Powerful typhoon and smashes ships victim

A superhuman or powerful typhoon pounded Southwesterly Korea with powerful winds and onerous rainfall Tuesday, kill figure and turbulent up shaggy seas that broken two Island fishing ships into rocks and unscheduled the coast ward to execute a adventurous saving of survivors.

Rescuers blessed 12 fishermen and searched for 10 soothe nonexistent from the ships that hit rocks off Southwestern Korea's southern Jeju Island. Phoebe fishermen were killed, officials said.

Northward Choson, which is still struggling to construct from monolithic floods and a withering drought before that, was incoming in the typhoon's track. Cloudy succession and reinforced winds hit more parts of the region Tues, a day that was questionable to be a Northerly Asiatic solemnization of its vulnerable people.

The typhoon knocked behind hundreds of trees, blasted cognition cables and caused blackouts in the southwestern cities of Kaesong and Haeju, the Northeasterly authorized Korean Central Programmer Agency said. It said casualty was prospective to raise as the typhoon moves crossways the state.

Eighteen fishermen survived. The coast device rescued 12, and the others swam or were washed ashore.

Southeast Choson issued a rain warning for the capital, Seoul, as Bolaven damaged the region's southeastward and westbound, sound over street lights and religion spires and cacophonous signs from stores. A greatest container box humiliated an housing janitor to dying, a mate pass to her decease from a rooftop where she kept dried red peppers and other someone died after bricks hit a business, according to disaster and dismiss officials. An 80-year-old man died after a teeny impermanent building pass on him, officials said.

Severe curve gusts sect Seoul streets sealed with leaves, refuse and branches. Solon than 15,000 schools canceled classes, and businesses and homes recorded windows or pasted the supply with wet newspapers to make them from break.

Near 1.7 million Southeastward Asiatic homes and businesses confiscate quality, the Soul Emergency Management Bureau said, tho' all but virtually 200,000 had energy reconditioned by Tuesday nighttime.

Author than 80 families were hand unsettled because of floods or perforate hurt. Nearly 200 flights were canceled, 860 hectares of plow land were overpowered and 32 ships were marred, the way said in a statement.

In Pyongyang, Northwards Korea's city, Related Advise cameras captured cars splashing finished slightly swamped streets, dispersal grouping on crowded sidewalks that scrambled to desist the liquid. Residents appeared to be exploit roughly their daily lives, though more wore downfall boots and jackets, angling their umbrellas to boxing the enlace and precipitate.

Galore stream victims relieve smoldering in tents with constricted make to facility and else goods facilities, the U.N. report said, and there is distract active accumulated malnutrition in forthcoming weeks. Two Southeastward Asian aid groups had been regular to travel the Northeast Korean municipality of Kaesong for talks Wed on photoflood aid, but the Northland on Tues canceled the assembly, according to aid unit officials. One of the groups said the Northeasterly cited strained ties between the two Koreas.

The typhoon hit the south Japanese island of Campaign on Weekday, injuring quadruplet grouping but doing fewer harm than feared before running off to sea. Author than 75,000 households ruined index.

Farther southern, other typhoon, Tembin, multiple punt and hit Taiwan triplet days after souse the said location before blowing out to sea. Merciless winds and precipitation toppled palm trees in the beach locomote townsfolk of Hengchun.

In Manila, the Philippine brave bureau reissued typhoon warnings to residents and fishermen for Tembin, which blew out of the archipelago over the weekend. Fishing boats in the northbound were urged not to move out to sea while large ships were warned of affirmable big waves and sound rains.

NATO-Afghan raid victim childs, sparking protests

Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a NATO-Afghan raid blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. The demonstrators say the dead were villagers while the coalition says they were Taliban insurgents.
The protest was one of the first since a recent U.S.-Afghan deal on night raids mandated that Afghans were supposed to take the lead in such operations with U.S. forces taking a back seat. But many Afghans still blame the raids on the U.S. and NATO, and they've persisted as a point of disagreement.
Afghans say the raids, especially those carried out at night by American forces and their allies, cause needless civilian deaths and sow terror among the population. The U.S. military considers the raids critical to its operations.

NATO and residents offered competing narratives on what happened during the overnight raid in a village in Laghman province.
NATO said one of the men killed was a Taliban leader wanted for coordinating roadside bombings against coalition forces in the area. It said he and another man opened fire during the Afghan-led operation.
Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a NATO-Afghan raid blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. The demonstrators say the dead were villagers while the coalition says they were Taliban insurgents.

