Mes: septiembre 2019

(CBS/AP) LONDON – British authorities on Tuesday charged an ex-aide to the British prime minister, a former protege of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and six others in the ever-widening phone hacking scandal, accusing them of key roles in a lengthy campaign of illegal espionage that victimized hundreds of people including top celebrities Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The announcement was a major development in a saga that has shaken Britain’s establishment and shows little sign of winding down. A senior police official said earlier this week that her force was investigating two new newspaper groups as well as more than 100 claims of computer hacking, improper access to medical records and other illegal behavior stemming from the scandal. The Crown Prosecution Service’s Alison Levitt made the announcement in a televised statement, saying that Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, both former editors of Murdoch’s now-shuttered News of the World tabloid, were among those being charged with conspiring to intercept the communications of more than 600 people between Oct. 3, 2000, and Aug. 9, 2006. Others being charged include senior tabloid journalists Stuart Kuttner, Greg Miskiw, Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Ian Edmondson. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, whose extensive notes have been at the center of the scandal, is also being prosecuted. More in Murdoch in Crisis Levitt said that, with reference to the suspects, “there is sufficient evidence for there...

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan – Gunmen killed three people in an ambush on a van in northern Afghanistan, including an American electrical engineer who had lived in the country for decades, Afghan and U.S. authorities said Tuesday. The U.S. Embassy could not provide further details about the slain American because of privacy laws, but three Afghan security officials said he had been working in Afghanistan for about 30 years. The Afghan officials said two or three assailants attack the vehicle Monday in northern Parwan province. Two Afghans — the driver and one of the American’s colleagues — were also killed in the attack, said Shirin Agha, the police chief in Parwan’s Siahgerd district. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the killings. More in Afghanistan: 카지노 가입 The way forward NATO: Two American contractors killed by Afghan cop22 NATO supply trucks destroyed in AfghanistanAfghan commander among 23 dead in blast Agha said the American had “a long beard and he was wearing an Afghan shalwar kameez so he looked like an Afghan,” referring to the long shirt and loose-fitting pants that most Afghan men wear. “The villagers said this man had long-time contacts in this district, doing his electrical work,” he added. According to Agha, residents said the American had been in Afghanistan for about 30 years. No other details about the man, or who he worked for, were available....

(CBS/AP) JOHNSONS LANDING, 고성출장업소 British Columbia – Police say emergency crews have found the body of one of four people missing after a massive landslide crushed several homes in a tiny western Canada town. British Columbia’s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said Sunday that an adult male body was recovered near a home swept away by the landslide in the small hamlet of Johnsons Landing in B.C. She says crews will try to recover the three remaining bodies. At least three homes were crushed after a wall of rock, mud and trees cascaded down the side of a mountain earlier this week. Two sisters, aged 17 and 22, and their father have been missing since the slide struck last Thursday. A female German tourist was also believed to have been caught in the debris. Lynn Migdal said Friday she hopes her two daughters and ex-husband are still alive after their home in British Columbia was engulfed by debris. Midgal, speaking from Florida, said one of her daughters spoke to a friend just before the landslide hit and said they were in the home. On Friday a news crew covering Thursday’s landslide witnessed and recorded another landslide in the same area. (To watch the video click on the player...

(CBS News) Spencer West completed an amazing feat: He climbed the world’s largest stand-alone mountain in the world, the Mount Kilimanjaro Volcano in Tanzania. Even more amazing? He has no legs. But West says he wants to be defined by more than the fact that he is a double amputee. “I don’t have any legs. That’s the obvious thing…” he said Thursday on “CBS This Morning.” “The second piece is that doesn’t just define who I am. What defines who I am is my name, what I do for my job, what am I interested in. All of those things define who I am. Not just I don’t have any legs. So we can talk about that. But then I would rather be known for the work that I do and who I am as a person other than just Spencer West without legs.” West said he credits his parents for the person he has become. “They raised me…to not ever see myself as different, but to also focus on what I could do instead of focusing on what I can’t do because I was told I would never be a functioning member of society. We refused to believe that. We sort of set out to redefine what’s possible for me.” For legless climber, summiting Kilimanjaro proof that anything is possible West said he realized he was different when...