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Israel steps up settlement expansion

PALESTINE

Israel steps up settlement expansion

Israeli rights group Peace Now says Israel stepped up construction of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank in the first quarter of 2016.

US executes mentally-ill black man

HUMAN RIGHTS

US executes mentally-ill black man

The US state of Georgia executed a mentally disabled black man despite reports of racial motivation by the jury that issued the death penalty.

'Nigeria army killed hundreds of Shias'

NIGERIA

'Nigeria army killed hundreds of Shias'

Nigeria’s Army mowed down as many as 347 Shia Muslims last December while swooping on the followers of the country’s leading Shia cleric, a report says.