Mexico ( 5 men found " Beheaded " in the city ) Cartel wars

On Saturday morning there were bodies located in Tarímbaro and the Michoacan capital the bodies of five men, who were beheaded ; persons to whom their assailants left  a message ,speaking of a criminal group from Jalisco .

 It was minutes before six o'clock , three of the deceased were was found by the police sitting in the arbor of the bridge known as " The Erandenis " which gives income motorists to the town of Tarímbaro .
On one side of the bodies they found their heads, until now the victims are as unknown , in a gap near the site officers of the State Police they found a bloodstained knife, which is believed to have been used to behead the deceased .
Ten minutes later, two more bodies were found , but now in the main square of Tenure Morelos, in the municipality of Morelia , the heads of these bodies were on a sidewalk street Francisco Juarez Mejia , right next to the place of the facts. In that area was also found narcoletrero
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Iraq ( Clashes break out - After arrest of Sunni Muslim lawmaker )

RAMADI, Iraq: Iraqi security forces arrested a prominent Sunni Muslim lawmaker and supporter of anti-government protests in a raid on his home in the western province of Anbar, sparking clashes in which at least five people were killed, police sources said.
The violent arrest of Ahmed Al-Alwani is likely to inflame tensions in Sunni-dominated Anbar, where protesters have been demonstrating against what they see as marginalization of their sect by Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government.
Alwani belongs to the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc and has been a strong critic of Maliki and an influential figure in the protest movement.

 Police sources said a two-hour firefight broke out on Saturday when bodyguards and members of Alwani’s tribe resisted police and army forces who went to arrest Alwani on charges of “terrorism” from his house in the center of the city of Ramadi.
They said those killed in the fighting included three of Alwani’s bodyguards, his sister and his brother.
“Army troops with police special forces were trying to arrest Alwani from his house, but fierce fighting erupted. Five bodies, including one woman, were taken to Falluja hospital,” one police source said.
No members of Alwani’s family could immediately be reached to give their version of events. Parliament speaker Usama Al-Nujaifi, a Sunni, called the operation a “blatant violation” of Iraq’s constitution and a “dangerous precedent.”
Lt. General Ali Ghaidan, commander of Iraqi ground forces, told state television that security forces had also tried to arrest Alwani’s brother Ali, whom he accused of involvement in attacks that killed Iraqi soldiers in Anbar.
Ali was killed in the fighting, as well as one Iraqi soldier, Ghaidan said.
“We treated Ahmed Al-Alwani well. We told him that we had a warrant for his arrest, and arrested him,” he said, adding that two of Alwani’s bodyguards were wounded.
Violence rising
Violence in Iraq is at its worst levels since 2006-7, when tens of thousands of people were killed in fighting between Sunnis and Shiites. Bombings, shootings and suicide attacks, many staged by Al-Qaeda militants, are a near-daily occurrence.
Saturday’s clashes may undermine Maliki’s efforts to put an end to the protests in Anbar ahead of April elections.
In a statement on state television on Friday, Maliki said it would be the “last Friday” the protests and sit-ins would be allowed to continue.
Many Sunnis in the region are likely to see the incident as another example of what they portray as a crackdown against minority Sunni leaders.
In September last year, Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi, one of Iraq’s most prominent Sunni politicians, was sentenced to death in absentia for murders committed by sectarian death squads. Hashemi, who denies the charges, fled to Turkey.
Finance Minister Rafie Al-Essawi’s bodyguards were arrested in December, sparking the Sunni protests.
A raid on a protest camp in the northern town of Hawija in April sparked fighting that killed over 40 people. Hard-line Al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militants have since stepped up attacks against Iraq’s government and anyone seen as supporting it.
One such attack in Anbar last week killed at least 18 Iraqi soldiers, including a military commander who oversaw the crackdown.

Russia ( A woman suicide bomber blew herself up " killing 13 people " in train station )

MOSCOW: A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in the entrance hall of a Russian train station on Sunday, killing at least 13 people in the second deadly attack in the space of three days as the country prepares to host the Winter Olympics.
The state Investigative Committee said the bomber detonated her explosives in front of a metal detector just inside the main entrance of Volgograd station. Footage shown on TV showed a massive orange fireball filling the hall and smoke billowing out through shattered windows.

 Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 430 miles (690 km) northeast of Sochi, where the Winter Olympics — a major prestige project for President Vladimir Putin — will open on Feb. 7.
It lies close to Russia’s North Caucasus, a strip of mostly Muslim provinces plagued by near-daily violence in a long-running Islamist insurgency. Insurgent leader Doku Umarov, a Chechen warlord, urged militants in a video posted online in July to use “maximum force” to prevent Putin staging the Olympics.
An attack by another woman suicide bomber killed seven people in Volgograd on Oct. 21. On Friday, a car bomb killed three people in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk, 270 km (170 miles) east of Sochi.
A spokesman for Russian investigators said in a statement that at least 13 people died in Sunday’s blast while a health ministry spokesman told Rossiya-24 television that as many as 50 people were wounded.
The station was busier than usual, with people traveling home for the New Year holidays. TV footage showed emergency services carrying out victims, with at least one body lying motionless on the ground.
“I heard the blast and ran toward it,” a witness, Vladimir, told Rossiya-24. “I saw melted, twisted bits of metal, broken glass and bodies lying on the street.”
Sunday’s attack was the deadliest to strike Russia’s heartland since January 2011, when insurgents killed 37 people at a Moscow airport

Honduras ( Great-granddaughter of General Mills stabbed to death in spa )

The great-granddaughter of General Mills heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post was found stabbed to death in her luxury Honduras spa, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press.

