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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 briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said, exploiting the collapse of central authority in Yemen in its eight-month war. In an early morning surprise attack on the Abyan province capital Zinjibar and neighbouring town of Jaar, the militants overcame local forces and announced their takeover over loudspeakers after dawn prayers. Residents identified them as Ansar al-Sharia, a local affiliate of al Qaeda.
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| Sofia airport announcer faces charges over mistaken bomb scare | | | An employee at Sofia airport has been sacked and faces criminal charges after mistakenly announcing over the tannoy that Bulgarian authorities had found an explosive device in a van parked outside the airport on Tuesday. The airport's chief executive corrected Daniela Veleva's announcement only a few minutes later. "Pre-trial proceedings have been initiated against the airport's employee for spreading false information," Georgi Kostov, the chief secretary of the interior ministry, said on Wednesday. |
| Ukrainian mogul Firtash predicts Kiev government will fall next year | |  By Alessandra Prentice VIENNA (Reuters) - Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash said the Ukrainian government is politically bankrupt and will probably fall early next year, his most outspoken criticism of the pro-Western leadership in Kiev since it came to power almost two years ago. Firtash, a former supporter of ousted Moscow-friendly president Viktor Yanukovich, shelved a plan to return to Ukraine this week after officials there said they would act on a U.S. warrant for his arrest on suspicion of bribery and money-laundering. Speaking from his base in the Austrian capital, Firtash said he had lost faith in the ability of the government to conduct meaningful reform, and had decided Ukraine needed a movement which would push for political change.
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| Parliament no place for tear gas, Kerry tells Kosovo | |  By Arshad Mohammed PRISTINA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on opposition lawmakers in Kosovo on Wednesday to stop setting off tear gas in parliament, and on the young country to combat corruption, Islamic radicalism and ethnic division. In the Balkans for the first time as secretary of state, Kerry's brief stop in Kosovo underscored Western concern over the slow pace of progress 16 years after a U.S.-led NATO air war set the former Serbian province on the road to independence. The country of 1.8 million people - mainly ethnic Albanians - faces a deepening political crisis over relations with former master Serbia, against a backdrop of widespread frustration at a lack of progress on democracy, corruption and Western integration.
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| As many as 20 wounded in shooting in San Bernardino, California - authorities | | | At least one person opened fire at or near a state social services agency in the Southern California city of San Bernardino on Wednesday and as many as 20 people were wounded, authorities said. The San Bernardino Police Department said on Twitter that it had "confirmed 1 to 3 possible suspects" and multiple victims in the shooting. The San Bernardino Fire Department said in a tweet that it was responding to reports of 20 victims. |
| Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade | |  By Maria Tsvetkova and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last week when a Turkish air force jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border, the most serious incident between Russia and a NATO state in half a century. Erdogan responded by saying no one had the right to "slander" Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State, and that he would stand down if such allegations were proven to be true.
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| U.S. rejects Russian charge that Turkey involved in Islamic State oil smuggling | |  The United States on Wednesday flatly rejected Russian allegations that the Turkish government was in league with Islamic State militants to smuggle oil from Syria. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a news briefing that U.S. information was that Islamic State was selling oil at the wellheads to middlemen who in turn were involved in smuggling the oil across the frontier into Turkey. "We reject outright the premise that the Turkish government is in league with ISIL to smuggle oil across its borders," Toner said, using an acronym for the militant group.
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| Venezuela says opposition activist killing was gang-related | | | Venezuelan police have determined the Nov. 25 murder of an opposition activist during a campaign rally for the upcoming congressional vote was the result of a gang dispute and not linked to politics, the interior minister said on Wednesday. Luis Diaz, a local leader of the opposition party, Democratic Action, was gunned down in the central state of Guarico. Democratic Action's national leader, Henry Ramos, had pointed the finger at the Socialist Party for Diaz's death. |
| Eleven people die during attack on Ivory Coast village | | | Eleven people, including seven soldiers, were killed on Wednesday in clashes with unidentified gunmen in a village in Ivory Coast near the border with Liberia, state radio said. The West African nation has been attacked by unidentified armed men from Liberia on at least three previous occasions in the past two years, including one assault in January in which two soldiers were killed. "The situation is under control," said Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi on state radio. |
| Trump calls for targeting Islamic State fighters' families | |  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday his plan for combating Islamic State militants involves targeting not just the group's fighters but also their families. "When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families," Trump said on Fox News. "They care about their lives, don't kid yourselves." Trump said if he were president, he would try to avoid civilian deaths in going after the militant group, but he said the Obama administration was "fighting a very politically correct war." Trump's comments about the families of Islamic State fighters came a day after Lebanon released the ex-wife of the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other jailed Islamists in an exchange with al Qaeda's Syrian wing.
