Morsi’s defence files appeal against sentence
Cairo: Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s defence filed an appeal against a death sentence and prison term for the Islamist former leader, a lawyer said on Saturday. Morsi, who was toppled by the Army in 2013, was sentenced to death in June for allegedly participating in prison breaks and violence against police, and to life in prison for espionage. Morsi had been in prison at the start of the 2011 uprising against veteran leader Hosni Mubarak, and escaped along with thousands of others after protesters attacked police stations across the country. “We submitted an appeal to the Court of Cassation to all prisoners sentenced, including Morsi,” his lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud told AFP.
lebanon arrests fugitive cleric al-Assir
Beirut: lebanon on Saturday arrested a fugitive Islamic cleric wanted over deadly clashes with the army as he tried to flee via the country’s airport, security sources said. “lebanese authorities arrested Ahmad al-Assir this morning at the airport. He had changed his appearance and was trying to leave the country,” a security source told AFP. Security sources added that Assir was using a fake passport and was trying to fly to Egypt.
Cambodian senator held for Facebook post
Phnom Penh: A prominent Cambodian opposition senator, who angered Prime Minister Hun Sen with a Facebook post, has been arrested and will be charged with treason, a Government spokesman has said. Senator Hong Sok Hour was accused of treason by Hun Sen for posting a treaty that purported to show Cambodia’s former head of state Heng Samrin pledging to dissolve the Cambodian-Vietnam border in 1979, The Cambodia Daily newspaper reported.
ISIS ‘beheads' 12 in battle for libya's Sirte
Tripoli: ISIS group jihadists have beheaded 12 people and hung them on crosses during a battle for the coastal city of Sirte, the national news agency lANA reported on Saturday. The fighting for control of Sirte, hometown of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, has been raging since Tuesday, with one top libyan diplomat warning of a "massacre" in the city. lANA said the 12 people beheaded were local gunmen who had been battling ISIS in the eastern Sirte district known as "neighbourhood three".
police apathy: Pak boy jumps before train
lahore: A 14-year-old boy, who was kidnapped and sexually abused by three men, committed suicide after police in Pakistan's Punjab province refused to help and instead demanded Rs 50,000 to register a case, the victim's father said on Saturday. Muhammad Akram was kidnapped by three men while he was returning from his workshop in the Rahim Yar Khan district, some 450 kilometres from lahore, said his father Malik Iqbal.
Indian kids excited to reach Everest base camp
Kathmandu: The two Indian siblings, who successfully reached the base camp of the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, becoming the youngest climbers to reach the destination, on Saturday said the experience was “very exciting”. Five-year-old Kandarp Sharma and 8-year-old Ritwika successfully reached the base camp situated at an altitude of 5,380 metres in northeast Nepal on Monday. “It was very exciting experience for me to reach the base camp,” Ritwika told reporters. “We saw snow falling from the mountain there and also saw the Everest which was very close from us.”