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| Bergdahl defense can access classified information - ruling | |  (Reuters) - Lawyers for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who faces a potential life sentence for desertion while serving in Afghanistan, will be allowed access to classified material to prepare his defense, a military appeals court has ruled. Legal proceedings against Bergdahl, which had been halted while the classified material issue was being resolved, can now resume, according to a Thursday ruling by the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals that was made public late on Saturday by Bergdahl's attorney, Eugene Fidell. Bergdahl, now 30, walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban, who held him prisoner for five years and tortured him.
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| Hooded youths clash with police in Paris over labour law | |  Hooded youths clashed with police in Paris on Sunday during a May Day rally against planned labour reforms, while the government insisted it would not withdraw the bill which is due to be debated in parliament later this week. Police, who said they clashed with a group of about 300 youths and detained three of them, responded with tear gas. More than 80,000 people marched throughout France on Sunday, including up to 17,000 in Paris, police said.
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| Colombia captures alleged Peruvian drug trafficker 'Caracol' | | | Colombian police have captured alleged Peruvian drug kingpin Gerson Aldair Galvez Calle, known by his alias 'Caracol,' Colombia's defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said on Sunday. Galvez Calle is considered a prolific drug trafficker by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Peruvian police, Villegas told journalists. The alleged trafficker was captured on Saturday in a restaurant in the Colombian city of Medellin and will be turned over to Peruvian authorities, who have a $150,000 reward for information leading to his capture, Villegas added. |
| Police fire tear gas, detain 200, in Istanbul May Day scuffles | |  By Melih Aslan and Osman Orsal ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon and detained more than 200 people after scuffles broke out at May Day celebrations in Istanbul and some anti-government protesters tried to breach a ban on access to the main Taksim square. Security was tight across Turkey's biggest city, which was hit twice this year by attacks blamed on Islamic State. Around 24,500 members of the security forces were deployed for the May Day celebrations, according to the Istanbul governor's office.
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| Iraqi protesters end Green Zone sit-in for now after issuing demands | |  By Stephen Kalin and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Protesters camped out in Baghdad's Green Zone for 24 hours left the heavily fortified government district on Sunday after issuing demands for political reform but they pledged to return by the end of the week to keep up the pressure. Iraq has endured months of wrangling prompted by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's attempt to replace party-affiliated ministers with technocrats as part of an anti-corruption drive. Abadi has warned continued turmoil could hamper the war against Islamic State, which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq.
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| Saudi Arabia kills two militant suspects in southwest, arrests third | | | Saudi security forces killed two militant suspects and arrested a third in a two-day operation in southwestern Bisha province, the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday, accusing them of involvement in deadly attacks claimed by Islamic State. Security personnel killed two men in an exchange of gunfire during a chase to thwart an "imminent" attack on Friday, said ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki in a televised statement. The statement said the three men were suspects in the killing of a senior security officer outside the capital Riyadh in April. |
| Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread | |  Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing a growing wave of protests against planned changes to land ownership, evoked the image of war-torn Ukraine on Sunday as he called for national unity. Speaking at an event in Almaty to mark the annual May 1 Unity Day celebrations, Nazarbayev highlighted Ukraine, where street protests in 2013-2014 toppled the government of Viktor Yanukovich, as an example of what could happen in the absence of unity. "Ukraine, the second-biggest ex-Soviet state, today has an economy which is half the size of Kazakhstan's," the president said.
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| Pope condemns paedophilia as details of girl's death shock Italy | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis called for "severe punishment" for paedophiles on Sunday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a six-year-old girl who is alleged to have been thrown from an eighth-storey balcony by her abuser.
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| Anti-immigrant AfD says Muslims not welcome in Germany | |  By Tina Bellon STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Members of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa. Set up three years ago, the AfD has been buoyed by Europe's migrant crisis, which saw the arrival of more than one million, mostly Muslim migrants, in Germany last year. The party has no lawmakers in the federal parliament in Berlin but has members in half of Germany's 16 regional state assemblies.
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