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Two Americans killed in air crash in Afghanistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two U.S. troops died in eastern Afghanistan after their aircraft crashed Tuesday, military officials said. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force said the cause of the crash, which took place in a field, is under...Tags: Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, Kabul (Afghanistan), United Nations, Emergency Incidents
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Album skewering Margaret Thatcher to be reissued on April 17
After former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was pilloried following her death last week with a campaign in England to vault the song “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” to the top of the nation’s pop chart, an English satirist is...
Tags: Music Industry, Westminster Abbey, Twitter, Inc., Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Turkish pianist convicted of insulting religion through tweets
A famed Turkish pianist was convicted Monday of insulting religion after sending a string of tweets deemed denigrating to Islam. Fazil Say was handed a suspended prison sentence of 10 months, according to news reports, stoking concerns in Turkey and...
Tags: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, European Union, Freedom of the Press, Turkey, Crimes
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Saudi Arabia denies reports of paralysis sentence
Saudi Arabia denied reports that a young man had been sentenced to paralysis, a punishment that human rights groups had excoriated as a form of torture. “This is untrue,” the Justice Ministry said Monday on its Twitter account, according...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Civil Rights, Twitter, Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Sri Lanka: Photos renew accusations that 12-year-old was executed
Facing continued pressure over alleged wartime abuses, Sri Lankan officials rejected renewed accusations that a 12-year-old boy was executed in the final throes of its bloody civil war. Questions surrounding the death of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the...
Tags: Movies, Wars and Interventions, India, United Nations, Justice and Rights
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African refugees kidnapped, brutalized in Sinai, report says
One of the men said he could not pay -- and so they decided to make an example of him. The kidnappers stripped the Ethiopian man and violated him, an Eritrean refugee who survived his ordeal in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula told Amnesty International. They...Tags: Civil Rights, Criminals, United Nations, Kidnapping, Crime, Law and Justice
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Power of global arms treaty hinges on next steps, activists say
A new United Nations pact to regulate the global weapons trade was cheered by human rights and humanitarian groups, but its power will depend on how stringently it is followed. Like many international agreements, the arms trade treaty does not have a...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Iran, European Union, Wars and Interventions, Activism
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U.N. passes treaty regulating arms sales
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the world body's first treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade Tuesday, a goal sought for over a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands...
Tags: European Union, Wars and Interventions, Organized Crime, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly
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Global arms trade treaty still has a shot, backers say
A groundbreaking pact to regulate the global weapons trade still has a chance of success after Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked the draft treaty at the United Nations this week. But even if the treaty passes, its power will hinge on how nations...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, European Union, United Nations, Heritage Foundation, International Relations
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'Massive' wave of Russian state inspections of NGOs continues
Russian officials pressed ahead Wednesday with a sweeping wave of inspections on nonprofit foundations, human rights groups and other NGOs that has troubled activists in Russia and abroad. In the latest round, state inspectors showed up at the offices...
Tags: David Kramer, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Justice and Rights, Human Rights
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India orders Italian envoy to stay put as two nations clash
NEW DELHI – India ratcheted up its diplomatic standoff with Rome over a shooting incident last year, issuing orders at major airports and seaports Friday that the Italian ambassador was not allowed to leave the country without permission. The move...
Tags: Fishing, India, World War II (1939-1945), Argentina, Elections
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Khmer Rouge leader dies, eluding war crimes verdict
NEW DELHI -- The death Thursday of one of the last senior leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime before his trial concluded underscores flaws in the war-crimes tribunal process that threaten to undermine the pursuit of global justice,...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Justice System, Prosecution, Heads of State, International Court or Tribunal
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