MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - A Russian confessed to police he killed his grandmother because they could not agree on what program to watch on television, prosecutors said on Friday.
Arguments over who controls the television remote are familiar to most families. The suspect, from Russia's Karelia region near Finland, took things to extremes by stabbing and bludgeoning to death his 81-year-old grandmother. "When he started to testify to police, he said he killed her because they could not agree on what TV program they wanted to watch," said Tatyana Kordyukova, a spokeswoman for the Karelia prosecutor's office.
She said the man was drunk at the time. "He could not remember exactly what it was he wanted to watch." A drunk Russian getting violent... how odd.
Police were called to the family's apartment and found the woman's body. Her grandson had fled but he was caught later and is now in prison awaiting trial.
Three thieves who allegedly stole 14 global positioning system devices didn't get away with their crime for long. The devices led police right to their home. . . .
According to Suffolk County police, the GPS devices were stolen Monday night from the Town of Babylon Public Works garage in Lindenhurst. The town immediately tapped its GPS system, and it showed that one of the devices was inside a house. Police said that when they arrived there, Kurt Husfeldt, 46, had the device in his hands.
Husfeldt was charged with criminal possession of stolen property. . . .
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There is actually a hidden benefit when something like this happens. The animals are fed good food, given vitamins, inoculated, cleaned up and even get dentistry. This means that when they are returned to the wild, they and their offspring have several competitive advantages.
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There is actually a hidden benefit when something like this happens. The animals are fed good food, given vitamins, inoculated, cleaned up and even get dentistry. This means that when they are returned to the wild, they and their offspring have several competitive advantages.
Daniel Pipes and Ken Livingstone will be speakers at 'A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations' - a major conference taking place in London on Saturday 20 January at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Gavin Esler will chair the opening debate between the Mayor and Daniel Pipes.
The conference will consider whether the much greater interaction of different backgrounds in a globalising world will create more common shared values in an increasingly global civilisation, or whether the alternative thesis is correct that a dynamic towards conflict and war is inevitable, created by the 'clash of civilisations'. It will consider how these issues relate to London as a diverse and multicultural city.
Hosted by the Mayor of London, the conference is being organised so that Londoners from different communities, faiths and political persuasions can come together to debate these views. Speakers will include writers, academics, religious figures and campaigners.
The Mayor said: 'London is the world's most international city and has among the most harmonious relations between its communities in the world. It has benefited greatly from globalisation and based its community relations on classic liberal principles - that you should be able to choose to do whatever you like, provided it does not interfere with other people. This is the policy of multiculturalism.
'An entirely opposite view has been put forward that the world is heading towards a clash of civilisations. If true, this would have huge practical consequences for London, which would have to reverse its liberal policies and prepare for such a clash. There would be serious implications for community relations and London's openness to globalisation.'
Daniel Pipes, who will debate with the Mayor, is Director of the Middle East Forum, an American think tank that advises US policymakers on the Middle East. Pipes has argued that 'there is not so much a clash of civilisations as a clash of civilisation versus barbarism'.
I posted this at the end of the day yesterday but, since the event is today, thought it might better belong here. I hope that a transcript of the debate becomes available. If we're lucky, Stein or Hitchens may have something to say about it too.
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I suggest Pipes begin his delivery with a replay of the BBC 4 tapes of the raving imams from the local mosques. Just expand from there and the argument is won.
Two sectarian groups clashed over the construction of the wall of an imambargah in Landhi Friday following which tension spread as protestors set two buildings and the town nazims vehicle on fire. An imambargah is a Shiite mosque. Naturally, the Sunnis wouldn't want to see a new one. They're trying to blow up the old ones.
The violence broke out in Landhis Sector 36B after three days of tensions over the construction of a boundary wall for Masjid Asna-e-Ashri. The construction of the masjids wall was started on Tuesday but as people from the area tried to demolish it, the police were called in, an officer said. More police and rangers arrived after reports of skirmishes between some members of the Sunni Tehreek and young Shia men from the neighbourhood. On Friday evening, after Maghrib prayers tempers rose between the two groups again, according to reports from the area. Members from both sides set up temporarily pickets and an exchange of fire ensued. Residents claimed that the problem flared up on Friday as there had been inflammatory sermons in some mosques of the area against this particular one. The masjid administration wanted to build its boundary wall but this was being opposed by Bengalis of the area, claimed resident Rizwan, adding that the area is predominantly Bengali. The Sunni Tehreek was backing the Bengali residents, he added. There are only 20 to 30 Shia houses in the neighbourhood.
The exchange of fire spread panic in the area and some people set fire to material in the storage room of the nearby Murtaza Marriage Hall, owned by a Shia. The house next to the wedding hall, which belongs to a man identified as Shamim (also a Shia), was also attacked. According to reports from the area, Landhi Town Nazim Ismail Sitaras hi-roof van was also torched when he arrived on the scene to attempt to negotiate with the angry men. The police resorted to tear gas shelling to control the mob, however, tensions could not be diffused by late Friday night when this report was filed.
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This is certainly provocative. I would bring out all the grenades and big guns poste haste. Let the best men remain standing. No burkas allowed.
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
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Man says he killed grandmother in rage over TV
Two sectarian groups clashed over the construction of the wall of an imambargah in Landhi Friday following which tension spread as protestors set two buildings and the town nazims vehicle on fire.
