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Qaeda sexually abused Yemen children

SANAA, June 18, (AFP): The United Nations children’s agency accused Yemen’s al-Qaeda affiliate of sexually exploiting children, pointing to incidents in the south in 2012 in a report published Tuesday. Al-Qaeda loyalists forced around 100 girls, some as young as 13, to marry its fighters in the southern province of …

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Islamist insurgents in Iraq, Syria plan to attack UK

Cameron chairs National Security Council meeting LONDON, June 18, (Agencies): Prime Minister David Cameron warned Wednesday that militants making advances in Iraq and fighting in Syria were also planning to attack Britain. “I’d disagree with those people who think this is nothing to do with us and if they want …

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Twitter restores access to ‘blasphemous’ content in Pak

Move hailed by free speech activists ISLAMABAD, June 18, (AFP): Twitter has restored access inside Pakistan to dozens of tweets and accounts, after blocking them last month following official complaints about “blasphemous” content, in a move hailed by free speech activists. The microblogging site said it had changed its May …

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