Grand jury: 2 bishops hid sex abuse of hundreds of children
Source: Associated Press ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Two Catholic bishops who led a small Pennsylvania diocese helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by more than 50 […]
Kids Are Facing Criminal Charges for Using Emoji
Source: Time Cops are taking postings of gun emojis as legitimate threats Emojis are quickly becoming the language of the Internet, but with that power comes a raft of new […]
Iran executed all adult men in one village for drug offences, official reveals
Source: The Guardian The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs. The […]
Chicago lockup claims: Handcuffed to walls, abused and kept from lawyers
Source: CNN Chicago (CNN)Kory Wright dreamed of being a Chicago police officer. But his image of police was shattered when he was arrested on his 20th birthday as he was […]
Bangladesh upholds death sentence for Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami
Source: The Guardian Bangladesh’s highest court has upheld the death sentence for the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for crimes during its 1971 independence struggle, paving the way […]
Cleveland Police Officers Will Not Face Charges in Death of Tamir Rice
Source: Time The white police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland in 2014 will not face criminal charges, the county prosecutor announced Monday. “Based on the evidence they heard, and the law as it applies to police use of deadly force, the grand jury declined to bring […]
China Telecom chairman Chang Xiaobing under investigation
Source: BBC The chairman of one of China’s largest state-owned mobile operators, China Telecom, is being investigated by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog. Chang Xiaobing is “suspected of serious violation of […]
US prisoners released early by software bug
Source: BBC More than 3,200 US prisoners have been released early because of a software glitch. The bug miscalculated the sentence reductions prisoners in Washington state had received for good […]
Iranian Hackers Infiltrated Computers That Control New York Dam
Source: The Huffington Post WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Iranian hackers breached the control system of a dam near New York City in 2013, an infiltration that raised concerns about […]
Thieves drop eight-year-old off at school after stealing car with boy inside
The boy says he was ‘a little scared’ when two men jumped in the car Jess Staufenberg 3 comments The thieves told the boy his mother had instructed them to take him to school Rex Features Two car thieves who discovered a child on the back seat decided to drop him off at school […]
Islamic centre teachers jailed for a year for beating 10-year-old
Source: The Independent Two teachers at an Islamic school in Birmingham have been jailed for 12 months for “brutally” beating a young boy with a stick. The 10-year-old victim was repeatedly beaten for offences such as “talking in class” or “failing to read the Koran accurately” at Sparkbrook Islamic Centre […]
How White Christians Used The Bible To Oppress Black People
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/22/2015 4:43 pm How White Christians Used The Bible — And Confederate Flag — To Oppress Black People On Jan. 4, 1861, […]
One in 35 men in Britain are potential paedophiles according to shocking new crime figures
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Two sentenced to death for Ahmadi mosque attack in Pakistan, in 2010
Source: Samaa.tv: LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) today awarded death sentence to two militants for their role in 2010 bomb and gun attack on an Ahmadi worship place in Lahore. The two convicts, Maawia and Abdullah, were handed the sentence on seven counts. Both the militants are members of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
Court sentences Ahmadi worship place attackers to death, life imprisonment
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Saint Gallen cops probe Islamic centre blaze
Published: 07 Dec 2014 22:58 GMT+01:00 Two molotov cocktails thrown into an Islamic centre started a fire in a village in the canton of Saint Gallen early Sunday morning, according […]
ICC to probe Central African Republic's 'endless war crimes'
The International Criminal Court has opened a formal probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR). ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there had been “endless” instances of rape, murder, forced displacement, persecution and pillaging since 2012. READ MORE…
ICC to probe Central African Republic’s ‘endless war crimes’
The International Criminal Court has opened a formal probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR). ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there had been “endless” instances of rape, murder, forced displacement, persecution and pillaging since 2012. READ MORE…
Iraqi Christians Fight for Survival Against Islamic State Militants
Voice of America: Religious leaders warn that Sunni militants of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria are trying to ethnically cleanse the region. The ancient Yazidi communities have been particularly targeted for brutal treatment. Christians also are fleeing their homes, prompting fears that religions and sects that have […]
One in 10 girls sexually abused, says UN report
About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says. The children’s agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean […]