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- Sentencing of punk rockers in Russia reignites opposition
- U.S. plans to beef up rural police forces in Afghanistan
- Pace of 'insider' shootings intensifying in Afghanistan
- Syrian refugees raise tensions in neighboring countries
- South Africans decry police shootings at mine as 'unacceptable'
- Two years in prison for anti-Putin Russian punk band provocateurs
- Pussy Riot members sentenced to 2 years in prison
| Sentencing of punk rockers in Russia reignites opposition Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:38 PM PDT Three members of a punk band receive two years in prison for an anti-Putin stunt in an Orthodox church. Their case has sparked an international outcry and revived a weak, divided Russian opposition. MOSCOW — The face of dissent in Russia was once that of the outcast intellectual such as Nobel laureates Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Then it was the oligarch who grew rich in the post-Soviet chaos and used his wealth to challenge the Kremlin.  |
| U.S. plans to beef up rural police forces in Afghanistan Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:27 PM PDT There is concern in the Pentagon and the Afghan government about the village self-defense units becoming predatory criminal gangs or defecting to the Taliban. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to double the size of a rural police force in Afghanistan and arm it with heavier weapons to fight insurgents as U.S. troops withdraw, despite Pentagon and Afghan government concern about the village self-defense units becoming predatory criminal gangs or defecting to the Taliban.  |
| Pace of 'insider' shootings intensifying in Afghanistan Posted: 18 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Two Americans are killed by a rookie Afghan policeman in Farah province, bringing the number of such attacks to nine in 11 days. KABUL, Afghanistan — No sooner had freshly minted Afghan policeman Mohammad Ismail been issued his service weapon than he turned it on his American mentors.  |
| Syrian refugees raise tensions in neighboring countries Posted: 17 Aug 2012 05:17 PM PDT More than 170,000 Syrians have sought sanctuary in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq, leading to a growing humanitarian crisis, U.N. says. BEIRUT — In the last few days, thousands of Syrians have poured across the borders of neighboring countries, fleeing increasing violence in their homeland but creating tension elsewhere.  |
| South Africans decry police shootings at mine as 'unacceptable' Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:42 PM PDT Some say the killings of 34 miners spotlight government incompetence and others say they're the result of disdain for the poor and powerless. JOHANNESBURG — It was the bloodiest crowd control incident in South Africa since the apartheid era, a time when security forces routinely suppressed black township protesters with bullets.  |
| Two years in prison for anti-Putin Russian punk band provocateurs Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:57 AM PDT The three members of a Russian female punk rock band who staged a colorful protest against Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a church here earlier this year were each sentenced on Friday to two years i  |
| Pussy Riot members sentenced to 2 years in prison Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:10 AM PDT A Moscow judge has sentenced each of three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage.  |
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