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The founder of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba warned in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press that violence in Kashmir will escalate. File photo of Chief of the Pakistan s outlawed Islamic hardliner Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. Hafiz Saeed, designated a terrorist by the United States with a $10 million bounty on his head, also said
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Sri Lanka plans to appoint a commission to probe into violations of internationally accepted norms of conduct during the last phase of the war between government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE . HT Image The commission would also investigate the circumstances that would have led to the violations and identify the persons or groups responsible. Also for the first time, the
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who had to resign in 2009 following corruption charges was on Tuesday cleared by a court in two major cases but convicted of a lesser charge of breach of trust. HT Image While 66-year-old Olmert was cleared of the main graft charges of bribery and falsely billing for foreign fund raising trips by the Jerusalem district court, he was found guilty of illegally granting favours to a business friend, during his tenure.
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The inability of people to say, without fear of being branded as bigots, that marriage is exclusively between a man and a woman is threatening to make freedom of speech a second-tier constitutional right , supreme court justice Samuel Alito said at a virtual conference on Thursday.Officials condemn Trump s false claims and say election most secure in US history Read moreIn a bleak address, Alito took aim at abortion rights, same-sex marriage, gun control and other conservative bugbears.The remarks were made to the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group that has helped Donald Trump remake the judiciary in the last four years.While supreme court justices have in the past waded into politics in public forums, Alitos 30-minute speech stood out for its provocative engagement on fronts in the culture wars that had not seemed to be particularly hot, at least before the confirmati
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Nicola Sturgeon has delayed the start of legal enforcement of Scotlands new vaccine passports by 17 days after a backlash from nightclub and venue owners.The first ministers concession comes after the nightclub industry launched legal action against the rules, which force customers at venues and large sports and music events to prove they have had both Covid vaccinations or are exemp
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