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Indian police arrest Hindu leaders, foil march
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Police nab Hindu leaders, foil march

INDIA: Indian police arrested two leaders of a hardline Hindu
group on Sunday to prevent them leading a march in Gujarat state,
scene of the worst violence between Hindus and Muslims in a
decade earlier this year.

Pravin Togadia, general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad, and Acharya Dharmendra were taken away by police
outside a temple in Gujarat's main city Ahmedabad where hundreds
of activists had gathered for the procession.

The independent election commission charged with holding
elections in Gujarat next month had banned the march, saying it
could reignite tensions with minority Muslims and affect the
vote.

More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in a wave of
revenge attacks in Gujarat after a suspected Muslim mob burnt
alive 59 Hindu activists in a train in February. --Reuters

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UK police charge three men under Terrorism Act
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Three men charged under Terrorism Act

BRITAIN: British police said they had charged three men with
terrorism offenses but declined to comment on a newspaper claim
the suspects had planned to release cyanide gas on London's
Underground rail system.

Scotland Yard said late on Saturday the men had been charged
under the Terrorism Act with "possession of articles for the
preparation, instigation and commission of terrorism acts".

It named them as Rabah Chekat-Bais, 21, Karim Kadouri, 33, and
Rabah Kadris, in his mid-30s. All were unemployed and living in
Britain.

The Sunday Times newspaper said police had arrested three men
of Tunisian or Moroccan background who had planned to launch a
cyanide attack on the underground system, popularly known as The
Tube. --Reuters

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Australia sends asylum seekers home from Pacific holding camps
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Australia sends asylum seekers home

AUSTRALIA: Almost half the 1,500 asylum seekers sent to Pacific
island camps as part of Australia's "Pacific solution" to stem
illegal immigration have gone home, the government said on
Sunday.

Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said about 100 people were
still on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and around 720 remained
on the tiny island state of Nauru.

But of the 1,515 originally diverted to Manus and Nauru when
the government refused authority for them to land on mainland
Australia, 695 had been repatriated.

The Pacific Solution policy was devised after the so-called
Tampa standoff in which Australia refused a Norwegian freighter
permission to land asylum seekers rescued from a sinking ferry
off Indonesia on Australian soil. --AFP