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US man accused of coercing women online to go nude

Jan 30, 2013

A man‘s unusually complicated hunt for nudity on the Internet may land him in prison for more than 100 years after federal prosecutors say he hacked into hundreds of social media and email accounts to coerce more than 350 women into showing him their naked bodies.Karen ``Gary’‘ Kazaryan, 27, of Glendale, was arrested Tuesday after he was named in an indictment Friday alleging 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy L. Wilkis
71-year-old woman accused of prostitution

Jan 30, 2013

A 71-year-old woman was arrested in Connecticut for alleged prostitution, police said.Sygun Liebhart, of Westport, was arrested in a hotel room at the Homewood Suites, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Friday.Police said, Liebhart, who calls herself “Lola,” placed an advertisement in the “escort section” of the website Backpage.com.After making a deal to perform sexual acts at the hotel with an undercover police officer, Liebhart was arrested, police said. (UPI)　<관련 한글 기사>최고령 성매매 여성, 70대!?미국
Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult

Jan 30, 2013

Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, authorities said Tuesday.The "Defensores de Cristo'' or "Defenders of Christ'' cult allegedly recruited women to have sex with a Spanish man who claimed he was the reincarnation of Christ. Followers were subjected to forced labor or sexual services, including prostitution, according to a victims' advocacy group that said it filed a complaint more than a year ago about the cult.
Man says he killed wife over hamburger

Jan 30, 2013

A 78-year-old Florida man confessed he became enraged and stabbed his wife to death after she refused to cook him a hamburger, police said.Police have charged Bartolo Gelsomino with second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Ana Gelsomino, 71, The Miami Herald reported Monday.Ana Gelsomino's bloodied body was discovered by her daughter Jan. 21 at the couple's Kendall, Fla., home, the newspaper said. Bartolo Gelsomino confessed he staged a burglary at their home in order to cover up his crime
U.S. Senate confirms Kerry to head State Dept.

Jan 30, 2013

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton.The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator _ Kerry _ voted present and accepted congratulations from colleagues on the Senate floor. The roll call came just hours after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved the man who has led the panel for the past four years.Kerry coul
Japan PM: 'severe' sanctions over N. Korea nuke test

Jan 29, 2013

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's prime minister says the world should impose tough new sanctions against North Korea if it goes ahead with plans for a nuclear test.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a television talk show Tuesday that Japan and the international community will need to impose ``quite severe measures'' against North Korea if it conducts the test. He said North Korea would not gain anything from such a provocation. Last week, North Korea announced plans for a nuclear test after the United Nat
Iran denies blast at key nuclear site

Jan 29, 2013

TEHRAN (AFP) ― Iran has strongly denied reports of an explosion at its Fordo underground atomic site as “Western propaganda” ahead of stalled nuclear talks with major powers, media reported on Monday.“No explosion has occurred in the Fordo facility,” the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Shamseddin Bar Boroudi, was quoted as saying.A top lawmaker in charge of Iran’s national security commission, Aladin Borujerdi, said: “The false news of an explosion at the Fordo site is Western
Smog thick enough to cancel flights hits Beijing

Jan 29, 2013

BEIJING (AP) ― Dangerously high pollution levels shrouded Beijing in smog Tuesday for the second time in about two weeks Tuesday, forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting the city government to warn residents to stay indoors.The outlines of buildings in the capital receded into a white mist as pedestrians donned face masks to guard against the thick, caustic air. The U.S. Embassy reported a level of PM 2.5 ― one of the worst pollutants ― at 526 micrograms per c
Egypt in show of defiance against Islamist leader

Jan 29, 2013

CAIRO (AP) ― Protesters battled police for hours in Cairo on Monday and thousands marched through Egypt’s three Suez Canal cities in direct defiance of a night-time curfew and state of emergency, handing a blow to the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s attempts to contain five days of spiraling political violence.Nearly 60 people have been killed in the wave of unrest, clashes, rioting and protests that have touched cities across the country but have hit the hardest in the canal cities, where r
China’s military at ‘high risk’ on corruption: watchdog

Jan 29, 2013

TAIPEI (AFP) ― China’s armed forces are battling a major corruption problem, with little political oversight and no whistleblower mechanism to counter graft, watchdog Transparency International said Tuesday.China, which has the world’s largest active military, scored as a “high-risk” country on a new global index on defense establishment corruption launched by the Berlin-based organization at a press conference in Taiwan.“The Chinese military acknowledges that there is a major corruption issue t
Military called in as floods batter Australia

Jan 29, 2013

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) ―Australia ramped up its military response to deadly floodwaters rising in the country’s sodden northeast Tuesday which have killed four people and displaced or isolated tens of thousands.Storms triggered by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald have claimed four lives ― the most recent a three-year-old boy killed by a falling tree ― as heavy rains have brought flooding to the states of Queensland and New South Wales.The sugar farming town of Bundaberg waited anxiously for the swo
Mali military enters city of Timbuktu

Jan 29, 2013

SEVARE, Mali (AP) ― Backed by French helicopters and paratroopers, Malian soldiers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday after al-Qaida-linked militants who ruled the outpost by fear for nearly 10 months fled into the desert, setting fire to a library that held thousands of manuscripts dating to the Middle Ages.French Col. Thierry Burkhard, chief military spokesman in Paris, said that there had been no combat with the Islamists but that the French and Malian forces did not yet control th
Neglect, errors to blame in deadly Brazil nightclub fire

Jan 29, 2013

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) ― There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes. And when a band member tried to put out a fire that had been started by pyrotechnics, the extinguisher didn’t work. All the elements were in place for the tragedy at the Kiss nightclub early Sunday. The result was the world’s worst fire of its kind in more than a decade, with 231 people dead and this southern Brazilian college town in shock and mourning.Funerals began on Monday, as reports continued to
Pentagon eyes fivefold boost of cybersecurity force: report

Jan 29, 2013

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The U.S. Department of Defense has approved a fivefold expansion of its cybersecurity force over the coming years in a bid to increase its ability to defend critical computer networks, the Washington Post reported.Citing unnamed U.S. officials, the newspaper said the Defense Department’s Cyber Command, which currently has a staff of about 900, will expand to about 4,900 troops and civilians.The decision to expand the Cyber Command was made by senior Pentagon officials late las
Jews reject Argentina-Iran deal on bombing probe

Jan 29, 2013

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) ― The Argentine Jewish community protested vehemently on Monday after Argentina and Iran agreed to create a “truth commission” to probe the bombing of a Jewish center that killed 85 people.Argentine prosecutors have accused Iranian officials of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the seven-story building that housed the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association, a charities federation.But on Sunday, President Cristina Kirchner announced a deal with Tehran to set up a probe by a c