http://crimeglob.com Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:57:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mexico City: Mexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day. The country resembled a grim, statistical dart board on Saturday as law enforcement and media reported the deaths from various regions, including ... http://crimeglob.com/2010/01/69-killings-in-24-hrs-mexico%e2%80%99s-deadliest-day-in-drug-war/ Tehran: Iran’s state-run media has accused Israel and the United States of masterminding the assassination of its nuclear scientist with a remote controlled device attached to explosives planted on a stationary motorcycle. Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, who lectured on neuron physics at Tehran University, was killed in ... http://crimeglob.com/2010/01/israel-u-s-behind-killing-of-nuclear-scientist-iran/ Beiging: China on Tuesday said it had successfully tested a surface-to-air missile system designed to intercept other missiles. The test on Monday of a “ground-based, mid-course missile interception technology” had “achieved the expected objective,” the official Xinhua news agency said. “The test is defensive in nature and is not targeted at any ... http://crimeglob.com/2010/01/china-tests-missile-interception-technology/ Philadelphia: Near the end of the film Avatar, the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is portrayed as a blue-skinned, 9-foot tall, long-tailed alien. Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, ... http://crimeglob.com/2010/01/%e2%80%98avatar%e2%80%99-has-a-racist-message/   London: Detectives investigating the life of serial killer Peter Tobin said they would continue to examine dozens of other unsolved cases after his conviction yesterday for the murder of a teenage hitchhiker.   It took a jury just 15 minutes to find the 63-year-old handyman guilty of drugging and then strangling A-level ... http://crimeglob.com/2009/12/tobin-murder-police-reopen-unsolved-cases/   Melbourne: Two more teenage boys have been charged in relation to the alleged gang rape of two schoolgirls in a park in Melbourne's north in October. A 16-year-old from Broadmeadows has been charged with four counts of rape and a 17-year-old from Coolaroo with two counts of rape over the alleged ... http://crimeglob.com/2009/12/two-more-charged-over-alleged-gang-rape-of-schoolgirls/     London: A Worcestershire gynaecologist, who is being sued by a female patient over an alleged sexual assault during an examination, has denied trying to start an affair with the woman. Bibi Giles, 50, brought the civil action against Angus Thomson following a six-month course of treatment for a prolapse at Droitwich ... http://crimeglob.com/2009/12/droitwich-gynaecologist-denies-sexual-assault-of-patient/     Sarasota: Grammy nominated Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will fight a drug charge against him in Tampa instead of Miami. Banton waived his bail hearing Wednesday in Miami federal court. His case is being prosecuted in Tampa, where he will be transferred. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Turnoff issued a temporary order of ... http://crimeglob.com/2009/12/reggae-star-buju-banton-to-fight-drug-charge/   Washigton: America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday strongly refuted reports that Pakistani-origin US national David Coleman Headley, charged for criminal conspiracy in the 26/11 terror attacks, was its agent at any point of time.   "I can't comment on an ongoing investigation, but any suggestion that this individual worked for the ... http://crimeglob.com/2009/12/us-terror-suspect-headley-not-our-agent-cia/ London, 08 Dec 2009: Naresh Kumar Jain, the hawala kingpin arrested in New Delhi for alleged laundering of drug money and financing narcotic syndicates, has been banned from entering Britain, a senior official here said today. Jain was being tracked by detectives in London, the United States, Holland, Italy, Spain and ... http://crimeglob.com/2009/12/hawala-kingpin-naresh-jain-banned-from-entering-uk/