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Egypt court orders end to ‘virginity tests’ in army prisons
An Egyptian court ordered the Egyptian army on Tuesday to stop forced virginity tests on female detainees, months after the practice sparked a national outcry and stained the ruling military’s reputation. The Cairo Administrative Court ruled in favour of Samira Ibrahim, who sued the army over the practice, slammed by rights groups as torture and…
China ‘to face more Wukan-style protests’
A senior Communist official who helped defuse a rare revolt by villagers in southern China said the country should be ready for more protests as people demand their rights, state media reported Tuesday. Zhu Mingguo compared the situation in the village of Wukan, where residents angered by years of illegal land grabs drove…
Iran signs fuel deal with Afghanistan: media
Iran has signed a deal with Afghanistan to supply its neighbour with a million tons of fuel oil, petrol and aviation fuel a year, Iranian media reported without putting a value on the agreement. The accord was signed Monday by the Afghan trade and industry minister, Anwar Ul-Haq Ahady, and Iran’s deputy oil minister, Alireza Zeyghami. Two-thirds…
Philippine flood toll rises to 1,249
The death toll from killer floods in the Philippines rose to 1,249 on Tuesday, more than a week after the disaster struck, with officials expecting more corpses to be found. The civil defence office initially said the confirmed number of fatalities had surged by more than 200 to 1,453, before…
Prince Philip leaves hospital after heart scare
Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip left hospital Tuesday, four days after being rushed in for emergency heart surgery and missing the royal family’s Christmas celebrations. The outspoken 90-year-old prince smiled and waved as he was driven away in a dark Range Rover vehicle from Papworth hospitalnear Cambridge, eastern England, an AFP photographer witnessed.…
El Salvador sets post-war murder record in 2011
El Salvador saw a post-civil war record number of murders in 2011, with at least 4,308 people killed in a crime epidemic in the country of 6.1 million, police said. National police announced the figure late Monday, saying it topped the 2009 rate of 4,223 murders, making 2011 the deadliest…
Japan eases self-imposed arms export ban
Tokyo on Tuesday eased a decades-old self-imposed ban on arms exports, paving the way for Japanese firms to participate in multinational weapons projects. In a move intended to bolster the domestic arms industry and reduce national defence spending, officially pacifist Japan will for the first time in decades routinely allow…
Drug kingpin’s bodyguard nabbed in Mexico
Mexican authorities on Monday said they had nabbed an alleged lieutenant and bodyguard of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, the billionaire boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Authorities said the arrest of Felipe Cabrera, a man with a reputation for violence who is known by the nicknames “College Grad” and “Lord of the Mountain Range,”…
Japan ‘was unprepared’ for nuclear disaster
TOKYO — The operators of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant and government regulators were woefully unprepared for disaster, the first official probe into the March 11 catastrophe said Monday. An independent panel set up to investigate the events around the world’s worst nuclear accident in a generation said Tokyo…
Man tried to take 247 animals on plane
BUENOS AIRES — A Czech national was nabbed in Argentina for trying to board a transatlantic flight with 247 live animals including poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles packed in a bulging suitcase, reports said Monday. The man identified as Karel Abelovsky, 51, was caught while trying to board a flight…
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