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| Myanmar officials "in denial" over U.N. report on crimes against Rohingya | |  By Serajul Quadir and Simon Lewis DHAKA/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government remains "in denial" about alleged atrocities by its military against minority Rohingya Muslims, officials present at a meeting in Bangladesh said, despite leader Aung San Suu Kyi's pledge to investigate the findings of a devastating U.N. report. The closed-door meeting of diplomats, government officials and international agencies in Dhaka follows a report last week from the United Nations human rights office that said soldiers committed mass killings and gang rapes in a "calculated policy of terror" in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine State in recent months. "When Bangladesh cited the horrific acts by Myanmar's law enforcing agencies, the Myanmar representative did not agree with this and was in complete denial," said H.T. Imam, a political advisor to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was at the meeting.
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| U.S. and Russian ministries must restore direct links - Russian diplomat | |  One of Russia's top diplomats said on Monday that government ministries in the United States and Russia should restore direct communications channels with each other as part of a first step to rebuild bilateral ties. U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have both said they would like to try to mend U.S.-Russia relations that slid to a post-Cold War low after Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, told the Moscow-based Security Index Journal in an interview published on Monday that restoring inter-ministerial and inter-agency ties between the two countries was now essential.
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| South Sudan president says soldiers who rape should be shot | |  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - The president of South Sudan said on Monday that soldiers who rape civilians should be shot, trying to mollify citizens outraged by abuses by security forces and quell growing international anger over attacks. South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in 2013 when Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, an ethnic Nuer. Rights groups and U.N. monitors say soldiers have gang-raped women based on their ethnicity.
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| Tanzanian president tells security forces to target drug traffickers | |  President John Magufuli told Tanzania's security forces on Monday to crack down on the drugs trade and said no one should be spared, even if they are top politicians or their relatives. While most Europe-bound Afghan heroin still goes through Iran and the Balkans, a spate of record-size hauls near Kenya and Tanzania has raised fears East Africa is seen as an easier route because of porous borders and weak maritime surveillance. "In this war against narcotics, no one is too prominent to be arrested even if they are politicians, security officers, cabinet ministers or the child of a prominent person," Magufuli told the heads of the defence and security forces.
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| Relaxing bank regulation is the last thing we need: ECB's Draghi | |  Financial regulation since the global financial crisis underpins stability and the idea of relaxing bank rules is 'very worrisome', European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Monday. The new U.S. administration last week ordered a reviews of major banking rules that were put in place after the 2008 financial crisis, signalling that looser banking regulations are coming. "The last thing we need at this point in time is the relaxation of regulation," Draghi told the European Parliament's committee on economic affairs in Brussels.
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| Australia Catholic Church faces six decades of child abuse allegations | |  By James Regan SYDNEY (Reuters) - Seven percent of Catholic priests working in Australia between 1950 and 2010 were accused of child sex crimes but few were pursued, Church data showed on Monday, as hearings began over allegations dating back decades. Last year, Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, said the Church had made "enormous mistakes" and "catastrophic" choices by refusing to believe abused children, shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish and over-relying on counseling of priests to solve the problem.
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| Philippines govt says church 'out of touch' in attacking drugs war | |  By Manuel Mogato and Clare Baldwin MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine government derided Catholic bishops on Sunday as "out of touch" after they used weekend sermons to attack a war on drugs they said had created a "reign of terror" for the poor. Members of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) had dramatised President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign and, instead of criticising, should focus on contributing to the "reign of peace" that innocent people now felt, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said.
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| Afghan diplomat shot dead at consulate in Karachi, Pakistan | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - An Afghan diplomat was shot dead on Monday by a guard at the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in a personal dispute, officials said. The consulate's third secretary was killed by the consulate guard, also an Afghan national, who had been arrested, police official Saqib Ismail told Reuters. Afghanistan's foreign ministry issued a statement identifying the murdered diplomat as Muhammad Zaki Abdu.
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| "Beckileaks" email furore puts brand Beckham on the back foot | |  David Beckham, the former England soccer captain turned international celebrity, was hit by a media onslaught on Monday after a series of hacked emails raised questions over his charity work after being made public. A staple of British gossip and style columns, Beckham, 41, came under attack from newspapers after emails he allegedly sent were disclosed by the website "Football Leaks". A spokeswoman for Beckham said the emails had been taken out of context and doctored.
