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Sudanese girl flogged for wearing indecent skirtA Sudanese Christian teenager has been lashed 50 times for wearing what a judge considered an indecent knee-length skirt. The family of Silva Kashif, 16, plans on suing police and the judge, said attorney Azhari al-Hajj who insisted that the verdict was in violation of Sudanese law because the [...]

Irish cops helped Church cover up child sex abuse’The Roman Catholic Church and the police in Ireland systematically colluded in covering up decades of child sex abuse by priests in Dublin. The cover-ups spanned the tenures of four Dublin archbishops and continued through to the mid-1990s and beyond, even after the church was beginning to [...]

Americans throw away food increasing carbon emissionsAmericans are throwing away forty percent of food and thereby contributing to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels, along with methane and carbon dioxide emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. In a new paper published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS One, Kevin Hall and colleagues [...]

Violence in Osmania University following TRS chief’s arrestAt least 10 students were injured on Sunday as clashes broke out between police and students at Osmania University here following the arrest of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao in Karimnagar before he was to begin a ‘fast unto death’ demanding separate statehood for the [...]

Maoists blow up two school buildings in Bihar’s Gaya districtArmed Maoists blew up two school buildings in Bihar’s Gaya district, police said today. About 200 ultras surrounded state-run primary schools at Sonedaha and Latua late last night and blew up the buildings by detonating dynamites, they said. A combing operation has been launched to apprehend [...]

12 convicted, two let off in Kandhamal riot caseA fast track court Saturday jailed 12 people for four years while acquitting two others in a 2008 Kandhamal riots case, an official Judge C.R. Das sentenced the 12 to concurrent jail terms of four years and one year and a Rs.2000 fine after convicting them of [...]

For 40 years, Muslim discourses on Hindu scripturesDressed in saffron robes, adorned with rudraksh garlands, sporting a sandalwood mark on his forehead and delivering discourses on Hindu scriptures in temples across eastern Uttar Pradesh, this “saint” is actually a devout Muslim, who offers namaaz five times a day. Mohammad Yaseen, 60, a resident of the [...]

Radiation leak in Kaiga could be sabotage, probe orderedThe radiation leakage in the state-run Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka could be an act of sabotage, a top official said on Sunday. A probe has been ordered into the incident by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). “Preliminary enquiry does not reveal any [...]

Saudi seizes key rebel area near YemenSaudi Arabia says its forces have seized control of a strategic mountain along the border with Yemen in the kingdom’s ongoing fight against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Prince Khaled bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s defence and aviation assistant minister, told a local television station that Saudi forces cleared the peak, known [...]

Bin Laden within grasp in 2001The US military missed an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, when he was within grasp in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001, a US report has concluded. The Senate foreign affairs committee report, released on Sunday, said that the failure to [...]