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The right may have gained in the European elections in France but conservatives and Gypsies can happily co-exist in the conservative deep south, Tessa Dunlop finds.
India gang rapes: Outrage over police 'discrimination'
There is outrage over police inaction in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where two teenage girls were gang raped and hanged from a tree.
The father of one victim said he was ridiculed by policemen when he sought help in finding his missing daughter.
He said when the policemen found out he was from a lower caste, they "refused to look for my girl".
At least three men, including one policeman, have been arrested in connection with the incident.
The victims' families have complained that police had refused to help find the missing girls, aged 14 and 16.
Are Mexico's federal troops doomed to fail in fighting drug violence?
Some say Mexico needs to learn from its experience in Michoacán by recognizing it has no reliable partners among state and local forces, who are often in cahoots with drug gangs.
The recent wave of killings that has made the state ofTamaulipas one of Mexico's main drug war battlefields has prompted plans to send in federal troops to try and bring the region's underworld to heel. But can such a deployment ever loosen the grip of organized crime?
A recent spike in violence has brought Tamaulipas back to the forefront of Mexico's security debate after months of calm. Reports of gunfights in Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa, two lucrative border crossings that the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas have long fought over, have again grown common. Over the course of the month, the state registered 75 murders according to the National Public Security System (the SNSP, for its initials in Spanish), the highest total since 2012. One gunfight alone in Reynosa left 17 people dead in late April.
Fears of new unrest as Myanmar ponders monk-backed interfaith marriage ban
May 30, 2014 -- Updated 0230 GMT (1030 HKT)
Myanmar's government has begun unveiling drafts of proposed laws that critics say are motivated by religious hatred, and could take discrimination against the country's marginalized Muslim minority to new heights.
The four bills are based on a petition presented by a group of nationalist Buddhist monks to President Thein Sein in July last year, calling for curbs on interfaith marriage and religious conversions, among other measures. According to the monks, it's a matter of protecting race and religion and encouraging peace.
Tensions between the Buddhist majority and Muslim minority in Myanmar, also known as Burma, have been high since deadly violence erupted between the groups in 2012, as the country emerged from decades of authoritarian military rule. A faction of Buddhist nationalists has been criticized, accused of drumming up hostility.
Jonathan orders full-scale military attacks on terrorists
- Written by Mohammed Abubakar, Abuja
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Thursday directed full military operations in the north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe to get rid of Boko Haram insurgents.
But the Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Boni Haruna, disclosed that the President had declared amnesty for members of the terror group.
The president instructed the security agencies to ensure that they should use “any means necessary” within the ambit of the law to stop the impunity in the country.
The order was contained in a Democracy Day broadcast by the President to the nation in Abuja Thursday.
Special Report: Option B - The blueprint for Thailand's coup
By By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aubrey Belford7 hours ago
On Dec. 27 last year, Thailand’s powerful army chief stood before a crowded news conference and stunned the beleaguered government of Yingluck Shinawatra by saying he would not rule out military intervention to resolve a deteriorating political crisis. General Prayuth Chan-Ocha said "the door was neither open nor closed" when he was asked whether a coup would happen. "Anything can happen."
It was a marked shift from the strong coup denials the armed forces had routinely made up until then. Prayuth was not just speaking off the cuff in front of reporters. A document drawn up by the army’s chief of staff and dated Dec. 27 – the same day the general faced the media - runs through various scenarios of how the crisis could unfold and how the military should respond.
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Gypsy beat in France's conservative south
The right may have gained in the European elections in France but conservatives and Gypsies can happily co-exist in the conservative deep south, Tessa Dunlop finds.
When Roland Chassain ambles nonchalantly up the stairs half an hour late I am surprised by the diminutive crumpled figure who greets me.
After all, if you believe what you read on the internet, this man, the Mayor of Saintes-Maries-De-La-Mer, is the nemesis of his town's most famous festival - the gypsy pilgrimage in honour of Sara la Kali or Black Sara, the enigmatic saint of Europe's travelling community.
Gitanes, Tigani, Roma, Gypsies - call them what you will, this is one day a year when, in the remote marshlands of the Camargue, they shed their minority status and become the majority.
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