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Two men in Indonesia publicly caned with 82 lashes for having gay sex

Two men in Indonesia publicly caned with 82 lashes for having gay sex

The punishment, condemned by rights groups, marked the first application of anti-homosexuality laws introduced in the province in 2014. Religious police caned two men for gay sex, with hooded men inflicting 82 lashes on each of them. Hundreds of people watched the brutal punishment ordered by an Islamic court in Indonesia. Cheers and applause went […]

May 23, 2017 | By | Reply More
Trump’s speech on Islamic extremism sends government official to sleep

Trump’s speech on Islamic extremism sends government official to sleep

Wilbur Ross, the US Secretary of Commerce, was caught on camera napping through the US President’s words Donald Trump’s speech to Middle Eastern leaders to combat a “crisis of Islamic extremism” sent one of his own delegation to sleep. Wilbur Ross, the US Secretary of Commerce, was caught on camera napping through his leader’s words. […]

May 22, 2017 | By | Reply More
North Korea missile fuelling fears over its increasing ability to hit US targets

North Korea missile fuelling fears over its increasing ability to hit US targets

Kim Jong-un’s launch follows the successful test last week of another missile that has put Hawaii and Alaska within range North Korea claims to have successfully tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile indicating further advances in its ability to hit US targets. Leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test to confirm the reliability of the late-stage guidance […]

May 22, 2017 | By | Reply More
Dozens of schoolgirls kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram finally reunited with families

Dozens of schoolgirls kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram finally reunited with families

The 82 girls were among the 276 taken by the extremists from their boarding school in Chibok in 2014 – sparking a worldwide campaign for their release. Dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls have been reunited with their families more than three years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists. The 82 girls were among the 276 […]

May 21, 2017 | By | Reply More
Violence against Rohingya Muslims spreads in Myanmar, describe military’s systematic rape and killing

Violence against Rohingya Muslims spreads in Myanmar, describe military’s systematic rape and killing

Myanmar must do more to prevent the drastic escalation of religious intolerance and violence following clashes between ultranationalist Buddhists and minority Muslims in Yangon, a senior United Nations envoy has said. Speaking to the Guardian, Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, called on the year-old National League for Democracy government […]

May 20, 2017 | By | Reply More
Unmarried couple stoned to death in public for violating Islamic law in Mali

Unmarried couple stoned to death in public for violating Islamic law in Mali

The man and woman were put in two holes dug by ringleaders before four people attacked them, local official says An unmarried couple have been stoned to death in public in north-east Mali, in the first such incident since jihadi groups were driven out of the region. Jihadis seized key northern cities in Mali in […]

May 19, 2017 | By | Reply More
South Sudan government forces killed 114 civilians, UN says

South Sudan government forces killed 114 civilians, UN says

South sudan pro-government forces killed 114 civilians in a single town last year amid growing ethnic violence in the country’s civil war, a new United Nations report said Friday. The investigation released by the U.N. human rights office said those cases and other abuses in the south sudan town of Yei between July and January […]

May 19, 2017 | By | Reply More
Worlds tiniest 1 pound newborn baby boy has successful heart surgery

Worlds tiniest 1 pound newborn baby boy has successful heart surgery

A baby boy born weighing just over one pound has become the world’s ‘tiniest baby’ to have undergone a successful heart surgery. The yet-to-be named baby was born prematurely at 28 weeks just the size of a palm at a government-run hospital in Udaipur in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. He was too fragile […]

May 17, 2017 | By | Reply More
Raped by stepfather, pregnant 10 year old girl asks court for an abortion

Raped by stepfather, pregnant 10 year old girl asks court for an abortion

Doctors say the case for the termination is “borderline” because it is difficult to establish how many weeks pregnant the girl is. A ten-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather has been forced to go to court to plead for an abortion. The young child, from Rohtak in the Haryana state of India, is […]

May 16, 2017 | By | Reply More
Police find male escort cooking transgender wife body part on stove

Police find male escort cooking transgender wife body part on stove

Marcus Volke had met his transgender wife at a Melbourne brothel – dubbed the Pleasure Dome. A chef who chopped up his transgender wife before cooking her body parts told a repairman who came to his flat to “ignore the smell”. In a chilling call that was heard at an inquest into how the sex […]

May 16, 2017 | By | Reply More