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| At Zaatari camp supermarket, Syrian refugees shop with blink of an eye | |  At a supermarket cash register in Zaatari refugee camp, a shopper looks into a small screen as a device scans her iris. Some 76,000 Syrian refugees at the sprawling camp in Jordan can now shop this way at Zaatari supermarkets thanks to a new payment system introduced by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to make sure that aid goes to the right people. WFP said last month it started using the system at Zaatari after a launch at Jordan's King Abdullah Park camp early this year.
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| At least seven shot on campus at Ohio State University - CNN | | | (Reuters) - At least seven people were injured at Ohio State University, CNN reported, after school officials reported an active shooter on campus on Monday. The suspected shooter was shot, local television station WBNS reported, citing law enforcement sources. Columbus police said on Twitter they were assisting university law enforcement. |
| Contenders, picks for key jobs in Trump's administration | |  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is holding more meetings on Monday as he prepares to make high-level appointments, his transition team said. Below are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles as the Republican works to form his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, according to Reuters sources and media reports. See end of list for posts already filled. TREASURY SECRETARY * Steven Mnuchin, former Goldman Sachs Group Inc executive and Trump's campaign finance chairman * Jeb Hensarling, Republican U.S. ...
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| "Submarines affair" prompts investigations in Israel and Germany | | | By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Questions over the purchase of German submarines that started with media reports of a potential conflict of interest involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lawyer have mounted in the last 10 days, spurring investigations in two countries. At one level the issue is straightforward: Israel wanted to replace some of its ageing submarines and maintain its military edge against potential threats like Iran, so it ordered three new submarines, costing $1.5 billion, from Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, with delivery in about a decade. The first sign of a hiccup arose when Israeli media pointed out that the intermediary on the deal, Israeli businessman Miki Ganor, had retained Netanyahu's personal lawyer, David Shimron, to act on his behalf in the transaction. |
| Kazakhstan jails nine Islamists, two activists over attack, unrest | | | Kazakh courts sentenced nine Islamic State supporters and two leading political activists to prison terms in separate trials on Monday after their convictions over the two biggest shocks to veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev's rule. While unrelated, street unrest in April and May and a deadly Islamist attack in June dealt twin blows to stability in the oil-producing Central Asian state run since 1989 by Nazarbayev, who has brooked no dissent but remained broadly popular thanks to rising general wealth until a recent currency devaluation. Political activists Maks Bokayev and Talgat Ayanov were sentenced to five years in prison each on Monday. |
| Germany's highest court rejects appeal by "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" | |  Germany's highest court has rejected an appeal filed by a man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", who was sentenced last year to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp. It said it rejected the appeal of Oskar Groening, 95, who was convicted in July 2015 of aiding and abetting the murders, as well as appeals filed by several other people who argued that Groening should have been convicted of the more serious charge of being an "accomplice" to murders. "The conviction is therefore now legally binding," the Federal Court of Justice said in a statement.
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| Danish PM names new coalition ministers, reducing risk of snap poll | |  By Annabella PultzNielsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's prime minister reshuffled his cabinet on Monday to bring in ministers from two other parties after forming a coalition to broaden his minority government after months of policy battles that threatened to topple the administration. Lars Lokke Rasmussen announced deal at the weekend between his Liberals, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives to reduces the risk of a snap election, while excluding the populist EU-hostile right-wing Danish People's Party. Since last year's election, Rasmussen's Liberal Party, which holds just 34 of 179 seats in parliament, has ruled alone.
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| Philippines' Duterte describes Western threats of ICC indictment as 'bullshit' | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday hit out at what he called "bullshit" Western threats to seek his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his role in a bloody crackdown on drugs. Police figures show Duterte's campaign has killed more than 2,500 people since he took office on June 30, about three-quarters in police counter-narcotics operations, and the rest believed to be the victims of vigilantes or druglords eliminating rivals or silencing those who could implicate them. An ICC prosecutor last month said the Hague-based tribunal may have jurisdiction to prosecute the perpetrators of Philippines killings.
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| India launches new tax evasion amnesty scheme to unearth unaccounted cash | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday unveiled a scheme to give tax dodgers another chance to come clean, as he sought to bring billions of dollars worth of undeclared income into the mainstream economy. The move follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to scrap 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee banknotes in a bid to flush out cash earned through illegal activities, or earned legally but never disclosed. Under the proposed scheme, a person making the declaration would have to pay 50 percent in taxes and surcharges.
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| Turkey's emergency rule to continue as long as necessary, Deputy PM says | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's emergency rule, instituted in the days immediately following the July 15 failed coup, will continue as long as necessary, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told a news conference on Monday. President Tayyip Erdogan has previously said emergency rule - initially introduced for three months and subsequently extended for another three - could continue for beyond a year. ...
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| Turkey targets foster families in post-coup crackdown - official | |  By Gulsen Solaker ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities are investigating foster families for suspected ties to a failed coup and may remove children from homes if their guardians are found to be supporters of the putsch, a government official said on Monday. The government has so far detained or dismissed 125,000 people over alleged links to the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused by Ankara of orchestrating the July 15 coup. Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in the state of Pennsylvania, has denied involvement in the putsch and condemned it.
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| Religious extremism is spreading to inland China - official | |  Religious extremism has begun to spread to inland China from its western Xinjiang region, long considered by the government to be at the forefront of its efforts to battle Islamist separatists, the country's top religious affairs official said. China says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants in Xinjiang, which borders central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and is home to the largely Muslim Uighur minority group. Hundreds have died there in recent years in violence that Beijing blames on religious extremists, and the government has put in place tight controls on religion in the name of combating radicalism and maintaining stability.
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| Gunmen kidnap three UNHCR workers in Sudan's Darfur - local official | | | Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation's refugee agency in Sudan's restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday. The three workers, one Sudanese and two Nepalese, were kidnapped from Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state and were taken to an unknown location, said West Darfur government spokesman Abdallah Gar al-Nabi. An official from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) declined to comment. |
| Indonesia police, Muslim leaders aim for "super peaceful" rally | |  Indonesia's police chief said that a rally to be held by Muslim groups on Friday calling for the ouster of Jakarta's Christian governor would be "super peaceful" and confined to a park to help prevent a repeat of protest violence earlier this month. More than 100,000 Muslims, led by hardliners, took to the streets on Nov. 4 to protest against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is accused of insulting the Koran. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and is home to Christian and Hindu communities.
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| Spanish police arrest four on suspicion of Islamist militant links | | | Spanish police have arrested four people suspected of involvement in a migrant network with connections to Islamic State, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. Islamic State is believed to have used the network to smuggle militants into Europe via Turkey among migrants fleeing Syria's civil war, the ministry said. Since Spain raised its national security threat alert in 2015, authorities have detained about 168 people on suspicion of involvement in Islamist militant activity. |
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