Phoenix ( Man kills his 12 yr old brother " he felt like killing " )

PHOENIX (AP) - A 27-year-old Arizona man charged with fatally stabbing his 12-year-old half brother reportedly told police he "just felt like killing."

Andrew Ward called 911 from a convenience store near the north Phoenix home where Austin Tapia suffered multiple stab wounds late Wednesday, police Sgt. Steve Martos said.

Ward told the dispatcher he had stabbed someone, and officers found Ward with blood on his hands and clothing and a knife in a pants pocket, Martos said.

Martos said detectives asked Ward why he killed the boy, and Ward said, "Honestly, I just felt like killing."

Other family members had gone to dinner, so Ward and the boy were the only ones home. The mother and two teenage sisters returned home to find police at what had become a crime scene.

Ward was booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and child abuse, and bond was set at $1 million at his initial court appearance Thursday.

He doesn't have a lawyer yet and is facing a March 20 status conference and March 24 preliminary hearing in the case.

A Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman said Ward was still being processed into the jail and was not available Thursday to be asked about a request for a jailhouse interview.

A clerk at the convenience store, Kristina Krasovich, said the man identified by police as Ward had blood on his shirt and an arm and that it looked like he had wiped his hands on his pants when he arrived at the store.

"He was real shaky and scared. I could see in his eyes something bad had happened," Krasovich told KNXV-TV (http://bit.ly/1ewfssn).

She saw him talking on the phone, Krasovich said.

"He had calmed down, but he still had this look of horror on his face," she said.

She asked if the man was OK and said he gave her a thumbs-up

A few minutes later, Krasovich said, the man started to walk toward the door where police officers waiting with guns drawn ordered him to the ground.

India ( India students face charges for 'cheering for Pakistani team ' )

LUCKNOW, India: Some 60 students from Indian-administered Kashmir may face sedition charges for cheering Pakistan's victory over India in a recent cricket match, police said.
Police were investigating the students following a complaint from university officials in the northern city of Meerut over celebrations following Pakistan's win on Sunday in an Asia Cup clash.
The students, all enrolled at the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University (SVSU), have been suspended and were escorted from campus following the match due to concerns about violence with other Indian students, university sources said.

"The SVSU administration on Wednesday submitted a written complaint against unknown persons for indulging in anti-national activities and creating a ruckus on the university campus," Meerut police chief Omkar Singh said.
"We have registered a case and the probe is on," Singh explained.
"If evidence is established against the accused, there is a set legal procedure to be followed in such cases. The law will take its own course," he said, adding that any charges would be ones of sedition.
Muslim-majority Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan but each claims it in full. They have fought two wars since 1947 over the northern Himalayan territory.
Since 1989 Indian forces have been fighting militant groups seeking independence or the merger of the territory with Pakistan, with repressive policing and human rights abuses feeding into local anti-India resentment.
Many Kashmiris associate more with Pakistan, a Muslim-majority Islamic republic, than with Hindu-majority India which is officially secular.
Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said any sedition charges would be "unacceptably harsh."
"Sedition charge against Kashmiri students is an unacceptably harsh punishment that will ruin their futures & will further alienate them," Abdullah said on Twitter.
"I believe what the students did was wrong & misguided but they certainly didn't deserve to have charges of sedition slapped against them."
Pakistan's foreign office spokesman said sedition charges against the students would be "very unfortunate".
"If the Kashmiri students want to come and pursue their education in Pakistan, our hearts and academic institutions are open to them," Tasnim Aslam said in Islamabad.
The trouble began when the students were watching the headline clash on television in the university's community hall.
Some of the students were accused of chanting "Pakistan Zindabad (hail Pakistan)" and damaging university property during celebrations after Pakistan won, a university official said on condition of anonymity.
In 2012, an anti-government cartoonist was arrested in another sedition case, raising concerns about limits on freedom of speech.
Prosecutors later dropped the charge against the cartoonist whose online drawings included the national parliament depicted as a huge toilet bowel in a comment against corruption.

