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22:09 Ex-Mexican President: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday kept up his withering criticism of Donald Trump, saying the GOP front-runner reminds him of Adolf Hitler.

"Today, he's going to take that nation (US) back to the old days of conflict, war and everything. I mean, he reminds me of Hitler. That's the way he started speaking," Fox told CNN's Anderson Cooper in a phone interview on "Anderson Cooper 360."

"He has offended Mexico, Mexicans, (and) immigrants. He has offended the Pope. He has offended the Chinese. He's offended everybody."

Fox's comments come one day after he delivered a scathing response on Trump's plan to make Mexico pay for a wall between the Mexico-U.S. border.

"I'm not going to pay for that f***ing wall," Fox said in an interview with Fusion's Jorge Ramos.

Fox told Cooper he won't apologize for that remark.

It seems like sedition has become the flavour of the season.

As the nation, from newsrooms to parliament, debates the validity of the charges, sedition charges have been filed against Congress vice president R Gandhi, CPI's D Raja, CPI (M)'s Sitaram Yechury, AAP's Arvind Kejriwal, Anand Sharma and JNU students, Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid under section 124 A (sedition) Saroornagar PS,Cyberabad, Telangana.

According to ANI, FIRs have been registered under Section 156 (3) against the aforementioned.

Militants attacked an outdoor market today in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

A bomb ripped through the crowded Mredi market in the Shiite district of Sadr City, a police officer said. Minutes later, a suicide bomber blew himself up amid the crowd that had gathered at the site of the first bombing, he added.

He said at least 52 other people were wounded.

The attack was the deadliest in a wave of recent explosions that have targeted commercial areas in and outside Baghdad.

In the town of Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, three shoppers were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb explosion, another police officer said. Four others were killed in a separate bomb attack in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood, he added.

Days after allegations of rape and molestation by Jat quota agitators near Haryana's Murthal, a woman today came forward and registered a case of gangrape against seven people, including her brother-in-law, in

connection with the incident.

"An FIR has been lodged against seven persons in connection with a gangrape on the basis of a complaint filed by a Narela-based woman today," Haryana Police, DIG, Rajshree Singh told reporters.

She said the victim had alleged she was raped on the intervening night of February 22-23 and the perpetrators included her brother-in-law. The complainant said she knew all of them.

The officer, who heads a three-member team of women police officers constituted by the Haryana government to go into alleged incidents of rape and molestation of several women by Jat protesters, however, said a "family dispute" could be the reason behind the woman filing the complaint.

Iraqi security forces repelled an attack by Islamic State militants on the capital's western suburb of Abu Ghraib today, officials said.

Three suicide car bombers struck a security force barracks as gunmen opened fire, according to two police officers. At least 12 members of government and paramilitary security forces were killed and 35 wounded, they added. The clashes left a silo on fire, they said.

A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.

With Punjab having faced the Gurdaspur and Pathankot terror strikes, the army has trained 25 police personnel from the state in counter-terrorism operations.

"25 Punjab Police personnel from five districts -- Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Taran Tarn and Batala -- took part in training in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations from February 15-27," Defence Spokesman Lt Col Manish Mehra said.

The personnel from the Rising Star Corps were given training with the army, he said.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today made it clear that those involved in violence and reported inappropriate behaviour with women during the Jat stir will not be spared even as he again asked

people to share information about incidents.

In a statement issued here, the chief minister said some "rowdy elements" committed the crimes of "looting and arson" by taking the law in their hands and disrupted peace in the state.

"Each and every person involved in such incidents shall be identified and strict action be taken against them", he said.

Those who played direct or indirect role in such incidents are being identified with the help of witnesses and audio and video clips. The people should come forward and give them to the government if they have any information in this regard, he said.

Minor Muslim girls in the UK as young as 11 are being forced to marry men living abroad via the internet notwithstanding a ban on forced marriage in the country.

Imams in the UK and abroad have been conducting ceremonies using Skype -- so girls can be married remotely before "being put on a plane and consummating the marriage at the earliest opportunity", according to Freedom, a charity.

