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• Internet gaffe by US government as UK extremist's sharia law photo used in ... - Daily Mail

  14-03-2015 23:21
  
  Daily Mail
  Internet gaffe by US government as UK extremist's sharia law photo used in ...
  Daily Mail
  The US government has made a bizarre internet gaffe by posting a British Muslim extremist's photograph of veiled women calling for sharia law, citing it as an inspirational example of free speech in the West. The American State Department's 'Think ...
  
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• Book prize judges criticise decision to axe Putin exposé

  14-03-2015 22:45
  
  US academic’s acclaimed study of Russian corruption not available in the UK due to libel fearsThe judges of one of the country’s top book prizes have complained that a study of corruption in Russia under president Vladimir Putin has not been published in the UK because of fears of legal action.As the shortlist for the annual Pushkin House prize for the best book about Russia was announced last week, judges lamented that the new work, Putin’s Kleptocracy, by US academic Karen Dawisha, was n
  
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• Elderly nun gang-raped by robbers in eastern India

  14-03-2015 13:54
  
  Police say the nun, who is in her 70s, is in a serious condition in hospital after being attacked when she tried to stop group of men robbing schoolA nun in her 70s has been gang-raped by a group of robbers when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India.A police officer says the nun was admitted to hospital in serious condition after the attack, which was committed early on Saturday by seven to eight robbers at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in W
  
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• It’s not Leslee Udwin’s message that India is struggling to accept, it’s the messenger

  14-03-2015 09:00
  
  The row about Udwin’s film, India’s Daughter, calls to mind the way Gandhi dealt with the sickening accounts of child bride abuse in Katherine Mayo’s 1927 book, Mother India. Governments hate to hear the truth from an outsiderWhy did Leslee Udwin call her documentary on the Delhi gang rape India’s Daughter? Perhaps to suggest a mixture of things: that the victim, who later died of the injuries she sustained in the brutal assault, typified a liberated generation of Indian women; that many
  
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