Pakistan ( 16 killed in gang fight "4 women" )

KARACHI: Street battles between two rival gangs armed with RPGs and machine guns killed at least 16 people — including four women — in Pakistan’s Karachi on Wednesday, officials said.
The clash, which according to police also injured 39 people, mainly schoolchildren, was the worst outbreak of criminal-related violence to plague the troubled city in recent months.
It “erupted this morning when two gangs exchanged heavy gunfire” in the Lyari neighborhood, senior police official Faisal Bashir said, adding that school pupils had been hurt in the crossfire.
“Later they fired RPGs and lobbed hand grenades at each other,” he added, saying the death toll was expected to rise.

Major Sibtain Rizvi, a spokesman for paramilitary troops, added that two gangsters had been killed and one had been arrested.
Dr. Seemi Jamali of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, where some of the injured were taken, said three paramilitary rangers and two police were wounded.
Bashir, the police officer, said one of the gangs suspected the other of providing a tip to police that led to the killing of a top leader.
According to police the firing began around 4:00 a.m. (1100 GMT) while major blasts were heard at noon.
Din Muhammad, a 43-year-old resident who was being treated at Karachi Civil Hospital for a gun-shot wound in his right leg, said he was sitting at the shop when he heard explosions.
“There was a big bang and then people were shouting and crying, I closed the shutter of my shop to run home but I saw people fallen into the ground, bleeding and screaming,” he said.
“I was running toward a group of people lying on the ground a few yards away and then I fell to the ground,” after being shot, he added.
“My leg was bleeding and I could not stand up, I remained there for around twenty minutes and then local people came and brought us here,” he said.
An AFP reporter at the hospital said that some people, who were accompanying the wounded, started chanting slogans against security forces before briefly clashing with them.
By Wednesday afternoon, some 200 police commandos had arrived on the scene to conduct a search operation after the clash had ended, senior police official Shah Nawaz told AFP.
Lyari, one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods of Karachi, is known for frequent violence between rival gangs.
It is largely dominated by ethnic Baluch linked to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari which rules the southern Sindh province.
Local police said Wednesday’s fight was believed to involve two splinter organizations — the “Uzair Baloch” and “Ghaffar Zikri” gangs — which grew out of the once-dominant Baba Ladla group.
An operation launched by police and paramilitary government rangers in the city’s tangled maze of streets last September had appeared to be having a positive effect, until this latest incident.
But Tauseef Ahmed Khan, an analyst, said there was a nexus between the PPP and Lyari gangs which prevented authorities from arresting suspected criminals and confiscating their weapons.
“The current targeted operation has no effect on Lyari because the police and law enforcement agencies consider the gangsters of Layari as their assets.”
“No effort has ben made to cut the supply of illegal weapons to Lyari and that is why today we have gangsters holding RPGs and firing at school children,” he said.
“Today’s incident is the worst in the history of Layari,” he added.
Karachi, a city of 18 million people which contributes 42 percent of Pakistan’s GDP, has been plagued by sectarian, ethnic and political violence for years.
The city is also wracked by militants, especially the Taleban who last month claimed credit for a bomb blast that killed 12 policemen on a bus.
According to the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), 2,507 people were murdered in Karachi in 2013, the highest number since records began nearly 20 years ago.

Saudi Arabia ( King orders surgery to separate ' Syrian Siamese twins ' )

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has instructed Health Ministry officials to arrange for surgery to separate Syrian Siamese twins following a request from their parents, Sabq.org reported on Tuesday.
The two girls, Taqi and Yaqin, are conjoined at the head, but medical reports revealed that they have separate brains. The twins are now aged one year and eight months, the electronic daily said.
The relatives of the twins have expressed their gratitude to King Abdullah for his humanitarian gesture. They also thanked Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah for his care and support.
Sabq.org raised the case of the Syrian twins in a report published four months ago, which resulted in the royal approval to provide treatment and separate them. 
Hussein Eissa Al-Khedr, their father who belongs to Reqqa, is a farmer and can't afford the operation.

Venezuela ( Student shot and killed "during protest " )

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PROTESTS IN VENEZUELA | At least two injured reported

Demonstrator is shot dead in southwest Venezuela

The city of San Cristóbal has been hit by violence during the last two nights. On Monday, just after 10 pm, in the Carabobo Avenue with Ferrero Tamayo Avenue, a group of students was attacked by armed motorcyclists

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Late on Monday Daniel Tinoco, 24, a student of University of Táchira, died after he was shot in the chest, as confirmed by Ángel Perdomo, the director of the Municipal Police of San Cristóbal, Táchira state, southwest Venezuela.

