LONDON: US president Barack Obama’s half brother was denied UK visa after being accused of sexually assaulting a group of young girls in Berkshire last November. Samson Obama was headed for Washington via Britain to attend the historic inauguration that saw his brother become the US president in January. But he came under the scanner of immigration officials at East Midlands airport when the hi-tech database revealed Samson had been taken into custody by British cops after trying to sexually attack a group of young girls, including a 13 year-old. He was later fingerprinted and not charged before leaving the country but not without providing his details, which were recorded on the Home Office’s new database of prints and biometric details. A Home Office spokesman confirmed Samson, one of the President’s 11 half brothers and sisters was stopped from entering the country after immigration officers detected a false document with his visa application. Samson was believed to have reached Washington through a connecting flight from East Midlands to the US. |
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Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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