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Like thousands of Indonesians, Aesih Irawan went to the beach in west Java on Monday to have some fun with her friends. At her friend's house, near Pangandaran beach, she was drinking iced tea and watching TV when suddenly water came crashing through the living room. "Before I knew it I was underwater," recalls the 27-year-old housewife and mother of one. "There was no warning and we didn't even feel the earthquake...
...Monday, federal prosecutors announced the indictment of BETonSPORTS CEO David Carruthers, who was charged with racketeering conspiracy, along with the indictment of 10 others connected to the Costa Rica-based company. Carruthers, 48, was nabbed a day earlier by FBI and IRS agents in Dallas, as he headed for Costa Rica from London, where the company is listed...
...such other crimes not related to the Wire Act as failure to pay U.S. gambling excise taxes and mail fraud, aren't buying those arguments, however. "Illegal commercial gambling across state and international borders is a crime," U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri said Monday. "This indictment is but one step in a series of actions designed to punish and seize the profits of individuals who disregard federal and state laws...
...attempting to rescue beleaguered residents of Marwahine and nearby villages came under Israeli shellfire, with 12 155mm rounds exploding nearby. A peacekeeper who was on the convoy tells TIME that body-armored U.N. soldiers threw themselves on top of the villagers to protect them from flying shrapnel. On Monday, 20 residents of Aitaroun near the border were reported killed in two seperate strikes on their homes...
...What was happening behind that impenetrable cordon of destruction reached Beirut mainly as rumors. Even reaching the area just north of the Litani was fraught with hazard. Leaflets dropped on Beirut by Israeli aircraft on Monday morning warned Lebanese to avoid traveling along the roads north of Sidon, the seaport midway between Beirut and Tyre. That necessitated an arduous and time-consuming detour high up in the cloud-smothered Chouf mountains, complicated Monday by the choking line of northbound vehicles carrying tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence further south...