The High Court yesterday ordered district officials in Shariatpur to explain why they failed to protect 14-year-old rape victim Hena from being whipped to death as per a fatwa on Monday.
The deputy commissioner, the superintendent of police of Shariatpur and the thana nirbahi officer of Naria upazila -- where the incident took place--will have to report to the HC in 15 days how it happened although the court (HC) had eight months ago declared fatwa illegal and a punishable offence.
In a suo moto rule, the HC directed them also to report what steps they have taken in this regard.
An HC bench comprised of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain issued the rule following press reports on the killing of Hena.
The reports said Hena was raped by her 40-year-old relative Mahbub on Sunday. Next day, a fatwa was announced at a village arbitration that she must be given 100 lashes. She fell unconscious after nearly 80 lashes.
[Straits Times] A JAPANESE rubber company says that nearly 85,000 boxes of its condoms have been stolen in Malaysia.
Water balloon fight!
Sagami Rubber Industries Co, one of Japan's biggest condom makers, said on Thursday that the boxes were en route from the factory to a port, where they were supposed to be shipped to Japan.
The company described the Jan. 26 theft as 'unfortunate' and said it was the first time such a thing had happened.
The boxes contained some 725,000 individual condoms, collectively worth 121 million yen (S$1.9 million).
Malaysian police are investigating the theft.
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Sagami Rubber Industries Co, one of Japan's biggest condom makers
Somewhere there is a joke in this sentence, such as "Sag on me, one of the biggest Japanese condoms...." ( you fill in the rest.) (the sentence, not the other thing)
[Ma'an] The European Union on Friday slapped asset freezes on 46 associates of ousted Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, an EU official told Agence La Belle France-Presse.
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[Arab News] Niger's electoral commission says a longtime opposition politician leads polls according to provisional results from the first round of voting.
The commission said Friday that Mahamadou Issoufou, a prominent opponent of the ousted former president, took 36 percent of votes in Monday's poll. His party dominated local and regional elections last month.
He was trailed by Seini Oumarou, who served as prime minister under the tossed president. Oumarou took 23 percent and will face Issoufou in a runoff. The commission says nearly 53 percent of voters participated in the impoverished West African nation.
President Mamadou Tandja was ousted in a coup last year by a military junta, after Tandja changed the constitution to stay beyond his term.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] With barely two weeks to Election Day in Uganda, calls for free and fair elections and a national democratic settlement have been made by a rebel group.
The Lord's Resistance Army/Movement says there are indications that Uganda will go to the polls in "very constrained and difficult circumstances".
The LRA -- aren't they the ones who wear women's underthings and wigs when they go out to commit murder and rapine, because it makes them invisible?
LRA/M, whose leader Joseph Kony is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, is an armed rebellion based in northern Uganda.
Army state
In a statement sent to newsrooms on Friday, LRA/M acting peace team leader Justine Labeja Nyeko, said the movement fully supports the unending struggle for favourable election conditions in the country.
"Despite the ritual of elections, the army state in Uganda has not won political legitimacy," Mr Nyeko said.
He also asked President Museveni to commit himself to a peace settlement with the LRA/M and other rebel groups to put an end to the disquiet in Uganda.
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Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson today fuelled the row over 'racist' remarks about Mexicans by further insulting them in his newspaper column.
While the BBC was forced to apologise over comments on the motoring show last week which saw co-host Richard Hammond describing Mexicans as 'lazy, feckless... and flatulent', Clarkson accused them of having no sense of humour.
In his Sun newspaper column today, the host attempted to make the point that without offensive humour, there can be no jokes.
n doing so, he quoted jokes about various nations - including Britain - to tailor his argument.
He wrote: '...there are calls in Britain at the moment for all offensive humour to be banned. But what people don't realise is that without offence, there can be no jokes.'
Despite earlier apologising for the show's 'feckless' comments, the loud mouth host then ended the column with his own joke about Mexicans: 'Mexico doesn't have an Olympic team... because anyone who can run, jump or swim is already across the border.'
He added that 'at one point on Wednesday we were receiving 200 complaints from Mexico every minute'
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This is interesting from several viewpoints. First of all, can Mexicans in the US wire transfer pesos to Mexico, as such? That is, convert them in the US first?
Second, Mexico's demographic have fallen to the sustainable plateau, so within the next decade, their unemployment rate should drop and wages should go up.
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First of all, can Mexicans in the US wire transfer pesos to Mexico, as such? That is, convert them in the US first?
They could but it might be complicated at times. The other options are to take the wired money in pesos at the receiving point or as Darth said, exchange them on a black market either in the US or in Mexico.
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There's also a pattern of the out going El Presidente devaluing the peso to cover the spending of the previous 6 years to give the incoming pol the start of the next cycle of monetary 'expansion'. If you don't want to start a rush on the peso as the current term is expiring, you put in currency controls.
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My SWAG says this is more about bankers and other connected players being able to feed of the currency conversion rates and whatever fees and service charges they tack on.
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many readers are probably asking if the banks no longer exchange money or business are no longer allowed to accept US Dollars then what is a person who has US dollars suppose to do. Suppose they all stay the hell out of Mexico.
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Should I care? Do Americans go to Mexican border towns to shop anymore? Last time I was in San Diego I wanted to go to TJ about as much as I wanted to go into a dark alley during a gang fight.
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My SWAG says this is more about bankers and other connected players being able to feed of the currency conversion rates and whatever fees and service charges they tack on.
That's the way they do it in Venezuela; the connected have different conversion rates than the little people.
