By Chad Bray A key cooperating witness in the insider-trading trial of former hedge-fund titan Raj Rajaratnam will have more freedom to travel overseas for business while out on bail. A federal judge in New York has granted a request by Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey Co. consultant, to travel without permission of the court outside the [...]
VISTA (CNS) – A witness testified Tuesday that he saw three people in hooded sweatshirts running away after hearing gunshots outside his window near Libby Lake Park in Oceanside, where two teenagers were murdered last spring. Brian Perkins took the stand as a preliminary hearing for AL’C Bejaran, Justin Gibson, Kenneth Hamilton and Tyrone Blackmon [...]
A former close friend of Sudbury terror suspect Tarek Mehanna testified today that Mehanna was excited when they set out for Yemen in hopes of undergoing terrorism training in 2004. ”We’re actually doing it. We’re finally doing it,” Abuzahra said, quoting Mehanna, in Mehanna’s trial in US District Court in Boston. “We had talked for [...]
London, Nov 30 (IANS) Britain is today witnessing a major change with fewer people willing to look out for their neighbours or ask them for help, a study has revealed. The poll, conducted by a used car programme, Nissan Cared4, revealed that just six percent of the individuals surveyed felt that their neighbourhood had a [...]
BOSTON (AP) — A former friend of a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida testified Monday that they traveled overseas with a third friend to try to get into a terrorist training camp. Kareem Abu-zahra, testifying in the trial of Tarek Mehanna (TEH’-rek meh-HAH’-nah), said the men also discussed shooting people at a [...]
Jose Sosa, 53, who holds both Canadian and Guatemalan citizenship, was arrested in January in Canada on U.S. charges of lying on his citizenship application about his ties to the Guatemalan military. In Guatemala, Sosa was a member of a special military unit called the “kaibiles” and was the commanding officer of a unit assigned [...]
A former friend of a Massachusetts man accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida testified Monday that they traveled overseas with a third friend to try to get into a terrorist training camp. Kareem Abu-zahra, testifying in the trial of Tarek Mehanna (TEH’-rek meh-HAH’-nah), said the men also discussed shooting people at a shopping mall, attacking [...]
MONSOON Cup chairman Tan Sri Sabbaruddin Chik has a dream — Malaysian sailors to compete in the Monsoon Cup on merit after 2015. Local sailors will compete against each other in Langkawi, Lumut, Klang and Kuala Terengganu. Up until now, national sailors have had to win a wild card into the last leg of [...]
Britain’s world-famous tabloid press, so used to dishing out punishment to erring celebrities, politicians and sports personalities, is getting a taste of its own medicine at the moment, for the first time anyone can remember. Thanks to the phone-hacking scandal in Rupert Murdoch’s press empire, victims of harassment and intrusion have been given a public [...]
RENO — Chatting peacefully on the floor of a Nevada casino, a senior Hells Angels leader and a 27-year veteran of the rival Vagos motorcycle gang thought they had negotiated a truce between competing members who’d been itching for a fight at a weekend long biker festival. “Everything is going to be all right,” the [...]
