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| Three Kenyan soldiers wounded in gun attack near Somali border |
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| By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a truck carrying Kenyan soldiers near the border with Somalia on Thursday, seriously wounding three of them, police said, in an assault that bore the hallmarks of Somalia's Islamist militant group al Shabaab. Attacks on civilians and security forces have killed well over 200 people since 2013. Concerns about security have battered Kenya's tourism industry, including during this holiday season. ... |
| Brazil's Rousseff vows budget cuts, anti-corruption push in second term |
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 By Alonso Soto and Silvio Cascione BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff began her second term Thursday vowing to rein in government spending to curb inflation and pull Latin America's largest economy out of a four-year slump. As she took the oath of office in Brasilia, Rousseff also promised to embark on an anti-corruption crusade in response to a multibillion-dollar graft scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras that threatens to haunt her second term. ...
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| DISH Network to make "The Interview" available on Jan. 2 |
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - DISH Networks Inc said on Thursday it would make "The Interview," the controversial Sony Pictures Entertainment film about the fictitious assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, available as a pay-per-view option starting on Jan 2. DISH said "The Interview" would be available to rent in both high definition and standard definition. The film has been blamed for triggering a massive cyberattack on Sony's movie studio. On Dec. ...
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| Palestinians join war crimes court, angering Israel, U.S. |
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 By Noah Browning RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on Wednesday, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after a bid for independence by 2017 failed at the United Nations Security Council. The move, which angered Israel and the United States, paves the way for the court to take jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestinian lands and investigate the conduct of Israeli and Palestinian leaders over more than a decade of bloody conflict. ...
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| NYC rings in new year with heightened security in Times Square |
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 By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roughly 1 million revelers packed New York's Times Square and rang in the new year with the city's annual crystal ball drop under unusually tight security for the nation's biggest New Year's Eve celebrations. While security is always tight in Times Square on New Year's Eve, particularly since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, extra precautions were put in place on Wednesday to prevent violence at the famed midtown Manhattan crossroads. ...
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| New Year's Eve stampede kills 36 on Shanghai waterfront |
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 By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A stampede killed at least 36 people during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, but police denied reports it was caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building overlooking the city's famous waterfront. The government in China's gleaming business capital said large crowds started to stampede on Chen Yi Square, in the riverside area known as the Bund, just before midnight. It was the worst disaster in the cosmopolitan city since 58 died in an apartment building fire in 2010. ...
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