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| Arab-led bloc: First aim is to restore Yemeni government in Aden, Sanaa later | |  By William Maclean DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi led-coalition fighting to reinstate Yemen's exiled government aims first to set it up in the mostly recaptured port city of Aden and then return it to Sanaa if possible via peace talks with Houthi foes, a coalition spokesman said on Thursday. A Saudi-led Arab coalition allied with southern Yemeni secessionist fighters retook much of Aden last week in the first significant ground victory of their campaign to end Houthi militia control over much of the Arabian Peninsula country and restore the exiled president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Yemeni forces backed up by Saudi-led air strikes have recaptured positions on Aden's outskirts used by Houthis to fire rockets into the city, local officials said on Thursday.
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| Canadian pastor detained in N.Korea makes TV confession - church | | | The head pastor of one of Canada's largest congregations, who has been detained by North Korea since February, appeared before media in Pyongyang and admitted to allegations against him, a spokeswoman for his Toronto-area church said on Thursday. Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, from the 3,000-member Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was seen on video apparently confessing to crimes in front of reporters, said church spokeswoman Lisa Pak. "There was a press conference in Pyongyang, and he was asked to go and say some statements about his allegations and charges. |
| Religious assailant attacks Jerusalem Gay Pride march, wounding six | | | An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and wounded six participants in the annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned "as a most serious incident" what was the worst attack in years on the event in Jerusalem, a city where the religious population is more prominent than in other parts of Israel. Marchers numbering about 5,000 and waving banners were heading down an avenue when an ultra-Orthodox man jumped into the crowd and plunged a knife into some of them, witnesses said. |
| U.N. tackles illicit wildlife poaching amid Cecil the lion uproar | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday called on all countries to step up their efforts to tackle illicit poaching and trafficking in wildlife amid global uproar over the unlawful killing of "Cecil" the lion in Zimbabwe. The 193-member General Assembly adopted its first resolution on the issue following a two-year campaign by Germany and Gabon. "Like most people in the world we are outraged at what happened to this poor lion," Germany's U.N. Ambassador Harald Braun told reporters after the resolution was adopted. |
| WMA to look into future president Ketan Desai after Reuters story | |  By Steve Stecklow, Andrew MacAskill and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) - The World Medical Association, the leading international medical-ethics body, said it will look into "a number of questions" raised by a Reuters investigation of the organization's future president. Earlier today, Reuters reported that the WMA is standing behind Indian urologist Dr. Ketan Desai, who is scheduled to assume its presidency in 2016, even as he faces criminal allegations in two cases in Indian courts. Desai was first elected president of the WMA in 2009 but his inauguration, originally slated for 2010, was suspended after he was arrested on allegations that he was involved in a conspiracy to obtain a bribe from a medical college.
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| U.S. agency probes possible legal violation in lion killing - source | |  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating whether the killing of a beloved lion by an American dentist in Zimbabwe was part of a conspiracy to violate a U.S. law against illegal wildlife trading, a source close to the case told Reuters on Thursday. The investigation is focused on whether Walter Palmer, a dentist in suburban Minneapolis, was involved in a conspiracy to violate the act, the source said. Separately, the Fish & Wildlife Service said it has been unable to contact Palmer.
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| Leaders of Nigeria and Cameroon try to forge closer effort against Boko Haram | | | By Sylvain Andzongo YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The presidents of Nigeria and Cameroon tried to overcome differences in their efforts to crush the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram in two days of talks but they failed to announce a breakthrough on issues such as the right of cross-border pursuit. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, making his first trip to Cameroon since winning power in March, and Cameroonian leader Paul Biya voiced support for a planned multinational task force to fight Boko Haram but they provided no specifics on when it would become operational. When the talks wrapped up on Thursday, the made vague pledges to improve intelligence-sharing on Boko Haram and security cooperation along their long border. |
| Brazil nuclear leader's arrest may stymie its atomic ambitions | | | By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The arrest of the longtime head of Brazil's nuclear energy utility on corruption charges could disrupt a plan to revive Brazilian nuclear ambitions whose roots go back to its atomic-bomb program in the 1980s. Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, a retired admiral, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly taking 4.5 million reais ($1.35 million) in bribes from engineering firms working on the long-delayed Angra 3 nuclear power plant. While its constitution commits Brazil to the peaceful use of atomic power, Pinheiro, 76, has for three decades been a central player in plans to finish Angra 3, build eight additional reactors and even a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. |
| Erdogan taking Turkey to war to avenge Kurdish gains - opposition | |  By Gulsen Solaker and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - The leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition accused President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against Islamic State as a cover. Turkey launched near-simultaneous air strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq and Islamic State fighters in Syria last Friday, in what Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called a "synchronised fight against terror".
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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. |
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