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...harassing him. "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people," it began, and signed off with a chillingly bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year-old had licenses for both of the handguns used in the attack...
...international community was hopeful in March when Kenya agreed to try suspected pirates in its courts. That, experts said, would provide a deterrent and at least impose some sense of rule of law off Somalia's coasts. Yet the threat of arrest has done nothing to dissuade the pirates. "Not even 0.2% of the total pirates are arrested, so anybody who is at all intelligent can understand that arrest does not bring fear," says Maryam Jama, a pirate recruiter in Bossaso. "If you get arrested, in prison the others will say, 'Do not worry, you will be out and then...
...tabloid in Singapore - where he now lives in a luxury home - alleged proof of how his cousin Dipendra had secretly plotted the murder for years, in what could shape up to be a bid to distance himself from the government's renewed scrutiny of the massacre and any possible arrest, now that he is no longer officially royalty. (Read what 10 of the world's former monarchs...
...Supreme Court rules that federal agents can arrest people who grow and use marijuana for medical purposes...
...Sudan A Waltz with Bashir Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir brazenly defied an international warrant for his arrest by embarking on a six-country regional tour. Several leaders expressed solidarity with al-Bashir during a March 30 Arab League summit in Qatar and accused the International Criminal Court--which on March 4 charged him with committing war crimes in Darfur--of placing a double standard on Arab countries...