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| Human Rights Watch demands U.S. criminal probe of CIA torture | |  Human Rights Watch called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to investigate 21 former U.S. officials, including former President George W. Bush, for potential criminal misconduct for their roles in the CIA's torture of terrorism suspects in detention. The other officials include former Vice President Dick Cheney, former CIA Director George Tenet, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
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| Pistorius could return to jail with appeal ruling this week | |  South Africa's Oscar Pistorius will find out if he will return to jail when the Supreme Court of Appeal announces on Thursday if it will scale up the track star's conviction for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp from manslaughter to murder. The Paralympic gold medallist was released on parole in October after serving a fifth of his five-year prison term for the "culpable homicide" of Steenkamp, whom he killed by firing four shots through a locked toilet door on Valentine's Day 2013. Prosecutors said Pistorius, 29, should be convicted of murder and sent back to jail because he knew the person behind the door could be killed when he fired.
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| Obama says carbon price tag would drive innovation | |  President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the best way to drive innovation and reduce carbon emissions is "to put a price on it" but he does not expect that from the current Republican-dominated U.S. Congress. As people come to realize the costs of climate change, Obama said they will start to put a price tag on the damage it is doing.
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| Cameron says government unanimous on Syria strikes, unlike opposition | |  By Elizabeth Piper and William James LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday his government had unanimously agreed a motion on air strikes against militants in Syria, portraying the ruling party as united on an issue that has split the Labour opposition. Cameron wants to launch the strikes as soon as possible against Islamic State in Syria, convinced Britain can no longer "sub-contract" its security to other countries after the group said it was behind last month's Paris attacks. New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Cameron of rushing to war, and appealed to those Labour lawmakers who favour the motion to "think again ... and please cast your vote against supporting this government's military endeavours in Syria".
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| Obama: climate change an economic, security imperative | |  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the world needs an enduring framework for addressing climate change and that he would seek an agreement that would boost economies as well as help the planet's environment. A strong climate pact would send a signal to researchers and investors that change is necessary and will spur energy innovation, Obama said at a news conference at the U.N. global climate summit in Paris. Obama said he expected the United States could uphold its climate commitments to help other countries meet their energy goals.
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| Prisoner swap frees Lebanese soldiers and IS leader's ex-wife | |  By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian wing freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen on Tuesday in exchange for the release of jailed Islamists including the ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese 16 months ago during an attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal mounted together with the Islamic State jihadist group which is still believed to be holding nine soldiers captured in the incursion. The exchange, brokered by Qatar, cast new light on the Gulf state's channels to the Nusra Front, a powerful player in the Syrian civil war that has been designated a terrorist group by the United Nations and United States.
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| Brazil's recession deepens, worst annual drop on record | |  By Silvio Cascione and Brad Haynes BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's economy shrank 1.7 percent in the third quarter, deepening its worst recession in 25 years and starving President Dilma Rousseff's government of taxes as she struggles with a growing fiscal deficit and a vast corruption scandal. On an annual basis, Brazil's gross domestic product dropped 4.5 percent in the third quarter, the steepest decline since the beginning of the current data series in 1996. "There is still no light at the end of the tunnel," said Luciano Rostagno, chief strategist at Banco Mizuho in Sao Paulo.
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| Explosive device found in van at Bulgaria's Sofia airport | | | Bulgarian authorities discovered an explosive device on Tuesday in a van parked just outside the capital Sofia's international airport. "An explosive device had been found in the van," Sofia airport spokeswoman Daniela Veleva said, adding that police were still trying to dispose of the device. Bulgarian police had earlier evacuated a section of the airport's Terminal 1 while bags seen in the van were checked. |
| Boko Haram militants kill four, wound two in Niger attack | | | Militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram killed eight people in an attack on a village in the southeast of Niger, a private local radio station, ANFANI, said on Tuesday. The group is seeking to carve out an emirate based on a severe interpretation of Islamic law in northeastern Nigeria and has also carried out numerous cross-border attacks into neighbouring countries, including Niger. Further details of the latest Boko Haram attack in the Diffa region late on Monday were not immediately available. |
| Two Pakistani soldiers killed in rare targeted Karachi attack | | | By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two Pakistani soldiers in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, the military said, a rare attack on the powerful army that could indicate the beginning of a push-back against a tightening crackdown on violence. The two were shot on a busy road in the centre of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial hub. No soldier had been killed in Karachi before that since March, underlining their protected status in a city where murders of policemen, politicians and prominent businessmen are common. |
| U.N. condemns air strike that cut water supplies to Syria's Aleppo | | | An air strike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people, and although pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the head of U.N. agency UNICEF in Syria said on Tuesday. "In Syria, the rules of war, including those meant to protect vital civilian infrastructure, continue to be broken on a daily basis," UNICEF's representative in Syria, Hanaa Singer, said in a statement. |
| Part of Sofia airport closed due to security concerns | | | SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police evacuated part of Sofia international airport on Tuesday while suspicious items of luggage were checked, the interior ministry's spokeswoman said. A section of Terminal 1 was closed to travellers after the bags were seen in a van parked just outside the airport. (Reporting by Angel Krasimirov; Editing by Catherine Evans) |
| Turkish newspaper says faces tax inspection after journalists arrested | |  Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, whose top two journalists were arrested last week on charges of espionage and terrorist propaganda, is facing an investigation into its tax accounts, its chief executive said. A court last Thursday ordered the arrest of Can Dundar, the paper's editor-in-chief, and senior editor Erdem Gul over the publication of footage purporting to show the state intelligence agency helping to send weapons to Syria. The case against the journalists has revived long-standing criticism of Turkey's record on press freedom under President Tayyip Erdogan with the United States saying it was "very concerned" about the arrests.
