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Back to homepageKurdish Speaking Defendants Silenced at Court 0
Post Views: 13 In the third week of the “KCK trial”, procedures reached the presentation of the defence. 152 defendants are tried for their alleged affiliation with the Democratic Confederation of Kurdistan. When the defendants spoke Kurdish, the microphone was
Read MoreBerlusconi government to ban street prostitution 0
Post Views: 24 Mara Carfagna, the equal opportunities minister, said a package of measures will include banning prostitution in public places Mara Carfagna and Silvio Berlusconi have announced a package of measures t?o ban prostitution in public places. Photograph: Rex
Read MoreMexico Gulf drug cartel leader Ezequiel Cardenas killed 0
Post Views: 26 A leader of Mexico’s powerful Gulf drug cartel has been shot dead by security forces in a town near the US border, the Mexican military says. Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, known as “Tony Tormenta”, was killed in the
Read MorePakistan city tense ahead of Imran Farooq burial 0
Post Views: 8 Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is tense as it prepares for the burial of one of the country’s leading politicians. Imran Farooq, 50, a senior member of the MQM party who had lived in London since 1999, was
Read MoreAlexander Lebedev’s empire suffers another blow with hotel raid in Ukraine 0
Post Views: 9 Exclusive: Tax officers and security service officials enter More resort in Alushta on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast Alexander Lebedev, the Russian owner of Britain’s Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers, suffered another bruising blow to his business
Read MoreObama in India on Asian tour 0
Post Views: 8 US president arrives in Mumbai on first leg of 10-day tour to four countries aimed at boosting trade. US President Barack Obama will be staying at the Taj Mahal hotel, site of the 2008 Mumbai attacks [REUTERS] Barack
Read MoreLatvian UN staff abducted in Darfur 0
Post Views: 12 Three helicopter crew members contracted to the World Food Programme seized by armed men in western Sudan. Three Latvian helicopter crew members working for the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) have been abducted in the Sudanese state
Read MorePace of hiring picks up in US 0
Post Views: 8 Jobs data bring cheer to world markets but fail to make a dent in US unemployment rate, stuck at 9.6 per cent. The US economy generated 150,000 jobs in October, with much of the gains coming in the private
Read MoreA question for the fair trade critics: How much is human dignity worth? 0
Post Views: 6 The Institute of Economic Affairs has attacked the fair trade movement, denouncing it as ‘froth’. But what’s so wrong about tackling global trade inequities from the bottom up? ? Free market thinktanks usually launch their ideological attacks
Read MoreInterrogation techniques at ‘Britain’s Abu Ghraib’ revealed 0
Post Views: 6 Video showing brutal mistreatment is submitted during high court proceedings brought by former Iraqi inmates Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the
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