Police in Aarhus, Denmark, have shot and wounded a Somali man carrying a knife who broke and entered the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard after the owner hit an alarm bell to call the police. The man, say police, is a member of the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia. Westergaard became a target of Islamist extremists after he published a cartoon in 2005 of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, which they considered blasphemous. The cartoon led to a series of incidents involving Danish media and embassies around the world, despite an apology from the newspaper.
Finn the bear getting antibiotics. He and his intruder are both recovering 25 November.
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The 25-year-old man mauled by Finn, a four-year-old bear at Bern’s new bear park, has told authorities he was trying to retrieve a plastic bag, according to Swissinfo. The mentally handicapped man has lived at a home in the town of Koeniz for some years and has been allowed to spend Saturdays walking around Bern on his own, as he has not been considered to be a danger to himself or others. The man sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries.
Finn, who attacked the man when he entered the bear’s enclosed area, was shot by a policeman, but the park announced Wednesday 25 November that Finn is doing better, although another day is required to see if he will need surgery:
The man from Missouri, John Yettaw, who swam across a lake to visit Burma/Myanmar political activist Suu Kyi is to give testimony Wednesday 27 May at her trial which Western governments are calling a “charade.” She is on trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest: she allowed Yettaw to spend two nights at her house on what she has said were humanitarian grounds because he had leg cramps. Suu Kyi is expected to be found guilty, which would lengthen the time of her house arrest at a time when the country is preparing for elections. Yettaw is under arrest for “immigration violations, illegal swimming and breaking a security law that protects the state from ‘subversive elements’,” reports Reuters.
