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| Ivorian ex-president accused at war crimes trial of stoking "unspeakable violence" to keep power | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - War crimes prosecutors accused ex-Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo of orchestrating "unspeakable violence", including murder and gang rape by supporters, in order 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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| Rivalries, squabbles hinder Libya's unity government | |  By Aidan Lewis TUNIS (Reuters) - A month after it was agreed in Morocco, a U.N.-backed plan for a united Libyan government is struggling to take off. Efforts to push the hard-fought compromise through show the enduring regional rivalries and power struggles that have bedevilled Libya since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. While foreign pressure builds to tackle a threat from Islamic State militants, Libya's internationally recognised parliament, based in the east, has rejected a main article in the U.N. accord as well as a proposed list of ministers.
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| Israel reluctant to accuse Islamic State over bar shootings despite hallmarks | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It appeared to have hallmarks of the first Islamic State attack in Israel: A Muslim citizen opened fire on a Tel Aviv bar days after the militant group threatened the country, and left behind a black ISIS banner. "This really was not a classic ISIS terrorist attack," a security official told Reuters on Thursday after the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency and Justice Ministry issued their findings on the Jan. 1 shooting rampage by Nashat Melhem that killed three people. An Israeli indictment against three Arab citizens for abetting Melhem's escape said he had "sought to help the enemy, including the ISIS group, fight Israel".
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| Britain says will take UN Yemen report "extremely seriously" | |  Britain said on Thursday it would take "extremely seriously" the findings of a United Nations report which says British military ally Saudi Arabia could have committed crimes against humanity in Yemen. A United Nations report on Wednesday said the Saudi-led coalition has targeted civilians in Yemen, documenting 119 sorties "relating to violations of international humanitarian law". The report has put political pressure on the British government which provides training to the Saudi military and has approved billions of pounds worth of military exports to the country.
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| Two suicide bombers dead after targeting school in north Cameroon | | | Two suicide bombers died on Thursday when they targeted a school in northern Cameroon, local officials said, the latest attack in the central African country which is struggling to contain violence blamed on Boko Haram militants in neighbouring Nigeria. There were no other reported deaths in the double suicide bomb attack, though an unknown number of people were injured, one official said. "The double attack occurred in the public school in the town of Kerawa," the official said. |
| Turkey's Erdogan says stronger presidency not a matter of personal ambition | |  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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| Pakistani cleric says willing to review blasphemy law | |  By Tommy Wilkes and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The head of a powerful religious body said on Thursday he is willing to review Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws that critics say are regularly misused and have led to the deaths of hundreds, to decide if they are Islamic. Pakistan's religious and political elites almost universally keep clear of debating blasphemy laws in a country where criticism of Islam is a highly sensitive subject. "The government of Pakistan should officially, at the government level, refer the law on committing blasphemy to the Council of Islamic Ideology.
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| EU takes aim at multinationals' multi-billion tax avoidance | |  By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Thursday allowing EU countries to tax corporate profits at home in some circumstances even if the money has been transferred elsewhere to avoid such payments. Weighing in on a row about business responsibility and fairness, the Commission proposed a set of measures to tackle some of the most common tax avoidance schemes used by multinational companies to reduce their tax bills. Big corporations legally avoid taxes of up to 70 billion euros ($76.10 billion) a year in Europe, a study of the European Parliament estimated, with global losses from such schemes ranging between $100 billion and $240 billion.
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| Insight: Cologne attacks show Germany unprepared for migration challenge | |  By Michelle Martin COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - The crowds of drunk young men had been gathering for hours outside the main railway station in Cologne on New Year's Eve when city police finally told the office that coordinates forces for the region that they wanted to clear the square. Cologne, a city of more than 1 million people, had added just 142 extra police for the holiday. The incidents have caused profound soul searching in a country that allowed in an unprecedented 1.1 million migrants last year in what its leaders described as an act of historic generosity towards refugees.
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| Turkey's Kurdish conflict impacting Syria, migrant crises - Demirtas | |  By Hanna Knutson BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition said conflict in the country's largely Kurdish southeast had grown into an international problem, feeding into war in neighbouring Syria, and urged allies to do more to push for a ceasefire. Unrest in the NATO member state, which is negotiating to join the European Union, has turned parts of the southeast into a war zone. It is also complicating efforts to stage Syrian peace talks.
