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King Willem-Alexander of Netherlands and his wife, Queen Maxima, had tomatoes hurled at them in Moscow by activists with the banned National Bolshevik party, whose leader said the act was intended to attract public attention to the death of a group member who committed suicide in January at a Dutch deportation center.
Freda Wolfson, a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey, has upheld a state ban that prevents any licensed therapist, psychologist, social worker or counselor from using sexual-orientation-change therapy with children.
Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s foreign minister, said strife between his country and Turkey “has ended and we have started a new page,” as officials from both sides pledged at a joint news conference to end the diplomatic tensions plaguing the neighboring states.
Steven Gatto, 56, is suing the city of San Francisco for at least $100,000, claiming police kicked him out of a 49ers game at Candlestick Park because officers didn’t like the look of his Hells Angels motorcycle jacket in November 2011.
Vincent Richardson, 19, who as a 14-year-old fooled police into letting him drive a squad car, has been sentenced in Chicago to 18 months in prison for posing as an officer again while trying to buy police clothing.
Karen Lancaster McCutchin was sentenced to six months’ probation and a $1,000 fine in a Dallas federal court after she pleaded guilty to helping her son, Barrett Brown, who has ties to the hacking collective Anonymous, hide laptops from federal agents during a March 2012 raid at their home.
Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Spain’s foreign minister, said U.S. Ambassador James Costos told him that National Security Agency spying in Spain is always done for security reasons such as combating terrorism, and is carried out in conjunction with Spain’s intelligence agency and in accordance with Spanish law.
Shannon Kennedy, an Albuquerque civil rights attorney, filed a second lawsuit against southern New Mexico authorities, this time accusing them of subjecting Timothy Young, after a minor traffic stop, to a strip search and cavity search in violation of a search warrant.
Jim Wyss, a Miami Herald journalist, was detained by Venezuelan authorities while reporting on politics and the chronic shortages in the South American country, the newspaper said, as it called for his immediate release.