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Taliban fighters attack Pakistan prison, freeing at least 380 prisoners, including militants
Taliban militants armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades battled their way into a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as “very dangerous” insurgents, authorities and the militants said.
Spain's Stolen-Babies Scandal: Empty Graves and a Silent Nun
• The elderly woman who left Madrid's courthouse on Thursday morning looked stooped and ghostly, but neither her obvious frailty nor the plain blue habit she wore kept the small crowd of onlookers from screaming at her. "Shameless!" one woman shouted. "How could you cause so much suffering?" • Thursday was supposed to be the day that began to bring resolution to those who believe themselves victims of decades of baby robbing in Spain. The nun called to testify, Sor Marí Gómez Valbuena, is the first person a indicted for her alleged involvement in a scheme which supposedly saw thousands of newborns taken from their mothers and sold to adoptive parents. But once in front of the judge, Gómez exercised her right to remain silent. And later that day at a meeting with representatives of victims' associations, Spanish government officials admitted that, although they would dedicate administrative resources to attempting to reunite mothers and children, the chances for bringing to justice those who had separated the families were slim.
• Tens of thousands of people attended the ceremony at Kim Il-sung Square in central Pyongyang. A march-past of more than 30 phalanxes of military forces is under way amid thunderous cheers and clangorous music. • The ongoing military parade is one of the many activities planned to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Kim Il-sung, who passed away in 1994. • Days ago, Kim Jong-un became first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the WPK Central Military Commission and first chairman of the National Defence Commission.
• The raid by more than 100 fighters was a dramatic display of the strength of the insurgency gripping the nuclear-armed country. The escaped prisoners may now rejoin the fight, giving momentum and a propaganda boost to a movement that has killed thousands of Pakistani officials and ordinary citizens since 2007. • The attackers stormed the prison before dawn in the city of Bannu close to the Afghan border. They used explosives and hand grenades to knock down the main gates and two walls, said Bannu prison superintendent Zahid Khan.
• It was the first time since the Syrian uprising began 13 months ago that the security council put its full weight behind a concrete proposal to stop the violence, with Russia and China joining the rest authorize the observer mission. • And the resolution put new pressure on Syria to take its troops off the streets and to open a dialogue with the opposition, both crucial aspect of the six-point plan aimed at ending more than a year of violence that has left at least 9,000 people dead by the United Nations‟ count.
DPRK stages military parade
• The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is carrying out a great military parade here on Sunday morning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Ilsung. • In a speech delivered at the grand event, DPRK leader Kim Jong-un lauded the historic contributions to the DPRK's development by Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, and offered the highest respect and honor to the two late leaders. • Noting that the country is facing a momentous opportunity, Kim Jong-un called upon the whole nation to stick to the path blazed by his predecessors and strive for new victories.
U.N. Votes to Send Observers to Syria Amid a Shaky Truce
• As low-level violence sputtered in various Syrian cities on Saturday, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to send an advance team of up to 30 military observers to begin monitoring the tenuous ceasefire.
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• Some 1,500 accusations of baby stealing, dating from the late 1950s until mid-1980s, have been filed in Spain in the past year or two. Most follow the same chilling narrative: a single mother or a married woman who already had several children gave birth to an apparently healthy child, but was soon told — often by a nun who worked as a nurse — that the baby had died. Although the adoptive parents frequently paid significant amounts of money for their child, ideology more than greed appears to have been behind the thefts. "These are nuns and priests who strongly believed that the child would be better off with a more traditional or more 'moral,' family," explains journalist Natalia Junquera, who has led the newspaper El Paí investigation of the thefts. "They s's honestly thought they were doing the right thing."