Russian police of free tycoon's son

24 April 2011 last updated at 18: 34 GMT Jewgeni Kaspersky is unharmed the son of Jewgeni Kaspersky software entrepreneur one of the Russia's leading Internet entrepreneurs have police in Russia, one of Moscow to the most high-profile ends free kidnapping in years.

The police was announced by five people including the alleged leader, a former convict, while the operation in the Moscow region have been arrested.

Russian media say officers posing as intermediaries, the kidnappers to a meeting with the promise of a ransom curled.

Mr Kaspersky enterprise is a leading developer of anti-virus software.

The kidnappers allegedly demanded 3 million euro (￡ 2. 6 m; $ 4. 3 m) for his son Ivan back safely.

On the Sunday statement on the successful police operation was the first official comment on his abduction, FSB secret service police were already said, to work with regular colleagues about the case.

Reports that last week, that the student experience job as a programmer in the Russian capital snatched mathematics on Tuesday on his way to his work had been.

Kaspersky Lab is the country's some business success stories not relating to the energy sector outside Russia as one.

The U.S. business was magazine fast company recently it among the top 50 most innovative companies worldwide.

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Puglia 'Mafia Boss' arrest police

23 April 2011 last updated at 21: 02 GMT Francesco Campana had already were mafia sentenced to nine years in prison Association of the suspected leader of an organized crime group based in the region of Puglia, Italian police say.

Francesco Campana, 38, was arrested and on Saturday in a house in the medieval city of Oria, near the city of Brindisi.

Ministry of the Interior Roberto Maroni Mr Campana said arrest one more blow, the powerful Sacra Corona UNITA (United sacred Crown) represented organization.

The group, it is assumed that contraband and the smuggling of the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

It is smaller and less known as the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the ' Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Naples.

Mr Campana already nine years in prison for his collaboration with the Sacra Corona UNITA were convicted, was announced by the police.

This is the second great success for the authorities to the mafia in Italy this week.

On Thursday, almost $300 m in assets seized by the ' Ndrangheta, including two fourth division football. The police say that the organization used the clubs, to try to increase their influence.

The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome says that to take their efforts to the mafia assets in the last year the authorities have stepped up.

There were hundreds of arrests in every part of Italy and with all main Mafia organisations, our correspondent says.

And in the last few days, a study with 17 gangster, the a clan started, added.

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Bomb police want to trace some

24 April 2011 last updated at 02: 34 GMT parcel bombs Manager Neil Lennon and two other people with connections to Celtic police investigated parcel bombs to Celtic manager Neil Lennon sent sent and two other people shall be submitted for a couple in their early 20s attractive.

They were seen in the town of Kilwinning Ayrshire on the day that the recent explosive device was found.

Strathclyde Police arrested two men suspected of sending have sectarian and racist comments on the Internet.

The developments come as the final old firm Derby of the season on Sunday Rangers and Celtic preparation.

The match that will be closely monitored by the police, League title go a long way to the decision of the Scottish Premier.

Bus sighting

A parcel bomb on Lennon's lawyer, Paul McBride QC, addressed to a mailbox in Kilwinning discovered.

Since then, police had hoped, that someone it dropping in might have experienced.

Officers now say that it a few, which were seen getting on a bus line 20 in Montgomerie terrace at about 1410 BST on 15 April to pursue.

The man was wearing a light blue and white top, and the woman had a dark, padded jacket. Someone would like to listen to detectives, she saw.

A different Strathclyde Police team has arresting people suspected of inciting racial or religious hatred in the Internet started.

Two men were accused of sectarian breach of peace on Saturday and dozens of others are examined.

Sectarian threats

The arrests were made Paisley and Dalmarnock in the East end of Glasgow. You will appear likely to Sheriff Court on Tuesday in Glasgow.

The raids, which were ongoing police said target bookings of religious and racial hatred comments on Lennon and Rangers striker El Hadji Diouf.

It is assumed that the addresses with the help of Internet service providers Association, as part of an operation on several weeks ago have been identified.

Police said some online bookings were already is removed, but officers had the electronic evidence for individuals is specifically recognised.

The suspects range in age from their early teens until their 50's.

An extra 1,000 officers be Rangers Ibrox match in Glasgow on Sunday for this season of seventh old firm, Stadium will be played.

Neil Lennon has sectarian threats against him in the course of his career as a player and Manager at Celtic Glasgow, and was campaign addressed Mr McBride and Celtic support former MSP Trish Godman saw also the target of a parcel bomb.

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Police ' RAID Tibetan monastery '

23 April 2011 last updated at 08: 44 GMT the Chinese police have raided a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Western China, two people killed, rights activists said.

