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Egypt

An Egyptian court ordered Thursday that the name of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his wife, Suzanne, are removed from all schools public and the institutions, the most recent step the legacy of 29 years of the former leader in the power of dismantling.

At the beginning of his reign, Mubarak said that modesty, he wanted his name on public buildings. But there are now hundreds, even thousands, of schools, streets, squares and libraries bear known as his wife and a major in central Cairo subway station.

In announcing the decision, Judge Mohammed Hassan Omar said "people have discovered corruption Mubarak trip."

Mall in Colorado

Authorities examined video of security Thursday in a shopping mall in Colorado where the discovery of a bomb pipe and propane two tanks after a fire has raised a possible link to the attack on Columbine High school massacre. The fire coincided with the twelfth anniversary of the fatal shooting of 2 kilometres.

No arrest had been made, but dozens of law enforcement officers have been scouring the video and other following leads to identify a man seen entering the mall through a side door not normally used by the public. The Mall reopened Thursday.

Southwest Plaza Mall propane tanks were discovered in the corridor of the Court of food after the fire was reported on Wednesday at 11: 50. The Columbine shooting started at 11: 12 and unexploded pipe bombs and a tank of propane with attached explosives have been found in the cafeteria of the school after the shooting.

Japan

Dam plans utility to protect the largest nuke plant

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will build a dike to protect its larger nuclear plant against a tsunami like which eliminated its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

TEPCO plans to build a wall to a height of 50 feet above sea level at the coast of its plant Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant Northwest of Tokyo, Tanaka Ai spokesman said by telephone. Three of the seven reactors remain shut out at the station after an earthquake in 2007 caused radiation leaks.

TEPCO has been fighting to contain radiation spewing Fukushima plant after an earthquake of magnitude 9 on 11 March triggered a tsunami that flooded the station, knocking cooling systems.

Indonesia

Nineteen suspected terrorists arrested Thursday led the police to five massive bombs buried under a gas pipeline near a Catholic Church just outside the capital of the Indonesia, officials said.

Djoko Suyanto, Minister of security, believes militant Islamists had been drawn before attack of Easter celebrations. The US Embassy urged Americans to be vigilant.

Explosives defused safely on the premises, had been created to blow by cell phone to 9 hours of the morning today. The Church is large enough to contain 3,000 individuals.

Resignation: Senator John Ensign, R - Nev., 52, announced Thursday that he will resign in the midst of an investigation of ethics, insisting that he has done nothing wrong, but said that he could are no longer subject his family and his constituents in a more thorough investigation. He said he will send Vice President Joe Biden a letter today.

Top 100: Time magazine has named U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. President Barack Obama wrote the tribute for the shot that arizona Democrat in magazine may issue, saying that she "prayers of a rooting for her nation."

Rules again Cuba: The Treasury Department released new rules Thursday that make it easier for schools, churches and cultural groups to visit Cuba U.S. and increase the amount of money that can send the Americans.

Landslide: A landslide before dawn today left one person dead and about 40 missing in the South of the Philippines, said officials.

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Pakistan Court frees all except 1 in a gang rape

In this file photo taken March 3, 2005, Pakistan Mukhtar Mai rape victim Weeps at Multan, Pakistan. The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday released five men accused in the rape by a village Council in 2002, leaving only one of the 14 original suspects in prison. Khalid Tanveer/Associated Press

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday released five men accused in the infamous rape of a woman under the orders of a Board of village in 2002, angering the victims and human rights groups. The decision suggested that one of the 14 original suspects in prison.

Mukhtar Mai was assaulted after the Council in his village in the province of Punjab ordered be raped as punishment for the case of suspected his old brother 13 years with a woman of a higher caste. It has attracted global sympathy and much international media coverage by the custom devaluation and to speak of his test.

Fourteen men were originally charged in the case, but a lower court acquitted eight. In 2005, a Court of Appeal acquitted five of the six other defendants, saying that the statements of the witnesses contradict the case of prosecutions.

The Supreme Court confirmed this decision Thursday, said the defence counsel Malik Saleem. He also confirmed that the conviction of life at the sixth man.

May, stated that she would not request another review of the case.

"I fear that these 13 people go back to my village and interfere with my family and I," may told Associated Press. "I've lost faith in the courts, and now I leave my case to the Court of God." I am sure that God will punish those who I molested. ?

Rights activists condemned the decision, saying: he left still more precarious women.

"It is a setback for Mukhtar Mai, the broader fight to end violence against women and the cause of justice independent and respectful of the rights in Pakistan," Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

Pakistan's criminal justice system has a very low conviction, in large part because the police, prosecutors and judges are underequipped, overloaded, corrupt and beholden to the powerful and politically connected rich in neighbourhoods where they are used. The result is that many people turn to the village councils of justice based on tribal traditions. That they sometimes ask women beaten or killed.

May make public decision introduces an international star on the struggles of women in Pakistan and earned her many accolades. She was named woman of the year Glamour magazine and now runs a school in his village of Meerwala.

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