Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain proposed legislation that would give the police the power to seize the passports of Britons suspected of having traveled abroad to fight with militant groups.
Diego Canepa, a Uruguayan presidential spokesman, said a plan to resettle six men held at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is still being negotiated and is unlikely to be resolved before coming elections in the South American country.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s new president, said his country will only approve of a deal to reunify Cyprus if it makes breakaway Turkish Cypriots equal partners in a federation with the internationally recognized Greek Cypriot government.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, urged the country’s clerics to be more tolerant of the Internet and new technologies, which are often the target of criticism by influential hard-liners in the Islamic Republic.
Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Austria’s interior minister, said the breakup of an international gang dealing in phony health products and felled by a package returned because of insufficient postage was “the greatest blow against the trade in counterfeit medicines Europe-wide.”
Daniel Irwin, 37, a Kansas City, Mo., corporate executive at a financial services company, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of child pornography and trying to entice a minor over the Internet for sex, after a nearly eight-month investigation.
David McCart, a veteran sheriff’s captain in Henry County, Ga., was apprehended by DeKalb County police after a two-month investigation, accused of using a computer to have an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
Delia Garcia-Bratcher, 30, a Northern California mother accused of grabbing the throat of a 12-year-old boy she suspected of bullying her daughter, will not face charges, with officials citing conflicting witness accounts.
m Kenny Adams, 36, was found guilty in Limestone County, Ala., in the fatal stabbing of his cousin Yancey Metz Foster over a pair of DVDs in 2012, after a judge denied Adams’ plea to dismiss the charges based on the stand your ground law.