Hamdi charged that the NCA speaker and his deputy announced the dates to the media before making them available to lawmakers.
Earlier deputy Mehrezia Labidi, who belongs to the ruling Islamist Ennahda party, posted the dates on her Facebook page although she did not give a precise timetable for the adoption of the constitution.
Wafa movement MP Hazad Badi urged his fellow deputies "to vote to withdraw confidence from the speaker" Mustapha Ben Jaafar.
But the head of the parliamentary bloc of the ruling Ennahda, Sabhi Attig, disagreed and said he was "fine with the dates."
Amid the heated exchanges it was not clear if the deputies would vote on the proposed dates as expected on Monday.
Several political timetables drawn up since Ennahda's sweeping election victory in the first post-revolution poll have not been respected.
More than two years after mass protests that toppled former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and inspired revolutions in other Arab Spring countries, Tunisia is still without a fixed political system due to a lack of consensus between the main parties.
Ennahda is pushing for a pure parliamentary system while others are demanding that the president retain key powers.
Assembly speaker Ben Jaafar has called for an end to the tug-of-war, with the political uncertainty in Tunisia exacerbated by social tensions and the growing influence of militant Islamist groups.
"We must abandon narrow party interests even if that means making sacrifices, retreating. It is in the interests of Tunisians," Ben Jaafar, whose secular Ettakatol is one of Ennahda's partners in the outgoing three-party coalition, said at the weekend.
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[An Nahar] An Egyptian Christian jailed in Libya has been tortured to death in custody, an Egyptian human rights lawyer told Agence France Presse in Cairo on Monday, with demonstrators attacking the Libyan embassy in protest.
Ezzat Hakim Attallah "died after being tortured with other detainees" in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, said Naguib Guebrayel, a Coptic Christian lawyer who heads the Egyptian Union for Human Rights watchdog.
His accusation follows a report earlier this month that 48 Egyptian Christians had been arrested in Benghazi on suspicion of proselytizing.
The reported death of Attallah sparked angry protest outside the Libyan embassy in Cairo, where dozens of protesters gathered and threw stones at the building, a security official said.
The protesters, including relatives of Attallah and of those detained in Libya, also tore down the Libyan flag and broke the name-plaque of the mission.
And they chanted slogans hostile to the Egyptian government, which they say have done nothing to assist the Copts jailed in Libya.
"My brother Izzat was killed and the (Muslim Brotherhood) guide is responsible," the protesters chanted, referring to the Islamist movement which President Mohamed Morsi hails from.
Guebrayel also charged that the Egyptian authorities had failed to intervene on behalf of the Egyptians arrested in Libya.
On March 1, a Libyan security official said the Copts were arrested on illegal immigration charges, although they were suspected of trying to to convert Muslims in Libya's second city.
"Forty-eight Egyptian traders who worked in the Benghazi municipal market have been arrested based on reports of suspect activities," the source told AFP in Benghazi, on condition of anonymity.
He said they were found in possession of a quantity of Bibles, texts encouraging conversion to Christianity, and images of Christ and the late Pope Shenuda of Egypt's Coptic Christians, none of which were for "personal use."
But the main charge was illegal entry into Libya, he said.
Four foreigners -- an Egyptian, a South African, a South Korean and a Swede with a US passport -- were also arrested in Benghazi in mid-February on suspicion of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, something Islam strictly prohibits.
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[Dawn] Malawian police arrested four former cabinet ministers on Monday on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in April last year, police said.
The four, who included the late Mutharika's younger brother, Peter, were found by an official inquiry to have tried to prevent then vice-president Joyce Banda from taking power, as stipulated in the constitution.
"In total, four former ministers have been arrested for questioning in connection with the investigations into the death of the President as revealed in the inquiry report," police spokeswoman Rhoda Majolo said.
Banda took charge of the impoverished southern African nation after the unexpected death of Mutharika, who spent his last years in office cracking down on opponents and battling with diplomats.
The United States and other key western donors suspended aid in 2011 after police shot and killed at least 20 protesters demonstrating against Mutharika's rule.
Banda, who had also fallen out of favour with Mutharika by the time of his death, set up an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the incident after conflicting reports about when he died.
Its findings, revealed last week, showed Mutharika died of a heart attack on his way to hospital in Lilongwe on April 5, and not on April 7 in South Africa, as originally claimed by the government and Mutharika's family.
The report also revealed that Peter Mutharika, who was then foreign minister, and former finance minister Goodall Gondwe attempted to convince the army to take over and stop Banda from ascending to power.
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Can't possibly be to keep their "brothers" out so it must be those evil Juices clamoring to get in that are the problem.
With a forecasted $20 billion 2009-2018 cumulative market, the Saudi Arabia s border fence market is larger than the U.S./Mexican & U.S./Canadian border fence markets combined. It is, in fact, the largest border fence market in the world! Since the Kingdom is presently updating and upgrading its plans and contracts, new market entry opportunities are continuously created for a wide variety of civil engineering, technology and service suppliers.
[Al Ahram] A human rights group is calling on the United Arab Emirates to investigate allegations of torture that are being made by defendants on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.
Several of the 94 defendants told a security court last week that they had been repeatedly beaten, kept in solitary confinement, denied medical treatment, blindfolded and forced to take unknown medications.
Human Rights Watch on Monday said the trial "raises serious questions about UAE's willingness to respect the fundamental right of all accused." The group called on the court not to introduce evidence "obtained through ill-treatment or coercion."
The trial resumed Monday but authorities barred international media, including The Associated Press, from attending.
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Don't hold your breath.
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depriving the population of food, torture, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, the use of prison camps and the secretive regime's denial of freedom of expression.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Ahram] The International Monetary Fund said Monday that it could provide an emergency short-term loan to Egypt if needed, as talks for a longer-term $4.8 billion financing program have bogged down.
[Al Ahram] A human rights group is calling on the United Arab Emirates to investigate allegations of torture that are being made by defendants on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.
