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| Mandela Foundation rebukes Zuma, joins calls for leadership change | |  By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The foundation set up to guard the legacy of the late Nelson Mandela on Tuesday blamed South Africa's President Jacob Zuma for the "wheels coming off" Africa's most industrialised nation and urged a change in political leadership. Since coming to power in 2009, Zuma has survived a string of corruption scandals almost unscathed. The non-profit Nelson Mandela Foundation, whose board consists of ten prominent South African academics, politicians and journalists, called on the African National Congress (ANC), the liberation movement once headed by Mandela and now led by Zuma, to change its leadership.
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| Syrian refugee sought after family found dead in freezer in Denmark | | | By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The bodies of a Syrian woman and her two daughters, aged 7 and 9, have been found in a freezer in a town in Denmark and the woman's husband and father of the children was being sought, Danish police said on Tuesday. The discovery was made on Sunday night in Aabenraa in southern Denmark. The family came to Denmark in summer 2015 and obtained refugee status, police said. |
| Italian prosecutor in Egypt to discuss probe into student's killing | |  Italy's deputy chief prosecutor arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss developments in the investigation into the killing of Italian student Giulio Regeni, sources at Cairo airport said. Regeni, who was doing postgraduate research into Egyptian trade unions, was last seen by his friends on Jan. 25. Deputy chief prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco will meet Egyptian Public Prosecutor Nabil Sadek and other senior judicial and security officials, according to the sources, who participated in welcoming the Italian delegation at the airport.
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| Turkey to name custodians to replace detained Kurdish mayors | | | Turkish authorities will appoint unelected administrators to run the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, officials said on Tuesday, after detaining its two mayors last week in a crackdown on unrest in the southeast of the country. Separately, police detained 30 officials from the opposition Democratic Regions' Party (DBP) in dawn raids in three towns in the restive region, security sources said. Turkey's Western allies are worried about due process and a deteriorating human rights situation in the southeast as a crackdown against Kurdish militants widens to include politicians and journalists. |
| Turkey rejects Europe's "red line" on press freedom after detentions | |  By Daren Butler and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister said he had no regard for Europe's "red line" on press freedom on Tuesday and warned Ankara would not be brought to heel with threats, rejecting criticism of the detention of senior journalists at an opposition newspaper. Police detained the editor and top staff of Cumhuriyet, a pillar of the country's secularist establishment, on Monday, on accusations that the newspaper's coverage had helped precipitate a failed military coup in July. The United States and European Union both voiced concern about the move in Turkey, a NATO ally which aspires to EU membership.
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| Ex-banker in 1MDB-linked trial worked for Malaysian 'Jho Low' - witness | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A former private banker for BSI quit his job in 2014 to work for Low Taek Jho, the Malaysian financier accused of siphoning billions of dollars from Malaysia's scandal-tainted 1MDB fund, a witness told a Singapore court on Tuesday. The allegation was made by Kevin Swampillai, the supervisor of ex-BSI banker Yeo Jiawei. More than $3.5 billion was allegedly misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), according to civil lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which named several individuals, including Low, better known as "Jho Low".
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| All sides may be committing war crimes in Aleppo, U.N. says | |  All sides fighting over the Syrian city of Aleppo may be committing war crimes through indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. Last week insurgents launched an offensive against government-held western Aleppo, more than a month into an operation by the army to retake the city's rebel-held eastern districts, which it had already put under siege. The U.N. estimates 250,000-275,000 civilians are trapped and 8,000 rebel fighters holed up in the eastern part.
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| Turkey could draft 'limited measure' on death penalty, PM says | |  Turkey could draft a "limited measure" to bring back the death penalty if a political compromise could be reached on the issue, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday. Following the July failed coup, crowds have repeatedly called for the re-introduction of capital punishment and President Tayyip Erdogan has said he would approve it if parliament voted for it. Turkey formally abandoned the death penalty in 2002 as part of its European Union accession process, although no executions had been carried out since 1984.
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| Turkey pushed into coup process in planned way - opposition leader | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey was pushed into a coup process in a "planned and programmed way" and is now experiencing conditions worse than after a military coup in 1980, the leader of the main opposition CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, said on Tuesday. He was speaking to his party in parliament a day after 13 journalists from a secularist opposition paper were detained on accusations of supporting the July 15 failed coup, in which rogue soldiers tried to seize power, killing more than 240 people. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker and Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan)
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| Moroccan authorities, facing protests, charge 11 over fishmonger's death | |  By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan authorities have charged 11 people over the death of a fishmonger who was crushed in a garbage truck while trying to stop police from destroying his stock, in a case that has ignited public anger. The death of Mouhcine Fikri in the northern city of Al-Hoceima on Friday has prompted thousands to take to the streets in four days of protests, among the biggest in Morocco since pro-reform demonstrations broke out during the 2011 Arab Spring. In an effort to calm tensions, King Mohamed, currently on a tour of Africa, ordered the interior minister to visit the victim's family and present royal condolences.
