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| Peace will cost Colombia $44 billion over 10 years, senator says | | | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia must invest at least 90 trillion pesos ($44.4 billion) to implement a peace deal with Marxist rebels to end a 50-year conflict, says a senator who backs the current peace talks, adding the amount is much less than the cost of waging war. The figure is the first estimate of the cost of a peace accord to end the conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. "The minimum cost for the next 10 years is estimated at 90 trillion pesos," Senator Roy Barreras, president of the Colombian Congress's peace commission, said late on Tuesday. ... |
| Video game win cited at trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber's friend | | | By Tim McLaughlin and Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who says he was too high to remember the removal of a backpack from the college dorm room of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was alert enough to win a video game that same night, a key prosecution witness testified on Wednesday. Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, recounted how he lost an Xbox NBA video game to his friend Robel Phillipos, before they want to the dorm room of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. "I don't remember him having a problem," Tazhayakov said of Phillipos' victory in the game. ... |
| U.S. justice grants Idaho's request to block gay marriage | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday granted a request from Idaho officials by temporarily blocking gay marriages from beginning, following a regional federal appeals court's ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban. There was some confusion over whether the court's order also affects the ban in Nevada, which was struck down as part of the same 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that invalidated the Idaho ban. Nevada did not ask the Supreme Court to block the ruling. ...
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| South Korea indicts Japanese journalist for defaming President | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors indicted a Japanese journalist on Wednesday for defamation of President Park Geun-hye over an article he wrote about her personal life and whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in April. The Seoul Central District Prosecution said it had indicted the former Seoul bureau chief for Japan's Sankei Shimbun, Tatsuya Kato, after concluding a report he wrote about Park on Aug. 3 was based on "false information," the prosecutors' office said in a statement. ...
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| Nepal hunger striker died seeking justice for war crimes | | | By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than two weeks after a Nepalese hunger striker died, his frozen corpse still lies unclaimed in a hospital morgue - a grim reminder of the desperate struggle for justice by the families of victims of the decade-long civil war. Nanda Prasad Adhikari, 56, and his wife Ganga Maya had been on hunger strike for 11 months, demanding a formal investigation of the death of their teenage son in 2004, a time when conflict raged in the impoverished Himalayan nation. Adhikari died in a Kathmandu hospital on Sept. ... |
| U.S. to screen travelers arriving from Ebola-striken countries - CNN | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travelers arriving in the United Stated from Ebola-striken Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will face mandatory screening measures for the deadly virus as soon as this weekend, according to a media report on Wednesday. The additional screening could also be extended to passengers from other nations struggling with the outbreak, CNN reported, citing the U.S. government. Countries in West Africa, where the deadly Ebola outbreak is centered, are already supposed to screen passengers before they are allowed to depart. ...
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| S.African court hears Briton Dewani agreed fee for wife's murder | |  By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - British businessman Shrien Dewani agreed to pay 15,000 rand ($1,340) to have his wife killed on their honeymoon in South Africa, a witness told a court on Wednesday, saying he had been asked to make the murder look like a hijacking. Mziwamadoda Qwabe, a South African who is serving 25 years in jail for murdering Anni Dewani, told Cape Town's High Court that taxi-driver Zola Tongo had asked him to participate in a job for "a husband that wanted a wife to be killed". ...
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| Prosecutors "failed" to prove case against Kenya's president - attorney | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A defence attorney for President Uhuru Kenyatta called on judges at the International Criminal Court to throw out allegations of crimes against humanity, saying prosecutors had failed to prove their case after five years of investigations. Prosecutors countered that Kenyatta's government obstructed the hunt for the evidence and requested an indefinite postponement of the trial. They said sanctions should be considered to force Nairobi to comply with its obligations to cooperate. ...
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| Afghanistan hangs five men over gang rape, despite concerns of rights groups | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan hanged five men on Wednesday over a gang rape that had shocked the country, officials said, despite requests from human rights groups for new President Ashraf Ghani to stay the executions to address concerns about the handling of the case. A gang rape by armed men is rare in Kabul, the capital, and the case tapped into a vein of anxiety as foreign troops leave the country while a badly stretched Afghan army and police fight a deadly Taliban insurgency. ... |
| Japan's Tomita gets 18-month ban for stealing camera | |  REUTERS - The head of Japan's delegation to the Asian Games is to receive a severe reprimand by the country's Olympic committee (JOC) in the wake of swimmer Naoya Tomita's fine and ban for stealing a camera in South Korea. Tomita was expelled from the Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 Games in Incheon and told he had to pay his own way home after admitting to stealing a camera valued at 8 million won ($7,600) from a journalist working for a South Korean news agency. ...
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| EU chastises Turkey over interference in courts, freedom of speech | | | By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union reprimanded EU candidate Turkey on Wednesday for political meddling in the judiciary, saying a response to a government corruption scandal has harmed the independence of the judiciary and weakened civil rights. The unusually harsh language by the European Commission, the European Union's executive, raises questions about Turkey's chances of EU membership almost a decade after negotiations were launched. ... |
| China military calls for stronger cybersecurity, domestic software - state media | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's armed forces will ramp up their cybersecurity and speed domestic development of software, state media said on Wednesday, as the world's largest military seeks to shore up potential technological weaknesses. The statement underscores China's increasingly vocal concern over the Internet and cybersecurity, which it sees as dominated by Western powers and values. "Information security must be considered an underlying project in military battle preparedness," the official People's Liberation Army Daily said. ...
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| In Tunisia, old regime figures make a comeback | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - At Tunis airport arrivals terminal last month, hundreds of Tunisians gathered waving flags to greet a special guest -- not a sports legend or popstar, but a former minister from ousted President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali's government. ???????????????????Three years after Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" forced the autocrat out and set the North African country on path to democracy, Ben Ali regime old guard are not only making a comeback but are poised again to win elected posts. ... |
| Mitt Romney for president in 2016? Not entirely out of the question | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, day in and day out, hears it wherever he goes, whether at campaign events for Republican congressional candidates, restaurants, or private dinners, the message is the same - run for president in 2016. Romney associates say he is flattered by the attention and believes he would have done a better job if he had defeated the Democratic incumbent President Barack Obama in 2012 when he was the Republican nominee. But Romney typically insists in public that he is not going to run for a third time after losses in 2008 and 2012. ...
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