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| Russia's Putin probably approved London murder of ex-KGB agent Litvinenko - UK inquiry | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London, a British inquiry concluded on Thursday, prompting a row with Moscow. Russia, which had declined to cooperate in the inquiry, cautioned pointedly that it could "poison" relations. Britain accused the Kremlin of uncivilised behaviour but did not immediately signal it would take any stronger action.
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| Kenyan military says mastermind behind Somalia attack believed killed | | | By Drazen Jorgic NAIROBI (Reuters) - The al Shabaab commander who masterminded an assault on a Kenyan army base in Somalia last week is believed to have been killed in air raids by Kenyan warplanes, the country's armed forces chief said on Thursday. The strikes over the weekend targetted two al Shabaab camps where the militants were hiding, General Samson Mwathethe, head of Kenya Defence Forces, said. "It is believed Mwalimu Janow, the leader of (an al Shabaab) brigade, who led this attack, was killed," Mwathethe told reporters. |
| Prominent Kosovo Serb leader jailed over wartime murders | |  By Fatos Bytyci MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - A Serb leader in Kosovo was found guilty on Thursday of war crimes linked to the killings of four ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war and jailed for nine years, in a verdict condemned by Serbia. Known as a moderate among Kosovo Serb politicians, Oliver Ivanovic had for years been one of the chief interlocutors for NATO, United Nations and European Union officials based in Kosovo after the war.
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| Sudanese refugee who walked through Channel Tunnel to face UK trial | |  A Sudanese man who walked through the Channel Tunnel from France in an extreme example of the desperate attempts of many refugees to reach Britain, was told in court on Thursday he would face trial for obstructing a railway. Abdul Haroun, who is from the war-ravaged region of Darfur, was granted asylum by the British authorities on Christmas Eve, a decision criticised by operator Eurotunnel as an encouragement to other migrants to attempt the dangerous walk. Thousands of migrants are camped out in squalor near the northern French ports of Calais and Dunkirk, seeking clandestine ways to enter Britain such as stowing away on trucks or trains.
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| Mascherano accepts one-year jail term in plea bargain - reports | |  Barcelona defender Javier Mascherano accepted a one-year prison sentence for tax evasion on Thursday as part of a plea bargain, Spanish media reported, although he is unlikely to serve time in jail. The 31-year-old Argentina international, who joined Barca in August 2010, pleaded guilty last year to defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of more than 1.5 million euros by concealing earnings from his image rights by using companies set up in the United States and Portugal. Mascherano also paid back the unpaid tax plus almost 200,000 euros in interest.
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| Taliban warns TV station staff not to promote immorality after attack | |  The Taliban warned media organisations on Thursday not to promote immorality and foreign cultures a day after claiming responsibility for killing seven journalists for the country's most-watched television channel. The suicide car bomb attack in Kabul rush hour traffic on Wednesday was condemned by governments, human rights groups and rival news organisations as an assault on press freedom. The Taliban said they targeted Tolo TV, Afghanistan's largest private television channel, because it was producing propaganda for the U.S. military and its allies.
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| South Africa rhino poaching numbers fall as policing picks up | |  By Dinky Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - The number of rhinos poached for their horns in South Africa fell in 2015, the first decline since 2007, due to the higher rate of policing in national parks, the justice minister said on Thursday. Last year rhino poaching fell to 1,175 compared to 2014. "I am today pleased to announce that for the first time in a decade - the poaching situation has stabilized," Justice Minister Michael Masutha told reporters in the capital Pretoria.
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| Gang warfare in El Salvador pushes death rate to record | |  By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - William Hernandez, tired and aching, had just finished a 24-hour shift as a coroner examining more than a dozen corpses in the capital of El Salvador, victims of gang warfare that has made the Central American country one of the most violent in the world. In more than 20 years at the National Forensics Institute, Hernandez has never dealt with so many violent deaths nor seen attacks as vicious in San Salvador, he said. "There have always been violent deaths, but not like now. The last body I examined had 42 entry and exit wounds." Violence has risen steadily in El Salvador since a 2012 truce between the country's two main gangs began to fall apart in 2014.
