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| Sunderland's Johnson admits one count of sexual activity with child | |  England international Adam Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child, but denied two other charges, when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Sunderland winger, who has played 12 times for England, also admitted one count of grooming a girl under the age of 16, a court official said. Johnson, who began his career at Middlesbrough and also played for Manchester City, joined Sunderland for 10 million pounds in 2012 on a four-year contract.
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| Stalin-era prison chief jailed for 20 years in Romania | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A 90-year-old Stalin-era prison commander faced the rest of his life in prison on Wednesday after Romania's top court dismissed his last appeal against a 20-year jail term for murder and crimes against humanity. Alexandru Visinescu was convicted in July of direct involvement in the deaths of 12 inmates, the first case of its kind since the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in 1989. The last survivor of the jail where Visinescu worked, Valentin Cristea, 85, told Reuters he did not want to comment on the case but added: "I'm now old and sick ... What can I say?
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| Afghan police officer killed after firing on coalition troops | | | An Afghan police officer who was shot during an exchange of gunfire with members of NATO's force in Afghanistan has died, the Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday. NATO force soldiers returned fire, wounding the gunman, said U.S. military spokesman Colonel Michael Lawhorn. No NATO force members were wounded in the exchange, he said. |
| At least six killed at Cameroon funeral by two suicide attackers | | | At least six people were killed and 30 injured in northern Cameroon on Wednesday by two Islamist suicide bombers at a Muslim funeral gathering, two officials in the region said. The attackers were from Boko Haram, the group based in neighbouring Nigeria that has stepped up cross-border attacks in Cameroon's far north despite the setting up of a roughly 9,500-strong regional military task force. One of the officials said the attack in Nguetchewe, about 10 km (6 miles) east of the Nigerian border, is the first known Boko Haram strike in Cameroon at a funeral gathering, although the militants have made an attack on a baptism in the past. |
| Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov says life threatened in Moscow incident | |  Russian opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov said a group of men burst into a Moscow restaurant where he was dining on Tuesday night and threatened him, days after a Kremlin ally issued a video showing him in the cross-hairs of a sniper's rifle. Kasyanov, who filed a police complaint saying his life and safety had been threatened, is a fierce critic of Putin. Kasyanov's liberal opposition Parnas party is planning to contest parliamentary elections later this year.
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| France's Fabius leaves office, wider reshuffle due | |  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday he was going to leave office, as had been widely expected, in a move that is set to trigger a wider reshuffle of the unpopular government. Fabius, 69, told reporters Wednesday was his last participation in the government's weekly cabinet meetings and that he expected the full reshuffle to be announced later this week. "I will be leaving office," Fabius said.
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| Turkish soldiers clash with Kurdish militants crossing from Syria - army | | | By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - One Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded when security forces clashed with Kurdish militants crossing over from Syria, the army said on Wednesday, hours after Ankara summoned the U.S. ambassador over Washington's support for Syrian Kurds. The latest clash could add to Turkish frustrations with its NATO ally Washington which supports the PYD Syrian Kurds in the battle against Islamic State in Syria. |
| Kremlin says incident with opposition leader Kasyanov is hooliganism | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The incident with Russian opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov must not be associated with the leadership of Chechnya, and should be viwed as an act of hooliganism, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Kasyanov said a group of men burst into a Moscow restaurant where he was dining on Tuesday night and threatened him, days after Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a staunch ally of President Vladimir Putin, issued a video showing him in the cross-hairs of a sniper's rifle. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing hy Dmitry Solovyov)
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| Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, suicide vests at Syrian border - media | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish military detained 34 people and seized up to 15 kg of explosives and four suicide-bomber vests as they tried to enter Turkey from Syria, Turkish media reported the army as saying on Wednesday. The private Dogan news agency and other media outlets said the group, consisting of four men, 10 women and 20 children, was detained on Tuesday night in the Oguzeli district of southeastern Gaziantep province, across the border from an area controlled by Islamic State militants. (Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan) |
| Baby dies in Los Angeles shooting after bullet pierces wall | | | A one-year-old girl was killed on Tuesday when a bullet from an apparent gang-related shooting pierced the wall of her Los Angeles home and struck her in the head, law enforcement officers said. The toddler was in her crib when a gunman opened fire on a converted garage in Compton, south of downtown Los Angeles, the County Sheriff's Department said. The area is one of the most violent in Los Angeles County, with 475 violent crimes, including eight homicides, in the past six months, data compiled by the Los Angeles Times shows. |
| Tajiks to vote in 'president-for-life' referendum | | | Tajikistan will hold a referendum in May on constitutional changes that would tighten veteran leader Imomali Rakhmon's grip on power, effectively giving him unlimited presidential terms and extending a ban on the main opposition party. The former Soviet republic's parliament, dominated by Rakhmon's allies, announced the vote on Wednesday after it was approved by the constitutional court. Previous constitutional changes have allowed Rakhmon to successfully run for president four times, most recently in 2013, when he was re-elected for a seven-year term. |
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