http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/9995235/Pianist-Fazil-Say-sentenced-over-insulting-religious-values-on-Twitter.html
ISTANBUL - A court here handed down a suspended 10-month prison term on Monday for Fazil Say, an internationally acclaimed Turkish pianist and composer convicted of insulting Islam and offending Muslims in postings on Twitter.
Putin Calls for Stimulus Plan After Recession Alarm
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Obama-sends-letter-to-Putin-to-improve-relations-4434929.php
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the government to come up with a plan to revive the flagging economy after a minister warned that a recession is possible as companies cut investment and export demand wanes.
Kuwait Gives 5-Year Term to Dissenter
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Kuwait+opposition+leader+sentenced+years+emir+insult/8243124/story.html
CAIRO - A court in Kuwait on Monday sentenced a prominent opposition politician to five years in prison for insulting the country's ruler, a crime that leaders around the Persian Gulf are prosecuting with increasing frequency in an effort to stanch emboldened ...
Chad: Troops to Leave Mali
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jw5vOJO5ehXJO0uj_57QcPxU_svA?docId=CNG.e33f210744b0555de16483492581b31d.3b1
Chad's president says his country's troops are pulling out of Mali three months after the French-led mission to oust militants linked to Al Qaeda began, raising questions about how feasible the planned French pullout will be if France wants to maintain the ...
Afghan opium production increases for 3rd year in a row, nearing record
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-opium-production-increases-18955260
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been increasing for a third year in a row and is heading for a record high, the UN said in a report released Monday.
Elephant overturns Chinese tourists's car
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/tourists-injured-after-elephant-trashes-car-in-national-park-20130416-2hx1o.html
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 15 - A Chinese couple were injured Monday when an elephant overturned their car inside South Africa's Kruger National Park, an official said.
Canadian reportedly killed in attack on Mogadishu court
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/RCMP+probing+former+Ontario+university+student+potential/8246321/story.html
An attack that left more than two dozen dead in Somalia on the weekend appears to have a Canadian connection. Somalia's Supreme Court complex was attacked in Mogadishu on Sunday, a two-hour assault that authorities say involved at least six suicide ...
Final reading for gay marriage bill
http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/41998-final-reading-gay-marriage-bill.html
Same sex marriage looks set to become legal in New Zealand as the Marriage Amendment Bill has its third and final reading in Parliament tomorrow night.
Rehtaeh Parsons case to get independent review
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/04/15/ns-rehtaeh-bully-independent-review.html
Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter announced Monday there will be an independent review of the Rehtaeh Parsons case. But he said the review would not be launched until the recently reopened police investigation into the case is over.
Mirza Baig found guilty in German Bakery blasts case
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/mirza-baig-found-guilty-in-german-bakery-blasts-case/article4619581.ece?homepage=true
A trial court here on Monday held Mirza Hinayat Inayat Baig guilty of planning and executing the 2010 German Bakery blasts that killed 17 people and injured 58.
Gir lions: Guj says will see SC order, MP all smiles
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/flora-fauna/shift-asiatic-lions-from-gujarat-to-madhya-pradesh-sc-to-centre/articleshow/19557278.cms
The Gujarat government said Monday it would study the full judgment of the Supreme Court on relocation of Asiatic lions to Madhya Pradesh before deciding its future course of action on the issue.
Kerry Meets Family of Slain US Diplomat
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/kerry-visit-family-slain-us-diplomat-18954923
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped in Chicago on Monday to visit the parents of the young female American diplomat who was killed while delivering textbooks in southern Afghanistan earlier this month.
Immigration Bill Opens Wider Path for Foreign Workers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324030704578425170442353016.html
The bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration law would drastically rewrite the system for awarding visas to live in the U.S.
Marathon finish line turned war zone, so many people without legs
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/witnesses-describe-scene-of-carnage-after-boston-marathon-blasts-354638
BOSTON: About 100 feet from the end of the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon, explosions shook the street and sent runners frantically racing for cover.
7 strangled, 1 decapitated in Cancun
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/6-strangled-1-decapitated-cancun-mexico-article-1.1316729
CANCUN, Mexico - Six people were found strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state's deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks.
Senegal ex-president's son detained in Dakar: lawyer
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gbAkDuW9TiBlKlw6D09BPNjViLsQ?docId=CNG.e33f210744b0555de16483492581b31d.241
DAKAR - The flamboyant "super minister" son of former Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade was detained in Dakar on Monday as police investigate his assets, valued at more than $1 billion, his lawyer told AFP.
Boston College project: PSNI get Dolours Price interviews access
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22158392
Transcripts of interviews carried out with an IRA woman can now be handed over to the police in Northern Ireland. The PSNI had been attempting to obtain the transcripts of tapes recorded with Dolours Price, who died in January.
Three Russians, two Poles dead in Belgian bus crash - GlobalPost
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Reports+crash+Belgium+leaves+dead+several+others+injured/8240561/story.html
Five people died and 19 were injured, one critically, when a bus carrying Russian youngsters on their way to Paris crashed early Sunday in northern Belgium, officials said.
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