COLOMBIA ( Woman gives birth to baby on north Colombia sidewalk ) see video

Woman gives birth to baby on north Colombia sidewalk

posted by Adriaan Alsema

A woman in the northern Colombian city of Barranquilla has given birth to a baby on a sidewalk, local newspaper El Heraldo reported Wednesday.
According to the newspaper, the woman was seen bleeding between her legs while walking through the Paraiso neighborhood in the north of the city.
Witnesses told the newspaper that by the time a woman approached the unidentified woman, the baby’s head already had come out of his mother’s vagina.
Neighbors immediately got the woman a plastic chair to finish giving birth to the boy. A nurse who happened to be nearby assisted the woman.
An ambulance arrived in minutes. Ambulance personnel cut the baby’s umbilical chord and transported the newly born and his mother to a nearby hospital.
A local physician told the newspaper the woman appeared to be suffering psychological issues and the baby appeared in good health.

Iran NEWS ( Public hanging of a Murder Suspect- Who killed another man in a knife fight )

A prisoner was hanged in public in Noshahr

Posted on: 16th May, 2013

 

 

 

HRANA News Agency – According to a report by Fars, M-T who was charged with murder has been hanged in public in Noshahr in the presence of persecutor of Noshahr, Police commander of this city, the prison chief, a representative of Forensics and the family of the killed one.

The general and revolutionary persecutor of Noshahr said to the journalists: “A person with the name of M-T who had killed Arsalan Sheykh Abbasi in a fight with knife, was arrested and after the case of complete the Criminal Court of Mazandaran province sentenced him to death.”

GUATEMALA CITY ( Government Slams Construction Firm for Destroying Ancient Mayan Pyramid )

Belizean Government Slams Construction Firm for Destroying Ancient Mayan Pyramid

GUATEMALA CITY – The destruction of a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid by a company constructing a highway near the Nohmul archaeological site in northern Belize is “unforgivable,” the government said.

The company moved bulldozers and backhoes through the Nohmul complex, practically wiping out one of the largest Mayan pyramids in the Central American country.

The destruction of the Nohmul archaeological site showed “total disregard for the cultural heritage” of Belize and was “cruel, ignorant and unforgivable,” the Tourism and Culture Ministry said in a statement released in Belmopan.

Media reports revealed the ancient pyramid’s destruction on Monday, but the private company involved in the incident has not commented.

Photos published in the press showed construction workers removing rocks and stones from the site for use in building the highway.

The construction company has a contract from the Belizean government to build a highway in Orange Walk district.

The Nohmul pyramid, which was constructed by the Mayans during the Pre-Classical Period, is near the border with Mexico and part of the Yucatan archaeological zone. EFE

TEHRAN ( 74 thugs arrested - For what " Not sure " - Election Time )

Iranian regime rounds up so-called 'thugs' ahead of June election

 

Published on Friday, 17 May 2013 15:03

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NCRI - State Security Forces in Tehran have arrested 74 'thugs' in Tehran as part of the ongoing crackdown ahead of the June presidential election.
Greater Tehran's State Security Security commander Hossein Sajedinia told the state-run ISNA state-run news agency on May 16: "In a joint operation between Tehran's security forces and police the accused were first identified and then arrested.
"Expert police agents have arrested 74 thugs in the past 24 hours and turned them in to the judicial system.
Sajedinia said that 'thugs' were arrested in a 12-stage plan last year, and so far 150 people had been arrested in two stages of the security plan.
Meanwhile, 26 youths have also been arrested in Ahvaz on May 14 during raids on private homes. It is not known where the accused are being held.
The arrests are all part of a pre-election clampdown by paranoid rulers who fear a mass public uprising during the election in June.

TUCSON Az ( 64 Immigrants die in 8 months trying to cross the Hot Arizona Border ) Rape and Robbery

Fewer Immigrants Dying on Arizona Border
From Oct. 1 through May 1, 64 migrants died while trying to sneak across the border into the United States, down from 101 during the same period of fiscal 2012, according to official figures

TUCSON, Arizona – Deaths of undocumented immigrants in the Arizona desert are down 36 percent in the 2013 fiscal year, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

From Oct. 1 through May 1, 64 migrants died while trying to sneak across the border into the United States, down from 101 during the same period of fiscal 2012, according to official figures.

“The deaths have gone down, but as temperatures begin to rise in the desert, the dangers increase,” Andres Adame, spokesman for the Border Patrol Tucson Sector, told Efe.

The most recent fatality was last Saturday.

Border Patrol agents responded to a call about someone’s being lost in the desert near the village of Tres Puntos. When they reached the scene, they found one migrant alive and another, dead.

The survivor told the agents that the other man had fallen ill and been abandoned by the “coyote” they paid to guide them across the desert.

Agents in the Tucson Sector, which includes 90 percent of the Arizona-Mexico border, have carried out 203 successful rescues in the desert so far in fiscal 2013, 27 more than at the same point in fiscal 2012, when the number of rescues reached a record 634.

“That tells us this summer could be terrible for the migrants,” Adame said.

Daytime temperatures in the Arizona desert are already hovering around 100 F.

Heat, however, is not the only danger.

“We have seen an increase in the number of cases of robbery, of women raped,” Adame said, attributing the phenomenon to a takeover of migrant smuggling by organized crime.

Formerly, he said, most “coyotes” were men and women who lived in the border region.

“The dad, the mom and the kids dedicated themselves to the business of bringing immigrants across. Everybody was involved, it was a family business. But later we see a change when the drug cartels got involved,” Adame said.

For the cartels, migrants are merchandise, not human beings, he said.

Instead of men “making a little money for their families,” the coyotes are now “criminals who make a lot of money,” Adame said. EFE

TUCSON Az ( 3rd Bee Attack this month - one male taken to hospital )

Bee attack stings 3, sends 1 to the hospital

Posted: May 16, 2013 3:39 PM  West  El puente ln.

 

Editor's note: the following is a release from Tucson Police. Three people were stung by bees this morning with one male patient being transported to a local hospital in stable condition. Of the three people involved, one was stung once and the other two were stung an estimated ten to twenty times. Tucson Fire crews responded after a worker at a local business called 911 to report that someone had been attacked by bees. Units arrived dressed in protective gear and found the swarm still in the area. Crews were notified that there was still someone hiding under a blanket near the swarm and made their way through the bees to remove the individual. Fire crews advised all businesses in the area to stay inside while they searched for the hive. Firefighters located the hive in an abandoned shed on an open lot. Due to the fact that life safety was an issue the bees were exterminated with foam. Tucson Fire recommends that citizens contact a professional bee service to remove all non-aggressive hives

KABUL ( Dozen Die in Suicide Attack in Afghanistan - 2 U.S soldiers and 4- DynCorp security killed)

Dozen Die in Suicide Attack in Afghanistan

KABUL – Six NATO personnel were among at least a dozen people killed Thursday in a suicide attack targeting a military convoy in the Afghan capital, officials said.

Two uniformed military personnel and four civilian advisers died, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said.

ISAF did not specify the nationalities of the dead, but the Pentagon and Virginia-based DynCorp International independently identified the NATO fatalities as two U.S. soldiers and four security contractors.

The attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into the convoy, Kabul provincial police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi said.

He said the dead include two Afghan children, while around 30 other people were injured and a dozen homes damaged by the powerful explosion.

Hizb-e-Islami, a Muslim fundamentalist faction led by Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said it was behind the blast.

“We are responsible for this attack,” Hizb-e-Islam spokesman Zubai Seddiqi told Efe.

The bulk of the ISAF troops are due to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. EFE