Security Council meets on N. Korea
Security Council meets on N. Korea
UNITED NATIONS
The head of the commission of inquiry that accused North Korea of crimes against humanity told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it must take action against “a totalitarian state without parallel in the contemporary world,” and he told reporters that most council members “expressly said” the matter should be referred to the International Criminal Court.
It was the first time the council had met to discuss the unprecedented U.N. report that contains graphic details and an urgent call to action. The informal meeting comes as members of the commission push for its findings to be formally referred to the council and the ICC.
Suspect arrested in highway shootings
GRANDVIEW, Mo.
Police have arrested a male suspect in a string of random Kansas City-area highway shootings that have wounded three people.
Kansas City, Mo., police Chief Darryl Forte declined to identify the suspect during a Thursday night news conference near the suspect’s home in Grandview. He said he will discuss the case in further detail at another news conference today.
Police were searching the suspect’s single-story home, and a green Dodge Neon with Illinois license plates that was behind it has been towed away.
Police said last week that they had connected 12 shootings since early March in which vehicles were targeted on Kansas City-area highways and roads.
Chelsea Clinton expecting 1st baby
WASHINGTON
For the Clintons, 2014 is the year of the baby.
Chelsea Clinton, the 34-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said Thursday that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child this fall.
There has been wide speculation about a future baby in the Clinton family. Chelsea Clinton said in an interview with Glamour magazine last year that she and her husband were hoping to start a family soon, calling 2014 “the year of the baby.”
Jury convicts man in Iraqi wife’s death
EL CAJON, Calif.
An Iraqi immigrant was convicted Thursday of bludgeoning his wife to death in a case that initially was considered a hate crime because a note found next to her body said: “This is my country, go back to yours, you terrorist.”
Kassim Alhimidi, 49, shook his head from side to side and wagged a finger as jurors were polled, then chaos erupted in the courtroom when his oldest son stood and shouted obscenities. The son proclaimed his father’s innocence before several deputies wrestled him out of the courtroom.
Alhimidi turned to the son and yelled in Arabic, “God knows, and I attest to God, that I am not the killer. I am innocent.”
Cops: Man ate pot candy before killing
DENVER
A Denver man accused of killing his wife while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher ate marijuana-infused candy before the attack, according to search warrants released Thursday.
The Denver Police Department is investigating if the pot influenced his behavior and also whether police responded quickly enough to pleas for help from the woman, who was shot to death 12 minutes into the 911 call she made Monday.
Associated Press