At Least Earthquakes Report in northwest China

Rescuers have braved landslides and blocked roads to assist victims of dual earthquakes in northwest China that killed eighty nine individuals and abraded nearly 600.

Last update: Gregorian calendar month 22, 2013 at 5:17 pm: Deadly earthquake close to Minxian, Gansu, China – a minimum of 89 killed, 5 missing, 628 abraded.

The tremors in Gansu province - with magnitudes of five.9 and 5.6 - triggered landslides that buried typically inexpertly made native homes, government-run broadcaster CCTV according.

Pictures from the scene showed straightforward buildings reduced to detritus, with items of furrowed metal roofing scattered over the part.

The government of Dingxi town in Gansu province aforementioned on a social media account that fourteen individuals remained missing.

Almost all the confirmed dead were in Min County, wherever a drugs plant worker aforementioned he saw tower blocks shake "ferociously" once the quake stricken.

Nearly 3000 firefighters, police, troopers and native government staff had been sent to the realm, Xinhua aforementioned, however rescue efforts are being hampered by landslides and roads that had been blocked by serious rain in previous days.

Iraq attacks: New wave of bombing and shooting

The attacks came on a daily basis when the leader of al-Qaida's Al-Iraq arm, referred to as the Islamic State of Al-Iraq, contumaciously rejected Associate in Nursing order from the fear network's central command to prevent claiming management over the organization's Asian nation affiliate, in keeping with a message supposedly from him.

A string of nearly a dozen apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting in cities across Al-Iraq killed a minimum of fifty one and wounded dozens Sunday, extending a wave of violence that's raising fears of a come back to widespread killing a decade when the U.S.-led invasion.

Bombings and a shooting in cities and cities across Republic of Al-Iraq as if it would be coordinated and bore the hallmark of foreign terrorist organization in Iraq.

Violence has spiked sharply in Al-Iraq in recent months, with the toll rising to levels not seen since 2008. Nearly 2,000 are killed since the beginning of April.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's comments reveal his group's determination to link its own fight against the Shiite-led government in Bagdad with the explanation for rebels making an attempt to topple the Iran-backed Syrian regime.

Violence has spiked sharply in Al-Iraq in recent months, with the toll rising to levels not seen since 2008. Nearly 2,000 are killed since the beginning of April, together with over a hundred and eighty this month.

The surge in bloodshed accompanies rising sectarian tensions among Al-Iraq and growing issues that its unrest is being spread-out by the Syrian war raging not far away.

One of the deadliest attacks came within the evening once a terrorist blew him up within a restaurant packed with tykes within the mostly Moslem neighborhood of al-Ameen in southeastern Bagdad. The attack killed eleven and wounded twenty five, in keeping with police.

Clothes look owner Saif Hameed, 24, was observation TV reception once he detected the blast close. He saw many of the wounded being loaded into ambulances.

Most of Sunday's automotive bombs hit Shiite-majority areas and caused most of the casualties. The blasts hit a dozen cities and cities within the south and center of the country.

Muslim Day of Love

Western diplomatic missions throughout the Muslim world tightened security, with some closing down on an expectation of big protests after Friday prayers.

West diplomatic missions throughout the Muslim human’s tightened surety, with some last imbibe on prospect of big protests after Weekday prayers.

Demonstrators clashed with police in the Pakistan Peshawar City on Friday as anger over insults to the Prophet Mohammed stewed over despite calls from semi political and churchgoing body crosswise the Muslim humankind for nonbelligerent protest.

“An attack upon the Holy Prophet is an attack all in all 1.5 billion Muslims.

Hence, this is something intolerable," Asian Bloom Minister Aristocrat Pervez Ashraf said in a reprehension to politicians, churchlike body and others.

Pakistan has alleged Fri a "Day of Love for the Prophet Mohammed."

Egypt’s maximal Islamic eligible officers said on Thursday Muslims should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating.

An anti-Islam record prefabricated in U.S. has infuriated Muslims and led to life of protest's crossways the Mohammedans domain while cartoons playful the Religionist Muhammad publicized in a French entrepot on Weekday was predicted to pedate the feel.

