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| After Russia U.N. veto, countries seek court for Flight MH17 prosecutions | |  By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The five countries investigating the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine a year ago are considering setting up an independent international tribunal after Russia vetoed attempts to establish a U.N.-backed court to prosecute suspects. Russia deployed its permanent member's veto in the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, blocking a move to establish an international court. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down in July 2014 with 298 passengers on board, two-thirds of them Dutch.
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| France beefs up the security of military bases | | | (Reuters) - The French Defence Ministry on Thursday announced plans to reinforce security at its military facilities after a major theft of explosives earlier this month, providing additional manpower and video surveillance. The move comes after 40 grenades, 180 detonators and plastic explosives were stolen from a military base in the southern French town of Miramas on July 7. The theft, which has yet been unsolved, comes as France remains on high security alert in the wake of January's killings by Islamist gunmen in Paris and a series of thwarted attacks. |
| Houthis bombed indiscriminately in Yemen's Aden - Human Rights Watch | | | Pro-Houthi forces in Yemen have repeatedly fired mortar rounds and rockets indiscriminately into residential areas of the southern port city of Aden in what might consitute a war crime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. In the deadliest such attack, on July 19 in the Dar Saad district, mortar fire killed several dozen civilians, including children, it said in a report, one of a series by the rights group on abuses committed in Yemen's four-month-old civil war. "Pro-Houthi forces have been raining mortar shells and rockets onto populated areas of Aden with no apparent regard for the civilians remaining there," the statement quoted Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher, as saying. |
| Chinese professor accused of spying by U.S. released on bail | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese professor charged in the United States with economic espionage has been released on bail by a U.S. court, a press official from Tianjin University, his employer, said on Thursday. Zhang Hao was one of six Chinese nationals charged by the U.S. government in May with economic espionage. U.S. authorities said they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems. |
| Political gridlock holds up India's landmark tax reform | |  By Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Parliament is unlikely to approve a landmark tax shakeup in its current sitting, a new setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda that makes it harder to meet a deadline to launch the new levy by next April. Failure to pass the bill for a nationwide goods and services tax (GST) in the "monsoon" session will further erode investor confidence, already hurt by the slower-than-expected progress on economic transformation since Modi took office a year ago. The opposition Congress party has disrupted the Rajya Sabha every day of the current session, which ends on Aug. 13, in protest at alleged corruption linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
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| "What lion?" Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal's native Zimbabwe. "What lion?" acting information minister Prisca Mupfumira asked in response to a request for comment about Cecil, who was at that moment topping global news bulletins and generating reams of abuse for his killer on websites in the United States and Europe. The government has still given no formal response, and on Thursday the papers that chose to run the latest twist in the Cecil saga tucked it away on inside pages.
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| India says Punjab attackers came from Pakistan, but talks on for now | |  By Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Gunmen who stormed a police station and killed seven people in Punjab came from Pakistan, the government said on Thursday, but it gave no indication that a plan for bilateral high-level security talks have been jeopardized by the attack. Citing a preliminary analysis of data from GPS tracking devices carried by the gunmen, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament the three men crossed over via a river that criss-crosses between Pakistan and India. In a statement shorn of the nationalist rhetoric the ruling party is known for, Singh warned of a forceful response to any attempt to undermine India's security, but did not specify what action was being taken after Monday's attack.
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| Russian state "involved" in ex-KGB agent's London murder, inquiry hears | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian state must have been involved in the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to "a nuclear attack on the streets" of London, an inquiry into the death was told on Thursday. Kremlin critic Litvinenko died weeks after drinking green tea laced with polonium-210 at London's plush Millennium hotel. From his deathbed he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his killing but the Kremlin has always denied any role. |
| Calais migrants undaunted by extra French riot police | |  By Miranda Alexander-Webber CALAIS, France (Reuters) - Migrants massed around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel said on Thursday they would keep trying to sneak across to Britain, undaunted by the arrival of 120 extra riot police on the French side. A police officer said the number of migrants trying to enter Britain eased slightly overnight compared to earlier in the week, with about 800 migrants around the site and some 300 intercepted by police. Some 3,000 migrants live around the tunnel entrance in a makeshift camp known as "The Jungle", making the northern French port one of the frontlines in Europe's wider migrant crisis alongside Italian and Greek islands used an entry point for those crossing the Mediterranean from Africa or the Middle East.
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| Nigeria, Cameroon vow closer cooperation against Boko Haram | | | By Sylvain Andzongo YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The leaders of Nigeria and Cameroon pledged on Thursday to improve the exchange of intelligence and security cooperation along their border in a bid to tackle Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Concluding his first visit to Cameroon since he was elected in March, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya voiced support in a joint statement for a planned multinational task force to fight Boko Haram, which has sworn allegiance to Islamic State. Buhari's visit came after the Nigerian militant group launched a wave of attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger that has killed hundreds of people in the past two months. |
| Accused Russian Taliban faces unprecedented U.S. trial | | | By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A former Soviet army officer accused of being a Taliban fighter goes on trial on Thursday as the first military prisoner from Afghanistan to be tried in U.S. federal court. Irek Hamidullin, believed to be in his 50s, faces 15 criminal counts ranging from supporting terrorists to firearms charges related to his alleged orchestration of a 2009 attack on an Afghan Border Police base in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province. Judge Henry Hudson ordered it delayed to give Hamidullin's lawyers time to examine Defense Department evidence turned over on Saturday. |
| Political prisoners, Chinese loggers among thousands freed in Myanmar amnesty | | | By Aung Hla Tun and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar freed some political prisoners and 155 Chinese citizens jailed for illegal logging in an amnesty for nearly 7,000 people on Thursday, a move that could ease diplomatic tensions with influential neighbour China. A total of 6,966 prisoners were pardoned including the Chinese citizens held in Kachin state, of which 153 were given life sentences last week that prompted a diplomatic protest by an "extremely concerned" China. Thirteen of those released were prisoners of conscience, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which said it was still checking names to confirm if more had been freed. |
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