Popular Honduran TV journalist kidnapped
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Police investigators say they’re searching for a popular television journalist in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula who was taken by heavily armed men while driving in his truck.
Investigators spokesman Elvis Guzman says Anibal Barrow was taken late Monday night along with three family members, who were later released unharmed. Guzman said Tuesday that his truck was found abandoned with a bullet hole and traces of blood.
The 62-year-old journalist has a daily morning news show called “Anibal and Nothing More” on Globo television in San Pedro Sula.
Egypt president admits mistakes before rally
CAIRO – Egypt’s Islamist president has underlined that he is the supreme commander of the armed forces and says the military should focus on the defense of the nation.
Mohammed Morsi spoke in a nationally televised address Wednesday, days ahead of planned protests calling for his removal by his opponents.
Morsi said “all agree” the president is the military’s supreme commander and “all state institutions work in harmony and with discipline under the leadership of the head of state.”
Swedish teens found guilty for sex ‘shaming’
Two Swedish teenage girls were found guilty of aggravated defamation on Tuesday for so-called slut-shaming 38 youths on the photo-sharing service Instagram, which led to rioting at two schools.
The 15-year-old girl who admitted opening the anonymous account was sentenced to juvenile detention, and her 16-year-old accomplice was given 45 hours of community service, reported The Local, a news site in Sweden. They must also pay their victims a total of roughly $85,400, or about $2,250 each.
The 15-year-old began soliciting tips in December on “which young people are the worst sluts in Gothenburg,” Sweden’s second-largest city. Within days she had received nearly 1,000 suggestions.
The teen then published photos, mostly of girls, along with derogatory comments about their alleged sexual activities. Students were outraged by the cyberbullying, and riots broke out at two high schools, with crowds calling for revenge. Police arrested more than 30 youths.
Riots kill 27 in minority region of far west China
BEIJING – Riots in a restive, far western region of China on Wednesday killed 27 people and left at least three injured, state media said.
The official Xinhua News Agency said knife-wielding mobs attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site Wednesday in a remote town in the Xinjiang region.
The unrest in Lukqun, a township in Turpan prefecture, left 17 people dead, including nine policemen, before police shot and killed 10 rioters, the agency reported. Xinjiang is home to a large population of minority Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs but is ruled by China’s Han ethnic majority.
Associated Press
