AFGHAN KIDS SMUGGlED TO PAK SEMINARIES: OFFICIAlS
Kabul: It was a routine check. Two vans, both without license plates, were stopped earlier this month by police in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, where Taliban hold sway in large swaths of the countryside. Inside, police found 27 boys between the ages of 4 and 15, all being taken illegally to Pakistan’s Baluchistan province to study in seminaries called madrassas, according to a police report.
OZ COURT DEBATES RElEASE OF QUEEN’S SECRET lETTERS
Sydney: A court battle has begun over the possible release of secret letters revealing what Queen Elizabeth II knew of her Australian representative’s stunning plan to dismiss Australia’s Government in 1975.
IRAQ WAR: UK HC BlOCKS TONY BlAIR’S PROSECUTION
london: The High Court on Monday blocked a bid by a former Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army to bring a private prosecution against former PM Tony Blair over the Iraq War. General Abdul Wahed Shannan Al Rabbat accused Blair of committing a ‘crime of aggression’ by invading Iraq in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the Guardian reported.
TURKISH SOlDIERS DETAINED FOR BEATING FOUR SYRIANS
Istanbul: Turkish authorities have detained a group of soldiers who were filmed allegedly beating up and verbally abusing four young Syrians who attempted to cross the border illegally, the Army said in a statement.
WIKIlEAKS ISSUES lEAKED MACRON CAMPAIGN EMAIlS
Paris: Wikileaks says it’s taking the roughly 20,000 emails allegedly stolen from French President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign and publishing them to its website in a searchable form.