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| Part of British parliament evacuated due to suspicious package - police |
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| LONDON (Reuters) - The part of the British parliament housing the offices of many lawmakers was evacuated on Monday due to a suspicious package, a spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police said. Portcullis House is an office building opposite the Houses of Parliament and above Westminster underground station. Police said the station had been closed. Motorbikes could be seen blocking cars from entering the road. (Reporting by William James, Kylie MacLellan and Costas Pitas; Editing by Janet Lawrence) |
| Sudan denies U.N. access to Darfur village to check rape accusations |
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| KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has refused to let U.N. and African Union peacekeepers visit a village in the western Darfur region to investigate allegations of mass rape for the second time this month, saying it was skeptical about the motives for the visit. The United Nations said Sudanese troops initially denied members of the joint peacekeeping mission, known as UNAMID, access to Tabit in north Darfur earlier this month. The force was later allowed to visit the area and said in a statement on Nov. ... |
| Palestinian driver found hanged in Jerusalem bus |
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| By Ali Sawafta JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged inside his vehicle on Monday, an incident Israeli police described as a suicide but which the driver's family said they believed was an attack. The driver, 32-year-old Youssef al-Ramouni, was found dead at the start of the route he was supposed to have driven late on Sunday, in an area of Jerusalem close to Jewish settlements and Palestinian neighbourhoods. ... |
| Colombia suspends FARC peace talks after kidnapping of general |
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| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos suspended peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels following the kidnapping of an army general, throwing into crisis the nation's efforts to end 50 years of war. General Ruben Dario Alzate, who heads the Titan task force in the Pacific department of Choco, was captured on Sunday afternoon, with another military official and a civilian. "Tomorrow negotiators were to travel to another round of talks in Havana," Santos said late on Sunday. "I will tell them not to go and that the talks are suspended until these people are released. ... |
| Beheaded U.S. hostage remembered for fearless dedication to refugees |
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| By Colleen Jenkins REUTERS - Peter Kassig, the U.S. aid worker beheaded by Islamic State militants who captured him in Syria last year, was remembered on Sunday for his courageous devotion to helping people whose lives were upended by civil war. The parents of the 26-year-old medic and former U.S. Army Ranger, who pleaded in a video message to his captors last month to spare their son's life, said they were heartbroken. "We know he found his home amongst the Syrian people, and he hurt when they were hurting," said Ed and Paula Kassig of Indianapolis. ... |
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