Putin Accuses U.S. of Pushing World into Arms Race

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of making global decisions that will push the world into an arm race, and possibly result in a new cold war.

“It’s not local conflicts but global decisions such as the U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Treaty that lead the world to local conflicts,” Putin said replying to a question at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

“It is really a step which is pushing all of us to a new spiral of the arms race because it changes the global security system,” Putin said.

The Russian president also said that “wherever regional conflicts break out, the parties in conflict always inexplicably find weapons,” which could be equally applied to Ukraine’s eastern provinces, according to Putin.

Putin also highlighted that after the collapse of the Soviet Union “several of our partners in the West, including the United States first and foremost, came under euphoria and instead of setting up good neighborly and partner relations, they began grabbing free geopolitical space as they saw it.”

The Russian president claimed the problem with the United States is that it tries to impose standards and decision regardless of Russia’s position of common interests.

In practice, the United States is telling Russia that it knows what is best for it, according to Putin, who said that Russia determines its own needs and interests according to its history and culture.

Iran - Woman not allowed at volleyball match in Tehran

‘The entry of women at volleyball matches is forbidden,’ an official of the Iranian regime’s volleyball federation said on Friday, state-run ISNA news agency reported.

As part of the International Volleyball Federation’s (FIVB) 2015 World League, a match between Iran and the United States is scheduled to be held in the Azadi Sports Complex in Tehran on Friday.

The Iranian regime previously prohibited women from attending an international men’s volleyball match in June 2014, in contravention of the principle of gender non-discrimination in sports.

State-run ISNA news agency reported on June 17, 2015 that a source inside Iran’s volleyball federation had confirmed that the “entry of all women to the Azadi Sports Complex during the World League matches has been prohibited.”

In November 2014, the International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB) sanctioned Iran from hosting international events for as long as women are not allowed to watch games.

A spokesman for the international federation told AFP on 9 November 2015 that the FIVB will "not give Iran the right to host any future FIVB directly controlled events such as World Championships, especially under age, until the ban on women attending volleyball matches is lifted".

"This does not include other volleyball tournaments or next year's World League tournament because the fixtures are already confirmed," the spokesman added.
The Iranian regime’s then police chief General Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam said in June 2014 "we cannot allow the presence of women in stadia" because gender mixing "is not yet in the public interest".

The current Iranian regime’s police chief said on Thursday his forces have acted based on their natural duty in banning the entrance of women into sports stadiums or cancelling various music concerts.

The commander of the police Hossein Ashtari said in a trip to Qom: If we prevent the presence of women in concerts and sports stadiums, we are acting based on our natural and sharia duty,” the state-run Entekhab website wrote.

Police Officer Goes Missing after Shootout in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – A police officer disappeared following a shootout in Apatzingan, a city in western Mexico, where gunmen murdered two other officers and five civilians, Michoacan Gov. Salvador Jara said.

Officers assigned to guard the La Fortaleza de Annunaky ranch failed to return when expected, prompting their commander to send out a patrol car to search for them, Jara said.

The patrol car met up with the other officers halfway to the ranch and the three patrol cars headed back to town.

The officers came across a tractor-trailer loaded with scrap metal and an SUV.

“When they found these two vehicles, the patrol cars started to pass them and that’s when they were attacked by armed men. There is a shootout and they (the officers) head off, find a motorcycle rider and that’s how they sent word (to other officers),” the governor said.

The shootout was over quickly and the gunmen torched one of the patrol cars, “but they didn’t realize that reinforcements were coming,” Jara said.

Officers killed the tractor-trailer’s driver, his assistant and three other civilians, the governor said.

Investigators have not determined whether the men belonged to a criminal organization, Jara said, but he indicated that they may have been members of the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel.

The La Fortaleza de Annunaky ranch belonged to Caballeros Templarios boss Nazario Moreno, who died in a shootout with marines on Jan. 9, 2014.

