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Afghanistan Enacts Law To Control Cyberspace

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by...

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‘Lead Crusade Against Corruption’

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Mr. Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr., has expressed strong reservations of what...

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Canada Apologizes, Pays Damages To Former Guantanamo Detainee

The Canadian government on Friday issued an official apology and paid damages to a former Guantanamo detainee who was...

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Britain Opens Separate ‘jihadi Jails’

Britain said Thursday it had begun housing Islamist extremists in separate prison units to prevent them radicalising...

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Bangladesh Opposition Activists Held In Secret Detention

Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed,...

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Boko Haram Attacks Military Bases In Northeast Nigeria

Boko Haram jihadists believed to be from the IS-supported faction loyal to Abu Mus'ab Al-Barnawi have attacked three...

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Virginia Set To Execute Man Using ‘potentially Tortuous’ Drug Cocktail

Virginia is preparing to kill a 32-year-old man using a controversial lethal injection formula that may have subjected...

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Israel Court Rejects Demand To Demolish Home of Jewish Assailants

Israel's top court has rejected a demand that the state demolish the homes of Jewish extremists who murdered a...

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Activists Urge ICC To Probe Mexico’s ‘crimes Against Humanity’

Rights activists on Wednesday urged the International Criminal Court to probe years of killings and disappearances, as...

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Philippine Militants Behead 2 Vietnamese Hostages

Islamist militants have beheaded two Vietnamese sailors held hostage for eight months in the southern Philippines, the...

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Canada To Award Millions To Former Guantanamo Detainee

Canada is set to apologize and award millions of dollars of compensation to a former Guantanamo detainee who was...

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ICC To Rule If S. Africa Broke Rules By Not Arresting Sudan’s Bashir

War crimes judges will Thursday hand down an eagerly anticipated ruling on whether South Africa flouted international...

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Indian Woman Attacked With Acid For Fifth Time

A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid,...

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Polio Worker ‘shot Dead In NW Pakistan’

A health worker who had been immunising children against polio was shot dead in Pakistan's northwestern province...

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Benin, A Ponzi Scheme and A Long Wait For Answers

Sadiatou used to be a well-off trader of traditional cloth at the market in Benin's economic hub of Cotonou but now...

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Female Suicide Bombers Kill One In Cameroon’s Far North

One civilian was killed and two others injured Saturday when four female bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon's Far...

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19-Year Old Suspected Thief Escapes Lynching

Another barbaric act of Jungle Justice was almost meted out to a 19-year-old who allegedly attempting to steal a...

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Suspected Militant Shot Dead After Stabbing Indonesian Policemen

Indonesian police shot dead a suspected militant after he stabbed two policemen inside a mosque near the national...

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Ex-CIA Agent Convicted Over Imam Kidnapping To Face Sentencing

A former CIA agent who was found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian imam by an Italian court more than a decade ago said...