The international campaign for Tibet (ICT) says that an elderly man and woman were killed police arrest monks in Kirti monastery is trying to prevent.

Tension has been high since a monk himself on fire last month in an apparent anti-Government protest set.

Foreigners have prevented travel to the region.

"Beaten"

American ICT said paramilitary police the monastery in ABA, in the province of Sichuan, searched on Thursday night and more than 300 monks arrested.

As the monks removed the police beat, which a group of people who were in the 1960s, the death of two Tibetans were driven standing vigil outside Kirti said at the age of ICT, citing exile groups in contact with people in the area.

"People had their arms and legs broken, an old woman broke her leg in three places and was filled to stifle cloth into the mouth, their cries," was an exile of living Kirti monk of the rights group quoted words.

The BBC was unable to independently verify the account.

ABA was troubled Tibetan communities of Western China rose up in protests three years ago.

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Police name car reservoir victims

April 21, 2011 last updated at 17: 56 GMT Denise Griffiths survived, but their family members died after her car crashed in the ReservoirThe family, who died after her car in a reservoir of Powys were overthrown named.

Driver Denise Griffith, 55, Pontypridd, managed from their Peugeot 807 and on the edge of Llyn Clywedog, swim in the vicinity of Llanidloes.

But her husband, Emyr, 66, died along with their foster sons, Peter Briscome and Liam Govier, both 14, and her mother Phyllis Hooper, 84.

The death by dangerous driving caused suspicion of a man was rescued.

Dyfed-Powys police have appealed on Wednesday afternoon for witnesses to an incident between Peugeot and a Ford Mondeo.

The family of the Pwllgwaun area of Pontypridd, had been on holiday in the area.

'Deeply saddened'

The victims bodies were with the help of the fire brigade, a diving team and RAF helicopter restored.

Earlier on Thursday, observed a minute's silence in the county Hall in Llandrindod Wells.

Llanidloes Town Council Gareth Morgan said the death of "People at many levels affected".

Mr Morgan said: "a place such as Llanidloes is very small and closely knit and people have deeply been saddened by the death."

"It is a great tragedy to four people in this terrible way and for the driver, which foster remain without her husband, mother and teenaged boys, have wiped out."

Skid marks show where the family of Peugeot 807 the street left

"What happened yesterday everyone's heart has touched."

"It is a great, great tragedy."

In Pontypridd, Wales, neighbor Shirley Williams said: "I can get not about you."

Cardiff City fans

She described the couple as good neighbours and very nice people. Others said the pair had long-term foster parents to the two young and had encouraged other children.

You said that the couple in their local church and big sports fans, bowls as family were involved in games.

They were also Cardiff City fans, participation in home games, and Mr. of Griffith's Pontypridd Taff Ely indoor bowls Club member.

Secretary of David Evans Mr Griffith called a beautiful man who would help someone.

"He liked Cardiff City and whole family used to go to every Saturday if there was a home game," he said:

Mr Evans said Mr Griffith shells in the Club up to four times per week, with his wife Tuesday games used and also to the two young would.

Barbara Brown, of the bowls with Mr Griffith played, said the deaths had destroyed all of their friends.

"I spoke with a lady today morning and they just burst into tears."

"This is how people about you for a long, long time will be," she said.

"And he will be spoken for a long, long time." "The world is cruel because he has done so much good."

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Party leaders participate in police event

18 April 2011 last updated at 23: 34 GMT the four parties have their plans for police and justice in their manifests the leader of the Scottish four main political parties of the Scottish Police Federation Conference in Aviemore participate to further put, choice such as campaigns for the Holyrood on 5 May.

All four have vowed, maintain police officer numbers, but they have different policies on the structure of the armed forces.

Work and also a reduction to the conservatives who want to merge eight powers to one, and the SNP.

The Lib Dems are the only party against a reduction in the number of forces.

The main parties have launched all of their manifestos, which listed their ideas for police and justice.

The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats want to end the automatic early release of prisoners.

The Tories want the re-establishment of the prison sentences of less than three months, that "Trust in the judiciary to restore". The Labour Party supports this policy.

The SNP has now but vowed to maintain funding for community payback orders, where low-level perpetrators company repay their debts carrying out manual work, instead, the short jail terms.

The parties all have cut different policies to the knife crime. The Conservatives support a nationwide knife amnesty, while the Lib Dems say that the key of course deal with culture.

The SNP have promised, stop and search, increase while labour doomed to put conditions for anyone with a knife in a mandatory six months in prison.

