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| MSF says planes may have attacked staff fleeing Kunduz hospital | |  Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Thursday it was hard to believe a U.S. strike on an Afghan hospital last month was a mistake, as it had reports of fleeing people being shot from an aircraft. "All the information that we've provided so far shows that a mistake is quite hard to understand and believe at this stage," MSF General Director Christopher Stokes told reporters while presenting the group's internal report on the incident. The report said many staff described "seeing people being shot, most likely from the plane" as they tried to flee the main hospital building, which was under attack by U.S. military aircraft.
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| Finnish PM says government could collapse on Friday | |  Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila said his centre-right government could collapse unless the coalition agrees on health care reform by Friday morning. "It is very likely that I will go to meet the president tomorrow," Sipila told a news conference, referring to a government breakdown. The reform is a key part of the government's plan to balance public finances.
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| Unions, lawmakers promise closer scrutiny of Pacific trade pact | | | By Krista Hughes and Matt Siegel WASHINGTON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. unions, lawmakers and interest groups questioned the long-awaited text of a landmark U.S.-backed Pacific trade deal on Thursday, setting up a potentially long and difficult path to ratification by the United States, the biggest of the 12 partners. Arguments over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, aimed at freeing up commerce in 40 percent of the world's economy, are set to focus on transparency and how the pact affects workers and businesses. "It's worse than we thought," Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, told reporters on a conference call after examining the full text of the pact, which was unveiled early on Thursday. |
| Israeli troops kill Palestinian assailant in West Bank - army | | | Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after he ignored calls to halt and attempted to attack one of the soldiers at a crowded bus stop, the military said. The incident took place near the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem, on the main road to Hebron, which has become the focal point of recent violent unrest that began more than a month ago. "(Soldiers) thwarted an attack at a crowded bus stop at Gush Etzion junction when a Palestinian armed with a knife attempted to stab them. |
| Afghan asylum seekers overtake Syrians on Arctic route to Europe | | | By Alister Doyle and Camilla Knudsen OSLO (Reuters) - Afghans have overtaken Syrians as the biggest group of asylum seekers crossing Norway's remote Arctic frontier from Russia, even though many risk being sent back to Kabul, Norway's top immigration official said on Thursday. Many other European nations have also seen a surge in arrivals from Afghanistan, adding to Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War Two. "It worries us that there are so many from Afghanistan ... They should think twice," Frode Forfang, head of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, told reporters. |
| Benzema put under formal inquiry over French sex tape | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was placed under formal judicial investigation on Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow French soccer international Mathieu Valbuena using a sex video. Cormier added that the nub of the affair was a conversation in which Benzema offered Valbuena a bit of friendly "judicious advice" and what was said had nothing to do with blackmail. The prosecutor's move, which in France's justice system does not necessarily mean he will end up being tried, but does mean investigators believe they have serious grounds for pursuing the matter with him, exposes Benzema to a period of doubt ahead of a European nations soccer contest, which France hosts next year.
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| Egypt promotes Sharm airport chief after Russian plane crash | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has promoted the Sharm al-Sheikh airport chief days after a plane crash that was claimed by Islamist militants and raised questions about plane security at the tourist gateway. Britain said on Thursday that a bomb planted by a group affiliated with Islamic State, which operates in the Sinai Peninsula, may have been the cause of the incident which killed 224 people on the plane that was flying to Russia. Egypt has said there was no evidence a blast brought down the plane and promoted airport chief Captain Abdul Wahhab Ali to take on extra duties at the national airport operator despite the security questions at Sharm, a resort popular with British, Russian and other European holidaymakers seeking winter sun.
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| Maldives impeaches vice president as emergency law deepens crackdown | | | Parliament in the Maldives impeached the vice president on Thursday over his alleged role in an explosion on the president's speedboat, a day after the government declared a state of emergency that was internationally condemned. The decree has deepened turmoil engulfing the Indian Ocean archipelago following the blast on President Abdulla Yameen's boat, which the government said was an assassination attempt. Ahmed Adeeb, who was detained in connection with the Sept. 28 explosion, was impeached after 61 members of the 85-member parliament voted in favour. |
| Valbuena, Benzema omitted by France amid sextape scnadal | |  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Mathieu Valbuena and Karim Benzema, embroiled in a sextape scandal, were omitted from France's squad on Thursday for the games with Germany and England later this month while Hatem Ben Arfa was recalled. Real Madrid striker Benzema was put under formal judicial investigation earlier on Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail Olympique Lyonnais forward Valbuena with the use of a sex video. France coach Didier Deschamps told a news conference he would not answer "questions not related to football".
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| Russian federation distances itself from corruption probe | |  (Reuters) - Russia has nothing to fear from the latest scandal to rock world athletics, the acting head of the country's federation said on Thursday, after French media reported a corruption investigation involved alleged Russian drugs cheats. Lamine Diack, the former head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was placed under formal investigation in France on Wednesday on suspicion of corruption and money laundering, prosecutors said. French TV news channel iTELE reported that the investigation was focused on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing widespread doping of Russian athletes, although the prosecutor's office did not confirm that.
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| Tired of gunbattles, some Turkish Kurds hope ruling party victory brings peace | |  By Humeyra Pamuk DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Tired of trenches in the streets and daily gun battles, shopkeeper Berzani Akdogan is hoping the return of single-party rule might bring stability to Turkey's southeast, even though a heavier military crackdown looks likely in the short term. Akdogan, whose toy store in the region's biggest city Diyarbakir has repeatedly been shuttered by violence, turned his back on the pro-Kurdish opposition in Sunday's general election, voting instead for the ruling AK Party, despite a campaign built on pledges to maintain a hardline against Kurdish militants. The party's founder, President Tayyip Erdogan, vowed on Wednesday to "liquidate" Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas in a defiant speech that gave no quarter to those hoping for conciliation.
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