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| Romanian govt defies calls to quit after mass protests force U-turn | |  By Luiza Ilie and Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's leftist-led government, in power barely a month, rejected calls on Monday to resign after mass street protests forced it to scrap a decree on corruption, but there was confusion over its plans to rewrite the criminal code. Following the largest protests since the fall of communism in 1989, the Social Democrat-led government on Sunday rescinded the decree, which would have shielded dozens of politicians from prosecution. Critics said the decree would have turned the clock back decades on the anti-corruption fight in Romania, one of the poorest, most graft-prone member states in the European Union.
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| Somalia presidential hopefuls make last vote pitch in first-ever TV debate | | | By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Presidential candidates in Somalia rounded off campaigning with an unprecedented televised debate on Monday, dominated by issues of corruption, security and U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban. Somalia, which holds a presidential vote on Wednesday, is one of seven majority Muslim nations whose citizens were barred from travel to America under Trump's executive order. "I will tackle the issue of refugees deported from the United States and other countries, and will settle internally displaced people," Bashir Rage, one of several former warlords seeking election, said in the debate broadcast on TV and radio. |
| Legal battles to test Trump and his immigration ban | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. The government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring entry of people from seven mostly Muslim countries and the entry of refugees after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it with a temporary restraining order on Friday. The uncertainty caused by a judge's stay of the ban has opened a window for travelers from the seven affected countries to enter the United States.
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| Teenager pleads guilty to stabbing U.S. tourist to death in London | | | A teenager who suffered from mental health issues pleaded guilty on Monday to killing a U.S. tourist during a stabbing rampage in London last August. Zakaria Bulhan, 19, a Norwegian of Somali origin who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, killed retired teacher Darlene Horton, 64, and wounded five others during the knife attack in London's Russell Square. Horton was on holiday in the British capital with her husband Richard Wagner, an eminent psychology professor at Florida State University, when she was killed. |
| Supreme Court orders seizure of Sahara's Aamby Valley property | |  Supreme Court on Monday ordered the seizure of the Aamby Valley hill city estate owned by the embattled Sahara conglomerate which has been ordered to repay billions of dollars to investors in bonds that were ruled to have been mis-sold. Lawyers for Sahara told the Supreme Court that they had deposited about 110 billion rupees ($1.6 billion) with the capital markets regulator for the repayment, and owed another 140 billion rupees. The Aamby Valley development in western India is spread over more than 10,000 acres and includes luxury resort accommodation and an 18-hole golf course.
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| France's Fillon to launch campaign fight back against scandal | |  By Richard Balmforth and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon will fight back on Monday against the fake job scandal that threatens his campaign, a source close to him said. Fillon "plans to tell the truth to the French people", when he speaks at his campaign headquarters at 4 pm (1500 GMT). Fillon has come under pressure to quit the race since a newspaper, Le Canard enchaine, published a report on Jan. 25 alleging that his wife Penelope was paid hundreds of thousands of euros in state money for work she may never have done.
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| Kremlin says it wants apology from Fox News over Putin comments | |  The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one of the channel's presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump. Fox News host Bill O'Reilly described Putin as "a killer" in the interview with Trump as he tried to press the U.S. president to explain more fully why he respected his Russian counterpart. O'Reilly did not say who he thought Putin had killed.
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| Hungary court orders retrial in toxic red sludge case | |  By Krisztina Than GYOR, Hungary (Reuters) - A Hungarian court ordered a retrial on Monday over the spill of toxic red sludge in 2010 that killed 10 people in one of the country's worst environmental disasters. Monday's verdict by a court in the city of Gyor overturned that ruling and ordered a retrial. "The court ... annuls the Veszprem court ruling dated January 28, 2016," judge Csilla Zolyomi told a packed courtroom in Gyor.
