Ex-CIA officer sentenced in leak case
John Kiriakou will serve 30 months in prison as part of an October plea deal. The judge calls it 'way too light,' saying he damaged the agency.
By Shashank Bengali, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer was sentenced Friday to 30 months in federal prison for disclosing classified information to journalists in a case that underscored the Obama administration's harsh crackdown on national security leaks.
John Kiriakou, a 14-year CIA veteran, pleaded guilty in October to identifying an undercover operative who was involved in the use of severe interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on terrorism suspects during theGeorge W. Bush administration.
While the Justice Department has said it won't prosecute CIA officials who approved or conducted those interrogations, Kiriakou becomes the sixth current or former government official charged with revealing classified information since 2009.
Climate change and quotas spark new fish wars with Iceland
1970 dispute with Iceland changed Grimsby's fortunes. Now rising sea temperatures spark more controversy, this time over mackerel
When Graham Hall started out as a trawlerman, the port of Grimsby was crammed with so many boats local legend had it you could walk from deck to deck across the entire harbour.
But just three turquoise trawlers could be spotted last week – 60% of the town's remaining fleet.
A revolution betrayed? Two years after Mubarak, Tahrir Square rises again
Protesters clash with police across Egypt, calling for end to Morsi’s Islamist government
Tens of thousands of boisterous protesters streamed into Tahrir Square in Cairo yesterday denouncing Egypt’s Islamist government on the second anniversary of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
The day was marred by clashes around the square and elsewhere around the country, particularly in Alexandria where protesters burnt tyres and clashed with police who fired tear gas to control the crowds. In the city of Ismailia the offices of President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood were set alight. Four people died in clashes between police and protesters in the city of Suez. More than 370 were injured nationwide, according to the Health Ministry, including five in Suez with gunshot wounds, raising the possibility of a higher death toll.
Rape Tragedy in India: Dreams of 'the Fearless One'
By Sandra Schulz and Wieland Wagner
The case has shaken India and shocked the world. Relatives and friends describe the fate of the 23-year-old woman who was raped in mid-December in New Delhi and died.
He is standing in the doorframe, leaning on a crutch, with his right leg in bandages. He is the man who was there when six men raped the woman who was so close to him and rammed an iron rod into her body. His name is Awindra Pratap Pandey, and he is staring at the gold rings on his hands. The men took everything from him that evening, but they were unable to pull the two rings from his fingers because they were too tight.
26 January 2013 Last updated at 02:09 GMT
Hit play confronts Australia with its bloody past
To see the play The Secret River in the run-up to Australia Day, the national holiday marking the moment of British colonisation in 1788, is to be reminded in the most confronting of ways why many Aboriginal Australians continue to label it "Invasion Day."
The drama, adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name by the Australian author Kate Grenville, tells the story of William Thornhill, a British convict pardoned in the early 19th Century who sets out with his young family to build a new life on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, to Sydney's north.
His plan is to farm a small plot of land, with little regard for the rights of its ancient custodians, the native Dharug people.
South Korea’s new leader, Park Geun-hye, was pushed onto political stage by tragedy
SEOUL — The first major tragedy in Park Geun-hye’s life was a shooting that took place at the National Theater in downtown Seoul nearly 40 years ago. She didn’t even witness it. She was studying in Grenoble, France, at the foot of the Alps, when she got a worried call from the South Korean Embassy. The official didn’t give any specifics.
“The person only said that something had happened to my mother,” Park wrote in her 2007 memoir, “and that I needed to return home.”
The details that Park would soon learn redirected her life suddenly and irreversibly, ending her hopes of becoming a professor, flinging her for the first time into the public spotlight, and setting her on a course that would lead to the nation’s top office, thepresidency, a job into which she’ll be sworn next month.
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