An Afghan soldier has been sentenced to death for killing four French troops earlier this year in eastern Afghanistan — one of the deadliest in a rising number of attacks in which Afghan forces have turned their guns on their foreign partners, a Kabul official said Tuesday.
Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, said a military court in the country’s capital on Monday ordered the soldier, Abdul Sabor, to be hanged. The soldier can appeal the sentence to [...]
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Government representatives from more than 190 countries, under the watchful eyes of gun control advocates such as Amnesty International and the Control Arms Coalition, are currently in negotiations at the United Nations headquarters in New York to hammer out the terms of the first UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The treaty is supposed to fill the gap caused by the absence of commonly agreed international standards for the transfer of conventional arms, including guns, and their diversion to the illicit [...]
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As the attacks on Nigeria’s Christians continued in full force this past week, a particularly grizzly attack saw fifty believers burned to death at their pastor’s home, where they had fled for refuge from a terrorist attack.
Reports disclosed that over 100 people were killed by armed terrorists this past week, who went on a 12-village killing spree in Nigeria’s Plateau state. Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has once again taken responsibility for the assaults.
While different sources shared various reports of [...]
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As the month of Ramadan approaches, Muslim groups are demanding that authorities close night spots and brothels.
The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) continues to threaten to close business by force if they remain open during the holy month.
In Makassar, FPI members paraded around the city on Friday and Saturday to make sure that owners of night clubs, brothels and restaurants get the message.
The group, the self-appointed guardian of Indonesia’s morals that is not above using violence to get its way, has [...]
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Typically on high alert, London’s Jewish community organizations are being advised to take additional security measures during the Olympics.
The Community Security Trust, the charity that represents and recommends the community on matters of security, has told Jewish groups to implement or increase patrols around their buildings. CST’s guidelines also remind community groups of basic security steps such as questioning visitors to community buildings, not congregating outside and ensuring that all security equipment is working.
“We are not aware of any specific [...]
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Pressing her cheek against the fresh grave of her newly married teenage daughter, Sabera yowls as she gently smears clumps of dirt over her tear-stained face.
“My daughter! Why did they kill you so brutally?” the mother screams in the sparsely filled cemetery in Parwan province, 65 km (40 miles) north of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Sabera says her daughter Tamana was killed by a relative in a so-called “honor killing”, in what officials link to a wider trend of rapidly growing [...]
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A woman who was abused as a child by a mosque Imam has broken her silence.
She was speaking in an interview with Asian Image undertaken by Community Worker Anjum Anwar.
Nabila (not her real name) has now broken her silence and says that anyone faced with a similar situation needs to speak out and tell someone in authority.
“I am angry that a man was allowed to get away with abusing a little girl for four years, and nobody picked on it, [...]
The drought in southern Iran is part of a “soft war” launched against the Islamic republic by the West, the Fars news agency quoted an Iranian vice president as saying on Monday.
“I am suspicious about the drought in the southern part of the country,” Hassan Mousavi (pictured), who also heads Iran’s cultural heritage and tourism organization, said at a ceremony to introduce the nation’s new chief of meteorological department.
“The world arrogance and colonist [term used by Iranian authorities to label [...]
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Baghdad Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki called Sunday for the US to speed up the transfer of weapons to Iraq, which lacks the ability to defend its airspace or borders, six months after American troops withdrew.
The Iraqi premier also pointedly said during a meeting with General James Mattis, the visiting head of US Central Command, that only the central government would decide which arms purchases would be made, in an apparent swipe at Kurdish complaints over the acquisition of F-16 [...]
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Egyptian Bedouin tribesmen on Monday released two U.S. tourists who had been held in captivity for three days in the Sinai Peninsula, a senior security official told AFP.
“The two have been released after successful negotiations with the Bedouins and they are now in the North Sinai security headquarters,” the official said.
The negotiations were being mediated by Bedouin elders, the official said, but refused to elaborate on the terms of the deal.
The lead kidnapper, Germy Abu Masouh, abducted the two — [...]
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A man was sentenced to death on two counts on Monday for throwing acid on a woman and her daughter.
Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Ishtiaq Ahmad also sentenced Muhammad Ijaz to 28 years in prisons and imposed Rs2 million (21,000USD) fine on him.
