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| Latest U.N. Central Africa sex abuse allegations elicit disgust | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The latest allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation levelled against international peacekeepers in Central African Republic elicited expressions of disgust on Thursday from top United Nations officials and senior U.S. and French diplomats. The United Nations on Wednesday said it has expanded an investigation of new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by foreign peacekeepers in Central African Republic (CAR) and notified authorities in France, Gabon and Burundi about the accusations against their troops.
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| Brazil's top court upholds removing Lula probe from federal judge | |  A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court members voted on Thursday to uphold an injunction that moved a corruption investigation of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from to the Supreme Court from a lower court. The top court decision overruled a decision by federal judge Sergio Moro to make public a wiretap recording of a conversation between Lula and President Dilma Rousseff regarding his appointment to her Cabinet as her chief of staff. The Supreme Court is expected to discuss next week the suspension of Lula's appointment by one of its justices on the basis that it was a move to shield him from prosecution.
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| South Africa's top court orders Zuma to reimburse state | |  By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's top court ordered President Jacob Zuma on Thursday to pay back some of the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home, in a stinging rebuke that hits the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically. The unanimous ruling by the 11-judge constitutional court, a central pillar of the democracy established at the end of apartheid, also said Zuma had failed to "uphold, defend and respect" the constitution by ignoring Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's findings on his sprawling residence at Nkandla in rural KwaZulu-Natal. In 2014, Madonsela, a constitutionally mandated anti-corruption watchdog, identified a swimming pool, cattle enclosure, chicken run, amphitheatre and visitor centre as non-security items that Zuma must pay for.
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| FBI teams helping Belgium investigate recent attacks - White House | |  The United States has sent FBI teams to help Belgian authorities investigate the March 22 attacks that killed 35 people, including several Americans, and U.S. and Belgian officials will discuss the cooperation this week, the White House said on Thursday. "Belgium has accepted our assistance. Rhodes said the Belgian interior minister was expected to discuss the security cooperation with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington this week.
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| Turkey detains suspected killer of downed Russian pilot - report | | | Turkish authorities have detained a man suspected of killing a Russian pilot after his plane was shot down by a Turkish jet near the Syrian-Turkish border last November, Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper reported on Thursday. Russian defence officials said at the time that the pilot had managed to eject from his stricken plane only to be killed by ground fire from militants inside Syria. It was not immediately clear whether the reported arrest of the man, whom Hurriyet identified as Alparslan Celik, a fighter from a Turkish-backed Turkmen brigade in Syria, had been made in connection with the killing of the pilot. |
| EU-India summit fails to defuse row over Italian marines | |  By Thomas Escritt and Francesco Guarascio THE HAGUE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and India failed on Wednesday to defuse a long-running row over two Italian marines accused of murder and the case moved to an international tribunal after four years of diplomatic squabbles. At a joint summit in Brussels, held after delays imposed by Italy, the Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi and EU leaders maintained their positions over the case. In 2012, India arrested two Italian marines who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates.
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| Trump struggles to contain abortion fallout as White House rivals pounce | |  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Donald Trump's campaign sought on Thursday to contain the fallout from his comments on punishing women for having an abortion, characterizing the flap as a "simple misspeak" as his White House rivals pounced on the controversy. The billionaire businessman rowed back rapidly on Wednesday from his statement that women should be punished for having abortions if the procedure is banned in the United States. The comments triggered a flood of rebukes from both sides of the abortion debate, and his campaign tried to address the repercussions.
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| Belgium to extradite Paris suspect Abdeslam to France | |  A Belgian court decided on Thursday that Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam could be extradited to France, Belgium's federal prosecutors said. A lawyer for Abdeslam said earlier on Thursday that Abdeslam had dropped his initial objection to being extradited and had also renewed an offer to cooperate with the French authorities. "Salah Abdeslam wishes to be transferred to the French authorities," Cedric Moisse told reporters.
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| Indians mobilise to break free from forced, bonded labour - Harvard study | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of forced or bonded labour in north India can break free from exploitation if they mobilise and exercise their collective power to demand enforcement of labour protection laws and social welfare entitlements, a Harvard survey said on Thursday. The survey, which reviewed the work of local charity Manav Sansadhan Evam Mahila Vikas Sansthan (MSEMVS) in Uttar Pradesh, found steps such as forming community groups and raising awareness of laws and government welfare schemes significantly helped to reduce debt and improve lives. "Interviews with community members highlighted MSEMVS's contribution to reducing indebtedness and threats of violence, improving wage levels and generating a sense of collective efficacy," the study by Harvard University's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights said.
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| Canada court seeks Vice News reporter's chat logs with alleged militant | | | By Ethan Lou TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian court has ordered a Vice News reporter to give police his communications with a man police have alleged is an Islamic State fighter and charged with terrorism-related offences. According to a copy of the decision provided by Vice lawyer Iain MacKinnon, national security reporter Ben Makuch was ordered by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday to surrender his instant messenger chat logs with Farah Shirdon to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Police said last year that they believe Shirdon left Canada in March 2014 to fight with Islamic State militants in Syria. |
| Croatia bars Serbia's Seselj after U.N. war crimes acquittal | |  ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia permanently banned Serbian ultra-nationalist politican Vojislav Seselj from entering the country after a U.N. war crimes court acquitted him on Thursday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said. Croatia imposed the ban on the grounds that Seselj would pose "a threat to public order," she said. Seselj has not announced any plans to visit Croatia. A panel of judges cleared Seselj of crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia during the 1990s wars in the Balkans. (Reporting by Igor Ilic and Ivana Sekularac; editing by Adrian Croft)
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| Romania to boost anti-terrorism laws as fears over Islamist militants spread to eastern Europe | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania is planning to follow Poland and Hungary in widening its anti-terrorism laws after Islamic State attacks in Brussels, signalling growing concern among some eastern European countries over the threat of Islamist militants. None of the three countries has ever come under attack by Islamist militants and none has a sizeable Muslim population.
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| Backlash over Trump's abortion comments grows as rivals pounce | |  The billionaire businessman rowed back rapidly on Wednesday from his statement during an MSNBC town hall that women who end pregnancies should be punished if the United States bans abortion. The comments provoked a storm of rebukes from both sides of the abortion debate. Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said his initial comments were a "simple misspeak" and that he does not support penalizing women for having abortions, even if they are illegal.
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