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| France detains suspect in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing | |  PARIS (Reuters) - A Lebanese-Canadian who is the main suspect in a 1980 bombing that killed four people outside a Paris synagogue was placed under formal investigation on Saturday, his lawyer told Reuters. Hassan Diab arrived in Paris from Canada on Saturday after the country's highest court on Thursday refused to rule on his appeal against extradition to France. He will be detained until the start of his trial. "My client has always said he is innocent, and will continue to do so," Diab's lawyer Stephane Bonifassi told Reuters. ...
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| Police arrest 60 at Dutch "Black Pete" festival | | | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police arrested 60 people on Saturday as protesters clashed at a traditional Dutch festival for children which critics say is racist, but that many locals defend as harmless fun in the run up to Christmas. The event re-enacts the arrival of Saint Nicholas, bringing presents for children and helped by his sidekick Black Pete, who is invariably played by a white person with a blackened face. The celebration is increasingly seen as racist in a country that has become more diverse and multi ethnic since World War Two. ... |
| Rome's anti-migrant protests highlight resentment among poor | | | By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Protests over a migrant centre in a run-down suburb of Rome this week have exposed a crisis in poor areas of the Italian capital suffering after years of neglect and mismanagement of infrastructure compounded by Italy's deep economic crisis. Rome's mayor Ignazio Marino was greeted on Friday by an angry crowd in Tor Sapienza, a struggling area on the eastern outskirts of the city where residents accuse migrants in the reception centre of drug trafficking and street harassment. ... |
| Serbian nationalist, released from war crimes court, rallies thousands | |  By Ivana Sekularac BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian nationalist leader rallied thousands of supporters on Saturday in scenes that threaten to embarrass a U.N. war crimes court that released him on grounds of ill-health before reaching a verdict in his trial. Vojislav Seselj's barn-storming return to Serbia has angered victims of the hardline nationalism he propagated during Yugoslavia's bloody breakup in the 1990s. ...
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| Malaysian air bag victim was in final week of pregnancy | | | By Trinna Leong SIBU Malaysia (Reuters) - The death of a heavily pregnant Malaysian woman in a car crash on Borneo island in July opens a new front in a widening U.S. investigation into defective air bags that has triggered one of the biggest safety recalls in automotive history. Law Suk Leh, 43, was driving her 11-year-old Honda City car in twilight on Sunday, July 27 when it collided with another vehicle making a turn across her lane at an intersection in a quiet industrial zone on the outskirts of Sibu, a town in the Malaysian-ruled northwest of Borneo. ... |
| Burkina military restores constitution, gives deadline for new leader | |  OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military ruler said on Saturday he had restored the constitution that was suspended when President Blaise Compaore was toppled after mass protests last month. Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, who declared himself head of state on Nov. 1 after Compaore resigned and fled the country, said political figures had until 1200 GMT on Sunday to propose a leader of the transition to civilian rule. ...
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| Sierra Leone frees journalist detained over Ebola criticism | | | FREETOWN (Reuters) - Authorities in Sierra Leone have freed a journalist arrested 11 days ago for making supposedly disparaging comments about the country's effort to fight Ebola. Local rights groups and British parliament had criticised the detention of David Tam-Baryoh, who was arrested under emergency measures put in place to combat the worst Ebola outbreak on record. Sierra Leone is one of the three West African nations worst hit by an Ebola outbreak that has killed at least 5,177 people in West Africa. U.N. ... |
| Russian TV channel says photos show MH17 shot down by fighter jet | |  By Jason Bush MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled TV has broadcast what it called "sensational" photographs, which it said supported Moscow's theory that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. Several commentators who have examined the photographs have described them as forgeries, however. The photographs, said to be taken by a Western satellite, appear to show a fighter jet firing a missile at a passenger plane over eastern Ukraine where the Malaysian airliner was shot down on July 17, killing all 298 people on board. ...
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| Vietnam PM wins broad backing in rare confidence vote | |  By Martin Petty HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) - Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sailed through a parliamentary confidence motion on Saturday, boosting his clout within the ruling Communist Party just over a year ahead of a shake-up of the country's top leadership. Dung won "high confidence" votes from 64 percent of the national assembly, with only 14 percent giving his performance a "low confidence" rating, suggesting he may have weathered the storm from a series of economic setbacks and rumoured internal challenges during his second term in office. ...
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