Iran nuclear chief takes over as foreign minister

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's nuclear chief has taken over as the country's interim foreign minister after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad abruptly fired his predecessor.

State TV says Ali Akbar Salehi was introduced as the new top diplomat at a function at the Foreign Ministry on Saturday. The sacked minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, refused to attend in an apparent gesture of protest.

Ahmadinejad fired Mottaki on Monday in the middle of an official visit to the African nation of Senegal.

No reason was given, but the president may have wanted to install a figure more personally loyal to him as Tehran resumes critical talks with world powers over its nuclear program.

Salehi will serve as caretaker foreign minister until a permanent replacement is named.

Motorola DEFY Ready to Get Two Brothers

Motorola DEFY gained more attention in the rugged smartphones market. Now, there is a rumor floating all around and this rumor first generated from Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin.

The rumor informing that the smartphones giant Motorola Planning to release two more rugged Android smartphones as the brothers for the Successful Motorola DEFY.

These two new rugged smartphones are slated to release in 2011 summer. Importantly, these upcoming rugged smartphones are going to carry IP54 International Protection Code like any other rugged handset.

These rugged smartphones are famous for “a degree of protection against falling dirt, rain, sleet, snow and windblown dust” through the mentioned code.

The Earlier Motorola DEFY supports the IP67 protection code which is for a waterproof rugged device.

If the rumors are true, then many more rugged smartphones will flood the market and people should experience them for change.

Mexico outraged by killing of anti-crime crusader

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (AP) - Mexican anger over the creaking court system, an inefficient flooded after her mother, who fought against the murderer of her daughter two years of struggle to bring justice to be killed, perhaps the same man accused of the murder of a teenager.

Security tape masked men in the car pulling in front of the city governor's office Chihuahua. Appeared to exchange words with anti-crime crusader Maris Ortiz Escobedo, who was holding a vigil outside.

She tried to run the streets, but the gunman chased him and shot in the head on Thursday, said Jorge Gonzalez, the Special Prosecutor of crime prevention.

Escobedo took an ambulance to the hospital where he died within a few minutes.

On Friday, a group of protesters gathered outside the Interior Ministry in Mexico City to protest the murder of a short battle the police while chanting "Not one more death!"

And now the north of Ciudad Juarez, where the daughter is 17 years of Escobedo's body was found burned and the components of the package in June 2009 activists protested outside the headquarters of state law, with signs demanding "Justice for Maris.

Murder in Mexico on Thursday that the victim is suffering, without protection, "the veteran anti-crime activist Alejandro Marti said.

The scandal led to the suspension of three judges who had ordered the release of a key suspect in the murder of his daughter after he was acquitted by the court in April for lack of evidence.

The man, Sergio Barraza, is now the main suspect in the death of his mother, said Carlos Gonzalez, a spokesman for the office of State Attorney General, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, where he is located.

Frayre daughter Ruby Escobedo Escobedo, disappeared in Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso, Texas, 2008.

After the body was discovered last year, mother's campaign, quick conviction. Escobedo Rallies staged a lot of the naked picture of a flag wrapped her daughter.

"This battle is not just my daughter," Escobedo said through a bullhorn that in March, his voice cracking. "We do not allow a younger woman to be killed in this city."

Three days ago, they planted themselves in front of offices and the governor of Cesar Duarte promised not to move until the investigators showed the success of the case. In an interview with El Diario on Sunday, Escobedo said he got death threats from the Barraza family.

Duarte said that state security agencies had been given custody of Escobedo, even though the distance. He said he did not consider it safe for him to be examined on Thursday.

Duarte was also tops in the court suspended the three judges.

On Friday, President Judge Javier Ramirez Benitez said he would have stopped the investigation. Ramirez Benitez said surveillance gathered earlier this year that it was improperly handled.

Prosecutors said Barraza, Frayre admitted killing his live-in boyfriend and the police took the body. But the courtroom, he shouted his innocence and said he was tortured to admit. The judges ruled in April that prosecutors presented no physical evidence against him.