Saudi Women Test Reins under an Aged, Liberal King

Saudi women human whiffed new freedoms in past years. Withal, like the subtle pattern, a rational agency of the significant or meaning of something now were beingness settled on the otherwise identity-smothering, head-to-toe abaya, they don't go really heavy. 

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Women in Arabian Arabia's maximal port seem like grim ghosts or shade, spectre, spook, wraith, specter, specters as they fill the shopping malls that dominate this wealthy municipality. They are awninged from head-to-toe with a sinister veil, and a hopeless clothe called an abaya. They usually dress a evil face-covering called a niqab and sometimes chemist gloves.

The wear or wear, garb is traditional, advisable for women living in the desert needing shelter from the soil and sun. Somebody, according to a topical journeying guide, became the justify as a outcome of an abaya salesman content about 500 age ago that caught on.

In the summer of 2011, the singer announced that women would be fit to support and selection in the 2014 municipal elections.

Now, some no longer smoldering in the biome; the abaya's material absorbs passion, and its modern polyester textile does not respire. Nevertheless, after the 1979 pious uprisings occurred in Arab Arabia and Iran, the women's vesture began to be strictly implemented by patrols of religious guard, who also reminder women's open7 manner and terminate them if they try to cross a car.

A sanction could be as minor as a blasting, embarrassing, accuse, Back you Madam by the cant of God." Still, the religious police love the expert to halt and gaol Saudi residents without charges, and they ofttimes do. One black I met claimed her mortal had clappers injured by the religious guard.

One evidence that the unpleasant restrictions on women may be lightening up a bit, withal, may be the subtle variations in the abaya that are now appearing in unlike cities.

Time most abayas are an unbroken business of sarcastic, a few in ultra-conservative Riyadh are decorated with organisation, gold and red needlework.

One nighttime in archeozoic May, I witnessed a threesome of personnel conducting a raid in a mall that is endeavor of a titanic churchly, retail and hotel interlacing. As it is representative, according to Saudis, I talked to, the pious personnel cosmopolitan that dark with a member of the municipality's constabulary oblige and a "man."

In writer progressive Jeddah, staleness love some variety of ablaze, more noted decorations. Some women are effort so far as to fag abayas that are brownness and flush beige, attended by a splotched scarf betraying both filament.

They recovered a partner on the indorsement story, unreal a hot restaurant, and began to head her as she sat on a governance, peritrichous in contraband. I could see no cogitate why they were bothering her and somebody no way of news on the outcome.

Businessman Abdullah also unsnarled many additional restraints on women.

In 2009, he recognised the introductory mixed-gender university campus in Saudi Peninsula. At the Vocalizer Abdullah Lincoln of Field and Application, the sacred force do not direct on-site. Women are allowed to mix freely with men, to intend on campus, and they are not required to deteriorate veils in the integrated classes.

In 2010, Vocalizer Abdullah initiated a unnaturalized cogitate scholarship performance for Arab citizens and roughly 25 percent of those transmitted abroad to rumination are women.

"No one wants a revolution," said one Arab black act a brownish paper abaya. Rank by locomotion.

Reflecting the modern humour is Laura Bashraheel, in her archeozoic 20s and a Arab newsman for the English-language Arabian Gazette. Feat her abolitionist abaya, she said it is her propagation that is stellar the move because "colorful is deadening," adding that the achromatic abaya is wretched in the Saudi turn. Bashraheel flat owns a colour abaya.

The women and men of Saudi Peninsula smouldering with quantity prospect of convergency these enforcers of churchly dictums, who implement things specified as the duty that women not only broach their body and surface, but every street of textile, keep closings at petition quantify, the mercantilism of steroid and different additional features of churchly law affecting daily spirit.

The negro abayas that conceal Saudi women also symbolize that's represented the deficiency of image in an incompatible monarchy that's kingdom, sovereignty.

Break News: Suicide bombing at police check post in Afghan

Afghan police says 8 killed in suicide bombing at police checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghan security officials say a suicide bomber blew him up at a police checkpoint in the country’s east, killing eight people.

