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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Canada dismemberment suspect guilty of first-degree murder

MONTREAL (AP) — A jury found a Canadian man guilty on Tuesday of killing and dismembering his Chinese lover and mailing the body parts to schools and political parties around the country. Luka Magnotta was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2012 slaying of Jun Lin after eight days of jury deliberations. He was also convicted on the four other related charges. Magnotta, 32, had pleaded not guilty. While he admitted to the slaying, he sought to be found not criminally responsible by reason of...

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Reading e-books before bedtime may disrupt body clock Deccan Herald

Use of a light-emitting electronic device such as e-books in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact sleep, overall health, alertness and the circadian clock, a new study has found. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) compared the biological effects of reading a light-emitting...

Sex slavery pushes Iraq IS victims to suicide The Siasat Daily

December 23: The Islamic State jihadist group has abducted women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority, distributed them as spoils of war and forced them into sexual slavery, driving some to suicide. IS militants have overrun swathes of Iraq since June, declared a cross-border caliphate also...

Nearly 300 heritage sites hit by Syria war: UN The Siasat Daily

December 23: Nearly 300 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed, damaged and looted in Syria since its conflict broke out in 2011, the UN said today in a report citing satellite evidence. Among the areas exposed to major damage were UNESCO world heritage sites such as Aleppo, where settlements...

One dead as five bombs explode in Yemeni capital, officials say The Irish Times

Five bombs exploded on Tuesday in Sanaa, Yemen, killing one person and injuring another, a senior security official said. The bombs were placed in Sanaa’s old quarter, where many supporters of the Shia Muslim Houthi movement live. The blasts occurred early...

Cambodian doctor faces murder rap in HIV outbreak China Daily

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - An unlicensed medical practitioner suspected of negligently infecting more than 100 villagers in northwestern Cambodia with the virus that causes AIDS was charged Monday with murder and other crimes, a prosecutor said. Yem Chhrin was charged with murder carried out with...

Report: At least 60 journalists killed in 2014 Fresno Bee

NEW YORK — At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion,” or about one-fourth, of those killed were...

Pakistan's plan to execute 500 more militants disturbing: Amnesty DNA India

A leading rights group has termed "deeply disturbing" the planned execution of 500 militants by Pakistan, saying the "huge regression" from government after the Peshawar school massacre could ratchet up the already very high level of violence in the country. "The planned...

North Korea Websites Restored Following Outage Voa News

VOA News North Korea has regained partial Internet access, following a widespread outage that occurred days after the U.S. vowed to respond to a cyberattack on Sony that was blamed on Pyongyang. The isolated Communist country's already limited Internet, including state-run news websites, went...