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Egypt army deploys tanks near Prez palace amid clashes
Philippine typhoon toll mounts to 475
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Not drones, need another way to eliminate terrorists: Pak PM
Pak court adjourns hearing of Saeed’s plea till Dec 31
Indian mom guilty of killing son over memorising Koran
Guatemala detains software guru McAfee
Male can reclaim airport from GMR: Singapore court
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Egypt army deploys tanks near Prez palace amid clashes
Cairo, December 6 Tanks and armoured cars were positioned outside the Presidential palace as hundreds of Mursi's supporters chanted slogans in his favour, amid growing unrest over a controversial draft Constitution. Violence continued today as Mursi's opponents attacked the headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, in several cities. Clashes between supporters and opponents of Mursi left five persons dead and nearly 450 others injured, officials said. However, there was no word on it from the Presidency which said Mursi is likely to deliver a speech shortly. Supporters of Mursi responded to a call to rally outside the Presidential Palace yesterday, while the mainly secular opponents of the President were already staging a sit-in protest there. Vice-President Mahmoud Mekki said yesterday the vote on the draft Constitution was still scheduled for December 15. He, however, added that the "door for dialogue" remained open. Egyptian diplomatic missions have announced that they will boycott supervision of the referendum on the Constitution if it goes ahead as planned on December 15. Muslim Brotherhood leaders and their supporters, meanwhile, headed to the Presidential Palace to express support for Mursi. The Brotherhood announced that one of their members was among the five persons killed in the clashes. Separately, the National Salvation Front led by Mohamed Al-Baradei denounced the violence and noted that they were ready for any form of peaceful escalation, including civil disobedience. — PTI Growing unrest
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Philippine typhoon toll mounts to 475
New Bataan, December 6 Typhoon Bopha ploughed across Mindanao island on Tuesday, flattening whole towns in its path as hurricane-force winds brought torrential rain that triggered a deadly combination of floods and landslides. Erinea Cantilla and her family of six walked barefoot for two days in a vain search of food and shelter through a muddy wasteland near the mountainous town of New Bataan after the deluge destroyed their house and banana and cocoa farm. "Everything we had is gone. The only ones left are dead people," Cantilla said as her husband, three children and a granddaughter reached the outskirts of the town, which itself had been nearly totally obliterated. The army said it was looking for at least 377 missing persons while seeking help for more than 1,79,000 others who sheltered in schools, gyms and other buildings after losing everything.
— AFP
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Not drones, need another way to eliminate terrorists: Pak PM
Islamabad, December 6 Ashraf raised the issue of drone strikes in the backdrop of today's attack on a compound in North Waziristan when US Ambassador Richard Olson called on the premier at his official residence this morning. This was the maiden courtesy call on the premier by Olson, who recently took over as the US envoy. "Expressing his concern over the drone attacks, the Prime Minister said they are counterproductive and we need to find alternative means to eliminate terrorists," said a statement issued by the premier's office. The CIA's drone campaign has emerged as a major irritant in US-Pakistan ties in the recent months. The Pakistani authorities provided tacit backing for the campaign when it was launched during the military regime of former President Pervez Musharraf and the current Pakistan Peoples Party-led government had initially continued with the support. Strong opposition from the public and hardline groups has forced the government to do a rethink on the drone strikes. Over the past few months, American diplomats have been summoned to the Foreign Office for formal protests against the drone strikes.
— PTI
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Pak court adjourns hearing of Saeed’s plea till Dec 31
The Lahore High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a petition by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed seeking government assistance in his defence in a US court hearing a lawsuit moved by relatives of Americans killed in the Mumbai attack of November 2008.
The court deferred the hearing because amicus curie advocate Ahmar Bilal Sufi was out of the country and unable to attend. The hearing will resume on December 31. At the last hearing, the court had sought a reply to the petition from the Ministry of Defence. The plaintiffs in the US court have filed nine claims, seeking a total of $675,000 (Rs 65.27 million) against Hafiz Saeed and some other members of the LeT and the ISI.
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Indian mom guilty of killing son over memorising Koran
London, December 6 Sara Ege, 33, a mathematics graduate from India, was found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday of beating her son Yaseen Ege to death at their home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, in July 2010, and setting afire his body. She was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice at the court. Sentence was adjourned, the BBC reported. Sara also claimed at one point she believed the stick she used on her son had an evil spirit in it. The boy's father, Yousuf Ege, 38, was acquitted of causing Yaseen's death by failing to protect him, the Daily Telegraph reported. It was initially thought Yaseen had died in the blaze at the family home but tests later revealed he had died hours earlier. Sara had pleaded not guilty to murder and claimed her husband was responsible for Yaseen's death. Sara said she feared her husband would kill her and target her family unless she confessed to the murder. That confession, made to the police days after the death of her son, was captured on video and played to the jury during the five-week trial. During the hour-long harrowing footage, university graduate Ege described how the young boy collapsed after she had beaten him while still murmuring extracts of the Koran. Sara said in her confession back then that she decided to burn his body and ran downstairs to get a lighter and a bottle of barbecue gel. In police interviews, she also confessed to beating her son for no reason and that her anger often led to her being out of control. She and her taxi driver husband had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque as they wanted him to become Hafiz, an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran. The court heard Ege become more and more frustrated with her son's inability to learn the passages he needed to. "I was getting all this bad stuff in my head, like I couldn't concentrate, I was getting angry too much, I would shout at Yaseen all the time. I was getting very wild and I hit Yaseen with a stick on his back like a dog," she told officers. She later retracted her statement. "Sara Ege made no attempt to seek the medical attention he so obviously needed," prosecutor Ian Murphy said. "He clearly suffered terribly. She started the fire to hide what she had done," Murphy said.
— PTI
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Child abuse: Indian couple files appeal
Oslo, December 6 Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni and his wife Anupama, who were arrested by the police last month, were sentenced by Oslo District Court to jail terms for 18 months and 15 months, respectively, on Tuesday for gross or repeated maltreatment of their child/children by threats, violence or other wrong. They have now filed an appeal in a higher court, sources said. In the view of the Oslo District Court, the couple had "deliberately burned their son's leg with a hot spoon or similar object with the result that the child
had burn marks measuring approximately 3 x 5 centimetres." The court had said it had been proven that on one occasion the parents had even threatened to brand their son's tongue with a hot spoon.
— PTI
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Guatemala detains software guru McAfee
Guatemala City, December 6 McAfee, who had been in hiding for three weeks, crossed into Guatemala with his 20-year-old girlfriend to evade the authorities in Belize who wanted to quiz him as "a person of interest" about the killing of fellow American Gregory Faull. "He entered the country illegally and we are going to seek his expulsion for this crime," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said.
— Reuters
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Male can reclaim airport from GMR: Singapore court Singapore/Male, December 6 “The Singapore Court of Appeal has passed judgement that the Maldives Government has the authority to take back the airport,” Maldives President Mohamed Waheed’s press secretary Masood Imad said. “Maldives will go ahead with the transfer as scheduled,” he added. On November 27, Maldives had terminated the $ 500-m contract awarded to the GMR during former President Mohamed Nasheed’s regime to upgrade its Male airport and build a new terminal. The government had said it was terminating the contract because it was signed under “dubious conditions” and was void, a charge contested by the infrastructure major. — PTI India’s reaction New Delhi: Reacting to the verdict of a Singapore court which ruled that the Maldives Government can take back the Male Airport from GMR, India said it would like to see "fulfilment" of all legal processes and adherence to all relevant contracts and agreements regarding the compensation in the $500 million Male airport project. — TNS
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