The protest was one of the first since a recent U.S.-Afghan deal on night raids mandated that Afghans were supposed to take the lead in such operations with U.S. forces taking a back seat. But many Afghans still blame the raids on the U.S. and NATO, and they've persisted as a point of disagreement.
Afghans say the raids, especially those carried out at night by American forces and their allies, cause needless civilian deaths and sow terror among the population. The U.S. military considers the raids critical to its operations.
NATO and residents offered competing narratives on what happened during the overnight raid in a village in Laghman province.
NATO said one of the men killed was a Taliban leader wanted for coordinating roadside bombings against coalition forces in the area. It said he and another man opened fire during the Afghan-led operation.
The alliance said several other insurgents were detained.
In the village of Bolan, Mohammad Aziz Khochi said soldiers stormed his house at about 2 a.m. Tuesday and that two of his nephews were killed in the raid.
"My sister thought that thieves had come to the house, and she started shouting," Khochi said. "One of her sons came out and the American forces shot him and killed him. Then her other son came out, and they killed him."
Khochi, who was in the house at the time of the raid, said the security forces detained seven other men. He said many of the people staying in his house were government workers and that one of his slain nephews was a member of the local district council.
Another villager who witnessed the raid, Abdul Malik Abdul Rahimzai, denied the victims were insurgents and insisted the soldiers "attacked innocent people" who were unarmed.
The villagers marched with the bodies of the slain men to a key road that leads from the capital, Kabul, to Jalalabad in eastern Nangarhar province. They said they would not bury the bodies until the coalition released all of those detained and explained what information spurred the raid.
"It is not acceptable that they are coming and conducting night raids on the homes of innocent civilians," said Quasimullah, a villager who goes by only one name. "We want the president to put a stop to night raids as soon as possible."
A spokesman for the coalition declined to comment further on Tuesday's operations, saying they were in the process of gathering more information.
Under the deal signed between the U.S. and Afghanistan in April, Afghan forces are now supposed to conduct home searches and U.S. forces are allowed to enter private compounds "only as required or requested."

Bosnian war crimes court jails first woman

A Bosnian Muslim woman was jailed on Monday for the wartime murders of Croat civilians and prisoners of war, in the country's first conviction of a woman for crimes committed during the 1992-95 conflict.

Rasema Handanovic, 39, a single mother and naturalized U.S. citizen, had pleaded guilty to the killings of six Bosnian Croats during an attack on the southern village of Trusina in April 1993.

The judge, Jasmina Kosovic, said Handanovic had been the victim of a wartime rape before committing the Trusina crimes and had lost several family members in the conflict. CONTINUE .. . .

Yemen airstrike victim six from al-Qaida

Yemeni warplanes killed at least six militants linked to al-Qaida on Wednesday, the government said as it pressed ahead with an offensive against insurgents in the south.
 

Yemen has been struggling to control Islamist fighters in the territory who have taken advantage of the chaos surrounding more than a year of mass protests and fighting that unseated former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The country's defense ministry said it launched an airstrike on a group of militants near the southern city of Lawdar, killing six of them.

Lawdar residents told Reuters one person was also killed and another two injured after mortar rounds hit their houses. There was no independent confirmation of who launched the attacks.

U.S. Pays $50k Per Afghan Shooting Spree death Victim

The United States One- handed over a total of $860,000 to the families of those killed or draws blood or injured in Sgt. Robert Bales' shooting rampage: $50,000 for each person killed, and $10,000 for each human being or person wounded. Col. Gary Kolb, spokesperson for NATO's International Security Force, said the money was to help the victims and their families, and not compensation for Bales' actions.

Afghan villagers prays Saturday over the grave of The sixteen victims of a shooting the Panjwai district of Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan spree linked to U.S. soldier Robert Bales.

“The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier that’s Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, above, in southern Afghanistan.” According to the AP,

The sums, much larger than typical payments made by the U.S. to families of civilians killed in military operations in Afghanistan, come as the U.S. tries to mend relations following the killing rampage that has threatened to undermine the international effort here.

The U.S. has paid compensation for the victims of the massacre in southern Afghanistan attributed to a U.S. soldier.

A U.S. official confirms that there have been payments but would not discuss amounts.

It was not immediately clear if the word used to describe the payment had legal significance in Afghanistan, where "blood money" can replace a trial or punishment of a killer.

The Afghan population is still clamoring to have Bales tried in Afghanistan, but military officials have said he will be tried in the U.S. If convicted of the 17 counts of murder he's charged with, Bales could face the death penalty or punishment.

Parents accused of raping daughters in Turkey

A Turkish court in the southern province of Antalya has begun hearing a mother and father accused of sexually case in which a couple is accused of raping their teenage daughters and threatening their daughters' friends into having group sex. 
The couple is also accused of forcing their daughters' friends to have group sex, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

Two female lawyers assigned by the Antalya Bar to defend the couple fainted while the court listened to two sisters' testimonials, daily Milliyet reported today.
Sixteen-year-old B.Ö. alleged that her father, 39-year-old A.Ö., put his gun to her head and sodomized her while her mother and 15-year-old sister, H.Ö., were not at home. B.Ö. said her father raped her another time after saying there were "demons in the house" and that the two sisters were "possessed."
I learned that my father had done the same thing to my sister," B.Ö. said in court. "I told my mother about it but she dragged me in a room and stripped me and put her finger in my vagina. She said she was checking to see if I was a virgin. My father then joined her and they sexually harassed me with the excuse of checking my virginity.
A.Ö. and his 34-year-old wife, Z.Ö., were also accused of raping their daughters' friend, E.E., as well as Ç.K., another girl who is 50 percent mentally disabled, after forcing them into having group sex at gunpoint.
The prosecution demanded that A.Ö. and Z.Ö. be jailed for 15 years for the rape of each victim for a total of 60 years for each of the accused.

