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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. ... |
| France to question 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 has arrived in Paris and will be questioned in court on Saturday, a court source told Reuters. Hassan Diab was extradited from Canada after the country's highest court on Thursday refused to rule on his appeal against extradition to France. Diab was arrested by Canadian police in 2008 but was released and lived under judicial supervision, his lawyer said. ...
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| 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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| Rat poison chemical found in pills linked to Chhattisgarh sterilisation deaths | |  By Aditya Kalra and Aditi Shah BILASPUR/RAIPUR India (Reuters) - Tablets linked to the deaths of more than a dozen women who visited a sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh are likely to have contained a chemical compound commonly used in rat poison, two senior state officials said on Saturday. Preliminary tests of the antibiotic ciprocin tablets were found to contain zinc phosphide, Siddhartha Pardeshi, the chief administrator for the Bilaspur district, told Reuters. The antibiotics were handed out at the mass sterilisation held a week ago in the impoverished state. ...
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| Rock band wins again in copyright battle against Sirius XM | | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 1960s rock band on Friday won a second victory against Sirius XM Holdings Inc in a closely watched copyright battle affecting digital media. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan rejected Sirius' request to dismiss the lawsuit accusing the satellite radio company of playing pre-1972 songs from the band the Turtles, best known for the hit "Happy Together," without permission or paying royalties. She said that unless Sirius by Dec. ... |
| Author Michael Lewis prevails in 'Big Short' libel appeal | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The author Michael Lewis did not libel a money manager in his 2010 best-seller "The Big Short," a divided federal appeals court ruled on Friday. By a 2-1 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected an appeal by Wing Chau and his firm Harding Advisory LLC over 26 alleged defamatory statements. ...
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| Nigeria insurgents retake village of abducted schoolgirls | |  By Imma Ande and Joe Hemba YOLA/DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram insurgents have retaken the village of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria where the group abducted some 200 schoolgirls seven months ago, a lawmaker and a villager who fled the attack said on Friday. Boko Haram, which is trying to carve out a caliphate in religiously mixed northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks since it rejected a ceasefire announced last month by the government. ...
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| Suicide bomb kills 6 in Nigeria's northern city of Kano - police | | | ABUJA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six people, including three policemen, in Nigeria's northern city of Kano on Friday, a police spokesman told Reuters by telephone. "Yes, three policemen and three civilians were killed by a suicide bomber in a Toyota this evening at Hotoro, Kano metropolis," said Magaji Musa, spokesman for Kano State police command. Five other people were injured. Kano has been the target of several bombings by Boko Haram militants in their five-year-old campaign to carve out an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria's north. ... |
| Egypt militant group posts video of attack on army checkpoint | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most dangerous militant group on Friday posted its first video message since pledging allegiance to Islamic State, with footage purporting to show that the group was behind one of the most deadly attacks on Egyptian security forces in years. The nearly 30-minute video, whose authenticity could not immediately be verified, was posted on the Twitter feed claiming to represent Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis. The group this week pledged loyalty to the al Qaeda offshoot now facing U.S. air strikes in Syria and Iraq. ... |
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