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| Merkel cabinet backs German role in military campaign against IS | |  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved plans on Tuesday for Germany to join the military campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, a big step for the country, which had long resisted a direct role in the conflict. In response to an appeal from France after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris which killed 130 people, Merkel's government agreed to send Tornado reconnaissance jets, refuelling aircraft, a frigate to protect a French aircraft carrier, and up to 1,200 soldiers to the region. Germany will not join France, the United States and Russia in conducting air strikes in Syria, but the move is significant given the country's post-war history of avoiding foreign military entanglements and voter misgivings about getting involved in the conflict in the Middle East.
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| French priest admits pocketing 700,000 euros | | | A Catholic priest will be sent to court after admitting he stole more than 700,000 euros ($741,000) collected from churchgoers and buyers of holy candles over a quarter of a century, the French public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Public prosecutor Karline Bouisset said the authorities had frozen holdings of 656,000 euros on his bank account. |
| Seven Kurdish militants killed in clashes with Turkish forces - governor | | | Seven Kurdish militants and one Turkish soldier were killed during several days of clashes in the southeast, the provincial governor's office said on Tuesday. Fighting erupted in the town of Derik in Mardin province, north of the Syrian border, after security forces launched an operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members, according to a statement on the governor's website. Authorities imposed a round-the-clock curfew on the town last week - an action that often precedes operations against militants. |
| U.S. Marine jailed in Philippines for killing transgender woman | |  By Manuel Mogato OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - A Philippine court found a U.S. Marine guilty of killing a transgender woman on Tuesday, jailing him for six to 12 years in a case that has reignited debate over the American military presence in its former colony. The Olongapo City regional trial court also ordered Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton to pay more than 4.5 million pesos ($95,350) to the family of Jennifer Laude, who was found dead last year in a hotel outside the former U.S. navy base northwest of Manila. "This is not quite a victory," Laude's sister, Malou, told Reuters.
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| Far-right Jewish activist jailed for setting fire to school in Jerusalem | | | A far-right Jewish activist who set fire to a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem was sentenced on Tuesday to three years' imprisonment for the attack that targeted a rare symbol of co-existence in the holy city. The defendant, Yitzhak Gabbai, 24, is a member of Lehava, an anti-Arab group. A Jerusalem court found that he and two accomplices set fire to a classroom in the "Hand in Hand" school a year ago. |
| Small steps for women's rights and democracy in Saudi poll | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian women are running for election and voting for the first time on Dec. 12, but their enfranchisement marks only a pigeon step towards democracy and gender equality in the autocratic Islamic kingdom. "For 10 years, since men first voted, we have waited for this chance," said Fawzia al-Harbi, one of hundreds of female candidates who began campaigning this week. The ruling Al Saud dynasty has no intention of sharing power with elected politicians, say analysts, and it fears combative campaigns or rapid social reform could unleash unrest in a patriarchal state with deep tribal and religious loyalties.
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| Italy, Kosovo police arrest four jihadist suspects | | | Italian and Kosovan police have arrested four Kosovars suspected of being part of a jihadist cell that spread Islamist propaganda and made threats against Pope Francis, justice officials said on Tuesday. The four, three of whom were arrested in Italy and one in Kosovo, are all suspected of "condoning terrorism" and "inciting racial hatred", Italian police said in a statement. A police official said the four were very active on the Internet, promoting their pro-jihadist cause, but did not appear to have been involved in any specific plots. |
| Factbox: The hunt for the Paris attackers | |  (Reuters) - France and Belgium are hunting suspects and would-be attackers following the shootings and bombings in Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Investigations are centred on Salah Abdeslam. Police think he may be an assailant referred to in an Islamic State statement claiming responsibility for the attacks.
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| Two Palestinian assailants shot dead in WBank stabbing attempts - Israel | | | Israeli security forces shot dead two knife-wielding Palestinian assailants on Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities said, as a wave of Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings entered its third month. Israeli forces have killed 97 Palestinians, of whom 58 were identified by Israel as assailants or caught on camera carrying out attacks, while others were shot in clashes with police and troops. A police spokeswoman said a Palestinian man who tried to carry out a stabbing attack on Tuesday at a busy junction in the Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements in the West Bank was shot dead. |
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