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| Burkina Faso leader says to hand power to transitional body | |  By Mathieu Bonkougou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's army will quickly cede power to a transitional government and appoint a new head of state, the country's interim President Isaac Zida said on Monday, looking to calm accusations that the military had seized power in a coup. Longtime president Blaise Compaore stepped down on Friday following two days of mass protests in the impoverished West African nation over his bid to extend his 27-year rule by amending the constitution. On Saturday, the military appointed Lieutenant Colonel Zida as provisional head of state, drawing criticism from opposition politicians, the African Union and Western powers who want to see a swift return to civilian rule. The African Union, whose democratic charter binds its 54 member states to take action against coups on the continent, plied more pressure on the Burkina military on Monday, giving it an ultimatum to hand back power to a civilian administration within two weeks or face sanctions.
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| Saudi forces kill suspect in attack on Shi'ites marking Ashoura | | | Saudi security forces on Tuesday shot dead a member of an armed group that killed five people in an overnight attack on Shi'ite Muslims marking an important religious anniversary, al-Arabiya television reported. The late Monday assault on a Shi'ite gathering in al-Ahsa district is likely to test already strained relations between Sunnis and Shi'ites across the Middle East because it coincided with the annual Ashoura commemoration of Shi'ite Islam. The Dubai-based al-Arabiya said security forces who had been hunting suspects in the al-Ahsa attack clashed with and killed "a wanted man" at a rest area in the al-Qassim province, north-west of the capital Riyadh. VICTIMS MOSTLY YOUNG MEN Al-Ahsa is one of Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia's main centres of minority Shi'ites, who in common with co-religionists around the world are marking Ashoura, a holy day commemorating the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein with public ceremonies and processions. |
| Iraq Shi'ite Ashoura ritual escapes major attacks by late afternoon | |  By Haider Kadhim KERBALA Iraq (Reuters) - A gathering of millions of Shi'ite Muslims at shrines and mosques across Iraq for the Ashoura religious commemoration passed without any major attacks by early evening under tight security imposed for fear of Islamic State bombers. Dozens of pilgrims were killed in Baghdad alone in the run-up to this year's event, despite an increase in security since suspected al Qaeda suicide bombers and mortar attacks killed 171 people during Ashoura in Kerbala and Baghdad in 2004. Islamic State, seen as more ruthless than al Qaeda, says Shi'ites are infidels who deserve to be killed and the group, which seized large parts of northern Iraq this year, has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide bombings against members of the majority sect.
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| British spy chief demands more access to Twitter, Facebook to thwart attacks | |  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter and Facebook are so important to militant groups that the technology giants should give security services greater access to their networks to allow governments to foil attacks, the head of Britain's eavesdropping agency said. The new director of Britain's GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, said U.S.
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| Supreme Court says Bollywood must allow female make-up artists - paper | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A nearly six-decade ban on women being employed as make-up artists in India's film industry is set to end after the Supreme Court said it was gender biased and should not continue for a day longer, the Indian Express said on Tuesday. India's $2-billion film industry is the largest in world by ticket sales.
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| Islamic State tortured Kurdish child hostages - rights group | | | Islamic State militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The Sunni Muslim militants abducted a group of children on May 29 as they returned to the Syrian town of Kobani after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. Islamic State has captured swathes of Iraq and Syria, declaring an Islamic caliphate that erases borders between the two. Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish town on the Syrian border with Turkey, has been besieged by Islamic State militants for more than a month despite U.S.-led air strikes meant to displace them. |
| Banks to launch new tool to fight hackers - WSJ | |  A group of cybersecurity firms funded by big banks plan to launch a platform that will allow financial companies to communicate faster about potential cyber breaches, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move follows cybersecurity attacks on some big banks last month, where JPMorgan Chase & Co's computer systems were hacked exposing the contact details of 73 million households and 7 million small businesses. The group gathered funds from 16 banks including JPMorgan, Citigroup Inc , BB&T Corp and U.S.
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| Tutu and Jolie back U.N. drive to end statelessness in a decade | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie backed an ambitious global campaign on Tuesday to end the plight of at least 10 million stateless people with no country to call home. A child is born stateless every 10 minutes, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said as it kicked off the "I Belong" campaign. "Statelessness makes people feel like their very existence is a crime," UNHCR head António Guterres said. "We have a historic opportunity to end the scourge of statelessness within 10 years, and give back hope to millions of people." Stateless people are denied the rights and benefits most people take for granted.
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| Islamic State releases 93 Syrian Kurds - monitor | | | The militant Islamic State group has released 93 Syrian Kurds it captured in February as they made their way from northern Syria to neighbouring Iraq, a group monitoring the conflict said on Tuesday. Islamic State seized around 100 people, accusing them of being members of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) which has opposed the group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The offshoot of al Qaeda, which is the target of U.S.-led air strikes in Syria and Iraq, released all but six of the Kurds in that group in Syria on Monday, the Observatory said. |
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