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Locsin wants head of employer』s wife who allegedly killed OFW in Kuwait @ 2020-01-01T00: Back Hot News
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「THE CONTINUING INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE AND ABUSE OF FILIPINO DOMESTIC WORKERS IN KUWAIT VIOLATES THE SPIRIT OF THE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN MAY 2018 THAT SEEKS TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THEIR WELFARE,」 THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) SAID IN A STATEMENT LATE ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 30.
DEC. 1: IRAQI JUDICIARY ISSUES WARRANT TO ARREST MILITARY COMMANDER JAMEEL AL-SHIMMERI ON ACCUSATION OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE MURDER TO PROTESTORS IN NASIRIYAH CITY, SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY. DEC. 1: PROTESTORS SET THE IRANIAN CONSULATE IN NAJAF CITY, SOUTHERN IRAQ, ON FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND INCIDENT OF ITS KIND.
THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY REMAINED ONE OF THE BEST PERFORMERS IN ASIA AFTER REBOUNDING FROM AN INITIAL SLOWDOWN IN THE FIRST TWO QUARTERS OF 2019 AMID OBSTACLES, REFLECTING THE GOVERNMENT』S SPENDING CATCH-UP AND EASING INFLATION.
MARCH 28: SYRIAN AIR DEFENSE THWARTS ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE TARGETING NORTHEAST ALEPPO CITY. MAY 17: THE UN HELD AN EMERGENCY MEETING TO DISCUSS THE MILITARY ESCALATION IN SYRIA"S IDLIB, UPON A REQUEST FROM GERMANY, BELGIUM AND KUWAIT. THE UN NOTED THAT THE ESCALATION THREATENS THE LIVES OF THREE MILLION PEOPLE, WELCOMING THE FORMING OF A TURKISH-RUSSIAN TEAM TO END FIGHTING IN IDLIB.
IN 1983, HE LED TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE U.S. AND FRENCH EMBASSIES IN KUWAIT, AND HIS GROUP HAS SINCE BEEN ACCUSED OF EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN WESTERN IRAQ.
A NUMBER OF LAWMAKERS CRITICIZED THE DELAY IN THE FORMATION OF THE NEW CABINET SAYING THE PROCESS HAS TAKEN LONGER THAN USUAL AND HAS OBSTRUCTED THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ASSEMBLY. MP BADER AL-MULLA WARNED YESTERDAY THAT THE DELAY IN THE CABINET FORMATION COULD STRAIN THE ASSEMBLY RELATIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT, ADDING THAT THE PRIME MINISTER SHOULD MAKE A POSITIVE IMPRESSION BY ACCELERATING THE PROCESS.
THE FOLLOWINGYEAR, ITS FIGHTERS FLED POSITIONS THEY ONCE HELD IN THE CAPITAL MOGADISHU, ANDHAVE SINCE LOST MANY STRONGHOLDS. BUT THEY RETAIN CONTROL OF LARGE RURALSWATHES OF THE COUNTRY AND CONTINUE TO WAGE A GUERRILLA WAR AGAINST THEAUTHORITIES, MANAGING TO INFLICT BLOODY DEATH TOLLS IN ATTACKS AT HOME AND ABROAD.TWO WEEKS AGO, FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN SHABAAB MILITANTS ATTACKED AMOGADISHU HOTEL POPULAR WITH POLITICIANS, ARMY OFFICERS AND DIPLOMATS IN ANHOURS-LONG SIEGE.
SAUDI PROSECUTORS HAD SAID DEPUTY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF AHMED AL-ASSIRI OVERSAW KHASHOGGI’S KILLING AND THE US TREASURY HAD CLAIMED THE ROYAL COURT’S MEDIA CZAR SAUD AL-QAHTANI WAS “PART OF THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION” OF THE OPERATION THAT LED TO THE MURDER. QAHTANI WAS INVESTIGATED BUT NOT INDICTED “DUE TO INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE” AND ASSIRI WAS CHARGED BUT EVENTUALLY ACQUITTED ON THE SAME GROUNDS, SHALAAN ADDED. BOTH AIDES WERE PART OF SAUDI CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED’S TIGHT-KNIT INNER CIRCLE AND WERE FORMALLY SACKED OVER THE KILLING, BUT ONLY ASSIRI APPEARED IN THE COURT HEARINGS, ACCORDING TO WESTERN SOURCES.