Iran - Lawyer arrested for shaking hand's ( adultery in "sharia law " )

 Posted on: 16th June, 2015

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HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Moghimi, Atena Farghdani’s lawyer who had gone to visit his client was arrested and transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Davud Nemati, one of his friends has published this news and written: “A man named as Hamidi said he has been arrested because of shaking hands with his client which has been written in the record as ‘adultery’.”

Mr. Moghimi has informed Mr. Nemati of these through a phone call from Rajai Shahr Prison and has also told that a bail of 20 million Thomans has been issued for him and hopefully he is going to be released soon.

Mohammad Moghimi is a human rights lawyer and his client, Atena Farghdani has been recently sentenced to 12 years of imrisonment for her peaceful activities.

Police Seize 3.4 Tons of Cocaine in Southwest Ecuador

QUITO – A total of 3.4 tons of cocaine packed into a container bound for Manzanillo, Mexico, were seized in Guayaquil, a port city in southwestern Ecuador, the National Police said Sunday.

The drugs were found on Friday by specially trained dogs in a container whose manifest said held a substance used to produce animal feed.

The cocaine was in 67 sacks containing a total of 440 bricks of the drug.

Officers searched a warehouse and a house in Guayaquil’s La Puntilla residential district, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The investigation was expanded to the central coastal city of Manta, where two Mexicans and a Colombian were arrested.

An Ecuadorian who worked for the shipping firm that was sending the container to Mexico was also detained.

Two Hondurans arrested in Manta were released after officials determined they were not involved in the smuggling operation

Puerto Rico Judge Gets 10 Years for Bribery

 

SAN JUAN -- A Puerto Rico Superior Court Judge was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after being convicted earlier this year of accepting bribes to acquit a businessman of vehicular homicide charges. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico made the announcement.

In January, a federal jury convicted Judge Manuel Acevedo-Hernandez, 63, of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and receipt of a bribe by an agent of an organization receiving federal funds. Chief U.S. District Judge Aida M. Delgado of the District of Puerto Rico imposed the sentence.

Acevedo-Hernandez presided over the trial of Lutgardo Acevedo-Lopez, 39, a certified public accountant in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Acevedo-Lopez was charged with criminal vehicular homicide based on his role in a June 2012 collision involving the vehicle he was driving and another car, which resulted in the death of the other driver.

According to the evidence presented at trial, Acevedo-Lopez used an intermediary to bribe Acevedo-Hernandez by paying taxes owed by Acevedo-Hernandez; paying for the construction of a garage for Acevedo-Hernandez’s home; and providing Acevedo-Hernandez with a motorcycle, clothing and accessories, including cufflinks and a watch. In exchange, Acevedo-Hernandez acquitted Acevedo-Lopez of all charges.

In August 2014, Acevedo-Lopez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and to paying a bribe to an agent of an organization receiving federal funds. Acevedo-Lopez has not yet been sentenced.

The case was investigated by the FBI’s San Juan Division. The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Peter Mason and Menaka Kalaskar of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Henwood and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jose Capó of the District of Puerto Rico.

Russian Woman Admits She Dismembered Mother, Sister in Mexican Border City

MEXICO CITY – A 19-year-old Russian woman confessed that she murdered her mother and 12-year-old sister, whose dismembered bodies were found at their house in Tijuana, a border city in northwest Mexico, media reports said.

Anastasia Lechtchenko Masney, who was the prime suspect in the murder case, was found and arrested in Sinaloa, another northwestern state.

The teenager confessed that she beheaded and dismembered the bodies, removing the heart from one body and the eyes from the other.

The suspect told investigators she flushed the body parts down the toilet because she believed her mother and sister were witches.

The dismembered bodies of Yulya Masney Safonchik, a 42-year-old Russian-born Mexican citizen, and her daughter, Valeria Lechtchenko Masney, were found last week inside a house in Tijuana, located near San Diego, California, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said.

Anastasia Lechtchenko Masney lived at the house with her mother and sister, but she was not home when AG’s office agents went to the property.

Investigators launched a search for the teenager, the AG’s office said.

The suspect often disappeared from home and was reported missing several times to authorities by relatives who feared that people traffickers had abducted her.

Authorities, however, determined that she had left of her own will and had drug problems.