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Ariel Castro looks down during court proceedings Friday, July 26, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro, who imprisoned three women in his home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty Friday to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. Defense attorney Jaye Schlachet is on the right. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Ariel Castro looks down during court proceedings Friday, July 26, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro, who imprisoned three women in his home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty Friday to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. Defense attorney Jaye Schlachet is on the right. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Images from the video provided by Hennes Paynter Communications shows from left: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. The three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade broke their public silence in a 3-minute, 30-second video posted on YouTube at midnight Monday July 8, 2013. They said the support and prayers of family, friends and the public is allowing them to rebuild their lives after what Berry called "this entire ordeal." (AP Photo/Hennes Paynter Communications)
Ariel Castro looks over at the prosecutors table during court proceedings Friday, July 26, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro, who imprisoned three women in his home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty Friday to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. In exchange, prosecutors recommended Castro be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Ariel Castro looks at the judge during court proceedings Friday, July 26, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro, who imprisoned three women in his home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty Friday to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. In exchange, prosecutors recommended Castro be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty listens to court proceedings in the plea agreement of Ariel Castro, Friday, July 26, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro, who imprisoned three women in his home, subjecting them to a decade of rapes and beatings, pleaded guilty Friday to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty. In exchange, prosecutors recommended Castro be sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
CLEVELAND (AP) ? Three months after an Ohio woman kicked out part of a door to end nearly a decade of captivity, a onetime school bus driver faces sentencing for kidnapping three women and subjecting them to years of sexual and physical abuse.
Prosecutors are expected to detail Ariel Castro's daily assaults on the women, recounted in diaries that compared the women's experience to that of prisoners of war. With the possibility of the death penalty for a forced miscarriage taken off the table, Castro stands to get life in prison plus 1,000 years on Thursday.
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that Castro, who chained his captives and fed them only one meal a day, "admits his disgusting and inhuman conduct" but "remains remorseless for his actions."
The memorandum says many of the specific charges in Castro's indictment reflect conduct documented by one of the women in her diary.
"The entries speak of forced sexual conduct, of being locked in a dark room, of anticipating the next session of abuse, of the dreams of someday escaping and being reunited with family, of being chained to a wall, of being held like a prisoner of war ... of being treated like an animal," it says.
The sentencing could take up to four hours, court officials said, with Castro, his attorneys, his victims and prosecutors getting a chance to speak. The legal team representing the women's interests declined to comment in advance on whether they would testify or send statements to the court.
In the court filing, McGinty offered new details of Castro's treatment of the women, who he said were kept "in a state of powerlessness" through physical, sexual and psychological violence.
"He made them believe that their physical survival depended on him, and he threatened to end their lives if they did not comply with his every demand," McGinty said.
Castro lured one of the women into his Cleveland home with the promise of a puppy for her son and tricked another by saying she could see his daughter, said McGinty.
He chained his captives by their ankles, fed them only one meal a day and provided plastic toilets in their bedrooms which were infrequently emptied, the filing said.
He menaced them with a gun, threatened them with tales of other captives, some of whom hadn't made it home, and at one point locked all of them in a vehicle in his garage for three days while he had a visitor.
Castro claimed he didn't have an exit strategy from his complicated double life and finally gave the women a chance to escape by leaving a door unlocked, the court filing said.
The women, each kidnapped separately when they accepted a ride from Castro on Cleveland's blue-collar west side, quickly escaped after Amanda Berry kicked out the door panel May 6 and Castro was arrested within hours. The women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.
There was no comment from Castro's defense team on the eve of sentencing.
Other horrific details of the women's ordeal had already emerged, including tales of being chained to poles in the basement or a bedroom heater or inside a van, with one woman forced to wear a motorcycle helmet while chained in the basement and, after she tried to escape, having a vacuum cord wrapped around her neck.
Castro repeatedly starved and beat one of the victims each time she was pregnant, forcing her to miscarry five times.
He forced the same woman on threat of death to safely deliver the child he fathered with another victim on Christmas Day 2006. The same day, prosecutors say, Castro raped the woman who helped deliver his daughter.
Prosecutors will ask the judge to prohibit Castro from ever seeing his daughter, now 6.
McGinty says experts will also discuss how Castro was able to keep the women captive for so long.
Berry, 27, made a surprise onstage appearance at a rap concert last weekend, and a second victim, Gina DeJesus, 23, made a few televised comments as a privacy fence was being erected around her house. The third victim, Michelle Knight, 32, appeared with Berry and DeJesus in a video in early July thanking the community for its support.
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Welsh-Huggins reported from Columbus.
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By Timothy Heritage and Alissa de Carbonnel
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year's asylum on Thursday, allowing the former U.S. spy agency contractor to slip quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after more than five weeks in limbo but angering the United States.
The White House, which wants Snowden sent home to face trial for leaking details of government surveillance programs, signaled that President Barack Obama might boycott a summit with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in September and one official said high-level talks next week were "up in the air".
"We see this as an unfortunate development and we are extremely disappointed by it," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "We are evaluating the utility of the summit."
