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| Kuwaiti minister hints driver who killed policeman may be a militant | | | Kuwait's interior minister said on Monday that a man who rammed his car into a group of police officers last week, killing one of them, "belonged to an organisation" - a wording that suggested the incident was an Islamist militant attack. The Western-allied oil exporter has been on alert against Islamist militants since a suicide bomber killed 26 people in June last year at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Sheikh Mohammad al-Hamad al-Sabah, speaking at a ceremony to honour the deceased police officer, said the man who carried out the attack "belonged to an organisation," state news agency KUNA said, quoting a statement by the interior ministry. |
| Iran reformists cheer election gains, conservatives play down shift | |  By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani and his allies won big gains in elections that could deepen Iran's engagement with the world after his government ended years of sanctions by agreeing to curb its nuclear programme. The outcome in the results for Tehran on Monday was a blow to the conservative Islamic establishment, although it retains decisive power due to Iran's unwieldy dual system of clerical and republican rule. Most of the lawmakers who failed to win re-election to the new parliament strongly opposed the nuclear deal, including Mehdi Kouchakzadeh, who called Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a traitor, and Rouhollah Hosseinian, who threatened to bury the negotiators under cement for agreeing to concessions to world powers.
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| Exclusive: Major powers team up to tell China of concerns over new laws | | | By Jason Subler BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the European Union have written to China to express concern over three new or planned laws, including one on counterterrorism, in a rare joint bid to pressure Beijing into taking their objections seriously. The U.S., Canadian, German and Japanese ambassadors signed a letter dated Jan. 27 addressed to State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun, voicing unease about the new counterterrorism law, the draft cyber security law, and a draft law on management of foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In what sources said was a coordinated move, the ambassador of the European Union Delegation to China, Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, sent a letter expressing similar concerns, dated Jan. 28. |
| Ex-teacher faces Timbuktu monument destruction charges at ICC | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A former trainee teacher accused of damaging monuments in the name of Islam in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu will stand before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for a hearing to decide if he should face a landmark trial. Malian citizen Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is the first person to be accused of destroying cultural artefacts by prosecutors at the court, which has previously focused on human rights abuses. The ICC has been examining events in Mali since 2012, when Tuareg rebels seized part of the north, imposing a strict interpretation of Islamic law. |
| Suicide bombing kills 27 at Shi'ite funeral in east Iraq | | | At least 27 people were killed when a bomber detonated his explosive vest at a funeral for the relative of a Shi'ite Muslim militia commander in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala on Monday, security and medical sources said. Security officials and police in Diyala said the target of the attack was two local commanders of the Hashid Shaabi umbrella group of Shi'ite militias who were attending the funeral ceremony for one of their relatives. Iraqi officials declared victory over the insurgents in Diyala a year ago, but Islamic State has remained active. |
| Woman charged with murder after brandishing child's severed head in Moscow | |  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police wrestled to the ground a woman in a hijab brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station on Monday and charged her with murder, in an incident that stirred fears of an Islamist terrorist attack. Investigators said they thought the woman had been working as a nanny for a Moscow family and had murdered a child in her care before setting fire to the family's flat and fleeing. "Given the clearly deranged behaviour of the detainee, investigators swiftly ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests to establish whether she is capable of understanding the significance of her actions," Moscow's investigative committee said in a statement.
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| Syria ceasefire task force meets, France wants answers on violations | |  By John Irish and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries sponsoring the Syria peace process met in Geneva on Monday amid complaints that a new cessation of hostilities deal was quickly unravelling, with France demanding information about reports of persisting attacks on rebel positions. "We have received indications that attacks, including by air, have been continuing against zones controlled by the moderate opposition," French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. France has therefore demanded that the task force charged with overseeing the cessation of hostilities meet without delay." A spokesman for the Saudi-backed opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said the cessation of hostilities was broken by Syrian government forces 15 times within the first day, and that there were further violations by Russia and Hezbollah, both allies of President Bashar al-Assad.
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| Indian man kills 14 members of own family, then hangs himself | | | A man in India stabbed 14 members of his own family to death, including seven children, before hanging himself, police said on Sunday, in one of the country's worst - and grisliest - massacres in recent years. Thirty five year-old Hasnin Warekar killed his parents and several of his sisters and their children at the family home shortly after midnight in the city of Thane, about 27 km (17 miles) north of Mumbai, police spokesman Gajanan Kabdule said. |
| Bolivian president's woes deepen as ex-girlfriend is held | |  By Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales, fresh from his first major electoral defeat in last week's referendum on extending his rule, is facing a deepening scandal over his ties to a woman who was held by police over the weekend. Gabriela Zapata was jailed on Sunday while her case is investigated. Morales, who is unmarried, acknowledges he had a relationship with Zapata, but questions over whether he has fully told the truth about the relationship have weighed on the president's popularity.
