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| Iraqi Sunni mosques attacked in apparent retaliation for Saudi execution |
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 By Stephen Kalin and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least two Sunni Muslim mosques have been attacked in Iraq and two people killed in apparent retaliation for the execution of a senior Shi'ite cleric in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, officials and police said on Monday. Iraqi Shi'ites protesting the Jan. 2 execution of Saudi Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr separately marched in Baghdad and southern cities, while a powerful Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia group pressured the government to sever ties with Riyadh. Iraq's Interior Ministry confirmed the attacks on Sunni mosques late Sunday in Hilla, around 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad.
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| Suspected arsonist held in China after bus fire kills 17 |
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 Chinese police arrested a man suspected of starting a bus fire on Tuesday that killed 17 people, state media reported. Bus fires are not uncommon in China, where regulators have blamed some recent blazes on flawed auto design. Flames engulfed the bus in front of a furniture store in the northern region of Ningxia.
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| Indian policeman: Militants abducted me before base attack |
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 By Rupam Jain Nair and Krista Mahr NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The day before a deadly assault on an air base in Pathankot, a police officer returning from a temple was abducted by a group of heavily armed men speaking Urdu, he said on Tuesday. "The minute I saw them I realised that they were terrorists," Police Superintendent Salwinder Singh told media. "One of the gunmen snatched my phone and made calls to Pakistan," Singh said.
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| Factbox - Troubled history of Iran-Saudi relations |
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| REUTERS - Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with Iran on Sunday over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a deepening crisis between the regional adversaries following the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric. Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy early on Sunday and Shi'ite Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, predicted "divine vengeance" for the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken opponent of the kingdom's ruling Al Saudi family. ... |
| Syria chemical arms probe found signs of sarin gas exposure - U.N. |
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 By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report the United Nations released on Monday. The findings come in the latest monthly report on Syria from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chief Ahmet Uzumcu. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attached it in a Dec. 29 letter to the 15-nation Security Council.
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| Police search for vandal who left bacon at Florida mosque |
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| By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Florida police were trying on Monday to identify a man with a shaved head and wearing camouflage clothing who was caught on surveillance camera breaking windows, cameras and lights with a machete at a mosque and leaving bacon on the doorstep. The footage showed the man entering the carport of the Masjid Al-Munin mosque in Titusville near Cape Canaveral in central Florida late Friday night and vandalizing it, Titusville police spokeswoman Amy Matthews said. |
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