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| Al Shabaab car bomber targets hotel in Somali capital, at least 10 dead | |  By Abdirahman Hussein, Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber crashed his vehicle into a gate outside a hotel frequented by lawmakers in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday and the attack was followed by gunfire, killing at least 10 people, police said. Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab militants quickly claimed responsibility for the attack at the Hotel Ambassador and one police offcer said some fighters might be inside the hotel. Colonel Ali Mohamed, a Mogadishu police officer, said the hotel on Maka Al Mukaram Road was hit by a car bomb that rammed its gate.
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| French rail strike bites amid labour law standoff | |  By Sophie Louet and Paul Taylor BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Striking rail workers halted about half of French train services on Wednesday in a dispute over working time as a standoff between the militant CGT union and the Socialist government over a proposed labour law reform escalated. CGT members voted to start rolling strikes at the country's 19 nuclear power plants from Wednesday evening to press demands to scrap the labour bill, and airline pilots announced a work stoppage late next week in a separate dispute over pay curbs. Tension mounted between the CGT and the Medef employers' federation, with the union urging energy workers to cut power supplies to the bosses' Paris headquarters.
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| Drowned migrant baby was probably Somali - Italian police | |  Like the photograph of the three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan lying lifeless on a Turkish beach last year, the image put a human face on the more than 9,000 people who have died in the Mediterranean since the start of 2014. The baby was pulled from the sea last Friday by a German rescuer working for humanitarian organisation Sea-Watch after a wooden boat carrying more than 400 migrants capsized and sank 58 km (36 miles) off the Libyan coast. Sea-Watch handed the boy's body over to the crew of an Italian navy ship, the Vega which brought 135 survivors and 45 bodies recovered after the shipwreck to the port city of Reggio Calabria on Sunday, including those of three small children.
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| Newly built Austrian refugee shelter set on fire | | | A building in northern Austria that was due to house dozens of asylum seekers was deliberately set on fire, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, a relatively rare attack on a refugee centre in a country that has taken in many migrants. The new wooden building in the town of Altenfelden, near Austria's borders with Germany and the Czech Republic, caught fire overnight. The Red Cross, which owns the building, later said arson was the cause. |
| Al Qaeda says conducted Mali raid that killed China peacekeeper | | | By Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack on two United Nations' sites in northern Mali where a peacekeeper from China and three civilians were killed and over a dozen others wounded. China's Foreign Ministry said four of its peacekeepers were injured and called for an investigation into the attack late on Tuesday on the base in the town of Gao. The country said it has 2,400 peacekeepers stationed in Africa. |
| Possible shooter reported at UCLA in Los Angeles - university tweet | | | A possible shooter has been reported at the University of California, Los Angeles, and police are investigating, the university's media relations section said in a message on Twitter. The tweet said the shooter was reported to be at Boelter Hall, part of the university's school of engineering and applied science. A representative from the UCLA police division could not be reached. |
| Bahrain charges 18 with contacting Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah - BNA | |  Bahrain has charged 18 people with contacting Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese Hezbollah group with the aim of stirring up unrest in the kingdom, state news agency BNA reported on Wednesday. Bahrain cut diplomatic relations with Iran in January, a day after Riyadh severed ties with Tehran following attacks by Iranian demonstrators on Saudi diplomatic missions in response to the execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim Saudi cleric convicted on terrorism charges. It said the group had contacted leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the Lebanese Hezbollah group to "obtain financial and logistical support" in exchange for regular reports on the political, economic and social situation in the kingdom.
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| As residents starve in battle for Falluja, Iraq detains men who flee | |  By Haider Kadhim and Saif Hameed GARMA VILLAGE, Iraq (Reuters) - Desperate for food and water, residents are fleeing the Iraqi city of Falluja as Islamist militants seek to fend off an assault by the army, only for hundreds to be detained by the authorities on suspicion of siding with those they are escaping. A week after Baghdad announced the start of its offensive on Falluja, its troops advanced into the city limits for the first time on Monday, pouring into rural territory on its southern outskirts but stopping short of the main built-up area. By Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called a pause to the advance because of concerns about the safety of the tens of thousands of people still believed trapped inside.
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| Saudi Arabia sentences 14 to death for terrorism - lawyer | | | Saudi Arabia sentenced 14 people to death for terrorism on Wednesday after they were convicted of attacks on police in the Shi'ite Muslim minority area of Qatif in the Eastern Province, scene of past anti-government protests, their lawyer said. Another nine people were given jail sentences of three to 15 years and one was acquitted, their defence lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters. Saudi Arabia denies any discrimination. |
| Somalia says head of al Shabaab's intelligence unit killed | | | Somali security forces have killed the head of militant group al Shabaab's intelligence unit, a government official said on Wednesday. Abdifatah Omar, spokesman for Mogadishu municipality, said intelligence agents killed the man, only known as Daud, who was the head of al Shabaab's intelligence wing, known as Amniyat. Al Shabaab was not immediately reachable for comment. |
| Ousted Maldives president forms opposition-in-exile group | |  Mohamed Nasheed, a former president of the Maldives now in exile in Britain after being ousted from office and jailed in his country, formed an opposition group on Wednesday aimed at toppling the government of President Abdulla Yameen. Best known as a paradise for wealthy tourists, the Indian Ocean archipelago has been mired in political unrest since Nasheed, its first democratically elected leader, was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012. At an event in London, Nasheed teamed up with Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, who was Yameen's running mate in 2013 but was sacked and accused of treason last year, to form a group calling itself the "Maldives United Opposition".
