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| Israeli soldier wounded by shots fired from Lebanon | | | The Israeli military said an Israeli soldier was wounded on Wednesday by shots fired from a vehicle travelling in Lebanon along a border fence, and troops returned fire. A Lebanese army spokesman said in a statement there was no truth to reports shots had been fired from a car at a soldier from Lebanese territory. In a statement, the Israeli military said that troops that fired back at the vehicle had "confirmed a hit". |
| Pakistan militants worked with Islamic State to attack police college | |  By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A faction of Pakistani Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) cooperated with Islamic State this week in an attack on a police college that killed 59 people, the group's spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The confirmation of a link between the two Sunni extremist groups will stoke fears that Middle East-based Islamic State is building a presence in Pakistan by aligning with domestic militant outfits. Islamic State claimed responsibility for Monday's attack in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta and released photographs of the purported gunmen, who hunted down and killed police cadets during a raid that lasted nearly five hours.
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| Switzerland tells slightly tipsy volunteer firefighters - Cheers! | | | Switzerland is easing an alcohol ban for volunteer firefighters and other emergency workers using heavy vehicles, saying it had led to staffing shortages when crises demanded quick action, especially in smaller towns lacking professional personnel. Starting on Jan. 1, slightly tipsy volunteer firefighters and off-duty members of so-called professional "blue light" organisations responding to urgent situations will be no longer face punishment - provided their blood-alcohol level does not exceed 0.50 percent, the limit governing other drivers. "This change is necessary as rescue and disaster relief organisations today are increasingly dependent on people who are not on duty or on call," the Swiss Federal Roads Office said in a statement on Wednesday. |
| Turkey replaces most province police chiefs, shake-up continues | |  Turkish authorities have replaced three quarters of provincial police heads, the Official Gazette showed on Wednesday, part of a sweeping crackdown that began in July after a failed coup. Since the coup attempt, Turkey has arrested 35,000 people and sacked or suspended more than 100,000 others in the civil service, judiciary, police and elsewhere. Ankara says it wants to root out supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen whom it blames for masterminding the coup attempt.
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| London police cordon off streets near St Paul's Cathedral in brief security alert | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Police in the City of London cordoned off several streets near St Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday after finding what a spokeswoman called a suspicious vehicle. The lockdown lasted about an hour before roads were reopened and the area declared safe. Police have been on high alert in recent days after a "suspicious item" was found on an underground train near the Canary Wharf financial district last week, leading to the arrest of a teenager under terrorism laws. Britain is on its second-highest alert level of "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely. ... |
| Turkish police break up protests against Kurdish mayors' arrest | | | Turkish police in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Wednesday used tear gas and water cannon to scatter protesters following the arrest of the city's popular two joint mayors for alleged links to terrorism. Gultan Kisanak, a member of parliament before becoming Diyarbakir's first female mayor in 2014, and Firat Anli, her co-mayor, were detained late on Tuesday as part of a security crackdown after more than a year of violence in the region. President Tayyip Erdogan has said the removal of elected officials and civil servants who are accused of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, is integral to Ankara's battle against the armed group. |
| German couple accused of torturing women to death appear in court | |  By Wolfgang Rattay PADERBORN, Germany (Reuters) - A couple accused of luring women to their house in western Germany and torturing them so badly that at least two died went on trial on Wednesday, accused of murder by neglect. Wilfried W., a bearded 46-year-old, stood calmly and looked at photographers as he entered the court in Paderborn, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Wilfried W.'s lawyer said the former couple were at odds over who was the driving force behind the crimes.
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| Stay and fix the ICC, African Union hopeful urges peers | | | By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African states unhappy with the International Criminal Court(ICC) should work to reform it from within rather than pulling out, Botswanan foreign minister Pelomoni Venson-Moitoi, a candidate to become the next African Union (AU) chief, said. With the AU increasingly divided over the ICC, South Africa announced last week that it planned to quit, but Venson-Moitoi said she believed an African war crimes court could be beefed up to work alongside its Hague-based counterpart. Although South Africa argued that the ICC's Rome Statutes were at odds with its laws granting leaders diplomatic immunity, other African countries see the tribunal purely as an instrument of colonial justice that unfairly targets the continent. |
| Israeli prosecutors charge 13 people for mocking Palestinian baby's death | | | Prosecutors in Israel on Wednesday charged 13 people with inciting violence and terrorism after a wedding video showed far-right Jews dancing with guns and knives and guests mocking the death by arson of a Palestinian toddler. The amateur video of the wedding in Jerusalem in December was broadcast on Israeli television, causing an outcry. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its "shocking images show the true face of a group that constitutes a danger" to Israeli society. |
| Aboriginal, environmental groups to sue Canada over Petronas LNG project | |  By A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Aboriginal and environmental groups will file lawsuits on Thursday against the government of Canada to overturn the permit for a controversial $27 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in British Columbia. The lawsuits will name Malaysian state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas), which owns a majority stake in the project, as an associated party, representatives of the aboriginal and environmental groups told Reuters this week. Canada in September gave the green light for the Pacific NorthWest LNG project in northern British Columbia with 190 conditions, despite concerns it would destroy a critical salmon habitat and produce a large amount of greenhouse gases.
