apartheid
-era provocation law to charge the miners with the murders.
The Egyptian government has lifted the long-standing ban on female news presenters wearing Islamic
headscarves
. The lunchtime news in state television today was read by a presenter wearing a cream-colored scarf covering her hair. John Leyne reports from Cairo.
Fatima Nabil appeared on Egyptian state TV to read the mid-day news bulletin wearing a black suit and a cream-colored Islamic headscarf. She's believed to be the first woman presenter to wear the headscarf on state television since it was founded in 1960. Under the old system, there was an unofficial ban on women presenters covering their hair – part of a wide opposition to the introduction of Islamic values. Fatima Nabil told the BBC 'at last, the revolution has reached the state television.'
Police prosecutors in Pakistan say a Muslim cleric involved in the case of a young Christian girl charged with
blasphemy
will himself face blasphemy charges. He has also been accused of
tampering with
evidence. Witnesses including his assistant told prosecutors they have seen the imam adding pages from the Koran to a bag of burnt papers taken from the 14-year-old girl. He will be charged with
desecrating
the holy book. The girl faces charges of burning the Koran.
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Israeli settlers have begun leaving an outpost in the West Bank after being handed eviction notices by the Israeli police. The Supreme Court has ruled that the hill-top settlement of Migron, north of Jerusalem and home to about 50 families, must be evacuated by Tuesday because it's not authorized by the Israeli government. One of the settlers, *, berated police carrying out the evictions.