Girl, 7, ‘deliberately starved to death

By Daily Mail Reporter
05th June 2009

Khyra Ishaq alleged to have been starved to death by mother and stepdad

‘Starved to death’: Khyra Ishaq, 7, died from an infection and is said to have been starved for weeks or possibly even months

A seven-year-old girl was deliberately starved to death while being kept as a prisoner in her own home by her mother and partner, a court heard today.

Birmingham Crown Court was told that Khyra Ishaq died from an infection after being starved over a period of weeks or possibly even months.

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Race-hate Britons seeking asylum in U.S.

By Mail Foreign Service
05th June 2009

Two Britons seeking asylum in the United States after being convicted of hate speech crimes in the UK will be deported after nearly a year in U.S. custody.

Stephen Whittle, 42, and Simon Sheppard, 52, of Selby, fled in July 2008 after being convicted of publishing hate speech against Jews and other groups on their website.

Whittle had been facing up to two years in jail; Sheppard, five. U.S. officials would not say when they will be returned to the UK.

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Death from suicide or sex act?

Friday June 05, 2009
David Carradine may have died accidentally from suffocation or heart failure during an auto-erotic sex act, according to Thai police.

The Kung Fu and Kill Bill star was found with a noose around his neck and another rope around his genitals in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Bangkok.

Police commander Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha said it was unclear whether the 72-year-old killed himself or died from suffocation or heart failure due to ejaculation.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525088,00.html

A mob of furious neighbors of an 11-year-old girl raped on her way to school in Philadelphia won’t be charged for beating a man wanted for questioning in the case.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Thursday that no charges will be filed against the group of about a dozen residents of the city’s West Kensington section who attacked 26-year-old Jose Carrasquillo.

Carrasquillo hasn’t been charged with rape but was arrested on an unrelated warrant. Ramsey said investigators have forensic evidence and witness identification placing him at the scene of Monday’s attack.

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White farmer kicked off  land

By Robyn Dixon
June 3, 2009
Reporting from Chegutu, Zimbabwe — Possession is nine-tenths of the law. That’s Mike Campbell’s bitter motto.

“The moment you move off, you’re finished,” is how he puts it.

The thugs who want his farm almost finished him. They beat the 75-year-old so badly last July that he hasn’t been quite the same since. They broke his wife’s arm. But the Campbells weren’t finished yet. Ignoring their nightmares and their forebodings, they went home to their farm.

Returning to the land where he’d lived for 36 years, Campbell prepared himself for the empty closets, the looted farmhouse.

But he wasn’t ready for the sight that greeted him, driving through the gate that August day: All the farmworkers had gathered in welcome.

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Abu Ghraib abuse photos show rape

Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged.

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

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http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/692141.html

LOCKPORT — It is legally permissible for police to zap a suspect with a Taser to obtain a DNA sample, as long as it’s not done “maliciously, or to an excessive extent, or with resulting injury,” a county judge has ruled in the first case of its kind in New York State, and possibly the nation.

Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza decided that the DNA sample obtained Sept. 29 from Ryan S. Smith of Niagara Falls — which ties him to a shooting and a gas station robbery— is legally valid and can be used at his trial.

Smith was handcuffed and sitting on the floor of Niagara Falls Police Headquarters when he was zapped with the 50,000- volt electronic stun gun after he insisted he would not give a DNA sample.

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Obama’s snub Sarkozys

The Obamas turn up in Paris this evening, but have declined a dinner invitation from the couple next door: the Sarkozys.

President Obama’s reluctance to spend more than minimum time with the French leader on his visit for the D-Day anniversary has come as an embarrassment to the Elysée Palace.

America’s First Family will not be dining with President Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, even though they are staying at the residence of the US Ambassador, yards from the Elysée apartments where the Sarkozys spend their weekends.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-duarte4-2009jun04,0,4924341.story

The house, a three-bedroom cream-colored residence on a peaceful street, even had yellow and red roses waving merrily from the front lawn. And while the backyard was cramped, there was a nectarine tree, a red swing set and a small gazebo.

Happy to have found a place near her salon in Altadena and close to her fiance in Pasadena, the 31-year-old hairdresser moved her four children from North Hollywood into the one-story charmer on Broach Avenue in Duarte last fall.

Davy never thought about the fact that they would be the only black family on the mostly Latino block — until someone reminded her in a way that still makes her eyes tear and her stomach twist.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5525W320090603

Wed Jun 3, 2009 5:58pm

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a great deception on Wednesday, reiterating a view that has been denounced by moderate rivals in this month’s election.

The conservative president, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB, made the remark during a speech containing his latest verbal assault on Israel, which the Islamic Republic does not recognize.

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