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| Mauritanian fugitive linked to al Qaeda arrested in Guinea | | | Guinea said on Thursday it had arrested a death row fugitive with links to al Qaeda near the border with Guinea Bissau and sent him back to Mauritania. The case underscores the weakness of border controls in the fragile West African region amid fears of further attacks in major cities after al Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) fighters killed 30 people in Burkina Faso last week. During his three weeks on the run, Cheikh Ould Saleck is believed to have travelled about 500 km (312 miles) through three West African countries, before being captured at a checkpoint in Boke in southern Guinea on Tuesday. |
| Three killed in fresh violence on restive Nepal plains | | | By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three people were killed in southern Nepal on Thursday when police fired on protesters trying to disrupt a rival group's political gathering, officials said, amid a deepening crisis over a new constitution. Nepal has been in turmoil since adopting its first republican constitution last September, with protesters in the lowland south saying the charter deprives them of a fair say in how the country is run. Eight others were also injured in the firing, according to Devi Bahadur Bhandari, assistant district administrator of Morang district where Rangeli is located. |
| Dreadlocks and poets herald new face of Spanish parliament | |  By Angus Berwick MADRID (Reuters) - When Alberto Rodriguez of Podemos turned up for the new Spanish parliament's first session in the grand chamber in Madrid, his dreadlocks, jeans and scruffy jumper drew a look of disapproval from the staid prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. Such scenes are likely to become commonplace with the end of two-party domination of Spanish politics and a new wave of delegates taking their seats alongside the well-groomed ranks of the old guard. The national election on Dec. 20 left Rajoy's ruling People's Party (PP) without a majority and opened parliament's doors to two new parties, the anti-austerity Podemos and the centrist Ciudadanos.
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| Iraq prime minister doubts any Iranian link to three missing Americans | |  DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing", and that he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos if he thought there was an Iranian link to their disappearance, Abadi said: "I doubt it very much. We don't know if they have been kidnapped ... They just went missing." (Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Dominic Evans)
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| Ukraine investigates Coca-Cola and Pepsico over Crimea map row - MP | | | Ukrainian prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the online publication by U.S. drinks companies Coca-Cola and Pepsico of a map that showed Crimea as a part of Russia, a Ukrainian lawmaker said on Thursday. Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014, leading to condemnation from Western governments and the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia. Ukraine and most other countries have refused to recognise the annexation. |
| Maharashtra is first state to give surrogacy mothers maternity benefits | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maharashtra has become the first state to extend full maternity benefits to women who have babies using a surrogate mother, a state official said. All women in government jobs who have a baby using a surrogate mother can now take 180 days of maternity leave, putting them on an equal footing with women who conceive naturally, the official said. "We want to treat them equally." India opened up to commercial surrogacy in 2002, and is among just a handful of countries and a few U.S. states where women can be paid to carry another's genetic child through a process of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and embryo transfer.
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| Portugal hopes for calmer political waters before presidential vote | |  By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's stormy political backdrop could shift into calmer waters on Sunday when the country votes for a new president, if the man expected to win outright makes good on promises to build consensus rather than foment divisions. Since November, Portugal has been governed by a shaky alliance of moderate centre-left Socialists backed in parliament by the far left Communists and Left Bloc. According to opinion polls, that is almost certain to be Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a Social Democrat whose centre-right party was ousted from power by the Socialists.
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| Some 200,000 at risk in Turkey's fight against Kurdish militants - Amnesty | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Security operations in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast have put up to 200,000 people at risk, placing them in the crossfire or cutting them off from emergency and basic services such as water, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday. Round-the-clock curfews amid clashes between security forces and the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have confined people indoors, even forcing some to live with the corpses of dead relatives, for days, it said in a report. "Turkey has never taken an approach that would endanger the lives of innocent citizens," a senior official said on condition of anonymity in response to Amnesty's report.