Sources said that Tinoco was at the intersection of Carabobo Avenue with Ferrero Tamayo Avenue, the place where students have been stationed since anti-government protests began in early February.

The incident occurred around 10:00 pm and the victim was taken to hospital. Two other people were injured, the sources said.

Witnesses reported that the students were stationed at the site when they were attacked by unidentified armed motorcyclists.

Venezuela ( UN to look into torture violations in Venezuela )

Monday March 10, 2014  01:50 PM

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has received renewed claims of alleged torture in Venezuela, Argentinean Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, told AFP on Monday in Geneva, outside the presentation of his office annual report.

"We are receiving new claims. They are varied and those related to my incumbency, particularly some of them, fortunately a few of them, have to do with very severe treatment concerning torture," Méndez told AFP.

"We want them to be investigated in depth; they are very, very serious tortures," Méndez said after submitting his report to the UN Human Rights Council.

Malaysia ( Iranian man traveling with stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines )

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A man traveling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday.
The announcement is likely to dampen, at least for now, speculation that the disappearance of the Boeing 777 was linked to terrorism. Police said a second passenger also traveling with a stolen passport has not been identified. Both bought their tickets in Thailand and entered Malaysia together.
No debris from the plane has been found. On Tuesday, baffled authorities expanded their search to the opposite side of Malaysia from where it disappeared more than three days ago with 239 people on board.
The airline says the pilots did not send any distress signals, suggesting a sudden and possibly catastrophic incident. Speculation has ranged widely about possible causes, including pilot error, plane malfunction, hijacking and terrorism.
News that two of the passengers were traveling with stolen passports immediately fueled speculation of foul play. However, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference Tuesday that investigators had determined one was a 19-year-old Iranian planning to enter Germany to seek asylum.
“We believe he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group,” Khalid said.
He said the young man’s mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt and had been in contact with police. He said she contacted Malaysian authorities to inform them of her concern when her son didn’t get in touch with her.
He also said there was no truth to a statement by at least one other government official that five passengers had checked in for the flight but never boarded the airplane.
The plane took off from Kuala Lumpur, on the western coast of Malaysia, early Saturday en route to Beijing. It flew across Malaysia into the Gulf of Thailand at 35,000 feet (11,000 meters) and then disappeared from radar screens.
Authorities have said the plane may have attempted to turn back toward Kuala Lumpur.
The hunt began on Saturday near the plane’s last known location. But with no debris found there, the search has been systematically expanded to include areas the plane could have reached with the fuel it had on board. That is a vast area in which to locate something as small as a piece of an aircraft.
Malaysia Airlines said search and rescue teams have expanded the scope beyond the flight path to the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia’s western coast and Indonesia’s Sumatra island — the opposite side of Malaysia from its last known location.
An earlier statement said the western coast of Malaysia was “now the focus,” but the airline subsequently said that phrase was an oversight.
“The search is on both sides,” Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said.
The search currently includes nine aircraft and 24 ships from nine countries that have been scouring the Gulf of Thailand on the eastern side of Malaysia. Land areas also are being searched.
China, where two-thirds of the passengers are from, urged Malaysian authorities on Tuesday to “speed up the efforts” to find the plane. It has sent four ships, with another four on the way.
A shopping mall in Beijing suspended advertising on its large outdoor LED screen to display a search timer — an image of an airplane along with a digital clock marking the time since contact with the flight was lost.
Assuming the plane crashed into the ocean or disintegrated in midair, there will likely still be debris floating in the ocean, but it may be widely spread out, and much may have already sunk. In past disasters, it has taken days or longer to find wreckage.
The United States has sent two navy ships, at least one of which is equipped with helicopters, and a Navy P-3C Orion plane with sensors that can detect small debris in the water. It said in a statement that the Malaysian government has done “tremendous job” organizing the land and sea search effort.
Vietnamese planes and ships are also taking part.
Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of the Vietnamese People’s Army, said authorities on land had also been ordered to search for the plane, which could have crashed into mountains or uninhabited jungle. He said military units near the border with Laos and Cambodia had been instructed to search their regions also.
“So far we have found no signs ... so we must widen our search,” he said.
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Minh reported from Hanoi, Vietnam. Associated Press writers Jim Gomez and Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur and Chris Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.