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Australia
A MAN who allegedly took his baby son from a southwestern Sydney home after a domestic violence incident will face court on Tuesday. Police on Monday issued a public alert about a five-month-old boy allegedly taken from his home in Canley Vale.
They later arrested a 39-year-old man at a fast food restaurant car park in Villawood.
The boy was given a health check in hospital and returned to his mother.
The arrested man will appear in Bankstown Local Court on charges including endangering a child, assault and stalking.
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South Africa
CAPE TOWN - One person was killed and two more were missing after a charter boat on a popular sight-seeing trip capsized off South Africa's Hout Bay near Cape Town, rescue officials said on Saturday.
Two of those rescued from the twin-hulled catamaran "Miroshga" were French women, said Craig Lambinon, spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute. The boat was carrying 41 people, including crew, at the time of the accident, he said.
"We recovered one person out of the hull, who has been hospitalized in a stable but serious condition," Lambinon said, adding that rescuers were trying to free another two under the hull.
It was unclear what caused the boat to capsize in the cold waters close to Duiker Island, about three km from Hout Bay on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Cape Peninsula.
The island is a popular destination for tourists eager to catch a glimpse of thousands of seals found there.
Local media had previously reported that at least four people had died.
Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Mexican marines have arrested a Los Zetas drug cartel leader allegedly linked to more than 300 killings across the country, including the massacre of 72 illegal immigrants and the murder of US tourist David Hartley, Milenio reported today.
Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, nicknamed “The Squirrel,” was paraded in front of the media in Mexico City on Monday morning after he was captured following a gunfight on Saturday in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in the northern state of Tamaulipas, El Universal reported.
"Squirrel is credited with being the mastermind of the deaths of 72 undocumented migrants in San Fernando," the Mexican Navy said in a statement cited by ABC News.
"[He] is the alleged perpetrator of the narco graves found in Tamaulipas state, with more than 200 bodies and the execution of more than 50 people by his own hand in different parts of the republic, [as well as] the murder of David Hartley, an American citizen killed at Falcon Dam on September 30, 2010."
The Agence France-Presse said Martinez Escobedo is also accused of taking part in the killing of the police commander who was investigating Hartley’s death.
Hartley and his wife were jet skiing on Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border when he was shot in the head by gunmen, ABC News said.
Martinez Escobedo is also suspected of being involved in two massive prison breaks in northern Mexico, AFP said.
More than 60,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since December 2006 when President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of soldiers to fight organized crime.
Some of the worst violence has been in the country’s north where gangs are battling for control of smuggling routes into the United States.
Australia
A MAN who allegedly took his baby son from a southwestern Sydney home after a domestic violence incident will face court on Tuesday. Police on Monday issued a public alert about a five-month-old boy allegedly taken from his home in Canley Vale.
They later arrested a 39-year-old man at a fast food restaurant car park in Villawood.
The boy was given a health check in hospital and returned to his mother.
The arrested man will appear in Bankstown Local Court on charges including endangering a child, assault and stalking.
Read more: http://bit.ly/WfrJfN
South Africa
CAPE TOWN - One person was killed and two more were missing after a charter boat on a popular sight-seeing trip capsized off South Africa's Hout Bay near Cape Town, rescue officials said on Saturday.
Two of those rescued from the twin-hulled catamaran "Miroshga" were French women, said Craig Lambinon, spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute. The boat was carrying 41 people, including crew, at the time of the accident, he said.
"We recovered one person out of the hull, who has been hospitalized in a stable but serious condition," Lambinon said, adding that rescuers were trying to free another two under the hull.
It was unclear what caused the boat to capsize in the cold waters close to Duiker Island, about three km from Hout Bay on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Cape Peninsula.
The island is a popular destination for tourists eager to catch a glimpse of thousands of seals found there.
Local media had previously reported that at least four people had died.
Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Mexican marines have arrested a Los Zetas drug cartel leader allegedly linked to more than 300 killings across the country, including the massacre of 72 illegal immigrants and the murder of US tourist David Hartley, Milenio reported today.
Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo, nicknamed “The Squirrel,” was paraded in front of the media in Mexico City on Monday morning after he was captured following a gunfight on Saturday in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in the northern state of Tamaulipas, El Universal reported.
"Squirrel is credited with being the mastermind of the deaths of 72 undocumented migrants in San Fernando," the Mexican Navy said in a statement cited by ABC News.
"[He] is the alleged perpetrator of the narco graves found in Tamaulipas state, with more than 200 bodies and the execution of more than 50 people by his own hand in different parts of the republic, [as well as] the murder of David Hartley, an American citizen killed at Falcon Dam on September 30, 2010."
The Agence France-Presse said Martinez Escobedo is also accused of taking part in the killing of the police commander who was investigating Hartley’s death.
Hartley and his wife were jet skiing on Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border when he was shot in the head by gunmen, ABC News said.
Martinez Escobedo is also suspected of being involved in two massive prison breaks in northern Mexico, AFP said.
More than 60,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since December 2006 when President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of soldiers to fight organized crime.
Some of the worst violence has been in the country’s north where gangs are battling for control of smuggling routes into the United States.
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