Somali Islamist insurgents behead 7 people

Somali Islamist fighters on Friday beheaded seven prisoners accused of abandoning the Muslim faith and spying for the government in the largest mass execution since the Islamists were pushed from power two and a half years ago.

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3 Pakistanis beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murder

Saudi authorities have beheaded three Pakistanis convicted of killing a fellow Pakistani man during a jewelry heist.

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2 Cubans detained in Mexican beheadings probe

Two Cubans are being held by Mexican police for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of a dozen men in the Yucatan peninsula.

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There is a new blood diamond in international politics. This new product is enjoyed by 25 million Americans on a regular basis. It has led to the death of 6,300 people in one country alone last year. In one city, 1,600 have already been killed this year.

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Forget Afghanistan: America is waking up to the fact that it is about to become embroiled with its own neighbour's drugs war.

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Reports of the partial guest list at the 2003 dinner include "the Sanabel Debka troupe", but the group's name is really "Sanabel AlQuds Dabka troupe." Sanabel means "grains" or "kernels" #of wheat or barley# in Arabic.

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violence throughout Chihuahua state left 15 dead friday

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''After almost five years of war, many young Iraqis, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach.

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A 37-year-old Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British soldier. Parviz Khan, an unemployed charity worker, intended to seize and behead the unnamed Muslim serviceman "like a pig", Leicester Crown Court was told.

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The severed head of the Iraqi man rests on the counter of a bamboo stall. His hair is close-cropped, the mustache is trim, and there's a bullet wound in his right cheek.

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PHILIPPINE troops recovered the bodies of 14 marines, some of them beheaded, who clashed with Muslim insurgents as they searched for a kidnapped Italian priest.

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Three Islamic militants were found guilty today of decapitating three Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia and dumping their bloodied heads in nearby villages, judges said.

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Britain's internal security service, MI5, has issued a "red alert" to all British and U.S. military commanders of armed forces in the United Kingdom and Europe that their Muslim servicemen are now "prime targets for Islamic terror cells."

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Here we shed a little light on the not-so-barbaric Dark Ages, and what really went on in the worlds of torture and justice.

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Punishments for offenses in those days were perhaps even more sensible and humane than they are now, say some historians.

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