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Muslim man lynched to death in central India for ‘slaughtering cow’

Authored by rt.com

A Muslim man has been beaten to death by an angry mob of villagers in India for allegedly killing a bovine – an act considered a crime and punishable by imprisonment under local laws.

The gruesome incident took place in Amgara village in the “Heart of India” – central Madhya Pradesh state – on Thursday night, local media report.

The villagers allegedly noticed two men, later identified in reports as Riyaz Khan and Shakeel Maqbool, with the animal near a quarry.

Conflicting reports say it was either a cow or a bull, but the killing of either is considered a criminal offence under state laws.

Both men were brutally lynched by the villagers, with 45-year-old Riyaz later succumbing to his injuries.

India has recently seen a rise in so-called ‘cow vigilantes,’ who attack farmers and violently prevent cattle from being slaughtered.

In summer 2017, a Muslim teen was allegedly stabbed to death for carrying beef. »

Baby girl born on US-bound flight

Authored by news.bbc.co.uk

A Ugandan woman has given birth to a baby girl on board an international flight from Amsterdam to Boston after going into labour mid-flight.

The six-pound (2.7kg) baby named Sasha was delivered on New Year's Eve with the help of two doctors on the eight-hour-long Northwest Airlines flight.

Sasha was deemed a Canadian citizen for customs' purposes because she was born over Canada's airspace. »

El Paso woman living in Montana detained by Border Patrol for speaking Spanish

Authored by kvia.com

El Paso woman living in Montana detained by Border Patrol for speaking Spanish.

EL PASO, Texas - In a video making the rounds on social media, a Border Patrol agent in the state of Montana is seen detaining an El Paso woman and her friend for speaking Spanish.

The woman seen in the video, Ana Suda, was born in El Paso but raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. »

Pope Francis tells gay man: 'God made you like this'

Authored by theguardian.com

“He told me, ‘Juan Carlos, that you are gay does not matter.

Greg Burke, the Vatican’s chief spokesman, did not respond to questions about whether Cruz’s statement accurately reflected his conversation with the pope.

It suggests that Francis does not believe that individuals choose to be gay or lesbian, as some religious conservatives argue. »

Bitcoin is consuming as much energy as the country of Ireland

Authored by theoutline.com

According to a letter published today in the energy journal Joule by financial economist and blockchain specialist Alex de Vries, the Bitcoin network is consuming roughly 2.55 gigawatts of energy annually, at the absolute minimum.

To put that in context, that’s nearly the same amount of energy consumed by the entirety of Ireland.

That’s just the conservative current estimate; De Vries predicts that by December, the Bitcoin network could be using almost triple that. »