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| Baltimore officer showed negligence in Freddie Gray's death - prosecutor | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore policeman on trial for the death of a black man from an injury sustained while in custody ignored his requests for medical aid and failed to secure him in the back of a van, a prosecutor said in opening statements on Wednesday. Officer William Porter, 26, is charged in the death of Freddie Gray in April, which triggered rioting, arson and protests in the largely black city. Gray, 25, died from a spinal injury suffered on April 12 in the back of a police van after he was taken into custody for fleeing an officer and possessing a knife.
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| ISIS video purportedly shows killing of Russian spy - monitoring group | | | A video released online by Islamic State on Wednesday purportedly showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy its fighters had captured and who had been in Syria and Iraq since last year, the SITE monitoring group reported. The video shows the man sitting in an orange jumpsuit and giving details of his apparent recruitment by Russian intelligence services. Then, in a different outdoor location, an Islamic State fighter, who in Russian threatens Russia and President Vladimir Putin with attacks, appears to cut the man's throat and cut his head off. |
| More than 26 pounds of cocaine found on American Airlines plane in Tulsa | | | By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - Maintenance workers with American Airlines have discovered more than 26 pounds (11.8 kg) of cocaine in a Boeing 757 undergoing routine maintenance at Tulsa International Airport, officials said on Wednesday. The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office was called to the airport's maintenance centre after airline employees found packages of a white, powdery substance in the plane on Tuesday night, the sheriff's office said. Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were called in and removed 10 square packages, it said. |
| BP spill manslaughter charges dropped, one guilty of environmental crime | |  Manslaughter charges were dropped against two former BP well site managers involved in the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil drilling disaster on Wednesday, and one pleaded guilty to an environmental crime, federal prosecutors said. Donald Vidrine pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour violation of the Clean Water Act and "admitted to negligently causing the massive oil spill that resulted from the disaster," Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement.
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| France and Germany seek to step up fight against militant financing | |  France and Germany pushed on Wednesday for Europe to speed up a crackdown on money laundering and said they would propose a package of new EU measures next week to cut off funding to militants. Germany has vowed to show solidarity with France after the Nov. 13 militant Islamist attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed. Berlin plans to join the military campaign against Islamic State insurgents in Syria.
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| Cameron urges UK parliament to back bombing of Islamic State in Syria | |  By William James and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged lawmakers on Wednesday to approve bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, saying Britain should join a U.S.-led campaign to destroy militants he said were plotting attacks on the West. As Cameron set out his case for war in what was expected to be at least a 10-hour debate, he was interrupted by opponents demanding he apologise for suggesting in a private meeting that those against air strikes were "terrorist sympathisers". Many British voters are wary of being dragged into another war in the Middle East: They view Western intervention in Iraq and Libya as a failure that sowed chaos across the region and thus helped fuel the rise of the ultra-radical Islamic State.
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| Iraqi politicians, militias warn Abadi against U.S. force deployment | |  By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's ruling alliance and powerful Shi'ite militias say Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi would be digging his own political grave and undermining the fight against Islamic State if he permits the deployment of a new U.S. special operations force in the country. Washington said on Tuesday it would send troops, expected to number around 200, to Iraq to conduct raids against the ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim militants who have seized swathes of the country's north and west and neighbouring Syria. Abadi said hours later that any such deployment would require his government's consent, comments that may have been made for public consumption at home.
