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| Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes |
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 By Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening. With Washington ruling out a ground operation in Syria, Turkey described as unrealistic any expectation that it would conduct a cross-border operation unilaterally to relieve the mainly Kurdish town. The U.S. ...
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| Health officials, doctors arrested in Kosovo bribery investigation |
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| PRISTINA (Reuters) - Nine health officials and doctors in Kosovo were arrested on Thursday under an investigation into private clinics suspected of offering bribes to receive heart surgery patients. The prosecutor's office said "some of the suspects" had received money from two private clinics to refer patients who had otherwise sought treatment in state hospitals. The clinics last year received 1.8 million euros from the state to take on treatment deemed too complex for public hospitals to handle. ... |
| Suicide bombings in Yemen kill 67 after premier quits |
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 By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Suicide bombers targeting Yemen's powerful Shi'ite Houthi group and an army camp killed at least 67 people in two separate attacks on Thursday, hours after a political crisis forced the new prime minister to step down. At least 47 people were killed, including four children, when a suicide bomber detonated a belt packed with explosives at a Houthi checkpoint in the centre of the capital Sanaa where Houthi supporters were preparing to hold a rally. ...
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| Former Finmeccanica head convicted in Indian scandal |
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 BUSTO ARSIZIO Italy (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced former Finmeccanica Chairman and CEO Giuseppe Orsi to two years in jail for falsifying invoices in a corruption case linked to an Indian deal, but cleared him of more serious corruption charges. The trial near Milan revolved around a 560 million euro ($715 million) contract awarded to Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland business in 2010 to supply 12 luxury helicopters to the Indian government. ...
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| Pakistan says capable of responding to Indian actions |
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 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Thursday it was capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian actions on their disputed border after several days of clashes in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. "We do not want the situation on the borders of two nuclear neighbours to escalate into confrontation," the Defence Ministry said in a statement. "India must demonstrate caution and behave with responsibility." (Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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| Hong Kong hands probe of city's leader to prosecution office |
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| HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Department of Justice on Thursday gave the prosecution office authority to handle the investigation of a business payout to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to avoid any perception of bias. The move came after the Democratic Party said it had asked the Independent Commission Against Corruption to investigate Leung Chun-ying over a $6.4 million payment he got from an Australian engineering company while he was in office. The department said part of the brief included "considering and deciding whether prosecution action is warranted". ... |
| German police find record heroin haul in truckload of gherkins and garlic |
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| DUESSELDORF Germany (Reuters) - Police have found Germany's biggest-ever stash of heroin, with an estimated street value of 50 million euros ($60 million), hidden in a truckload of pickled cucumbers and garlic. Police discovered 330 kg (730 lbs) of the drug in a truck in the western city of Essen and arrested two men, public prosecutor Anette Milk said on Thursday. The haul was more than the entire amount of heroin seized in Germany during 2013. Local media said the drugs came from Iran and the two men arrested were brothers belonging to a Syrian-Iraqi drug gang. ... |
| White policeman kills black teen in St Louis, triggering fresh protests |
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| By Kenny Bahr ST LOUIS Mo (Reuters) - A white off-duty policeman shot and killed a black teenager in St Louis on Wednesday, officers said, triggering a night of protests just miles from the site of another police shooting of another black youth in the suburb of Ferguson. Police said the 18-year-old was armed and fired three shots while he was being chased by the officer, and they had recovered a gun at the scene. The youth was killed almost two months to the day since sometimes violent protests erupted in Ferguson after a white police officer shot dead unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown. ... |
| Thai traffic cops offered cash to turn down bribes |
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 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's traffic policemen will get money in return for refusing bribes, police said on Thursday, part of the junta's efforts to combat what it has called an ingrained culture of corruption within the force. The army seized power in May after months of protests aimed at ousting Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female prime minister, saying it needed to restore order after nearly 30 people were killed in sporadic political violence. Since then, the military government has launched campaigns aimed at cleaning up Thailand's image as a haven for vice. ...
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