On Wednesday, an Egyptian court handed out jail sentences for over 120 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi related to clashes last year with authorities which left dozens dead, officials said. The trial was a part of an unrelenting crackdown on Morsi supporters going on since the army ousted him last July. According to judicial officials, the defendants were …
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On Wednesday, over 50 Bollywood actors, writers and filmmakers signed an appeal which urged Indians not to vote for nationalist hardliner Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the ongoing general elections in the country, and choose a “secular” party instead. Critics fear that if the BJP comes to power, it would set off religious tensions in the country. Some …
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The New York Police Department has abandoned their secret program which dispatched plainclothes detectives to Muslim neighbourhoods to snoop in on conversations and build detailed files on where people prayed, shopped and ate, the department said. The decision from new NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton comes as he tries to distance himself from the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering methods used by his …
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On Monday, Pro-Russian insurgents covered even more Ukrainian separatist territory, as the new western-backed government in Ukraine looked for a way out of the international crisis by seeking UN help and proposing a referendum. Russia added a perilous tone to the escalation, saying that President Putin had received “a lot” of requests from the Russian-majority rust belt in Ukraine, “to …
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On Monday, it came to light that the FBI had subjected a member of the defense team for the five alleged 9/11 conspirators to a “chilling” interrogation in order to gain information from the attorney. At the hearing in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Defense attorneys said it hurt their ability to best represent their clients in the prominent terrorism …
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On Friday, Switzerland confirmed that that the Palestinian authority has formally signed up to the Geneva Conventions. Switzerland is the international guardian of the treaty, which sets down all regulations on humanitarian operation and warfare in conflict zones in the world. Spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Ministry Pierre-Alain Eltschinger has said that the Palestinian Authority had declared itself a part …
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