Our humanity has failed us in Gaza

In a second UN schoolyard, children's bodies lie sliced like meat by falling shells.A girl her face behind a mask of blood... " A girl is carried from the carnage, her face invisible behind a mask of blood. The...

79 uncouth sunbathers arrested in Dubai

A clash of values concerning appropriate beachwear has lead to a rash of arrests and a decency campaign in Dubai."DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Westerners were getting too racy on the beaches of this...

Bhutanese temple thieves get life

Bhutan is one of the most happiest society and maintaining law and order is never a big issue. But Thieves are dealt very severly and in a recent case 7 thieves were imprisoned for life after found guilty of...

Police foil terror attack on Indonesian capital

Chalk up one for the good guys." Anti-terror police arrested 10 suspected Muslim militants and seized a large cache of high-powered bombs, foiling a major attack targeting Westerners in the Indonesian capital, police and media reports said Thursday. Among those detained was...

Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah terror leader, killed in car bomb

" Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah mastermind behind the kidnapping of Westerners in Beirut and many big terror attacks around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, was killed late last night in a car bomb explosion in Damascus."

'Kidney racket' exposed in India

"Last week, police in Gurgaon, a suburb of the capital Delhi, raided a house which was used to carry out illegal kidney transplants. Hundreds of poor labourers were tricked into selling kidneys, officials...

Iraq hunts for kidnapped Westerners - The Australian

" By Karim Jamil in Basra SECURITY forces are hunting for two Westerners kidnapped in southern Iraq after an American hostage was reportedly killed but two others rescued. Four US citizens and an Austrian, working as security guards for a Kuwaiti company, were kidnapped on...

Al Qaeda in Iraq beckons nuclear scientists - Boston Globe

" Also calls for kidnappings of Westerners By David Rising, Associated Press | September 29, 2006 BAGHDAD -- Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, in an audiotape released yesterday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so...

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