IFJ: 121 journalists dead in 2012
By Elena Ralli | New Europe As Jim Boumelha, IFJ President, stated: “The death toll for 2012 is another indictment of governments which pay lip service to the protection of journalists but have consistently failed to stop their slaughter. It is no wonder that these sky-high numbers of killed journalists have become a constant feature in [...]
Read More →Another Woman Killed after Allegedly being Raped in India
Xinhua | CRI While the nation was mourning the death of a 23-year-old medical student who was gang raped two weeks ago in the Indian capital, a 42-year-old woman was murdered Saturday after being allegedly raped in the eastern state of West Bengal, reported local media Monday. The Indo-Asian News Service quoted police as saying [...]
Read More →Bahraini Policemen Charged for Torturing Detainee to Death
Al Manar A Bahrain court on Sunday jailed two policemen for seven years each after convicting them of torturing to death a detainee in the wake of last year’s brutal crackdown on protests, a local daily said. The Gulf kingdom’s high criminal court found the two national security members guilty of torturing Abdul Karim Fakhrawi [...]
Read More →Obama pledges to make gun control top priority for 2013
ANI President Barack Obama has pledged to make gun control a top priority in his second term and vowed to put his ‘full weight’ behind such legislation. In an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’, Obama said that he did like to get it done in the first year, adding that the issue was not [...]
Read More →Syrian troops arrest 4 Turkish fighter jet pilots in Aleppo
PressTV Syrian Army troops have reportedly arrested four Turkish fighter jet pilots near a military airport in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo. The Turkish pilots were arrested by the Syrian troops at the Koerc military airport while trying to sneak into the airfield with the help of a militant group, Arabic-language newspaper Al-Watan reported on [...]
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