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| Burundi lifts ban on NGOs accused of anti-government activity | | | Burundi has halted legal action against 11 non-governmental organisations that were banned due to accusations they conspired with opponents of President Pierre Nkurunziza, the prosecutor general's office said on Saturday. Nkurunziza's government has often accused civil society groups of working against it during a crisis that erupted last year over his disputed election for a third term. "The Prosecutor General of the Republic informs the national and international community that he has terminated judicial proceedings against some civil society organizations," Prosecutor General Sylvestre Nyandwi said in a statement. |
| Sixteen hurt in Christmas eve blast at Catholic church in Philippines | | | Sixteen people were wounded in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas eve mass in the Philippines' restive southern island of Mindanao, a priest and police said on Saturday. Security forces across Southeast Asia are on alert ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, as police in Australia and Indonesia said they had foiled bomb plots and Malaysian security forces arrested suspected militants. Bernardo Tayong, Midsayap town police chief, said most of the injured had been standing outside the Sto. |
| Pennsylvania parents accused of starving, abusing three children | | | By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania couple tried to starve their three children to death because the father no longer wanted them, state police said in charges filed this week. Police said officers and Dauphin County social workers rescued the emaciated children, girls aged 4 and 5 and a boy aged 6, from their parents on Dec. 16 and took them to a hospital. Police identified the parents as Joshua Weyant, 33, and Brandi Weyant, 38, of Halifax, a small town about 21 miles north of the state capital of Harrisburg. |
| Tunisian security forces arrest three for links to Berlin market attack suspect | |  Tunisian security forces have arrested three suspected militants after uncovering their links to Anis Amri, the Tunisian national believed responsible for the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, the interior ministry said on Saturday. The nephew had been communicating with Amri about declaring allegiance to Islamic State and had also sent him money using a false name, it said. In Spain, intelligence services are investigating a possible connection via Internet between Amri and a Spanish resident on Dec. 19, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido told radio station COPE on Saturday.
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| Europe on Christmas high alert after truck attack in Berlin | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Security was heightened for the Christmas weekend in Italy and at the Vatican on Saturday after Italian police killed the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack while other European cities kept forces on high alert. In France, Britain and Germany, which have all been targets of Islamist militant attacks, police increased their presence at tourist spots in major cities and other densely populated areas. Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian suspected of carrying out the truck attack which killed 12 people, was shot dead in a town near Milan early on Friday after he pulled a gun on police during a routine check.
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| Europe on Christmas high alert after truck attack in Berlin | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Security was heightened for the Christmas weekend in Italy and at the Vatican on Saturday after Italian police killed the man believed to be responsible for the Berlin market truck attack while other European cities kept forces on high alert. In France, Britain and Germany, which have all been targets of Islamist militant attacks, police increased their presence at tourist spots in major cities and other densely populated areas. Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian suspected of carrying out the truck attack which killed 12 people, was shot dead in a town near Milan early on Friday after he pulled a gun on police during a routine check.
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| Campaign raises $170,000 for family of "heroic" Polish truck driver | |  A crowdfunding campaign has raised over $170,000 for the family of Polish truck driver Lukasz Urban who was murdered as he apparently tried to seize back control of his vehicle as it was used in an attack on a Berlin Christmas market on Monday. The campaign was started by British truck driver Dave Duncan on Tuesday, a day after a man believed to be Anis Amri - shot dead by police on Friday - attacked Lukasz and ploughed the Polish man's truck into a Christmas market, killing 12 people. Lukasz, 37, was found dead in the cabin of the truck with multiple stab wounds and a gunshot wound, Urban's cousin Ariel Zurawski said.
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| Turkish authorities investigating 10,000 social media users - ministry | | | Turkish authorities are investigating some 10,000 people on suspicion of using social media to support terrorism, the interior ministry said on Saturday, part of a wide crackdown that has alarmed rights groups and some Western allies. Turkey, which faces security threats from Kurdish and leftist militants and Islamic State, has sacked or suspended more than 100,000 people following an attempted military coup in July. Rights groups and some European countries have said President Tayyip Erdogan is using the current state of emergency to quash dissent. |
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