KABUL ( Two civilian contractors working for the NATO force in Afghanistan were killed )

KABUL: Two civilian contractors working for the NATO force in Afghanistan were killed in a bomb attack in Kabul on Monday, a statement from the coalition said.
The car bomb in the east of the capital targeted a convoy of NATO troops, according to witnesses.
The two American contractors were in the war-ravaged nation for the international security force (ISAF), the NATO-led force and a US official said.
The explosion in eastern Kabul was the latest incident to rattle the city ahead of April’s presidential election due to choose the country’s first new leader since 2001.
“Two International Security Assistance Force contracted civilians died as the result of a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today,” ISAF said in a statement.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the slain contractors were American.
Afghanistan’s future remains uncertain as the Taleban continue their insurgent campaign and Washington and President Hamid Karzai are deadlocked over a bilateral security deal to let some US forces stay beyond the end of 2014.


NATO forces have already begun to withdraw from Afghanistan, but the US and other nations have been seeking to keep some troops in Afghanistan after 2014 to help the country’s army fend off the Taleban.
On Saturday, the United Nations said that civilian deaths increased in 2013 as fighting intensified between government forces and insurgents.
Militants have stepped up attacks in the final year of the international coalition’s combat mission in Afghanistan, seeking to shake confidence in the Kabul government’s ability to keep order.
A witness said the blast was a suicide attack on a convoy of foreign military vehicles.
Police and ambulances rushed to the scene near the Pul-i-Charkhi prison. Two civilian vehicles lay overturned and nearby shop windows were shattered from the force of the explosion.
A local shopkeeper named Jameel, who uses only one name, said he saw two NATO vehicles leaving the prison and a car slamming into the second one. He said he saw at least two wounded foreigners but he could not tell the extent of their injuries before they were evacuated.
Several American military personnel arrived at the scene, but the NATO-led coalition gave few details of what happened. “We are aware of reports of an explosion in eastern Afghanistan,” the coalition said in a statement.

India ( Tiger " Kills 10th victim " hunters unable to kill him )

LUCKNOW, India: Forest officials say a tiger has killed its 10th human victim in a month while evading hunters on its trail in northern India.
Deputy Director Saket Badola of the Jim Corbet National Park says the female tiger was outside its normal territory and prowling near villages on the border between the northern Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Badola says the big cat mauled a 50-year-old man as he was collecting firewood Sunday night near the village of Kalgarh. The animal ate parts of the man’s leg and abdomen before being scared away by villagers waving shovels and metal rods.
Meanwhile, three hunters hired to kill the animal were having trouble tracking its pug marks in dense forests.

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Temecula Ca ( Man points " Shotgun " at Girl Scout selling cookies )

A Temecula man accused of pointing a shotgun at a 7-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies door-to-door pleaded not guilty to assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday, Feb. 5.
John Michael Dodrill, 59, didn’t speak during his brief arraignment at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley. A deputy public defender entered not guilty pleas on his behalf.
Dodrill, who is being held with bail set at $25,000, sat on a bench with other inmates, wearing orange jail clothes and shackles.
Judge Judith Clark approved a criminal protective order for Dodrill to stay away from the girl and her father.


The father was in court for the hearing but declined to comment afterward.
The father reported the run-in with Dodrill late Sunday morning on Strawberry Tree Lane in a gated condominium complex on the southern end of town, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said.
The girl, pulling a wagon filled with cookies, had walked up to Dodrill’s front door and rung the bell while her father waited nearby, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney’s office. When no one answered, she tried knocking.
Hall said Dodrill opened the door while holding a shotgun at his side, then raised it toward the child as her father looked on.
“He said something to the effect of, ‘You should know better than to knock on my door,’” Hall said.
Dodrill then slammed the door shut, Hall said.
The stunned father called his daughter over to him and dialed 911.
Sheriff’s Lt. Matt Aveling said it was unclear why Dodrill had such an extreme reaction. Dodrill and the family don’t know each other, Aveling said, and deputies had never been called to that address for any complaints in the past.
“It’s definitely a shocker,” he said.
Sheriff’s officials have said they seized several guns from Dodrill’s home.
Contact Sarah Burge at 951-368-9694 or sburge@pe.com

Mexico ( Mexican Newspaper Calls on Kidnappers to Release Journalist )

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Notisur newspaper on Thursday called on the kidnappers of reporter Gregorio Jimenez de la Cruz to return him “home safe and sound.”

Jimenez de la Cruz, a police reporter for Notisur and the Liberal del Sur newspaper, was abducted outside his residence in Villa Allende, a town in the Gulf state of Veracruz, on Wednesday.

The reporter did not do “anything to anyone to deserve an attack of this magnitude,” Notisur said in an editorial.

Gunmen grabbed Jimenez de la Cruz on Wednesday morning outside his house in Villa Allende, which is near the city of Coatzacoalcos.

Jimenez de la Cruz is “a man of humble origins” and an “efficient reporter,” Notisur said.

His kidnapping “seriously and deeply cuts us” and is an attack on “all of us at Notisur, his editorial home, as well as at Diario El Liberal and En La Red,” the newspaper said.

The public criticism of the kidnapping “is rooted in the simple and clear fact that we journalists are not, by definition, anyone’s enemies,” Notisur said.

The kidnappers should understand that “they have made a mistake with regard to the person and his work,” the newspaper said. “We want him alive. We need him. We want him returned home safe and sound.”

Jimenez de la Cruz was kidnapped as he returned home after taking his children to school, Notisur representative Sayda Chiñas Cordova told Efe on Wednesday.

He had reported in the past few days on a wave of kidnappings in Allende, which is separated from Coatzacoalcos by a river, the newspaper executive said.

PEN Club Mexico, meanwhile, condemned Jimenez de la Cruz’s kidnapping and called on officials, especially those in Veracruz, to find the reporter.

“Eight journalists were deprived of their freedom in Veracruz state last year,” the press rights group said.

PEN Club International, founded in 1921, is an organization of writers and journalists who promote freedom of expression through more than 144 chapters in over 100 countries.

The Zetas drug cartel, considered Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, and other gangs operate in Veracruz’s oil-producing region.

Nine journalists have been murdered, at least three have gone missing and about a dozen others have left Veracruz since 2011 due to the drug-related violence in the state.

A total of 87 journalists have been murdered since 2000 in Mexico, making it the most dangerous country in Latin America for members of the media, the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said.