The marriage is often conducted with the promise of a visa to the UK for their new husband, it said.

"The reason is to curb the behaviour of their children when they become 'too western'," charity founder Aneeta Prem was quoted as saying by 'The Sunday Times'.

"Once married, there is enormous pressure to get a spouse visa. The hope is the girl will visit (country of husband's origin) and fall pregnant to make the union seem more legitimate before bringing the partner back," she said.

18:12 ISIS hacks UK solar firm site in revenge

ISIS terrorists hacked the website of a UK-based solar firm as revenge for the killing of one of their British Muslim members, a media report said today.

Self-styled Caliphate Cyber Army members recently carried out the hack on the website of Solar UK, an East Sussex company in south-east England with only 11 staff, The Sunday Times reported.

The attack was reportedly to avenge the death of Junaid Hussain, an ISIS figure from Birmingham, and it saw customers being diverted to a web page featuring the terror group's logo accompanied by a string of threats.

"Fear us," the page warned. "We are the Islamic Cyber Army. We have responded to the call of war and have risen across the globe, from within their own backyards to strike back viciously-- anywhere and any time."

18:05 No ban on 'Aligarh': District Authorities

District authorities today categorically denied having imposed any "ban" on the controversial film 'Aligarh', based on the life of an AMU professor who was sacked on charges of homosexuality, even as the city mayor strongly opposed the screening of the biopic.

"We have no knowledge whatsoever on this matter and no cinema owner has contacted us for seeking any sort of security for exhibiting this movie," Senior Superintendent of Police J Ravindra Gaur said when asked about media reports that the movie has been banned in the district.

However, the strongest opposition to the movie has come from BJP Mayor Shakuntla Bharti, who has announced that she would meet the district authorities tomorrow to seek an official ban on the movie.

M I Khan reports from Patna.

Police on Sunday attached property of absconding Rajballabh Yadav, a MLA of the ruling RJD who is accused of raping a minor girl and failed to surrender in the court, police said.

A day after Nalanda district court allowed police to go ahead to attach property of Yadav, police have attached his property of his house at his native village English Pathra in Nawada district.

Police have also seized lanternelection symbol of RJD from Yadavs house during attachment of property.

Yadav has been absconding since Feb 9 but four of his accomplices have been arrested.

17:33 Pakistan arrests 20 Indian fishermen

Pakistan has arrested 20 Indian fishermen and seized their boats for allegedly violating territorial waters off the Arabian Sea coast, over a week

after it apprehended 88 Indian fishermen.

The Indian fishermen were arrested by the Maritime Security Agency while they were fishing in Pakistani waters off the Arabian Sea, a spokesman for Pakistan's Maritime Security Agency told reporters yesterday.

The four boats of the fishermen were also seized.

"The fishermen have been handed over to the Docks police for further legal process," he said.

16:58 Kejriwal vows to curb mining mafia in Punjab

Alleging that a "mining mafia" in Punjab was extorting money from owners of stone crushing units, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal today vowed to put an end to the menace "within 24 hours" if his party comes to power in the 2017 Assembly election.

"I am shocked to know that legal crusher owners have to pay 'goonda tax or jizya' to the mining mafia in Punjab. I vow that within 24 hours of AAP's coming into power, this will be curbed in the state," Kejriwal, who is on a five-day tour of Punjab to reach out to voters ahead of the Assembly elections, said at a rally here.

Members of the business community, incuding owners of crushing units, today met Kejriwal and alleged that no action was being taken against the extortionists. They also claimed that false cases were being registered against them.

Several air strikes hit central and northern Syria today, a monitor said, but the first major ceasefire of the war appeared to be broadly intact on its

second day.

Warplanes, believed to be either Syrian or Russian, bombed seven villages in the provinces of Aleppo and Hama, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based monitor, said one person was killed in Aleppo province.

It was unclear if the raids hit areas covered by the truce.

The agreement does not include territory held by the Islamic State jihadist group and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, which together control more than half of Syrian land.

