
NE Exodus: Indian Govt Blocks More Than 250 Websites
During the August 2012 panic exodus, India blocked 250+ web pages accused of spreading morphed images — and pointed a finger at Pakistan.
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During the August 2012 panic exodus, India blocked 250+ web pages accused of spreading morphed images — and pointed a finger at Pakistan.

For the first time in 2012, Mitt Romney crossed 40% with 18–29-year-olds in a JZ Analytics poll — a warning sign for Obama’s youth-vote machine.

In a 2010 interview with a white-supremacist website, Oak Creek shooter Wade Michael Page described his white-power band End Apathy and his life in the hate

A Hindu boy named Sunil converted to Islam live on Pakistani TV during Ramazan 2012, sparking outrage and a threatened lawsuit from his employer Ansar Burney.

Charantoor Kultar Singh, a 22-year-old Liverpool John Moores student, pleaded guilty in 2012 to unauthorized computer access after a Police e-Crime Unit arrest.

The manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta ended June 4, 2012, in a Berlin internet cafe, where the accused killer was arrested while reading news about himself.

In May 2012, nine men were jailed for a child sexual exploitation ring in Rochdale — sentences of 4 to 19 years in a case that forced Britain to confront

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

A 2012 tell-all claimed Michelle Obama froze out Oprah Winfrey over her weight. Who made the claim, how it was sourced, and what the record shows.

The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.

A 2012 report told of an Indian worker returning home after 18 years of bondage in Saudi Arabia — a stark window into the Gulf migrant-worker trap.

Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.

March 2012: an anonymous witness said he saw Trayvon Martin on top of George Zimmerman before the fatal shot — one disputed account in a national flashpoint

Photos of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife from a Zimbabwe hunt ignited a 2012 backlash — and a trophy-hunting debate that

As Leon Panetta's plane landed at Camp Bastion on March 14, 2012, an Afghan contractor drove a stolen truck onto the runway in a suicide-bomb attempt.

In March 2012, a child s severed fingers were found in a trash can at Honolulu s Kukui Gardens. The disturbing discovery — and the search for answers.

Pune teacher Vandana Suryawanshi became the first foreign teacher — and the only Indian — selected for the US Space Foundation's teacher liaison programme.

In April 2011, John Halford vanished from a cruise ship off Egypt. His case was one of 165 disappearances at sea since 1995 — a mystery the industry avoids.

Shawn Sullivan, wanted in the US since 1994, was arrested in London in 2010 and faced extradition — until a 2012 High Court ruling blocked his removal.