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| Thousands "will most likely be massacred" if Kobani falls to jihadists, U.N. warns |
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 By Tom Miles and Ayla Jean Yackley GENEVA/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Thousands of people "will most likely be massacred" if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said Kobani could suffer the same fate as the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslims were murdered by Serbs in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, while U.N. peacekeepers failed to protect them. ...
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| Independent Russian newspaper receives "extremism" warning |
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 By Alexander Reshetnikov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's media watchdog has accused opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta of violating anti-extremism laws and issued it with a formal warning, the paper said on Friday. Novaya Gazeta, founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and renowned for its hard-hitting investigations and critical attitude towards the Kremlin, had been among the favourites to win the Nobel Peace Prize awarded on Friday. ...
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| Berkshire-owned Dairy Queen says customer data hacked in 46 states |
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 REUTERS - Ice cream and fast-food restaurant chain Dairy Queen has confirmed a security breach that may have compromised the payment card information of customers at several hundred locations across 46 U.S. states. Computers at Dairy Queen locations, and one Orange Julius smoothie stores, were infected by the malicious software, Backoff, which has been targeting retailers since it first surfaced a year ago, International Dairy Queen said late on Thursday. The Edina, Minnesota-based company is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc . ...
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| "I can't explain the joy each time I've freed a child" - Nobel winner Satyarthi |
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 By Nita Bhalla and Antonio Zappulla NEW DELHI/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the 34 years since Kailash Satyarthi gave up his job as an electrical engineer to campaign for children's rights, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been beaten, seen his home attacked and his colleagues killed. Yet attempts on his life have not deterred Satyarthi from a mission to save children from slavery and end trafficking in India where he estimates 60 million children, or 6 percent of the population, are forced to work. "I strongly believe ... that freedom is divine. Freedom is godly. God made us free. ...
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| Colombia says FARC rebel chief traveled twice to Cuba for peace talks |
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono has traveled to Cuba twice to meet with his negotiating team holding talks with the Colombian government on ending five decades of war, the government said on Friday. Colombian Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo said in a statement the trips were made to guarantee agreements made so far in the negotiations and to push the talks forward. Londono did not meet with government representatives or take a place at the negotiating table, Cristo said. ... |
| Britain's Queen Elizabeth makes actress Angelina Jolie a Dame |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth made actress Angelina Jolie an honorary Dame at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday in recognition of her campaigning to end sexual violence in war zones and for services to UK foreign policy. The queen presented Oscar-winning Jolie, who is special envoy to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. ...
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