Snowden has avoided the hordes of reporters trying to find him since he landed from Hong Kong on June 23, and gave them the slip again as he left the transit area where he had been holed up. Almost unnoticed, he was driven away from the airport by car.
"Over the past eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law but in the end the law is winning," Snowden, whose first leaks were published two months ago, was quoted as saying by the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group which has assisted him.
"I thank the Russian Federation for granting me asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations."
Grainy images on state television showed the 30-year-old's document, which is similar to a Russian passport, and revealed that he had been granted asylum for a year from July 31.
A Russian lawyer assisting Snowden said he had gone to a safe location which would remain secret, and that he could now work and travel freely in the country of 142 million.
State television also showed a picture of Snowden, wearing a backpack and a blue button-up shirt, getting into a grey car at the airport driven by a young man in a baseball cap.
"He is the most wanted man on planet Earth," Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden's Russian lawyer with links to the authorities, told Reuters. "He has to think about his personal security. I cannot tell you where he is going."
"He can live wherever he wants in Russia. It's his personal choice," he said.
OTHER OFFERS OF ASYLUM
Snowden, who had his U.S. passport revoked by Washington, had stayed at a hotel at the airport, Kucherena said, but was "psychologically exhausted".
"Imagine yourself daily (having to listen to) 'Dear passengers, the flight to New York, the flight to Washington, the flight from Rome'," the lawyer said.
Snowden, whose revelations have fuelled a debate in the United States about civil liberties and national security needs, was accompanied by Sarah Harrison, a WikiLeaks legal researcher.
"We would like to thank the Russian people and all those others who have helped to protect Mr. Snowden. We have won the battle - now the war," WikiLeaks said on Twitter.
WikiLeaks issued its statement as the case against Private Bradley Manning continued for releasing classified U.S. data through its website.
Snowden hopes to avoid a similar fate. Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela have offered him refuge, but there are no direct commercial flights to Latin America from Moscow and he was concerned the United States would intercept any flight he took.
He was forced to bide his time in the transit area between the runway and passport control, which Russia considers neutral territory. Kucherena had given Snowden Russian books to help pass the time and says he has started learning Russian in preparation for his stay, which could be extended after a year.
"I am so thankful to the Russian nation and President Vladimir Putin," the American's father, Lonnie Snowden, told Russian state television. He is expected to come to Russia to see his son shortly.
It is not clear what Snowden plans to do in Russia, although he is said to want to travel around the country. VKontakte, Russia's answer to social networking site Facebook, has already offered him a job.
He has also received a marriage proposal by Twitter from Anna Chapman, the glamorous former agent who was deported to Russia from the United States in a Cold-War style spy swap in 2010.
STRAINS IN TIES
Russia's decision to harbor Snowden steps up the level of support he is receiving from Moscow but Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov played down concerns about the impact on relations with the United States.
"Our president has ... expressed hope many times that this will not affect the character of our relations'" he said.
But talks next week between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and their Russian counterparts were now under threat, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
It is not clear whether Obama might also consider a boycott of a G20 summit in Russia in September, immediately after the planned summit with Putin, or of the Winter Olympics which Russia will host in the city of Sochi next February.
Putin says he wants to improve relations with the United States that are strained by issues such as the Syrian conflict, his treatment of political opponents and foreign-funded non-governmental organizations. But he would have risked looking weak if he had handed Snowden over to the U.S. authorities.
More than half of Russians have a positive opinion of Snowden and 43 percent wanted him to be granted asylum, a poll released by independent research group Levada said this week.
Putin has said Snowden must stop anti-U.S. activities, but it was not clear whether the American had agreed to do so. Snowden has said that he does not regard his activities as hostile to the United States.
There has already been diplomatic fallout from Snowden's leaks, which included information that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, even though the EU is an ally.
China, Brazil and France have voiced concern over the spying program and U.S. ties with Latin American states have been clouded.
(Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska, Alexei Anishchuk, Katya Golubkova and Gleb Stolyarov in Moscow, Mark Felsenthal in Washington and Andrew Osborn in London, editing by Elizabeth Piper and Michael Roddy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fugitive-snowden-leave-moscow-airport-lawyer-115137750.html
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Two of the country?s celebrated afro-pop artists, Maskal and Armstrong have been lined up to spice up this year?s Urban Music Party (UMP) Media Awards set for Saturday 3rd August, 2013 at Nanzikambe Arts Caf? in Naperi.
Initially, the awards were expected to be given out during this year?s UMP main festival at Blantyre Culture Centre last Saturday but were deferred to this weekend after electrical problem cut cut short the event.
One of the UMP festival organizers, Ken Limwame disclosed to Nyasa Times that the awards will be given out to three media practitioners from print, radio and online as special recognition for their role in the Arts sector and enormous contribution towards the growth of urban music.
Limwame said: ?During the main festival we managed to give out the Life Time Achievers Awards to both late Vic Marley and the Black Life Entertainment. We could not proceed, however, with the event due to electrical problem, which our technicians failed to identify and rectify, and stand by generator could not help either. This is why we have decided to have a special event for the awards presentation?.
