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| Nigerian troops arrest "mastermind" of Jos, Zaria bombings | |  Nigerian troops have arrested the mastermind of bombings in the central cities of Jos and Zaria this week that killed at least 69 people, the defence ministry said on Thursday. No one has taken responsibility for the attacks but they bore the hallmarks of Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has been waging a six-year insurgency in Africa's largest oil producer. The suspect was picked up at a checkpoint in the northeast city of Gombe, on the fringes of Boko Haram's northeast stronghold, it added.
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| Ugandan police arrest presidential aspirants on way to meetings | | | Ugandan police arrested on Thursday a former prime minister who wants to challenge President Yoweri Museveni for the ruling party's candidacy ahead of 2016 elections, while he was on his way to meet supporters at a town near Kenya's border. In June police had banned Amama Mbabazi from holding meetings to promote his challenge against Museveni, saying their party had not yet nominated a candidate. Andrew Felix Kawesi, Uganda Police operations commander, was shown on local television station NSB confirming the arrest to journalists in Njeru, a town 75 km outside the capital Kampala. |
| Malaysia govt audit finds nothing suspicious in 1MDB probe - report | |  An interim report by the Malaysian government into debt-laden state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has found nothing suspicious after vetting its accounts, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday. The bi-partisan Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the report by the auditor-general revealed nothing out of the ordinary but criticised 1MDB for failing to fully cooperate in investigations. "There is nothing suspicious in the interim report," said Nur Jazlan Mohamed, head of the PAC, a group tasked to examine government accounts.
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| South Carolina legislature passes bill to remove Confederate flag | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The South Carolina legislature passed a bill early Thursday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds after an emotional 13-hour debate over the controversial banner. The flag, which dates back to the 1861-65 American Civil War, is a symbol of slavery and racism for many and Southern heritage for others. The bill, already approved by the Senate, passed a third and final vote in the House of Representatives in the early hours of the morning by a margin of 94-20, and now goes to Governor Nikki Haley to be signed into law later in the day.
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| AC/DC's Rudd gets home detention for threatening to kill | | | Phil Rudd, the Australian-born drummer from world-famous rock band AC/DC, was sentenced to eight months home detention in a New Zealand court on Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of threatening to kill and possession of drugs. |
| Insight - Military helps cut Honduras murder rate, but abuses spike | |  The militarization of Central America's violent Honduras has helped to stem gang bloodshed in a land known for the world's highest murder rate, but it has created another problem - an apparent spike in abuses blamed on soldiers. Former President Porfirio Lobo rolled out the military in 2012 to fight drug gangs and his successor Juan Hernandez upped the offensive, pledging to "put a soldier on every corner". While that may help Honduras shake off its reputation as the world's deadliest country, a litany of murder, rape and torture accusations by some victims and human rights groups against the military is haunting a country struggling to find its feet after a 2009 coup that sparked a surge in violence. Poverty and chronic violence in Honduras were among the main factors behind a surge in illegal migration from Central America to the United States last year that caused a major political headache for President Barack Obama.
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| Despite peace talks breakthrough, Afghan leader under pressure at home | |  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - If Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was savouring inaugural peace talks with Taliban insurgents held in Pakistan on Wednesday, celebrations of the milestone he has worked so hard to reach may be short-lived. The lower house of parliament is threatening to impeach Ghani's interior minister over his failure to stem violence by Islamist militants. Last week lawmakers rejected the president's third nominee for defence minister.
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| Chinese police visits regulator, to probe "malicious" short-selling | |  Chinese police visited the office of the country's securities regulator on Thursday to investigate clues that suggest "malicious" short-selling of shares, state news agency Xinhua said, the latest effort by authorities to prevent a further meltdown in the stock market. The country's stock markets have plunged roughly 30 percent over the last three weeks, with a series of increasingly aggressive attempts by authorities so far having failed to stem the massive exodus from a once-booming market. Citing unidentified sources, Xinhua said Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Qifeng had led a team to the office of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on Thursday morning.
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| Pope lauds Bolivia's social reforms as relations thaw | |  By Philip Pullella and Daniel Ramos LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday praised Bolivia's social reforms to spread wealth under leftist President Evo Morales and urged the world not to view prosperity as material wealth, which he warned only breeds corruption and conflict. Morales' strained relations with the Catholic Church have begun thawing under the Argentine-born pontiff's papacy, and he warmly embraced the pope seven years after denouncing the Church as "an instrument of domination". Francis, Latin America's first pope, made back-to-back addresses in the thin air of La Paz, which sits in a bowl surrounded by mountain peaks, and showed no sign of suffering from altitude sickness.
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