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| Two Palestinian stabbers shot dead in Jerusalem attack -police | |  Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who had gone on a stabbing spree along a popular walkway in Jerusalem on Wednesday in what police described as a terrorist attack. A wave of violence in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank which began almost three months ago has shown no sign of dying down and has sparked concern of wider escalation, a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided. Wednesday's stabbings took place right outside the Jaffa Gate, one of the main entrances to Jerusalem's walled Old City.
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| Somali government bans Christmas celebrations | | | The government of Somalia has issued a ban on Christmas and New Year's celebrations in the Muslim country, saying the festivities "have nothing to do with Islam." "We warn against celebration of Christmas, which is only for Christians," Sheikh Mohamed Kheyrow, director of Somalia's ministry of religion, said on state radio. The Christmas holiday and its drum beatings have nothing to with Islam." He said the ministry has sent letters to the police, national security intelligence and officials in the capital Mogadishu instructing them to "prevent Christmas celebrations." The announcement had echoes of Islamist militants al Shabaab, which controlled the capital Mogadishu until 2011. |
| Suspected Boko Haram fighters launch three strikes on Lake Chad area | | | By Madjiasra Nako and Abdoulaye Massalaki N'DJAMENA/NIAMEY (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants killed five people in an overnight raid in Niger in the third suspected attack by the group in less than 24 hours, security sources said on Wednesday. The Islamist militants are mostly based in northeastern Nigeria but have become a major threat to wider regional security by carrying out attacks in the lawless Lake Chad zone where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet. In the most deadly of three attacks since Tuesday, militants killed two soldiers and three civilians in Niger's southern border town of Abadam overnight, the sources said. |
| Russia wants Khodorkovsky arrested abroad on murder charges | |  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for Mikhail Khodorkovsky on suspicion of ordering a contract killing, investigators said on Wednesday, prompting the former oil tycoon to declare the Kremlin had gone mad. The move came a day after armed police raided the Moscow offices of a pro-democracy movement founded by Khodorkovsky, one of President Vladimir Putin's most outspoken critics. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was pardoned by Putin in 2013 and freed after a decade in jail on fraud charges he says were politically motivated.
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| France to pursue plans to strip dual citizens' nationality in terrorism cases | |  The French government will go ahead with contested plans to strip dual citizens of their French nationality in terrorism cases, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday, brushing aside his own justice minister's concerns. The decision was met with fierce criticism from left-wing allies of the Socialist government. There were also calls from the right for Justice Minister Christiane Taubira to resign as she had publicly opposed the measure.
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| Kenya charges four women with recruiting for Islamist militants | | | By Joseph Akwiri NAIROBI (Reuters) - Three Kenyan women and one Tanzanian have been charged with conspiring to recruit Kenyans for the Islamist group al Shabaab, a charge sheet issued by a courthouse in Mombasa showed on Wednesday. The Islamist group has sought to overthrow Somalia's Western-backed government and regularly launches attacks in neighbouring Kenya in retaliation for Kenya contributing troops to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. |
| FIFA presents reform package for February congress | |  Shaken by corruption scandals, global soccer body FIFA on Wednesday presented the detailed reforms it will ask members to adopt in February at a special congress that seeks to restore its reputation and elect a new leader. The reforms include limiting the number of terms top officials can serve, following the banning for eight years of Sepp Blatter, who had been FIFA president for 17 years. The amendments also seek to put a tighter rein on FIFA's 209 member associations and separate policy and management positions, with a 36-member FIFA council replacing the 25-member executive committee.. "This is a landmark occasion in the history of FIFA, and it comes at a crucial time as we focus on the hard work of restoring credibility and stability," acting FIFA President Issa Hayatou said in remarks prepared for a Feb. 26 congress in Zurich.
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| Boko Haram militants in Niger kill five as regional attacks mount | | | NIAMEY (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants killed two soldiers and three civilians in Niger's southern border town of Abadam in an overnight raid, two security sources told Reuters on Wednesday, in the third suspected attack by the group in less than 24 hours. Four militants detonated suicide bombs on Lake Chad, also overnight, killing three of the attackers but no one else. And, separately, militants attacked a convoy in northern Cameroon on Wednesday, although there were no reported deaths. (Reporting by Abdoulaye Massalaki; Writing by Emma Farge; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Iran calls the new U.S. visa law breach of the nuclear deal | |  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday a new U.S. law putting visa restrictions on Iranians and those who had visited Iran would, if implemented, breach a nuclear deal Tehran had struck with world powers earlier this year. The new measure passed by the U.S. Congress will prevent visa-free travel to the United States for people who have visited Iran or hold Iranian nationality. The measure, which President Barack Obama signed into law on Friday, also applies to Iraq, Syria and Sudan, and was introduced as a security measure after Islamic State attacks in Paris and an attack in San Bernardino, California.
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| Spain's socialists reject pact with ruling People's Party | |  The leader of Spain's Socialists Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday said his party would vote against a new government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy or of his People's Party, rejecting a pact between the country's two main parties. Such an alliance would be one of the only combination of political forces allowing a stable government in Spain after an inconclusive election on Sunday. "We say 'no' to Rajoy and his policies," Sanchez told a news conference after meeting with Rajoy.
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| Re-print of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" unleashes row in Germany | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - For the first time since Hitler's death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader's political treatise "Mein Kampf", unleashing a highly charged row over whether the text is an inflammatory racist diatribe or a useful educational tool. The 70-year copyright on the text, written by Hitler between 1924-1926 and banned by the Allies at the end of World War Two, expires at the end of the year, opening the way for a critical edition with explanatory sections and some 3,500 annotations. In the book, a mix of personal experience and political ideology, he outlined his strategy.
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| Corrected - Gunmen kill resistance colonel in Yemen's Aden | | | (The gunmen shot dead one person who was a colonel and a resistance leader, not two people) ADEN (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a colonel in Yemen's southern resistance in Aden on Tuesday night, a local official said, the latest in a string of assassinations in the city often carried out by Islamist militants. The gunmen opened fire on a car containing resistance leader Jalal al-Awbali in the Dar Saad district of northern Aden, killing him immediately, the official said. |
| India delays bankruptcy law, fails to break deadlock on tax | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Lawmakers sent a proposed bankruptcy law for review on Wednesday, closing off a raucous parliament session without transacting any major legislative business including a signature reform on state taxes. The bankruptcy law is aimed at unifying and overhauling rules governing the liquidation or revival of ailing companies into a single code and for the first time imposing deadlines. Jayant Sinha, Jaitley's deputy in the finance ministry, told reporters that while the government would have liked to pass the bill, it also wanted it to be foolproof.
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