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| Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq | | | ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war. In an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq, the group provides what it says is religious justification for the enslavement of defeated "idolators". The ancient custom of enslavement had fallen out of use because of deviation from true Islam, but was revived when fighters overran Yazidi villages in Iraq's Sinjar region. ... |
| More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route | | | By Andrew R.C. Marshall and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than 130 the number of people found since Saturday in the province of Phang Nga to the north of the famous resort island of Phuket, officials said. ... |
| UK PM Cameron to abstain in symbolic vote on Palestine status | |  By William James and Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will not take part in a parliamentary vote on whether the government should recognise Palestine as a state, his spokesman said on Monday ahead of a debate designed to raise the political profile of the issue. The spokesman said the vote, called by an opposition lawmaker, would not change Britain's diplomatic stance. Britain does not classify Palestine as a state, but says it could do so at any time if it believed it would help peace efforts between the Palestinians and Israel. ...
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| Pistorius should get house arrest, community service, social worker says | |  By Peroshni Govender PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African track star Oscar Pistorius should serve three years of partial house arrest and community service for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, a witness said on Monday at the first day of the athlete's sentencing. The 27-year-old Paralympic and Olympic star, whose lower legs were amputated as a baby, was convicted of culpable homicide last month for the shooting of 29-year-old law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. ...
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| Government-backed candidates win in Turkish judicial vote | |  By Orhan Coskun and Dasha Afanasieva ANKARA (Reuters) - Government-backed candidates won most seats in a top Turkish judicial body, election results showed on Monday, tightening President Tayyip Erdogan's control over the judiciary in a victory over his rival Fethullah Gulen. Eight out of 10 seats were won by candidates supported by Erdogan, who has pledged to purge the influence of Gulen, a cleric and ally-turned-foe whom the president accuses of trying to build up a parallel power base in the country. ...
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| Experts question ethics of placebo drug trials in case of Ebola | |  By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A group of influential health experts has argued the standard practice of using placebos in drug trials would be unethical in the case of experimental medicines for Ebola, given that the world is in the middle of a deadly epidemic. Faced with a disease with a death rate of between 40 and 90 percent, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) -- where patients are assigned to get either the drug or a dummy pill -- would be unfair and ethically unacceptable, according to the disease specialists from Europe, Africa and the United States. ...
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| China court sentences 12 to death for Xinjiang attacks | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in the unruly far western Chinese region of Xinjiang sentenced 12 people to death and handed out dozens of other heavy sentences on Monday for attacks in July in which almost 100 people died. The Xinjiang government said 59 "terrorists" were gunned down by security forces in Yarkant county in Xinjiang's far south, while 37 civilians were killed in the July 28 attacks. Authorities said people had been killed when knife-wielding attackers had staged assaults in two towns. ... |
| U.S. warships stay in Philippines amid transgender murder probe | | | MANILA (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. Pacific Command has stopped two of its warships from leaving the Philippines after a U.S. Marine was named as a suspect in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, a Philippine official said on Monday. Admiral Samuel Locklear had ordered the USS Peleliu and another warship to stay in the former U.S. base of Subic Bay until after the murder investigation is over, executive director of the Visiting Forces Agreement Commission, Eduardo Oban, said. U.S. troops have been taking part in a 10-day military exercise with the Philippines. A U.S. ... |
| Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalisation | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalisation programme he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops. "I'd go there, I'd sign my name, play pool with some other radicals that I was in prison with, and I'd go home," said Rahman, arrested again last month on suspicion of terrorism offences. He denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. ...
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| Bomb hits Somali police car day after deadly cafe attack | |  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A bomb tore through a senior policeman's car in Somalia's capital on Monday, a day after suspected Islamist militants shelled an area where the president was due to speak and attacked a city centre cafe, witnesses and officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the assaults which officials said wounded two mechanics working on the car on Monday and killed 13 people at Mogadishu's Oromo Cafe on Sunday. ...
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