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Kohistan 'honour' killing: Pakistani woman Rukhsana Bibi relives horror http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24540073 By M Ilyas Khan On a hot and humid night in late August, a small group quietly scales the wall of a mud-brick house in a village near Pakistan's north-western town of...

The Free Syrian Army has issued a fatwa prohibiting the killing of lice that appear in the Muslim beard or else “be punished with 50 lashes by Sharia,” Ahlulbayt News , an English-language Shia Islamic television channel, reported Sunday. The fatwa, translated by Ahlulbayt, reportedly states...

Just this week officials in United Kingdom have begun to move against pesticides that have altered the bee population in serious ways. Lest we think this is should be a low priority in the face of all the world disasters we have read about in the past few months, more needs to be done. Standing...

Nigeria: Islamic Militants Attack School, Killing 30 By ADAMU ADAMU and MICHELLE FAUL 07/06/13 12:14 PM ET EDT POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At...

Woolwich killing: The long-feared attack http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22624100 Wednesday's events in Woolwich have shocked the UK - but this was precisely the kind of attack that security chiefs have long feared could come. The warning signs that a soldier would one day be targeted on...

WHAT IS THE SIKH VIEWPOINT ON EUTHANASIA, MERCY KILLING OR ASSISTED SUICIDE? There has been a massive debate about this subject, but not among Sikhs;neither from a Sikh viewpoint.For many number of reasons they either do not feel comfortable with it or pretend it does not exist.Two more reasons...

Maple Ridge woman accused of Jassi Sidhu honour killing fires her lawyer Published on September 24, 2012 Jassi Sidhu By Keith Fraser, The Province A Maple Ridge woman accused in an alleged honour-killing case in India has fired her lawyer, delaying her extradition...

Vancouver truck driver sentenced to life in Indian prison for killing his wife By Sam Cooper, The ProvinceJune 10, 2012 Manjit Badyal (L) was sentenced to life imprisonment in India for the contract killing of his wife, Kuldeep Badyal (R) in 2009, when she was shot dead on her...

'To hell with them' — father in honour killing trial caught on tape By Rob Tripp, Postmedia News - November 14, 2011 12:47 PM L to R: Hamed Shafia, Mohammad Shafia, and Tooba Mohammad Yahya walk into the Frontenac Court courthouse in Kingston, Ont. on October 20, 2011...

(http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/court-convicts-31-hindus-of-killing-muslims/articleshow/10668642.cms) Better article needs to be posted. Not well written from what I can tell. Sorry about that.

The Jat Sikh minor girl, whose family members allegedly kidnapped and murdered the Dalit youth with whom she had an affair, was traced on Tuesday and presented before the police by her parents. A police inquiry found that she had been at her cousin's house in Theekriwala village of Barnala...

In yet another suspected honour killing, the body of a 20-year-old youth, who belonged to a Dalit family, was found on the bank of a canal in Badni village in Moga district, police said on Tuesday. Gagandeep Singh who was allegedly killed on Monday for having an affair with a Jat Sikh girl...

At least 10 people were killed after a magnitude-5.2 earthquake toppled several buildings in southern Spain near the town of Lorca, officials say. The quake struck at a depth of just 1km (0.6 miles), some 120km south-west of Alicante, at 1847 (1647 GMT), the US Geological Survey reported...

http://tehelka.com/story_main47.asp?filename=Ne201110Maariyamma.asp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mother, shall I put you to sleep? Maariyamma is likely to be killed by her children because they cannot afford her. They will give her a loving...

PHOENIX — A jury convicted an Iraqi immigrant of second-degree murder Tuesday for running over and killing his daughter in a case prosecutors called an "honor killing." Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, also was convicted of aggravated assault for injuries suffered by the mother of his daughter's...

See photo slide show at this link http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/world/earthquake-strikes-christchurch/20110222-1b3a5.html New Zealand earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing at least 65 people City hit by 6.3-magnitude quake on busy weekday afternoon, its second major quake in five...

After ‘Honor Killing’ it is ‘Forced Teen Marriage’ Thursday, February 17, 2011 Indian Weekender India correspondents Close on the heels of the “honour killing” label that the mainstream New Zealand media gave Indians following the alleged homicide in the Waikato, it is now squarely accusing the...

SAD nominates Bibi Jagir Kaur accused of killing her daughter, patron of its woman wing Punjab Newsline Network Friday, 03 December 2010 CHANDIGARH: The ruling party in Punjab Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which finds its strength from 'Nanhi Chhan' programme, aimed to protect girl...

New Delhi: A witness on Tuesday related before a Delhi court, which is trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, as to how his brothers were killed by a mob during the carnage. "As soon as I entered that gali (alley), I saw one Sikh wrapped in a woollen shawl...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said that death sentence should be awarded in dowry death and bride burning cases as they fall under the "rarest of rarest" category while observing the Indian society has become totally sick and commercial. A bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and...