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| Congo forces kill 8 in mining hub during anti-govt protests, NGO says | | | KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese security forces killed eight civilians and wounded 35 others in the southeastern mining hub of Lubumbashi on Tuesday and Wednesday during protests against President Joseph Kabila, a local NGO said. King Kasongo, a lawyer and activist for Humanism and Human Rights (HDH), said the killings took place in the Katuba district of the city. Several local government offices, health centres and gas stations were also attacked by demonstrators, he said, and one policeman was wounded. ... |
| China details operating areas for foreign NGOs under new law | | | China's Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday unveiled a list of areas where foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) are allowed to operate, from legal advice to equality of the sexes, ahead of the enforcement of a new law. President Xi Jinping's administration has made sweeping changes to the law in the name of boosting national security, including a cyber security law passed last month and another targeting foreign NGOs, slated for Jan. 1. |
| German attack suspect had been in contact with Islamist network - paper | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - A Tunisian man who German police suspect of involvement in Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market had been in contact with the network of a leading Islamist ideologist known as Abu Walaa, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. The newspaper, which did not cite a source in its report, added the Tunisian had applied for asylum and been granted a residency permit. He had gone into hiding this month, the paper added. (Writing by Paul Carrel; Editing by Joseph Nasr)
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| Trauma of Islamic State rule follows Iraqi women out of Mosul | |  By Stephen Kalin KHAZIR, Iraq (Reuters) - One wrong word to an Islamic State fighter in Mosul last year was all it took to set in motion a harrowing chain of events for an Iraqi woman who became so traumatised that she trembled in fear even after escaping the group's control. "I made the mistake of telling them my husband had been a victim of terrorism," she said in an interview on Tuesday at a government-run camp in Khazir, east of Mosul. Islamic State, which is putting up fierce resistance to a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, the group's last major stronghold in Iraq, has been accused of massacre, enslavement and rape since it swept across large swathes of the country's north and west in 2014.
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| Germany to allow increased security video surveillance | |  Germany will allow more video surveillance in public places, under a draft law passed by the cabinet on Wednesday, reflecting growing security fears in a country that has for decades been wary of police intrusion. The bill was agreed in principle by the parties in Angela Merkel's coalition last month, well before Monday's deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that was claimed by Islamic State. Germany suffered two smaller attacks by Islamists over the summer, one on a train, the other at a music festival.
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| German police seek Tunisian in hunt for Christmas market attacker | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are looking for a Tunisian man after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, on Monday evening, security sources said. "We want to raise the police presence and strengthen the protection of Christmas markets.
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| EU to boost border checks on cash, gold to tackle "terrorism financing" | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed tightening controls on cash and precious metals transfers from outside the EU on Wednesday, in a bid to shut down one route for funding of militant attacks on the continent. Under the new proposals, customs officials in European Union states will be able to step up checks on cash and prepaid payment cards transferred via the post or through freight shipments. Authorities will also be given the power to seize cash or precious metals carried by suspect individuals entering the EU.
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| Norway slightly eases mass killer Breivik's jail isolation | |  By Alister Doyle and Stine Jacobsen OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has slightly relaxed the jail isolation of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik since an April court ruling that it violated his human rights by keeping him in a "locked world", legal documents showed on Wednesday. The Norwegian state, preparing an appeal starting on January 10 against the ruling, said Breivik's still-draconian jail conditions were fully justified after the right-wing militant killed 77 people in shootings and a bombing in July 2011. The April ruling that Norway violated Breivik's human rights by keeping him isolated stunned survivors and relatives of the dead.
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| Only a new law will guarantee Indian women have rights to land - M.S. Swaminathan | |  By Rina Chandran CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for the environment, a leading scientist said. M.S. Swaminathan is known as the father of India's 'Green Revolution' for developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in the 1960s that helped make the country self-sufficient in food. As a member of the upper house of parliament he drafted a bill in 2011 to protect the rights of women farmers.
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| Kvitova is "feeling good" after hand surgery - spokesman | |  Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova is "feeling good" following surgery on her playing hand after she was attacked in her apartment by a knife wielding intruder, her spokesman said on Wednesday. "Petra is feeling good after the surgery, a routine check confirmed that the operation was successful," Karel Tejkal said in an emailed statement. Kvitova was not expected to make any further comments herself on Wednesday, Tejkal said.
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| Pakistani cleric-turned-politician Jhangvi says sectarianism in his past | |  By Drazen Jorgic JHANG, Pakistan (Reuters) - Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi, a Muslim cleric whose father was one of Pakistan's most infamous sectarian figures, said he has become more moderate and distanced himself from his previous anti-Shia rhetoric after winning a regional assembly seat. Jhangvi's December election to the Punjab provincial assembly caused a stir in Pakistan due to fears his political ascent would increase sectarian divides in Jhang, a dusty town with a history of violence between Shia and Sunni communities. Jhangvi's assassinated father, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, was a fierce anti-Shia cleric who founded a feared Sunni sectarian group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.
