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| Egypt bans unlicensed preachers, tightens grip on mosques |
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| By Maggie Fick and Ali Abdelaty CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has banned unauthorised preachers from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques and other public places, according to a decree on Saturday marking a further step in official efforts to curb Islamist influence. The decree issued by interim President Adly Mansour's office also threatened fines and jail for freelance imams, especially if they wore clerical garments associated with the respected Al-Azhar centre of Sunni learning in Cairo. Selected employees of the religious endowments ministry will be empowered by the justice ministry to arrest anyone caught violating the decree, it added. The military-backed government sees mosques as recruiting grounds for Islamist parties and has moved to bring them under tighter control since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July. |
| Somali pirates free 11 crew kidnapped in 2010 |
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| By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Eleven crew members held hostage by Somali pirates for more than three years have been released, regional and United Nations officials said on Saturday. The number of attacks by Somali pirates has fallen over the last two years due to increased naval patrols and the presence of well-armed security teams on ships. The 11 men freed on Friday were crew on Malaysian-owned cargo vessel MV Albedo which was hijacked 900 miles (1,500 kms) off Somalia in November 2010 while sailing from the United Arab Emirates to Kenya. "They are all healthy," said Abdi Yusuf Hassan, the interior minister of Galmudug region. |
| Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo |
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| Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday morning in an attack that the regional governor blamed on a dispute over cattle. It was about a dispute over cows," South Kivu governor Marcellin Cishambo told Reuters. South Kivu, a mountainous region rich in minerals including gold, is home to members of tribe who fled neighbouring Burundi after the end of a civil war in 2005. Some locals from the Congolese Bafuliru tribe blamed rebels from Burundi's National Liberation Forces(FNL) for the attacks. |
| Egypt court cancels jail sentence against policeman linked to 39 deaths |
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| A Cairo appeals court on Saturday cancelled a prison sentence against a police officer convicted in connection with the deaths of 39 people last year during political violence, judicial sources said. In one of the most controversial incidents since the army ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last July, 39 men described by the Interior Ministry as Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters died during what the ministry said was an attempted prison break. But the prosecutor's office later said its investigations showed they died while being transported to jail in an overcrowded police van into which tear gas was fired. Appeals court judge Mohamed Amel on Saturday sent the case back to the prosecutor general and ordered a new investigation that could result in a new trial or in the case being dismissed, legal sources said. |
| Gunmen take hundreds of students hostage on Iraq university campus |
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| By Kamal Naama RAMADI Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen occupied a university in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Saturday, taking hundreds of students and their professors hostage on campus, security sources said. After fighting their way past guards overnight, the gunmen broke into Anbar University in the provincial capital Ramadi, parts of which have been held by anti-government tribal groups and insurgents since the start of the year. The attack on the university is the third brazen offensive in as many days by militants who have regained ground and momentum in Iraq over the past year and this week overran districts in two other cities. Security forces surrounded the university in Ramadi on Saturday and exchanged fire with the militants, who had planted bombs behind them and were patrolling the rooftops with sniper rifles. |
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