According to Abdel Rahman, only one of the villages, Kafr Hamra in Aleppo province, is controlled by Al-Nusra and the others are in the hands of non-jihadist rebels.

Elsewhere the situation remained mostly calm, according to reports.

Delhi Police is likely to rope in cyber cell to trace the numbers from which CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury claimed to have received multiple threat calls and messages and will take strict action, a senior officer said today.

"We are investigating about all the numbers from which such calls are being made and will take strict action against such callers," DCP (New Delhi) Jatin Narwal said today.

A police official said Yechury filed a police complaint mentioning all numbers through which the threats were received from callers who alleged that the Left leader has spoken "wrong" thing about Goddess Durga in Parliament.

The mayor of Aligarh, Shakuntala Bharti, on Sunday said that they would not let the Manoj Bajpayee starrer 'Aligarh' based on homosexuality to run in the cinema halls of the city and alleged that an attempt has been made to defame the city.

"We are protesting against the screening of this film in Aligarh cinema halls because we feel that it was a conspiracy to defame the city by naming a film on homosexuality as 'Aligarh'. What was the need to do this? What was the intention behind naming the movie as 'Aligarh'?" Bharti told ANI.

Scientists have discovered a new elementary particle - a rare tetraquark consisting of four distinct types or 'flavours' of quarks.

Quarks are point-like elementary particles that typically come in packages of two or three, the most familiar of which are the proton and neutron (each is made of three quarks).

Tetraquarks - four quarks together - are much rarer and are not well understood.

There are six types, or "flavours," of quark to choose from - up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top. Each of these also has an antimatter counterpart.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reached out to the farmers, asking them to convert the challenges into opportunities.

Prime Minister Modi, who was speaking at a farmers rally here, said the farmers are the pride of the nation.

"There are a lot of challenges before our farmers, but these challenges can be transformed into opportunities," he added.

Prime Minister Modi also requested all state governments to give utmost priority to farmers' issues.

"I appeal not only to the Uttar Pradesh Government but to all the state governments to give utmost priority to addressing farmers' issues and issues related to agriculture," said Prime Minister Modi.

Sonepat Superintendent of Police Abhishek Garg on Sunday said the Special Investigation Team has recorded statements of the eyewitnesses in front of the magistrate, but added that there has been no major breakthrough in the case as of now.

"SIT has been put in place. SIT team has recorded statements of eyewitnesses in front of magistrate. No major breakthrough till now but our investigation is on. We have also examined the footage from local dhaba, there's no recording of any molestation," Garg told ANI here.

"They (witnesses) said they never saw any incident like this. But if any witness and victim come we will investigate them. The footage has been captured, but it did not show any such incident," he added.

Noted Historian Romila Thapar believes JNU is unlikely to suffer a setback due to the row over an event against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as there is "intellectual support" for it.

She also feels it is going to be difficult for any government to "control" the thinking process unless it turns into a totally "anti-democratic dictatorship".

Thapar, who is Professor Emerita at JNU, told PTI in an interview, "JNU is not likely to suffer a setback as there is much intellectual support for it in the country. There are other universities too that discuss a range of ideas as are discussed in the JNU. The existence of a varsity is intended for that -- to discuss ideas of every kind."

Twenty-six miners listed as missing after a pit collapsed in northern Russia three days ago did not survive and a rescue mission has been halted, the owner said today.

"According to the expert technical council, 26 people who were in the mine had no chances of surviving," Tatyana Bushkova, a spokeswoman for Vorkutaugol, which operates the Severnaya mine, told AFP in an emailed statement.

Jawaharlal Nehru University student Ashtosh Kumar, who is among one of the five students who have been charged with sedition, was questioned by the Delhi Police on Sunday in connection with the controversial event at the University campus on February 9 where 'anti-India' slogans were raised.

Kumar had been called in for questioning yesterday as well, where he was grilled for almost 10 hours.

Ashutosh is believed to be one of the main organisers of the event that was held on the campus.

The Delhi Police had earlier on February 20 issued a look-out notice against Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 92nd birthday with a lavish celebration Saturday, in a region of his country that is experiencing widespread drought and food shortages affecting 2.5 million of his people.

