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| Three suspected Islamic State members arrested in Turkey -Dogan | | | Three suspected Islamic State members, one a Briton and two Pakistani, were arrested last week in Istanbul following raids carried out by Turkish security forces, Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday. Last month Turkish authorities picked up another Briton saying he was an associate of Islamic State leader "Jihadi John", who is thought to have been killed in a coalition air-strike. Turkey has stepped up its efforts to tackle the militants after the group was blamed for a double suicide attack in Ankara in October that killed 100. |
| German court sentences man to life in Rwanda genocide case | | | A German court sentenced a Rwandan man already behind bars for his role in a 1994 massacre to life in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of the more serious crime of actively participating in genocide. Onesphore Rwabukombe, who has lived in Germany since 2002, was a mayor in Rwanda at the time of the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by dominant Hutu forces in 100 days. Last year a court in Frankfurt ruled that Rwabukombe, a 58-year old ethnic Hutu, had overseen and assisted in the murder of at least 450 men, women and children at the Kiziguro church compound in east Rwanda, and sentenced him to 14 years in jail. |
| Iraq's Abadi visits Ramadi to celebrate Islamic State defeat | |  Iraq's prime minister visited Ramadi on Tuesday, a day after the army took back the western city from Islamic State in the first major success for the U.S.-trained force that fled in the face of the militants' advance 18 months ago. Security sources said Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who arrived by helicopter with a top military officer at the Anbar University complex in the city's southern outskirts, would meet commanders from Iraq's army and counter-terrorism forces, which had spearheaded the offensive. Abadi later announced the visit himself on Twitter.
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| As record numbers flee their homes in 2015, the hopes of people forced out | |  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The year 2015 saw a record number of people fleeing their homes, with more than 60 million people uprooted by wars, conflict and persecution in countries ranging from Syria to South Sudan and Afghanistan, according to the United Nations. Here are some of their stories and their hopes for 2016: Sandy Khabbazeh, 26, a Syrian now living in Oakland, New Jersey, United States "I am from Aleppo City. When ISIS wants to attack the Syrian government, they come to our neighborhood.
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| Turkey's Erdogan: "clear provocation" from pro-Kurdish HDP leader | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday comments at 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. Erdogan's broadside at HDP chief Selahattin Demirtas could further widen the gulf between the government and the Kurdish opposition. A Turkish prosecutor opened an investigation into Demirtas after he made calls for greater Kurdish self-governance, Dogan news agency reported on Monday.
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| Former Israeli PM Olmert's jail term cut, cleared of main charge | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's top court slashed former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's prison sentence to 18 months from six years on Tuesday after overturning the main count in his 2014 bribery conviction. Olmert, 70, will begin serving his term on Feb. 15, according to live reports from the Jerusalem courtroom, making him the first former head of government in Israel to go to prison. The conviction ended speculation that Olmert - a centrist credited with working towards a peace settlement with the Palestinians until the graft scandal forced him to step down - might return to political life.
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| Blatter gives up on FIFA, says fighting for his honour - Bunte | |  By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) - Banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter feels "abandoned" by the global soccer body and will now focus on clearing his name, the 79-year-old Swiss told German magazine Bunte. FIFA's watchdog last week banned Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini for eight years for ethics violations. "I now no longer fight for FIFA," Blatter, who led soccer's governing body for 17 years, said according to a preview of an interview with Bunte.
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| Two arrested in Belgium over suspected New Year's Eve attack plot | |  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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