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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. ... |
| Friend of accused Boston bomber due to testify on Wednesday | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - A man convicted of obstructing justice for removing fireworks from the accused Boston Marathon bomber's dorm room days after the deadly blasts is due in court on Wednesday to testify against a friend who prosecutors say joined him in that visit. Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, who was a friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, took the stand briefly on Tuesday to testify at the trial of Robel Phillipos, 21, who has been charged with lying to investigators probing the April 15, 2013, attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. ... |
| 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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| Only three political prisoners among thousands released in Myanmar | |  By Paul Mooney and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Only three political prisoners were among thousands of people granted amnesty by the Myanmar government this week and rights group said the release was apparently aimed at improving the country's image before a visit by the U.S. president. Myanmar said on Tuesday it was releasing 3,073 prisoners for the sake of "peace and stability" and "the rule of law", but it gave no details of who they were or why they had been imprisoned. ...
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| Kenya's Kenyatta becomes first president to appear at global court | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kenya's president became the first sitting leader to appear at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday as supporters gathered outside, calling for his crimes against humanity trial to be scrapped. President Uhuru Kenyatta was summoned to the Hague-based tribunal to answer questions about his indictment on charges of orchestrating a wave of deadly violence that swept Kenya after contested elections in 2007. He denies the charges. ...
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