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Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy accused of spying for the government, according to local reports. The child was tried on Tuesday and publically hanged in the village of Heratiyan, in Sangin, Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi, the provincial governor's spokesman. The reports, although as yet unconfirmed, have horrified the international community with both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and David Cameron condemning the brutal act during a press conference in Kabul. "If true, I think it says more about the Taliban than any book, than any article, than any speech could ever say," Mr Cameron told reporters. Mr Karzai called the act a "crime against humanity" saying: "A seven-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A seven-year-old boy cannot be anything but a seven-year-old boy." According to Mr Ahmadi, this is not the first time the Taliban has executed those accused of espionage. Three years ago a 70-year-old woman and a child were tried and executed in the Musa Qala district of the province...
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The body of a 16-year-old girl police say was buried alive by relatives in an "honor" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has been discovered in Kahta, Turkey. Turkish police discovered the body after acting on an anonymous tip. The tipster told police that the girl was killed after a family council meeting, and had been buried under a chicken pen. Police say that the girl had complained two months earlier that her grandfather beat her for talking to boys. The girl, identified by police only by her initials M.M., was said to have a large amount of soil in her stomach and lungs, indicating she had been buried alive. "The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl - who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood - was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one anonymous expert said. The girl had been reported as missing by her family. Police have arrested her father, mother and grandfather. Her mother has been released but her father and grandfather are awaiting trial. The case is expected to bring further attention to the issue of "honor" killings in Turkey. Official figures indicate that more than 200 "honor" killings take place each year - almost half of all murders in Turkey...
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India’s 80 million wanderers are torn—clinging to centuries-old traditions while the modern world strips their identities away.
In their illustrious past the Gadulia Lohar forged armor for Hindu kings. Today these blacksmiths pitch camp on the outskirts of tiny Indian villages and make simple goods from metal scrap. On a warm February day I arrived at such a camp in India's northwestern Rajasthan state, carrying bars of soap to aid my introduction. But as I approached, men, women, and children surrounded me, grabbing the bag and shredding it, spilling the soap onto the dirt. A maelstrom of curses and tangled limbs ensued. It ended with at least one older child in tears. Such desperate behavior hints at a larger story about the nomads who have roamed the subcontinent for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years. The Gadulia Lohar (their name comes from the Hindi words for "cart," gaadi, and "blacksmith," lohar) are among the best known; others are herders, such as the Rabari, famous throughout western India for their bulky turbans and familiarity with all things camel. Some are hunters and plant gatherers. Some are service providers—salt traders, fortune-tellers, conjurers, ayurvedic healers. And some are jugglers, acrobats, grindstone makers, storytellers, snake charmers, animal doctors, tattooists, basketmakers. All told, anthropologists have identified about 500 nomadic groups in India, numbering perhaps 80 million people—around 7 percent of the country's billion-plus population...
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A police officer contacted UFO experts after claiming he saw three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle in Wiltshire. The sergeant, who has not been named, was off-duty when he saw the figures standing in a field near Silbury Hill, reports the Daily Telegraph. He stopped his car to investigate but says the trio ran away "faster than any man he had ever seen". The police officer said he heard the "the sound of static electricity" as he approached the figures who were all over 6ft tall with blond hair. The officer returned to his home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, and contacted paranormal experts and told them he had spotted a UFO. Crop circle researcher Andrew Russell, who is investigating the sighting on behalf of the officer, revealed how he described the close encounter. "He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him, not glancing at him. When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running," he said. "He said: "They ran faster than any man I have ever seen. I'm no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone. "I then got scared. The noise was still around but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car. For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn't shift"." Wiltshire Police has refused to comment on the incident, which happened in July, saying it is a "personal matter" for the officer involved...
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A New Zealand man spent a "wretched" night in a Fiji jail after police raided his Freemasons meeting when frightened residents suspected witchcraft, according to the New Zealand Herald. The man, who did not wish to be identified, blamed "dopey village people" for the raid on the island of Denerau in which 14 members of the Freemasons Lodge of Lautoka were herded into police cars and jailed for the night. Police also seized lodge paraphernalia, including wands, compasses and a skull. The man told the Herald that Tuesday night's meeting was "interrupted by a banging on the door and there were these village people and the police demanding to be let in". Nothing sinister was going on but "such is the nature of life in Fiji" they were taken to a nearby police station, he said...
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