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| Burundi military officer launches new force to challenge president | |  A former senior Burundi military officer who quit the army this year said on Wednesday he had launched a new force to oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose re-election for a third term this year has plunged the nation into chaos. The formation of FOREBU, an acronym based on its French name Force Republicaine du Burundi, which was announced by Edouard Nshimirimana in a statement, was the latest challenge to Nkurunziza's rule by a military officer following a coup attempt by a group of generals in May. It will further stoke worries that violence in Burundi could turn into full-blown conflict, and raise alarm about unity in the army, which was rebuilt after Burundi's civil war ended in 2005.
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| Two Israelis, two Palestinian attackers killed in Jerusalem | |  Two Palestinians went on a stabbing spree along a popular walkway in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing one person, and were then shot dead by Israeli security forces in what police described as a terrorist attack. Another Israeli was killed, apparently by police gunfire aimed at the stabbers. 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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| Syrian government ready to join UN talks to end conflict - Assad aide | |  A close adviser to Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Wednesday Damascus was ready to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks with its position bolstered by both Russian backing and the West's retreat from a hardline anti-Assad approach. Bouthaina Shaaban said her government approved of U.N. resolutions passed last week endorsing an international road map for a Syria peace process, a rare display of unity among global powers on a conflict that has killed more than 250,000 people. The resolutions gave U.N. blessing to a plan negotiated earlier in Vienna that calls for a ceasefire, talks between the Syrian government and opposition, and a roughly two-year timeline to create a unity government and hold elections.
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| Bosnia court indicts wartime commander for crimes by Islamic fighters | | | By Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor on Wednesday indicted a wartime Muslim army commander on charges of failing to prevent crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during a 1992-1995 war. The 63-year-old retiree Sakib Mahmuljin was arrested on Dec. 8 on charges of acting in contravention of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions while serving as a commander of the 3rd Corps of the Army of BiH. Prosecutor said the alleged crimes dated to July-October 1995 toward the end of the war, when the 3rd Corps and a detachment of foreign fighters known as El-Mujahid carried out offensives in central Bosnia. |
| Austrian right-wing activists stage mock beheading of migrant advocates | | | A far-right Austrian group staged a mock beheading in Vienna's busiest shopping street of two of its members holding "refugees welcome" signs, while several police officers watched the event, saying they were protecting the right of assembly. At least four police officers and dozens of shoppers look on as jihadist chants in English fill the street and other masked men hold a flag sporting Islamic-style Arabic writing. Austria's anti-Islam Freedom Party is ahead of the two ruling centrist parties, according to recent opinion polls, with just over 30 percent support after a boost from worries over immigration in the staunchly Catholic country. |
| Saudis reduce maid's death sentence to jail term for adultery - Sri Lankan ministry | | | By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Saudi authorities have reduced a Sri Lankan maid's sentence for adultery from death by stoning to a three-year jail term after an appeal, Colombo's foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The maid, 45, who is married and had worked as a domestic helper in Riyadh since 2013, was convicted in August of adultery with a fellow Sri Lankan migrant worker. Sri Lankan acting Foreign Minister Harsha De Silva said the appeal against the death sentence was taken up by the Saudi court on Tuesday and he welcomed the outcome. |
| Spanish parties outline conflicting views on post-election pacts | |  By Julien Toyer and Blanca Rodríguez MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's main political parties outlined conflicting positions on Wednesday on how to form a viable government in the wake of an inconclusive election on Sunday, suggesting the negotiations will be complex and time-consuming. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, speaking to the media after meeting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, said he would reject any pact that led to a new government with Rajoy or his People's Party (PP), dashing hopes of a grand coalition of the mainstream left and right. On Sunday, Rajoy's centre-right PP won the most votes but fell far short of a parliamentary majority, while the Socialists came second.
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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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