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Youths pillage mosque in C.African Republic protest over church attack
5:08:29 PM
By Serge Leger Kokpakpa BANGUI (Reuters) - Youths in the Central African Republic plundered a mosque in the capital and barricaded streets with burning tyres on Thursday in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that killed about 15 people dead, witnesses said. A Reuters witness saw youths from the mainly Christian "anti-Balaka" militias sacked the mosque in Bangui's Lakouanga neighbourhood. Those attacks have largely driven Muslims from the capital and other surrounding areas to the north and neighbouring countries, effectively partitioning Central African Republic, whose northeast is controlled mainly by Muslim rebel forces. He gave international peacekeepers a mandate to clear out "criminal" elements from the city.


Ukraine separatists down army helicopter, 14 killed
4:36:38 PM

An armed supporter of the self-proclaimed Donetsk   People's Republic stands guard at a newly erected barricade on a road which   leads to an airport in DonetskBy Sabina Zawadzki and Gabriela Baczynska DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army helicopter on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers including a general, as government forces pressed ahead with an offensive to crush rebellions in the east swiftly following the election of a new president. After weeks of accusations from Kiev of Russian involvement in the uprising, a rebel leader in the eastern city of Donetsk acknowledged that some of his fighters who died in the government offensive had been "volunteers" from Russia, saying their bodies were being returned across the border. In Kiev, outgoing acting president Oleksander Turchinov said the helicopter, which had been carrying supplies in eastern Ukraine, had been brought down by anti-aircraft fire from near the town of Slaviansk, which has been under the control of separatists since early April.




Iranian hackers use fake Facebook accounts to spy on U.S., others
4:01:56 PM

The word 'password' is pictured on a   computer screen in this picture illustration taken in BerlinBy Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a bogus news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States, Israel and other countries, a cyber intelligence firm said on Thursday. ISight Partners, which uncovered the operation, said the targets include a four-star U.S. Navy admiral, U.S. lawmakers and ambassadors, and personnel from Afghanistan, Britain, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The firm declined to identify victims and said it could not say what data had been stolen by the hackers, who were seeking credentials to access government and corporate networks, as well as intelligence on weapons systems and diplomatic negotiations. "If it's been going on for so long, clearly they have had success," iSight Executive Vice President Tiffany Jones told Reuters.




Turkey's top court rules YouTube ban violates rights - media
3:12:51 PM

YouTube logos displayed on a laptop screen partially   covered with Turkey's national flag in this photo illustration taken in   AnkaraTurkey's highest court ruled on Thursday that a block on access to video-sharing website YouTube, imposed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government two months ago, was a violation of rights, local media reported. Blocks on access to YouTube and Twitter were imposed after audio recordings, purportedly revealing corruption in Erdogan's inner circle, were leaked on the sites. The block on access to Twitter was lifted in April. Turkish authorities have so far defied orders from lesser courts and upheld the YouTube ban, saying some of the offending content had not been removed from the site.




Egypt's Sisi wins election, faces economic challenges
3:10:03 PM

Presidential candidate and former army chief Sisi   gestures after casting ballot in CairoBy Stephen Kalin and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election on Thursday but a low turnout threatened to deprive him of the strong mandate he needs to fix the economy and face down an Islamist insurgency. Sisi won 93.3 percent of votes cast, judicial sources said, with most ballots counted after three days of voting. Since a series of television interviews he gave ahead of the vote, many Egyptians feel Sisi has not spelled out a clear vision of how he would tackle Egypt's problems, instead making a general call for people to work hard and be patient. "All in all the weak turnout will make it harder for Sisi to impose painful economic reforms that international institutions and investors are demanding," said Anna Boyd, an analyst at London-based IHS Jane's. Investors want Sisi to end energy subsidies, impose a clear tax regime and give guidance on the direction of the exchange rate.




North Korea agrees to reopen probe into Japan abductees
1:40:56 PM

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a news   conference at his official residence in TokyoBy Elaine Lies and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to reopen an investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, a potential breakthrough in a bitter dispute between Tokyo and Pyongyang. Japan has agreed to ease some sanctions against North Korea once the probe had been reopened and will consider providing humanitarian aid depending on how the investigation progresses, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said separately. "This is a first step toward an overall resolution." North Korea promised in 2008 to re-open the probe - but it never followed through.




China vows to strengthen education, development in restive west
1:04:07 PM
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China must strengthen education and work to alleviate poverty in the western region of Xinjiang, as the government works to weed out extremism in a region prone to unrest. His remarks, made in a speech to Communist Party leaders, came after five suicide bombers attacked a vegetable market in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi last week, killing 39 people and injuring 94 in the deadliest such incident in years. China heavily restricts religious worship in the region as well as the right to assembly, among other freedoms. Communist Party leaders have vowed to crack down on religious extremists and separatist groups, which they have blamed for a series of violent attacks in Xinjiang and elsewhere in the country.


Pakistan PM demands prompt report on "honour killing" of pregnant woman
1:01:42 PM

Women mourn over the body of their relative, Farzana   Iqbal, who was killed by family members, in an ambulance outside of a morgue in   LahoreBy Katharine Houreld and Shafait Raja ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has demanded to know why police apparently stood by while a pregnant woman was stoned and beaten to death by her family in front of one of the country's top courts, his spokesman said on Thursday. Farzana Iqbal, 25, was attacked on Tuesday, police said, because she had married the man she loved. Iqbal's husband said that police did nothing during the 15 minutes the violence lasted outside Lahore High Court. "I begged them to help us but they said, this is not our duty," Muhammed Iqbal told Reuters.




Teen girls gang-raped and hanged from a tree - police
12:59:50 PM
By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police have arrested one man and are looking for four other suspects after two teenage girls were gang-raped and then hanged from a tree in a village in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday. The two cousins, who were from a low-caste Dalit community and aged 14 and 15, went missing from their village home in Uttar Pradesh's Budaun district when they went out to go to the toilet on Tuesday evening. The following morning, villagers found the bodies of the two teenagers hanging from a mango tree in a nearby orchard. There were five people involved, one has been arrested and we are looking for the others," Budaun's Superintendent of Police Man Singh Chouhan told reporters.


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