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| Colombia, FARC rebels vow to end 50-year war within six months | | Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:36 AM | |
|  By Nelson Acosta and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end their 50-year war within the next six months, sealing their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image in the South American nation. Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, also agreed the leftist guerrillas would lay down arms within 60 days of signing the deal, which now has an official deadline of March 23, 2016. Some FARC units have formed an alliance with drug cartels, exchanging protection for money.
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| China to prosecute former deputy sports minister for graft | | Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:33 AM | |
| | BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities will prosecute a former deputy sports minister for suspected graft, after an investigation found he abused his position and took bribes, the Communist Party's corruption watchdog said on Thursday. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) |
| Argentina halts rice 'impregnated with cocaine' en route to Europe | | Thursday, September 24, 2015 1:31 AM | |
| | By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine customs agents found about 30 kg (66 lbs) of cocaine hidden in a way they had never seen before when drug-sniffing dogs found the drug had been absorbed into grains of rice headed for Europe via Africa, an official said on Wednesday. The bust underscores the role Argentina has come to play as a shipping point for cocaine produced in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, destined for Africa and then smuggled north to the lucrative markets of Europe. In this case, imaginative drug runners soaked rice in water that had been mixed with cocaine, Guillermo Gonzalez, chief of narcotic investigations for Argentina's customs agency told Reuters. |
| Nobel winners urge Obama to press Xi for fellow laureate's release | | | By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on President Barack Obama to make a public call for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The laureates, led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote to Obama, who is also a recipient of the Noble Peace Prize, on Sept. 2 to urge him to press the issue with Xi, the U.S. advocacy group Freedom Now said. Obama and Xi will meet in Washington on Thursday and Friday. |
| Colombia, FARC rebels vow to reach peace deal in 6 months | | By Nelson Acosta and Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top commander of leftist FARC rebels shook hands on Wednesday and agreed to reach a final peace agreement within six months in Latin America's longest war. "The chief of the FARC secretariat and I have agreed that in no more than six months this negotiation should come to an end and we should sign a final agreement," Santos told a ceremony in Havana, the site of peace talks for the past three years. Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have fought the Colombian government for 51 years in a conflict that has killed some 220,000 and displaced millions.
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| Did Pentagon employees try to expense strip club, casino bills? | | | The Pentagon's Inspector General is investigating whether U.S. military personnel tried to get the U.S. government to pay them back for bills they racked up at casinos and strip clubs, using official travel charge cards. In May, the Pentagon watchdog reported that Defence Department employees spent $952,258 at casinos and another $96,576 at "adult entertainment establishments" using the cards during a year-long period. The report can be seen here: http://bit.ly/1Hr2D2T The Inspector General's office, in a Sept. 21 memorandum released on Wednesday, said the Senate Armed Services Committee requested a follow-on investigation. |
| Stick with Spain, urges foreign minister in Catalan secession debate | |  Catalonia should stick with Spain and avoid disaster, Spain's foreign minister said on Wednesday, becoming the only member of Madrid's centre-right government to debate on television with a secessionist adversary on the heated topic of Catalan independence. The fact that Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo had agreed to participate in the televised debate at all was in itself a "great success" for the separatist camp, argued Oriol Junqueras, head of the leftist Catalan republican party, given the lack of dialogue with Madrid. The sparring match came ahead of Sunday's Catalan regional election which separatists have billed as a proxy vote on independence from Spain - a description rejected by Madrid.
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