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As another anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition comes and goes, Mahant Satyendra Das is largely indifferent — ‘I am happy to just serve Ram Lalla,’ he says. The winter fog hangs low over Ayodhya. At 9 am, the alleys are still desolate. Mahant Satyendra Das, the chief priest of the makeshift.... |
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There are two dangerous ways of looking at the attempts of Britain to come to terms with its buried history of child sex abuse: the conspiratorial and the despairing. They are not as far apart as they seem. I can see why the victims of child abuse – of “child rape” as it is better called – are on edge. |
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Ionel Boyeru’s hands tremble slightly when he talks about the day he shot dead Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, beside a toilet block in a freezing courtyard. On Christmas Day, 1989 he guarded the couple’s melodramatic show trial, led them out as Ceausescu sang the.... |
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Sunday 7th December, 2014. Pope Francis said Christians are being "driven from the Middle East in suffering" in a video message to Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee their homes by the Islamic State (IS) militant group. The video was broadcast on December 6 to Christians who have taken refuge.... |
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A loaded pun can be deadly. And now, in China, the State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television is cracking down. "Radio and television authorities at all levels must tighten up their regulations and crack down on the irregular and inaccurate use of the Chinese language,.... |
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The decision by ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to withdraw charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta was met with mixed reactions in Naivasha, depending on which side one was at the height of the post-election violence.
While tens of Naivasha residents took to the streets to celebrate,.... |
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Mourners heard a rallying cry for justice Saturday at the New York funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by police amid a wave of nationwide protests against similar killings. Akai Gurley, 28, a father of a young daughter, was shot dead when a police officer opened fire in a.... |
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ALBAY: The province was declared under a state of calamity on Saturday, in a move that will allow it to avail of calamity funds. Governor Joey Salceda said the provincial council passed a resolution to the effect during a special session. Earlier Saturday, the Office of Civil Defense in Bicol sought.... |
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Gender issues took the centre stage because it has become a core value to achieving balanced reportage of gender sensitive issues and gender mainstreaming in the Nigerian media. It also served as an advocacy step to changing the perceived perspective of the private and public sectors in gender activities. |
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Reuters. Reverend Al Sharpton speaks about the death of Akai Gurley at the National Action Network in the Harlem borough of New York November 22, 2014. A New York City officer shot and killed Gurley in a dimly lit stairwell of the housing project, in what may have been an accidental discharge of his weapon, the police commissioner said on Friday. |
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I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is late, that Nobel laureate from Columbia who passed on this year, just a day before our National Day. I have drawn from his writings, a point my loyal readers would vouch for. He believed in words, and used them to batter the world he did not like, buttress and bolster the value he cherished. |
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