Nedenia Post Dye, 46, was found stabbed in her spa on the resort island of Roatan, Honduras on Dec. 22.

Lenin Roberto Arana, 25, was arrested and charged with Dye's murder, police officials told The Associated Press.

Arana allegedly said he and Dye were romantically involved, but police said Dye was trying to help Arana quit drugs, according to the AP.

"She was a good woman who worked with young people at risk, drug addicts and alcoholics," Roatan police chief Alex Madrid told the AP.

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KAILUA, Hawaii ( 27 protesters holding signs at " President Obama's Rental house " )

 The serenity of President Barack Obama's Hawaiian vacation was rattled a little on Saturday when demonstrators aired grievances against unmanned aircraft and other issues in a small protest zone near the first family's upscale rented house.

Returning from an early morning gym visit at nearby Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Obama's motorcade passed a few dozen protesters holding signs with slogans including "Drones: Unethical and Illegal," "U.S. Bases Out" and "Close Guantanamo Now." Others expressed their opposition to genetically modified foods.

It marked a second day of peaceful protest surrounding Obama, who is spending a two-week vacation in Kailua with wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha, the first lady's mother, Marian Robinson, and the family's Portuguese Water Dogs, Bo and Sunny.

On Friday evening, as many as 27 protesters turned out to demonstrate against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact being negotiated between the United States and several Asian and South American countries.

Opponents of TPP say the agreement is being written to benefit large multinational corporations.

"Other than a friendly 'shaka sign' from the president as he drove by in his motorcade, we have not received a formal response from the White House," said Mike Hasselle of the MoveOn Honolulu Council, one of the organizers of the action.

Obama has received mostly a warm reception in and around Honolulu, where he was born and spent much of his boyhood.

Egypt ( Al-Azhar University campus - student killed in pro-Mursi protest )

The unrest followed nationwide repression of Islamist protests on Friday after the military-installed government listed the Brotherhood, the movement of deposed president Muhammad Mursi, as a terrorist organization.
A hospital official said a 19-year-old student was shot dead in the clashes at the Al-Azhar University campus, where pro-Mursi students have regularly staged protests since his overthrow by the army in July.

The students entered the commerce faculty during an exam and set it alight, before police burst into the campus and fired tear gas.
A police official said 60 of the students were arrested after the fire on the first two floors of the building was brought under control.
The violence comes a day after five people were killed in clashes across Egypt, according to a health ministry tally on Saturday, as police stamped out Brotherhood demonstrations.
The interior ministry said 265 protesters were arrested.
Police also fired tear gas at students in Zagazig university north of Cairo on Saturday, security officials said.
And elsewhere in Cairo, police said they defused a bomb found on a bus days after four people were wounded when an explosive went off next to another bus.
The military-installed government has banned protests by Brotherhood members demanding Mursi’s reinstatement, after listing the movement as a terrorist organization this week.
The designation carries harsh penalties, with Brotherhood leaders facing possible death sentences and protesters looking at up to five years in prison.
The movement has held near-daily protests since the military ousted Mursi on July 3, despite a crackdown that has killed more than 1,000 people, mainly Islamists, and imprisoned thousands.
It was listed as a terrorist group in a drastic escalation of the months-long crackdown after a suicide bombing killed 15 people in police headquarters north of Cairo on Tuesday.
The attack was claimed by an Al-Qaeda-inspired group that has led attacks on the military and police and in the restive Sinai peninsula, and denounced by the Brotherhood.
Five people were also wounded in a bomb that targeted a bus in Cairo on Thursday.
On Friday, the Brotherhood, which had dominated elections following the overthrow of strongman Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, said it would remain committed to peaceful protests.
“The Muslim Brotherhood declares it is innocent of any violent incident that has or will be committed,” the Islamists said in a statement.
The interim government has decapitated the 85-year-old movement since Mursi’s overthrow, imprisoning him and most of the movement’s leadership and putting them on trial.
It has also sought to quell a surge in attacks in the Sinai that has killed more than 100 soldiers and policemen, as bombings and shootings spill over into mainland Egypt.
Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, the group that claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s police headquarters attack, had tried to assassinate the interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim in a suicide car bombing outside his home in Cairo in September.
The militant group has criticized the Brotherhood for its style of electoral politics, but authorities say the movement has links with militant groups, without offering proof.
Mursi himself and top Brotherhood leaders will face trial with top Brotherhood leaders for allegedly colluding with militants to carry out attacks.
Mursi, Egypt’s democratically elected president, had ruled for one turbulent year before the military overthrew him, following mass protests demanding his resignation