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| Military prosecutors say Bergdahl deliberately snuck off post | |  By Jon Herskovitz SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - U.S. military prosecutors said in opening statements on Thursday that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of war in Afghanistan held for five years before being swapped in 2014 for five Taliban leaders, deliberately left his post. Prosecutors at a preliminary hearing to establish probable cause said he launched a plan that was weeks in the making and there was sufficient evidence to hold him for trial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. "Under the cover of darkness, he snuck off the post," Major Margaret Kurz, a military prosecutor, said at the proceeding held at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
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| UK spy chief calls for more powers to fight terrorism threat | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security agencies need greater powers to deal with a growing terrorism threat and the advanced technology being used by militants, the head of the country's domestic spy service said on Thursday in the first live media interview by an MI5 chief in its 106-year history. Prime Minister David Cameron's government plans new laws later this year to bolster surveillance capabilities of spies and police, but faces a battle from privacy and human rights campaigners who say such measures represent an assault on freedoms. In an interview with BBC radio, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said Britain was facing its most serious terrorism threat since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and had foiled six attempted attacks in the last year.
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| Turkish prosecutors seeking up to 34-year sentence for president's rival Gulen - state news | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a prison sentence of up to 34 years for a U.S.-based cleric and rival of President Tayyip Erdogan on charges including "forming and leading an armed organisation", the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Thursday. Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen and his followers of plotting a coup and operating a "parallel structure" in the ranks of the police, judiciary, media and education. ...
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| Japan takes key step to passage of security bills despite protests | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan took a step on Thursday towards enacting legislation for a policy shift that would allow troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, part of the prime minister's agenda to loosen the limits of a pacifist constitution. The security policy shift, which Abe says is vital to meet challenges such as a rising China, has sparked protests and sharply eroded his popular support. Opponents argue it violates the constitution and fear it could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts.
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| Bulgaria lifts statute of limitations for communist-era crimes | | | Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday lifted the statute of limitations for prosecuting political crimes from the communist era, clearing the way to pursue cases including the notorious assassination of an exiled dissident. Among them was the killing of exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgy Markov with the poisoned tip of an umbrella on London's Waterloo Bridge in 1978. Bulgaria's statute of limitations had run for 35 years. |
| Refugees see last chance for Europe before winter closes route from Turkey | | | By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrians and other migrants thronged a small park in central Istanbul, hoping for a last chance to reach Europe before poor weather makes their favoured route from Turkey to Greece too dangerous to undertake. "It is time to go, while the door to Europe is open," said Zopir, 20, who fled the Syrian town of Deir al-Zor three years ago and now wants to reach Europe before his wife, eight months pregnant, gives birth. "I am afraid, but I am ready." Zopir scraped together 8,000 euros ($9,000) for their trip, which begins in and near the park in Aksaray, a working-class district of Istanbul, by hiring a "dealer": a front man for smugglers who help refugees reach the Aegean coast. |
| GM pays $900 mln in U.S. criminal settlement over ignition switches | |  General Motors Co agreed to pay $900 million and admit to misleading the government and the public about the safety of its vehicles to end a U.S. criminal investigation into its handling of defective ignition switches linked to 124 deaths. The settlement and charges, which were detailed in papers filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, have transformed the relationship between the automaker and the U.S. government, which had bailed out GM during the financial crisis. GM admitted to failing to disclose to its U.S. regulator and the public a potentially lethal safety defect with the switches that kept airbags from deploying in some vehicles.
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| Pakistani police accuse businessman of helping al Qaeda | | | (Corrects to clarify man was expelled from air force college, did not become pilot) By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested a businessman who donated funds to the Taliban and al Qaeda, police told Reuters on Wednesday, in a rare case targeting those who financially contribute to militancy. The suspect, Syed Sheaba Ahmed, was detained in the southern city of Karachi, police said although they did not say when. "Ahmed has also been financing Afghan Taliban, we are still in the process of ascertaining if he has been providing financing through his businesses or someone else is behind him," the officer said. |
| Blasts in central Baghdad leave 23 dead, 68 wounded | |  At least ?23? people were killed and 68 others wounded when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said. Two suicide blasts claimed by Islamic State killed at least 19 people in the commercial district of Bab al-Shargi, a demonstration that the Sunni insurgent group can still launch attacks in the heart of the capital despite government efforts to thwart them. Baghdad is trying to dislodge Islamic State from large swathes of the country's north and west, but advances have been slow, particularly in the western province of Anbar, where Baghdad has been focusing its attention for months.
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