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| Iran's leader demands Muslim world probe haj deaths | |  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday called on Muslim countries to investigate the deadly crush on the Islamic haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia last Thursday that killed 769 people including at least 239 Iranians. "Representatives from Iran and the Islamic world should go to Saudi Arabia and investigate the cause of the haj incident," Khamenei was quoted as saying by Fars news agency. (Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin)
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| Putin wins parliamentary backing for air strikes in Syria | |  By Andrew Osborn and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday secured parliament's unanimous backing to launch air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, paving the way for imminent Russian military intervention in its closest Middle East ally. Russia has already sent military experts to a recently established centre in Baghdad that is coordinating air strikes and ground troops in Syria, a Russian official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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| Close ally of Philippines' Aquino faces graft investigation | | | A top adviser to Philippine President Benigno Aquino is facing a corruption investigation, a government agency said on Wednesday, a potential blow for the president who has built a reputation as a graft fighter. The anti-graft agency Ombudsman said the adviser, Budget Secretary Florencio "Butch" Abad, and his deputy, Mario Relampagos, were "facing preliminary investigation for technical malversation and administrative charges". Aquino had made fighting corruption a priority of his administration but he has struggled to keep scandals involving allies and friends at arm's length. |
| Brother of disgraced former top China officer sacked | |  A younger brother of a disgraced former senior Chinese military officer, who has been accused of corruption, has been sacked from his position as a senior provincial official, state media said on Wednesday. Guo Boquan has been removed as head of the civil affairs department of the northwestern province of Shaanxi, the official Xinhua news agency said, without providing any details. Chinese media reports have identified him as a younger brother of Guo Boxiong, who was a vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission until he retired in 2012.
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| India sentences five men to death for 2006 Mumbai train blasts | |  By Karen Rebelo MUMBAI (Reuters) - A court sentenced five men to death and jailed seven for life on Wednesday for planning the bomb blasts that ripped through Mumbai commuter trains in 2006, killing more than 180 people and wounding hundreds. The specially convened court convicted 12 of 13 accused earlier this month for their role in the events that led to seven bombs exploding on packed trains during the evening rush hour in Mumbai on July 11, 2006. Police say the attack was carried out by disaffected Muslims at the behest of Pakistan-based Islamist militants, and named militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba's Pakistan-based leader, Azeem Cheema, as the prime conspirator.
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| China says arrests two Japanese for spying | | | BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - China has arrested two Japanese for spying, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, and Japan said the two had been held since May and diplomats were doing all they could to help. Japan's Asahi newspaper said one man was taken into custody in China's northeast province of Liaoning near the border with North Korea and the other in the eastern province of Zhejiang near a military facility. The newspaper added China appeared to be looking into whether the men were acting under instructions from the Japanese government. |
| France investigates Syria's Assad for crimes against humanity | |  France is investigating Bashar al-Assad over alleged crimes against humanity, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday, launching a case that highlights divisions among major powers over relations with the Syrian leader. The investigation, which is also examining claims of torture and kidnapping by Assad's forces, was opened "on the basis of indications received from the foreign ministry" on Sept. 10, an official at the prosecutor's office said. An estimated 250,000 people have been killed in Syria's four-year civil war between Assad's troops, rebel groups and Islamic State militants, and a further 11 million displaced.
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| S.Africa hopes to settle with 'Marikana massacre' victims - Zuma | | | South Africa may set up a panel to process civil claims that have been filed against the government by the families of miners killed during a violent 2012 wildcat strike at a mine run by platinum producer Lonmin, the presidency said. "A judge, assisted by experts, will be asked to lead this process in order to reinforce its independence," President Jacob Zuma said in a statement. "Government will engage with the legal representatives of claimants, and encourage them to use this process. |
| Lawmakers demand president resigns as Afghan battle rages | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan lawmakers called on President Ashraf Ghani to resign on Wednesday over his government's "shameful" handling of the battle for Kunduz, the northern city which has fallen to Taliban insurgents in their biggest victory so far in 14 years of war. The Islamist militants seized control of Kunduz after an audacious assault on the city on Monday, and the promised counter-offensive from Afghan forces has yet to materialise. "It is shameful how they (the government) have dealt with the situation in Kunduz," said Iqbal Safi, a member of parliament from Kapisa province, during a televised session of parliament.
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| Turkish PM says workers kidnapped in Iraq have been released | | | ANKARA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sixteen Turkish workers abducted by armed militants in Iraq have been released and are with embassy officials, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on his Twitter account on Wednesday. The men were snatched on Sept. 2 from a stadium they were building on the outskirts of Baghdad, apparently by an armed group that used a familiar Shi'ite Muslim slogan and threatened to attack Turkish interests in Iraq if its demands were not met. The men had appeared in an online video on Tuesday that promised their release after the United Nations backed a deal to extricate Syrian villagers under siege from rebels supported by Turkey. |
| China charges former regional bank chief with graft | | | The former head of a local lender in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia will be prosecuted for suspected corruption, bribery and embezzlement, the state prosecutor said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of bankers to be targeted for graft. Yang Chenglin, former board chairman of the Bank of Inner Mongolia, defrauded the bank and sought personal profits by embezzling large sums of money from the bank, the prosecutor said. Bank of Inner Mongolia, based in regional capital Hohhot, was set up in 1999 and was renamed in 2009 from Hohhot City Commercial Bank. |
| U.S. state of Georgia executes a woman for the first time in 70 years | |  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, a prison spokeswoman said. Gissendaner was sentenced to death after being convicted of what is known in the state as malice murder for her role in plotting the killing of her husband, Douglas, in 1997.
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