A day after four people were killed in clashes sparked by an official survey probing whether a 16th-century mosque was built on a Hindu temple, authorities have shut down schools and suspended internet services in the northern Indian city.According to officials, nearly 1,000 Muslim protesters gathered outside the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, in the...
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PAKISTAN STRIKES SEVEN-DAY CEASEFIRE DEAL BETWEEN WARRING SECTARIAN GROUPS
A Pakistani government team mediated a seven-day ceasefire deal between rival sectarian groups on Sunday, halting days of clashes that have killed at least 68 people and injured dozens in the northwest of the country, one of the mediators said.The violence began when gunmen attacked convoys of civilian vehicles on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, mostly Shiite Muslims. That brought retaliatory...
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Prosecutors Seek Maximum Sentence For Gisèle Pelicot’s Ex-Husband In France Mammoth Rape Trial
Prosecutors on Monday lay out the verdicts and punishments they want for dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband in a mammoth rape trial.After hearings stretching over nearly three months, the trial in the southern city of Avignon is beginning to wrap up, with the prosecutors’...
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WISCONSIN DRUNKEN DRIVER TO SPEND 35 YEARS IN PRISON FOR WRONG-WAY CRASH THAT KILLED 4 SIBLINGS
Scott Farmer, a drunken driver traveling the wrong way on a Wisconsin highway was on Friday sentenced to more than 35 years in prison for a crash that killed four siblings in another vehicle.“It’s incomprehensible to this court to imagine losing four children,” Judge Raymond Huber said.Scott Farmer, 48, of Neenah had pleaded no contest to homicide...
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BREYTENBACH, SOUTH AFRICAN ANTI-APARTHEID WRITER DIES AT 85
Breyten Breytenbach renowned anti-apartheid writer and activist jailed for his beliefs in South Africa in the 1970s, has died aged 85.The family disclosed that Breytenbach passed away in his sleep, with his wife Yolande by his side in Paris.The dissident poet, novelist and painter was “an immense artist, militant against apartheid, he fought for a...
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BLACKFOOT POLICE ARREST 18-YEAR-OLD IN CONNECTION WITH DEAD INFANT FOUND IN A BABY BOX
An Idaho teenager has been arrested in connection with the body of an infant found last month at a hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, police said Friday.The Blackfoot Police Department said in a social media post that an 18-year-old from Twin Falls, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of...
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Turkey’s ‘Trusted’ Doctor affirms In Newborn Baby Deaths Case, He Didn’t Bribe People In Emergency Medical Phone line.
Dr. Firat Sari, the Turkish doctor at the center of an alleged fraud scheme that led to the deaths of 10 babies told an Istanbul court Saturday that he was a “trusted” physician.Sari is one of 47 people on trial accused of transferring newborn babies to neonatal units of private hospitals, where they were allegedly kept for...
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JURY DELIBERATES ON WHETHER MAN HELD DOWN TEEN WHILE HE WAS RAPED AT YOUTH CENTER IN 1990S
A jury began deliberating Friday on whether a New Hampshire man held down a teenage boy while he was raped at a youth detention center in 1998.Bradley Asbury, now 70, served as a house leader at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester. He’s accused of restraining 14-year-old Michael Gilpatrick on a staircase with help from a colleague, while...
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PAKISTAN PRESIDENT CONDEMNS GUNMEN ATTACK ON PASSENGER VEHICLES, DEATH TOLL RISE TO 38.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardar has in a statement condemned the attack on passenger vehicles on Thursday by a yet to be identify group. Gunmen had reportedly opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in northwestern Pakistan killing at least 38 people and wounding 29, the chief secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, said.“There...
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