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| Egypt court upholds jailing of leading pro-democracy activists | | | By Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the jailing of three leading figures of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, tightening a crackdown on secular activists opposed to the army-backed government. Critics see their case as an attempt to stifle the kind of political street activism common since the uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak three years ago as Egypt prepares for presidential elections next month. A court handed down three-year sentences to the three liberal activists, Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel, last December for protesting without permission and assaulting the police. The European Union and the United States had urged Egypt to reconsider the verdict. |
| "I'm scared to sleep", tearful Pistorius tells court | |  By David Dolan PRETORIA (Reuters) - His voice trembling with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defence on Monday, saying the Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend last year had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares. The disabled South African track star, on trial for murder, apologised to the mother of model Reeva Steenkamp, saying he had fired four times through a toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home in the belief he was defending her from an intruder. Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, was hit by at least three rounds, one of which - to the head - killed her almost instantly, the court has heard. "I was simply trying to protect Reeva," Pistorius told the Pretoria High Court at the start of his testimony.
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| Two foreign UN workers killed in Somalia | | | By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASSO (Reuters) - A Briton and a Frenchman working for the United Nations were shot dead on Monday at an airport in north central Somalia, officials said. A U.N. mission spokesman said it was not clear who was behind the killings. But one witness said the pair were attacked by a man in a police uniform while they sat in their car at Galkayo airport. Abdi Idris, an official in the semi-autonomous Puntland region which administers the airport, gave the nationalities of the two men and said they worked as consultants for the UN anti-drugs agency. |
| 17 killed as bus falls into gorge in Himachal | | | Shimla, April 7 (IANS) At least 17 people were killed Monday when their overloaded mini-bus rolled down a 400-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, officials said. Nearly 20 others were injured in the accident that took place at Milla near Shillai in Paonta Sahib subdivision, about 110 km from Shimla, as the bus was on its way from Milla village to Paonta Sahib. Superintendent of Police Sumedha Dwivedi told IANS over phone that all the bodies have been recovered, most of them badly mutilated, from the wreckage of the bus. Transport Minister G.S Bali ordered a committee headed by the sub-divisional magistrate of Paonta Sahib to look into the reasons of the accident, besides constituting a technical committee for the same purpose. |
| 209 FIRs against political parties in Jharkhand | | | Ranchi, April 7 (IANS) A total of 209 FIRs have been registered against political parties in Jharkhand for violating the model code of conduct, an EC press statement said Monday. "The BJP tops the list with 57 followed by the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P) with 33. The number of FIRs filed against the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Congress are 32, 26 and 21 respectively," the Election Commission statement said. The remaining FIRs have been lodged against other parties fighting the Lok Sabha election in the state. |
| 8 Jharkhand kids fall ill after eating outdated biscuits | | | Ranchi, April 7 (IANS) Eight children fell ill after eating outdated biscuits in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district Monday, police said. According to police, the children living in slum areas of Jharia locality in the district, about 240 km from here, ate the biscuits after picking up the packets from a pond situated close by. |
| Nido Tania killing: Four accused's judicial custody extended | | | New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) A court here Monday extended, for 14 days, the judicial custody of the four people allegedly involved in Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania killing case. |
| Hold on death sentence of two Delhi gang rape accused extended | | | New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday extended its interim order putting on hold the execution of death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta - two of the four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012, Delhi gangrape case - as it sought material they were relying on to contest high court verdict upholding their conviction and death sentence. A bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice J. Chelameswar adjourned the hearing till Monday (April 14) as it asked the counsel M.L.Sharma to place before them the postmortem report of the Singapore hospital where the victim was treated and succumbed to her injuries. The vourt asked Sharma to place before it the post mortem report and other material that he was relying upon to contest the conviction of his clients Mukesh and Pawan Gupta and award of death sentence by the trial court and upholding of the same by the high court. |
| 15 killed in Himachal bus accident | | | Shimla, April 7 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed Monday when their overloaded mini-bus rolled down a 400-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, officials said. Nearly two dozen people were injured in the accident that took place near Timbi in Shillai area, about 110 km from the state capital. Superintendent of Police Sumedha Dwivedi told IANS over phone that all the bodies have been recovered, most of them badly mutilated, from the wreckage of the bus. |
| Fighting in Palestinian camp in south Lebanon kills five | | | At least five people were killed in fighting on Monday between Palestinian factions in a refugee camp near Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, local sources said. They said the fighting broke out between fighters from a group orginally linked to Palestinian President Mohammad Abbas's Fatah group and a rival militant organisation. It was not immediately clear what triggered the clashes in the Mieh Mieh camp, in which at least 10 people were wounded. Fatah and a range of Islamist factions compete for influence in Mieh Mieh and the nearby Ain al-Hilweh, two of the 12 Palestinian camps in Lebanon that are home to more than 200,000 registered refugees. |
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