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India’s Modi draws flak for ‘despite being a woman’ comment about Bangladeshi PM

June 8, 2015 publisher australia, australian, bangladeshi, famous-female, included-client, passwords, potential, sheikh, sheikh-hasina, south-asian, the-potential, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sparked outrage after he praised his Bangladeshi counterpart for her courage to fight terrorism “despite being a woman”, triggering an avalanche of criticism on social media site Twitter. #DespiteBeingAWoman was one of the top trends on the micro blogging site on Monday, with users expressing anger at what they said was a bigoted and sexist remark and posting pictures of famous female scientists, politicians and athletes. Modi, who was on a two-day official visit to neighboring Bangladesh, on Sunday told an audience at Dhaka University that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed that she was committed to ending terrorism which has plagued both South Asian nations

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Pledge sues Penn State, fraternity caught in nude photo scandal

June 8, 2015 publisher australia, being-burned, court-documents, group-featuring, monday-james, passwords, sheikh, south-asian, sued-the-school, the-potential, thomson-reuters, while-pledging

(Reuters) – The whistleblower in a Penn State University fraternity scandal tied to a private Facebook group featuring photographs of nude and apparently unconscious female students has sued the school and fraternity, according to court documents released on Monday. James Vivenzio says he was subjected to life-threatening hazing, which included being burned by cigarettes and forced to drink bucketfuls of alcohol mixed with vomit and urine while pledging for Kappa Delta Rho, according to the complaint filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia

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Australian documentary unspools race riots dating back to 19th century

February 17, 2015 publisher australia, cronulla, cronulla-beach, documents-nine, film, incident-pitted, north, north-cronulla, pauline-askin, race, racist-flare-up, sally-aitken, since-the-mid, sydney

By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) – A racist flare-up in a beachside Sydney suburb hit the global spotlight nine years ago, besmirching Australia's reputation as a sun-drenched oasis wooing migrants from around the world. A TV documentary attempts to show the alcohol-fueled riots of December 2005 were not an aberration and that racial tension in Australia had simmered long before the Cronulla Beach incident pitted white surfers against ethnic Lebanese youths. “The Great Australian Race Riot” documents nine major riots since the mid-19th century, beginning with sectarian violence between Irish Catholics and British Protestants living in Melbourne that led to bloodshed on city streets in 1846.

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Factbox: Canada security bill’s main provisions

January 30, 2015 publisher australia, china, chinese, france, friday, gestures-during, islamist, militants-since, mountain-resort, official, security, sold-on-alibaba, state, swiss, the-security

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Friday to counter terrorism in response to attacks in Canada, France and Australia by Islamist militants since last October. The following are the main provisions: CANADIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE – CSIS would have powers to disrupt threats to the security of Canada at home and abroad, not just collect intelligence. PROMOTION OF TERRORISM – It would make it a crime to call for attacks on Canada in general.

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Hedge funds lose court bid over Ancestry.com deal price

January 30, 2015 publisher ancestry-com, australia, friday, islamist, market, popular-hedge, price-should, wilmington

By Tom Hals Wilmington, Del. (Reuters) – Hedge funds lost a court bid to get extra cash for their shares of online family research site Ancestry.com Inc, in a ruling involving an increasingly popular hedge fund strategy.

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