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| Opposition candidate detained as Ugandans vote for president | |  By Edith Honan and Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - The man hoping to break Yoweri Museveni's 30-year grip on Uganda's presidency was briefly arrested on Thursday and the government shut down social media sites as voters cast their ballots under the gaze of police and soldiers in riot gear. Opposition officials said Kizza Besigye was arrested at dusk on polling day and held for about 30 minutes in the capital Kampala, but despite the tough security there were no reported flare ups of violence. Godfrey Mutabazi, head of the Ugandan Communications Commission, told Reuters that Ugandan authorities had blocked access to Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp services, citing security concerns.
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| Russia's Domodedovo Airport says considers detention of owner 'groundless' | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Domodedovo Airport said on Thursday it considered the detention of its owner, Dmitry Kamenshchik, "groundless" and hoped for an objective investigation into the situation. Earlier on Thursday, Russian law enforcement agencies said they had detained Domodedovo's owner and that charges against him were linked to security measures at the airport at the time of a militant attack in 2011. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Alison Williams) |
| Pope says Trump 'not Christian,' Trump calls comment 'disgraceful' | |  By Emily Flitter NEWBERRY, S.C. (Reuters) - Pope Francis assailed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's views on U.S. immigration as "not Christian" on Thursday, prompting the billionaire businessman to reprimand the religious leader as "disgraceful" for questioning his faith. No stranger to controversy, Trump, the longtime party front-runner in national opinion polls, has vowed if elected president to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to keep out immigrants who enter illegally. In a freewheeling conversation on his flight home from a visit to Mexico, Francis told reporters, "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." Trump, a real estate developer and former reality TV star, said, "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president," Trump said in a speech in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, using an acronym for the Islamic State militant group.
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| Salman buoyant heading into final FIFA campaign stretch | |  By Simon Evans LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa says he will enter the final stretch of the election campaign in confident mood after receiving "significant support around the world". The Bahraini Royal is one of two front-runners for the top job at the corruption-plagued ruling body of soccer along with UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino of Switzerland. FIFA will vote for their new leader at a congress in Zurich on Feb. 26.
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| Suspicious bets mostly around tennis in 2015, report says | |  Tennis accounted for nearly three quarters of all the suspicious betting alerts issued last year, the European Sport Security Association (ESSA) said in a report published on Thursday. The organisation, established by regulated bookmakers to monitor suspicious betting patterns and guard against match fixing in sport, said 73 of the 100 events that raised concern involved tennis. "The start of 2016 has seen a worldwide focus on alleged match-fixing in tennis," wrote chairman Mike O'Kane in an introduction.
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| Pope signals possible limited opening contraception in Zika cases | |  By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis has appeared to open the door to a possible limited softening of the Roman Catholic Church's ban on contraception because of the Zika virus. But the Argentine pontiff, speaking to reporters as he flew back to Rome from a visit to Mexico, categorically ruled out abortion as a response to Zika, comparing the practice to a Mafia killing. The health crisis has put pressure on Church teachings, particularly in Latin America, where abortion is now being debated more openly even in some conservative countries. Many scientists believe Zika, a mosquito-borne disease that is currently sweeping through the Americas, may be a risk factor for microcephaly in newborns - a condition in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
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| India orders universities to display large flags after protests | |  India's Hindu nationalist government on Thursday ordered major universities to prominently display the country's flag at a time when it is struggling to contain the largest nationwide student protests in a quarter of a century, officials said. Click http://in.reuters.com/news/picture/protests-in-india-over-the-years?articleId=INRTX27GQW) All 46 centrally-funded universities have agreed to display the flags after a meeting chaired by Education Minister Smriti Irani, the government said in a statement. The universities have been asked to install flag masts 207 feet tall -- about the same height as the Statue of Liberty -- to hoist the nation's tricolour flag, according to officials at India's education ministry.
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| Austria sticks to migration cap despite EU legal warning | |  By Gabriela Baczynska, Robert-Jan Bartunek and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Austria said on Thursday it would go ahead with introducing daily caps on migrants despite warnings from Brussels that the move broke European Union rules, which have already been badly stretched by the migration crisis engulfing the bloc. Vienna announced it would let in no more than 3,200 people and cap asylum claims at 80 per day from Friday as it tries to cut immigration, drawing criticism from the European Union's migration chief. "Politically I say we'll stick with it ... it is unthinkable for Austria to take on the asylum seekers for the whole of Europe," Austria's Chancellor Werner Faymann said on arriving at an EU leaders' summit in Brussels.