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| Russia dismisses British allegations about spy threat | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as untrue allegations by the head of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency that Russia is mounting cyber-attacks and other aggressive measures which pose a growing threat to Britain. "Those words do not correspond to reality," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters when asked about the comments, made by MI5 chief Andrew Parker. "Until someone produces proof, we will consider those statements unfounded and groundless." (Reporting by Denis Pinchuk; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Polina Devitt) |
| UK spy chief sees growing threat from Russian cyber-attacks, espionage | |  Russia is pushing its foreign policy in increasingly aggressive ways including cyber-attacks and espionage, posing a growing threat to Britain and the rest of Europe, the head of Britain's internal intelligence agency MI5 has said. MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said Russia had been a covert threat for decades, but what differed now from the Cold War era was that there were more and more methods available for it to pursue its anti-Western agenda. "Russia increasingly seems to define itself by opposition to the West and seems to act accordingly," he told the Guardian newspaper in an interview published on Tuesday.
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| Iran court issues verdict for suspects in Saudi embassy attack | | | Iran's judiciary has issued verdicts for 20 people accused of storming Saudi diplomatic missions in January and will announce them in the near future, an official was quoted as saying by the judiciary news agency on Tuesday. Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic relations with its Shi'ite Muslim rival Iran after protesters stormed the kingdom's embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad in response to Riyadh's execution of a prominent Saudi Shi'ite cleric. The Iranian government condemned the assault and President Hassan Rouhani, keen to improve Tehran's long-strained relations with its neighbours and the West, asked the judiciary to punish the protesters and prevent further attacks. |
| Defence in Hong Kong murder trial says British man warned bank of reputation risk | |  British investment banker Rurik Jutting called his boss at the Bank of America in Hong Kong and warned him that its reputation was at risk after he had killed a second woman, a Hong Kong court heard on Tuesday. Tim Owen, a lawyer defending Jutting against charges of murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment, detailed the stress that Jutting felt during his working life that culminated in a cocaine-fuelled torture and killing spree two years ago. Jutting, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Sumarti Ningsih, 23, and Seneng Mujiasih, 26, on grounds of "diminished responsibility", but guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
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| Cosby lawyers seek to bar some alleged victims from sex assault trial | |  Bill Cosby's lawyers will ask a Pennsylvania state judge on Tuesday to keep more than a dozen women who have accused the comedian of sexual assault off the witness stand at his trial on charges of molesting a former basketball coach at his alma mater. More than 60 women have accused the 79-year-old entertainer, once beloved by Americans as the father on the 1980s TV hit "The Cosby Show," of sexually assaulting them, often after plying them with drugs and alcohol, in a series of attacks dating back decades. Andrea Constand, a former basketball coach at Cosby's alma mater Temple University, said he gave her pills before assaulting her at his Pennsylvania house in 2004.
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| Jailhouse rock; Indonesian inmates perform concert behind bars | | | By Heru Asprihanto BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - In a prison courtyard on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, the eight inmates that make up the band "Children of Iron Bars" rock the audience with their anti-drug hits. Known as "Antrabez" in Indonesian, the band was formed behind the bars of Kerobokan Prison in July, bringing together six men and two women serving sentences of three months to four years for drugs. "People out there can say that we're the garbage of society," said the band's founding member and guitarist Oktav Sicilia, 35, who is serving three years for marijuana possession. |
| S.Korean prosecutors arrest woman at centre of political crisis | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - The woman at the centre of a scandal that has plunged the South Korean presidency into crisis was held for a second day on Tuesday after being detained overnight to answer allegations of exerting inappropriate influence in state affairs. Prosecutors have said they are investigating whether Choi Soon-sil used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to gain access to classified documents that enabled her to influence government matters and benefited personally through non-profit foundations. A prosecution official and her laywer said she had been detained late on Monday.
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| Pakistan opposition says two supporters killed by tear gas in police clashes | |  Two supporters of a Pakistani opposition party have died from use of tear gas by police trying to keep hundreds of people from entering the capital, Islamabad, for a protest to demand the prime minister resign, the party said on Tuesday. Opposition leader Imran Khan accused police of "brutality" in clashes with supporters, but is sticking to plans to bring out a million protesters on Wednesday, to press Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down, or agree to a corruption inquiry. Khan's earlier vow to "shut down" Islamabad prompted a citywide ban on gatherings and the arrests of hundreds of opposition activists accused of defying the ban.
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| The fall of Choi Soon-sil: from Blue House confidante to incarceration | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - When the lawyer representing the woman at the centre of a scandal engulfing South Korean President Park Geun-hye met his client upon her arrival in the country from Germany on Sunday morning, he was blunt. No one will protect you, not even the Blue House'," said Lee Kyung-jae, referring to South Korea's presidential compound. Prosecutors have said they are looking into whether Lee's client, Choi Soon-sil, 60, used her friendship with Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs by gaining access to classified documents and benefited personally through non-profit foundations.
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| Exclusive - India's tobacco industry, government face off ahead of WHO conference | | | By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's $11 billion (9 billion pound) tobacco industry has urged the government to take a softer line on tobacco control efforts when it hosts a WHO conference in New Delhi next month, but officials say the government will not bow to "pressure tactics". Delegates from about 180 countries will attend the Nov. 7-12 World Health Organization (WHO) conference on the sole global anti-tobacco treaty: the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In force since 2005, the treaty aims to deter tobacco use that kills around 6 million people a year. |
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