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[Anup Tiwari]

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan judge has sentenced 11 policemen to one year in prison for their role in the mob killing of a woman in Kabul. Judge Safiullah Mojadedi on Tuesday found them guilty of dereliction of duty. Another eight were released for lack of evidence. A total of 19 policemen were among 49 people charged over the death of 27-year-old Farkhunda, who was brutally beaten to death at a Kabul shrine on March 19 after being falsely accused of burning a Quran. The attack shocked Afghanistan and reverberated around the world, highlighting the brutality women face in the country's conservative society.


http://m.timesofindia.com/world/res...mob-killing-of-woman/articleshow/47340367.cms

 

[Anup Tiwari]

CAIRO: Saudi-led air raids hit the
Yemen capital Sanaa overnight,
targeting forces loyal to former
President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the
east and south of the city, residents
said on Tuesday. The strikes are the first to hit the capital after a five-day ceasefire ended late on Sunday, although military operations resumed earlier on Monday in northern Saada
province and in the southern city of
Aden.


http://m.timesofindia.com/world/mid...528.cms#_ga=1.235567361.1497087435.1427102593

 

[Anup Tiwari]

BANGKOK: Ousted Thai Prime
Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on
Tuesday pleaded not guilty to
dereliction of duty charges as a trial
that could jail her for a decade
began, in the latest move seen as a
bid to keep her powerful family out
of politics.
The country's first, and only, woman
premier made an appearance at the
Supreme Court here for the opening
hearing of the dereliction of duty
case regarding her government's
controversial loss-making rice-
pledging scheme.

http://m.timesofindia.com/world/res...ligence-trial-begins/articleshow/47340127.cms

 

[Anup Tiwari]

BUJUMBURA: Burundi's embattled
President Pierre Nkurunziza sacked
his defence and foreign ministers on
Monday, five days after surviving an
attempted coup by generals opposed
to his bid for a third term in office.
In a decree seen by Reuters,
Nkurunziza declined to give any
reasons for the dismissals.
"President does not have to explain,"
one of his spokesmen said in a
follow-up text message.
"Constitution gives him powers to
(do) so."

 

[Anup Tiwari]

WASHINGTON: President Barack
Obama plans to put in place new
restrictions on the use of military
equipment by police departments,
following unrest in US cities over the
deaths of black men at the hands of
police officers, the White House said
on Monday.
Obama will ban police use of
equipment such as explosive-
resistant vehicles with tracked
wheels like those seen on army
tanks, the White House said in a fact
sheet. For other types of equipment,
such as MRAP (mine-resistant
ambush protected) vehicles and riot
shields, departments will have to
provide added justification for their
use.


http://m.timesofindia.com/world/us/...f-military-equipment/articleshow/47330267.cms

 

[Anup Tiwari]

UNITED NATIONS: UN secretary-
general Ban Ki-moon expressed
serious concern on Monday after an
Egyptian court sentenced ousted
president Mohamed Morsi to death.
Morsi was among more than 100
defendants given the death penalty
on Saturday for their role in a mass
jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.
"The secretary-general understands
that the verdict is still subject to an
appeal," said UN spokesman Farhan
Haq.
"He will continue to monitor the
process very closely."

 

[Anup Tiwari]

RENNES, (France): A French court on
Monday acquitted two police officers
accused of contributing to the
deaths of two teenagers in a
blighted Paris suburb a decade ago
that prompted weeks of riots across
the country.
The verdict raised fears of a new
wave of mistrust, anger and violent
protests similar to those seen
recently in the U.S.


http://m.timesofindia.com/world/eur...s-that-sparked-riots/articleshow/47331729.cms

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Qatar arrests BBC journalist on govt press trip

 

[Anup Tiwari]

BRUSSELS: A Belgian court on
Monday handed out prison
sentences to seven women for
supporting Islamic State and
radicalizing young women to go to
Syria to join its ranks and marry
fighters of the militant organization.
Four of the seven women - five
Belgians, one Dutch and one
Moroccan - were not in court to hear
their convictions and were believed
to be in Syria with female battalions
of Islamic State, the Antwerp-based
court said.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Plz make it important thread