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| NATO invites Montenegro to join alliance, defying Russia | |  By Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO invited tiny Montenegro on Wednesday to join the military alliance in its first expansion since 2009, defying Russian warnings that enlargement of the U.S.-led bloc further into the Balkans is "irresponsible" action that undermines trust. In a scripted session at NATO's headquarters in Brussels, Montenegro's Foreign Minister Igor Luksic strode into the imposing conference hall to loud applause from his peers as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg declared: "This is the beginning of a very beautiful alliance." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the decision to invite Montenegro was not directed at Russia. "NATO is not a threat to anyone ... it is a defensive alliance, it is simply meant to provide security," Kerry told a news conference.
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| Cameron urges UK parliament to back bombing of Islamic State in Syria | |  By Kylie MacLellan and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged parliament to vote on Wednesday to approve British air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria after months of wrangling over whether enough opposition Labour lawmakers would back military action. "This is a contemptible and desperate slur which demeans his office," Corbyn's spokesman said, calling for an apology from Cameron.
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| U.S. says NATO enlargement not a threat to Russia | |  NATO is a defensive alliance and its decision to enlarge into the Balkans is not directed at Russia or any other nation, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday after NATO invited Montenegro to join. "NATO is not a threat to anyone ... it is a defensive alliance, it is simply meant to provide security," Kerry told a news conference.
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| Briton accused of plotting attacks in Kenya jailed for nine years | |  By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA (Reuters) - A British man accused of helping plan attacks in Kenya was sentenced to nine years in jail on Wednesday after being found guilty of trying to obtain a fake passport. Jermaine Grant, from east London, still faces terrorism-related charges in a trial in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. Prosecutors say Grant has ties to Somali Islamist rebels al Shabaab, but he denies the charges.
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| Divorced and widowed Saudi women to get greater legal powers - newspaper | |  Saudi Arabia will let divorced women and widows manage family affairs without approval from a man or a court order, a state-aligned newspaper said on Wednesday, a major step to lift some of the legal powers men hold over female relatives. Under the late King Abdullah, the autocratic Islamic kingdom made some reforms to give women more rights, but these remain severely restricted. The Al Riyadh newspaper said the Interior Ministry will issue family identity cards not only to men, but also to divorcees and widows, granting them powers that will include accessing records, registering children for schools and authorising medical procedures.
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| California man pleads guilty to seeking to join Islamic State | | | A California man has pleaded guilty to planning to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria, prosecutors said, and faces up to 15 years in prison. Nicholas Michael Teausant, 22, from the town of Acampo, on Tuesday pleaded guilty in a federal court in Sacramento to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Teausant is one of a number of people arrested in the United States in the last two years for planning to join Islamic State, which controls large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people. |
| Egypt orders retrial in graft case against Mubarak-era prime minister | |  An Egyptian court ordered a second retrial on Wednesday in a longrunning graft case against Ahmed Nazif, prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said. A court sentenced Nazif to five years in jail for graft in July in the first retrial in the case. The second retrial, ordered after Nazif won an appeal against his conviction, begins on Feb. 3.
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| British police arrest four men in counter-terrorism probe | | | British police arrested four men in the town of Luton on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting acts of terrorism, police said in a statement. The men, all in their 30s, were taken into custody at a London police station. Searches were being conducted at seven addresses in Luton, north of London, and several vehicles were also being searched, police said. |
| In step towards power, Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets president, top general | |  By Aung Hla Tun and Timothy Mclaughlin NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held direct talks with Myanmar's top general for the first time on Wednesday as her party prepares to form the government in a country where the military retains considerable clout after decades of rule. Earlier in the day, the Nobel laureate also held talks with reformist President Thein Sein to discuss the transfer of power to her National League for Democracy (NLD), which swept a Nov. 8 election. Suu Kyi and armed forces supremo Min Aung Hlaing talked for over an hour at the military chief's office in the capital Naypyitaw.
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| China behind 'massive' cyber-attack on Australian government - ABC | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A major cyber-attack against Australia's Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromised potentially sensitive national security information is being blamed on China, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday. The Bureau of Meteorology owns one of Australia's largest supercomputers and the attack, which the ABC said occurred in recent days, may have allowed those responsible access to the Department of Defence through a linked network. The ABC, citing several unidentified sources with knowledge of the "massive" breach, placed the blame on China, which has in the past been accused of hacking sensitive Australian government computer systems.
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| Al Qaeda militants take over two south Yemen towns, residents say | | | By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters retook on Wednesday two southern Yemeni towns they had briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said. Residents said the militants launched a surprise attack on Zinjibar and Jaar and overcame local forces, then set up checkpoints at the entries to the towns and announced their takeover over loudspeakers after dawn prayers. The capture of the towns highlights how al Qaeda has taken advantage of the collapse of central authority in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been embroiled in an eight-month war against Shi'ite Houthis. |
| Pakistan hangs four convicted of Taliban massacre at school | |  Pakistan executed four men on Wednesday for involvement in the massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar last year, media and security sources said. The hangings were the first executions of civilians convicted by Pakistan's military courts, which were set up after the massacre through a constitutional amendment. The executions were confirmed by three security sources, two of whom are based in Kohat, where the men were hanged early in the morning at the city's civilian-run central jail.
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| North Korean leader's aunt sues defectors in South for defamation | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's aunt and her husband, who acted as guardians when he was a teenager, filed a defamation lawsuit in South Korea on Wednesday against three defectors, seeking 60 million won ($51,612) in damages, her lawyer said. The lawsuit is unusual for North Korea's ruling family, whose members outside the country tend to shun the spotlight, and raises questions about the veracity of statements by defectors from the isolated state. Ko Yong Suk, Kim Jong Un's aunt who defected to the United States in 1998, filed the suit in a Seoul court, accusing defectors of spreading false information that she had the leader's half-brother expelled from North Korea and that she had plastic surgery to hide after defecting, her lawyer said.
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