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JODHPUR, India, Oct 18, (AFP): University student Santadevi Meghwal has been threatened, harassed, ostracised and even fined by a council of male elders in her …
Read More »Child brides fight for freedom; Deep-rooted tradition in poor, rural areas
International
Police arrest teens for rape of ‘toddler’
NEW DELHI, Oct 18, (AFP): India police said Sunday they have arrested two teenagers over the rape of a toddler, the latest sexual assault on …
Read More »Old church emerges from falling reservoir
MEXICO CITY, Oct 18, (AP): Leonel Mendoza fishes every day in a reservoir surrounded by forest and mountains in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. …
Read More »Saudi Shiites defiant after 5 killed in shooting – Islamic State claims responsibility
RIYADH, Oct 17, (Agencies): Saudi Shiites vowed Saturday to continue commemorating Ashura, one of their faith’s holiest occasions, despite a purported Islamic State group gunman …
Read More »Three Palestinians ‘killed’ while trying to stab Israelis
HEBRON, Oct 17, (AFP): Three Palestinians were shot dead while trying to stab Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday, as violence that …
Read More »14-yr-old pleads guilty to killing an Iraqi boy
BUFFALO, New York, Oct 17, (AP): A 14-year-old has pleaded guilty to killing a 13-year-old boy whose family had immigrated to the US to escape …
Read More »PEGIDA radicalised by refugee influx – ‘Foreigners overrunning Germany’
BERLIN, Oct 17, (AFP): They gather in the dark, wave German flags and vent their fury at foreigners they fear are overrunning their homeland — …
Read More »New Delhi reels after rapes of girls aged 2, 5 – When will Delhi wake up?
NEW DELHI, Oct 17, (AFP): A toddler and a five-year-old girl were raped in separate attacks in New Delhi overnight with at least one gang-raped, …
Read More »Iraqi forces in huge anti-rebel push in Baiji
BAIJI, Iraq, Oct 16, (Agencies): Iraqi forces defused booby traps and hunted down holdout jihadists in the strategic Baiji area Friday as part of their …
Read More »4 Iraqis in Switzerland charged for alleged ‘terror’ plot
GENEVA, Oct 16, (AP): Switzerland’s top prosecutor has filed charges accusing four Iraqis linked to the radical Islamic State group of plotting terror attacks in …
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