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| Drive to oust Venezuela's Maduro returns old foe to front line | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Sweating, hoarse and jostled at every turn, opposition leader Henrique Capriles is back pounding Venezuela's streets, exhorting crowds and fuming about corruption and shortages. Capriles' profile faded after his failed presidential runs in 2012 and 2013 but the Miranda state governor is again on the political front line, this time driving an opposition push for a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro. "The only way to fix Venezuela's crisis is asking Venezuelans," he told Reuters after a day campaigning in the pressure-pot nation reeling from economic hardships, protests and viciously polarized politics.
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| Family says boy who fell in Cincinnati gorilla area 'doing well' | |  By Ginny McCabe CINCINNATI (Reuters) - The family of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, prompting the killing of the endangered animal in order to rescue the child, said on Wednesday the boy is doing well and suggested donations in the gorilla's name. "If anyone wishes to make a gift, we recommend a donation to the Cincinnati Zoo in Harambe's name," it said in a statement to Cincinnati NBC affiliate WLWT.
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| French vessel detects signals from EgyptAir jet black box | |  By Lin Noueihed and Chine Labbé CAIRO/PARIS (Reuters) - A French search vessel has picked up signals from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804, Egyptian and French investigators said, a potential breakthrough in efforts to uncover why it plummeted into the Mediterranean last month. Search teams are working against the clock to recover the two flight recorders that will offer vital clues to the fate of the plane that crashed en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19 killing all 66 people on board. Without the black boxes, say investigators and aviation disaster experts, there is not enough information to determine what went wrong or whether the plane was brought down deliberately.
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| In Crimea, Moscow labels some opponents dangerous Islamists | |  By Olesya Astakhova BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) - Russian riot police in two trucks rolled down a dirt track on the outskirts of the Crimean town of Bakhchisaray, past a woman standing outside her house in a floral-print dressing gown, before climbing out and forming a line across the road. Two years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, police are intensifying their scrutiny of the Crimean Tatars, a mainly Muslim community that makes up about 15 percent of the peninsula's population. The Tatars, who were deported from the region by Stalin during World War Two and only allowed back four decades later, have largely opposed Russian rule.
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| EU steps up pressure on Poland over curbs on judges | |  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union put more pressure on Poland's eurosceptic government on Wednesday to scrap changes to its supreme court, in a test of the EU's power to impose democratic standards on ex-communist members in the east. The European Commission's decision to issue a formal complaint to Warsaw, a step in the EU's new and untried Rule of Law process, prompted Poland's justice minister to denounce a "one-sided opinion showing a distorted image". The warning was announced by the EU's main negotiator, Frans Timmermans, the deputy head of the European Commission.
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| U.S. takes more steps to block North Korea's access to financial system | | | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday declared North Korea a "primary money laundering concern," and moved to further block its ability to use the U.S. and world financial systems to fund its weapons programs. The U.S. Treasury Department called for a prohibition on certain U.S. financial institutions opening or maintaining correspondent accounts, which are established to receive deposits from or make payments on behalf of a foreign institution, with North Korean financial institutions. |
| Kenyan government urges end to protests but opposition defiant | |  Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy on Wednesday urged the opposition to end weeks of demonstrations against the electoral commission, but opposition leaders said protests would continue if their demands for dialogue were not met. To help ease tensions, Kenyatta on Tuesday met his political rival, the leader of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy Raila Odinga, but the rare meeting between the two appeared to have little impact. The opposition wants Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission scrapped, accusing it of bias.
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| Somalia's al Shabaab says attacked hotel in capital using car bomb, three dead | | | Al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack targeting a hotel in central Mogadishu on Wednesday and said some of its fighters had stormed the premises, while police said three people had died. Mogadishu police said some militants had apparently burst into the hotel. |
| Traffickers in India force 300,000 children to beg in streets - police | |  By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said. Writing in a report which is about to be circulated across the country's police forces, the authors urged law enforcers to carry out greater surveillance of children living on the streets. According to the National Human Rights Commission, up to 40,000 children are abducted in India every year, of which at least 11,000 remain untraced.
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| India to charge premium for transfer of mining rights | |  The Indian government has said a company acquiring mining rights from another firm will be charged 80 percent of royalty as premium if the acreage was originally obtained without bidding. The 80 percent charge will be on top of royalty that the new mining lease holder will pay to the state, the government said in an order on Wednesday. "When a mine is auctioned an additional premium has to be paid on royalty.
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