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A photo from a website allegedly maintained by Colleen R. LaRose.

Washington DC: Colleen R. LaRose a.k.a. “Jihad Jane” a.k.a. “Fatima LaRose”, was indicted on multiple charges including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft, according to the Department of Justice (DoJ).

Announcing the unsealing of the indictment on Wednesday, DoJ officials said Ms. LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators based in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States used the Internet to recruit would-be terrorists to “wage a violent jihad” in South Asia and Europe. Further they recruited, again via the Internet, women who had the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad.

A Palestinian artist works on a wall painting in Gaza City to mark International Women's Day on Monday.

Washington DC: “Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights,” said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday, marking the International Women's Day.

In a statement, Ms. Clinton said there was still a long way to go towards achieving the goals adopted at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. “Women are still the majority of the world's poor, unhealthy, underfed, and uneducated. They rarely cause violent conflicts but too often bear their consequences,” she said.

Recalling her attendance of the Beijing conference in 1995, she said the U.S. was making women a cornerstone of foreign policy “because we think it's the right thing to do, but we also believe it's the smart thing to do as well”.

Lord Swraj Paul, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, presiding over the House in London in this December 2008 file photo.

LONDON: Leading industrialist and Labour peer Swraj Paul on Tuesday said he had decided to give up his “non-domicile” status which exempted him from paying British taxes on his overseas businesses.

The decision, announced in an interview to the New Statesman, would increase pressure on the Tories, who have been embroiled in a damaging political row over the tax status of their deputy chairman and key financial backer Michael Ashcroft.

OKCULAR (Turkey): A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 on Richter Scale struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, said the government.

The earthquake surprised many people as they slept, crumbling buildings into piles of rubble. Panicked survivors fled into the narrow village streets, some climbing out of windows, as more than 50 aftershocks measuring up to 5.5 and 5.3 magnitude rattled the region. The Kandilli seismology centre said the quake hit at 4:32 a.m. near the village of Basyurt in Elazig province, about 550 km east of Ankara, the capital.