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| From Dakar to N'Djamena, hotels boost security after Burkina attack | |  By Makini Brice DAKAR (Reuters) - West African hotels from Dakar to N'Djamena are strengthening security, adding armed guards and increasing cooperation with local authorities as a pair of high-profile attacks have exposed a growing Islamist threat to foreign travellers. Al Qaeda fighters killed 30 people on Friday at a hotel and restaurant in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The assault, the country's first militant attack on such a scale, came just two months after Islamist militants killed 20 people at a Radisson hotel in Mali's capital Bamako.
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| Belgium detains two further suspects over Paris attacks | | | Belgium has arrested two more men suspected of links to the Paris attacks on Nov. 13 in which 130 people were killed, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The men, identified as Belgian national Zakaria J., born in 1986 and Moroccan national Mustafa E., born in 1981, were arrested during two house searches on Wednesday and Thursday morning in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, prosecutors said. "Both were arrested due to their possible ties with different suspects in this case," the prosecutor's office said in a statement. |
| LRA used brutality to train child fighters, prosecutors say | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International prosecutors accused a former Lord's Resistance Army commander on Thursday of using rape and brutality to turn children the LRA had abducted into sex slaves or soldiers for its long campaign against Uganda's government. Dominic Ongwen, himself a former child soldier who rose through the ranks of Joseph Kony's rebel group, is also accused of slaughtering civilians and even ordering cannibalism. Thursday's confirmation of charges hearing is a test for prosecutors who must convince judges that their case, hastily reinvestigated since Ongwen's surrender last January after years on the run, is strong enough to merit a trial.
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| UK considering more action against Russia over Litvinenko - PM's spokeswoman | |  Britain is considering taking further action against Russia after an inquiry found Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron said. "The conclusion that the murder was authorized at the highest levels of the Russian state is extremely disturbing," the spokeswoman told reporters. "It is not the way for any state, let alone a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, to behave." "In light of the inquiry's findings we are considering what further actions we should take," she said.
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| Ecuador asks Sweden to apply again over Assange interview | |  Ecuador has asked Sweden to submit a new application over the questioning of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London, Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday. The Swedish prosecutor said Ecuador had informed Sweden in a letter that it would conduct the interview of Assange and has asked for a list of questions the Swedish prosecutor wants answered. Assange, 44, took refuge at Ecuador's embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.
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| Britain to nominate Lagarde for fresh term as IMF boss | |  British finance minister George Osborne said on Thursday he will nominate Christine Lagarde for a second term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, as support for her candidacy also emerged from other European countries. "At a time when the world faces what I've called a dangerous cocktail of risks, I believe Christine has the vision, energy and acumen to help steer the global economy through the years ahead," Osborne said in a statement. Lagarde has no obvious challengers and has said she is open to serving another term.
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| Three asylum seekers seek refuge in Arctic Norway church | | | Three asylum seekers sought refuge in a church in Arctic Norway on Thursday, a local church official said, as police in the town prepared to return a group of migrants back to Russia. Norway's right-wing government is tightening asylum rules in response to the influx to Europe of migrants and refugees, saying some of the 31,000 who arrived last year did not qualify for protection. Measures include sending back to Russia any who have a long-term residence permit there. |
| Litvinenko murder suspect Lugovoy calls UK inquiry accusations 'absurd' | |  Andrei Lugovoy, one of two Russians named on Thursday by a judge led-British inquiry as the killers of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, said the accusations against him were "absurd", the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. The inquiry into the 2006 killing in London concluded that President Vladimir Putin probably approved a Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Litvinenko. Lugovoy, who represents the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in the Russian parliament, called the British inquiry "a pathetic attempt by London to use a skeleton in the closet for the sake of its political ambitions".
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