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Indian priest faces deportation for molestation in US

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An Indian-American priest who admitted to molesting a girl while attending dinner at her grandmother’s home in Minnesota has been sentenced to 25 years of supervised probation, according to media reports. Father Leo Charles Koppala pleaded guilty on March 17 to criminal sexual conduct charges involving a minor child and is likely to be deported […]

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Four Sri Lankan soldiers in custody over YouTube video

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The Sri Lankan Army’s military police is questioning four soldiers on leaked video footage which was uploaded on YouTube showing a group of female recruits being harassed, the media reported Saturday. Four soldiers were arrested by the military police and were being questioned, Adjutant General Mahinda Hathurusinghe said. “During investigations it was found that the […]

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Ukraine detains 12 riot police officers

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Ukrainian authorities have detained 12 riot police officers on suspicion of involvement in the deaths of protestors in Kiev during the recent anti-government rallies, official said Thursday. The commander of the so-called “special troops” was among the detainees, said Vasyl Zorya, spokesperson of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, according to Xinhua. Over 100 people were shot […]

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UN registers 1 mn Syrian refugees in Lebanon

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The number of registered refugees in Lebanon from war-torn Syria has crossed the mark of one million, the UN and Lebanon said Thursday. The number represents “a devastating milestone worsened by rapidly depleting resources and a host community stretched to a breaking point,” Xinhua quoted the Lebanese ministry of social affairs and the UN Higher […]

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ATC orders Musharraf to appear at next hearing

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An anti-terrorism court in here that is hearing the judges’ detention case against former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, Friday ordered him to appear in person at its next hearing April 25. The ATC has directed Musharraf’s guarantors to make sure of the former army strongman’s presence in its next hearing, Dawn online reported. Musharraf’s lawyer […]

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Indian-origin doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgery

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An Indian-origin doctor in the UK is facing allegations of performing an unnecessary surgery on a woman that amounted to suspected female genital mutilation (FGM), a procedure illegal in the country. Dr Sureshkumar Pandya, who appeared before a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in Manchester, is also accused of not having practised gynaecology since 1994. […]

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US jury indicts Rajya Sabha MP in bribery conspiracy

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In an unprecedented case, a Chicago jury has indicted a Congress party Rajya Sabha MP in an alleged international conspiracy to bribe state and central government officials in India to allow mining of titanium minerals. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, aka KVP and Dr. KVP, 65, a Rajya Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh, was indicted by a […]

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Musharraf’s request for treatment abroad rejected

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Musharraf, who was indicted in a high treason case on Monday, had requested the interior ministry to remove his name from the list of those who are barred from leaving the country. The Pakistan government on Wednesday rejected a request by former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to allow him to go abroad for his own […]

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Saudi Arabia suspends issuing visas over ebola outbreak

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Visas for Muslim pilgrims from Guinea and Liberia in West Africa have been suspended by Saudi Arabia as a “precautionary measure” due to the ebola virus outbreak in the region. The West African nations have been battling a deadly ebola viral epidemic for the last one month that has claimed 80 lives out of the […]

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Find killers of labour activist, Dhaka told

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The Bangladeshi government should publicly explain what efforts have been made to investigate the abduction, torture, and killing of the labour rights activist Aminul Islam two years ago, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. While police have filed charges against a missing suspect, there have been no apparent efforts to investigate allegations that members of Bangladeshi […]

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Indian man stabbed to death on Saudi street

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An expatriate Indian man was stabbed to death by a local Saudi man on a street near Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, media reported Tuesday. The unnamed man was stabbed by a Saudi man on the street Monday, Arab News reported Tuesday. The man died on the spot. The reason for the murder was unclear, police […]

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Pakistan offers to bring Musharraf’s mother home

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The Pakistani government has offered to bring back former president Pervez Musharraf’s mother, who is undergoing treatment in Sharjah, rather than let him travel to the Gulf country, a media report said on Tuesday. The development came a day after Musharraf was indicted of high treason by a special three-bench court, Dawnonline reported. Musharraf’s counsel […]

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