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| U.N. aims to air drop food to ISIS-besieged city in eastern Syria - Egeland | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, an eastern town of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic State, including Deir al-Zor, where civilians face severe food shortages and sharply deteriorating conditions. Jan Egeland, speaking to reporters in Geneva a day after U.N. aid convoys reached five areas, some besieged by government forces and others by rebels, said the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) had a "concrete plan" for carrying out the Deir al-Zor drop in coming days.
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| Senegal police question Diack's son over IAAF scandal | |  Authorities in Senegal questioned the son of the ex-head of the international athletics federation (IAAF), a police source said, one month after Interpol issued an international warrant for his arrest for alleged corruption and money laundering. Papa Massata Diack, a former marketing consultant to the IAAF and son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, was banned from the sport for life last month for his part in blackmailing an elite Russian athlete after helping cover up her positive dope test. French authorities are seeking to prosecute the younger Diack, but Senegal's prime minister last month said that the West African country would not extradite him.
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| France players Valbuena and Benzema may meet, magistrate rules | |  A magistrate lifted on Thursday a ban on France striker Karim Benzema meeting teammate Mathieu Valbuena, whom he is suspected of trying to blackmail over a sex video, which has meant the two cannot feature on the same team. The magistrate separately upheld a ban on Benzema contacting other people linked to the investigation. Real Madrid player Benzema, who denies any wrongdoing, has been suspended indefinitely from the France team because of suspicion of involvement in a scam to blackmail Valbuena over a video sex tape.
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| Pakistan, with 324 executions in 2015, ranks third worldwide - report | | | By Krista Mahr ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan hanged 324 people last year to rank third worldwide in terms of executions, but the vast majority of those put to death had no links to militant groups or attacks, rights groups said in a report seen by Reuters. Pakistan lifted a moratorium on executions in late 2014 as a measure to deter militancy, after a Taliban gunmen attacked a school and killed 134 students and 19 adults. Of the 351 executions that followed, only 39, or about 1 in 10, involved people linked to a known militant group or guilty of crimes linked to militancy, Reprieve, an international human rights group, and Justice Project Pakistan said in a report. |
| IAAF wants to ban us, Kenyan official says | | | By Antony Gitonga NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - A top Kenyan athletics official said on Thursday he feared the sport's governing body was preparing to ban his country, with the summer Olympics looming, to send a message about doping and corruption. Kenya, which topped the medals table at the 2015 world championships, has had more than 40 athletes banned for doping in the past three years, putting it in the crosshairs of the IAAF's drive to eliminate systematic cheating and corruption. "My belief is they (the IAAF) are preparing us for a ban ... if they are able to ban Russia, what is so special about Kenya?" Athletics Kenya executive member Barnaba Korir told Reuters. |
| Ukraine coalition loses majority after second party quits | | | Ukraine's Samopomich party has quit the ruling coalition, one of its leaders Oleh Berezyuk said on Thursday, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk to find new allies or risk the collapse of the government. The announcement came just a day after another party led by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko quit the coalition. The government survived a no confidence motion in parliament on Tuesday, but some critics have said this is because lawmakers backed by Ukraine's powerful businessmen swung the vote by leaving the chamber without casting a ballot. |
| Iraq sentences 40 to death over Islamic State's mass killing of captured soldiers | | | An Iraqi court sentenced 40 captured members of Islamic State to death on Thursday for the killing of hundreds of soldiers after their capture by the ultra-radical militant group as it swept across northern Iraq in 2014, a judicial spokesman said. The slaughter of 1,700 soldiers after they fled from an ex-U.S. army base outside the northern city of Tikrit has become a symbol of Islamic State's brutality and the Sunni insurgent group's sectarian hatred of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority. A Baghdad criminal court issued the death sentences based on what Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, said were convictions on terrorism charges. |
| China needs more power to crack down on polluters - minister | |  China needs more powers to crack down on polluting companies and local governments that protect them, the country's environment minister said on Thursday. Beijing has identified pollution as a top priority as it tries to reverse the damage done by decades of untrammelled growth, but the Ministry of Environmental Protection has long struggled to impose its will on growth-obsessed local authorities and polluting state-owned firms. A revised environmental protection law came into effect at the start of last year with the aim of strengthening inspectors' powers and increasing the range of punishments for lawbreakers.
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