Month: May 2010

Toronto, May 01: A young Sikh woman found dead along with her three small children in Calgary in October killed the babies herself, according to investigations by Canadian police.

Harsimrat Kahlon, 27, and the babies were found dead in their apartment Oct 5 when the woman’s partner called the police.

The Chandigarh-born woman died due to childbirth complications. But before her death, she killed her children.

Their bodies were found inside suitcases hidden in the basement of the couple’s apartment in northeast Calgary.

Kathmandu, May 01: Tens of thousands of Maoists were due to take to the streets of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu Saturday for a May Day anti-government protest, threatening fresh instability in the Himalayan nation.

The Maoist party, which has the largest number of seats in parliament, is demanding the ruling coalition be replaced by a new, Maoist-led administration and expects half a million people to throng the city’s streets.

New York, May 01: Two New York men have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network that included providing computer expertise and buying seven watches online for the group, prosecutors said on Friday.

Wesam El-Hanafi, 33, who was born and lived in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and Sabirhan Hasanoff, 34, a dual U.S. and Australian citizen who also lived in Brooklyn, were accused of performing tasks for al Qaeda in New York, according to a U.S. District Court indictment.

Knoxville, May 01 A college student who hacked into former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail account and posted some of its contents on the Internet was found guilty on Friday.

After four days of deliberations, a federal jury found David Kernell, the 22-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee state legislator, guilty of obstruction of justice, a felony, and unauthorized access of a computer, a misdemeanor.

Kernell was cleared of a wire fraud charge, and the jury could not agree on a verdict on a charge of identity theft.

London, May 01: A giant oil slick spreading along the US Gulf coast threatens huge damage to the name of BP, one of the world’s biggest companies, as well as a multi-billion dollar hole in its accounts, analysts said Friday.

An accident fast turning into the worst oil spill in US history will throw up obstacles to BP’s operations in one of the key world oil zones and a new look at the environmental threat from the industry, analysts said.

Washington, May 01: United States and Russia have concluded negotiations on three annexes to the protocol of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) that sets major cutbacks in their nuclear arsenals, the US State Department said.

“These Annexes contain the technical information and detailed procedures that will be used in implementing the New START Treaty verification regime,” department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a statement.

Los Angeles, May 01: Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to rally across the United States Saturday in a protest at a tough new immigration law in Arizona that has triggered an outcry from rights groups.

Demonstrations are planned in more than 70 cities as Hispanic organizations mobilize to demand the repeal of the controversial Arizona legislation as well as wide-ranging immigration reform at a federal level.

Los Angeles, May 01: Peter Lopez, who once represented Michael Jackson as one of his music attorneys, has been found dead in his apartment.

Paramedics responded to a report of a shooting at Lopez’s home in Encino at around 11:30 AM (local time), TMZ.com reported, adding that the police is investigating the death as an apparent suicide.

The 60-year-old entertainment lawyer was married to ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ actress Catherine Bach. They have two children together.

New Orleans, May 01: BP began late Friday applying an underwater dispersant to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a bid to slow the gushing oil from the well source, said a company spokesman.

“We’ve started the undersea application of dispersant,” BP spokesman Bill Salvin told AFP, adding that the company is “hoping this will substantially reduce the amount of oil reaching the surface.”

The dispersant is “being applied to the leak that’s closest to the blowout preventer,” he said, referring to one of the three leaks at the site of the sunken oil rig.

Boston, May 01: An American jailed in North Korea was allowed Friday to call home for the first time since being sentenced to eight years’ hard labor, as the United States urged his release.

Thaleia Schlesinger, a spokeswoman for Aijalon Mahli Gomes’ family in his hometown of Boston, told AFP that Gomes spoke with his mother.

“Yes, she did receive a phone call from her son in North Korea. She was really quite surprised and relieved,” Schlesinger said.

Taixing, May 01: Armed police will patrol schools in China’s capital after a farmer attacked kindergarten students with a hammer, then burned himself to death in the third classroom assault in as many days.

The government ordered schools across the country to tighten security after Friday’s attack, and anxious parents of students targeted in an earlier attack marched in protest Friday night, demanding a better government response to the crisis.

Phoenix, May 01: Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed a follow-on bill approved by Arizona legislators that make revisions to the state’s sweeping law against illegal immigration — changes she says should quell concerns that the measure will lead to racial profiling.

The law requires local and state law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the country illegally, and makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally.

Washington, May 01: US will push for all states that are not members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) including India and Pakistan to join the nuclear accord during the NPT Review Conference to be held next week at the U.N. headquarters.

“The U.S. has had a long—standing policy of supporting the universal adherence to NPT,” Susan Burk Special Representative of the President for nuclear non—proliferation told PTI, in response to a question whether Washington will address the question of New Delhi and Islamabad’s absence from the NPT.

London, May 01: A college principal once celebrated as education’s “wonder woman” was jailed yesterday for conning overseas students into enrolling for bogus courses.

Roselle Antoine who was made an MBE in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List for her services to education, was given an eight-month custodial sentence after luring Jamaican students into signing up for worthless qualifications in the UK. She was also found guilty of providing immigration services to students when not qualified to do so.