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‘Hot Mugshot Guy’ from California gets 27 months in prison

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By Michael Fleeman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jeremy Meeks, the California man whose mugshot became a sensation among Web users admiring his male-model good looks, has been sentenced to more than two years in prison on a gun charge, federal prosecutors said on Friday. Meeks, 30, was arrested last June in a gang crackdown in Stockton, California, and pleaded guilty in November to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to U.S

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Indian activist’s car vandalized after "Shame the Rapist Campaign"

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By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Indian activist who started an online video campaign to shame rapists said on Friday that her car had been vandalized and she had received emails containing pornographic images. Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of the anti-trafficking charity Prajwala, started the “Shame the Rapist Campaign” earlier this week by posting two videos on the Internet that showed men raping women. Just minutes after she announced the campaign on Indian television on Friday morning her car had its rear window smashed, she said

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Factbox: Canada security bill’s main provisions

January 30, 2015 publisher australia, china, chinese, france, friday, gestures-during, islamist, militants-since, mountain-resort, official, security, sold-on-alibaba, state, swiss, the-security

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Friday to counter terrorism in response to attacks in Canada, France and Australia by Islamist militants since last October. The following are the main provisions: CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE – CSIS would have powers to disrupt threats to the security of Canada at home and abroad, not just collect intelligence. PROMOTION OF TERRORISM – It would make it a crime to call for attacks on Canada in general.

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Hedge funds lose court bid over Ancestry.com deal price

January 30, 2015 publisher ancestry-com, australia, friday, islamist, market, popular-hedge, price-should, wilmington

By Tom Hals Wilmington, Del. (Reuters) – Hedge funds lost a court bid to get extra cash for their shares of online family research site Ancestry.com Inc, in a ruling involving an increasingly popular hedge fund strategy.

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North Korea denies responsibility for Sony cyber attack

December 20, 2014 admin chris-reese, city, cyberattack, editing, fbi, friday, incident, korea, north-korea, pyongyang, state-sponsors

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea had nothing to do with a devastating cyber attack against Sony Pictures, a North Korean U.N. diplomat said on Friday after the U.S. government blamed Pyongyang for the incident

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California man sentenced to 37 years for raping women he met on dating sites

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(Reuters) – A California man described by prosecutors as a dangerous internet predator was sentenced on Friday to 37 years to life in prison for raping two women he met on dating websites including ChristianMingle.com, an attorney for one of the victims said. Sean Patrick Banks, 39, must serve 85 percent of the sentence before becoming eligible for parole, attorney Gloria Allred said