SALEH IS IN A DIFFICULT SPOT BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN RESISTING THE PRO-IRANIAN PARTIES IN PARLIAMENT IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO APPOINT ANOTHER STOOGE AS PRIME MINISTER. HE MUST CAREFULLY TREAD A FINE LINE BECAUSE SOME GROUPS HAVE CONDEMNED HIM FOR APPEARING TOO PRO-AMERICAN. SALEH WAS A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE PATRIOTIC UNION OF KURDISTAN PARTY AND HAS OFTEN BEEN CAREFUL TO WEIGH HIS TIES TO THE US WITH THE IMPORTANT ROLE IRAN PLAYS IN IRAQI POLITICS. HE THREATENED TO RESIGN IN LATE DECEMBER IF HE WAS FORCED TO CHOOSE A NEW PRIME MINISTER WHO IRAQ’S PROTESTERS REJECT.
TEHRAN: IRAN YESTERDAY REJECTED AS “UTTER LIES” UNOFFICIAL CASUALTY FIGURES GIVEN FOR STREET VIOLENCE THAT ERUPTED LAST MONTH DURING DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST A SHOCK DECISION TO HIKE FUEL PRICES. US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SPEAKING IN LONDON, TOLD REPORTERS THAT “THE WORD IS THAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE BEING KILLED IN IRAN THAT ARE PROTESTING,” WITHOUT PROVIDING DETAILS. “THAT’S WHY THEY CUT OFF THE INTERNET. THEY CUT OFF THE INTERNET SO PEOPLE CAN’T SEE WHAT’S GOING ON,” HE SAID AHEAD OF A NATO SUMMIT.
INDIA HAS A GRIM RECORD OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, WITH AN AVERAGE OF SOME 90 RAPES REPORTED EACH DAY IN 2017, ACCORDING TO LATEST FEDERAL DATA. A THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION POLL OF GENDER EXPERTS IN 2018 RATED INDIA AS THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY FOR WOMEN. OUTRAGE OVER THE VET’S MURDER – HER CHARRED BODY WAS FOUND ON SCRUBLAND UNDER A FLYOVER – IS RUNNING HIGH, WITH PROTESTERS AND LAWMAKERS DEMANDING TOUGH AND QUICK PUNISHMENTS, INCLUDING PUBLIC LYNCHINGS.
MUSHARRAF, WHO WAS BORN IN INDIA’S CAPITAL DELHI IN 1943 BUT MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO PAKISTAN AFTER PARTITION, TOOK POWER AFTER OUSTING PRIME MINISTER NAWAZ SHARIF IN A BLOODLESS COUP IN 1999. A CIGAR-SMOKING, WHISKY-DRINKING MODERATE, THE GENERAL BECAME A KEY US ALLY IN THE “WAR ON TERROR” AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS AND ESCAPED AT LEAST THREE AL-QAEDA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS DURING HIS NINE YEARS IN OFFICE. HIS RULE FACED NO SERIOUS CHALLENGES UNTIL HE TRIED TO SACK THE CHIEF JUSTICE IN MARCH 2007, SPARKING NATIONWIDE PROTESTS AND MONTHS OF TURMOIL THAT LED TO THE IMPOSITION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
NICHOLAS ALMEIDA, MEMBER OF THE WATCHDOG FOUNDATION, SAID, 「OUR LAWS WHEN IT COMES TO HEINOUS CRIMES LIKE RAPE SHOULD BE AS STRINGENT AS THE ONES IN THE GULF COUNTRIES. TODAY, WE ARE VOWING IN FRONT OF MOTHER MARY TO DISSENT AND APOLOGISE AS PART OF A SOCIETY THAT BREEDS SUCH CRIMINALS. THIS INCIDENT SHOCKED ME TO THE CORE. IT MOVED ME TO RAISE ANOTHER CONCERN, WHICH IS THE YOUTH OF SAHAR VILLAGE TAKING TO DRUGS AND BEING VICTIMS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE, WHICH I ALSO FEEL CONTRIBUTES TO SOCIETY BECOMING WAYWARD AND INSENSITIVE.」
