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The minister of state for home affairs, Kiren Rijiju, told Parliament that 110,333 rape cases were registered in India between 2014 and 2016, meaning almost 100 rape cases were reported per day during these three years.
Screenshot from a video published by Facebook user Oleksandr Tarnavskyi
The impromptu medieval public punishment happened in Chernigov, a city in northern Ukraine with a population of less than 300,000. The victim was apparently the man, who was detained a few days ago by the local police for throwing a bottle at a monument to the Heavenly Hundred, the victims of the 2014 Maidan violence. Police at the time identified the man as a convicted sex offender of minors, who had been released from prison a month earlier after serving a lengthy sentence.
The controversial video was livestreamed on Facebook by Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, who according to his page has ties to the notorious Azov Battalion, a unit in the Ukrainian Interior Ministry with strong ties to right-wing radicals and neo-Nazis. The half-hour clip shows a couple of young men sitting a few meters from a road sign pole. Tied to the pole is a man, who seems to be in his 60s, with a note taped to his chest. The note says: "I am a vatnik [derogatory term for a Russian used in Ukraine]. I was raped in jail. I damaged the monument to the Heavenly Hundred. Spit at me."
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The LICRA (in english : International League against Racism and Antisemitism), is a supposed anti racist organisation. Yet on 15 July remarks made by the organisation regarding Croatia's football team can only be described as racist.
The LICRA is perhaps the most influential of all anti racist NGOs in France, having the right to sue anyone they deem racist.
Comment: This racist Tweet upset even LICRA's national leadership, who are now calling for the resignation of their Paris office.
© ACLU of Arizona/Special for The RepublicHilde Hall, a transgender woman, says a CVS pharmacist refused to fill her hormone medication and loudly questioned her in front of other customers.
The pharmacist questioned her loudly in front of other customers and rejected her and her doctor's requests to transfer the prescription to another location, Hilde Hall said in a blog post published on the ACLU of Arizona's website Thursday.
News of the encounter comes weeks after another woman, Nicole Arteaga, was denied her miscarriage medication at a Walgreens pharmacy in Peoria.
Arizona is one of six states that allows pharmacies and pharmacists to refuse to fill a prescription on religious or moral grounds. The pharmacy isn't required to transfer refused prescriptions, but companies may make workplace polices that require referrals.
Hall said the prescription marked her first round of hormone therapy.
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Fr. Mark Morris conducted a rosary, litany, and benediction at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Monday night to atone for the "gross offence to God" of Glasgow Pride and the next day Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) announced that his work as Catholic chaplain was terminated because his views conflicted with those of the educational institution.
"Following due consultation Father Mark Morris will not return to his chaplaincy role at the university in September," said Professor Pamela Gillies, principal and vice-chancellor of GCU, a public university of some 16,000 students.
Comment: Ah, the hypocrisy of the left. Identity politics preaches acceptance and diversity, but are anti-Christian (yet pro-Muslim, for some reason) and clearly have no tolerance for diversity of opinion. Anti-Christian sentiment is growing in these leftist circles and it's manifesting in more egregious ways every day.
See also:
- Canada's Supreme Court refuses law school accreditation to Christian university because it advocates traditional marriage
- 'Caving to the gay agenda': Christian evangelist Franklin Graham concerned over changes to US Episcopal church marriage vows
- 'New Yorker' columnist: Chick-Fil-A restaurant must be banned from city cause owner is religious Christian
- Anti-Christian Democrats refuse to confirm government appointee her job in Iowa for single comment on conservative article
- 'Christian Privilege' - University seminar highlights the latest idiotic SJW cause
- What happened when I explained Christian teaching about gender on Facebook
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"With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum was quoted as saying by Reuters.
The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday that Israel and Hamas agreed to cease fire in the Gaza Strip after a day of cross-border hostilities, adding that Palestinian armed groups in the enclave have confirmed to mediators in Egypt their willingness to restore peace.
"Egyptian and international efforts have brought a lull in fighting between the occupying forces and Palestinian groups," Barhum said.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces unleashed a series of strikes on more than 40 Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip.
"Israel's military said its aircraft and tanks targeted 40 Hamas posts and that the strikes formed part of a 'wide-scale attack' in response to the border shooting," the IDF's Jonathan Conricus tweeted.
Comment: Just like the U.S. - and jihadis - ceasefires mean nothing to Israel:
IDF Tank Strikes Hamas Outpost in Gaza Strip After Ceasefire Reached
The incident follows a ceasefire agreement between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas on Friday after a series of clashes on the Gaza Strip border.
According to an IDF spokesperson, a tank struck a Hamas outpost amid a reported breach of the border fence by a few men.
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On Wesneday, Cyril Nauth was not only heavily hit with a 3,000 Euros fine, but also given an extension of one month for him to accept the permit.
If the mayor doesn't comply with the Versaille's administrative judges, he'll get a fine of 150 Euros everyday past that deadline.
In a statement, the Muslims Association of South Mantes, through their president Abdelaziz El Jaouhari, welcomed the decision:
"For dogmatic reasons, the mayor has bogged down the city in lengthy and expensive procedures by trampling on basic rules of law. The [...] thousands of euros spent by the mayor in these procedures could have been invested in services to the population that the city badly needs. With determination we will continue to preserve co-existence of peoples and to fight against all extremism regardless of where they come from."
Yuan sliding against the dollar
And as it turns out, a big reason for the overnight plunge in the Chinese currency are Wednesday's comments by Larry Kudlow, Trump's chief economic advisor, who blamed President Xi Jinping for stalled trade talks when he told CNBC that he believed lower-ranking Chinese officials want a deal, including Xi's senior economic adviser Liu He, but that Xi has refused to make changes to China's technology transfer and other trade policies, accusing Xi of "holding the game up."
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Estonia - small, vulnerable and at the northeastern rim of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's mutual security zone - has long been seen as a test case for the alliance's willingness to resist Russian military moves.
For more than a decade, Russian military planes have regularly zipped through the edges of NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea off Estonia's coast, in daring, high-stakes runs that taunt the alliance's air defenses.
Comment: Why is Russia Being Blamed For The Downing of Flight MH17 - Again?