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Muslims hold fresh rallies to condemn Sheikh Nimr's execution

Wednesday, 06 January 2016 11:30 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 06 January 2016 11:31 PM ]

Muslims around the world hold fresh rallies criticizing Sheikh Nimr's execution.

1. Muslims hold fresh rallies criticizing Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

2. The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has harshly criticized Saudi Arabia for executing a top Shia cleric.

3. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights says regime forces detained nearly 19-hundred people including women and children as part of their crackdown on dissent in 2015.

4. The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 178 people were killed and more than 16-thousand injured by Israeli forces last year.

5. Israeli forces have demolished five new houses belonging to Palestinian Bedouin families in the occupied West Bank.

6. Turkish police have clashed with people demonstrating against a curfew in the country’s Kurdish-majority southeast.

7. North Korea’s testing of a hydrogen bomb has unleashed a flurry of condemnation from across the world including from Japan, South Korea, China and Russia.

8. 45-thousand junior doctors in Britain are set to go on strike. Talks with the government broke down again over pay and add-hour shifts.

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