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Three Indians accused of pushing woman into prostitution

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Three expatriate Indians have been accused of forcing a woman into the flesh trade on the pretext of giving her a job as a maid in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) capital Abu Dhabi, media reported Monday. A criminal court in Abu Dhabi heard the case Sunday of the three Indian men accused of picking […]

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Rwanda marks 20th anniversary of genocide

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Rwandans have marked the 20th anniversary of the genocide that killed at least 800,000 people over a period of 100 days. Thousands of Rwandans and world leaders gathered at Amahoro Stadium in the capital, Kigali, on Monday to remember the victims of the 1994 massacre. “As we pay tribute to the victims, both the living and […]

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Sonia Gandhi declines to show US court her passport

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi has declined to provide a copy of her passport to a US court, saying that Government of India had denied her permission to do so. However, in a letter filed by her lawyer in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Gandhi “voluntarily” relinquished the plea of lack of personal jurisdiction […]

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Pakistani held with fake currency in Bangladesh

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A Pakistani national with fake currency with a face value of 10 million Bangladeshi takas (around $129,080) was arrested at the Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, an official said Saturday. Asimillah Khan, 40, landed at the airport on an Emirates flight Friday, bdnews24.com cited customs department assistant commissioner Nazma Zabin as saying. The customs officials […]

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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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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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