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| Iranian-American reporter thanks Kerry in first appearance since release | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian thanked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday for negotiating his release from an Iranian prison in his first public appearance since leaving Iran nearly two weeks ago. Rezaian, jailed for 18 months after being accused of espionage, was freed this month in a prisoner swap negotiated between the United States and Iran coinciding with the implementation of a deal that curbs Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of economic sanctions. Rezaian received a standing ovation from foreign dignitaries, journalists and family members at a ceremony for the opening of the Washington Post's new offices in Washington, D.C. In brief but emotional remarks, he thanked the Washington Post leadership, U.S. officials, and his family for advocating on his behalf.
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| U.N. praises Somalia deal on model for electoral process | | | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised an agreement by Somalia's government on Thursday on a model for the electoral process to establish a new, bicameral federal parliament in 2016, a U.N. spokesman said. "He particularly applauds the commitment to representation of women and minority groups, including that women will comprise 30 percent of the next parliament," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. U.N. special envoy to Somalia, Michael Keating, said the model envisages a lower house of 275 members, based on a current power-sharing formula between clans, and an upper house of 54 members, based on equal representation of existing, emerging and prospective federal states and an allocation of additional seats to breakaway regions of Somaliland and Puntland. |
| 'Affluenza' teen back in Texas, taken to juvenile detention | |  By Marice Richter and Anahi Rama FORT WORTH, Texas/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The American teenager derided for a defence of "affluenza" in the killing four people while driving drunk arrived back in Texas on Thursday after being deported from Mexico and was placed in juvenile detention. After his flight landed, Ethan Couch, 18, was seen with his hands behind his back being escorted by uniformed officers through the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
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| Rights group seeks probe into police inaction over rape complaints in Chhattisgarh | | | One of India's poorest regions, Chhattisgarh has seen major security operations to flush out Maoist rebels who say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers to land and a greater claim on mineral wealth. According to Amnesty's India office, 13 women from the Adivasi group said they were raped and sexually assaulted by police and security forces during anti-Maoist raids in Nendra village between Jan. 11 and 14. |
| U.S. Senate panel approves measure to broaden North Korea sanctions | | | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would broaden sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear program, human rights record and cyber activities, amid growing international concern over Pyongyang's weapons program. The committee passed the measure by unanimous voice vote and members said they expected it would be approved by the full Senate within weeks, and, eventually, signed into law by President Barack Obama. Republican Senator Bob Corker, the panel's chairman, said the full Senate was due to begin considering the legislation during the week of Feb. 8. |
| Man arrested with handguns at Disneyland Paris | | | French police arrested a man carrying two handguns at the Disneyland Paris amusement park outside Paris on Thursday, an Interior Ministry official said. A police source said the 28-year-old man of European origin had been carrying the two guns, including an automatic handgun, concealed in a bag that also contained a copy of the Koran religious text. France remains in a state of emergency since Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in a series of jihadist attacks in and near Paris in November. |
| Armed man arrested at Disneyland Paris was carrying a Koran - police source | | | A man arrested on Thursday by French police at a hotel in the Disneyland Paris amusement park is a 28-year-old European who had a two handguns and a Koran in his bag, a police source said. The man was unknown to police prior to the incident and his bag set off a security alarm as he went through a metal detector at the park's New York Hotel, the source said. |
| Syria talks to start on Friday, U.N. envoy's spokeswoman says | |  Talks on ending the war in Syria will begin on Friday, a spokeswoman for the U.N. envoy who is overseeing the process said on Thursday, although opposition groups had not yet announced that they would attend the negotiations in Geneva. "I just confirmed that the talks will start tomorrow," Khawla Mattar, spokeswoman for the office of U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters in response to an email.
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| China charges Canadian with spying, stealing state secrets - Xinhua | | | A Canadian citizen detained by China since 2014 has been indicted on charges of spying and stealing state secrets, the Xinhua state news agency reported on Thursday. Kevin Garratt was detained in August 2014 near China's sensitive border with North Korea where he operated a coffee house with his wife, who was also detained for months before being released last year. The case inflamed tensions between Ottawa and Beijing, but Canada has not been able to secure Garratt's release despite expressing concern about the arrest, which happened less than a week after Canada accused Chinese hackers of breaking into a key computer network. |
| Lawyer sees possible parallels in deaths of two Russians in UK exile | | | By Michael Holden WOKING, England (Reuters) - A week after a British inquiry ruled that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder of an ex-KGB agent in London, a court heard on Thursday that the sudden death of a Russian mafia whistleblower had "potential parallels". Alexander Perepilichny, 44, was found dead near his luxury home on the exclusive gated St George's Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, southwest of London, after he had been out jogging in November 2012. Surrey Police said there was no evidence to suggest a third party had been involved, but last May a pre-inquest hearing heard that traces of a rare and deadly poison from the gelsemium plant had been found in his stomach. |
| Ivorian ex-president on trial over "unspeakable violence" | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - War crimes prosecutors accused ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo of orchestrating "unspeakable violence", including murder and gang rape, to cling to power after losing an election, pitching his country into civil war. Rising stiffly on the opening day of his trial at the International Criminal Court, Gbagbo, 70, pleaded not guilty to all charges. Four months of conflict ravaged Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa grower, in early 2011 after Gbagbo refused to step down.