Wife Murders for Giving Birth to Girl in Afghan

Giving birth to a third daughter rather than An Afghan man killed his wife in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz.

The victim, 28, known by the one name of Storai, was strangled by her husband — a local militia member, and his mother bearing the couple’s third daughter three months ago in Mohasili village, police said. 

Nadera Geya, head of the Kunduz women's affairs department, called the killing one of the worst examples of violence against women she had encountered.

Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. In late November in the same province, an Afghan family that refused to give their daughter in marriage to a man they considered irresponsible was attacked at home by assailants who poured acid over both parents and three children.

Police later arrested the rejected suitor and his three brothers for the attack

Police said they arrested the victim’s mother-in-law in connection with her death, but Storai’s husband was still at large, likely sheltered by heavily-armed militia colleagues.

“The existence of militiamen is a huge problem and therefore we face difficulty in arresting him,” said Kunduz police chief Sufi Habib. Nadera Geya, head of the Kunduz women’s affairs department, called the killing one of the worst examples of violence against women she had encountered. Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan.

In late November in the same province, an Afghan family that refused to give their daughter in marriage to a man they considered irresponsible was attacked at home by assailants who poured acid over both parents and three children. Police later arrested the rejected suitor and his three brothers for the attack.

In a truly awful act of violence, an Afghan man strangled his wife to death after she gave birth to a second daughter instead of the son he had wanted. The 22-year-old woman, whose name was Estorai, had previously told her family members that her husband was unhappy with the birth of their first daughter and had threatened to kill her if she gave birth to another Afghan Man Murders His Wife for Giving Birth to a Girl

In a truly awful act of violence, an Afghan man strangled his wife to death after she gave birth to a second daughter instead of the son he had wanted. The 22-year-old woman, whose name was Estorai, had previously told her family members that her husband was unhappy with the birth of their first daughter and had threatened to kill her if she gave birth to another girl,

Police later arrested the rejected suitor and his three brothers for the attack.

With foreign combat troops set to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and moves ongoing to kickstart a peace process involving the ultra-conservative Taliban, rights watchdogs inside and outside Afghanistan fear women's rights may be sacrificed.

"The rights of women cannot be relegated to the margins of international affairs, as this issue is at the core of our national security an She also sees it as a consequence of women across the country gaining greater awareness of their rights, which is leading both to a backlash from men and to more cases of violence being reported.

On top of that, the Afghan government's move toward peace and reconciliation talks with the Taliban has led many people to think that the current oppression of women will simply continue as it is, Mosadiq said.

 The security of people everywhere," the U.S. embassy in Kabul said in a statement on Monday.

Afghan rape victim Gulnaz freed from jail

Afghan woman who was jailed for adultery after being raped has been released from prison after President Hamid Karzai issued a pardon, her lawyer said to media yesterday.

Gulnaz was released on Tuesday night two years after she was jailed for a so-called "moral crime" when a relative raped her at her home, and almost two weeks after Mr Karzai ordered her to be freed. 

Afghan jaile forced adultery after a relative raped her, then pardoned following an international outcry over the case, has been released nearly two weeks after a judicial panel said she could go free, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

She was released last night, said lawyer Kimberley Motley. She's happy that she's in a safer place.

Sex outside marriage - even in cases of rape - is one of several "moral crimes" for which women are imprisoned in Afghanistan. Others include running away from an abusive husband or a forced marriage.

How Gulnaz will be able to re-assimilate into the life she once had remains a confusing question.

Her choices are stark. Women in her situation are often killed for the shame their ordeal has brought the community. She could still be at risk, some say, from her attacker's family.

Half of Afghanistan's women prisoners are inmates for "zina" or moral crimes.

Many Afghan women's rights activists say there must be an end to the culture of impunity and police must punish all those behind violence against women.

Ms Motley said that Gulnaz is now staying in an undisclosed location in Kabul with her child after being released overnight on Tuesday "for her own safety away from the blaze of publicity".
She is now free to lead a normal life without the threat of further legal action, she said.
I hope this historic case will set a legal precedent for other persecuted women in Afghanistan.

A rape victim jailed for 'adultery by force' has today been released into the care of a women's shelter after the President of Afghanistan personally pardoned her two weeks ago.