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| "Victory" as Kenya police jail child rapists after court order | | | By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two men have been jailed for gang raping children after Kenya's high court ordered the police to re-open 10 cases where officers had yelled at, demanded bribes from and even locked up girls who tried to report rape to them. The 2013 high court ruling came after a rescue centre in Meru, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of the capital Nairobi, sued the police for failing to investigate hundreds of child rape cases which it reported to them. ... |
| At least 16 killed, 28 policemen wounded in Russia's Chechnya attack | |  GROZNY/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a building in Chechnya's regional capital of Grozny on Thursday killing 16 people, including ten police, hours before President Vladimir Putin vowed in a policy speech to defend Russia against what he called efforts to dismember it. Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that "six terrorists were annihilated" after they had opened fire at a police patrol car, killing three officers and then stormed offices housing local media. ...
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| British Conservative lawmaker arrested on suspicion of rape | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Mark Pritchard, a lawmaker from British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, has been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to official parliamentary records and police. Details in Hansard, parliament's official account of proceedings, recorded that London police (MPS) had sent a letter on Wednesday to the Speaker of the House of Commons "relating to the arrest of Mark Pritchard", 48, who represents the Wrekin constituency in Shropshire, western England. "I write to inform you that on 2nd December 2014, Mark Pritchard MP was arrested at 6.14 p.m. ... |
| Afghan soldier who killed US general acted independently-report | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Afghan military policeman who fatally shot a U.S. general and wounded more than a dozen other people at a training center in Kabul apparently acted independently and had no links to the Taliban or other extremist groups, according to a report released on Thursday. An investigation by the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the insider attack was not premeditated and that the shooter, identified as Rafiqullah, may have been ill or a self-radicalized. On Aug. ...
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| U.S. begins largest auction of bitcoins seized in Silk Road bust | |  By Nate Raymond and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday began auctioning off 50,000 bitcoins seized during the prosecution of the alleged owner of Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar where authorities say drugs and other illegal goods could be bought. The six-hour online auction began at 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) for nearly $18.6 million worth of bitcoins, and the winning bidders will be notified Friday. ...
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| Cyber attacks, drones increase threats to plane safety - insurer | |  By Jonathan Gould and Victoria Bryan FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Cyber attacks and commercial drones pose a growing risk of commercial aeroplane crashes, a major insurer said, running counter to a long-term decline in fatal accidents and insurance premiums. Technical advances in aircraft design and navigation systems have reduced the chance of dying in a plane crash, but the reliance on computers poses new types of risks. ...
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| Protesters block NY streets after officer cleared in chokehold death | |  By Daniel Bases, Robert MacMillan and Zachary Goelman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators blocked streets, snarling New York City traffic into early Thursday morning, after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer for causing the death of an unarmed black man with a chokehold. Mostly peaceful protests sprang up on Wednesday evening throughout Manhattan, including at Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and near Rockefeller Center, after the panel opted not to indict the officer, Daniel Pantaleo. ...
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| Al Qaeda's Yemen branch issues video purporting to show U.S. captive | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Yemen branch published a video purporting to show an American hostage and threatened to kill him if unspecified demands were not met. In the video, the man identified himself as Luke Somers and said he had been kidnapped well over a year ago. He was looking for "any help that can get me out of this situation". Reuters was unable to confirm the authenticity of the video, which was posted on YouTube and social media late on Wednesday and carried by SITE, an organisation that monitors militant statements. ... |
| Modi seeks to draw line under row over minister's pro-Hindu comments | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought on Thursday to draw a line under a row sparked by a minister's derogatory comments about non-Hindus, urging angry parliament deputies to accept her apology and move on. But opposition lawmakers in the Rajya Sabha held firm on their demand that Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti be fired for the speech, threatening to derail Modi's plans to pass a raft of legislation including a long-delayed insurance reform. The opposition commands a majority in the Rajya Sabha. ...
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