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| Pakistan military court sentences nine to death for terrorism | | | A secret military court in Pakistan has sentenced nine men to death and one to life in prison after convicting them of involvement in different cases of terrorism, the military said on Monday. Military courts were empowered in January to try suspected militants after Taliban gunmen massacred 134 children at an army-run school in December. Last month, a secret military court sentenced six men to death after convicting them of involvement in the massacre at the school in Peshawar. |
| Hungary beefs up border with army, warns migrants to stay away | |  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's parliament authorised the government on Monday to deploy the army to help handle a wave of migrants, granting the military the right to use non-lethal force. Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million, lies in the path of the largest migration wave Europe has seen since World War Two and has registered more than 220,000 asylum-seekers this year. Prime Minister Viktor Orban told parliament police were unable to secure all Hungary's frontiers - which include outer borders of the EU's passport-free Schengen zone - without help from the army.
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| U.N. investigator sees Milosevic's fate awaiting Assad | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - Justice will catch up with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad even if he remains in power under a negotiated end to Syria's war, U.N. human rights investigator Carla del Ponte said on Monday. "Assad is the president, so let's deal with the institution of president. If we can achieve a ceasefire with the president, why not? But afterwards, justice will come," del Ponte told reporters. "You remember in former Yugoslavia, Milosevic was president, and it was a peace negotiation at Dayton and they achieved an agreement? And Milosevic was still president, but justice could be done. ...
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| Saudi-led coalition strikes kill at least 30 in north Yemen | | | At least 30 people were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-led alliance on a Houthi-held security compound in northern Yemen on Monday, medical sources and officials said, in an escalating campaign that has claimed increasing civilian lives. The coalition intervened in Yemen in March to restore Hadi after he fled to Saudi Arabia when the Houthis, backed by supporters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, overran his southern stronghold of Aden. A coalition jet fired a missile on Monday into police headquarters in the al-Shaghadreh district of the northern province of Hajjah, northwest of Sanaa, that is in the hands of the Iranian-allied Houthis, regional officials said. |
| Support for Japan's Abe sags after security bills passed | |  Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fell after the passage of controversial national security bills, which could let troops fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two, polls published on Monday showed. Support for Abe's cabinet dropped six percentage points from last month to 40 percent, with its disapproval rate climbing seven points to 47 percent, according to an opinion poll by the Nikkei business daily. The legislation, which had triggered massive protests from ordinary citizens and others who say it violates Japan's pacifist constitution and could embroil Japan in U.S.-led conflicts, was voted into law on Saturday.
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| Thai police arrest ex-Philippine governor, brother wanted for murder | | | Thai police said on Monday they had arrested a former Philippines provincial governor and his brother, wanted in their home country for the murder of a journalist who had been campaigning against mining interests. Radio journalist Gerry Ortega was shot dead in January 2011, in a slaying that bore the hallmarks of a contract killing. Police caught the gunman fleeing the scene, and traced the pistol used in the murder to a lawyer of Palawan's governor Mario Joel Reyes. |
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