Rights group says powers under Terrorism Act 2000 flout international law. Control orders imposed on suspects, secret proceedings leading to deportations and the “virtually unlimited discretion” given to the police to stop and search must be abandoned in the government’s continuing review of counter-terrorism powers, Amnesty International says today. Control orders are incompatible with Britain’s [...]
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A major earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit New Zealand, 30 km (20 miles) west of Christchurch early on Saturday morning, causing no immediate reports of casualties but widespread damage, authorities said. The quake, which had a depth of 33 kms (20.5 miles), struck around 4.35 a.m. local time (1635 GMT Friday) and was felt throughout [...]
A groom accidentally killed three relatives at his wedding in Turkey when he fired into the air with an assault rifle in celebration, according to reports. Eight other people were wounded at the incident at the village of Akcagoze in
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared a state of emergency on Monday in seven of Russia’s 83 regions due to wildfires fueled by the worst heatwave in over a century, news agencies reported. The death toll from the wildfires rose to 34 people on Monday and Moscow was shrouded in a new blanket of pungent haze [...]
NOVOZAVIDOVO, Russia — People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare – an honest politician. Sagbo last month became the first black to be elected to office in Russia. In a country where [...]
A stampede killed at least 15 people after mass panic broke out in a tunnel at a Love Parade techno music festival in Germany on Saturday. Overcrowding at the entrance tunnel to a former freight rail station where the event was being held sparked the stampede and then a crush among the mainly young festival-goers. [...]
The new rules issued by the Vatican puts attempts at ordaining women among the “most serious crimes” alongside paedophilia and will be handled by investigators from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), considered the successor to the Inquistion. Women attempting to be priests, and those who try to ordain them, already faced [...]
PARIS – France’s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils Tuesday, part of a concerted effort to define and protect French values that has disconcerted many in the country’s large Muslim community. Proponents of the law say face-covering veils don’t square with the French ideal of women’s equality or [...]
Three suspected al-Qaeda members have been arrested for what Norwegian and US officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans to bomb New York’s subway and blow up a shopping mall in England. Officials believe the men were planning attacks with portable but powerful bombs like the ones at the heart of last [...]
