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| Eastern Congo militias make mockery of U.N. peace 'enforcement' | |  By Ed Cropley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - As the battered pickup lurched down the road from Mount Nyiragongo, Lieutenant Bongani Mndebele took a closer look at its passengers, six men in faded camouflage fatigues with AK-47s over their shoulders. "Government forces - I think," the South African peace-keeper said.
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| U.S. authorities look for militant links to shooters in California mass slaying | |  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lisa Baertlein SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - The couple suspected of killing 14 people at a holiday party in California amassed thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, authorities said on Thursday as they sought clues to the pair's motives and whether they had links to Islamist militants. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout with police five hours after Wednesday's massacre at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in the city of San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. Twenty-one people were wounded in the attack, which ranks as the deadliest instance of U.S. gun violence since the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 27 people were killed.
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| European clubs attack proposed FIFA reforms | |  A package of reforms proposed by FIFA to clean up the scandal-plagued governing body of soccer was angrily criticised on Friday by Europe's powerful clubs, who said it would increase frustration among the sport's stakeholders. The European Club Association (ECA), which represents more than 200 clubs including the major ones such as Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, said its members were "not prepared to be further ignored". FIFA is in the middle of an unprecedented crisis, with criminal investigations into the sport under way in the United States and Switzerland.
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| Brazil's top court rejects appeals against Rousseff impeachment | |  Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday quashed appeals from President Dilma Rousseff's allies to stop an impeachment process launched this week, increasing the likelihood of a drawn-out political battle as Latin America's largest economy remains mired in recession. Justices Celso de Mello and Gilmar Mendes rejected two appeals from lawmakers in the ruling coalition, including one filed by congressmen from Rousseff's Workers' Party. A third appeal filed by the Brazilian Communist Party (PCdoB) was still awaiting a decision, a court spokeswoman said.
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| Israel says too early to try suspects over arson attack on Palestinian home | |  Israel is still trying to gather evidence against far-right Jews arrested for a lethal arson attack in July on a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, the public security minister said on Friday, playing down prospects of an imminent trial. A police announcement on Thursday that several "youths belonging to a Jewish terror group" were in custody stirred speculation of a breakthrough in the killing of three members of the Dawabsheh family, which had frayed Israeli-Palestinian ties. Palestinian anger over the attack in Duma village has been a factor fuelling a wave of street assaults since Oct. 1.
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| Thai migrant crisis meeting ends without any solution on offer | |  By Aubrey Belford and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand called on Friday for concerted action to tackle "irregular" migration in the Indian Ocean, but no substantial solutions emerged from a regional meeting aimed at preventing this year's "boat people" tragedies in which hundreds drowned. Representatives from Southeast Asian countries met in Bangkok to hash out a framework to deal with tens of thousands of migrants, most from Myanmar and Bangladesh, who make perilous voyages across the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea every year. The meeting ended with a plan put forward by Thailand which five directly affected countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh, would consider.
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| U.S. gun control activists newly optimistic, but change may be elusive | |  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of thwarted efforts to tighten restrictions on firearms, gun control activists are heralding the 2016 elections as a watershed moment. Everytown for Gun Safety said its membership spiked by 20,000, to 3.5 million, in the hours after the California shooting - in which a young married couple armed with assault-style rifles left their infant daughter in the care of a grandmother before opening fire at a workplace holiday party.
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| Paris bar reopens three weeks after attacks | | | One of the Paris cafes where drinkers died in a hail of bullets on Nov. 13 reopened on Friday, three weeks to the day after the Islamist militant attacks that killed 130 people. Audrey Bily, manager of the first attacked cafe to reopen its doors, said the walls of the premises had been repainted and the "stigmata of this nightmare" removed. Several other eastern Paris cafes and restaurants hit in the attacks hope to reopen sooner as the most visited city in the world seeks to resume normal life. |
| Molotov cocktail kills 16 people at Cairo restaurant after dispute | | | A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two on Friday, Egyptian security officials said. The victims were burned to death or died from smoke inhalation. The interior ministry said an initial investigation indicated that the Molotov was hurled after a dispute erupted between restaurant workers and others. |
| Syrians linked to Islamic State in Thailand "to attack Russian interests" | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ten Syrians linked to Islamic State entered Thailand in October to attack Russian interests, Thai police said in a leaked document citing information from the Russian Federal Security Service. In the document, Special Branch police urged an intensification of security around "target areas that Russian authorities are concerned about", including venues associated with allies that have taken part in attacks on IS in Syria. Russia began air strikes in Syria on Sept. 30 and has stepped up attacks in recent weeks. |
| Rome fights its demons as Holy Year approaches | |  By Isla Binnie ROME, (Reuters) - Rome is bracing for the arrival of millions of pilgrims for the Roman Catholic Holy Year which officials had hoped could revitalise the scandal-plagued city, but which threatens to be more of a headache than a help. Pope Francis took Italy by surprise when he announced in March that a Holy Year, one of the Church's most important events, would start on Dec. 8, some nine years before the next one had been scheduled. During the 12-month Jubilee, Catholics coming to the Eternal City can gain indulgences, which, they believe, might speed their passage to heaven.
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| Pain but no gain: Indonesia's corruption crackdown | | | By Randy Fabi and Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian bureaucrats are holding off spending billions of dollars on everything from schools and clinics to garbage trucks and parking meters, fearful that any major expenditure could come under the scanner of fervent anti-corruption fighters. The paralysis is so bad that President Joko Widodo, desperate to pull Southeast Asia's largest economy out of a slump, is considering a decree that would shield civil servants from graft busters until big-ticket projects are completed. "There are concerns of criminalisation," Boediarso Teguh Widodo, the finance ministry's director general of regional budgetary spending, told Reuters. |
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