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| Salvation Army settles long-running religious discrimination suit | | | By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Salvation Army has settled a lawsuit brought a decade ago by now-former employees who accused the U.S. charity of pressuring them to follow its religious mission while they worked on government-funded social service projects. The organization's greater New York division agreed to provide employees of its government-funded services including daycare centers and homeless shelters a document saying it will not ask about their religious beliefs or require them to profess adherence to its religious policies, said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which represented the plaintiffs. The document will also state that employees are not required to participate in religious activities in the workplace, the NYCLU said in a statement. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein, who in 2005 had dismissed some claims against the Salvation Army, approved the settlement in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday. |
| U.S. NSA records all calls in targeted foreign nation - report | |  The U.S. National Security Agency has created a surveillance system that can record all phone calls in a targeted foreign nation, allowing it to play back and listen to conversations up to 30 days later, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The newspaper cited unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the system as well as documents supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who since last year has leaked extensive data revealing sweeping American spying activities. A classified summary of the system said the collection effort was recording "every single" conversation nationwide in the first target country, storing billions of conversations in a 30-day rolling buffer that clears out the oldest calls as new ones are made, the Post reported. The Post said that no other disclosed NSA program captures a nation's telephone network in its entirety.
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| U.S. authorities arrest 14 in porn website involving 251 children | | | Authorities have arrested 14 men in a secret, members-only child pornography website that involved 251 children, mostly boys, in the United States and five other countries, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Some of the men assumed female online personas to connect with the children, who ranged in age from three to 17 years, on popular social networks, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The alleged U.S. victims, who have been identified and contacted by authorities, were from 39 U.S. states. "Never before in the history of this agency have we identified and located this many minor victims in the course of a single child-exploitation investigation," said Daniel Ragsdale, the ICE deputy director. |
| Delhi policewoman smothered to death by fiance | | | New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) A 20-year-old Delhi Police woman constable was smothered to death by her fiance at a guest house here, officials said Tuesday. The body of Priyanka Rani was found inside a room of the guest house in west Delhi's Janakpuri area by a staff member Tuesday morning. Rani along with her fiance Mohit, employed with the Indian Navy but currently placed under suspension, checked into the guest house Sunday evening. "On Sunday, he telephoned her requesting to meet at some place in west Delhi. |
| Woman summoned for cheating husband | | | Additional Sessions Judge Ashutosh Kumar said that prima facie, the miscarriage was caused by the woman without the consent of her husband, and as such an offence under section 312 of the Indian Penal Code was committed by her. The court said the woman knew about her pregnancy before her marriage and she had not disclosed this fact to her husband before tying the knot and had thereby deceived him. |
| U.S. authorities arrest 14 in child porn website involving 251 children | | | Authorities have arrested 14 men in a secret, members-only child pornography website that involved 251 children, mostly boys, in five countries, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Some of the men assumed female online personas to contact the children, who ranged in age from three to 17 years, on popular social networks, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Eleven of the men charged with running the website, which had more than 27,000 subscribers, were from Louisiana, the officials said at a news conference. The 251 victims, who have been identified and contacted by authorities, were located in 39 U.S. states. |
| Five Holi revellers drown in Delhi | | | New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Five youths were drowned in the Yamuna river when they went to take a bath after playing Holi, police said Tuesday. The incident happened at Sonia Vihar area in east Delhi on Monday evening. "Robin, Yogesh, Dheeraj (all aged 23), Praveen, 25 and Suresh, 24 were taken out of the water after around a four-hour rescue operation," said the officials of the Delhi Fire Service (DFS). All the deceased were labourers and lived in east Delhi. |
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