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UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests
Associated Press, Published on 13/04/2017
» PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jet-setters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the UN peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.
Romance novellas by women challenge tradition
News, Associated Press, Published on 19/08/2016
» Nestled among vegetables, plastic kettles and hand-dyed fabric in market stalls are the signs of a feminist revolution: Piles of poorly printed books by women that advocate forcefully against conservative Muslim traditions such as child marriage and quick divorce.
4 arrested for savage Hua Hin attack on elderly Brits
Associated Press, Published on 28/04/2016
» <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN - Four men have been arrested for a savage attack on an elderly British family holidaying in Hua Hin over the Songkran holiday after a video of the incident went viral on the internet.</span></p>
Uighur defendants plead innocent to Erawan bomb plot
Associated Press, Published on 16/02/2016
» Two members of China's Muslim Uighur minority pleaded innocent Tuesday to carrying out the deadly bombing of the Erawan shrine last year, with the lawyer of one saying his client claims to have been tortured to elicit a confession.
Bombing suspect 'fled to Turkey'
Associated Press, Published on 14/09/2015
» A key suspect in last month's bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, police said on Monday, in another indication that the attack could be the work of members of China's ethnic Uighur minority who have sympathisers in Turkey.
Image of dead child on beach haunts, frustrates world
Associated Press, Published on 04/09/2015
» The photo of the dead three-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting.
Gang-raped woman may be caned
Associated Press, Published on 07/05/2014
» BANDA ACEH - An Indonesian woman who was gang-raped by men who accused her of having extramarital sex may be caned publicly for violating Islamic law, an official said on Wednesday.
When mob was Rohingya, Myanmar's response ruthless
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2013
» BA GONE NAR, Myanmar — Noor Jaan lifted her black Islamic veil and recalled the last time she saw her husband. He was among more than 600 Rohingya Muslim men thrown in jail in this remote corner of Myanmar during a ruthless security crackdown that followed sectarian violence, and among one in 10 who did not make it out alive.
Four men given death sentences in India gang rape
Associated Press, Published on 13/09/2013
» An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the rampant mistreatment of women and the government's inability to deal with crime.
Sentences on Friday in Delhi rape
Associated Press, Published on 11/09/2013
» NEW DELHI — An Indian judge has announced that sentences will be handed down Friday in the fatal gang rape of a young New Delhi woman, as the prosecutor called for the four convicted rapists to be executed and defense lawyers asked for leniency.