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| Gunfire, blasts at Indian air base, two militants still at large | |  By Mukesh Gupta PATHANKOT, India (Reuters) - Gunfire and blasts were heard on Sunday at an Indian Air Force base attacked by militants a day earlier, as security forces hunted two gunmen still at large in the sprawling facility near the border with Pakistan. A senior federal police official confirmed the gunmen were still holed up in Pathankot air base in Punjab, a day after the pre-dawn raid in which four attackers and six Indian military personnel were killed. Indian leaders had already praised the armed forces for their heroism in Saturday's 15-hour shootout, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying they did not let the "enemies of humanity" who attacked the base succeed.
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| Iran see "divine vengeance" after Saudis execute Shi'ite cleric | |  By Sam Wilkin and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday and Shi'ite Muslim Iran's top leader predicted "divine vengeance" for Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric. Demonstrators massed at the embassy gates to protest against cleric Nimr al-Nimr's execution broke into the building, smashed furniture and started fires before being ejected by police. Iran's foreign ministry called for calm and urged protesters to respect the diplomatic premises.
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| Hong Kong bookseller's disappearance sparks protests at Beijing office | |  Hong Kong opposition lawmakers protested on Sunday outside Beijing's representative office in the Chinese-ruled city over the disappearance of a bookseller who specialises in publications critical of the Communist Party government. Lee Bo, 65, a major shareholder of Causeway Bay Books, "vanished" on Wednesday after he went to fetch books from his warehouse in the city, Lee's wife told Hong Kong media. The disappearances have stoked fears of mainland Chinese authorities using shadowy tactics that erode the one country, two systems formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to Chinese rule from Britain in 1997.
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| Israel charges two Jews over lethal arson of Palestinian home - radio | |  LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli prosecutors filed murder charges on Sunday against two Jewish citizens for a July 31 arson attack in the occupied West Bank that killed three members of a Palestinian family, Israel Radio said. It said one adult defendant was indicted for murder and the second, a minor, as an accessory to murder. A court spokesman did not immediately confirm the report, saying the charges had yet to be formally made public. (Writing by Dan Williams, editing by William Hardy)
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| Iran leader sees "divine vengeance" for Saudi cleric execution | |  Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attacking Saudi Arabia for the second straight day over its execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric, said on Sunday politicians in the Sunni kingdom would face divine retribution for his death. "The unjustly spilled blood of this oppressed martyr will no doubt soon show its effect and divine vengeance will befall Saudi politicians," state TV reported Khamenei as saying. Saudi Arabia executed Nimr al-Nimr and three other Shi'ites alongside dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signalling it would not tolerate attacks by either Sunni jihadists or members of the Shi'ite minority seeking equality.
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| U.N. chief 'deeply dismayed' by Saudi executions, calls for restraint | |  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was "deeply dismayed" by the execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric and 46 other people in Saudi Arabia and called for calm and restraint. Saudi Arabia executed cleric Nimr al-Nimr and dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signaling it would not tolerate attacks, whether by Sunni jihadists or minority Shi'ites. "Sheik al-Nimr and a number of the other prisoners executed had been convicted following trials that raised serious concerns over the nature of the charges and the fairness of the process," Ban's spokesman said in a statement.
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| Death toll from militant assault on Indian air base grows to at least 10 | |  By Mukesh Gupta PATHANKOT, India (Reuters) - A gold medal-winning shooter was among 10 people killed in an audacious pre-dawn assault on an air force base, officials said on Sunday as troops worked to clear the compound in Pathankot, Punjab near India's border with Pakistan after a 15-hour gunbattle. Six Indian security personnel were killed and the bodies of four militants had been recovered after the assault on the heavily fortified Pathankot air base. The attack by gunmen disguised as soldiers came a week after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in an effort to revive talks between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
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