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| Masked man stabs two dead at Swedish school, killed by police | |  By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A masked man killed a teacher and a boy and wounded two others in a Swedish school on Thursday, stabbing them as he walked from classroom to classroom before being fatally wounded by police marksmen, officers said. Police would not give any details of his motive but said possible far-right sympathies were being looked into, as part of a broader investigation that was being assisted by Sweden's security service. The Kronan school is in Trollhattan, an industrial town of about 50,000 inhabitants in western Sweden that has a large proportion of immigrants and has been plagued by high unemployment after the demise of car company Saab which was headquartered there.
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| 12,000 migrants arrive in Slovenia; authorities ask EU for help | |  By Marja Novak and Maja Zuvela LJUBLJANA/RIGONCE, Slovenia (Reuters) - More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the last 24 hours and thousands more are expected, prompting authorities to ask the rest of the European Union for help dealing with the flood of people. Slovenia has asked the EU for police to help regulate the flow coming from Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told TV Slovenia. A European Commission sources said Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland offered to send police reinforcements.
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| After Netanyahu talks, Kerry says may be way to ease Israeli-Palestinian strife | |  By Arshad Mohammed BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday voiced cautious hope there may be a way to defuse Israeli-Palestinian violence that has killed nearly 60 people this month. Speaking to reporters after about four hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kerry said he thought there were steps that could reduce the violence and said they needed to be discussed with Jordanian and Palestinian officials. "I would characterise that conversation as one that gave me a cautious measure of optimism that there may be ... a way to defuse the situation and begin to find a way forward," Kerry told reporters after he met Netanyahu at a Berlin hotel. Forty-nine Palestinians, including 25 assailants, among them children, have been killed in attacks and during anti-Israeli protests. Among the causes of the turmoil is Palestinians' anger at what they see as Jewish encroachment on the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Islam's holiest site outside Saudi Arabia, which is also revered by Jews as the location of two ancient temples.
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| In her defence, Clinton tells Benghazi panel U.S. diplomats must take risks | |  By Jonathan Allen and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday defended her role from Republican criticism during high-stakes testimony to a panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted that U.S. diplomats must inherently work in unstable and dangerous parts of the world. In the opening stages of what was expected to be a contentious and highly partisan hearing, Clinton, a 2016 Democratic candidate for president, said the attacks by suspected Islamist militants that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans must not discourage U.S. action globally. "America must lead in a dangerous world and our diplomats must continue representing us in dangerous places," Clinton told the panel.
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| U.S. serviceman killed in hostage rescue mission in Iraq | | | WASHINGTON/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - One member of a U.S. special operations team was killed during an operation to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first American killed in ground combat with the militant group, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Around 70 hostages were successfully rescued during the operation, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. U.S. special operations forces were assisting Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces in rescuing hostages held at an Islamic State prison near Hawija, in northern Iraq, in a mission requested by the Kurdistan Regional Government, Cook said. |
| German police warn of racist attacks on pro-refugee politicians | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - German police warned on Thursday of a growing risk of racially motivated attacks on politicians by right-wing radicals angry about an influx of migrants and said crimes directed at refugee shelters were rising dramatically. The warning came five days after the stabbing of Henriette Reker, a mayoral candidate in the western city of Cologne. Germany is struggling to cope with the arrival of an expected 800,000 to 1 million migrants this year, many from war zones in the Middle East, and politicians are openly worrying about a potential rise in right-wing radicalism.
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| Golf and gluttony in the rough as China tees off against graft | | | BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to prevent officials from engaging in corrupt practices, while also turning an even sterner eye on sexual impropriety. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been driving a sweeping crackdown on deep-rooted graft since taking over the party's leadership in late 2012. |
| Turkey's Erdogan sees signs of new wave of migrants from Syria's Aleppo | |  There are strong indications that a new wave of migration has started following an increase in fighting on the Syrian region of Aleppo, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. In a speech to a law association, Erdogan also repeated his calls to train and equip more Syrian rebels against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and to set up a safe zone to protect displaced civilians - a plan which has long failed to find support from Western allies. "If these are done, I believe the migration from Syria will stop and the refugees that we are hosting will also be able to go back," he said, referring to the more than 2 million Syrian refugees sheltering in Turkey.
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| German FA chief leaves questions unanswered over 2006 World Cup cash | |  German Football Association (DFB) President Wolfgang Niersbach on Thursday said he could not answer some questions regarding the flow of 6.7 million euros ($7.5 million) to world governing body FIFA before the 2006 World Cup. Niersbach, in a hastily arranged news conference at the DFB headquarters, again rejected claims made by magazine Der Spiegel last week that an alleged slush fund had been used to buy votes in 2000 in favour of Germany's 2006 World Cup bid.
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| Malaysia's Mahathir says little chance of ousting PM Najib | |  By Trinna Leong and Praveen Menon KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's former premier Mahathir Mohamad conceded on Thursday that the chances of unseating Prime Minister Najib Razak before elections in 2018 are slim, despite his rallying cries for a "people's power" movement to topple the country's leader. The 90-year-old statesman, who led Malaysia for 22 years, has called on Najib to step down following allegations of corruption and mismanagement at state-owned fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The way UMNO has accepted him because they find he's comfortable to be with, I think he can go full term." Mahathir was once Najib's patron but turned against him in 2013 by criticising the government's economic policies and friendliness with the West.
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| Comedienne Sarah Silverman takes dramatic turn in "I Smile Back" | |  Sarah Silverman swaps comedy for drama in "I Smile Back", playing a frustrated housewife with a history of mental illness, who tries to make herself happier with drugs, alcohol and casual affairs. The American stand-up comedienne says portraying Laney Brooks came quite naturally but the subject matter may not suit all tastes. You walk out of there talking to your friends about mental illness, about depression, about what deserves empathy, what deserves sympathy," she said.
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