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| Fake suicide vest sparks terror scare in foiled Paris heist | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Would-be bank robbers in Paris on Wednesday fitted their victim with what he and police arriving on the scene thought was a suicide vest, sparking a brief terror scare, police sources said. Two individuals who planned to steal the cash delivery fled empty-handed when the man managed to raise the alarm. But police took fright on arrival at the scene and called in bomb-squad reinforcements, before confirming that he was in fact the victim of a foiled heist and the vest was fake. ... |
| Indonesian police kill 3 militant suspects in gunfight, find bombs | | | By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed three suspects in a gunfight on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and foiled a suicide bomb plot, a police spokesman said. Police said this week that at least 14 people were being interrogated over suicide bomb plots targeting the presidential palace in Jakarta and an another undisclosed location. After Wednesday's raid, police said the suspects, who authorities believe are supporters of the Islamic State militant group, had planned to stab officers at a traffic post, and then detonate a "large, homemade" bomb as crowds gathered. |
| Putin demands curbs on surrogate alcohol after 62 die in Siberia | |  President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday demanded restrictions on the sale of surrogate alcohol after at least 62 people died in Siberia from drinking bath oil laced with methylated spirit in search of alcoholic highs. The mass poisoning in Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow, is the worst of its kind in recent years and has prompted nationwide soul-searching and condemnation. Putin asked ministers to draft tighter rules for the production and sale of drinks, perfumes and other liquids with more than 25 percent alcohol content as well as medicines containing ethanol.
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| Philippines publisher killed after article on island drugs lab | | | A Philippine provincial newspaper publisher has been shot dead after writing a column alleging official negligence over a recently discovered methamphetamine laboratory, in the first killing of a journalist during the country's war on drugs. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemned Monday's murder of Larry Que, publisher of a news site on the island of Catanduanes, and said it "challenged" President Rodrigo Duterte to find the perpetrators and utilise a special task force he set up to protect media. The Philippines enjoys one of Asia's most liberal media environments, and one of the most dangerous for journalists. |
| Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' to appear in L.A. court on murder charge | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wealthy real estate scion Robert Durst, whose ties to several slayings were chronicled in HBO's documentary "The Jinx," was due back in court on Wednesday for a hearing on documents seized in the investigation of a murder case pending against him in Los Angeles. Durst, 73, is charged with fatally shooting writer and longtime confidante Susan Berman in December 2000, a murder prosecutors say he committed because of what she knew about the unsolved demise of his wife in New York two decades earlier. Prosecutors say Durst waived his attorney-client privilege over those documents when he allowed "The Jinx" producers to comb through them.
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| Pop star Marx helps subdue 'dangerous' airline passenger | |  American soft rock singer Richard Marx helped subdue a "chaotic" and "dangerous" passenger who launched a lengthy, violent scuffle on board a Korean Air flight from Vietnam to South Korea, the singer said on his Twitter account. Marx, along with fellow passengers and cabin crew, tried to restrain the unruly traveller with rope on the Tuesday flight, he said. "Passenger next to us attacked passengers and crew.
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| Police released latest arrested suspect in Berlin market attack - media | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested another suspect in the early hours of Wednesday morning related to an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 people but later released him, German broadcaster rbb reported on Wednesday. On Tuesday evening police also released a Pakistani asylum-seeker who was arrested near the scene shortly after Monday's attack and authorities warned the attacker is on the run and may be armed. (Reporting by Michelle Martin and Madeline Chambers) |
| James Taylor cancels Manila concert to protest Philippines drug killings | |  American singer-songwriter James Taylor has cancelled a concert in the Philippines in a show of opposition to what he said were "unacceptable" killings outside the judicial process as part of the country's war on drugs. "I don't think of my music as being particularly political but sometimes one is called upon to make a political stand," said Taylor, 68, whose songs include "You've Got a Friend" and "Fire and Rain". "But recent reports from the Philippines of summary executions of suspected offenders without trial or judicial process are deeply concerning and unacceptable to anyone who loves the rule of law." More than 6,000 people have been killed since no-nonsense President Rodrigo Duterte took office in July and launched a fierce crackdown.
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| Kazakhstan says raids Islamist network, detains 16 | | | Kazakhstan's state security service has detained 16 suspected members Takfir wal-Hijra Islamist group, it said on Wednesday, accusing them of "inciting religious hatred". The National Security Committee said in a statement it had carried out raids in four provinces of the Central Asian nation in order to "neutralise the cells of religious extremist organisation Takfir wal-Hijra". The Islamist group, established in Egypt in the 1960s, has been banned in Kazakhstan since 2014. |
| Ex-BSI banker found guilty in Singapore of charges linked to 1MDB probe | |  A Singapore court found a former wealth manager of Swiss bank BSI guilty of four charges on Wednesday in a case linked to a money-laundering investigation involving Malaysian fund 1MDB, the third BSI banker convicted in the city state this year. District judge Ng Peng Hong found ex-BSI banker Yeo Jiawei guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by urging witnesses to lie to police and destroying evidence during an investigation into illicit money transfers linked to Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Yeo is facing seven separate charges, including money laundering, cheating and forgery, which the prosecution said he would be tried for next year. The prosecutors had charged that Yeo had amassed S$23.9 million ($16.55 million) by taking secret profits from 1MDB-linked transactions during his work for the Singapore unit of BSI.
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| Cyrus Mistry petition seeks ouster of Tata Sons board | |  By Promit Mukherjee and Euan Rocha MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Sons' ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry, in his first legal salvo against the conglomerate, has appealed to a quasi-judicial body to either replace the company's current board, or appoint a retired Supreme Court judge as non-executive chairman. Mistry ratcheted up his battle versus the $100 billion salt-to-software conglomerate by filing a petition with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday. The complaint levels allegations on mismanagement and corporate governance failures within the company, while also seeking to restrain Tata Sons from issuing any new equity or altering its articles of association, according to a copy of the petition seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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| Sporadic gunfire in Congo capital after 26 killed in anti-Kabila protests | |  By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Sporadic gunfire echoed across Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Wednesday, the day after security forces killed at least 26 protesters demanding President Joseph Kabila step down after his mandate as elected leader expired. A government spokesman could not be reached to comment on the nationwide death toll, compiled by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), which said it was yet to give a final tally. The United Nations human rights director for the vast central African state said it had "solid" reports of at least 20 dead civilians in the capital, Kinshasa.
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