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Mexican Police Accused Of Killing 22 People
The Mexican government's human rights body has accused police of killing 22 people in extrajudicial executions in a raid on a drug cartel last year.
One police officer and 42 suspects were killed in the raid on a ranch in Tanhuato, Michoacan state, on 15 May. Officers said they had returned fire in self-defence but the high death toll aroused suspicions.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) says police attempted a cover-up. Police dispute the findings. Human rights groups in the country have long been demanding an improvement in policing standards and an end to arbitrary killings.
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IS Using Civilians As Human Shields
Aerial photos have been released showing Islamic State (IS) militants using civilians as shields to escape the northern Syrian town of Manbij.
The Syrian Democratic Forces said the pictures, showing a convoy of hundreds of vehicles, were taken on Friday. The US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters did not attack as there were civilians in each of the vehicles and it wanted to avoid casualties.
The militants were thought to have gone north, towards the Turkish border.
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Police Stations Hit By Two Car Bombs In Turkey
Two big car bombs have hit police stations in separate cities in Turkey, killing six people and wounding at least 219 others.
The first attack targeted a police station in the eastern city of Van, killing one police officer and two civilians. Some 73 people were hurt. Hours later, a police station in Elazig was hit, killing at least three police officers and wounding 146 people.
Turkish officials blamed the Kurdish militant group, the PKK. The PKK has carried a series of bombings targeting the police in the largely Kurdish south-east since a ceasefire with the government broke down last year.
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Amnesty International Says 18,000 Have Died In Syrian Prisons
Nearly 18,000 people have died in government prisons in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in 2011, according to Amnesty International.
A new report by the charity, based on interviews with 65 "torture survivors", details systematic use of rape and beatings by prison guards. Former detainees described so-called welcome parties - ritual beatings using metal bars and electric cables.
The Syrian government has repeatedly denied such allegations.
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Improvement Needed In UK Counter-Terrorism Laws
The conviction of radical cleric Anjem Choudary shows there is "room for improvement" in UK counter-terrorism legislation, a legal expert has said.
David Anderson QC said the law had "barely touched" Choudary for 20 years, before he was found guilty of inviting support for so-called Islamic State.
The UK must establish whether any "impediments" were making it harder to get convictions, Mr Anderson added. Choudary, 49, was arrested in 2014 and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres Hospital Blasted In Northern Yemen
An air strike has hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Yemen, killing at least 11 people, the medical charity says.
Another 19 people were injured in the attack in Abs, in Hajjah province, believed to have been carried out by the Saudi-led coalition which is backing Yemen's government in its fight against Houthi rebels. The coalition has not yet commented. Local people said the hit follows days of air raids in the area.
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Latest Transfer Of Prisioners From Guantanamo Bay
The US says it has sent 15 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United Arab Emirates - the largest single transfer during President Barack Obama's administration.
The Pentagon says the transfer of 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans brings the total number of prisoners down to 61 at the US facility in Cuba. The released inmates had been held without charge, some for over 14 years.
President Obama wants to close the prison before he leaves office.
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Iranian Dual National Arrested On Suspicion Of Spying
An Iranian dual national has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the British intelligence services, Iran's state news agency reports.
Irna quoted Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dowlatabadi as saying the suspect had "been active in the economic field, related to Iran". Mr Jafari-Dowlatabadi did not name the individual or give their second nationality. There was no immediate comment from the UK Foreign Office.
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Several Villages Captured From IS Near Mosul
Kurdish forces in Iraq say they have captured several villages near Mosul from the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group, the last major city the militants hold in the country.
The offensive began at dawn on Sunday, backed by air strikes from the US-led coalition battling IS. Kurdish and Iraqi government forces have been encircling Mosul ahead of an offensive to take the city itself. Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has been under IS control since June 2014.
The militants reportedly responded to the air strikes by trying to ram explosive-packed vehicles into Kurdish lines.
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Australian Church Stormed By Anti-Islam Group
Right-wing protestors dressed in mock Muslim outfits and chanting anti-Islamic slogans have stormed a church service on Australia's east coast.
The protestors interrupted a service held at Gosford Anglican Church on the Central Coast of New South Wales state.
A group of about 10 people entered the church and pretended to pray while playing Muslim prayers over a loudspeaker. Local police are investigating what the church described as a "racist stunt".
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