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Martini - I've lived on the SD/Tijuana border all my life. I think the "let's drive to TJ to shop" days are long over. I haven't been in Mexico in 10+ yrs
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Yep.
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the connected have different conversion rates than the little people. If you don't know who the 'connected' are, you aren't connected.
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What a great way to make Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean more attractive to American tourists - screw with the currency conversions. I am sure all of the resorts in Cancun are just thrilled with this.
To be fair, it was a bribe to get Russia to sign that new START treaty, the one Russia is pleased will reduce the U.S. to their level. So we gave them British security in trade -- what's the big deal, anyway?
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The English have become renown for their self-hatred and despair at their having created the British Empire. The left has fully capitalized on this, and spreads it wherever it can. Only in recent years has any hint of patriotism emerged, usually waving the banner of St. George.
So perhaps what they need is a song about how much Obama hates them for what they *were*, and has tried to insult, isolate, and attack them by breaking their friendship with their "big friend" across the Atlantic.
And that they still have a choice. They can give up their self hatred, and the propaganda of the left, and the next Republican president will again extend the hand of friendship to them. And they can take that hand, and go into the future, again calling themselves England, with pride and strength.
And in truth, they can admit that though the Empire made mistakes, it left the world a better place for its having been there.
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I am all out of sighs..
Our big biz sucks China's ...
Our gov is made of political whores...
and... the sad thing... there is no country worth moving to.
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g(r)omgoru... there's no one left. O's "Mission Accomplished" moment.
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This is beyond understanding. Does this arrogant, malicious POS think that the Brits wouldn't find out? How dare he damage the relationship with our most loyal ally to score a stupid, insignificant treaty with the venal Russians who are probably already violating it and who have said they will back out unilaterally at any time of their choosing.
And this destruction was to score domestic POLITICAL points for his presumed legacy!
This perfidity surpasses any that I know of by an American President. I am ashamed for my country.
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reminder that the Russians interpret the treaty as having given up advances in ABM defense, now we find out this POS gave up Britain's secrets after they said no. No wonder he wouldn't allow a big public video-captured signing ceremony. He didn't want 2012 ads showing his treason and treachery
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Is anyone really suprised?
From Obumbles? He's been against the U.S. and Britain from day 1.
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Does this arrogant, malicious POS think that the Brits wouldn't find out?
Of course he didn't think he'd be found out publicly revealed. Those who were paying attention no doubt knew, as Rantburgers do about War on Terror stuff, but it took WikiLeaks to splash it across newspaper front pages.
We could hope for Saudi Arabia while oil demand is down and new sources are coming on line, but as they paid for the president's college education, it isn't likely. More probably South Korea, by talking directly with North Korea. I thought of Japan, but really, what could we do to Japan?
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Does this arrogant, malicious POS think that the Brits wouldn't find out?
Actually, the Brits were asked to supply numbers. To their credit, they refused.
The administration then agreed to supply the Russians with the serial numbers of the Tridents they send to the Brits (the weapons are built in the US, and returned for service to the US.)
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ION PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > {Russian Foriegn Ministry] RUSSIA CALLS ON JAPAN TO FACE REALITIES ON DISPUTED ISLANDS [Japanese Kurils = Northern Territories].
Read, Russia would like Japan to rconsider its position on not engaging in bilateral or multi- econ dev of same under Russ sovereignty.
Lest we fergit, IMO RUSSIA'S DECLARATION THAT THE FORMER JAPANESE KURILES IS NOW WHOLLY SOVEREIGN RUSS TERRITORY [prize of war] INDIR MEANS THAT AS FAR AS RUSS IS CONCERNED, THE ENTIRE NORTH CHINA SEA = "SEAS OF SIBERIA/
OKHOTSK/KAMCHATKA", ETC. IS A "RUSSIAN LAKE" = RUSSIA-ONLY/DOMINATED STRATEGIC MIL ZONE.
Of at best DUBIOUS = HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE MILPOL UTILITY to China + PLA [PLAN, PLAAF] as per convenient PLA access into NORPAC + ARCTIC via same [First Island Chain Ports, Access Rights].
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A hero no doubt. Hmong are not appreciated for their support and sacrifices, I worked with them in '70-71. He SHOULD be in Arlington as he prevented the deaths of very many Americans.
[Straits Times] THAI and Cambodian soldiers briefly exchanged fire again on the two countries' border early on Saturday, a military source said, hours after heavy festivities left one soldier and a civilian dead.
Renewed gunfire broke out at around 6am local time (2300 GMT, 7am Singapore time) near the disputed Preah Vihear temple, a Cambodian military commander who did not wish to be named told AFP by telephone. The fighting appeared to subside shortly afterwards.
'The fighting lasted between 20 and 30 minutes,' the source said. He added that one Thai soldier had been captured, but that there were no reports yet of any injuries.
One Cambodian soldier was killed on Friday afternoon, the same source said, after festivities between the two neighbours erupted for the first time in more than a year as simmering border tensions boiled over.
A Thai villager was also killed by artillery shelling and five Thai soldiers were maimed, Thai public health minister Jurin Laksanawisit said. Both countries accused the other of starting the fighting, the deadliest since April 2009, as the United States urged 'maximum restraint'.
Mr Chhum Socheat, a front man for the Cambodian defence ministry, said on Friday that at least four Cambodian soldiers had been injured and four Thai soldiers had been captured in fighting that lasted for nearly three hours. The area around the temple is claimed by both sides and Cambodian foreign ministry front man Koy Kuong said Phnom Penh planned to complain to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society over what it termed the 'Thai invasion'.
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Drug wars at the border crossing. Guess its that time of year again.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