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| EU parliament refers scuffling UKIP lawmakers to police | |  French police will look into a scuffle in the European Parliament between two members from the UK Independence Party, which left one in hospital with a head injury, the speaker of the EU legislature said on Wednesday. President Martin Schulz said an internal inquiry he commissioned had been unable to reconcile the accounts of Mike Hookem, UKIP's defence spokesman, and Steven Woolfe, who collapsed after the incident. "Given the seriousness of the reported facts and their possible criminal implications, further evidence is needed to clarify this matter," Schulz told the chamber.
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| British banker calmly details how he slit throats of two women in Hong Kong | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - British banker Rurik Jutting calmly detailed to police his cocaine-fuelled descent into a torture and killing binge that ended in the deaths of two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment, according to videos shown in court on Wednesday. Jutting has admitted killing Sumarti Ningsih, a 23-year-old single mother, and another Indonesian woman, Seneng Mujiasih, 26, in his apartment two years ago.
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| General Butt Naked's humanitarian rebirth tests Liberia's forgiveness | |  The "general", who earned his nom de guerre from fighting street battles naked during Liberia's 14-year civil war, killed or mutilated thousands of people - sometimes by his own hand, other times using his army of mostly child soldiers. After rebels ousted his foe, ex-president Charles Taylor, in 2003 and peace returned to Liberia, the general begged for forgiveness -- and quickly found that the charismatic personality that made him a natural rebel commander was well suited to preaching. Now Blahyi wants funding for a charity that he says is training former child soldiers and drug addicts in farming and construction -- spurring mixed feelings among Liberians, some of whom question whether he isn't doing it all for the notoriety.
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| Police officer shot dead in northwest Hungary attack - media | | | BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A police officer was killed in a shooting in northwest Hungary early on Wednesday, regional news website kisalfold.hu reported, adding that the suspected assailant has been detained. Spokesmen for police and the TEK counter-terrorism unit declined comment. Andrea Nagy, a spokeswoman for Hungarian prosecutors, could not comment immediately. Kisalfold.hu said the assailant was also injured and was taken to hospital. (Reporting by Gergely Szakacs; Editing by Angus MacSwan) |
| Deadly Australian theme park ride had just had safety checks - owner | |  By Tom Westbrook and Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - A water ride that killed four people at an Australian amusement park in one of the world's deadliest theme park accidents had completed an annual safety inspection less than a month ago, the park's owner said on Wednesday. Police were examining the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld, near Gold Coast in Queensland state, where the four adults died Tuesday after being trapped under an upturned raft. The owner of the park, Ardent Leisure Group, said the ride had completed its annual mechanical and structural safety engineering inspection on Sept 29.
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| Thai police chief says no room for royal insult in Thailand | |  Thailand's police chief said on Wednesday insulting the monarchy would not be tolerated and anyone considering doing so should get out of the country, after a spike in cases following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Oct 13. The widely venerated king died at the age of 88 after seven decades on the throne and the military government has declared one year of mourning. Speaking ill of the king and the royal family is not only taboo but also illegal under the criminal code which makes anyone who "defames, insults or threatens the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent" liable to 15 years in prison.
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| Adani readies coal mine as Australia looks to curb green challenges | | | India's Adani Enterprises is preparing to start construction of a $7 billion coal mine in Australia in 2017 despite years of legal delays and rollercoaster coal prices, the conglomerate said on Wednesday. "We are on schedule to start construction in the third quarter (of next year)," Adani spokesman Ron Watson said, although he added that billions of dollars in financing were still required, along with clearance from water authorities. Progress on the giant project comes as Australia looks to potentially curb legal challenges to new mining developments following an onslaught of environmental suits aimed at delaying the Adani mine and others proposed in the remote Galilee Basin in the country's northeast. |
| Islamic State kills dozens of civilians in Afghanistan - official | | | Suspected Islamic State fighters rounded up dozens of civilians and executed them in a reprisal after police killed a militant commander in the remote Afghan province of Ghor, a provincial official said on Wednesday. The killings followed a militant attack on Tuesday near Feroz Koh, the capital of the central western province. Up until now most Islamic State activity has taken place in the eastern province of Nangarhar. |
| Women lawmakers face sexism, violence on job - report | | | By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Women members of parliament (MPs) in all regions face sexism, harassment and violence from male lawmakers and are increasingly targeted by online humiliation campaigns, a report said on Wednesday. Sexist violence and harassment against women lawmakers is "real and widespread", the report said. The findings suggested "that the phenomenon knows no boundaries and exists to different degrees in every country, affecting a significant number of women parliamentarians". |
| Spanish police arrest Morrocan accused of supporting Islamic State | | | Spanish police have arrested a Morrocan man accused of spreading Islamist militant messages and trying to recruit others, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Police arrested the man in Calahorra, in Spain's central Rioja region, and said he was linked to another Moroccan man detained in December in the city of Pamplona. Spain has been on high alert and has stepped up security measures following attacks in Paris last year, with 50 people arrested so far this year on suspicion of having connections to Islamist militants. |
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