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| "Jihadi John" from Islamic State beheading videos umasked as Londoner | |  By Michael Holden and Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) - The "Jihadi John" masked fighter who fronted Islamic State beheading videos is Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Briton from a prosperous family who grew up in London and graduated with a computer programming degree, according to the Washington Post. In videos released by Islamic State (IS), the black-clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent appears to have decapitated hostages including Americans, Britons and Syrians. The Washington Post said Emwazi, who used the videos to threaten the West and taunt leaders such as President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, was believed to have travelled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined IS.
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| Warnings about hospital sex crimes of UK star Savile ignored - official reports | |  Warnings about Jimmy Savile, the late BBC TV presenter revealed two years ago to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, who preyed on victims at hospitals where he volunteered, were ignored, official reports said on Thursday. New reports into his activities on Thursday revealed he had abused 60 people at Stoke Mandeville hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympic games, between 1969 and 1992, and despite it being an "open secret" that he was a "lecher," nothing was done. The informal complaints were neither taken seriously nor escalated, said Androulla Johnstone, lead investigator for one of the reports, while the formal one was dropped by the complainant's father due to her serious ill health.
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| Pachauri urged to quit TERI after sex harassment complaint | |  Lawyers and women's rights groups have demanded the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri from his Delhi-based thinktank, after a sexual harassment complaint which led to him quitting as chair of the U.N. panel of climate scientists earlier this week. In a letter to the governing council of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), activists said the thinktank had a responsibility to provide an atmosphere free from sexual harassment and discrimination against women. Too many men in positions of power in India are taking advantage of younger women by sexually harassing them, leading to women dropping out of the workforce, activists said.
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| Islamic State snatches 220 from Christian villages - Syria monitoring group | | | By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three-day offensive, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Thursday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the abductions took place when Islamic State captured 10 villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near Hasaka, a city mainly held by the Kurds, in the past three days. Islamic State has ruthlessly targeted members of religious minorities, as well as fellow Sunni Muslims who refuse to swear allegiance to the 'caliphate' it has declared in parts of Syria and Iraq. The United States on Wednesday condemned the attacks on Assyrian Christian villages, which it said included the burning of homes and churches and abduction of women, children and the elderly. |
| Arson damages Christian seminary in Jerusalem in suspected hate crime | | | An arson attack damaged a Greek Orthodox seminary near Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday and anti-Christian graffiti in Hebrew at the scene suggested the incident was a hate crime. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said in a statement the fire at the seminary was set deliberately and that "there is no room for such deplorable activity" in the city, which is holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said in a statement that the fires at the Jerusalem seminary and the mosque near Bethlehem were the work of "Israeli terrorists ... protected by a government that claims exclusivity over this land". |
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