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| Militant who claimed responsibility for Pathankot attack warns Pakistan against crackdown | |  By Abu Arqam Naqash MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistan-based chief of a militant alliance fighting for an end to Indian rule in divided Kashmir openly condemned on Wednesday a crackdown by the Pakistan government against another group India blames for an attack on an air base. Syed Salahuddin, the chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), an alliance of pro-Pakistan militant groups based in the Pakistani-administered part of the divided Kashmir region, had claimed responsibility for the assault in Pathankot on Jan. 2. The claim of responsibility was met with a sceptical response among India's security establishment, which blames another group called Jaish-e-Mohammed.
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| Kazakh leader dissolves lower house of parliament, calls snap election | |  Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev dissolved the lower house of parliament on Wednesday and called a snap election, urging the nation to consolidate at a time of economic hardship caused by the crash in oil prices. The vote, originally expected at the end of this year or early 2017, will be held on March 20, according to a Twitter message posted by Nazarbayev's press service. Nazarbayev's move was widely expected after the lower house unanimously voted this month to request its own dissolution.
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| Limiting German refugee intake not unethical, president says | |  Germany cannot take in all the asylum seekers who want to begin a new life there and it is not unethical of Berlin to limit the influx, President Joachim Gauck said on Wednesday, pressing other European countries to share the burden. Germany has borne the brunt of Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War Two, with more than one million asylum seekers arriving in the country last year, most fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Many German local authorities say they are struggling to cope with the influx and pressure is mounting on Chancellor Angela Merkel to reverse her open-door policy and even close the country's borders to new arrivals.
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| Militants storm Pakistan university, kill at least 20 | |  By Jibran Ahmad and Mehreen Zahra-Malik CHARSADDA, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Armed militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens a little more than a year after the massacre of 134 students at a school in the area, officials said. A senior Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility for the assault in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but an official spokesman later denied involvement, calling the attack "un-Islamic". The violence nevertheless shows that militants retain the ability to launch attacks, despite a country-wide anti-terrorism crackdown and a military campaign against their strongholds along the lawless border with Afghanistan.
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| Insight: Smuggling soars as Venezuela's economy sinks | | | By Girish Gupta BOCA DEL GRITA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Clutching egg cartons on his shoulder, a young man wades precariously through a muddy river on Venezuela's western jungle border where a Colombian shopkeeper will happily buy them up. On a peninsula jutting into the Caribbean, a fisherman sails under the cover of darkness to the nearby island of Aruba carrying everything from fish to flour. Driven by a deepening economic crisis, smuggling across Venezuela's land and maritime borders - as well as illicit domestic trading - has accelerated to unprecedented levels and is transforming society. |
| Lionel Messi tax fraud trial to begin May 31 | |  Lionel Messi's tax fraud case will be heard by a Barcelona court from May 31 through to June 3, according to statement on Wednesday. World Player of the Year Messi and his father Jorge are accused of defrauding the Spanish state of 4.2 million euros ($4.6 million) in tax between 2007 and 2009 and a Spanish court ordered that they stand trial last October. Barcelona forward Messi and his father have already paid five million euros to the tax authorities as a "corrective" measure after they were formally charged in June 2013.
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| Three Mali gendarmes killed in armed raid in central Mali | | | By Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three gendarmes in an overnight ambush near a town in central Mali, the defence ministry said on Wednesday, confirming the latest in a growing wave of attacks that risk spilling over into Mali's West African neighbours. The identities of the assailants in the central Mali attack were not immediately known. Mali's army and a 10,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force (MINUSMA) are frequently targeted in attack by militants. |
| German FA backs Infantino for FIFA presidency | |  The German Football Association said on Wednesday it was backing FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino in his bid to lead global football out of its current crisis. The Swiss general secretary of European soccer body UEFA is one of five candidates for the Feb. 26 election, taking place amid the worst crisis in FIFA's history. There is no clear favourite, but Infantino would have a head start if he were to capture the majority of the 53 European votes.
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| Rapper Mos Def due in court for trying to leave South Africa on "World Passport" | | | Yasiin Bey, the American rapper formerly known as Mos Def, has been charged with violating South Africa's immigration laws after he was arrested last week trying to leave the country on an unrecognised travel document. Bey, who is free on bail, will appear in court on March 8, officials said on Wednesday. The entertainer was arrested on Thursday in Cape Town when he produced a "World Passport" to get on a flight to Ethiopia. |
| Singapore says arrests 27 Bangladeshi Islamists, deports 26 | |  Singapore, a wealthy multi-ethnic city state, arrested 27 Bangladeshi construction workers who supported Islamist groups including al Qaeda and Islamic State and deported 26 of them, the government said on Wednesday. Twenty-six were deported, while the last one was jailed for attempting to leave Singapore illegally after hearing of the arrest of the others, the home ministry said. Twelve of the 26 have since been jailed in Bangladesh on "terror charges", Bangladeshi police said.
