TUCSON ( Border Patrol Agent Accused of Assaulting Migrant Teen )

TUCSON, Arizona – A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been formally accused of assaulting a 15-year-old migrant detained in southern Arizona, authorities said Friday.

“The Border Patrol agent was sent by the court to our offices yesterday for us to take his photo and fingerprints,” Tony Estrada, sheriff of Santa Cruz County, told Efe Friday, adding that he hadn’t heard of a case of an immigrant being attacked like this for “a long time.”

The agent, identified as Aldo Arteaga, 35, must appear in court on charges of aggravated assault as a result of the Jan. 30 incident at the Border Patrol facility in Nogales, Arizona.

The investigation and accusation of Arteaga have been handled by the Border Patrol’s Office of Internal Affairs, for which reason Estrada said he had no knowledge of exactly what had happened.

Local media have said that the teen is a Mexican citizen, though Efe tried unsuccessfully to confirm his nationality with several consulates of that nation in Arizona.

The charges brought against the federal agent come at a time when the Border Patrol faces a series of accusations of turning a blind eye to the reported deaths and abuses of undocumented immigrants at the hands of its agents on the Mexican border.

Mexico ( Four Killed by Police, Gunmen in Southern Mexico )

MEXICO CITY – At least four people died of gunshot wounds in separate incidents in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, two in a clash involving student teachers and police in Iguala and two others when armed assailants opened fire on a bus on the outskirts of that city, authorities told Efe on Saturday.

In the first incident, police shot and killed two members of a group of student teachers from the training school in Ayotzinapa who had seized a bus and were forcibly removed from the vehicle, sources with the Guerrero state Attorney General’s Office said.

The student teachers later confirmed that figure in a press conference.

The second incident occurred outside Iguala on the highway linking that city with the state capital of Chilpancingo when an unknown armed group blocked the road and opened fire on a bus carrying members of a third-division soccer team, the state AG’s office said.

A 15-year-old boy and the driver of the vehicle were killed in that attack.

Local media, citing unofficial information, reported that a total of eight people were killed in the two incidents: three student teachers, three soccer players, the driver, and a woman who was riding in her vehicle at the time of the attack.

Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero denounced Friday night’s violence and pledged to bring the “full weight of the law” on those responsible for the deaths.

Mexico ( "Head " found on street ) Drug wars

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Los Reyes La Paz, Estado de México.- This morning members of the Ministry of Public Safety (SSC).

They reported finding a human head in streets of the town of Los Reyes La Paz, Estado de México.Esta the second end is left on the streets in less than a week in this area of the State of Mexico.  's head corresponds to a subject approximately 30 years, which was abandoned between lasavenidas Pantitlán and Texcoco, in the El Barco, beside which a threatening message was found.

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Nine IS Jihadists Arrested in Joint Spanish-Moroccan Police Operation

MADRID/RABAT – Nine suspected members of a terrorist cell linked to the Islamic State, or IS, have been arrested Friday in an undergoing joint operation by Spanish and Moroccan police in the north African Spanish city of Melilla and the neighboring Moroccan town of Nador.

Among those arrested, one of them a Spaniard and the other eight Moroccans, is the chief of the cell, the Spanish Interior Ministry reported.

In Rabat, sources close to the operation told Efe the head of the dismantled cell is from Melilla and is the brother of a former member of the Spanish army who has also been linked to jihadism and whose whereabouts are unknown.

The detainee had traveled on several occasions to Mali and other places and was in charge of recruiting followers, especially in the area of Nador, in the northeast of Morocco.

During the raid Spanish and Moroccan police seized a large amount of documents which are being carefully studied, the sources said.

Another joint operation by Spanish and Moroccan police last March led to the arrest of seven jihadists living in Spain and Morocco, who were under the leadership of a Spaniard identified as Mustapha Maya Amaya, also based in Melilla.

In January this year Morocco arrested 20 people and dismantled another cell active in the north of the country headed by a Spanish-Moroccan citizen who had served in Spain’s military and was based in Nador to recruit sympathizers of jihadism

US Federal Court Threatens Argentina with $50,000 a Day Fine for Contempt

NEW YORK -- A U.S. judge has ordered a hearing for Monday on a potential order finding Argentina in contempt of court and fining the country $50,000 a day for disobeying the court's orders. The amount would

NML Capital, Aurelius Capital Management LP and other holders of defaulted Argentine bonds who are owed $1.8 billion dollars have prepared a draft order for U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa, giving Argentina until Monday to potentially avoid the sanctions in a "Motion to Show Cause." Argentina published full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal announcing plans to drop Bank of New York Mellon Corp. as trustee for its restructured debt and the new law was promulgated in its Official Bulletin Wednesday (see below) while the holdouts also took out full-page ads calling on Argentina to follow the court's orders and pay its debts. 

