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| Blasts in Bangladesh targeting Shias kill at least one, wound dozens | | Saturday, October 24, 2015 1:17 AM | |
| | DHAKA (Reuters) - A series of blasts targeting Shia Muslims in Dhaka killed at least one person and wounded dozens more early on Saturday as they gathered for a procession in the old part of the Bangladesh capital to mark the holy day of Ashura, police said. Police cordoned off the area and were investigating the blasts, which they said were caused by improvised explosive devices. They said it was unclear who carried out the attack. (Reporting By Serajul Quadir; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore) |
| Kosovo lawmakers flee tear gas as opposition protests EU-brokered accord | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Opposition politicians in Kosovo released tear gas in parliament for the second time in a day at midnight on Friday to obstruct a scheduled session as police clashed with hundreds of protesters in Pristina streets demanding cancellation of an EU-brokered agreement with Serbia. The parliament session scheduled for 4 p.m. (1400GMT) had been postponed for later in the evening after opposition politicians released tear gas in parliament, sending lawmakers rushing from the debating chamber in the third such incident in two weeks. The session was due to be held at midnight but was cancelled after opposition MPs opened two canisters, releasing tear gas.
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| Suicide bomber kills 16 at procession for Shi'ite holiday in Pakistan | | | A suicide bomber killed 16 people in Pakistan on Friday at a procession in Sindh province for the Shi'ite Muslim holiday of Ashura, police said. No one immediately took responsibility for Friday's bombing, but a Sunni Muslim militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, had claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack and threatened more violence against Shi'ites. Fears of sectarian violence have been heightened this year since Taliban splinter groups pledged allegiance to Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group based in Syria and Iraq that has repeatedly attacked Shi'ites. |
| Kurds say joint raid with U.S. in Iraq aimed to free their fighters | | | By Isabel Coles and Stephen Kalin ERBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Kurdish special forces who raided a compound in northern Iraq were acting on intelligence that Kurdish fighters were being imprisoned there by Islamic State, a source in the Kurdistan Region Security Council said on Friday. Kurdish counter-terrorism forces planned and led the raid which rescued 69 people early on Thursday, supported by U.S. forces, Iraqi Kurdistan's U.S. representative said. One U.S. commando was killed, the first American to die in ground combat with Islamic State militants. |
| Europe shouldn't use force to stop people smugglers - U.N. investigator | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Europe should not use force to stop people smugglers in the Mediterranean, a U.N. investigator said on Friday, suggesting the European Union could team up with the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to resettle two million refugees. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, said the U.N. Security Council was mistaken to authorise European Union naval operations in the high seas off Libya to seize and dispose smugglers' vessels. Earlier this month the council approved the EU operation, which aims to help stem the flow of migrants and refugees as Europe faces its biggest migration crisis since World War Two. |
| Two more women accuse Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct | |  By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two more women accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct on Friday, and their attorney Gloria Allred said she has been contacted by even more women who are prepared to say the same. The two women join more than 50 who have come forward to accuse the veteran television star of sexual misconduct and assault dating back to the 1960s. One of the women, who identified herself only as Dottye, said Cosby drugged and raped her when she visited him in a New York City apartment to audition for "The Cosby Show" in 1984.
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