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Boko Haram militants kill four, wound two in Niger attack | | Militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram killed eight people in an attack on a village in the southeast of Niger, a private local radio station, ANFANI, said on Tuesday. The group is seeking to carve out an emirate based on a severe interpretation of Islamic law in northeastern Nigeria and has also carried out numerous cross-border attacks into neighbouring countries, including Niger. Further details of the latest Boko Haram attack in the Diffa region late on Monday were not immediately available. |
Two Pakistani soldiers killed in rare targeted Karachi attack | | By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two Pakistani soldiers in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, the military said, a rare attack on the powerful army that could indicate the beginning of a push-back against a tightening crackdown on violence. The two were shot on a busy road in the centre of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial hub. No soldier had been killed in Karachi before that since March, underlining their protected status in a city where murders of policemen, politicians and prominent businessmen are common. |
U.N. condemns air strike that cut water supplies to Syria's Aleppo | | An air strike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people, and although pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the head of U.N. agency UNICEF in Syria said on Tuesday. "In Syria, the rules of war, including those meant to protect vital civilian infrastructure, continue to be broken on a daily basis," UNICEF's representative in Syria, Hanaa Singer, said in a statement. |
Part of Sofia airport closed due to security concerns | | SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police evacuated part of Sofia international airport on Tuesday while suspicious items of luggage were checked, the interior ministry's spokeswoman said. A section of Terminal 1 was closed to travellers after the bags were seen in a van parked just outside the airport. (Reporting by Angel Krasimirov; Editing by Catherine Evans) |
Turkish newspaper says faces tax inspection after journalists arrested | | Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, whose top two journalists were arrested last week on charges of espionage and terrorist propaganda, is facing an investigation into its tax accounts, its chief executive said. A court last Thursday ordered the arrest of Can Dundar, the paper's editor-in-chief, and senior editor Erdem Gul over the publication of footage purporting to show the state intelligence agency helping to send weapons to Syria. The case against the journalists has revived long-standing criticism of Turkey's record on press freedom under President Tayyip Erdogan with the United States saying it was "very concerned" about the arrests.
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Merkel cabinet backs German role in military campaign against IS | | By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved plans on Tuesday for Germany to join the military campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, a big step for the country, which had long resisted a direct role in the conflict. In response to an appeal from France after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris which killed 130 people, Merkel's government agreed to send Tornado reconnaissance jets, refuelling aircraft, a frigate to protect a French aircraft carrier, and up to 1,200 soldiers to the region. Germany will not join France, the United States and Russia in conducting air strikes in Syria, but the move is significant given the country's post-war history of avoiding foreign military entanglements and voter misgivings about getting involved in the conflict in the Middle East.
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French priest admits pocketing 700,000 euros | | A Catholic priest will be sent to court after admitting he stole more than 700,000 euros ($741,000) collected from churchgoers and buyers of holy candles over a quarter of a century, the French public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Public prosecutor Karline Bouisset said the authorities had frozen holdings of 656,000 euros on his bank account. |
Seven Kurdish militants killed in clashes with Turkish forces - governor | | Seven Kurdish militants and one Turkish soldier were killed during several days of clashes in the southeast, the provincial governor's office said on Tuesday. Fighting erupted in the town of Derik in Mardin province, north of the Syrian border, after security forces launched an operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members, according to a statement on the governor's website. Authorities imposed a round-the-clock curfew on the town last week - an action that often precedes operations against militants. |
U.S. Marine jailed in Philippines for killing transgender woman | | By Manuel Mogato OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - A Philippine court found a U.S. Marine guilty of killing a transgender woman on Tuesday, jailing him for six to 12 years in a case that has reignited debate over the American military presence in its former colony. The Olongapo City regional trial court also ordered Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton to pay more than 4.5 million pesos ($95,350) to the family of Jennifer Laude, who was found dead last year in a hotel outside the former U.S. navy base northwest of Manila. "This is not quite a victory," Laude's sister, Malou, told Reuters.
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Far-right Jewish activist jailed for setting fire to school in Jerusalem | | A far-right Jewish activist who set fire to a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem was sentenced on Tuesday to three years' imprisonment for the attack that targeted a rare symbol of co-existence in the holy city. The defendant, Yitzhak Gabbai, 24, is a member of Lehava, an anti-Arab group. A Jerusalem court found that he and two accomplices set fire to a classroom in the "Hand in Hand" school a year ago. |
Small steps for women's rights and democracy in Saudi poll | | By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian women are running for election and voting for the first time on Dec. 12, but their enfranchisement marks only a pigeon step towards democracy and gender equality in the autocratic Islamic kingdom. "For 10 years, since men first voted, we have waited for this chance," said Fawzia al-Harbi, one of hundreds of female candidates who began campaigning this week. The ruling Al Saud dynasty has no intention of sharing power with elected politicians, say analysts, and it fears combative campaigns or rapid social reform could unleash unrest in a patriarchal state with deep tribal and religious loyalties.
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Italy, Kosovo police arrest four jihadist suspects | | Italian and Kosovan police have arrested four Kosovars suspected of being part of a jihadist cell that spread Islamist propaganda and made threats against Pope Francis, justice officials said on Tuesday. The four, three of whom were arrested in Italy and one in Kosovo, are all suspected of "condoning terrorism" and "inciting racial hatred", Italian police said in a statement. A police official said the four were very active on the Internet, promoting their pro-jihadist cause, but did not appear to have been involved in any specific plots. |
Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers | | (Reuters) - France and Belgium are hunting suspects and would-be attackers following the shootings and bombings in Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Investigations are centred on Salah Abdeslam. Police think he may be an assailant referred to in an Islamic State statement claiming responsibility for the attacks.
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Prisoner swap deal frees Lebanese soldiers and IS leader's ex-wife | | By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, released 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen held captive since August, 2014 on Tuesday in a Qatari-mediated deal that also secured freedom for a jailed ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese during an attack on the border town of Arsal mounted together with the Islamic State jihadist group which is still believed to be holding nine soldiers captured in the incursion. Live TV footage from the border area between Lebanon and Syria showed the Lebanese captives in vehicles accompanied by masked men armed with assault rifles and waving the Nusra Front flag before they were released to the Red Cross. |
Two Palestinian assailants shot dead in WBank stabbing attempts - Israel | | Israeli security forces shot dead two knife-wielding Palestinian assailants on Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities said, as a wave of Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings entered its third month. Israeli forces have killed 97 Palestinians, of whom 58 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out attacks, while others were shot in clashes with police and troops. A police spokeswoman said a Palestinian man who tried to carry out a stabbing attack on Tuesday at a busy junction in the Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements in the West Bank was shot dead. |
Southeast Asia urged to halt repeat of "boat people" tragedy | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this year's disaster in which hundreds of refugees were either lost at sea or died in jungle camps. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) called for "full cooperation" this week from governments attending a Bangkok meeting in May aimed at tackling the region's annual migrant crisis as European countries struggle to cope with refugees fleeing war in Syria and Iraq. Southeast Asian nations agreed to help vulnerable "boat people" stranded at sea following last year's crisis that saw more than 4,000 migrants land in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Bangladesh following a Thai crackdown on people-smuggling gangs.
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