The case is an example of problems in Chihuahua state judicial system, an early adopter oral tests instead of the closed-door interrogations and filings of documents used in the tests in Mexico.

Despite the training, police, prosecutors, and Chihuahua problems adapting to a system that puts the burden of proof for prosecutors. Many murder cases were excluded for lack of evidence at the hearing, or never.

Often, the police only after the defendants claim that the confessions were made under duress. The newly captured suspect a large part of Mexico is often shown to the press on his face bruised.

Ciudad Juarez police are overwhelmed by gang wars, that one of the most dangerous city in the world was created. More than 3000 people were killed in the city 1.3 million this year alone.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show that last year, when 2,600 people were murdered in Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors, the murder count to 93 and 19 convictions.

Chihuahua judicial shortcomings of years ago, before the new system was implemented, the drug rose to unprecedented heights of violence.

In 1990, hundreds of women killed around Ciudad Juarez, about 100 of them were sexually abused and dumped in the desert.

Congress, before the holiday rush to complete projects

WASHINGTON (AP) - they're done with Christmas, as Rushing near the end of a tumultuous two years of one party, the Democrats in Congress, the Senate to ratify a new treaty on arms control to ensure the end of a ban on gay military service members of the government Tsutomu Tsutomu Friday.
Mid-late Bill, the federal government continues to operate until the agenda and, for control of the House to get to arrive in January, aided by their numbers in the Senate to add the Republican Party for the negotiations on this subject.
Congress, President Barack Obama early voting is Friday to extend unemployment benefits from the tax cuts and seized victory in a dysfunctional legislature. To fill a politically difficult - the abolition of the military ban on gays, and treaties on arms control - he was looking for details on their wish list of a few.
However, the fate of these items are still hard feelings in the Senate the following have been identified.
"This body is very, cooperation and mutual respect that exists today to work in your environment." Sen. John McCain, R - Arizona said.
Policy bill providing a path to legal status for foreign born gay and the military "do not tell, do not ask if you want to quit - Senate Majority Leader of the colon, we very upset young Republican in this country illegally brought the addition of business Harry Reid.
Both projects are important to the Liberal party in partisan basis Kyou Watou left crying. Bobukoka Sen, R - Tennessee, the Senate has been growing suspicion that it may also weaken support for arms control treaties discussed Friday.
"This is a poison, which is very important, even in this discussion," said Coker.
The United States and Russia treaty to build nuclear warheads of both countries to limit weapons inspections to resume its foreign policy priority for Obama. Agreement known as a new beginning, and requires the support of two thirds of the Senate. The agreement is expected for all 58 senators of the Democratic caucus to support it must be ratified by the Republican vote.
"If they start to worry, you can start a professional manner," Sens. Lindsey, RS.C. said,
If approved, it effectively kills one - after two days of debate on the Republican Party since the first amendment to the agreement. The treaty, arguing that limit the possibilities for missile defense for the United States, Wyoming, McCain took a part of the preamble to the proposed defense Jonbarassomisairu senator.
McCain, Obama's rival in 2008, discussions on the treaty to the Senate voted Wednesday to lead. Its role in promoting the correction has caused concern among the spectators.
Republicans and Democrats, the stretch Friday discussed the bill in time.
After the collapse, comprehensive budget directives law late on Thursday in U.S. dollars 1300000000000, most negotiators focused their attention on designing an interim measure for the daily operations of government funds until February.
Legislators will be able to house one weekend with his family, then back to Washington to doll wrapped in a few days before Christmas mood - the funding from Congress for the settlement of public emergency until Tuesday approved the measures. It is early next year to finance the government gives them time to a spending bill the House and Senate to enter new negotiations.
The Senate debate on a treaty on Friday the House slogged through several measures, the race.
It is by far the Pentagon has approved a defense authorization bill for a U.S. dollar to spend in the neighborhood 160000000000 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year without a budget limit of large farming operations. The project was carried out at home for delivery to the dispute over the ban on openly gay military service, since the bill this weekend, "is not necessary, say," Remove guarantee easy approval.
The Senate must act on the president to go to measure.
Discussion of the bill of defense, chairman of the Armed Services Committee Ike Skelton, D - Mo and standing agreement between the system, the 34-year veteran of the House defeated in the election in November.
September 11, 2001 Agenda of the Council, the law will help people become ill after exposure to dust from the collapse of World Trade Center attack has become. The Senate has yet James Cole, a number of judicial appointments, including Obama's choice of Deputy Attorney General, should work.
In the House, Steny Hoyer Hospital, D - MD will be added to the mood of the last day of the year.
"When I get home, like you said," Hoyer, he lived alone, had to explain to Christmas decorations, told his colleagues.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Hit with New Federal Indictment

