Monday, September 26, 2011

Mid Day International News

Mid Day International News

Middle-aged woman jailed for having sex with dog

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A 45-year-old woman from Kent is facing a 16 month-imprisonment sentence after she was caught having sex with a dog.

Tracy Woolridge, from Canterbury, pleaded guilty to two charges of intercourse with an animal and sexual activity with a child after police found illegal images at a house in the town.

According to a local paper, her barrister Alex Rooke asked a judge at Canterbury Crown Court for a 'Goodyear' indication as to the probably length of sentence for a guilty plea, reports the Daily Mail.

When judge Adele Williams told her that she would face a maximum of 16 months in jail for all the offences, Woolridge changed her plea to guilty for the charge relating to child sex activity.

Saudi women finally allowed to vote

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Saudi King Abdullah has given the kingdom's women the right to vote for the first time in nationwide local elections, due in 2015.

The king said in an annual speech yesterday before his advisory assembly, or Shura Council, that Saudi women will be able to run and cast ballots in the 2015 municipal elections.

Abdullah says women will also be appointed to "join the all-male" Shura Council.

Saudi Arabia held its first-ever municipal elections in 2005. The kingdom will hold its next municipal elections on Thursday, but women are not allowed to vote or run this time. Women rights activists have long fought to gain the right to vote in the kingdom that applies a strict version of Sunni Islam and bans women from driving or travelling without the consent of a male guardian.

More than 5,000 men will compete in Thursday's municipal elections, only the second in Saudi Arabia's history, to fill half the seats in the kingdom's 285 municipal councils. The other half are appointed by the government.
The first elections were held in 2005, but the government extended the existing councils' term for two more years.


Builders' trip turns tragic

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Eight Tiruchirappalli-based builders among 19 dead in Nepal air crash

A mountain flight to view Mt Everest at the conclusion of a business conference ended in a tragedy for a group of eight Tiruchirapalli-based builders when their plane crashed in Nepal yesterday.

The deceased -- all members of the Builders' Association of India -- were in New Delhi from September 21 for an industry conference and had planned in advance for the trip to Nepal.



The crash killed all 19 people on board, but the grief and anxiety of the victims' families was compounded after they were handed out wrong names of the Indian passengers. The Beech aircraft, belonging to Buddha Airlines, crashed in Kotdanda -- a forested area in Lalitpur district about 20 km from Kathmandu.

The Indian embassy in Kathmandu identified the eight people from Trichy as M Maruthachalam, M Manimaran, A K Krisunan, V M Kankasabesan, T. Dhansekaran, Kattoor Mahalingam, Meenakshi Sundaram and K Thyagarajan.
The other two Indians were identified as Pankaj Mehta and Chaya Mehta. At least one of them was working for the UN in Kathmandu.

The fresh identification was made on the basis of identity cards and other documents after Nepal's aviation authorities had earlier released a set of different names.

Though rescuers managed to bring out a lone survivor from the wreck site, the grievously injured 36-year-old Nepali man, identified as Nirajan Karmacharya, died while receiving medical treatment at Lalitpur's B&B Hospital.
The aircraft had flown the group to the Mt Everest region in northern Nepal and crashed while returning to the capital around 7.50 a.m., minutes after it went out of contact.

It was carrying 16 passengers -- 10 Indians, three Nepalis and three foreigners.

The three-member crew comprised Captain J B Tamrakar, co-pilot Padma Adhikari and air-hostess Ashmita Adhikari.

Kin in Kathmandu
A small group from Tiruchirappali will travel to Nepal today to bring back the bodies of the Indians killed in the air crash.

Lending the bereaved families a helping hand was Rajya Sabha member N Siva, who got in touch with the Indian embassy in Nepal.

"We will take a flight to Delhi on Monday and then to Kathmandu. The Indian embassy officials have assured us necessary assistance," said Siva.


Amid strained ties, Pak PM summons Hina Rabbani Khar back from US

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Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani yesterday called back Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar from the US amid strained ties with Washington following an accusation that Pakistan was supporting the Haqqani terror network.

Khar was called back for consultations over the strained relationship between Pakistan and the US.


Fake smiles? Hina Rabbani Khar with Hillary Clinton last week. pic/afp

US military commanders have accused Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, of supporting the Haqqani network for carrying out two attacks on the US embassy in Kabul and US military base in Afghanistan's Wadak province this month.

Gilani also called an all-party conference to build consensus on Pakistan's stance over the US threats. Khar will attend the conference to brief the parties over Islamabad's ties with Washington.

Gilani also called up President Asif Ali Zardari and took him into confidence regarding the developments.

He also telephonically discussed with different political parties the situation arising out of US accusing Pakistan of supporting Haqqani network.

Ties between Washington and Islamabad have been strained after the May 2 killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.

They dipped further when the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Thursday accused the Pakistani government of supporting the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.

Mullen called the Haqqani network a "veritable arm" of ISI, as he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the US strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He said the ISI-supported Haqqani network was behind recent attacks in Afghanistan including the Sep 11 truck bomb attack and the Sep 13 assault on the US embassy in Kabul.


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