ANSAN
study, 20 chance rain. winds.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
1,500. He was
diversity student
008 a.m. on the
awkway on sus-
the influence.
was released
diversity student
002 a.m. on the
on the suspi-
uit and aggra-
net at $15,000.
Rachel Salyer
f Auditorium of
professor Eric
influence includes
an rituals.
a rare opportunity
to the creation of
ai, performance
Rath said.
organizations in-
firm Visual Art, the
the Department
the Department
as and Cultures
Studies. All Tibet
and open to the
talent
—Elly Grimm
art the exhibition
ory. The Kansas
facility features
ors, specializing,
drawing, painting,
sculpture and,
awrence Art Cen-
k. Day through
p.m., and Sun-
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Andrew Ruszczyk
PAGE 3
Associated Press
NEWS OF THE WORLD
NORTH AMERICA
Nieto wins presidency
A protester spray paints the words: "No more PRI," in Spanish referring to the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, during a protest against Mexico's President-elect Enrique Nieto, of the PRI, in Mexico City, on Friday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's highest electoral authority declared Friday that Enrique Pena Nieto was the legitimate winner of the July 1 presidential election, formally opening the transition to a new government despite continuing claims of fraud by the left's second-place finisher.
"Mexico will have a modern, responsible presidency, open to criticism, willing to listen and take into account all Mexicans." Pena Nieto said at a ceremony in which the tribunal gave him the document certifying him as president-elect.
Lopez Obrador told reporters Friday morning that he refused to recognize the election results and was calling for a peaceful protest that he described as "civil disobedience" on Sept. 9 in the Zocalo,
Outgoing President Felipe Calderon called Pena Nieto to congratulate him and wish him the best for his administration that will begin when he takes office Dec. 1. Calderon "offered his support so that that administration will be successful," the president's office said in a statement.
The Federal Electoral Tribunal said leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador failed to prove claims that votebuying had affected the results of the vote that returns the former autocratic ruling party to Mexico's highest office after a 12-year absence.
Pena Nieto, 46, insists his Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, has changed. In the final decades of the 20th century, its rule was marked by corruption, vote fraud and periodic economic crises.
"I am telling the people of Mexico that I cannot accept the judgment of the electoral tribunal that declared the presidential election valid," Lopez Obrador said at a news conference. "The elections were not clean, free and genuine. As a result, I will not recognize an
the historic plaza in the heart of downtown Mexico City. He launched street demonstrations that paralyzed central Mexico City after he lost the 2006 vote, but widespread protests appear far less likely this time.
Lopez Obrador said the electoral tribunal made an illegitimate ruling Thursday evening when it rejected the leftist's allegations of vote-buying and other campaign violations by the PRI. The seven electoral magistrates are nominated by Mexico's Supreme Court and confirmed by Congress and are widely seen as credible and non-partisan, although Lopez Obrador has alleged that several members were based in favor of the PRI.
illegitimate power that's emerged as a result of vote-buying and other grave violations of the constitution and the law."
Lopez Obrador said he wants the protest to respect the law, and he did not indicate that there would be a repeat of the blockades he launched in 2006.
Lopez Obrador, a popular forerunner mayor of Mexico City, was able to call hundreds of thousands into the streets for campaign rallies, and he retains a large and fervent base of support in the capital. But Pena Nieto's margin of more than 3 million votes was far wider than the few hundred thousand votes that cost Lopez Obrador the last presidential vote, and many opponents' outrage at Pena Nieto's win appears to have largely faded since the July 1 vote.
By Friday afternoon, there were a few scattered protests around the capital by Lopez Obrador sympathizers, including a brief blockage of highway toll booths by a group of students.
ASIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vorayuth Yoovidhya, a grandson of late Red Bull founder Chaleco Yoovidhya, is taken by a plain-clothes police officer for investigation Monday in Bangkok, Thailand. Vorayuth, believed to be in his late 20s, is suspected of driving a Ferrari that struck and killed a policeman and then dragged the officer's body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning hit-and-run.
Red Bull heir faces charges after deadly hit-and-run
"A policeman is dead. I can't let this stand. If I let this case get away, I'd rather quit," he told reporters. "I don't care how powerful they are. If I can't get the actual man in this case, I will resign."
BANGKOK— A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in an early-morning hit-and-run, police said Monday.
Vorayath did not speak to the media but the family lawyer said the family will take responsibility for the damages.
Police took Vorayuth Yoovid hya, 27, for questioning after tracing oil streaks for several blocks to his family's gated estate in a wealthy neighborhood of the Thai capital.
Bangkok's top police official, Lt. Gen. Comronwit Toopgrajank, said he took charge of the investigation after a lower-ranking policeman initially tried to cover up the crime by turning in a bogus suspect. Comronwit himself led a team of officers to search the compound of late Red Bull founder Chaleo Yoovidhaya, one of Thailand's wealthiest men before he passed away this year, and confiscated a Ferrari with a badly damaged front bumper and broken windshield.
The Yoyovidhaaya family was ranked the 4th richest in Thailand this year by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $5.1 billion. Red Bull creator Chaleo Yoyovidhaya died in his 80s in March, leaving his heirs a wide range of businesses, including shares in the globally popular energy drink brand, hospitals and real estate.
He was facing charges of causing death by reckless driving and escaping an arrest by police but was released on a 500,000 baht ($15,900) bail.
Vorayath admitted he drove the charcoal gray sports car but said the police officer's motorcycle abruptly cut in front of his vehicle, said police Maj. Gen. Anuchai Lekbamroo, the lead investigator in the case.
The victim, Sgt. Maj. Wichean Glanprasert, 47, was killed during a motorcycle patrol before dawn. Thai media reported that the car dragged the officer and his motorcycle for several dozen feet as it sped through the residential neighborhood.
Comronwit said he suspended the police officer who attempted to subvert the investigation.
The family also co-owns the sole authorized importer of Ferrari cars in Thailand.
AFRICA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fatma Nabil reads out the headlines wearing a headscarf on the noon news bulletin on state television in Cairo, Egypt. Nabil is the first female Egyptian news presenter to appear on state television wearing a veil after the Islamist-dominated government lifted an effective ban that had been in place for decades under secular-leaning regimes of the past.
Half century ban on veils ends
CAIRO — A female Egyptian news presenter appeared on state television wearing a veil for the first time on Sunday after the Islamist-dominated government lifted an effective ban that had been in place for decades under secular-leaning regimes of the past.
The ban on female news readers wearing the Islamic veil had long been criticized even by liberals and human rights activists as an infringement on personal freedoms
particularly in a country where more than half of all adult women cover their heads.
However, it was the latest move
by authorities under new Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to make sweeping changes in state-controlled media. Just a few weeks ago, the Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament or Shura Council, shuffled editors of state-run media and most of the 50 new appointees were either Islamists or their sympathizers. Egypt's journalists' union has accused Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group of trying to make the media its mouthpiece.
The ban on veils, enforced by state television for the half century it has been in existence, ended
with the noon news bulletin when Fatma Nabil read out the headlines wearing a cream-colored headscarf and a dark suit.
Nabil worked for a year in the Muslim Brotherhood TV network Misr 25 after she was barred by state TV from appearing on air because of her veil. With Morsi's election and the appointment of the new Information Minister, Salah Abdel-Maksoud of the Muslim Brotherhood, she said she was given the "green light" to come back to state TV.