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| Israeli military braces for battle over beards | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's long-running struggle to balance modern standards with Jewish tradition has come to a head in the military, where new orders curtailing beards among soldiers have met protests from some rabbis. Many Orthodox Jewish men go unshaven, a religious observance that Israel's armed forces accommodates. Under revised rules, all soldiers will require advance approval from their commanders, rather than military chaplains, to sport a beard.
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| At least 12 killed in eastern Congo by suspected Ugandan rebels | | | Suspected Ugandan rebels used machetes to kill at least 12 civilians on Monday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities and a local human rights group said, the latest in a series of targeted attacks over the last 18 months. Rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist group originally from Uganda that has operated in the border region since the 1990s, carried out the killings in the village of Mamabio, 50 km (30 miles) north of the commercial centre of Beni, said territorial administrator Amisi Kalonda. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in dozens of raids near Beni since Oct 2014, defying repeated offensives by Congolese and U.N. peacekeepers against the ADF, who are believed to have only several hundred fighters. |
| North Korea says U.S. student confessed to stealing item with propaganda slogan | |  By James Pearson and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to "severe crimes" against the state, the North's official media said on Monday. Otto Warmbier, 21, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained before boarding his flight to China over an unspecified incident at his hotel, his tour agency told Reuters in January. North Korea has a long history of detaining foreigners and has used jailed U.S. citizens in the past to exact high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
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| Napoli star held up at gunpoint, robbed in city centre | |  Napoli striker Lorenzo Insigne was held up at gunpoint and robbed as he was driving through crime-plagued Naples over the weekend, his agent said on Monday. Insigne was driving with his wife and two friends late on Saturday when he stopped at a traffic light. As he drove away, the thief asked Insigne, who comes from Naples, to dedicate a goal to him at Monday night's Serie A clash with Fiorentina, local media reported.
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| Pause in Syria fighting largely holding, but some incidents - U.N.'s Ban | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that a cessation of hostilities in Syria was largely holding but that major and regional powers were looking into some incidents that he hoped would be contained. "By and large the cessation of hostilities is holding, even though we have experienced some incidents," Ban told reporters in Geneva after talks with his envoy Staffan de Mistura and before a meeting of the International Syria Support Group. ...
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| Missing HK booksellers say arrested for sales of banned books in China | |  By Stella Tsang and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Four of the five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in October appeared on Chinese television confirming for the first time they'd been detained for "illegal book trading" in mainland China. The five booksellers - including a British and Swedish national - had been linked to the same Hong Kong publisher and bookstore that specialised in scandalous books on the private lives and power struggles of China's Communist Party leaders. The disappearances have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities may be using shadowy tactics that erode the "one country, two systems" formula under which Hong Kong has been governed since its return to China from British rule in 1997.
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| U.S. Air Force vet one of first to face trial for Islamic State support | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force veteran charged with trying to join the Islamic State is set to go on trial in New York on Monday, one of the first of more than 75 Islamic State-related cases brought against Americans to reach trial. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, 48, was detained by Turkish authorities in Istanbul in January 2015 after he returned from a year-long stint living in Egypt. U.S. investigators say they found a letter to Pugh's Egyptian wife on his computer declaring his intention to "defend the Islamic States" and saying he had only two options: "Victory or Martyr." They also discovered approximately 180 jihadist videos on his laptop, including one that showed Islamic State militants executing several prisoners, according to prosecutors. |
| Pakistan praises Oscar for film denouncing "honour killings" | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hailed Sunday's Oscar win for a documentary about the practice of "honour killings", with activists calling for changes in laws to punish those who kill women deemed to have disgraced their families. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's film, "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness", follows the story of a young woman who survived being beaten, shot and thrown into a river by her father and uncle after marrying a man without their approval. "Women like Ms. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy are not only a pride for the Pakistani nation but are also a significant source of contribution towards the march of civilisation in the world," Sharif said in a statement lauding the Oscar win in the category of Best Documentary (Short Subject).
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| Myanmar parliament to change presidential elections date - document | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is likely to speed up elections of the country's president, in a last-minute change following weeks of talks with the military that has stood by the constitution that bars her from assuming the highest office. Myanmar's parliament dominated by the National League for Democracy (NLD), which swept historic elections in November, will change the date of presidential elections, previously set for March 17, according to the agenda for Tuesday's parliamentary session. NLD members and analysts say the party was likely to speed up the vote to end weeks of bickering between the army and the NLD over whether junta-drafted constitution, which bars Suu Kyi from becoming president, should be amended.
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