This year's festivities included concerts, parades and parties in his honor, and reportedly cost $800,000.

Just a few weeks prior, Mugabe declared a "state of disaster" in several rural areas affected by a drought.

"Initial indications were that 1.5 million people were food-insecure with all the 60 rural districts being affected," Public Works Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, said in a statement in early February. "Overall, the food-insecure population has since risen to 2.44 million -- 26% of the population."

Violence broke out Saturday when Ku Klux Klan demonstrators and counterprotesters fought in Anaheim, California, leaving five people injured and 13 people arrested, authorities said.

Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Daron Wyatt said the KKK planned a "walking protest" at Pearson Park. The counterprotesters arrived beforehand and attacked when the KKK got out of their vehicles around noon, he said.

Several fights broke out along a city block involving six KKK members -- none wearing the traditional KKK robes -- and 30 counterprotesters.

Marking an end to his tenure as St Stephen's principal, the college will today bid farewell to Valson Thampu who referred to himself as "controversy's child".

Thampum, who studied at St Stephen's and later served the college as a lecturer and officiating principal, took over as the college principal in 2008. His tenure ends tomorrow and his successor John Varghese will take charge of the prestigious institution on March 1.

The principal, who has had a "love-hate" relationship with a section of teachers, alumni, students and even the media, says he is looking forward to celebrating the "festival of retirement".

A fellowship meal by the Christian Staff Fellowship and a farewell lunch at the principal's bungalow were held today followed by the launch of a Coffee Table book on his tenure.

Amid the ban called in Aligarh over the Manoj Bajpayee starrer 'Aligarh', Congress leader Manish Tewari on Sunday that it was unfortunate that some 'bigots' were not able to deal with the theme of the movie and asserted that homosexuality is as legitimate an orientation as conventional sexuality.

"It's extremely sad that some bigots in Aligarh are not able to deal with this movie. The fact is that homosexuality is as legitimate an orientation as conventional sexuality is and it's high time that we as a country and as a people learn to deal with it," Tewari told ANI.

Stating that it was not right to ban a movie due to personal choice, he said that it was against the freedom of 'listening, speaking and seeing'.

Massive cosmic voids, regions of the space thought to be almost empty till now, may actually contain as much as 20 per cent of the 'normal' matter in the universe, a new study has found.

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck in Austria suggest that galaxies make up only 1/500th of the volume of the universe.

Recent measurements of cosmic microwave radiation using modern satellite observatories like The Cosmic Background Explorer, The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Planck suggest that the composition of the universe consists of 4.9 per cent 'normal' matter, that makes up stars, planets, gas and dust, or 'baryons', whereas 26.8 per cent is

the mysterious and unseen 'dark matter', and 68.3 per cent is the even more mysterious 'dark energy'.

Donald Trump, the controversial Republican presidential frontrunner, today again blamed India and China among other countries for taking away jobs from Americans and vowed to bring them back if elected as he tried to consolidate his position ahead of "Super Tuesday" showdown.

The 69-year-old real estate tycoon who became a politician only last summer has been drawing thousands of crowd across the country. He hopes to "seal the deal", in Super Tuesday by winning Republican primary in all the 11 states.

Super Tuesday refers to one or more Tuesdays early in a presidential primary season when the hishest number of states hold primary elections.

Addressing a crowd of roughly 5,000 people, a big by US primary election standard -- inside the hanger of a local airport here, Trump sold the dream of "making America great again" by promising to bring back jobs from countries like India, China, Japan and Mexico, building the wall on US-Mexico border, "knocking the hell out ISIS", and repealing and replacing Obama care.

In a shocking incident of familicide, a 35-year-old man allegedly killed 14 of his family members apparently over a property dispute, and then committed suicide in Kasarwadavli area of the city, police said today.

The accused, identified as Hasnil Warekar, stabbed 14 members of his family to death, including seven children and six women, and then hanged himself, Thane police PRO Gajanan Kabdule told reporters.

