The Bahai faith was founded in Iran in the 19th century and is anathema to the Islamic clerical regime. Relocating their headquarters from Iran to Israel might not have helped either.
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A new jihadi magazine set up by militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has appealed to Muslims around the world to come up with technology to hack into or manipulate drones, describing this as one of their most important priorities.
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The complaint filed Wednesday alleges the group’s conviction violates four articles of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing freedom of speech, the right to liberty and security, the prohibition of torture and the right to a fair trial.
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The CIA (supported by the Department of Justice) had argued that volume five (but not the other volumes, head scratchingly) must be withheld under the b(5) deliberative process exemption, because its release could “confuse the public.”
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A Texan student who refused to wear a badge with a radio tag that tracked her movements has lost a federal court appeal against her school’s ID policy.
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The website of show Opsporing Verzocht now states: ‘We are not looking for this car any longer’.
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The victims of Kony, the so called “child brides” now get help from UNICEF, and this organization wants your cash.
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The United Nations on Tuesday launched a .2 billion appeal for a campaign to halt a cholera epidemic in Haiti, widely blamed on UN peacekeepers, which has killed more than 7,750 people.
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A Paris appeal court has upheld a jail sentence for Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader who lost the bank Societe Generale (Soc-Gen) nearly five-billion euros. The court also ordered him to repay all the money.
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The spiraling furor over Catalonia’s aspirations to greater autonomy continued unabated on Monday as defiant regional premier Artur Mas threatened to take the demand for a referendum on the issue to Europe if Madrid insists in rejecting it.
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