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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the tensions between the United States and Russia over hacking attacks in the U.S. elections (all times EST):...
CENTREVILLE, Md. (AP) -- Two luxury retreats in New York and Maryland where Russian diplomats have gone for decades to play tennis, sail and swim were shut down by the Obama administration Friday in retaliation for Moscow's cyber-meddling in the presidential election....
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin castigated the United States on Friday for trying to punish Russia but said his country will not immediately retaliate and instead will wait for a new U.S. approach by Donald Trump. The president-elect praised Putin's move and called him "very smart."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. relations with Moscow during and after the Cold War have been marred by diplomatic dustups ranging from espionage scandals to an Olympics boycott....
More than a dozen Nobel laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to end "ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity" in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State. At least 86 people have been killed in a military crackdown in Rakhine State, launched after attacks on police posts near the border with Bangladesh on Oct. 9.The government of predominantly Buddhist Myanmar has blamed Muslim Rohingyas supported by foreign militants for the coordinated attacks which killed nine police officers. More than 30,000 people have fled to Bangladesh, escaping the violence which has renewed international criticism that Aung San Suu Kyi's government has done too little to help the Rohingya, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar.In an open letter to the Security Council, Tutu and 22 others including fellow Nobel Peace laureates José Ramos-Ho...
More than a dozen Nobel laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to end "ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity" in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State. At least 86 people have been killed in a military crackdown in Rakhine State, launched after attacks on police posts near the border with Bangladesh on Oct. 9.
The government of predominantly Buddhist Myanmar has blamed Muslim Rohingyas supported by foreign militants for the coordinated attacks which killed nine police officers. More than 30,000 people have fled to Bangladesh, escaping the violence which has renewed international criticism that Aung San Suu Kyi's government has done too little to help the Rohingya, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar.
In an open letter to the Security Council, Tutu and 22 others including fellow Nobel Peace laureates José Ramos-Horta and Muhammad Yunus said a "human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar". "If we fail to take action, people may starve to death if they are not killed with bullets," the letter said. The violence had the hallmarks of Rwanda's 1994 genocide as well as ethnic cleansing in Sudan's western Darfur region, Bosnia and Kosovo, it said.
The signatories to the letter said even if a group of Rohingyas was behind the Oct. 9 attacks, the army's response had been "grossly disproportionate". "It would be one thing to round up suspects, interrogate them and put them on trial," the letter said. "It is quite another to unleash helicopter gunships on thousands of ordinary civilians and to rape women and throw babies into a fire."
Myanmar's government has denied accusations that excessive military force was used following the October attacks. (Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation)
The Legislative Assembly of India’s West Bengal state on Dec. 16 approved a 2016 draft law of Saint Xavier University of Kolkata, thus paving the way for the creation of a new university. The campus of the new university in New Town, Rajarhat, will cater to the growing demand for valid facilities for the state’s secondary education. According to information sent by the General Curia of the Jesuits to the Vatican’s Fides news agency, the project envisages that the University can be composed of several institutions of Bengal realized and managed by the Jesuits. The Educational Foundation of St. Xavier of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, will administer the institutions of higher education throughout West Bengal entrusted to the Jesuits Foundation.The university will provide education, teaching, training and research in various disciplines and specialized fields. These include science, technology, law, administration, social sciences, medicine, performin...
The Legislative Assembly of India’s West Bengal state on Dec. 16 approved a 2016 draft law of Saint Xavier University of Kolkata, thus paving the way for the creation of a new university. The campus of the new university in New Town, Rajarhat, will cater to the growing demand for valid facilities for the state’s secondary education.
According to information sent by the General Curia of the Jesuits to the Vatican’s Fides news agency, the project envisages that the University can be composed of several institutions of Bengal realized and managed by the Jesuits. The Educational Foundation of St. Xavier of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, will administer the institutions of higher education throughout West Bengal entrusted to the Jesuits Foundation.
The university will provide education, teaching, training and research in various disciplines and specialized fields. These include science, technology, law, administration, social sciences, medicine, performing arts. The opening is scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year. (Source: Fides)
LONDON (AP) -- Police say an initial autopsy of George Michael has been "inconclusive" and more tests must be carried out to establish a cause of death....
NEW YORK (AP) -- After 79 years of serving up heaps of cured meat to tourists, theater patrons and workaday New Yorkers, the Carnegie Delicatessen will slice its last ridiculously oversized sandwich on Friday....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dying of a broken heart is real....
