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| Pakistan police register blasphemy case against "disco mullah" | | | By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan police said on Wednesday they were investigating blasphemy allegations against a man dubbed the "disco mullah" who quit a career in pop music to become a preacher. The case against Junaid Jamshed, a member of the deeply conservative Tableeghi Jamaat organisation, was brought by Mobeen Qadri, a member of the religious political party Sunni Tehreek. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Muslim-majority Pakistan. But the law does not define what is blasphemous - anyone can file a case alleging their religious feelings were hurt for any reason. ... |
| Car bomb explodes outside Iranian envoy's house in Yemen capital | | | SANAA (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded early on Wednesday outside the residence of the Iranian ambassador in Yemen, a Reuters witness said. A Yemeni soldier on guard outside the embassy said people were attempting to pull others from the rubble. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) |
| Disabled women in India "locked up, abused" | | | By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vidya was alone at home in Mumbai when three people posing as government health workers knocked on her door. After convincing the 45-year-old to let them in, they forcibly sedated her and took her away. She woke up in a private mental hospital with barbed wire on the windows, where she was medicated against her will and forced to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). "I was like a vegetable," Vidya said. ... |
| Comedian Bill Cosby accused in lawsuit of molesting girl in 1974 | |  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bill Cosby was sued on Tuesday by a woman alleging he molested her in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15, in what is believed to be the first court case arising from a recent wave of sexual misconduct accusations against the comedian. The five-page complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, charged that Cosby sexually abused plaintiff Judy Huth by putting his hand down her pants, and then "taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her consent. ...
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| Sony Pictures struggles to recover 8 days after cyber attack | |  By Ronald Grover , Mark Hosenball and Jim Finkle LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Eight days after a massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Hollywood studio was still struggling to restore some systems on Tuesday evening as investigators combed for evidence to identify the culprit. Some employees at the Sony Corp entertainment unit studio were given new computers to replace ones that had been attacked with the rare data-wiping virus, which had made their machines unable to operate, according to a person with knowledge of Sony's operations. ...
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| Florida State quarterback Winston faces conduct hearing on rape accusation | | | By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida State University star quarterback Jameis Winston, accused of raping a female student nearly two years ago, on Tuesday faced the first day of a student conduct code hearing that both sides hope will resolve a nationally watched case. Winston, who won the Heisman Trophy last year as the nation's top college football player, is accused of violating the university's standards during an December 2012 incident, which his lawyers have maintained was a consensual sexual encounter. ... |
| 'Jackass' star Steve-O cited for defacing San Diego SeaWorld sign | |  By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Video provocateur Steven Glover, better known as Steve-O from the "Jackass" movies and television show, has been cited with a violation of the California Vehicle Code for altering a SeaWorld Drive exit sign to read: "SeaWorld Sucks," prosecutors said on Tuesday. The MTV star in August posted a YouTube video of himself scaling the sign on Interstate 5 near San Diego three months earlier to tape a green banner with the word "Sucks" over the word "Drive. ...
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