Attempted murder charge likely after knife attack on US ambassador

Police investigating the knife attack on the US ambassador to South Korea say a charge of attempted murder is likely to be laid.
Investigators are also probing possible links between the attack at a unification forum in Seoul and the attacker’s frequent visits to North Korea.
The South Korean Prime Minister has visited the ambassador, Mark Lippert, in hospital, where he needed 80 stitches after his face and hand were slashed.
Lee Wan-Koo told reporters afterwards that he hoped the alliance between the US and South Korea will be strengthened.
The assailant is described as a 55-year-old Korean nationalist who was protesting against annual US-South Korean military exercises that began last week.
In 2010 the man tried to attack the Japanese ambassador by throwing a piece of concrete.
North Korea praised the attack on Lippert as “deserved punishment” for the military exercises.

Mother sentenced to 23 years for killing, storing babies in freezer

Audrey Chabot, a 34 year old mother was on Thursday convicted to 23 years in prison by a court in Bourg-en-Bresse, near the French Alps, on charges of killing her two children.

The court said the babies were drowned and stored in the freezer.

The court noted that Chabot had been convicted by a court in a different infanticide case in 2002, and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

It said she was released in 2010 after psychiatrists deemed there was no risk of recurrence.

The court said the case came to light when Chabot's boyfriend found a small body in the freezer of her apartment in 2013.

He said the small body found in the freezer was one week old.

Mugabe’s Ousted Deputy Says Silence Doesn’t Mean Weakness

Joice Mujuru, ousted as Zimbabwe’s vice president in December, said she’s kept silent out of respect for the country’s founding president even after he branded her a witch and accused her of plotting to kill him.
Celebrating his 91st birthday in the resort town of Victoria Falls on Feb. 28, President Robert Mugabe told well-wishers that Mujuru had hired Nigerian shamans and performed a ritual aimed at killing or ousting him so that she could become the country’s leader.
“I’ve kept quiet out of respect for President Mugabe, but people mustn’t mistake my silence as weakness or guilt,” Mujuru said in an interview on March 4 from Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. “I’m not weak and I’m not guilty.”
Accusations against Mujuru, started in part by Mugabe’s wife, Grace, last year, led to her removal as vice president of both the country and his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party. Mujuru’s ousting alongside the firing of allies, including party spokesman Rugare Gumbo and party administration secretary Didymus Mutasa, was seen by the state-controlled press as a victory for a ruling party faction led by newly appointed Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
At least 17 other senior party officials, including Cabinet ministers, who were accused of being Mujuru loyalists by state media, have been removed from office in a purge strengthening Mnangagwa’s power base.
“I’m a Christian woman, born into the Apostolic Church, the president knows that,” Mujuru, 59, said. “I don’t practice witchcraft.”