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| Memorial in Philippines for South Korean whose murder stunted drugs war | |  The Philippines held a memorial on Monday for a South Korean businessman whose kidnapping and murder by rogue anti-narcotics police prompted a shock suspension of police from President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. Diplomats, government officials and members of the South Korean community were joined by more than 100 uniformed police at the ceremony to mark the death of Jee Ick-joo, which caused the biggest scandal of Duterte's seven-month-old presidency. Mourners in black stood before a portrait of Jee placed on a stage covered in white flowers at a Christian service for a man whose death led to a Duterte taking police off the front lines of his anti-drugs campaign, his administration's signature policy.
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| Tata Sons' former chairman Mistry voted off the board | |  Shareholders at Tata Sons Ltd, the Indian conglomerate's holding company, have voted to remove estranged former chairman Cyrus Mistry as a director. Although Mistry's family has an 18.4 percent stake in Tata Sons, its single-largest shareholder, the majority holding is controlled by a group of trusts chaired by Tata family patriarch Ratan Tata. "The shareholders of Tata Sons Ltd, at the extraordinary general meeting held today, passed, with the requisite majority, a resolution to remove Mr. Cyrus P. Mistry as a director of Tata Sons," the company said in a statement on Monday.
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| Romania's justice ministry scraps plan to amend criminal code - Digi24 | | | Romania's justice ministry scrapped plans for a bill on changing the criminal code, Digi24 TV said on Monday, after days of mass protests against a decree on graft forced the governement to drop its own plans to decriminalise some graft cases. "The ministry is not seeking to draft a bill to change and amend law No. 286/2009 regarding the criminal code and the law No. 135/2010 regarding the criminal procedure code," the ministry said in a statement, according to Digi24 TV. |
| "We woke up in 1989": Romanian graft decree turned back the clock | |  By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - When fire tore through a Bucharest nightclub in 2015, victims were rushed to the city's Floreasca hospital - but its newly-built, multi-million-euro burns unit was standing idle and could help no one. Sixty-four people eventually died and the Social Democrat government was brought down within days by popular anger over the failure to enforce fire-safety regulations at the Colectiv nightclub, a failure blamed on endemic corruption and negligence. The reins of government were handed temporarily to a team of technocrats and Romania's special anti-corruption prosecutors turned their sights on the burns unit.
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| British government says will not allow lawmakers to block Brexit | |  Lawmakers seeking to change Theresa May's Brexit strategy will not be able to block Britain from leaving the European Union, May's spokeswoman said on Monday before a debate on possible amendments to legislation in parliament. "We think there should be a straighforward bill about giving the government the power to deliver on the decision of the British people," the spokeswoman told reporters, adding that parliament will have a vote on the final deal with the EU. "We are not going to allow there to be attempts to remain inside the EU or rejoin it through the back door." The bill, which would give the prime minister permission to trigger the Brexit process, faces pressure from pro-EU lawmakers who are seeking greater transparency and oversight about her negotiating strategy, and more say on the final exit deal.
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| Romanian ruling party reaffirms support for PM Grindeanu's government | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu's government had the full support of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), party leader Liviu Dragnea said on Monday, a day after the cabinet bowed to mass protests and scrapped a decree decriminalising some graft offences. "The government has no reason to resign, it was legitimately elected," PSD leader Dragnea told reporters after a party meeting. (Reporting by Luiza Ilie; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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| Senior Chinese health official to attend Vatican summit | | | A top Chinese health official will attend a conference at the Vatican on organ trafficking this week, a state run newspaper said on Monday, with the visit coming as China and the Holy See try to improve ties. Pope Francis would like to heal a decades-old rift with China where Catholics are divided between those loyal to him and those who are members of a government-controlled official church. The Global Times, published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said on its website that Huang Jiefu, a former vice-minister of health and the current head of the China Human Organ Donation and Transplant Committee, would attend for China. |
| Youtube comments could bring tougher sentence for U.S. woman in Bali suitcase murder | |  Prosecutors in Indonesia are examining online video comments by a U.S. woman jailed for 10 years over the 2014 murder of her mother on the resort island of Bali to decide if they justify a stiffer sentence, authorities said on Monday. Heather Mack, originally from Chicago, was tried and convicted alongside then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer in the murder of her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a taxi outside a luxury hotel.
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