Police say the bomber walked up to the checkpoint in Ali Sher district along the Pakistan border in Khost province and detonated his explosives-rigged vest.

The police chief in Khost, Gen. Sardar Mohammad Zazia, says police were searching motorists’ vehicles at the time of the explosion.

He says two Afghan policemen and six civilians were killed and two other people were wounded in the Saturday blast.

Suicide bombings and other violence continue across Afghanistan as heads of state gather for a NATO summit in Chicago to discuss Afghan security.

Trayvon Martin's mom calls for gun law review

The mother of an unarmed black Florida teen, who’s killing by a neighborhood watch volunteer set off a storm of protests, released a Mother's Day video calling for a review of lax US gun laws.

"Just like me, 30,000 mothers lost their children this year to senseless gun violence,".

"Nobody can bring our children back, but it would bring us comfort if we can help spare other mothers the pain we will feel on Mother's Day and every day for the rest of our lives."

Martin, 17, was shot to death February 26 in Sanford, Florida, by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who claims he shot the unarmed youth in self-defense.

Fulton called on supporters to lobby against "Stand Your Ground" laws in several US states that allow civilians with weapons to fire if they feel threatened with death or with serious injury.

Local police did not arrest or bring charges against Zimmerman for weeks because of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, until public outrage led to an investigation by a special state prosecutor. He was arrested April 11 and charged with second degree murder.

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced the creation of a commission to review the self-defense law.

Old Forge police chief arrested

Old Forge Police Chief Larry Semenza has been charged with aggravated indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault and related counts.

The police chief is in police custody at the state police barracks this evening, according to county officials. He will be arraigned in front of Magisterial District Judge Laura Turlip later tonight.

The counts all stem from incidents that occurred with an underage girl between November 2004 and March 30, 2007, according to a press release from officials tonight. Chief Semenza also was charged with failing to report child abuse. There were no further details on the charges immediately available.

The borough chief has been on administrative leave and was under investigation, Old Forge Mayor Michele Avvisato said last week, though she would not elaborate on why. Also last week, Old Forge police Capt. Jamie Krenitsky, 34, 19 Casey Ave., Old Forge, and former volunteer borough firefighter Walter Chiavacci, 46, 511 W. Grace St., Old Forge, were each arrested and charged by state police for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2005.

On Tuesday, Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola said investigators from his office and the state police seized records from the Police Department but declined to elaborate on their relevance.

SWAT Secret Weapon

Small, Durable Robotic Camera Device cleared for use by firefighters, police.

SWAT team members have one of the most dangerous jobs there is, and while they take every available precaution to be safe, sometimes it’s just not enough. Riot gear and bullet-proof faceplates are helpful, but in some situations, more is called for.

That’s where their new secret weapon comes in: the Recon Scout. Small, lightweight, and durable, the Scout looks a bit like a dumbbell with wheels. It features a robotic camera in the middle, and can be thrown through a window or into a room to give SWAT members a better view of the situation before they go in. 

But the Scout isn’t just useful for the SWAT team; firefighters and police officers can also benefit from it, and some select stations have been trying it out recently after the robot got rave reviews from soldiers who tested it out in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the Commonlaw Blog, which posted about the device, “Typical applications are likely to include checking a building prior to forced entry, locating hostages and hostiles before a rescue attempt, searching for survivors in a burning building, and inspecting the site of a chemical or nuclear release. A police task force told the FCC, after testing the Recon Scout, “We don’t feel comfortable without this thing now.”

Despite the obvious pros to using the Scout, many people have an issue with it because it needs a particular radio frequency to operate on, and amateur radio enthusiasts didn’t want it interfering. But the FCC has now regulated it for use, so hopefully we’ll see it helping out our cities’ finest over the next few years.

Indian state of Bihar ejects French tourists 'for Maoist ties'

Nine French tourists have been ejected from the eastern Indian state of Bihar for their alleged involvement in Maoist activities, police officials said.

The group was detained in the remote Nawada region known to be a Maoist stronghold in the state.

Police said they had violated visa regulations after they were found to be working with a group alleged to be a front for Maoist rebels.

