Category World News Splashes
Vatican delinks child abuse in Catholic schools and orphanages from celibacy rule
lalit.kishore -11 hours ago
The Vatican has gone on a back foot ever since sexual abuse of over hundred former students from Catholic schools in Benedict's native Germany became public in which the pope's brother is also said to be involved. There have been reports about child abuse in church-run schools, orphanages and other institutions. "Part of it is the question of celibacy, as well as the subject of character develop...
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It’s Mothering Sunday in Europe today
lalit.kishore -13 hours ago
In England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Europe, Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday is being observed today -14th March 2010. In Europe and many parts of the world, there is long standing tradition where a specific Sunday has been designated to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. On the other hand, in the US, Mother’s Day observed on the second Sunday of May. Here are the...
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Suicide bombing kills 13 in Pakistan's Swat Valley
SatbirSinghBedi -23 hours ago
Suicide bombing kills 13 in Pakistan's Swat Valley (Roundup) Mar 13, 2010, 7:58 GMT Islamabad - At least 13 people were killed and 54 injured Saturday in a suicide bombing in north-western Pakistan's Swat Valley, a day after two bombings killed dozens in the city of Lahore , police said. District police chief Qazi Ghulam Farooq said a suicide bomber was walking toward a crowded legal court when...
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Appeal to President Karzai to stop the abuse of Afghan Women
SatbirSinghBedi -1 days ago
When Gulsoom was 15, she was forced to marry a 40-year-old man. Her husband was a drug addict who regularly beat her. Feeling trapped in her abusive marriage, Gulsoom attempted suicide by setting herself on fire. More and more Afghan women are resorting to suicide to escape abuse within forced marriages. Last year, a law was passed in Afghanistan that legalized marital rape. Laws like this k...
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Christians attacked by extremist Muslims in Egypt
lalit.kishore -1 days ago
Reports trickling out of Egypt say that Coptic Christians have been attacked by extremist Muslims at church community center. In the attack in a western province ascore of people have been wounded. The cars beloning to Christians were stned firebombs were lobbed at the Coptic center and nearby homes. The attacks took place after a sermon by a radical sheik. The attacks lasted almost the whole day ...
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Deadly blasts hit Pakistani city
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
Deadly blasts hit Pakistani city Two suicide bombers have killed at least 45 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore , officials say. The attacks occurred within seconds of each other and targeted military vehicles as they passed through a crowded area. At least nine soldiers were killed and some 100 people were wounded. There have been several attacks on Lahore in the past year. On Monday the ...
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UN report: Much of Somalia's food aid diverted
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
Posted on Thu, Mar. 11, 2010 l                 UN report: Much of Somalia's food aid diverted By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer       » AP Photo In this photo taken on Jan. 16, 2009, Bare Ali Bare, center, a senior military commander of the Hizb Al-Islam rebel group of Somalia, speaks during a press conference in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia. Four masked gunmen shot dead an Islamist ...
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Malaysian Court orders Muslim convert to return baby to her Hindu mother
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
Mar 11, 2010 Man ordered to return baby KUALA LUMPUR - A MALAYSIAN court on Thursday ordered a Muslim convert husband to return a baby girl to her Hindu mother, after she waged a custody battle to challenge the secret conversion of her children. Indira Ghandi, a 35-year-old teacher won the case after her husband K. Patmanathan converted himself and their three children - aged 13, 12 and the 22-mo...
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A teacher in France sprayed with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a 'terrorist group'
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
Lyon, France - A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group", she told reporters on Tuesday as prosecutors began their investigation. "I had just explained that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were carried out by the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, as is written in the text book," said the history teacher, speaking on condition...
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BA worker 'planned to use strike to become suicide bomber & passed on secrets to terrorists
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
BA worker 'planned to use strike to become suicide bomber and passed on secrets to terror masterminds in Yemen' By Sam Greenhill and Paul Sims Last updated at 12:47 AM on 12th March 2010   Court drawing of Rajib Karim: The BA employee is accused of two counts of planning suicide bombings A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew stri...
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Immigration into Canada: 'Child bride' loophole can't be closed
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
Immigration: 'Child bride' loophole can't be closed By TOM GODFREY, QMI Agency Last Updated: March 11, 2010 4:49pm     Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop “ child brides ” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad. Top immigration officials in Canada and Pakistan say all they can do is reject the sponsorshi...
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Christian community take to streets over maid's murder in Pakistan
SatbirSinghBedi -2 days ago
Friday, March 12, 2010 Christian community takes to streets over maid’s murder * SHO says case has been registered, culprits arrested * Local politicians using case in a bid to win Christian votes LAHORE: The Christian community on Thursday blocked the Lahore-Sheikhupura Road in protest against the alleged murder of a Christian maid by her employers. The family of the deceased girl, Kiran, alleged...
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Barack Obama advocates accountability, teachers get fired
lalit.kishore -2 days ago
In the Central Falls High School in US, teachers got fired since they failed to deliver. Of late, US President Barack Obama has been advocating the principle of accountability. Accountability rule is said be in force in Chicago and Los Angeles schools, and improvements in test scores of students did not happen and it was regarded as a failure of teachers. It is said that the eleventh graders teste...
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Myanmar: New laws for polls enacted and Suu Kyi debarred from elections
lalit.kishore -2 days ago
Myanmar announced the enactment of election laws for the country's first polls in 20 years. If everything goes fine elections could be held sometime this year. Myanmar's military junta had announced in 2008 that the election would take place in 2010, but has not yet set any date for it. Suu Kyi   has been debarred from elections because of her conviction. The party of Suu Kyi holds that the new c...
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US Charity is Attacked in Pakistan; 6 Are Killed
SatbirSinghBedi -3 days ago
U.S. Charity Is Attacked In Pakistan ; 6 Are Killed By ISMAIL KHAN Published: March 10, 2010     PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Six Pakistani employees of the American Christian charity World Vision were killed Wednesday and seven others were wounded in an attack on the aid group’s offices in a remote village in northern Pakistan . Adrees Latif/Reuters Pakistani police officers at the offices of World ...
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