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| Libya's recognised parliament rejects U.N.-backed unity government | | | By Ayman al-Warfalli BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's internationally recognised parliament voted on Monday to reject a unity government proposed under a U.N.-backed plan to resolve the country's political crisis and armed conflict. The rejection was widely expected, but signalled that mediators still face a steep challenge in winning support for a new government. Since 2014, Libya has had two competing parliaments and governments, one based in Tripoli and the other in the east. |
| Former Maldives' president calls for sanctions against government figures | |  Former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed, freed from jail last week to seek medical care in Britain, called on Monday for sanctions against Maldivian government figures as his lawyer warned a militant attack on tourists was highly likely. Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, was jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges last March after a rapid trial that drew international condemnation. In his first comments since being released, he indicated he would not return before that deadline and called on the international community to impose sanctions against those responsible for human rights abuses in the Maldives.
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| U.N. sees six-month Syria talks starting on Friday | |  Talks on ending the war in Syria are expected to start on Friday and take six months, although invitations have still not been sent due to "intense disagreements", the U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told a news conference on Monday. Governance, a constitutional review and future U.N. sponsored elections would also be priorities, he said.
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| Rwandan police kill suspected Islamic State recruiter | | | A Rwandan man who had been accused of recruiting for the Islamic State was shot and killed in the capital Kigali while attempting to escape police custody, police said in a statement on Monday. Muhammad Mugemangango, a deputy imam at Kimironko Mosque in Kigali, was under investigations for encouraging Rwandan youth to join the Islamic State, which is fighting in Iraq and Syria. After news of Mugemangango's death broke, the country's main Muslim association, Rwanda Muslims, said it planned to circulate messages condemning radicalisation to all of Rwanda's mosques. |
| Five years after Egypt uprising, police -- not activists -- celebrated | |  By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - About 300 people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday, not to celebrate the instigators of the revolt that five years ago overthrew Egypt's longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak but to praise the police who tried to stop them. In the weeks that followed, hundreds of Mursi's supporters were killed in the streets and thousands were locked up in the bloodiest crackdown in Egypt's modern history.
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| U.S. justices extends ban on mandatory life sentences for juveniles | | | The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that its 2012 decision that barred mandatory life sentences without parole for those under age 18 at the time they committed a crime can be applied retroactively. In a ruling that will affect other inmates in similar positions, the court sided with Henry Montgomery, who was convicted of killing a white sheriff's deputy in 1963 in East Baton Rouge at a time when racial tensions were boiling over. |
| U.N. Syria talks to seek national ceasefire, not with IS and Nusra | | | U.N. mediated talks on ending the war in Syria will push for a countrywide ceasefire, including all parties except the two groups designated as "terrorists" by the United Nations, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Monday. "The condition is it should be a real ceasefire and not just local," De Mistura told a news conference where he also said he hoped to start the peace talks on Jan. 29. |
| EU security chiefs brace for more Islamist attacks | |  Islamic State and other militants are very likely to attempt big new attacks in Europe following those in Paris, the EU's police agency said on Monday, echoing previous warnings by senior security officials. The events in Paris "appear to indicate a shift towards a broader strategy of IS going global, of them specifically attacking France, but also the possibility of attacks against other member states of the EU in the near future", it said. There was "every reason to expect" an attack, by Islamic State or "IS-inspired terrorists or another religiously inspired terrorist group".
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| South African authorities challenge Pistorius' murder conviction appeal | |  South African authorities are challenging Olympian Oscar Pistorius appeal against his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the national prosecuting authority said on Monday. The Supreme Court of Appeal upgraded the 29-year-old's conviction to murder in December after the state prosecutors appealed the athletes April conviction for culpable homicide in the Pretoria High Court. In the affidavit, prosecutors argue that the Supreme Court of Appeal had correctly found Pistorius guilty.
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| France set to redefine 35-hour working week, PM says | |  France will give companies the right to negotiate longer working weeks and overtime pay, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday, changes to the 35-hour week that face resistance from increasingly vocal rebel Socialist lawmakers and unions. Fiercely guarded by the workforce, and a flagship reform of the Socialist government during a boom in the late 1990s, the relatively short working week was meant to stoke job creation. "Exemptions to the legal duration of working time at 35 hours is no longer a violation of the law," Valls said after receiving a report with reform proposals from former Justice Minister Robert Badinter.
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