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| Investigator asks U.N. to notify N. Korea's Kim of probe for crimes against humanity | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. North Korea human rights expert Darzuki Marusman has asked the United Nations officially to notify North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he may be investigated for crimes against humanity. In a report seen by Reuters on Monday, Darusman recommended that the U.N. Human Rights Council arrange an official communication "to advise him and other senior leaders that they may be investigated and, if found to be responsible, held accountable for crimes against humanity committed under their leadership". (Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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| Several wounded in clashes between Ugandan police and opposition - Reuters witness | | | Several people were wounded in battles between police and supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye in the capital Kampala on Monday, a witness and an opposition official said. A Reuters photographer saw police fire bullets and teargas while opposition supporters hurled rocks and erected barricades in the streets around the Wandegeya suburb. "I have seen many people on the road bleeding profusely, the situation is still very tense," added Ingrid Turinawe, a senior official from Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party. |
| Samarra's Sunnis fear displacement a decade after Iraq shrine attack | |  By Stephen Kalin and Kareem Raheem SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunlight once again glints off the golden dome of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines, almost fully restored 10 years after suspected al Qaeda militants blew it up in northern Iraq. The shrine's destruction on February 22, 2006 sparked a wave of revenge attacks that killed tens of thousand of people and plunged Iraq into a sectarian civil war. In the attack, gunmen in police uniforms burst into the shrine, tied up guards and planted explosives that brought down its 100-year-old dome, one of the Muslim world's biggest and best known.
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| Bulgaria charges three Syrians with trying to join Islamic State | | | Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Syrians with attempting to join Islamic State militant group after border patrols arrested them as they tried to enter Turkey from Bulgaria, the interior ministry said on Monday. The three Syrians, who had refugee status from Germany, had already made one unsuccessful attempt to enter Turkey through Greece earlier this year, the ministry said. "During operational activities their affiliation to Islamic State has been established, as well as their intention to join the terrorist group," the ministry said in a statement. |
| Pope heads to Mexico's indigenous south as Catholic fervor fades | |  By Philip Pullella and Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis travels on Monday to Mexico's poor, indigenous south, which has fallen far behind wealthier parts of the country and where he will authorize the use of native languages for Mass in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions. Mired in poverty and plagued by rising insecurity, the state of Chiapas was the scene of the Zapatista uprising of Maya rebels in the 1990s. It is now the frontline of a government crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States from Central America.
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| Students protest in thousands as government cracks down on dissent | |  Outrage over the arrest of the left-wing student leader, who had organised a rally to mark the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist, has led to demonstrations in at least 18 universities. "The government does not want students to have a say," said Rahila Parween, vice-president of the Delhi unit of the All India Students' Federation, a left-wing student union.
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| Former U.N. war court convict arrested in Bosnia on fresh war crimes charges | |  Bosnia's police arrested an ex-convict of the U.N. war crimes court and two other Bosnian Serbs on Monday for war crimes committed early in the country's 1992-95 war, which claimed 100,000 lives. Former Bosnian Serb policeman Darko Mrdja was jailed in 2004 for 17 years by the Hague-based international war crimes tribunal after he confessed to taking part in a 1992 massacre of more than 150 Bosniaks - Bosnian Muslims - in central Bosnia. The mass killings on Mount Vlasic occurred as part of a wave of ethnic cleansing carried out by rebel Bosnian Serb forces who were trying to create a Serb statelet by removing Bosniaks and Croats from the area.
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| Platini says done 'nothing wrong' as appeal hearing starts | |  By Cecile Mantovani ZURICH (Reuters) - Banned UEFA President Michel Platini arrived on Monday at a hearing to appeal against his suspension from the sport and said he had done nothing wrong. Platini was banned for eight years in December along with FIFA President Sepp Blatter over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) made to the Frenchman in 2011 by FIFA with Blatter's approval for work done a decade earlier. Former France captain Platini arrived at FIFA headquarters on foot from a nearby hotel.
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| Buddhist monks scuffle with troops in Thailand over leadership protest | | | A handful of Buddhist monks scuffled with troops in Thailand on Monday during a protest against what they called state interference in religious affairs and a bid to overthrow the governing body of their religion. Religion is becoming a proxy war for the colour-coded politics that Thailand's junta has quashed since taking power in 2014 in an effort to end a decade of political violence. A battle for the top post in Thai Buddhism has divided Thailand between supporters of the leading candidate, a 90-year-old abbot facing investigation for a tax scam involving luxury cars, and those who oppose him. |
| Pakistani university reopens after attack; teachers allowed guns | |  The university in northwest Pakistan where Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last month reopened for classes on Monday with teachers - but not students - allowed to carry weapons. Pakistani Taliban militants have threatened more assaults on schools and universities since the Jan. 20 attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, fueling a growing sense of insecurity in the country. The attack had reminded Pakistanis of the horrors that took place a little over a year earlier, when militants massacred 134 pupils at an army school just 19 miles (31 km) away, in Peshawar, the main city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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| Malaysian police open defamation probe against ex-PM Mahathir | |  Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad is under investigation for defaming the attorney-general in blog posts criticising his failure to bring corruption charges against Prime Minister Najib Razak, police said on Monday. The feud between Malaysia's past and current leaders has gripped the Southeast Asian nation for almost a year, with Mahathir repeatedly calling on Najib, his former protege, to step down over a financial scandal at indebted state-fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). In a Feb. 5 posting on his personal blog, Mahathir wrote attorney-general Mohamad Apandi Ali had "no credibility", after he cleared Najib of any criminal offences or corruption arising from a graft probe into a $681 million deposit in Najib's personal bank account.
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| EU says ready to impose more sanctions on Burundi | |  European Union foreign ministers said on Monday they were prepared to impose more economic sanctions on Burundi following the failure of talks to end a political crisis in the Central African country that has killed more than 400 people. "The EU ... stands ready to impose restrictive measures against those whose actions might have led or might lead to acts of violence and repression (and) serious human rights violations," ministers said in a statement released during a meeting in Brussels, adding that those hampering a political solution could also be targeted.
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