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| Militants ambush security convoy in Kashmir, killing two | | | By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Militants ambushed a convoy carrying paramilitary forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, killing two security officers and wounding seven others, police said. The militants escaped after carrying out the attack on the outskirts of Srinagar, summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state, a senior police officer told Reuters. The two dead included a paramilitary officer and a policeman who died in hospital. |
| Islamic State kills 12 military personnel in Egypt's Sinai | | | Islamist militants killed 12 members of Egypt's military in North Sinai province and wounded six more in an attack on a checkpoint on Friday, the military said, adding that it killed 15 militants in return. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident, which took place 40 km (25 miles) from the town of Bir al-Abd, making it the first major attack in the central Sinai area, which had so far escaped the militant Islamists' campaign. "An armed group of terrorist elements attacked a security checkpoint in North Sinai this morning using four-wheel drives and were immediately engaged. |
| Archivists digitise Paris attack tributes to preserve memories | |  Paris archivists have collected written messages, drawings and other tributes left at the sites of last November's attacks, in which Islamic State gunmen killed 130 people, in order to preserve them in digital form. The Nov. 13 attacks, in which attackers opened fire and carried out suicide bombings at the Bataclan music hall, restaurants and bars as well as the Stade de France football stadium, triggered an outpouring of sympathy that materialised in makeshift memorials across the French capital. A team from the Paris archives began collecting the tributes in December, and over the following eight months worked with street cleaners and garbage collectors to salvage more than 9,000 items not destroyed by rain or street wear.
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| Trump campaign: evidence backing him against women accusers coming soon | |  By Doina Chiacu and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence vigorously defended running mate Donald Trump against allegations of sexual misconduct and promised that evidence casting doubt on the claims would come out on Friday. Trump's White House campaign has been scrambling to recover from the release a week ago of a 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances. While Trump said the video was just talk and he had never behaved in this way, multiple women subsequently went public with allegations of sexual misconduct against the New York real estate magnate going back three decades.
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| Week of violence in South Sudan kills 60, government says | | | By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Fighting in South Sudan killed at least 60 people this week, the military said on Friday, stoking fears the region could plunge back into full-scale war. Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang accused the rebels of "burning civilians, maiming women and child abductions and setting ablaze properties." Armed men loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar killed 11 government soldiers and 28 civilians from Saturday to Thursday, Koang said in a press statement. South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, sank into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, sacked Machar, a Nuer, from his position as vice president. |
| Nigeria's President Buhari says wife "belongs in the kitchen" | |  By Andreas Rinke and Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday dismissed criticism voiced by his wife Aisha Buhari in a BBC interview, saying she belonged in the kitchen and he had "superior knowledge" about running a government. Actually she belongs in the kitchen, the living room and the other rooms in my house," Buhari told reporters with a chuckle after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nigeria, which has Africa's largest economy, is in recession for the first time in 25 years, largely due to a fall global oil prices that has slashed the state's main source of income.
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| Myanmar blames Islamist group for attacks in Rohingya Muslim region | | | By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's government said on Friday a group inspired by Islamist militants was behind attacks on police border posts in its ethnically riven northwest, as officials said they feared a new insurgency by members of the Rohingya Muslim minority. The sudden escalation of violence in Rakhine state poses a serious challenge to the six-month-old government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was swept to power in an election last year but has faced criticism abroad for failing to tackle rights abuses against the Rohingya and other Muslims. A statement from the office of Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw blamed the little-known "Aqa Mul Mujahidin" for recent attacks around Maungdaw Township, a mainly Muslim area near the frontier with Bangladesh. |
| South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan dismisses "frivolous" fraud charge | |  By Ed Cropley CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan dismissed as "frivolous" fraud charges laid against him which have shaken financial markets, saying on Friday he would stay at his post and deliver an interim budget at the end of this month. In a gesture of defiance, Gordhan refused to request a review of the decision to bring the charges, saying he had no confidence in prosecutors' ability to give him a fair hearing. The charges, laid this week, have raised suspicions of a political plot to oust Gordhan, who remains respected on financial markets and has defied friends and allies of President Jacob Zuma over the awarding of lucrative state contracts, political analysts say.
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| Anti-graft watchdog delays report after Zuma court application | |  By Joe Brock PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-graft watchdog has deferred release of a report into allegations of political interference by wealthy friends of Jacob Zuma in a move critics of the president fear could lead to a watering down of its conclusions. A court application by Zuma had obliged Thuli Madonsela, head of the agency that has spearheaded investigation of alleged involvement of an Indian-born family into political affairs, to delay release of the report that had been due on Friday - her last day in office. The court will now hear Zuma's case before the report can be released.
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| Pakistan lifts travel ban for journalist but warns media | | | By Amjad Ali ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday lifted a travel ban on a prominent journalist over an article he wrote about an alleged rift between the country's government and powerful military, but sternly warned media against publishing reports against the national interest. The Interior Ministry said Cyril Almeida, a leading columnist and assistant editor of the Dawn newspaper, was being removed from the Exit Control List as a "good-will gesture" but an inquiry into the "inaccurate and fabricated" article would continue. The military's press wing issued a separate statement calling the article a "breach of national security". |
| S.African anti-graft watchdog hands report into Zuma's friends to parliament | | | South Africa's public protector said on Friday a report into allegations of political interference by wealthy friends of President Jacob Zuma has been submitted to parliament for safekeeping pending a court case that delayed its release. "I am not at liberty to discuss any aspect of that report." Zuma on Thursday filed a court aplication to block the release of the report, which was due on Friday. |
| Former Wales striker Evans found not guilty of rape | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Former Wales international striker Ched Evans was found not guilty of rape after a two week long re-trial ended in Cardiff on Friday. Evans, who was released in 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in 2011, had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal last April. The 27-year-old now plays for League One (third-tier) English club Chesterfield. The jury of seven women and five men took two hours to acquit Evans at Cardiff crown court. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond) |
| Thailand's King Bhumibol takes final journey past grieving subjects | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Buddhist monks on Friday chanted prayers over the remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the riverside Grand Palace in Bangkok, ahead of a traditional royal cremation that will need months to prepare. The world's longest-reigning monarch, worshipped as a father figure during his 70-year reign, died on Thursday in a Bangkok hospital, where he had been treated for years for illnesses affecting his lungs, kidneys, brain and blood. A royal convoy, which included heir apparent Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, moved slowly through Bangkok's ancient quarter to the Grand Palace, winding past thousands of sombre Thais dressed in black, many of them holding aloft portraits of the king.
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| South Africa's Gordhan won't seek review of fraud charges - lawyers | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will not ask the state prosecutor to review fraud charges he is facing as it would be "pointless" to do so, his lawyers said on Friday, trimming the rand's rally. "The main reason for his decision is that he does not have any confidence in the NDPP's (National Director of Public Prosecutions) ability or willingness to afford him a fair hearing," the lawyers said in a statement. (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by James Macharia)
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| Refugee who planned airport attack radicalised in Germany not Syria - Spiegel | |  The Syrian refugee suspected of planning to bomb a Berlin airport was radicalised only after arriving in Germany, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing the suspect's brother who still lives in Syria. Jaber Albakr committed suicide in prison in Leipzig on Wednesday after two fellow Syrians had handed him over to police. Alaa Albakr, told Spiegel by telephone from Syria that a Muslim preacher in Berlin had radicalised his brother and told him to return to his homeland to fight, which he did, before heading back to Germany once again.
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