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| Saudi Arabia puts Shi'ites on trial for spying for Iran | | | Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shi'ite Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran, several local newspapers and television reported on Monday. The trial is the first in recent memory for Saudis accused of spying and may stoke tensions between local Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims and with Iran, which strongly denied the accusations at the time. The bitter rivalry between the Sunni-ruled kingdom and Iran, a Shi'ite theocracy, has aggravated wars and political struggles in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain and is regarded by many analysts as a cause of regional instability. |
| Stability still elusive despite peaceful Central African election | |  By Joe Bavier BANGUI (Reuters) - As rival gunmen tightened their stranglehold on Central African Republic during three years of inter-religious bloodshed, women like Madeleine Nzanga became, and remain, lifelines for the nation's war-weary people. Each day she crosses the Ubangi River to Democratic Republic of Congo to bring back essentials -- even firewood and manioc, the local staple food -- that have grown scarce since militias seized the countryside. "During the shooting, everything has to come across from Congo," said Nzanga, a trader at Port Sao, a strip of sandy riverbank just upstream from the tumbledown capital Bangui.
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| San Bernardino victims to oppose Apple on iPhone encryption | |  Some victims of the San Bernardino attack will file a legal brief in support of the U.S. government's attempt to force Apple Inc to unlock the encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters, a lawyer representing the victims said on Sunday. Stephen Larson, a former federal judge who is now in private practice, told Reuters that the victims he represents have an interest in the information which goes beyond the Justice Department's criminal investigation. Larson said he was contacted a week ago by the Justice Department and local prosecutors about representing the victims, prior to the dispute becoming public.
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| Heavy gunfire heard as operation to flush out gunmen in Kashmir enters third day | |  Indian security forces battled for a third day amid heavy gunfire on Monday to clear militants who stormed a government building in the disputed Kashmir region and killed six people, officials and a witness said. After a lull in fighting overnight, army commandos and police launched a fresh offensive to clear the five-storey training institute captured by the militants. Gunfire and explosions could be heard at the building complex near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, a Reuters witness said.
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| Army recaptures Delhi water source, caste protests continue | |  The Indian army has taken control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of Delhi's water, the state's chief minister said on Monday, raising hope that a water crisis in the metropolis of more than 20 million people can be averted. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that the army had regained control from protesters of the gates of the Munak canal to the north of Delhi. Protests by the Jat caste in neighbouring Haryana have paralysed road and rail links and killed at least 10 in a challenge to the authority of the state and national governments run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist party.
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| Judge blocks attempt to halt deposition of Bill Cosby's wife | |  A federal judge in Massachusetts on Sunday night rejected attempts by the wife of comedian Bill Cosby to halt her upcoming deposition in a defamation case brought by seven women against the disgraced entertainer, court records showed. Camille Cosby's lawyers late on Saturday filed an emergency motion to delay her deposition, scheduled for Monday, pending an appeal of a judge's Friday ruling not to stay the proceeding. U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni ruled late on Sunday night that the deposition would go ahead on Monday morning.
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| Uber driver suspected in Michigan shootings, six dead | |  A Michigan man who worked as an Uber driver was under arrest on Sunday in the fatal shooting of six people in Kalamazoo, as police investigated reports he may have driven customers of the car-hailing service the night of the rampage. Prosecutors alleged that Jason Dalton, 45, opened fire, apparently at random, in parking lots outside an apartment building, a car dealership and at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Kalamazoo, about 150 miles (240 km) west of Detroit. Authorities could not confirm Dalton was working for Uber during the nearly five-hour shooting spree on Saturday evening.
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| U.S. businessman detained in Iran denied access to lawyer | |  By Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian-American businessman detained in Iran since October has been denied access to his lawyer by authorities, his attorney and family said in an interview and on social media over the last two days. Siamak Namazi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, was detained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in October while visiting family, according to a source familiar with the matter who declined to be identified. After their release, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that he had commitments from Iran that Namazi's case would be resolved soon.
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| Egyptian rights group asks court to halt official move to shut it down | | | By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian organisation that documents rights abuses and treats torture victims said on Sunday it had filed an urgent application to a court in the hope of halting plans by authorities to shut it down on Monday. The director of the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture told a news conference that a health ministry decision to shut it down was part of the toughest crackdown on dissent in Egypt's modern history. "This is a political decision," said Aida Seif el-Dawla. |
| Hiddink condemns coin-throwing Chelsea fans | |  Coin-throwing fans marred the FA Cup for the second consecutive day on Sunday with Chelsea supporters under fire after an incident during their 5-1 defeat of Manchester City on Sunday. Television replays showed coins landing on the pitch near City's players who were celebrating David Faupala's first half equaliser. A Chelsea spokesman said the club would work with police to identify the culprits and ban them from games.
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| Ten killed in thwarted Ivory Coast prison break - authorities | | | ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Nine prisoners and one guard were killed at the main jail in Ivory Coast in a failed escape attempt by inmates who had obtained firearms, prosecutor general Aly Yeo said on state television on Sunday. The breakout bid at the MACA prison in Abidjan, the main commercial city, began on Saturday when prisoners opened fire on guards. Yeo said it had been put down on Sunday. (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Kevin Liffey) |
| Defying Cameron, London's mayor to campaign for British exit from EU | |  By William James and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sunday threw his weight behind the campaign to leave the European Union, dealing a blow to David Cameron by increasing the chance British voters will ditch membership in a June referendum. In a move that electrified the referendum campaign by pitting one of Britain's most charismatic politicians against the prime minister, Johnson said Cameron had failed to deliver fundamental reform with an EU deal struck on Friday. Johnson, a political showman whose buffoonish and eccentric style is thought to mask a fierce ambition to succeed Cameron, said the European project was in danger of getting out of democratic control.
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| Niger holds tense vote, with Issoufou running for second term | |  By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger closed its land borders and ramped up security on Sunday for an election in which President Mahamadou Issoufou is running for a second term promising to crush Islamist militants and reduce the country's deep poverty. Security forces patrolled cities and villages in case of unrest or militant attacks. Unidentified armed men attacked two electoral commission vehicles in a rural area about 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital, according to security sources, but there were few other reports of trouble.
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| Nokia 5G pickup could begin as early as 2017 - chief executive | |  By Eric Auchard BARCELONA (Reuters) - Mobile equipment maker Nokia sees the shift to the next generation of 5G wireless networks kicking off well ahead of 2020, the year when many in the industry consider mass-market upgrades will begin, its chief executive said on Sunday. Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said the company plans to pick up investment in 5G technology in 2016 and that sales of 5G-ready equipment capable of future upgrades could begin as early as 2017. This may surprise some of you," Suri declared to an audience including investors ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
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