GUAM
Suspect in plea agreement
A man suspected of taking part in the theft of a US Navy antenna valued at more than US$50,000 has reached a plea agreement. The Pacific Daily News reported that 44-year-old Franklin Gogo is one of five men charged in the case. Court documents filed on Thursday said Gogo agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit theft of government property, and will receive sentencing considerations for accepting responsibility and testifying in the case. Prosecutors say Gogo and the other four men entered US Navy property in Barrigada on Nov. 7, 2102, found the aluminum antenna on the ground, removed bolts and carried it off in pieces in duffel bags.
POLAND
‘Corpse’ shocks workers
A 91-year-old woman surprised morgue workers when she started moving, 11 hours after being declared dead at home, public television reported on Thursday. Janina Kolkiewicz woke up inside a body bag in a cold chamber at the morgue on Thursday last week, according to the TVP public broadcaster. “I was sure she was dead,” doctor Wieslawa Czyz told TVP. “I’m stunned, I don’t understand what happened. Her heart had stopped beating, she was no longer breathing.” “My aunt has no inkling of what happened since she has late-stage dementia,” Bogumila Kolkiewicz, the woman’s niece, told a local newspaper. “Once we got her home, she said she was freezing and asked for a hot cup of tea.”
CANADA
Gunman toured parliament
A gunman who stormed parliament last month had staked out the neo-Gothic building prior to the attack, local media said on Thursday. The Ottawa Citizen and broadcaster CTV cited anonymous sources saying security cameras captured Michael Zehaf-Bibeau taking a public tour of parliament on Oct. 4. Two weeks later, he went on a rampage, killing an unarmed soldier at Ottawa’s war memorial, before storming the nearby halls of parliament, where he died in a shootout with security officers. The Citizen suggested this points to premeditation. It also said Zehaf-Bibeau, inspired by videos of the Islamic State’s killings of captives, may have intended to behead a Canadian politician in the attack.
BRAZIL
Murder suspects go on trial
Three people charged with killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make and sell stuffed pastries have gone on trial. A man, his wife and his mistress were arrested in April 2012 in Garanhuns and police say they have confessed to the crimes. The three allegedly lured women to their house by promising them a job as a nanny. Police found the remains of the two women in the backyard of the suspects’ house. At the time of their arrest they told police that they belonged to a sect that preached “the purification of the world and the reduction of its population.”
MEXICO
Son of drug lord captured
The army has captured the son of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the leader of the powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel, a government source said on Thursday. The son, Ismael Zambada Imperial, nicknamed “El Mayito Gordo,” was detained by the army in a town close to the Sinaloan capital of Culiacan, local media said. The father is believed to have taken control of the Sinaloa Cartel after the capture in February of Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, who at the time was one of the most wanted men in the world.
MONEY GRAB: People were rushing to collect bills scattered on the ground after the plane transporting money crashed, which an official said hindered rescue efforts A cargo plane carrying money on Friday crashed near Bolivia’s capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles on highway, scattering bills on the ground and leaving at least 15 people dead and others injured, an official said. Bolivian Minister of Defense Marcelo Salinas said the Hercules C-130 plane was transporting newly printed Bolivian currency when it “landed and veered off the runway” at an airport in El Alto, a city adjacent to La Paz, before ending up in a nearby field. Firefighters managed to put out the flames that engulfed the aircraft. Fire chief Pavel Tovar said at least 15 people died, but
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER: By showing Ju-ae’s ability to handle a weapon, the photos ‘suggest she is indeed receiving training as a successor,’ an academic said North Korea on Saturday released a rare image of leader Kim Jong-un’s teenage daughter firing a rifle at a shooting range, adding to speculation that she is being groomed as his successor. Kim’s daughter, Ju-ae, has long been seen as the next in line to rule the secretive, nuclear-armed state, and took part in a string of recent high-profile outings, including last week’s military parade marking the closing stages of North Korea’s key party congress. Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a photo of Ju-ae shooting a rifle at an outdoor shooting range, peering through a rifle scope
India and Canada yesterday reached a string of agreements, including on critical mineral cooperation and a “landmark” uranium supply deal for nuclear power, the countries’ leaders said in New Delhi. The pacts, which also covered technology and promoting the use of renewable energy, were announced after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a fresh start in the relationship between their nations. “Our ties have seen a new energy, mutual trust and positivity,” Modi said. Carney’s visit is a key step forward in ties that effectively collapsed in 2023 after Ottawa accused New Delhi
Gaza is rapidly running out of its limited fuel supply and stocks of food staples might become tight, officials said, after Israel blocked the entry of fuel and goods into the war-shattered territory, citing fighting with Iran. The Israeli military closed all Gaza border crossings on Saturday after announcing airstrikes on Iran carried out jointly with the US. Israeli authorities late on Monday night said that they would reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel to Gaza yesterday, for “gradual entry of humanitarian aid” into the strip, without saying how much. Israeli authorities previously said the crossings could not be operated safely during
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