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A Tennessee jury has convicted six anti-abortion protesters of violating federal laws after they blocked the entrance of a reproductive clinic outside Nashville nearly three years ago.

Hundreds of feminists, democratic groups, academicians, lawyers and activists on Thursday issued an open letter condemning the row over girls wearing hijab in colleges in Karnataka, saying it has become the "latest pretext to impose apartheid on and attack Muslim women". It said the video from Mandya in Karnataka of a saffron-stole-wearing mob of men surrounding a

Environmental watchdogs Saturday condemned the arrest of six Ugandan rights campaigners as a coordinated effort to silence critics of a contested energy project

Fighting f opposi. the state depentlledn all foreign fighters to leave the coun >> we arencerned about the influx of all foreignghters regardless of their side and the overflow of the fight into neighboringntries. thatomething we we are concerned about. weve expressed that to the opposition. >> the key take away is when you start to see fore fighters, especially from as far as the u.s. and canada going to syria this is seen as a tippingint like with al-qaeda in iraq. >> shepard: catherine herrid...