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| As court cases mount, survival hopes wane for troubled Thai PM | |  By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - The legal cases are piling up fast against Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her party loyalists. During eight years of intermittent power struggles, Thailand's courts have become deeply politicised and their rulings haven't been kind to the Shinawatra family, whose parties and allies have been the country's undisputed electoral champions for more than a decade. Since 2006, judges have ruled that two governing parties controlled by Yingluck's brother and former premier Thaksin Shinawatra be dissolved, $1.4 billion of the family's assets confiscated, two election wins annulled and nearly 150 politicians banned for five years, including a prime minister whose appearances in a TV cooking show cost him his job. If five months of crippling street protests haven't been enough to contend with, her fate is now in the hands of Thailand's topsy-turvy, at times bewildering, checks and balances system.
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| Pakistan Taliban suspend month-long ceasefire but still want talks | |  By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have not extended a month-long ceasefire but are still open to pursuing peace talks with the Islamabad government, a spokesman for the insurgent movement said Wednesday. Shahidullah Shahid said some Taliban leaders had objected to extending the ceasefire, which lasted during the month of March. The Pakistani Taliban and the Islamabad government are now involved in their second round of peace talks. A first round failed in February after the Taliban bombed a police bus and executed 23 men kidnapped from a government paramilitary force.
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| Majority of Americans want to treat, not jail, drug users - survey | | | While people are still worried about the extent of drug abuse, especially in their schools and neighborhoods, those surveyed supported less harsh punishment for non-violent offenders, especially marijuana users, the Pew Research Center found. Two thirds also said they supported the growing movement among some U.S. states to back away from mandatory sentences for minor drug crimes, according to the nonpartisan group's survey. The poll, conducted from February 14 through February 23, comes as policy makers and top U.S. law enforcement officials reexamine the nation's drug policy to allow judges greater discretion in sentencing offenders, although some prosecutors have balked at the effort. American's relaxing attitude toward marijuana use was particularly clear: 44 percent of those polled said the medical use of the drug should be legal and 39 percent backed its legalization for personal use. |
| Andhra cancels PG medical entrance test | | | Hyderabad, April 2 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan Wednesday ordered the cancellation of Post-Graduate Medical Entrance Test conducted by Vijayawada-based NTR University of Health Sciences. An official statement said the cancellation was ordered on the basis of the report submitted by the Crime Investigation Department (CID), which probed the alleged irregularities. The CID has already arrested nine people, including seven students and two middlemen. According to the CID, the scam is spread across multiple cities, including Mumbai and Gurgaon, and police have identified involvement of a dozen people. |
| Kenyan Muslim groups threaten protest over Islamist shooting | |  By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two prominent Kenyan Muslim rights groups threatened on Wednesday to stage street protests in the port city of Mombasa unless the government met a Saturday deadline to say who had killed a prominent Islamist. The ultimatum was issued a day after the drive-by shooting of Abubakar Shariff, also known as Makaburi, who the United States and U.N. Security Council accuse of supporting the Somali militant group al Shabaab. Mombasa-based Muslims for Human Rights (Muhuri) and Haki Africa have in the past both accused Kenya's Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) of carrying out extra-judicial killings of well-known Muslims, a charge the police have always strongly denied. Makaburi's close ally and friend, preacher Aboud Rogo, was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2012.
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| Actress claims harassment via messaging app | | | New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A Delhi-based actress, in her 30s, has filed a case against unidentified people for harassing her by sending obscene messages and photographs on her mobile phone via a messaging application, police said Wednesday. The actress, who stays in New Friends Colony in south Delhi, filed two complaints between March 7 and 29. "An unidentified man has been messaging her lewd messages and dirty pictures of sexual organs," a police officer said, quoting the woman's complaint. |
| Gurgaon officials booked for preparing fake votes | | | Gurgaon, April 2 (IANS) Three booth-level officers here have been booked after the district election officer filed a police complaint following a sting operation by a TV channel that alleged they took bribes for preparing fake votes. |
| 23 Delhi poll candidates have criminal cases against them | | | New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) At least 23 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi have criminal charges against them, says an Association of Democratic Reforms analysis released Wednesday. |
| Three IGNOU students injured in campus clash | | | New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Three students of the Indira Gandhi National Open University here were injured Wednesday when they clashed with the varsity security staff. About 100 students of IGNOU came to meet the vice chancellor at Maidan Garhi area in south Delhi to demand release of online results which were delayed due to some reason, police said. The students gathered since the morning in the varsity premises and raised slogans against the vice chancellor. Three students received injuries and were admitted to a hospital. |
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