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| UK's Cameron vows to pressure Maldives over jailed former president | |  British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Saturday to apply pressure on the Maldives to improve the rule of law and free political prisoners after meeting the country's former president after his temporary release from jail. Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, is serving a 13-year sentence on terrorism charges for the alleged abduction of a judge after a rapid trial last March which drew international criticism. Nasheed and his lawyer Amal Clooney met Cameron at Downing Street in London on Saturday after the former president gained permission to travel to Britain for surgery.
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| U.S. says prepared for military solution against Islamic State in Syria | |  By David Dolan and Asli Kandemir ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria if a political settlement was not possible, amid uncertainty over scheduled peace talks. The latest round of Syria peace talks are planned to begin on Monday in Geneva but were at risk of being delayed partly because of a dispute over who will comprise the opposition delegation.
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| Pakistan army says deadly university attack controlled from Afghanistan | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani army said on Saturday the four gunmen who attacked a university in northwest Pakistan were trained in Afghanistan and the assault was controlled by a Pakistani Taliban militant from a location inside Afghanistan. In a briefing to reporters from the city of Peshawar, military spokesman General Asim Bajwa said the militants who stormed Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, received training in Afghanistan and crossed over into Pakistan from the Torkham border between the two countries.
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| Taliban want removal from U.N. blacklist before peace talks | | | Pakistan hosted the first formal talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government in July 2015 but a second round was canceled after it emerged that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Mullah, who sanctioned the talks, had been dead for two years. Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have since deteriorated amid an upswing in fighting between the Taliban and Afghan forces. On Saturday morning, activists, former Afghan officials and Taliban representatives arrived at a hotel in downtown Doha for a two-day meeting on resolving the war organized by Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, a Nobel peace prize-winning crisis group. "The meeting is providing us an opportunity to express our views about the future of Afghanistan," said Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban which is itself riven by factional infighting. The Afghan government did not send any serving officials but an adviser to the president, Malalai Shinwari, and the country's former interior minister, Umer Daudzai, were present. |
| Turkish PM Davutoglu says Turkey respects Iraq's territorial integrity | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday the Turkish military was in Iraq to ward off Islamic state, reiterating that Ankara respects Iraqi territorial unity. At a news conference following a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, Davutoglu said only the legitimate Syrian opposition should be involved with negotiations over Syria. Davutoglu thanked Biden for visiting Cyprus, adding that the United States will have an important role in Cyprus peace talks. (Reporting by Asli Kandemir, writing by Dasha Afanasieva, editing by Larry King)
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| VW probe finds manipulation was open secret in department - newspaper | |  Volkswagen's development of software to cheat diesel-emissions tests was an open secret in its engine development department, Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Friday, citing results from VW's internal investigation. A culture of collective secrecy prevailed within the department, where the installation of the defeat software that would cause the carmaker's biggest ever corporate crisis was openly discussed as long ago as 2006, Sueddeutsche said. Staff members in engine development felt pressure from the management board to find a cost effective solution to develop clean diesel engines for the U.S. market.
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| China says will step up regulation of internet finance | | | China's unregulated online peer-to-peer (P2P) industry has been dogged by reports of fraud in recent years, underscoring growing financial risks and increasing the potential for social unrest. Authorities will work with bank regulators to set up a warning system for financial risks and facilitate sharing of information between regions and departments, the official news agency Xinhua reported, citing a statement from a government conference on political and legal work that ended Saturday. Loans, investments and other financial services done online qualify as internet finance, Xinhua said. |
| Chinese murder suspect believed to have fled to Beijing - U.S. police | | | By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese national suspected of a double murder in Los Angeles has fled the United States for China, U.S. police said on Saturday. Deyun Shi, the 44-year-old suspect, is believed to have killed two teenage boys, aged 14 and 15, at a home in Arcadia, a city in Los Angeles county, Sara Rodriguez of the Los Angeles County Sherriffs Department told Reuters by phone. The boys, who were Shi's nephews, suffered from "blunt force trauma" and were discovered by local police on Friday afternoon, Rodriguez said. |
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