Ijaz was arrested by Samanabad police on June 3 for burning a woman, Uzma Bibi, and her daughter in an acid attack on May 31.
Uzma Bibi, 35, remained under treatment at a burn unit at Allied Hospital for six days [...]
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Syria’s embattled president Bashar al-Assad will not hesitate to use chemical weapons if his regime is cornered, according to the country’s former ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf Fares, the top politician to have defected.
In an interview with the BBC from Qatar, where he sought refuge last week, Fares described Assad as “a wounded wolf” and said unconfirmed reports indicated such weapons might have already been used in the flashpoint city of Homs.
“There is information, unconfirmed information of course, that chemical weapons [...]
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A U.S. Navy vessel fired on an approaching fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates on Monday, killing an Indian national and seriously injuring three others, the UAE’s state news agency (WAM) said.
“The firing has led to the death of one Indian national and serious injury of three Indian nationals,” Tarek al-Hedan, an aide to the foreign minister for political affairs told WAM.
A U.S. defiance official told Reuters the boat was believed to have sped away after being fired upon [...]
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Amid increasing tensions over the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, the United States is constructing a missile-defense radar station at a secret site in Qatar and organizing its largest-ever minesweeping exercises in the Persian Gulf, the Wall Street Journal quoted US officials as saying Monday.
The bolstering of the US military in the Gulf is designed to defend the US, Israel and EU countries against Iranian rockets, officials said.
The radar base in Qatar will supplement two similar X-band radars already [...]
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The United States will use “all elements of American power” to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late on Monday at a press conference in Jerusalem.
“We will use all elements of American power to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon,” she said in reference to Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, which Washington and much of the West believes is a cover for a weapons drive.
Her remarks, which carried an implied threat of military [...]
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Complaints from across Sunderland have now been registered on the city council’s website against a proposed mosque.
The controversial proposal to convert an old transport depot on St Mark’s Road, Millfield, into an Islamic place of worship has sparked a heated debate in the community as to whether it should go ahead.
If the plans get the green light, they will involve the demolition of single-storey offices, the erection of parapet walls and two brick-faced columns.
But many of the neighbours have objected [...]
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Dozens of Gaza Christians staged a rare public protest Monday, claiming two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and were being held against their will.
The small but noisy demonstration showed the increasingly desperate situation facing the tiny minority.
Protesters banged on a church bell and chanted, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus.”
Gaza police say the two are staying with a Muslim religious official at their request, because they fear retribution from their families converting [...]
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An Islamic street preacher who says Western women should be forced to “cover themselves” runs an outreach website containing links to essays by controversial Muslim writers, including one banned from several countries and another who has advocated holy war on non-Muslims.
Al-Haashim Kamena Atangana, an Islamic convert who wrote a letter to the Toronto Sun last week saying that Canadian laws should be changed to ban women from dressing provocatively as a way of protecting them from sexual assault, said he [...]
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Muslims suffered the most from the Sept 11 terrorist attacks and this should be put on record.
This was the sentiment that led former newspaper columnist Tan Sri Dr Munir Majid to put together a book titled 9/11 and the Attack on Muslims, which highlights the injustice endured by innocent Muslims.
The 328-page book, launched yesterday, comprises 73 essays written by Dr Munir which were published in the New Straits Times between September 2001 and July 2005.
“The essays document a black period [...]
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Plans for a new mosque in Blackpool have been thrown out for the second time.
The bid to convert four units on Waterloo Road, South Shore, which had previously operated mainly as take-aways, has been turned down at appeal.
Planning inspector Michael Moffoot backed a council decision to reject the application due to traffic concerns.
In his report he said the scheme “would severely harm highway and pedestrian safety.”
He added he had “significant concerns regarding the Friday lunchtime prayers when some 80 to [...]
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A preliminary hearing for five men accused in the 9/11 attacks has been postponed for 10 days due to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, one of their lawyers said Monday.
The hearing, already postponed once, follows one on May 5, which saw confessed 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and four other men formally charged with crimes including murder and terrorism over the 2001 attacks.
The hearing in a military tribunal at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has now [...]
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