The bodies were recovered in the wee hours today by the police, who rushed to the spot upon receiving the information.

A property dispute is said to be the reason behind the murders, he said.

The Syrian civil war is a disease and groups like ISIS are its symptoms, according to Iranian-American political scientist Majid Rafizadeh who says the best option to tackle it is UN sending a coalition of forces under

its R2P law to take control of Syria and stop the bloodshed.

He argues that the underlying reason behind the emergence of ISIS and other radical groups is the Syrian conflict and prior foreign intervention which tipped the balance of power in the region.

"Without tackling the disease, the symptoms will not be alleviated. Currently, it seems too late to act. But the best option is to deploy the UN law of R2P, The Responsibility to Protect, in which the UN will send a coalition of forces to take control of Syria and stop the bloodshed," the Harvard University scholar, who has recently come out with a book

titled "A God Who Hates Women," told PTI.

He says "unfortunately the gap between Russia and US in the UN Security Council is too deep to bridge" although a cease-fire brokered by these two countries brought relative calm to parts of Syria for the first time in years yesterday.

The nation on Sunday paid rich tributes to the first President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad on his 53rd death anniversary.

Born on 3rd December, 1884 at Ziradei village in Siwan district of Bihar, Prasad, a trained advocate, joined the Indian National Congress and the Independence Movement.

He was elected the President of the Constituent Assembly, which prepared the Constitution of India.

Dr. Prasad was elected the first President of India in 1951, and re-elected in 1957.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing the nation on the 17th edition of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat'.

"I am sure you are thinking about your children's examination that have started or are about to start. I am as worried about exams as parents are.

I feel that my 25-30 minutes discussion will be very useful for the students appearing in exams," the prime minister said.

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar joined PM Modi on the show. "Set realistic, achievable targets for yourself and try to achieve them. Set your targets and pursue them with a free mind, without pressure. Compete with yourself and not others. Keep your thinking positive, positive results will surely follow," he advised young students.

The prime minister also said, "Exams are not merely about marks Every exam is a step towards achieving that great purpose; Every success will become a key to achieve that great purpose."

"Do not limit yourself with what will happen in these exams. Work for a larger purpose, for a vision Take adequate rest and good sleep. In life, discipline is a big reason behind strong foundation of success; Discipline provides a strong foundation," he said.

Chess champion Viswanathan Anand also joined Mann ki Baat and shared tips with students appearing for exams. He also advised students, "Stay calm and sleep well. It's important not to put too much pressure on yourself an don't keep your expectations too high. Don't be over-confident but don't be pessimistic either."

11:21 Hillary crushes South Carolina

Hillary Clinton finally got her landslide -- and it could redefine the Democratic race for the White House.

Her crushing defeat of Sen. Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary Saturday restored Clinton as the undisputed front-runner, as her southern firewall of minority voters held rock solid and her opponent fared poorly among African-American voters.

The former secretary of state, after a narrow win in Iowa, a major loss in New Hampshire and a five-point victory in Nevada, has now captured three of the first four Democratic nominating contests.

"Tomorrow, this campaign goes national," Clinton said, in a speech dominated by her new campaign mantra of breaking down racial, gender and economic barriers, which has been distilled from the experience of tough months on the campaign trail and the stronger-than-expected populist challenge from Sanders.

Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh again chose to target Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, this time over her choice of party and said that before joining the BJP she approached the Congress for membership.

The AICC general secretary alleged that she was in touch with several senior AICC leaders at that time. He, however, did not reveal any further details. "I have confirmed information that she came to Congress party leaders because she wanted to join the organisation. She cannot deny it."

Finance ministers from the world's leading economies have warned of a "shock" to the global economy if the UK leaves the EU.

Britain's Chancellor George Osborne said the referendum issue was "deadly serious".

The chancellor said: "The financial leaders of the world's biggest countries have given their unanimous verdict and they say that a British exit from the EU would be a shock to the world economy.

"And if it's a shock to the world economy imagine what it would do to Britain."

He added: "This isn't some adventurous journey into the unknown, with all the humour attached to it, this is deadly serious."

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