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| Obama authorizes more sanctions against North Korea in Sony hack | |  HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama authorized additional sanctions against North Korea in what he said was the first U.S. response to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the White House said on Friday. The sanctions named three entities as well as 10 North Korean government officials, including individuals working in Iran, Syria, China, Russia and Namibia, according to the Treasury Department. http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl9733. ...
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| Desperate parents of abducted Nigerian girls say have turned to U.N. | |  By Julia Payne ABUJA (Reuters) - Parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist rebels in April said they were appealing directly to the United Nations for help after losing hope that the Nigerian government would rescue them. A group lobbying for government action on behalf of the parents met with U.N. Women, the head of the U.N. representation in Nigeria, and with officials of the U.N. Office for West Africa last month. The group has also appealed to UNICEF, campaign spokeswoman Bukola Shonibare said. U.N. officials were not immediately available for comment. ...
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| 2014 deadliest year in Iraq for civilians since 2006-7 bloodshed - U.N. | |  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violence in Iraq in 2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a statement. The majority of the deaths - nearly 8,500 - occurred during the second half of the year following the expansion of the Sunni Muslim Islamic State insurgency in June out of Anbar province leading to widespread clashes with security forces. "Yet again, the Iraqi ordinary citizen continues to suffer from violence and terrorism ... This is a very sad state of affairs," said Nickolay Mladenov, head of the U. ...
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| Gunmen kill three Sunni clerics near Iraq's Basra | | | BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an urgent investigation on Friday into the fatal shooting of three Sunni clerics and the wounding of two others near the southern city of Basra. The attack late on Thursday was carried out by four gunmen who opened fire from a speeding car on the clerics' vehicle, police sources said. Previous attacks on Sunni and Shi'ite clerics have sometimes unleashed cycles of revenge killings in Iraq, where sectarian violence is at its worst since the height of the civil war some eight years ago. ... |
| U.N. extends mandate of tribunal trying Hariri bomb suspects | |  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday extended for three years the mandate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was set up to investigate and try suspects in a 2005 bomb blast that killed Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri and 21 others. The trial, before an international tribunal in The Hague, is being watched closely in Lebanon, where many hope it could help end a culture of impunity that has sustained decades of political violence in the deeply divided country. The U.N. ...
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| Palestinians deliver to U.N. documents to join war crimes court | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a move certain to anger Israel and Washington, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and more than a dozen other international treaties. The chief Palestinian observer, Riyad Mansour, and U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirmed the handover at the United Nations. It is a step that will likely further exacerbate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians and could lead to reductions in U.S. aid or U.S. sanctions. ...
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| Two jailed Jazeera journalists seek presidential deportation from Egypt | |  SYDNEY/CAIRO (Reuters) - Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country's highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were sentenced in June to seven to 10 years in jail for spreading lies to help a "terrorist organisation" - a reference to Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. ...
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| Pakistani boat laden with explosives blows up off Indian coast, India says | | | By Andrew MacAskill and Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Pakistani fishing boat laden with explosives bound for India blew up, killing all four people on board, after the Indian Coast Guard tried to stop and search it, the Indian government said on Friday. It was not possible to independently verify the Indian account. In a first reaction, Pakistan's foreign ministry said it was unclear whether the incident had happened at all. ... |
| Vatican prosecutor seeks trial of protester who scaled St. Peter's | |  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican may try a man who scaled St. Peter's Basilica to protest against laws that he says lost him his business in Italy, a spokesman for the papal city state said on Friday. Marcello di Finizio has been held in the small Vatican jail since being arrested after spending the night of Dec. 21 on a ledge of the church just above the central balcony where the pope addressed crowds on Christmas Day. ...
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| Uber loses bid to withhold CEO emails in gratuity lawsuit | |  By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge rejected Uber Technologies Inc's bid not to disclose emails from Chief Executive Travis Kalanick in a California lawsuit accusing the popular ride-booking service of deceiving customers about how it shares tips with drivers. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's ruling in San Francisco was the latest setback for Uber, which has drawn criticism around the globe over whether its service complies with local licensing and safety laws and whether its drivers have been adequately vetted. Chen said a Nov. ...
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| Record year of rhino slayings as Africa's big animals targeted | |  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa lost a record number of rhinos in 2014 as big animals across Africa were relentlessly poached to meet rising demand for horn and ivory in newly affluent Asian countries or to provide meat to fighters in the bush. From South Sudan, where conservationists say elephants are being slain by both government forces and rebels, to South Africa, where more than three rhinos are poached every day, there is an arc of illegal animal slaughter across the region. ...
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| Turkish leftist group claims responsibility for Istanbul police attack | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C has claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on police near the Turkish prime minister's office in Istanbul. DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front) was also behind a suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy last year as well as attacks on Turkish police stations. A man carrying an automatic weapon was detained on Thursday near the historic Dolmabahce Palace in Turkey's largest city after he threw a grenade at police. ... |
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