Thousands of people have staged protests and called for capital punishment to be deployed against those responsible for the murder of a 27-year-old woman in Hyderabad last week.
<p>At least 14 people were killed during a church service in Hantoukoura, in the east of Burkina Fasco. </p>
<p>The death counts included the pastor as well as children attending the church.</p>
<p>The death follows ethnic and religious tension in the region. Last October, an attack on a mosque killed 15 people and two were seriously injured.</p>
<p>Two Kashmiri separatist militants were killed by Indian soldiers and a further two people have been killed in a grenade attack.</p>
<p>The attacks follow a security clampdown with India’s government shutting down internet and phone lines as well as increasing its military presence in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.</p>
<p>The UK has urged China to allow the United Nations ‘immediate and unfettered’ access to its detention camps in Xianjing where at least one million Uighur Muslims are being held involuntarily.</p>
<p>The UK Foreign Office made this call in response to ‘The China Cables,’ a data leak of classified documents which found that the camps were envisioned from the start to be brainwashing detention centres.</p>
<p>A Foreign Office spokesperson said:</p>
<p>India’s federal government has extended its ban on the separatist group known as the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) which has been operating in Assam, in India's northeast for the past five years.</p>
<p>The NDFB is a militant organisation that has been fighting for an independent Bodoland for the Bodo people, an ethnolinguistic group in the Indian state of Assam.</p>
Over 200,000 registered Bougainvilleans began casting their vote in a long-awaited independence from Papua New Guinea, as they gear up in hope of creating the world’s newest country.
The people of the island of Bougainville, situated 1,000 miles northeast of Australia are now voting for a separate nation, breaking away from economically strained Papua New Guinea (PNG).
<p>The African Union has urged the UK to bring an end to its “continued colonial administration” of the Chagos Islands following a ruling at the International Criminal Court against UK’s rule over the Chagos islands.</p>
US President Donald J Trump has tweeted in defence of alleged war criminal and former Navy Seal Edward Gallagher.
This statement follows senior defence officials statements that they would resign or be willingly fired if they were forced to keep Gallagher in his position.
<p>The Palestinian Authority has welcomed a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly reaffirming Palestinian’s right to self-determination.</p>
<p>This resolution was adopted during a session of the third committee of the UN General Assembly and is considered a rebuke of the US’s decision to accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.</p>
<p>In total, 165 states voted in favour of the resolution, five against, and nine abstained.</p>
<p>Britain has urged Israel to cease the expansion of settlements on the West Bank, stating that it was opposed to international law and “counterproductive”.</p>
<p>This statement from the Foreign Office follows the defence of Israeli settlements by the United States on Monday.</p>
<p>In their statement the Home Office stated;</p>
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<p>Leaked documents have revealed British commanders, as well as the British government, have attempted to conceal evidence that British soldiers were engaged in the murder of children and torture of civilians whilst in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
Shares in the British security firm G4S have been blacklisted by Norway’s sovereign wealth fund over concerns about the firm’s human rights violations against its workforce in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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