Colombia police arrest woman accused of killing 3 husbands for insurance
Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:37 Adriaan Alsema
Police in the northwest of Colombia on Wednesday arrested a woman accused of killing three husbands in order to collect their life insurance payout.
The 45-year-old Dabeiba, Antioquia native was arrested in the municipality of Ebejico to stand trial for the stabbing of her partners in 2001, 2006 and 2010.
The husbands were killed in the city of Medellin and the nearby town of Rionegro. Following her husband's homicide, the alleged killer went to collect their life insurance, said local police.
A judge had ordered the woman's arrest on Tuesday after ruling there was enough evidence of the homicides and her threat to society to merit her incarceration.
The alleged killer would not be the first "black widow" in the Antioquia department; as recent as in 2011, a criminal group dubbed "the Black Widow Gang" was dismantled for the alleged killing of men who married into the group
A special report by intelligence reports accessed by CNN-IBN says that the ISI had taken the assistance of the two terror groups to infiltrate the border and kill Indian soldiers.
According to the report, the ISI plotted the killings of the Indian soldiers in the Mendhar district and the operation was led by a serving ISI subedar, Jabbar Khan, from a unit based in Tattapani in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir along with 15 others, consisting of LeT and JeM militants.
Pakistan’s ISI an terror groups could be involved in the recent beheading of the Indian soldiers. IBNLive.
The ambush party was stationed at Barmoch border outpost in PoK, which is directly across the Atma Post which is held by the Rajputana Rifles. The Pakistan squad reportedly monitored the movement and deployment of the Indian Army personnel before carrying out the attack and a day after the ambush party was spotted at Tattapani in PoK.
Locals living along the Line of Control may have acted as guides, the report said.
One of the LeT operatives, Anwar Khan, involved in the beheading was allegedly rewarded with Rs 5 lakh by his handlers, the intelligence report said.
Incidentally, Khan was also reportedly involved in the beheading of an Indian Army captain in 1996 in the Krishna Ghati area.
“There cannot be any doubt about it (that the jehadi groups are capable of carrying out this brutalisation). We have given proof to the world that there are about 40-50 such camps strung along the LoC. They act with the help of ISI and the regular Pak army,” Lt General M K Sawhney, ex-Military Intelligence Chief, said.
TEHRAN, Jan.
30 (MNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali
Khamenei issued a decree on Monday granting amnesty to some prisoners and
reducing the sentences of a number of others.
Earlier, Judiciary Chief
Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani had written a letter to the Supreme Leader in
which he made a proposal to grant clemency to 1298 convicts on the occasion of
the birthday anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (S), which was celebrated on
Tuesday.
An alleged Colombian priest on Wednesday was apprehended in a Russian airport after police discover he is concealing 13 cocaine-stuffed condoms in his stomach, reported Russian authorities. According to a statement by Russia's Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), the priest was in the Sheremetievo airport in Russia's capital city of Moscow when he came under the suspicion of authorities due to his "sickly appearance and nervous behavior."
After being detained and taken to a nearby hospital, doctors discovered in the course of an inspection that he was concealing 13 cocaine-stuffed condoms in his gastrointestinal tract. Another five containers full of cocaine were discovered in his luggage.
The 18 containers supposedly yielded 780 grams of cocaine.
According to his documents, the priest -- Fabio Ricardo Rodriguez -- is a resident of Bogota, where he purportedly practiced as a parish priest.
935 Colombian women sue over faulty breast implants
Wednesday, 30 January 2013 08:56 Benjy Hansen-Bundy
An outbreak of burst breast implants has led 935 Colombian women to file suit against the German firm that certified the faulty French-made prostheses.
The women join others from around the world who similarly want the German-based TUV Rheinland company to reimburse them for their burst boobs. The firm gave the okay for the distribution of defective implants made by the French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) which reportedly implanted 500,000 women around the world with potentially damaging breasts. Of those 500,000 women, supposedly 15,000 are Colombian. Though the implants were found not to cause cancer, they were made with industrial silicone rather than medical grade silicone and potentially can still cause tumors -- the main reason they are banned in most countries.
"They feel that they have a time bomb in their body", said Nathalie Lozano, director of the Colombian firm that represents the women.
The scandal broke in 2009 when surgeons reported high incidence of ruptures. By 2011, PIP was being liquidated.
"This generates constant stress and anxiety, and is the reason many opt to have them removed despite lacking money to replace them," said Lozano. Claudia Ximena Reyes, a resident of the Quidio department, had her PIP implants removed after the Colombian Ministry of Health expedited resolution 258 in 2012, under which the National Health System covers the removal of PIP implants.
"The supposed help from the government did not cover new implants, medical leave, pharmaceuticals or massages. Nothing. I was flat, like a child," said Claudia. "Since then, I don't take of my bra in front of my husband. I feel mutilated."
TEHRAN, Jan.
29 (MNA) – While US criticize other countries for executing the criminals, from
1996 onward, it has executed 1309 men and 11women.
US media had it that a Dallas
County woman who was accused of stabbing and robbing Dorothy Booth, her
71-year-old Lancaster neighbor in 1997, will be executed on Tuesday by lethal
injection.
Dallas court jury gave a verdict
of guilty for Kimberly McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist, for stabbing
and robbing Dorothy Booth, her 71-year-old Lancaster neighbor in 1997. Booth was
stabbed five times with a knife.
McCarthy also faces capital
murder charges for two other murders in the recent decade.
According to a report in Xinhua,
Chinese news agency, from 1996 onward, it has executed 1309 men and 11
women.
American media has been
criticizing Iranian courts for execution of two criminal men who were extorting
money from people by threatening them with cold weapons.
ISTANBUL — The husband of a New York City woman who went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul was interviewed by police Tuesday in hopes of helping the search.
Police meanwhile released security camera footage of Sarai Sierra, 33, who has been missing since Jan. 21, when she didn't take her flight back to New York. She arrived on Istanbul on Jan. 7 with plans to practice her hobby of photography on her first trip outside of the United States.
Sierra's husband, Steven, and brother David Jimenez arrived in Istanbul late Monday. The state-run Anadolu Agency said U.S. Consulate officials accompanied the two to the police station where Steven Sierra made a deposition to police who specialize in missing persons.
A view of the street with the hostel, in yellow, where Sarai Sierra, a New York City woman, 33, was staying in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Police in Istanbul were scanning security camera footage Monday to try to trace Sierra who went missing while vacationing alone in the city, a Turkish official said. A police official said authorities were reviewing footage from around Istanbul's Taksim neighborhood _ the city's main hub where she was staying at a hostel.(AP Photo)
The security camera footage shows Sierra eating alone in the food court of a shopping mall near the hostel where she was staying and walking around the mall, dressed in jeans, a brown leather jacket and a winter hat, her hands in her pockets. Another image shows her walking along a main shopping street, wearing earphones. Police did not say when the images were recorded, but Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper said the images were from Jan. 20.
Hurriyet, quoting unnamed police sources, said Turkish officials were not notified about the disappearance until Jan. 25 and said the delay was hampering the search.
Before she went missing, Sierra, the mother of two, had been in regular contact with her family and friends, and told relatives she planned to take photographs at the Galata Bridge — a tourist landmark that spans the Golden Horn waterway and is lined with fishermen.
Police have said Sierra made an excursion to Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Istanbul on Jan. 15 and travelled on to Munich, Germany, on Jan. 16 before returning to Istanbul on Jan. 19. Police were trying to determine the reason for her visit to the European cities.