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| Russia's anti-doping agency resumes work "with some responsibilities" - TASS | |  Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Wednesday the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) had been reinstated with some responsibilities, TASS news agency reported. "RUSADA is resuming its work," TASS quoted Mutko as saying.
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| Obama faces immigration hurdles even if he wins at high court | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the U.S. Supreme Court endorses a key immigration initiative of President Barack Obama protecting more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation, his administration could face a surge of applicants and little time to process them before he leaves office in January 2017. Obama announced the action in November 2014 but it has never gone into effect, being put on hold by a federal judge in Texas in February 2015. The plan was designed to help illegal immigrant parents of children who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
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| Islamic State says two assailants in Paris attacks are from Iraq | |  The Islamic State group published pictures of nine militants it says carried out November 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris including two, identified as Iraqis, who were previously unknown, according to the SITE monitoring organisation. The two assailants so far unknown were identified in the group's online magazine "Dabiq" by aliases "Ukashah al Iraqi" and "Ali al Iraqi", meaning "Ukashah the Iraqi" and "Ali the Iraqi" in Arabic.
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| Egypt: who's afraid of January 25? | |  By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian activists Ali al-Khouly and Mohamed Ali had just sat down at a Cairo coffeeshop when plainclothes officers grabbed them and hauled them off to a police station. As the fifth anniversary of Jan. 25 protests that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule approaches, the toughest security crackdown in Egypt's history is a clear sign that authorities are worried. "I honestly have no idea why I was taken or why I was released but there is no justification for this horror." With thousands of government opponents behind bars, the likelihood of massive protests is slim.
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| Pakistani Taliban spokesman denies movement is behind deadly university attack | |  The official spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said on Wednesday that the Islamist movement was not behind the deadly attack on a university that killed at least 19 people. The written statement by spokesman Muhammad Khorasani came hours after a senior Taliban commander said four of his fighters launched the assault on Wednesday at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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| Thai court jails man for six years over royal insult posts on Facebook | |  Thailand's criminal court on Wednesday jailed a man for six years for Facebook comments deemed to be an insult to the country's king, in what one rights group called the toughest sentence by a civilian court for a single such offence. The country's strict lese-majeste law makes it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the king, queen, heir to the throne or regent. "The Criminal Court sentenced Piya to nine years in prison, which was the highest sentence the civilian court has ever given for one count of lese-majeste," Thai human rights group iLaw said in a statement.
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| Draft constitution for army-run Thailand 'strong medicine' | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A draft constitution for army-run Thailand to be unveiled this month will be "strong medicine", the constitution panel head said on Wednesday, adding that there was no guarantee it would pass a referendum, meaning a further extension of military rule. The May 2014 coup ended months of political protests in Bangkok aimed at ousting a civilian government, since when the junta has curbed basic freedoms and pushed back the timetable for elections to 2017. Meechai Ruchupan, 77, chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, said the constitution aimed to solve long-running problems such as abuse of power by lawmakers, but might not solve decades-long political divisions.
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| British police question boy who spelled "terrorist" by mistake | | | A 10-year-old Muslim boy has been questioned by British police in the north of England after mistakenly writing in an English lesson that he lived in a "terrorist house", the BBC reported on Wednesday. The boy had intended to write that he lived in a "terraced" house but teachers did not realise he had made an error and reported the boy to the police in accordance with new counter-terrorism rules, which critics say are focused on Muslim communities. |
| Operation to clear Pakistani university ends with four gunmen dead - army | |  (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities concluded an operation to clear a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan of gunmen who had attacked the campus on Wednesday, the army's spokesman said, ending an assault that left at least 19 people dead. "The operation is over and the university has been cleared," Pakistan army spokesman General Asim Bajwa told Reuters. "Four gunmen have been killed." The militants, using the cover of thick, wintry fog, scaled the walls of the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, before entering buildings and opening fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels.
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| Deportations in Germany doubled in 2015, but still huge backlog | |  The number of deportations in Germany nearly doubled to more than 20,000 in 2015 and is expected to rise further this year as the government plans measures to speed up asylum procedures and facilitate deportations, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Germany has borne the brunt of Europe's biggest refugee influx since World War Two with over one million people having arrived in the country in 2015, most fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Chancellor Angela Merkel is under growing pressure over her handling of the crisis, with her popular support waning and some in her conservative party wanting upper limits on migrants.
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| Julius Baer dismisses employee in internal FIFA probe | |  By Joshua Franklin and Mark Hosenball ZURICH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swiss bank Julius Baer has dismissed one of its client advisers as part of its internal investigation into ties with world soccer's governing body FIFA, the bank said on Tuesday. The employee left soon after several soccer officials were arrested in Zurich last May, the only member of the bank's staff to be dismissed so far in connection with the probe. "I can confirm to you that this employee has been dismissed," spokesman Jan Vonder Muehll said by telephone, adding that the employee was dismissed in summer 2015.
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