Amman: Syrian casualties treated in Turkey show signs of being victims of chemical weapons, the Turkish foreign minister said on Friday, adding to indications that President Barack Obama's "red line" on the use of such arms may have been crossed.
Wary of the false intelligence used to justify the 2003 war in Iraq, the United States says it wants proof that chemical weapons have been used before taking any action in Syria.
But if the evidence is confirmed it would increase the possibility of Western intervention against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the two-year civil war, even as the United States and Russia try to bring the sides to peace talks.
Turkey confirmed last week it was testing blood samples from Syrian casualties brought over the border to determine whether they had suffered a chemical weapons attack....
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06:56 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The NHRC said on Tuesday that it has sought reports from the Uttar Pradesh government over its role in the alleged beating and detention of two rape victims in the state. "Notices have been issued to the state chief secretary and DGP (director general of police) calling for reports in both the incidents," an official of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said. In Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district,...
05:49 PM, Apr 23, 2013
London: The London Marathon runners fell silent at the start line Sunday in memory of those who died in the Boston bomb attacks. Amid tightened security to reassure the racers and crowd, there was a 30-second silence just before the start of the men's elite race and mass start at 10am. Many of the 36,000 fun-runners, athletes and fundraisers wore black ribbons in a show of solidarity with those affected...
11:44 PM, Apr 21, 2013
The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs. "The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said...
06:14 AM, Apr 18, 2013
The twin blasts in Hyderabad on Thursday evening have taken 16 lives and changed many others. Mahesh, who was in Dilsukh Nagar when the bombs exploded, was injured and is now recovering at a hospital. But what he may never recover from, is the deaths of two of his childhood friends, who had gone shopping with him at the market. ...
07:22 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The death toll in Hyderabad twin blasts climbed to 15 on Friday and 118 people have been left injured, some of them critical. Most of the victims are now being discharged from various hospitals depending on the severity of their wounds. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The Uttar Pradesh government has launched a 'Victim Compensation Scheme' to provide financial assistance to victims or their dependents, who have suffered loss or injury due to crime like rape, acid attack and human trafficking. A notification for the scheme has already been issued and budgetary provisions for the same, earmarking funds separately for the purpose would be sought soon, IG, Law and Order, BP Singh said. ...
03:59 AM, Feb 15, 2013
For the families of those who died in Parliament attack, the hanging of Afzal Guru is the end of a long wait for justice. ...
09:22 PM, Feb 09, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the state government and health department to issue a directive to hospitals to attend to all trauma patients. This also applies to the private hospitals in the city too. ...
01:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The Delhi government has come up with new Medico Legal Case (MLC) guidelines for rapid response by hospitals to examine sexual assault victims, an official said on Friday. ...
12:41 AM, Jan 26, 2013
In a shocking news from Gonda in Uttar Pradesh, two rape victims claim that a sitting judicial magistrate sexually assaulted them. ...
06:11 PM, Jan 25, 2013
To create awareness about the troubled lives of acid attack victims, a freeze mob on Friday gathered at a busy Central Delhi to sensitise people about the social ill. Around 150 people, including one acid attack survivor, gathered near the busy Palika Bazar area to stand still for six minutes, Sakshi Kumar, one of the organiser said here. ...
10:00 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Politicians have made shameful and shocking statements over heinous crime like rape and the victims of it. ...
10:00 PM, Dec 28, 2012
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a man belonging to a right wing group near indore in connection with the May 2007 Mecca Masjid blast that left 13 people dead in Hyderabad. ...
11:10 PM, Dec 25, 2012
In the wake of the rape incident involving a 23-year-old girl, Delhi government on Monday indicated that it might set up fast track courts to ensure speedy justice to victims of such crimes. The Delhi Cabinet is expected to take up a proposal in this regard very soon, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's Parliamentary Secretary Mukesh Sharma said. ...
02:20 AM, Dec 18, 2012
NGO Swabhiman Kendriya has been working with the victims of the worst industrial tragedy in the world, making them self reliant. ...
10:38 PM, Dec 08, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy with an offer of help from the central government for flood-affected areas of the state. "The prime minister has directed the chief minister to constantly monitor the situation and extend all possible assistance for relief and rehabilitation," a statement from the Prime Minister's Office said. It said that Manmohan Singh also extended his sympathies...
03:04 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Ashok Khemka, a senior IAS officer and the man in charge of land registration in Haryana has cancelled the mutation of a land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF in Manesar. ...
10:18 PM, Oct 16, 2012
I had a friend, let's call her 'B'. She was assaulted outside her home. We were just out of college. Like most assaults, the perpetrators ...
06:31 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Haryana whistleblower IAS officer who wrote a tell-all letter to the state Chief Secretary revealing the land scams going on across the state on Sunday told CNN-IBN that the Indian political system was such that an honest officer would feel like a rape victim who, in India, is often blamed for the crime. "India is not a banana republic... There are scoundrels in the system. And you...
08:46 AM, Oct 14, 2012
