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| France opens door to possible Syria strikes after tourist killed | |  By John Irish and Andrew Callus PARIS (Reuters) - France on Thursday opened the door to possibly joining air strikes in Syria just hours after an Algerian Islamist group beheaded a French tourist in retaliation for Paris' military action against Islamic State militants in Iraq. France has repeatedly ruled out taking part in air action in Syria where Islamic State has its power base. It fears that strikes against militants there would leave a void that only Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces could fill, making it difficult for "moderate" rebels to counter the more organised Syrian army. ...
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| Pakistan policeman kills Christian accused of blasphemy | | | By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani policeman shot two men in jail on Thursday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the same charge, lawyers and an activist said. Christian pastor Zafar Bhatti was killed and 70-year-old Briton Muhammad Asghar, who has a history of mental illness, was wounded in the attack in Rawalpindi, next to the capital, Islamabad. ... |
| Britain says arrests nine in operation against Islamist militants | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested nine men as part of an operation into Islamist-related militancy on Thursday, with media reporting the country's most high-profile radical Muslim preacher was among those held. Britain last month raised its international threat level to the second-highest classification of "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely, and Prime Minister David Cameron has said the Islamic State group battling for territory in Syria and Iraq poses the country's greatest ever security risk. ... |
| Thai deputy PM wants more surveillance cameras after British murders | |  BANGKOK (Reuters) - More surveillance cameras are to be installed in Bangkok and at tourist destinations in Thailand following the murder of two British tourists, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday. The bodies of Hanna Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were discovered last week on a beach on the island of Koh Tao, or Turtle Island, famous for its turquoise waters, coral reefs and diving. The killings have sparked debate over tourist safety in a country promoted as a land of welcoming Buddhist people, palm-fringed beaches and lively night life. ...
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| Lebanon detains 450 suspected militants in Syria border crackdown -sources | | | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has detained about 450 suspected Islamist militants near its border with Syria over the past two weeks, Lebanese security sources said on Thursday, as the army steps up efforts to prevent fighters from using the town of Arsal as a base. Arsal was the scene of last month of the deadliest spillover of fighting in the three-year civil war in Syria, and during clashes that killed dozens, militants captured a group of Lebanese soldiers and have since killed at least three of them. They are believed to be holding more than a dozen others. ... |
| China currency regulator uncovers $10 billion in fake trades | |  BEIJING (Reuters) - China has found nearly $10 billion worth of falsified trade transactions more than a year after the fake trades were first uncovered, the currency regulator said on Thursday, adding that a crackdown had now stamped out the practice. To evade China's capital controls and sneak money in or out of the world's second-biggest economy, some companies create artificial trade invoices that are not backed by an actual exchange of goods or services. ...
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| Suspected Islamist militants charged in Ugandan court | | | By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ten suspected members of Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab were charged in a Ugandan court with terrorism-related crimes after authorities said they had thwarted an attack by the group, police said on Thursday. Uganda said on Sept. 13 it had raided an al Shabaab cell and arrested nearly two dozen suspects who were planning attacks in the capital Kampala. Police said a substantial amount of explosives and suicide vests were seized. ... |
| American begins sentence of farm work and isolation in North Korea - reports | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - Matthew Miller, the American held in North Korea since April for "hostile acts", began a six-year hard labour sentence on Thursday that he said involved farm work and isolation, media reports said. Miller, 25, said in an interview with the Associated Press he had written to U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton asking for help. "Prison life is eight hours of work per day," Miller, dressed in grey prison clothes and a hat, said in the video interview. "Mostly it's been agriculture, like in the dirt, digging around. ...
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| Japan, North Korea to meet next week on abductees | |  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese and North Korean officials will meet next week for an update on the North's probe into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago, Japan's top government spokesman said on Thursday. North Korea agreed in July to reopen an investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s to help train spies, prompting Japan to ease some sanctions on the North. ...
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