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| Mali army, rebels clash in flashpoint northern town | | | By Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Machine gun and heavy weapons fire broke out on Wednesday in the northern Mali town of Kidal, a rebel stronghold where the army has been reinforcing its positions before an expected drive to retake it, an army officer and the United Nations said. The clashes threaten efforts to find a peaceful solution to the long cycle of Tuareg rebellions in Mali's desert north. It also upsets plans by France and several West African countries to combat Islamist groups operating elsewhere in the region. A Malian Defence Ministry source said the army had begun an assault on the regional governor's office in Kidal. |
| Egyptian court sentences ousted leader Mubarak to 3 years jail | |  By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Deposed former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison on a conviction for stealing public funds. The verdict may please some Egyptians who lived through three decades of autocracy under Mubarak before a 2011 uprising toppled him. Mubarak's two sons were sentenced to four years in jail on the same charges of embezzling state funds that had been earmarked for the renovation of presidential palaces but were instead spent on sprucing up family properties.
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| EBay issues, then deletes call to change passwords | |  REUTERS - EBay Inc issued a notice on its websites asking users to change their passwords, but took down the message a short time later without explanation. The message, on its PayPal online payment unit's press and community website pages, did not say why passwords needed to be changed. EBay and PayPal representatives were not immediately available for comment on the notice issued at 1:30 a.m. ET (0630 GMT), which was previously reported by tech blog Engadget (http://r.reuters.com/zef59v). The message headline was "eBay Inc. To Ask All eBay Users To Change Passwords" but had no other information other than the words "place holder text".
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| Ryan Gosling debut fails to light Cannes critics' fire | |  By Alexandria Sage CANNES France (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling burned up the screen at the Cannes film festival with his directorial debut on Tuesday, but critics' reaction was a damp squib. Gosling's "Lost River", which was to premiere at Cannes on Tuesday night, includes enough images of blazing buildings to satisfy the most ardent pyromaniac. Tim Robey of Britain's Daily Telegraph called the film - set in a near-deserted community pockmarked by scorched houses - a "crapocalypse." Gosling's movie, which he also wrote, is one of 19 to compete in the "Un Certain Regard" category for emerging directors at the prestigious festival on the French Riviera. The Hollywood heartthrob has been a frequent visitor to Cannes as an actor, most recently accompanying two Nicolas Winding Refn films - the bloody slasher set in Bangkok, "Only God Forgives", and pulp thriller "Drive".
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| Egypt court jails 155 Brotherhood supporters | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 155 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Wednesday and gave 54 of them life sentences, judicial sources said, in a case related to violence in the Nile Delta province of Mansour last August after the army's ouster of President Mohamed Mursi. Other defendants were sentenced to between three to 10 years in jail. The charges included instigating violence and chaos and membership in a banned group. Police fired tear gas at demonstrators outside the courthouse who were chanting against the verdict. ...
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| Thailand's reluctant general grasps political nettle | |  By Robert Birsel BANGKOK (Reuters) - Just months before his retirement, Thai army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha has taken on a responsibility he may much rather have dodged. "Prayuth in charge," the Nation newspaper blared across its front page on Wednesday, a day after the 60-year-old soldier declared martial law, putting himself at the centre of a nearly decade-long political impasse. "What we have now has been described as 'half a coup' or 'martial law light'," said Anthony Davis, a Thailand-based analyst at security consulting firm IHS-Jane's. "It basically puts the lid on further conflict over the short term but leaves him holding the political ball." At a meeting of government agency heads on Tuesday, people present said Prayuth came across like an exasperated school headmaster, chiding the head of the government's investigation agency for pressing charges against a protest leader. Protesters took to Bangkok's streets in November, accusing the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of corruption and nepotism.
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| Tymoshenko loses her magic in Ukraine presidential race | |  By Gareth Jones KIEV (Reuters) - Campaigning for Ukraine's presidential election, Yulia Tymoshenko says she alone can save the nation from disaster. Opinion polls put Tymoshenko, a two-times prime minister, in a distant second place behind confectionary magnate Petro Poroshenko for Sunday's vote with just 10 percent support - humiliating a woman whose trademark peasant's hair braid and rhetoric have defined Ukrainian politics for a decade. But her supporters, who insist the polls are wrong, and political analysts say it would be rash to write off Tymoshenko, whose ambition and self-belief appear undimmed by health problems and by a jail sentence that ended in February. "I will do whatever I can as president to ensure that Ukraine decides its own future in Europe as a full-fledged member of the democratic world," she told reporters after addressing supporters at a business forum in Kiev this week.
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