Two 13-year-old boys videotaped themselves sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl and recorded sexual contact between her and two other young children, police said.Police said the mother of one of the victims found the videotape Jan. 18. The assault was believed to have occurred within the past year at one of the boys' homes, about a block away from an elementary school.Police believe all the children are related.The tape shows the boys assaulting the girl with an object, and she is also seen having sexual contact with another 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy, police said."What they were trying to do is basically simulate sex acts," said officer Katherine Finnell.Finnell said police did not know where the parents of any of the children were during the assault and taping....
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 Ford hit by record $12.7bn loss |
Ford has reported a loss of $12.7bn (£6.5bn) for 2006 - the biggest annual loss in the embattled US carmaker's 103-year history. A slump in sales, combined with major restructuring costs, saw the firm lose $5.8bn in the final three months of the year alone. The iconic US carmaker has been struggling in the face of competition from Japanese rivals such as Toyota. Ford has plans to close 16 factories in North America and cut 45,000 jobs. The company, which is currently the second-biggest carmaker in the US, may be overtaken by Toyota in its domestic market later this year, reports have suggested. Ford's full-year loss surpassed the company's previous record annual net loss of $7.39bn in 1992. However, the company said it remained confident that it would return to profit by 2009. "We fully recognize our business reality and are dealing with it," said Ford chief executive Alan Mulally. ...
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| Iraq Crash Exacts Heavy Toll From U.S. Senior U.S. Officers, Sergeants Among the Dead in Helicopter Crash in Iraq |
Two colonels, one lieutenant colonel and two command sergeants major were among the 12 soldiers killed last weekend in a Black Hawk helicopter crash northeast of Baghdad, the Pentagon said. It appeared to be the largest number of key officers and command sergeants killed in a single incident during since the Iraq war started nearly four years ago. The U.S. command has not said why so many key officers were aboard a single helicopter, which went down Saturday in Diyala province, one of the flashpoints of the Iraq conflict. It was also unclear why they were traveling in the volatile region. But the loss of such pivotal figures is likely to be a severe blow to their units. Ten of the dead were members of the National Guard, making it the deadliest single combat incident for the Guard since at least the Korean War, said Mark Allen, a National Guard Bureau spokesman....
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| Security forces kill at least 59 in Guinea protests |
The official toll from bloody clashes earlier this week between security forces and protesters in Guinea rose to at least 59 dead, almost double the number previously reported, the Health Ministry said Thursday. Forty-four people were killed during Monday's violence in the capital alone, said Dr. Sidiki Diakite, a senior Health Ministry official helping oversee the count nationwide. The remaining 15 were slain elsewhere in the West African nation the same day. Demonstrations turned deadly Monday when security forces opened fire on rock-hurling protesters calling for long-ruling President Lansana Conte to cede power to a transitional government. The Health Ministry figures showed 233 other people were injured Monday, most by gunshots. Those included 173 in Conakry and 50 elsewhere in the country. The figures did not identify the casualties, but the vast majority are believed to have been civilians either protesting or caught in crossfire. No fatalities among security forces...
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| Bucking U.S., Afghanistan won’t spray heroin Karzai reportedly would spray fields in 2008 if harvest doesn’t decline |
Rebuffing months of U.S. pressure, President Hamid Karzai has decided Afghanistan will not implement a Colombia-style program to spray the country's heroin-producing poppies, bowing to pressure from top Cabinet members who feared a popular backlash, officials said Thursday. The decision dashes U.S. hopes that herbicide sprayed by ground applicators would help combat Afghanistan's opium trade after a record crop in 2006. Karzai instead "made a very strong commitment" to lead the country's manual eradication efforts this year, and said that if production didn't go down he would allow spraying in 2008, a Western official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. The spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of Counternarcotics, Said Mohammad Azam, said ground spraying "will be in the list of options" next year, if the increased efforts this year to destroy poppy fields by "traditional techniques" do not work....
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| Mob attacks India murder suspects |
An Indian businessman and his servant, accused in the rape and murder of at least 19 women and children, have been assaulted by a mob. The duo were attacked by a crowd of onlookers, as well as lawyers, outside the court in Ghaziabad, near Delhi. Businessman Moninder Singh Pandher appeared to fall unconscious during the assault. He was taken to hospital where his condition is reported to be stable. Mr Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli were arrested in December. Police and investigation agencies have recovered skulls and body parts from a drain outside the businessman's house in Noida, a suburb of Delhi. Slapped and punched Emotions have been running high in the area and angry locals are continuing to hold a vigil outside Moninder Singh's home. ...
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