Pakistan brings back death penalty, to anger of rights groups
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s new government, trying to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned by international organizations as inhuman and retrograde.
U.N.’s Pillay concerned over detention of Muslim Brotherhood
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday she was concerned by reports of the detention of leading members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, but stopped short of saying whether their overthrow this week constituted a coup d’eta…
U.N. rights team will visit Asia for North Korea inquiry
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights investigators will go to South Korea and Japan next month to interview North Korean exiles about alleged crimes against humanity in the secretive state.
Australian navy rescues troubled boat as Indonesia, Australia talk refugees
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian navy vessel came to the aid of a suspected asylum seeker boat in distress south of Indonesia on Friday, as leaders of the two countries met to discuss refugees, one of the key issues in Australia’s upcoming general elec…
Russian protest leader Navalny could face six years’ jail
KIROV, Russia (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors demanded a six-year jail sentence for protest leader Alexei Navalny on theft charges on Friday at a trial that he says is intended to sideline him as a rival to President Vladimir Putin.
Spain sees no reason to apologize to Bolivia in Snowden saga
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain said on Friday it had no reason to apologize after a plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was diverted on suspicion that fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was on board.
Analysis: Egypt risks Islamist splits, violence after Mursi fall
CAIRO (Reuters) – Some 200,000 people died in a decade of civil war in Algeria after uniformed officers rejected a popular vote for Islamists, an example some in Cairo darkly cite after the army ousted Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president on Wednesday….
Pakistan brings back death penalty, to anger of rights groups
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s new government, striving to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned as “shocking and retrograde” by rights group Amnesty International.
Gulf drive against Hezbollah may hit ordinary Shi’ites
DUBAI (Reuters) – Gulf Arab states are punishing Hezbollah for its role in Syria by expelling Lebanese expatriates linked to the group in a move that could victimize Shi’ite Muslims with no ties to the militants apart from their shared religious faith….
Hollande shuns fight with protected jobs as EU pressure builds
PARIS (Reuters) – It looks like a bread line in Soviet Russia, but the queue snaking away from Paris’s Opera Garnier house on a Saturday night is full of tourists waiting for a different sort of scarce commodity: a taxi to bring them home.