“Argentina has blatantly and repeatedly violated the court’s orders, making abundantly clear that it has no respect for those orders, the court or the U.S. judicial system,” the holders of the defaulted bonds said in a filing today in Manhattan federal court (see below).

Griesa set a hearing on the matter for September 29, after clerks revealed that he was already occupied with another Argentina matter (payments to be made by Citibank in Argentina) on Friday afternoon when the hearing was originally scheduled.

The judge previously threatened Argentina with sanctions for violating orders. In August, NML asked Griesa to find the nation in contempt of court after government officials announced a plan to swap Argentina’s restructured debt for bonds paid locally, to avoid the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. Griesa denied that request, saying a contempt ruling wouldn’t help the parties negotiate a resolution to their stalemate.

The US Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that Argentina can’t make payments on its restructured debt unless it also pays the NML-led group for its bonds and the US Supreme Court found no fault in the decision and declined to hear Argentina's objections.

Argentina defaulted on its performing debt July 30 after not paying the holdout creditors, and Bank of New York Mellon, complying with Griesa’s orders, was unable to pass to bondholders a $539 million interest payment.

Meanwhile, the Argentine government opened today the Nación Fideicomiso account at the Central Bank of Argentina, saying it was evidence of the country’s "good faith and its willingness and ability to pay in equitable conditions."

The objective was to allow for the payment of the interest on the bonds issued in the 2005 and 2010 debt swaps by removing the Bank of New York Mellon as payment agent.

Mexican AG’s Office to Probe Congressman’s Murder

MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Jalisco have handed over to the federal Attorney General’s Office all the information they have collected in the murder of congressman Gabriel Gomez Michel, officials said Thursday.

Authorities in both states are working with the federal AG’s office to expedite the probe, Zacatecas state Attorney General Arturo Nahle told MVS radio.

Gomez Michel was kidnapped on Monday as he drove to the airport in Guadalajara, Jalisco’s capital.

The charred bodies of the abducted congressman and his aide, Heriberto Nuñez, were found Tuesday inside the lawmaker’s SUV on the border between Zacatecas and Jalisco.

Zacatecas has already provided federal prosecutors with the autopsies and all forensic evidence found at the scene, Nahle said Thursday.

Also turned over were the statements taken from Gomez Michel’s brothers, “who have no idea about where this brutal aggression might have come from,” Nahle said.

Authorities in Jalisco relayed the results of their investigation of the daylight abduction in Guadalajara.

“There are still many questions awaiting a response,” Nahle said.

Gomez Michel, a physician, represented part of Jalisco in the Mexican Congress.

The armed assailants who seized and ultimately killed the lawmaker and his assistant were not after a ransom, Nahle said.

“We’re not talking about a kidnapping, strictly speaking,” he said. “They grabbed them, they killed them, the burned them and they dumped them there on the border of Zacatecas with Jalisco.”

Man divorces wife for not closing car door

Islam forbids Muslims from divorcing out of anger or for petty reasons, but this injunction did not stop a Saudi man from leaving his wife because she refused to close their car door, according to recent reports in local media and on social networking sites.
The couple reportedly went out on a picnic and when they returned home, the wife got out, helped their children to do so and then moved to go into their house.
Her husband then called out for her to close the door, but she refused, saying he should do so because he was closer to it. Incensed at her reply, the husband reportedly said: “You are forbidden to me and should not enter my home if you do not close the door.”
The woman then reportedly left and returned to her father's house. Many people have tried to reconcile the couple, but the woman has rejected all attempts, saying that she does not want to remain married to such an "irresponsible" man
Arab News spoke to well-known Saudi Sheikh Asim Al-Hakim on the matter, who said that the divorce is valid based on the man's actions.
Al-Hakim explained that there are direct and indirect divorces. Direct divorce can occur even if a person jokes about it. Indirect divorce is based on intent.
“Intention is very important in such cases, but such behavior is irresponsible." He said Islam has given men a great deal of responsibility to act correctly under these circumstances. "So a man should be very careful about his actions,” he said. 
He said a judge can issue a final verdict in such cases. He warned that people should not act hastily and in anger.
According to a study conducted by Aleqtesadiah newspaper, there are 2.5 divorce cases for every 1,000 men above the age of 15.
There were 30,000 divorces in 2012, averaging 82 a day, or three an hour. In earlier reports, the Ministry of Economy and Planning confirmed that while courts and marriage officials register around 70,000 marriage contracts annually, they also process more than 13,000 divorces.
The study also showed that the Kingdom ranked second among Gulf Cooperation Council countries in terms of divorces after Bahrain, where the rate is 2.7 for every 1,000 people. The same study showed an upward trend in divorce cases in 2012 compared with 2010, when there were 75 a day.