Compulsory military service IN uAE
Dubai: The UAE has decided to make military service compulsory for all adult males, but kept it optional for women, the Gulf nation’s Prime Minister said on Sunday .Putin links gays to paedophiles
Putin links gays to paedophiles
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered new assurances to gay athletes and fans attending the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics next month. Yet he defended Russia’s anti-gay law by equating gays with paedophiles and said Russia needs to “cleanse” itself of homosexuality to increase its birth rate.
Found in China: 790,000 fake ID records
Beijing: Police in China have discovered 790,000 fake ID records in their system, which can be used to gain benefits, hide assets and circumvent property ownership restrictions.The fake records that included the same people registering with different details came to light when police used image matching technology. 200,000 protesters assemble in Ukraine Kiev: Some 200,000 Ukrainian protesters massed in central Kiev on Sunday in defiance of hugely controversial new curbs pushed through by President Viktor Yanukovych in a bid to suppress a pro-EU protest movement.
Fire kills Indian couple in Kathmandu
Kathmandu: An Indian couple was killed in a fire that broke out under suspicious circumstances at a rented apartment in the Nepalese capital on Sunday.
Magazine for gays, lesbians in B’desh
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s gay community has launched its first magazine in a bid to promote greater acceptance of homosexuals who face widespread discrimination Muslim-majority.