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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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| 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. |
| 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 ressponded 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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| 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. |
| Spanish court revokes Catalan independence motion | |  The Spanish Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it has revoked Catalonia's motion in Parliament to begin the process to separate from the rest of Spain. Catalonia's Parliament passed a resolution in November setting out a plan to establish a republic within 18 months in the highly industrialized and populous northeastern region which accounts for about a fifth of Spain's economic output. Catalan leaders elected in September have specifically vowed to ignore the rulings of the Constitutional Court.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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