Unidentified gunmen abducted a Filipino-Chinese college student Thursday night in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Sur, police said Friday.
India's ruling Congress party is facing a major embarrassment after one of its senior lawmakers and the deputy chief of the Upper House of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), P. J. Kurien, has been accused of gangraping a 16-year-old girl in the southern state of Kerala in 1996.
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Tuesday the plea of one of the six accused in the horrifying gang rape case last month for shifting the trial to a place outside Delhi, because of public anger in the Indian capital, according to official sources.
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