Daily Archives: July 18, 2013

Woman stuck in narrow gap between houses for seven hours after terrified homeowners thought her screams for help were coming from a GHOST

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The woman who was mistaken for a ghost is finally rescued after becoming stuck between two wallsA woman who fell through a narrow gap between two walls was left stuck there for seven hours because locals thought her screams for help were a ghost.

The woman, who has not been named, was taking a short cut home in Feidong in China’s Anhui Province, and had squeezed her way through a tiny gap between two brick walls.

But she hadn’t realised that the gap became narrower the further down she went and she soon became stuck.

Unfortunately when she called out for help, the homeowner living on the other side of the wall assumed she was a ghost and was too terrified to investigate further.

The trapped woman had to endure an entire night trapped between the walls as he cries for help went unanswered.

She was finally spotted by passers-by the following morning. The fire brigade was called and quickly arrived to cut her free.

It took around 20 minutes for them to break down part of one of the walls enough for her to squeeze out.

 

MENENDEZ PRAISES POWER’S STAND ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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Senate UN Ambassador— Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Cites “Principled Position” of U.N. Ambassador Nominee
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, opened his hearing on the confirmation of Samantha Power to serve as U.N. Ambassador by telling her that he is “incredibly appreciative of the principled position you’ve taken on the Armenian Genocide,” reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
At the start of the highly anticipated and widely broadcast hearing, Chairman Menendez noted that, “You have been an unrelenting, principled voice when it comes to human rights and crimes against humanity – and I know that voice will be heard around the world — should you be confirmed,” adding: “Personally, I am incredibly appreciative of the principled position you’ve taken on the Armenian Genocide. In 2007, you wrote in Time Magazine – ‘a stable, fruitful, 21st century relationship’ [with Turkey] cannot be built on a lie,’ and I completely agree.”
The New Jersey Democrat also stressed that, “Your belief that we should use the lessons of what clearly was an atrocity of historic proportions to prevent future crimes against humanity is a view consistent with my own and which is supported by your role on the President’s Atrocities Prevention Board.  I agree that we must acknowledge and study the past, understand how and why atrocities happen, to put-into-practice and giving meaning to the phrase, “never again.”
The full text and video of the opening remarks by Chairman Menendez are available on-line:

 

Norwegian woman who reported being raped in Dubai is jailed for 16 months

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DubaiA young Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail after she reported a rape in Dubai.

The 25-year-old was in the United Arab Emirates on a business trip when she was raped and reported the assault to the local police.

Dubai police did not believe her, and instead took her passport and jailed her on suspicion of having had sex outside marriage.

The Norwegian woman reported the sexual assault in March this year, after which she had to spend days in a cell before she was allowed to use a telephone.

With the help of family members, the Norwegian consulate was able to negotiate a release and she has been living under the protection of the Norwegian Sailor’s Church until her sentencing this week.

‘I received the harshest sentence for sex outside marriage, harshest sentence for drinking alcohol and on top of that I was found guilty of perjury,’ the woman told Verdens Gang.

‘It is a terrible situation she is in,’ said Gisle Meling, the priest at the Norwegian Sailor’s Church.

‘We are very surprised and had hoped it would go another way, but we live in a country which has a justice system which draws its conclusions with the help of Sharia law.’

She was sentenced to one year and four months in jail but as Norway has no extradition treaty with Dubai, her future is uncertain.

 

Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre suffers new tragedy after violinist dies falling into orchestra pit

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Russia's Bolshoi TheatreA senior violinist at Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre has died following a freak accident when he fell from the stage into the orchestra pit.

Viktor Sedov, 65, who had performed at the world-famous theatre in Moscow for four decades, died in hospital as a result of his injuries following the fall on Tuesday.

Bolshoi spokesman Katerina Novikova said Mr Sedov, who played in the second violins, was a much-loved member of the theatre and was known for his ‘sense of humour and extraordinary erudition’.

She told the AFP news agency: ‘Viktor Sedov, who had worked almost 40 years at the Bolshoi, fell into the orchestra pit on Tuesday and died on Wednesday in hospital as a result of his injuries.’
In January this year, an artistic director at the Bolshoi nearly lost his sight when he had acid thrown in his face outside his Moscow home.

Sergei Filin, 42, suffered third-degree burns to his face and neck in the attack.

