China’s death toll from tropical storm Bilis has jumped to 188 after torrential rains swept away houses and triggered devastating mudslides, the government’s main news agency said today. Hardest hit was the inland province of Hunan, where nearly 100 people were killed.
England: No shooting charges
London police officers who shot and killed an innocent Brazilian they mistook for a suicide bomber will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said Monday in a decision a relative called “unbelievable.” Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed by police on a London subway train on July 22, 2005, two weeks after four suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 commuters on three subway trains and a bus, and a day after a failed set of attacks.
Netherlands: ‘Pedophile’ party OK
The Hague District Court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters’ right to judge the appeal of political parties. The PNVD party – the Dutch abbreviation of Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity, widely dubbed the “pedophile” party – has only three known members, one of whom was convicted of molesting an 11-year-old boy in 1987.
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