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Afghan delegation to meet Taliban as twin attacks hit Kabul | | By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday he had sent a delegation to Pakistan to meet with representatives of the Taliban, his first acknowledgement of official talks with the insurgents fighting to topple the government in Kabul. The tentative step toward full peace negotiations aimed at ending more than 13 years of war came hours after suspected Taliban suicide bomb attacks in the Afghan capital struck a convoy of foreign troops and a compound of the country's intelligence agency. Separately, two drone strikes this week targeting militants loyal to Islamic State in the eastern province of Nangarhar killed dozens of fighters, including the movement's second-in-command in Afghanistan, officials said.
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Hillary Clinton - Hacking problem not limited to China | | Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that hacking by countries such as China and Iran posed a broad threat to U.S. security and business, and the federal government had not done enough to protect U.S. information. "And we worry about terrorist organizations getting access to the capacity." Clinton, who is under fire for using a private server and email account when she was the top U.S. diplomat, said her worries started when she encountered as secretary "the grave concerns that a lot of American businesses had that their most confidential information was being vacuumed up through intrusive hacking." "The United States, both our government and the private sector, have to recognise this is a serious threat," she said.
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L.A. judge refuses to dismiss murder case against 'Suge' Knight | | Defence lawyers had filed a motion seeking to throw out the case on grounds that a key witness declined under oath to identify the Death Row Records co-founder as the driver who ran over the two victims with a pickup truck.But Superior Court Judge Stephen Marcus sided with the prosecution, ruling there was more than enough evidence to establish that Knight was behind the wheel of the vehicle. "There's no doubt that 'Suge' Knight was the person who drove the red truck," the judge said, as Knight sat in court, dressed in an orange jail uniform. Knight, 50, is charged with murder, attempted murder and two counts of felony hit-and-run in a Jan. 29 confrontation in the L.A. suburb of Compton that left Terry Carter dead and Cle "Boan" Sloan with a badly mangled left foot and head injuries.
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UN Srebrenica vote delayed in bid to avoid Russia veto: diplomats | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution to condemn the Srebrenica massacre as genocide, marking the 20th anniversary of the mass killing, has been delayed until Wednesday as Britain and the United States try to convince Russia not to veto the commemoration, diplomats said. Russia has deemed the British-drafted resolution unbalanced and does not want the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys described as genocide. Instead it proposed condemning "the most serious crimes of concern to the international community." A vote by the 15-member council had been scheduled for Tuesday morning, but has been delayed until Wednesday morning as talks between Britain, the United States and Russia continue on the draft, said diplomats.
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Chile takes step toward cannabis decriminalisation | | Chile took a step forward in decriminalizing the use of cannabis on Tuesday after the lower house of Congress approved by a wide margin a bill that seeks to change the law in the South American country. Although socially conservative Chile is not following Uruguay's lead on full legalization, it is considering decriminalizing it for personal use and cultivation. |
Al Shabaab gunmen kill 14 in attack on Kenyan workers | | By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Al Shabaab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians. Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Cross said. The raid, in the town of Mandera, mirrored one in the same county in December in which 36 quarry workers died.
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Homegrown jihadists with Libya ties target Tunisia's democracy | | By Patrick Markey and Tarek Amara SOUSSE, Tunisia(Reuters) - In late 2013, two young Tunisians returned from a jihadi camp in Libya planning to blow themselves up among foreign tourists. Two years later, just a few months apart, three more Libyan-trained Tunisian militants succeeded in bringing bloodshed to Sousse and the capital Tunis, gunning down 60 people, mainly tourists, in the two deadliest attacks in the country's history. Hailed as the only "Arab Spring" success, Tunisia now finds its young democracy under siege from a jihadist expansion in North Africa, where militants, radicalised locally and trained in Libya, are exporting their violent ideology back home.
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