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| Authorities working to clear remaining protesters in Oregon occupation | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - Law enforcement was working on Thursday to convince remaining protesters in a month-long armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon to leave the site following calls from the group's leader to stand down and the death of a member. The FBI and local law enforcement have set up checkpoints near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Oregon and are working "around the clock to empty the refuge of the armed occupiers in the safest way possible", a statement said. Eight more people had left the compound by late on Wednesday, the FBI said, and three were arrested and facing charges of felony conspiracy to impede federal officers.
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| Mass grave in Iraq's Ramadi holds at least 40 Islamic State victims - officials | | | Iraqi authorities have uncovered a mass grave in Ramadi containing at least 40 bodies, including women and children, apparently killed by Islamic State insurgents when they seized the city in May, police and provincial officials said. Footage posted on the Facebook page of the provincial police on Wednesday showed what appeared to be bodies in varying states of decay being pulled from a shallow grave in the capital of Anbar province which Iraq's military recaptured last month. Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan confirmed the reports. |
| 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. |
| Japan's economy minister resigns over money scandal, denies bribery | |  By Stanley White and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said on Thursday he was resigning to take responsibility for a political funding scandal that has rocked the government, but denied having taken bribes. In a packed news conference televised live, Amari acknowledged taking money from a construction company executive but said he told his aides to correctly record them as a political donation. While asserting his legal innocence, Amari, a key player in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy team, said he was stepping down to prevent the scandal from being a distraction to his administration's drive to pull the country out of deflation.
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| Kidnapped Al Jazeera journalists freed in Yemen - network | |  Two journalists and a driver working for the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Arabic TV channel were freed in Yemen on Thursday, the network said, ten days after they were abducted by gunmen in the war-torn southwestern city of Taiz. The Doha-based channel said in a news report on its website that correspondent Hamdi Al-Bokari, cameraman Abdulaziz Al-Sabri and driver Moneer Al-Sabai were released by their captors, whose identity remains unclear. Fighters loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are battling Iran-allied Houthi militia and loyalists of the country's former leader in a war that has raged for nine months and in which some 6,000 people have been killed.
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| Sudan opens border with South Sudan for first time since 2011 secession | |  KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered the opening of his country's border with South Sudan for the first time since the south's secession in 2011, paving the way for better economic links between the two nations. The border was closed in 2011 when relations deteriorated after the south seceded following a long civil war, taking with it three quarters of the country's oil, estimated at 5 billion barrels of proven reserves by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. "President Omar al-Bashir issued a decree today ordering the opening of borders with the state of South Sudan and ordered the relevant authorities to take all measures required to implement this decision on the ground," Sudan's state news agency SUNA reported on Wednesday.
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| Unease stirs as Myanmar's Suu Kyi reaches out to former foes | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - When leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy huddled this month to discuss the transfer of power in Myanmar, they quickly reached decisions on who from the party should take the key posts in the next parliament. The issue of how far to go in reaching out to former foes from nearly half a century of military rule may prove one of the first faultines to emerge within the NLD, with the potential to threaten or even derail Suu Kyi's ambitious agenda.
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| Myanmar's outgoing Thein Sein promises to help new government | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar President Thein Sein on Thursday called on political parties to work together for the national interest and said he would help the new government of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi. Speaking to lawmakers who served the last five years and whose terms expire on Friday, as well as those chosen in the poll swept by Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), Thein Sein outlined the biggest achievements of his five-year term. Thein Sein released political prisoners, scrapped censorship, legalised trade unions and protests, sought peace with ethnic minority insurgents and pushed through legislation on everything from land reform to foreign investment.
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| Oregon occupation leader Bundy urges remaining protesters to go home | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - The leader of a month-long armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Wednesday urged remaining protesters to leave the site and go home, a day after his arrest and the death of a supporter. Ammon Bundy, who was taken into custody with several members of his group at a traffic stop along Highway 395, north of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon, urged federal authorities to let his comrades leave the compound without being prosecuted. Please stand down... Please go home," Bundy said in a statement read by his attorney, Michael Arnold, following a court hearing.
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