Drone News ( Syria claims it shot down a Israeli Drone )

Syria Claims It Shot Down Israeli Drone

Syria claims in unconfirmed report that its forces downed an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the border with Lebanon.

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First Publish: 2/21/2013, 12:48 PM

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Syria claims its forces have downed an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near the border with Lebanon.

A report broadcast Wednesday on Syria's state-run Mayadeen TV claimed government forces shot down the drone over the village of Deir al Ashayer, about 15 miles west of Damascus and not far from where an alleged Israeli strike on a chemical weapons processing plant took place last month.

A separate report published by the Damas Post quoted local witnesses who said they saw a surface-to-air missile fired from Syria hit the drone, and burning wreckage falling from the sky over the eastern Lebanese village of Yanta.
The event was not reported in the Syrian state-run SANA news agency, and there was no comment by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office.

On Wednesday there were numerous reports in Lebanese media about Israeli warplanes conducting “mock raids” over southern Lebanon, and multiple reconnaissance flights over towns and villages around the country.

Earlier this week, Israeli submarines were reported by Lebanese media to be cruising off the coast of Lebanon between Sidon and Nakura. French tracking installations had allegedly informed the United Nations the subs were detected.

A week ago, four Israeli warplanes were spotted flying in Lebanese air space on what appeared to be intelligence-gathering missions. Two of the planes appeared above Kafrkila village, and then circled over various regions before leaving several hours later from above Rmeish village. Two others began at the same starting point but circled a different route before leaving some time later from over Aima Sha'ab village.

India Bhandara ( School teacher rapes 14 yr old girl at School ) Crazy

In Bhandara, another minor allegedly raped by teacher in school

Press Trust of India | Updated: February 22, 2013 23:37 IST

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Nagpur: Within a week after the rape and murder of three minor girls of a family in Bhandara, a 14-year- old girl was allegedly raped by a teacher inside school premises in the district.

46-year-old Yadav Borkar, a government school teacher, allegedly raped the girl in the school premises at Golati village in Lakhandur taluka of Bhandara district two days ago, police said.

After the complaint was filed today, Borkar surrendered before the police and was arrested.

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On February 14, three sisters aged 5, 9 and 11 years went missing from a village of the district. Their bodies were found in a well two days later.

The police, so far, has not made any headway in the probe.

Syrian opposition withdraws from talks ( destruction of ancient city)

Syrian opposition withdraws from talks over 'shameful' international silence on Aleppo

The main Syrian opposition grouping has said it turned down invitations to visit Washington and Moscow to protest what it described as the "shameful" international silence over destruction of the ancient city of Aleppo by Syrian missile strikes.

The regime is said to have used Scuds in Aleppo. Photo: REUTERS

12:02AM GMT 23 Feb 2013

A statement late on Friday by the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group of opposition political forces, said it also had suspended participation in a Friends of Syria conference of international powers due in Rome next month to protest the attacks it said have caused many civilian casualties.

"Hundreds or civilians have been killed by Scud missile strikes. Aleppo, the city and the civilisation, is being destroyed systematically," the statement said.

"The Russian leadership especially bears moral and political responsibility for supplying the regime with weapons," it added, referring to Moscow's status as a leading ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Japan ( 3 inmates were hanged thursday morning- child killer and two muderers )

Japan executes three death-row inmates

CrimeFeb. 21, 2013 - 02:50PM JST( 61 )

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The Justice Ministry said Thursday that a child killer and two other convicted murderers were hanged, its first executions since a conservative government swept to power in landslide elections in December.
Kaoru Kobayashi, 44, killed a seven-year-old girl and sent a photograph of the dead body to her mother in 2004, while Masahiro Kanagawa, 29, killed one man and injured seven other people in a knifing spree outside a shopping mall in a Tokyo suburb in 2008.
He also murdered another man in a separate incident the same year.
The third was Keiki Muto, 62, who strangled a bar owner for money in 2002.
“I ordered the executions after giving careful consideration to the matter,” Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki told a press briefing in Tokyo, as he confirmed the trio were hanged early Thursday morning.
“These were extremely cruel cases in which victims were deprived of their precious lives for very selfish reasons.”
Child killer Kobayashi admitted the abduction, sexual assault and murder of the seven-year-old whose body was found in a gutter in western Japan.
The executions were Japan’s first since two death-row inmates were hanged in September under a center-left Democratic Party of Japan government.
The number of death-row inmates in Japan now stands at 134.
Japan did not execute any condemned inmates in 2011, the first full year in nearly two decades without an execution amid muted debate on the rights and wrongs of a policy that enjoys wide public support.
But in March last year, Tokyo resumed its use of capital punishment with an unapologetic government minister signing death warrants for three multiple murderers.
Apart from the United States, Japan is the only major industrialised democracy to carry out capital punishment, a practice that has led to repeated protests from European governments and human rights groups.
International advocacy groups say the system is cruel because death row inmates can wait for their executions for many years in solitary confinement and are only told of their impending death a few hours ahead of time.
On Thursday, Amnesty International’s Japan branch said it “strongly condemns” Thursday’s executions.
“The Japanese government cannot be excused from abiding by international human rights standards by citing how the public are feeling,” the group said in a Japanese language statement.

