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| Turkey's Erdogan: "clear provocation" from pro-Kurdish HDP leader |
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 Comments over the weekend from the leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were a "clear provocation" and the party "will be taught a lesson" by the people and the law, President Tayyip Erdogan said in a live broadcast on Tuesday. A Turkish prosecutor opened an investigation into HDP head Selahattin Demirtas for calls for greater Kurdish self-governance, Dogan news agency reported on Monday. Demirtas, a lawyer turned politician, was one of the participants in a two-day congress of Kurdish groups this weekend that called for more self-governance.
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| Israel top court cuts ex-PM Olmert's jail term for bribery to 18 months |
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 Israel's Supreme Court sentenced former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to 18 months in jail on Tuesday after partly overturning a 2014 bribery conviction in which he was originally sentenced to six years behind bars. Olmert, prime minister from 2006 to 2009, will be the first former head of government in Israel to be imprisoned and he will begin serving his term on Feb. 15, according to live reports from the Jerusalem courtroom.
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| Two arrested in Belgium over suspected New Year's Eve attack plot |
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 Two people were arrested in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Year's Eve, federal prosecutors said. Police found military clothing and Islamic State propaganda material but no weapons or explosives, prosecutors said on Tuesday. "Our investigation revealed serious threats of an attack on symbolic places in Brussels during the celebrations for New Year's Eve," the prosecutors said in a statement.
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| Texas "affluenza" teen taken into custody in Mexico, official says |
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 By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas teen from a wealthy family, a fugitive after breaking his probation sentence for killing four people while driving drunk, has been taken into custody in Mexico, a law enforcement official said on Monday. Ethan Couch, 18, nicknamed the "affluenza" teen, was serving 10 years probation for intoxication manslaughter in the 2013 incident. Texas, to place the teen on the county's most wanted list and issue a warrant for his apprehension.
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| Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves |
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 By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females. The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on the subject, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the sexual slavery of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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