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| Shootout in central Athens as police arrest wanted guerrilla | |  By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police shot and wounded one of Greece's most wanted guerrilla group members in a chase through central Athens on Wednesday in which a policeman and two tourists were also hurt. Nikos Maziotis was charged in 2010 over a series of attacks claimed by the Revolutionary Struggle group, including firing a rocket propelled grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007 and a 2009 car bomb that damaged the Athens stock exchange. "His arrest is undoubtedly a very big success," Public Order Minister Vassilis Kikilias told a news conference broadcast live on Greek television. Anti-terrorism police had deployed agents in places he was believed to frequent and he was spotted as he was entering an outdoor equipment shop in central Athens, police said.
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| China widens anti-corruption drive to officials with family abroad | |  China's anti-corruption chief pledged on Wednesday to broaden a crackdown on graft by focusing on officials with family abroad and including the province that was the power base of the former powerful head of domestic security. The Communist Party leadership under President Xi Jinping has presided over the anti-graft campaign to shore up a ruling mandate shaken by suspicion that officials waste taxpayer money or use their positions for personal advantage. Wang Qishan, secretary of its watchdog Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, told investigators to go after "naked officials", state media said, referring to those who have children or spouses who live abroad. Wang "urged inspectors to watch closely over corruption in mining, natural resources, land transfers, real estate development, construction projects, public and special funds," the official Xinhua news agency said.
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| Swedish court upholds arrest warrant for Assange | |  By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish court upheld on Wednesday an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has spent two years at Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault. Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange over the allegations made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers.
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| Apple agrees to conditional $450 mln e-books antitrust accord | |  Apple Inc has agreed to pay $450 million to resolve U.S. state and consumer claims the iPad manufacturer conspired with five major publishers to fix e-book prices, according to court records filed Wednesday. The settlement, which would provide $400 million for consumers, is conditioned on the outcome of a pending appeal of a New York federal judge's ruling last year that Apple was liable for violating antitrust laws. A ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversing the judge could, under the settlement, either reduce the amount Apple pays to $70 million, with $50 million for consumers, or eliminate payments altogether.
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| Confident Assad launches new term in stronger position | |  By Marwan Makdisi DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad was sworn in for a new term as Syria's president on Wednesday, after an election which his opponents dismiss as a sham but which he said proved he had achieved victory after a "dirty war" to unseat him. Those close to Damascus say he now believes his Western and regional foes will be forced to deal with him as a bulwark against Sunni Islamist militants who advanced across northern Iraq last month. At his inauguration he delivered a defiant speech, vowing to recover all Syria from Islamist insurgents and warning that Western and Arab countries would pay dearly for supporting rebels he described as terrorists. Looking calm and confident, the president of 14 years repeatedly took aim at the West and Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab monarchies who have funded and armed the rebels that have taken control of much of the north and east of his country.
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| Assad sworn in, vows to retake all Syria from rebels | |  By Marwan Makdisi DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad was sworn in on Wednesday as Syria's president for a new term, after an election his opponents dismiss as a sham but his supporters say proves that a rebellion to unseat him has failed after three years of war. After taking the oath of office before a Koran and a copy of the constitution, the president of 14 years delivered a defiant speech, vowing to recover all Syria from Islamist insurgents. Looking calm and confident, he repeatedly took aim at the West and Sunni Muslim Gulf Arab monarchies who have funded and armed the rebels that have taken control of much of the north and east of the country but failed to topple him in Damascus. "Soon we will see the Arab, regional and Western states that supported terrorism pay a high price," he said in the speech at the presidential palace in Damascus, broadcast on state TV.
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| States seek easier land sales in reform challenge for Modi | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - States eager to kick-start major infrastructure projects have proposed radical changes to land acquisition laws that are blamed for stalling billions of dollars' worth of roads, railways, ports and power installations. Restrictions to buying land, strengthened under the last Congress government, are among the biggest barriers to projects that include a proposed high-speed rail network championed by incoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The reformist 63-year-old leader won India's strongest mandate in 30 years in a general election in May, but lacks a majority in the upper house of parliament that represents India's 29 states. "We have to find an equilibrium, we have discussed the land acquisition law with the states and I have taken the suggestions to the prime minister," Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told an industry conference on Tuesday.
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| Prosecutors say friend wanted to help accused Boston bomber | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors argued that a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wanted to help Tsarnaev when he took evidence from his dorm room, while a defense attorney described him as a college kid who did not understand what he was doing. Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov is the first of three friends of Tsarnaev charged with going to his room three days after the April 15, 2013, attack that killed three people and injured 264 and removing a laptop computer and backpack containing empty fireworks shells. The visit occurred hours after the FBI released photos of Tsarnaev and his older brother at the site of the bombing and asked for the public's help in learning their identities, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin said in closing arguments at U.S. District Court in Boston. He did these things to protect his friend, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev." Tazhayakov, now 20, and his roommate, Dias Kadyrbayev, decided later that night to throw away the backpack after growing concerned that their friend Tsarnaev was a suspect in the investigation, contend prosecutors, who charged them with obstruction of justice and conspiracy. |
| Seven Egyptian men sentenced to life for sex attacks, harassment | | | The sentences were the longest since the president vowed to crack down on sexual assaults in June and the government criminalised sexual harassment, amid widespread criticism from activists and lawyers on its record on tackling such abuse. Five men were jailed for life for attacking and harassing women during celebrations of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's inauguration in June. All seven were convicted of sexual harassment, under the new law, and of attempted rape, attempted murder and torture. "This verdict is pure justice and the least that those people can get for the crimes they committed," said Nashaat Agha, a lawyer for one of the victims. |
| Refugee survey suggests higher death toll in C.African Republic | |  Fighting in Central African Republic may have claimed more lives than previously thought because many Muslim victims were never taken to state hospitals and families buried their dead at home because of security fears, according to aid workers. Violence spiralled in the former French colony after the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the government of President Francois Bozize in March 2013 and Seleka leader Michel Djotodia declared himself president of the majority Christian country. Medical charity MSF said on Wednesday a survey of nearly 33,000 Central African refugees in neighbouring Chad had shown 8 percent questioned had lost at least one member of their family. Previous estimates of the death toll in the landlocked country based on the number of bodies collected by Red Cross workers had been in the region of 1,000 to 2,000 dead, mostly during a flare-up in fighting in December and January.
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| Man charged with breaking into Kennedy compound, asking for Katy Perry | | | Police charged a man with breaking into the Kennedy family compound in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, claiming that he was looking for pop singer Katy Perry. Officers went to the house in Hyannis Port after Ted Kennedy Jr., the son of late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, called police late Tuesday saying he was worried an intruder was in the compound with his teenage son. Police found the man, James Lacroix, 53, in the kitchen. The teenage son also was in the house but was unharmed, police said. |
| Afghanistan revises down death toll from market attack to 43 | |  Afghanistan on Wednesday revised down the casualty figure from a car bomb attack in the eastern province of Paktika to 43 from 89, saying at least 74 people had been wounded. A car packed with explosives detonated on Tuesday as it sped through a crowded market in northern Paktika, killing scores of people as it tried to escape from a police vehicle chasing it. The Defence Ministry put the death toll at 89 at the time but the Health Ministry said a day later that 43 people had been killed. The explosion took place not far from the porous border with Pakistan's North Waziristan region, where the military has been attacking hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban in the past few weeks, prompting militants to retreat toward Afghanistan.
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