LIMA Peru ( " El Chapo " Guzman - Killed in shoot out in Guatemala ) Sinaloa Leader

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This July 10, 1993 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera at La Palma prison in Almoloya of Juarez, Mexico. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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LIMA, Peru — Most-wanted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is suspected to be dead after a shootout in Guatemala near the Mexican border.
Guatemalan authorities said Friday they are investigating the possibility a man killed in the shootout was 58-year-old Guzman, but later backtracked, saying they hadn't yet located a body or even confirmed there was a gunfight, the Associated Press reported.
If confirmed, the death of Guzman could be the highest-profile blow to the international cocaine trade since Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in a hail of bullets in a shootout with security forces in Medellin in 1992.
As head of the ruthless Sinaloa cartel, Guzman, said to have amassed a personal fortune of $1 billion, is thought to be responsible for the deaths of thousands, mainly in Mexico but also in the US and elsewhere in Latin America.
Forbes recently him the world’s 63rd most-powerful person and is widely viewed as the Western Hemisphere’s most-wanted criminal.
Indeed, many analysts now believe Guzman is a more powerful and dangerous operator than Escobar ever was.
That is in part because under his ruthless leadership the Sinaloa cartel has achieved what experts call “vertical integration” of the cocaine supply chain, with its tentacles stretching from the remote Andean regions where coca is grown into the heart of the world’s largest cocaine market — the United States.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has had a $5 million reward for information leading to Guzman’s arrest for more than eight years.
And, earlier this month, Chicago even officially named the elusive 5-foot-6-inch druglord, whose “El Chapo” nickname is Mexican slang for “shorty,” public enemy No. 1. It's the first time in eight decades, since Al Capone terrorized the Windy City, that authorities there have officially used that term.
Nevertheless, if one of the corpses at the scene of the shootout in Guatemala’s jungle region of Peten does turn out to be Guzman, it's unlikely to stop the flow of cocaine into the US any more than the death of Escobar did.
Behind Guzman, crime analysts say, is a long queue of brutal, highly ambitious lieutenants eager to take their turn at the top of the Sinaloa cartel.
And most experts believe as long as demand for cocaine remains strong in the US, Europe, Asia and increasingly in Latin America, particularly Mexico and Brazil, the trafficking is unlikely to stop.

North Korea ( South Korea gets warning from North Korea' final destruction ' ) UN Sanctions

North Korea envoy warns South of 'final destruction'

South Korea faces "final destruction" if Seoul and its allies continue to push for tougher UN resolutions against North Korea's nuclear programme, Pyongyang warned on Tuesday.

Female North Korean traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il to pay their respects Photo: David Guttenfelder/AP

"We have never recognised the propagandist resolutions on sanctions by the UN Security Council," North Korean envoy Jon Yong Ryong told a session of the UN Conference on Disarmament.

"As the saying goes, 'a newborn puppy knows no fear of a tiger.' South Korea's erratic behaviour could only herald its final destruction," he insisted.

North and South Korea traditionally trade barbs at the UN forum - which meets regularly in Geneva and focusses on a raft of global arms-control issues.

But in the wake of North Korea's latest nuclear test last week and a global outpouring of condemnation, the rhetoric was unusually high-pitched Tuesday.

Last week's test was North Korea's most powerful to date, with Pyongyang claiming a breakthrough with a "miniaturised" device.

North Korea's secretive regime repeatedly has rejected international calls to halt its nuclear programme, belittling international sanctions.
Jon also slammed the United States, blaming the superpower for the current stand-off with his country - known officially as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK.
"The DPRK nuclear test is just a measure for self-defence, to cope with intensified US nuclear blackmail against it," he said.
"It is the disposition and firm will of the army and people of the DPRK to counter a high-handed policy with the toughest policy and react to pressure and sanctions with an all-out counter action," he added.
"The DPRK does not make any empty talk. It will take the toughest measure against foreign aggressors and violation of sovereignty in the future," he insisted.

Iran news ( 3 Drug Dealers Executed- Western Iran yesterday )

Three prisoners were hanged in western Iran

Thursday 21 February 2013

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Iran Human Rights, February 21: Three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Dizelabad in Kermanshah (western Iran) yesterday Wednesday February 20.
According to the Iranian national broadcasting in Kermanshah the prisoners were convicted of drug trafficking. No further details were given about the charges and identities of the prisoners.