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Fired State Police Chief Mexico

18 April 2011 last updated at 00: 51 GMT of the Mexican navy captured the alleged mastermind of the murders on Saturday in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas has the head of security after the discovery of 145 bodies in mass graves earlier this month dismissed.

Former Army Gen Ubaldo Ayala Tinoco was from another former soldier, Capt. Rafael Lomeli Martinez replaced.

The Governor said the new Chief coordination with the army and the federal police in the fight against drugs gangs would improve.

The killings have been blamed Zetas drug cartel on that.

More than 20 suspected cartel members in connection with the murders, including the alleged mastermind of the massacre have been arrested.

But the suspected to protect the criminals 16 State police officers were arrested.

Battlefield

Outgoing Tamaulipas said security chief gene Ayala he resigned was because the Government had to provide for higher wages and better facilities, the State police.

His successor, Capt. Lomeli, was previously head of the federal police in Nuevo Leon, a different northern border State where drug-related violence widely used is.

He said he was pacifying Tamaulipas, which is the scene of a bloody battle between the Zetas and the rival Gulf cartel, in the United States for the control of drug trafficking routes are required.

The mass graves with 145 bodies were found in the municipality of San Fernando, near the US border.

Most of the victims are thought to of long-distance buses travel north to the U.S. border be been kidnapped.

The motive for the murders is unclear, but some have speculated that the cartel armed men could have killed, who refused to join their ranks.

Last year, the bodies were found by 72 of Central and South American immigrants in the same area.

Mastermind

On Saturday, the captured Mexican marine Omar Martin Estrada - alias "El kilo"-the alleged leader of the Zetas in San Fernando and alleged mastermind of the murders.

Forensic scientists have worked to identify the body, have been taken by some to Mexico City.

Hundreds of people, their loved ones have disappeared, gone to see if they can identify their family members among the dead.

The Mexican Government says that since President Felipe Calderon began sending troops against the cartels in the December 2006 about 35,000 people in drug-related violence have been killed.

More than 5,000 people reported missing, according to human rights Commission of Mexico.

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Bomber kills Afghan police Chief

15 April 2011 last updated at 18: 14 GMT Khan Mohammad Mujahid has survived previous attempts on his life which police chief died in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar in a suicide attack on his headquarters had.

Khan Mohammad Mujahid was killed and two other policemen injured in the explosion, officials say.

A suicide bomber managed penetrate the defence of the General Headquarters of police by wearing a police uniform, said the Afghan Ministry of the Interior.

Mr Khan survived previous attempts on his life. The police HQ has taken in the past in the line of fire.

"The suicide attacker had strapped explosives to his body" Deputy chief Shir Shah said told AFP.

"He fired at the gates of the Kandahar police headquarters." "Police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid has tortured have been, [and] two police officers were injured."

Taliban spokesman Yusuf Ahmadi said one of its members carried out the attack, and gave AFP a slightly different account of the events.

"He had disguised himself as a police officer and the police fired head with his pistol, embraced him and then ignited themselves," he said.

The police headquarters in Kandahar became the target of several attacks in the past, which had forced the authorities security arrangements around the facility recently BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul reports check.

Continue reading the most important story Bilal Sarwary BBC News, Kabul

Mr Khan is the most recent victim of an assassination campaign launched by the rebels in recent months.

It has the life of bodies, officials, Governors, police chiefs and works for the National Directorate of security intelligence activists cost.

Most of the victims had a reputation for efficiency in the Administration, and were by their juniors up to saw.

Afghan security and intelligence officials say that the Taliban has several of his commanders in the last raids of the United States carried out lost and Afghan special forces.

This has the Taliban ability to lay ambush crippled or security forces on the battlefield.

It is Afghan officials in the conflict remain relevant targeted.

Khan Mohammad Mujahid had two previous attempts at his life, one on his way home and survived in his motorcade.

Mr Khan was a former mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s and then fought the Taliban. He was a powerful militia commander in Ahmad Shah Masoud Northern Alliance battles.

After the fall of the Taliban, Mr Khan worked for the Ministry of defence. He was appointed the police Chief of Balch, Ghazni, and finally the head of the police in his home province of Kandahar soon.

President Hamid Karzai, he had promoted the rank of Lieutenant General.

Our correspondent says a personal loss for the Afghan President, that the killing of an older important tribal and ally, Malik is already Empress, in the eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, mourning his death.

Kandahar is considered the spiritual home of the Taliban, and has experienced in recent years some of the worst of the violence in Afghanistan.

Attacks on Afghan police and troops have increased recently, when the Taliban tried, efforts prepare local police forces, to take over the full security control, as soon as security force leaves undermine NATO.

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