However dancers and staff at the Bolshoi later suggested that Mr Filin may have staged the attack himself.

Last week the theater’s director general Anatoly Iksanov was fired and replaced by Vladimir Urin, who previously headed Moscow’s Stanislavsky Musical Theatre.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said only that the 61-year old Iksanov, who led the Bolshoi for nearly 13 years, was dismissed because of a ‘difficult situation at the theatre’.

 

 

President Serzh Sargsyan received the EU Special Representative Philippe Lefort

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3536President Serzh Sargsyan received today the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Philippe Lefort.

The parties conversed about the dynamically progressing Armenia-EU relations, regional developments as well as about the EU assistance for the reforms in Armenia which are being implemented in a number of areas.

Philippe Lefort reiterated the EU support for the NK peace process in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. The parties spoke also about the importance of the confidence building measures in the process of the conflict resolution.

One more criminal case on pensions sent to court

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կենսաթոշակIn the framework of the criminal case initiated on the abuses recorded in the process of fixing and paying pensions the preliminary investigation on the part of abuses found in territorial subdivision “Kentron -1” was completed. The prosecutor implementing prosecutorial supervision confirmed the bill of indictment and the case was sent to court.

According to the evidence obtained during pre-trial proceeding the payer-inspector of “Kentron – 1” territorial subdivision of paying service of social security state service staff of RA Ministry of Labor and Social affairs A. Musheghyan had swindled pension money in particularly large amount.

Particularly, according to the materials of the criminal case being aware that some pensioners were out of the country or dead, as well as being informed that the fact of pensioners’ death is not known in territorial subdivision of social security state service and the data of the dead pensioners were still involved in pension payment list, from 2006 to 2010 A. Musheghyan falsifying the pensioners’ signatures involved in payment lists, which were official documents, had drawn out the pension money in their names and had squandered a significant amount of pension money of 3.136.212 AMD.

On the base of the evidence obtained by the preliminary investigation implemented in the Investigation Department of Especially Important Cases of General Investigation Department of RA Police adjunct to government A. Musheghyan was accused according to the Point 1 of the Part 3 of the Article 179 and the Part 1 of the Article 325 of RA Criminal Code. The criminal case with the bill of indictment was sent to the Court of First Instance of Kentron and Norq-Marash administrative districts.

We remind that in May, 2011 in State Interests Protection Department of RA Prosecutor General’s Office a criminal case was initiated on the abuses recorded in the process of fixing and paying pensions the preliminary investigation of which was tasked to the Investigation Department of Especially Important Cases of General Investigation Department of RA Police adjunct to government.

 

Man arrested for stealing 56 skulls from cemeteries and setting up a skeleton museum at his home in Austria

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Austrian police have charged a man with 'disturbing the peace of the dead' after finding 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains in his homeA man has been arrested after police found 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains which had been stolen from graves in a museum at his home.

Police conducted a search of the house in Austria’s Burgenland province after the unidentified 47-year-old tried to sell three of the skulls and two thigh bones at a flea market.

Detectives discovered the man had created a museum in his home which contained the skulls and 55 other bones.

State broadcaster ORF said Tuesday that the bones were taken from graves of a church cemetery.

Speaking to The Guardian, a police spokesman said he had never encountered such a case in his 37 years in the force.

He said he did not know why the man had collected the bones or why he had tried to sell some of them.

The man has been charged by police with ‘disturbing the peace of the dead’ following the discovery.

Police said the bones had now been returned to the cemetery.

 

Mystery as 300 stingrays are found washed up on a Mexican beach

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Mexican authorities are investigating the death of at least 300 stingrays found on a beach of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

Residents and visitors first spotted the dead rays on Tuesday on the Chachalacas beach in the town of Ursulo Galvan and posted photos on social media.

Ursulo Galvan Mayor Martin Verdejo says it’s possible the stingrays could have been abandoned by fishermen after being trapped in their nets.

Upon realizing they were unlikely make much profit from their sale, they simply emptied their nets along the beach.

Others say the dead came rays were washed ashore by the waves at sunrise.

Beachgoers say it appears that many of the rays fins were cut and it is believed that fishermen sold the parts of the fish they were able to sell and then simply left the remnants.

Whilst the stingrays remain on the beach, they remain a danger to tourists, as although they are dead, their stings remain potent, which although not poisonous, are extremely painful.