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was indicted this week on even more corruption charges. These charges also implicated his father, Bernard Kilpatrick. Federal prosecutors argue that Kwame and his father engaged in a "pattern of extortion, bribery and fraud," leading to the 38-count indictment.

U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade is at the forefront of the investigation. "This indictment alleges an audacious and far-reaching abuse of the public trust by a group of high-level city officials and their close associates," McQuade said during a press conference.

McQuade even refers to the conspiracy as the "Kilpatrick Enterprise," claiming that the goal of the enterprise was to enrich Kwame Kilpatrick and his family members. They argue that Kilpatrick and his family used their positions of influence to coerce others into helping them achieve their objectives. Kilpatrick served as Mayor of Detroit from 2005 until 2008. He was removed from office upon pleading guilty to obstruction of justice. He is currently serving a prison term that relates to violating the conditions of his probation.

The indictment came after a six-year investigation into the activities of the Kilpatrick family. The FBI and other federal authorities claim that they are continuing to gather evidence. They are also investigating other forms of corruption within Detroit government. They've already convicted Monica Conyers, the former president of the Detroit City Council, in addition to the former deputy mayor Kandia Milton and Milton's brother, DeDan.

One of Kilpatrick's business associates, Bobby Ferguson, is accused of kicking back $424,000 in cash and other valuables in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in city contracts. Also, while Kwame Kilpatrick was mayor, his father Bernard deposited $600,00 into personal bank accounts. He is therefore being charged with making false tax filings for 2004, 2005 and 2007.

The saying "Oh what a tangled web we weave" comes to mind when I think about the on-going challenges of Kwame Kilpatrick and his associates. Kwame is from a political family, with his mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, serving as a Democratic Congresswoman from the state of Michigan. Politics runs in the blood of the Kilpatrick family, and quite a few relatives have decided to follow suit.

When I see the ups and downs of this family, I wonder if they are reconsidering whether the spoils of political success are worth the stress that one experiences with father and son indictments, tremendous public humiliation, expensive legal battles and everything else that comes with a life of complex politics. Call me crazy, but I am not entirely sure if the Kilpatrick family is definitely less ethical than other political families. I'm sure that digging into the backgrounds of the Clintons, Bushes or anyone else would bring up far more dirt than the media could ever report. While we can't excuse any illegal behavior on the part of Kwame or his family, I wince at the difficulty of figuring out the line between business as usual and something that could send you to prison.

With that said, I found Kwame to be disappointing as a political official and also as a human being. He seemed to approach his position of importance with the kind of arrogance that no man should have when being trusted with the public confidence. A mayor is not a rap star, celebrity or athlete. He is a humble public servant. That humility can serve as protection when the spoils and temptations of power start to take hold of a man's psyche.

I addressed the National Black Law Student Association in 2008 along with my colleague Charles Ogletree of Harvard University. The mood was somber, since Kwame was supposed to attend the event. But he wasn't able to attend because just a few days earlier, he'd been accused of some very serious crimes. I had no idea that two years later, we'd still be addressing the mountain of legal mess that he has helped to create for himself and his family. In many ways, I feel sorry for him, and I hope that in the middle of all this, he can find peace. A final point is that his parents should never have opened doors for Kwame to get so much power at such an early age. The truth is that he was probably not mature enough to handle it.