PEOPLE SHOUT SLOGANS CONDEMNING RISING CASES OF RAPE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DURING A PROTEST IN AHMADABAD, INDIA, MONDAY, DEC. 2, 2019. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN VARIOUS INDIAN CITIES ON MONDAY TO DEMAND JUSTICE IN THE CASE OF A VETERINARIAN WHO WAS GANG-RAPED AND KILLED LAST WEEK. THE BURNED BODY OF THE 27-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS FOUND THURSDAY MORNING BY A PASSER-BY IN AN UNDERPASS IN THE SOUTHERN CITY OF HYDERABAD AFTER SHE WENT MISSING THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. (AP PHOTO/AJIT SOLANKI)
BONO WAS NOT THE FIRST OUTSPOKEN MUSICIAN TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST DUTERTE’S DRUG WAR. IN 2016, AMERICAN SINGER JAMES TAYLOR CANCELLED HIS PLANNED MANILA CONCERT TO PROTEST EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN THE COUNTRY. DUTERTE’S DRUG WAR HAS KILLED OVER 5,500 ALLEGED DEALERS AND USERS WHO FOUGHT BACK DURING ARRESTS, BUT WATCHDOGS SAY THE ACTUAL TOLL IS AT LEAST FOUR TIMES HIGHER. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTORS HAVE LAUNCHED A PRELIMINARY PROBE OF THE KILLING, AND THE UN’S TOP RIGHTS BODY VOTED IN FAVOR AN IN-DEPTH REVIEW. – AFP
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DEMI ROSE SLIPS INTO A SKIMPY YELLOW STRING BIKINI AS SHE SETS BABY TURTLES FREE WHILE ON HOLIDAY IN MEXICO SHE"S KNOWN FOR HER LOVE OF SHARING BIKINI SNAPS
WHILE THE KINGDOM HAS ARRESTED AND CLAMPED DOWN ON OPPOSITION VOICES AMONG THE RELIGIOUS ELITE, SAUDI ARABIA HAS BEEN LACKING IN THE PROMOTION OF AN ISLAMIC DISCOURSE THAT IS CONVINCINGLY INCLUSIVE, WITH A STRONG RELIGIOUS GROUNDING. THE KINGDOM NEEDS SCHOLARS WHO ARE NOT JUST LOYAL TO THE STATE, DEFENDING ANY DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY. THESE SCHOLARS ALSO NEED TO ENGENDER A SOCIETY THAT DOES NOT VIEW THE WEST AND NON-MUSLIMS AS ENEMIES WHO ARE CONTINUALLY PLOTTING AGAINST THEM AND WORTHY OF BLOODSHED.
IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS, BANGLADESHI OFFICIALS MET WITH SAUDI AUTHORITIES IN RIYADH TO DISCUSS THE ALARMING RISE IN ABUSE CASES BEING REPORTED. A STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE BANGLADESHI EXPATRIATE WELFARE MINISTRY SAID THAT BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE SINCE "DECIDED
YOU SHOULD NOT BE WORRIED AT ALL. MUSLIMS ARE COMMANDED TO DRESS MODESTLY AND PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY, SPEND IN CHARITY, FAST IN RAMADAN AND DO RIGHTEOUS DEEDS. SO WHEN YOU SEE MUSLIM WOMEN IN HIJAB, MEN WEARING LONG SHIRTS AND GROWING BEARDS, DO NOT TAKE THESE AS SIGNS OF EXTREMISM. YOU SHOULD NEVER CONFUSE ORTHODOX ISLAM WITH EXTREMISM. MANY LEARNED PRACTISING MUSLIMS ARE THE MOST VOCAL IN OPPOSING TERRORISM. EATING HALAL MEAT, PRAYING FIVE TIMES A DAY, GROWING A BEARD AND WEARING A HIJAB ARE NOT SIGNS OF EXTREMISM!

 

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