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Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - A mob lynched a Muslim on Friday after he fell off a crowded lorry driving thousands of frightened civilians out of the strife-torn capital of the Central African Republic. A large convoy of lorries and taxis packed with Muslims fleeing Christian vigilantes headed north from Bangui under a slew of insults from angry residents, locals said. The mob set on the victim after he fell off one of the lorries and hacked to pieces his body, which still lay by the side of the road by late morning, an AFP photographer saw. Armed Christian...

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Calling for international intervention, Palestinian ambassador to India Osama Musa Wednesday urged India and other like-minded countries to put pressure on the US to bring an end to “the Israeli occupation of Palestine”. “The international community must intervene to bring an end to the brutal occupation of Palestine by Israel,” Musa told reporters here. “They sent NATO force to resolve crises in Bosnia and Kosovo. Why don’t they send NATO force to end Israeli occupation also?” Musa asked. Realizing the implications of sending a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) force to Palestine, the envoy quickly...

PREŠEVO -- Riza Halimi has called on President Boris Tadić to make the Gendarmerie pull out of South Serbia. The President of the Party for Democratic Actions said that officers of the Gendarmerie brutally approach citizens asking for identification and run controls of travelers from the village of Crnotince in a disrespectful manner. He is asking Tadić to remove the Gendarmerie presence from the region and to have routine controls in the municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa handled by local police officials. “In the last several days the control of traffic conducted by the Gendarmerie has spread out to...