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| Gbagbo trial exposes old wounds in Ivory Coast | |  By Ange Aboa and Joe Bavier MAMA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Paul Koudou sat, eyes glued to a tiny television in the Ivory Coast village of Mama, as a court clerk 5,000 km (3,000 miles) away in The Hague read out a list of charges - rape, murder, persecution - against former president Laurent Gbagbo. "It hurts me to see him like that," said Koudou, who looks after the now abandoned residence that Gbagbo owns in his home village, a sprawling 10-room villa still scarred by the bullet holes of a 2011 war that led to the president's downfall. Gbagbo is a man of peace," the 51-year-old lamented, expressing a view of the former leader not universally shared in Ivory Coast.
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| CONMEBOL says it backs Infantino for FIFA president | |  The South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL threw its support behind Gianni Infantino's bid for the presidency of soccer's crisis-hit governing body FIFA on Thursday, days after central American countries pledged to back him. Infantino, a 45-year-old Swiss-Italian, is currently general secretary of European body UEFA and claims to have overwhelming backing from his own continent, making him one of the front-runners in next month's FIFA vote. "The CONMEBOL executive committee has decided to back Gianni Infantino's candidacy and plan of action for the presidency of FIFA," the confederation said in statement.
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| Making case for stronger presidency, Turkey's Erdogan denies personal agenda | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan laid out his case for a new constitution and a more powerful presidency on Thursday, saying it was not a matter of personal ambition but a necessity in a country whose parliamentary system he said was out of date. Erdogan, who won Turkey's first direct presidential election in August 2014, said a head of state elected by the people should have more than a symbolic role. Previously, parliament had picked Turkey's president.
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| Suicide bombers kill four in north Cameroon school | | | Two suicide bombers killed four people at a school in northern Cameroon on Thursday, local officials said, the latest attack in a central African country struggling to contain violence blamed on Boko Haram militants in neighbouring Nigeria. A dozen people were wounded in the twin bombing in the town of Kerawa, Mayor Seiny Boukar Lamine said. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, northern Cameroon has become the scene of increasingly frequent suicide attacks as Boko Haram Islamist militants step up cross-border violence that has also affected Chad and Niger. |
| EU clamps down on corporate multi-billion tax avoidance | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission weighed into the row about multinational corporations avoiding tax on Thursday, proposing to clamp down on companies shifting their profits to low-tax countries. Big corporations legally avoid taxes of up to 70 billion euros ($76.10 billion) a year in Europe, a study of the European Parliament has estimated, with global losses from such schemes ranging between $100 billion and $240 billion. This is unacceptable and we are acting to tackle it," the EU tax commissioner Pierre Moscovici said in a statement calling "for fair and effective taxation for all Europeans." Responding to such criticism in Britain, Google agreed last week to pay 130 million pounds ($185 million) in back taxes, but it was seen by many as too little compared with the profits made by the company in Britain.
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| Islamic State claims attack on Yemen president's residence | | | Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb attack outside the residence of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi which killed seven people. In a statement online, the militant group said the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber it identified as Abu Hanifa al-Hollandi, suggesting the attacker was Dutch. |
| Israeli campaign against artists draws accusations of 'McCarthyism' | |  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Israeli group that has campaigned against foreign-funded NGOs broadened its assault to include left-wing artists on Thursday, accusing authors such as Amos Oz and David Grossman of disloyalty to the country. The offensive by Im Tirtzu takes place amid deepening left-right divisions in Israel, with members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government frequently critical of the arts and advocating a more religious-nationalist agenda. Culture Minister Miri Regev, a member of Netanyahu's Likud party, has proposed cutting government funding for any theatre or arts institution whose programmes "subvert the state".
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| "Whistleblower" helps Swiss investigation against FIFA's Blatter | |  An important witness has offered information to help criminal proceedings against long-time president of the world soccer body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, the Swiss attorney general's office said on Thursday. Spokesman Andre Marty said in an interview with TV programme "Morgenmagazin", broadcast on German channel ARD, that it should be clear by the end of 2016 to mid-2017 whether there was evidence to bring a charge against Blatter whose presidency has ended with the worst corruption scandal in FIFA's history. "In the name of the office of the attorney general of Switzerland I can confirm that a witness has given us interesting information that is relevant for the case and should be essential for the investigation," Marty said in an emailed statement.
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