Pak lawyer returns home to
defend Christian woman
ISLAMABAD, Jan 28: The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman awaiting the final ruling on her fate vowed Monday he would fight the last legal hurdle for his client who had faced death threats from Islamist radicals following her acquittal in a blasphemy case last year. Pakistan's Supreme Court is to hear Tuesday a petition for a review of its acquittal of Aasia Bibi, who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy before being released last October. — AP
Attack on camp in Yemen
claims eight lives
CAIRO, Jan 28: The United Nations says shelling of a camp for displaced people in Yemen's northern Hajjah province has killed eight civilians and wounded 30. The UN Human Coordinator for Yemen Lise Grande says the shelling was a "shocking.... and senseless attack." She said Monday that such attacks "cannot be justified - ever."— AP
Fighter jet crashes in northern India
NEW DELHI, Jan 28: An Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter plane crashed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, but the pilot ejected safely, said official defense sources. The Jaguar fighter jet crashed in a non-residential area, and no causality has been reported. — Xinhua
Iran to hold int'l cartoon contest in Feb
TEHRAN, Jan 28: lran's 4th International Biennial Book Cartoon Contest will be held in the capital Tehran in February, Iran Daily reported on Monday. A total of 496 artists from 73 countries will participate in the contest. Major foreign contestants include those from Turkey and Indonesia. Massoud Shojaei-Tabatabaei, secretary of the event, said the event will focus on the themes of Book and City, Book and Life, Book and Family, Book and Child, Book and Library, Book and Librarian, Book and media as well as Book and Future. Top Greek cartoonist, Michael Kountouris, will take part in the event. — Xinhua
Papua rebels fire at aircraft in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Jan 28: Indonesia's military says separatists opened fire on an aircraft carrying military personnel and local government officials in the country's easternmost Papua region, killing one soldier. Military spokesman Muhammad Aidi says the attack, near a district where rebels killed 19 people last month, happened shortly after the light plane took off Monday morning. He says two soldiers on the plane were injured and one later died in a hospital. — AP
Facebook tools to bar EU polls meddling
BRUSSELS, Jan 28: Facebook unveiled Monday new tools to counter online political meddling in the European elections, part of a campaign to regain trust after scandals such as its work with Cambridge Analytica. The US tech giant's vice president, former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, said the methods would become available in late March and help "make political advertising on Facebook more transparent". — AFP
Tornado kills three in Havana
HAVANA, Jan 28: Three people were killed and over 100 others hurt in a powerful tornado in Cuban capital Havana on late Sunday, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on early Monday. — Xinhua
Bahrain court upholds
sentences for Shiite cleric
DUBAI, Jan 28: Bahrain's highest court has upheld life sentences for a prominent Shiite cleric who led a now-shuttered opposition party and two of his colleagues. The ruling on Monday targeted Sheikh Ali Salman, who headed the Al-Wefaq political party and was a central figure in Bahrain's 2011 Arab Spring protests. A court in June previously acquitted Salman and his two colleagues of spying charges. — AP
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