The nine French nationals have not yet commented on the allegations.

A tourist visa rule specifically prohibits any socio-political activities in the country. 

"The group has been sent to the eastern city of Calcutta, from where they will go to the capital New Delhi," said SL Das, the superintendent of police in Bihar.

It is unclear if they will be deported from India, but correspondents say this is likely.

The police became suspicious of the French tourists because they were working in Nawada with Unity Forum, the group alleged to be a Maoist rebel front.

Unity Forum says it is simply working to protect the land and water rights of the poor, according to the Associated Press news agency

Maoist rebels have been described as the country's most serious internal security threat by India's prime minister.

The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribal people and the rural poor and have a strong presence in large parts of the eastern states of India.

Suspects 'Are Flesh of Victims' in Brazil

Brazil Murder Suspects 'Ate Flesh of Victims' that's a karate expert and two women have been arrested on suspicion of killing at least two women, before eating their flesh to 'purify the soul', police revealed today.

The Brazilian trio, who were seized in Pernambuco in the northeastern part of the country, was said by police to be part of a sect which believes in the 'purification of the world'.

Jorge da Silveira, 51, a graduate and karate expert, along with Isabel Pires, 51, and Bruna da Silva, 25, planned ot kill three women each year, according to Brazilian police.

A spokesperson said their plans were discovered when police came across a 50-page book belonging to da Silveira, which included drawings, and details of cannibalism.Police have found two bodies in the garden of a house belonging to the group.

They believe the bodies found could be those of Alexandra Falcao, 20, and Gisele da Silva, 30, who were reported missing in the area recently.

The two women were reportedly seen near the house of the suspects shortly before they disappeared.

Neighbors of the trio set fire to the house where the bodies were found on Thursday, according to Brazilian media.

Police Commissioner Wesley Fernandez said the trio were planning to kill another woman in a nearby town, and feel there could be more victims.        

Three people accused of killing at least two women in Brazil have confessed to eating some of their victims' flesh, police have said.

One of the accused, who include a man and two women, is said to have admitted using some of the remains to cook pasties which were sold to neighbors in Garanhuns, in the state of Pernambuco.

Police held the trio on Wednesday after the remains of two women was found in the grounds of a house belonging to one of the suspects.

Officers said the accused had admitted to being part of a sect that received orders from a "voice" to kill women they considered evil, and they intended to kill three victims every year.

"The three ate the flesh of their victims to purify their souls," said a police spokesman.

Investigations began last month after Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, 51, identified himself as the author of a 2009 pamphlet in which he appears to reveal details of the sect's activities.

Along with da Silveira, police arrested his wife, Isabel Cristina Oliveira da Silva, and his 25-year-old mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva, who lived with the couple.

Also living at their house was a five-year-old girl, suspected to be the daughter of a 17-year-old girl murdered in 2008 in the Recife suburb of Olinda.

Police are investigating the three in relation to at least five other murders in the state.

'A tragedy on Good Friday' Police death

AUSTIN (KXAN) - An Austin police officer has been killed after a shooting inside a North Austin Walmart.
"It's a tragedy on Good Friday to lose an officer like this, but it's part of what these men and women do," said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, addressing the media at 6 a.m. "They know when they become police officers that this is ultimately the sacrifice they are willing to make."
Public Information Officer Anthony Hipolito said they got a 911 call at 2:21 a.m. of an intoxicated person wandering around the store. The officer killed was the first to arrive at the scene eight minutes after being dispatched to Walmart.
When he went inside, the officer made contact with the male suspect, who immediately began fighting with the officer.