Armstong: One of the headline act
The selection of the media awardees was decided by 36 artists and 10 deejays that were nominated by the public for the UMP Festival?s Headliner voting process. Aside the awards, organizers are also set to give out medals to some of the nominated artists who missed it out during main event.
During the Nanzikambe event which will be open to the public at K500 as gate fee, the Ndamusowa star, Armstrong will share a stage with his former Nde?feyo Entertainment label mate, Maskal of Udalire and Zili ndi Iwe hits, apart from other artists.
Limwame said the media has played a pivotal role in the development of the local urban arts and culture industry, and they are influential in determining which direction it has to take.
?However their role has not been properly recognized or honoured. UMP feels by awarding selected Media practitioners for their best work will propel media excellence and in a way help develop local urban arts and culture,? said Limwame, one of the Directors for Nde?feyo Entertainment.
On UMP Festival Urban Music Party (UMP) Festival was successfully held on 27 July, 2013 at Blantyre Culture Centre (formerly French Culture Centre) with spectacle and glamour; and as organizers, we were overwhelmingly impressed with the response.
The pre-show at Chichi?s Spot Club in Chinyonga was unprecedentedly packed to the brim on Friday night and the final event as well as the after-party at Blue Elephant on Saturday night received one of the biggest crowds this year.
?And many thanks to everybody, including the sponsors, who participated in this year?s UMP Festival as well as the media, which was above the bar, working tirelessly, in ensuring that the festival was successful. After a 2 year break, we are happy that, overall, our key objectives were met. We are proud of our achievement in producing this unique festival.?
The festival was supported by Airtel Money, GOtv (Multichoice), Star Radio, Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) among others. It is being organized by a team put together by Nde?feyo Entertainment and Prime Time Media.
Source: http://www.nyasatimes.com/2013/07/31/maskal-armstrong-headlines-urban-music-party-awards/
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TransCanada CEO Russ Girling, right, and TransCanada president of energy and oil pipelines Alex Pourbaix announce the company is moving forward with the 1.1 million barrel-per-day Energy East Pipeline project at a news conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Thursday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh)
TORONTO ? Pipeline company TransCanada said Thursday it will proceed with a $12 billion plan to pipe 1.1 million barrels of oil per day from Western Canada to the country?s Atlantic coast ? moving enough oil to replace all imports in Eastern Canada and still have enough left for exporting crude overseas.
The announcement of the Energy East pipeline comes as TransCanada faces stiff environmental opposition to its proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to refineries in Texas. President Barack Obama?s initial rejection of Keystone XL went over badly in Canada, which relies on the U.S. for 97 percent of its energy exports.
The pipeline, the most expensive in TransCanada?s history, would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Saint John, New Brunswick, ending where a new deep-water marine terminal will be built to handle the world?s largest crude-carrying vessels.
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling said Canadian producers want access to international markets but said the primary purpose of the Energy East pipeline will be to supply refineries in Eastern Canada which imports 750,000 barrels of foreign oil a day. The Canadian government said 83 percent of crude oil deliveries to Atlantic Canadian refineries and 92 percent of oil deliveries to refineries in Quebec in 2012 were imported, primarily from the Middle East, Nigeria and Angola.
Girling called it an historic opportunity to connect the oil resources of Canada?s west to eastern consumers and noted that Canadian oil could be shipped to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, Asia, including China and India, and Europe.
?It?s a bit farther to get to Asia from the East Coast than the West Coast but it can be competitive in certain circumstances,? Girling said. ?This provides them with the option and opportunity to do that.?
Canada has stepped up efforts to diversify its energy exports, but a proposal by Enbridge to build a pipeline from Alberta to Canada?s Pacific Coast that would allow for exports to Asia faces stiff environmental and aboriginal opposition.
TransCanada?s Energy East pipeline has broad political support in Canada, however, and is far more likely to be approved than Enbridge?s proposed pipeline to Canada?s Pacific Coast, where the fear of oil spills is especially acute in British Columbia, with its snowcapped mountains and deep-ocean inlets.
All three pipelines require approval. The $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline has become a contentious issue in the United States. Project supporters, including unions and lawmakers from both parties, tout the jobs it would create and demand its approval, while environmentalists urge the president to reject it, saying it would carry dirty, carbon-intensive oil.
The State Department expects to issue a final report on Keystone XL later this year on whether the project should move forward. The department has authority over the pipeline because it crosses a U.S. border.
New pipelines are critical to Canada, which needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production from northern Alberta. The region has the world?s third largest oil reserves, with 170 billion barrels of proven reserves. Daily production of 1.5 million barrels from the oil sands is expected to increase to 3.7 million in 2025. Only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have more reserves.
A lack of pipelines and a bottleneck of oil in the U.S. Midwest reduced the price of Canadian crude in recent years and led to a boom in transporting oil by train. A fiery train derailment that killed 47 in Quebec last month highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail.
Source: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/08/01/transcanada-to-build-pipeline-to-canadas-atlantic-coast/
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