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| Victims and killers: Venezuela youth at sharp end of crime | |  Ever more youths like Yeyo are choosing the gang life in Venezuela where state rehabilitation programs are failing, impunity is widespread, and an economic crisis is weighing heavily on the population. U.N. children's agency Unicef says Venezuela is the world's third worst country for murders of young people, only surpassed by gang-plagued El Salvador and Guatemala. Alejandro Moreno, a Roman Catholic priest whose years living in a poor Caracas neighborhood have enabled him to study crime close up, needs no statistics.
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| Islamist leader asks Bangladesh court to commute death sentence | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - The lawyer representing the head of Bangladesh's Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party appealed on Wednesday to the Supreme Court to commute his death penalty for war crimes to life in prison. The country's war crimes tribunal, set up in 2010 to investigate abuses during the independence war in 1971, handed down the sentence in October last year. "Considering his age and physical condition, we appealed to reduce the gravity of the punishment," Motiur Rahman Nizami's defence lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain told Reuters.
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| Spanish court blocks Catalan independence drive | |  Spain's Constitutional Court blocked a Catalan secession drive on Wednesday, deepening confrontation and adding to political uncertainty in Spain before this month's national election. The Constitutional Court, in an unusually rapid decision, struck down a resolution by the Catalan regional assembly last month which set out a plan to establish a republic within 18 months in the well-off northeastern region which accounts for about a fifth of Spain's economic output. Declaring the resolution unconstitutional, the court said the Catalan assembly "cannot set itself up as a source of legal and political legitimacy to the point of assuming the authority to violate the constitutional order." The court was ruling on an appeal by the centre-right government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who has called Catalonian independence "nonsense" and declared that it will never happen.
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| In Erdogan insult case, Turkish court asks: is 'Hobbit' character Gollum evil? | |  A Turkish court has asked experts to determine whether the "Lord of the Rings" character Gollum is good or evil to decide whether a doctor insulted Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, the defendant's lawyer told Reuters on Wednesday. Erdogan's lawyers are sueing Bilgin Ciftci, a physician from the western city of Aydin, after he shared pictures on social media of the president juxtaposed with those of the "small, slimy creature" immortalised in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels. "The prosecutor didn't watch the movie and he defined Gollum as 'the monster in a bad role'.
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| U.S. Secret Service officer indicted on 'sexting' charges | |  A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Secret Service officer who allegedly sent naked pictures of himself to an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. The suspect, Lee Robert Moore, 37, was indicted on one count of attempting to send obscene material to a minor, the department said in a statement. Moore, a resident of Church Hill, Maryland, was assigned to the White House at the time of his arrest in early November and has remained in custody since that time, the department said.
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| France shuts mosque, arrests man in crackdown after attacks | | | Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the Nov. 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Security officers found jihadist documents at the mosque where Wednesday's raids took place and at related premises in Lagny-sur-Marne, placed a total of nine people under house arrest and banned another 22 from leaving the country, Cazeneuve said. France, which declared a state of emergency after the Islamist attacks on Paris, has so far raided 2,235 homes and buildings, taken 232 people into custody and confiscated 334 weapons, 34 of then war-grade, Cazeneuve told reporters. |
| Police officer, six others killed in latest Burundi violence | | | At least seven people including a police officer were killed overnight in separate incidents in Burundi's capital and the surrounding area, police, witnesses and an official said on Wednesday. The deaths are the latest in a wave of violence convulsing Burundi that has alarmed world powers, which fear the African nation may be sliding back into ethnic conflict after emerging in 2005 from a 12-year civil war. Civil society groups say more than 240 people have been killed since President Pierre Nkurunziza sparked the unrest in April by saying he would seek a third term in office. |
| Russia unlikely to meet Ukraine peace deal deadline, NATO says | |  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO's top commander warned on Wednesday there was little chance that Russia would meet a year-end deadline for a peace deal in eastern Ukraine, saying the calmer situation there did not mean the end of the conflict was near. Spelling out what many Western officials believe, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Philip Breedlove said Russia continued to support separatists in the area and that the ebb and flow in violence was Russia's way of demonstrating its power. "Russia still supports its proxies in eastern Ukraine," Breedlove told a news conference.
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