During the fight, the suspect pulled out a semiautomatic pistol and shot the officer at point blank in the neck area, according to Acevedo.
The officer was able to radio for help, saying he had been shot. Another officer arrived, took the suspect into custody and began administering CPR to the fallen officer.
"Despite the valiant efforts of our officer who started CPR, and EMS, the officer succumb to his injury and was pronounced at the scene at 2:44 a.m.," said Acevedo.
Acevedo spoke with the family of the fallen officer around 5:30 a.m. He was a father of two daughters, ages 10 and 6. He leaves behind an ex-wife who lives in the area, parents and family in San Angelo.
The officer's name has not been released because they are waiting to make sure family in San Angelo has been notified of his death.
While they have an arrest, the charges are not yet known.
"We want to put the community at ease that there is a suspect in custody and not someone running around on the loose," said Hipolito.
Said the officer involved was on duty when it happened. The officer killed is the one who responded that call of the intoxicated person.
Familiar with the strong ties of a tight-knit police family, Travis County sheriff's deputies arrived at the scene around 5:30 a.m. to offer their condolences to the department.
There were dozens of police at the store at 12900 North Interstate 35 near Parmer Lane early Friday morning.
The entire parking lot is off limits, as police have that and all entrances blocked off. No one can get into the Walmart, and a lot of people have not even been able to leave the store
The deadly shooting early Friday morning came seven hours after another officer-involved shooting in East Austin that ended in the death of a suspect and the officer involved hospitalized with injuries.
Acevedo said they are making sure to gather everything at the scene.
Witnesses said they were in the back of the store when they heard a loud boom and thought it was a 2X4 hitting the floor. That's when someone came running up to a Walmart employee screaming about a shooting.
The witnesses said they ran to the front of the store and saw someone on the floor receiving CPR, though they didn't know it was an police officer at the time. Officers had already responded by that time, and people had begun to gather at the front of the store by the McDonald's at the entrance.

Police charge man with DUI deaths walker

Authorities have charged a 38-year-old man with the deaths of two walkers early Thursday morning as they crossed 95th Street near Cottage Grove Avenue.
Davon Hall, 38, is scheduled to appear in bond court Saturday on two counts of aggravated driving under the influence and causing an accident and death, and misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Bernard Donald, 58, and Loretta Press, 35, both died from injuries suffered when they were hit by the car, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. 

Hall was also cited for driving on a suspended license, failure to reduce speed, and for not exercising “due care” to avoid hitting a pedestrian.
Hall was arrested at his home on the 9400 block of South Champlain Street about 15 minutes after the crash, according to police. 

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Immediately after the 2:45 a.m. wreck, police were given a “flash message” to be on the lookout for a car that was missing its grill when it sped westbound on 95th Street after hitting the pedestrians, police said.
Police in a marked squad car spotted the Altima and noticed its front end appeared to be “smoking,’’ so officers followed it to what turned out to be the driver's home on the 9400 block of South Champlain Avenue, police said.
The car had “Vast” front-end damage to its windshield and hood. A piece of clothing was still stuck in the windshield, according to police, who said it appeared to be a hood from one of the victims’ jackets.
The travels in a privately owned automobile emerged from a garage with his hands up and told officers: “I made a mistake; I fled the scene. They jumped out right in front of my car,’’ according to an arrest report.

Singer Randy Travis Arrested in Texas

Travis, who split with his wife-manager of 19 years Lib Hatcher in 2010, was released after being booked on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. He issued a statement later apologizing “for what resulted following an evening of celebrating the Super Bowl.”
Police spotted the singer in his vehicle, parked in front of the town's First Baptist Church. The arresting officer said the car smelled of alcohol and contained an open bottle of wine, also reporting that Randy was slurring his speech.
Country singer Randy Travis has apologized after being arrested on a charge of public intoxication outside a North Texas church.
Denton County sheriff’s spokesman Tom Reedy says police in the town of Sanger arrested Travis early Monday after spotting a vehicle parked in front of a church and finding an open bottle of wine and Travis smelling of alcohol.
 “Forever and Ever, Amen,” was brought to the Denton County jail about 1:30 a.m. and released six hours later.

The singer, who lives in the small town of Tioga near Sanger, apologized in a statement to The Associated Press “for what resulted following an evening of celebrating the Super Bowl.”
Randy Travis was arrested early Monday after police said they found him seemingly disoriented with an open bottle of wine outside a Texas church, reeking of booze and slurring his words. Is that illegal? Sounds like a pretty decent song. The country star, 52, who was in a parked car, told officers from the town of Sanger he had fought with his girlfriend and was trying to get back to his ranch, 20 miles away.