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| Egyptian students protest after Brotherhood leader arrested Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 10:07 AM PDT By Hadeel Al Shalchi CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired teargas at protesting students at Cairo's al-Azhar university on Wednesday hours after authorities announced the detention of Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam El-Erian, part of a crackdown against the Islamist movement. Erian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, was taken into custody from a residence in New Cairo, a suburb on the outskirts of the capital, where he had been in hiding, an interior ministry source told Reuters. Down, down with the lord of the army," one protester scribbled, referring to army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July. If you see anyone just arrest them right away." Over 20 students were arrested, according to two security sources. Full Story | Top |
| UK prosecutor: 3 staffers at defunct Murdoch tabloid plead guilty to hacking phones Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 08:18 AM PDT UK prosecutor: 3 staffers at defunct Murdoch tabloid plead guilty to hacking phones. Full Story | Top |
| Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader arrested in Egypt Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 07:49 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces arrested a key Muslim Brotherhood figure in a raid early Wednesday morning, a man on the run since the July coup that toppled the country's Islamist president, the Interior Ministry said. Full Story | Top |
| Police say 5 arrested in Tiananmen Gate attack Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 06:15 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Police announced Wednesday the arrests of five people in connection with this week's suicide car crash in the heart of China's capital, calling it a planned terror attack — Beijing's first in recent history — and identifying the attackers as members of a Muslim minority. Full Story | Top |
| Man found guilty of rape, mutilation that shocked South Africa Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013 12:09 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court found a 21-year-old man guilty on Tuesday of the rape, mutilation and murder of a teenager in a case that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest levels of sexual violence. The 17-year-old victim, Anene Booysen, was found at a building site in the town of Bredasdorp, 130 km (80 miles) east of Cape Town, in February with wounds that included a slit from her stomach down to her genitals. Johannes Kana confessed to raping Booysen but denied disembowelling her. Sentencing is expected on Wednesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| American support for death penalty falls to 60 percent: Gallup Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 07:11 PM PDT  By Lisa Maria Garza (Reuters) - Sixty percent of Americans favor capital punishment for convicted murderers, the lowest percentage since 1972, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday. At its peak in the mid-1990s, capital punishment support was at 80 percent, the polling group said. "The current era of lower support may be tied to death penalty moratoriums in several states beginning around 2000 after several death-row inmates were later proven innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted," Gallup said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Support for death penalty lowest in four decades in US Tuesday, Oct 29, 2013 03:22 PM PDT  Washington (AFP) - Support for the death penalty is at a four-decade low in the United States, though most Americans -- three out of five -- still favor it, a new Gallup poll out Tuesday found. Full Story | Top |
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