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| Ivory Coast soldiers patrol beaches after Qaeda attack kills 18 | |  By Joe Bavier GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast soldiers armed with assault rifles patrolled the deserted beaches of a resort town on Monday, a day after gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch killed 18 people, the third major al Qaeda attack in West Africa in four months. President Alassane Ouattara declared three days of mourning for the country, which has never before been hit by al Qaeda. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was responsible for storming the beach hotels in Grand Bassam, a weekend retreat popular with Ivorians and westerners about 40 km (25 miles) east of the commercial capital Abidjan.
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| FDA investigating graphic video linked to Kellogg factory | | | Breakfast cereals maker Kellogg Co said federal regulators are conducting a criminal investigation of a video that surfaced on Friday showing a man filming himself urinating on one of its factory assembly lines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe into the video, which was recorded in 2014, company spokeswoman Kris Charles told Reuters in an email on Monday. The video, uploaded on the website World Star Hip Hop on Friday, shows the man urinating on an assembly line and then panning to a sign with the company's logo. |
| Myanmar military questions Suu Kyi picks ahead of presidential vote | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's powerful military questioned Aung San Suu Kyi's picks for president and vice president on Monday, as tension simmered between the two sides a day before parliament votes on who should get the top job. Relations between the armed forces and Suu Kyi will define the success or otherwise of Myanmar's most significant break from military rule since the army seized power in 1962, even though the constitution bars her from taking the presidency. The democracy leader says she will run the country whoever becomes president, and her choice looks certain to be confirmed by parliament as her National League for Democracy (NLD) holds a sizeable majority after winning a landslide victory in a general election in November.
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| Delhi High Court grants Pfizer temporary relief on cough syrup ban | |  By Zeba Siddiqui and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Delhi High Court granted U.S. drugmaker Pfizer an interim injunction on a ban on its popular cough syrup Corex, days after the government ordered it to be prohibited citing a potential risk to humans. India's health ministry banned the combination of chlorpheniramine maleate and codeine syrup, which Pfizer sells as the cough syrup Corex, in a notice over the weekend. Pfizer's Indian subsidiary appealed the ban through a writ petition in the New Delhi High Court, which granted the company a stay on Monday, pending the next court hearing, Pfizer said in a statement.
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| Knife attack on Tamil Nadu student an "honour killing", say activists | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A daylight attack on a newly married couple near a bus stop in the southern India, in which the husband was killed, was an "honour killing" carried out because the groom was from a lower caste, said activists, demanding swift police action. On Sunday, 22-year-old engineering student V. Shankar and his wife Kousalya were attacked by three men armed with sickles as the couple waited to board a bus in the textile town of Tirupur in the state of Tamil Nadu, police said. Kousalya was undergoing treatment for her injuries, deputy superintendent of police N. Vivekanandan said. |
| Death toll in Ivory Coast militant attack rises to 18 - govt | | | ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The casualty toll in an attack by Islamist militants on a beach resort in Ivory Coast rose to 15 civilians and three members of the country's special forces killed and 33 people wounded, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said. Three Islamist militants who stormed the resort in the town of Grand Bassam east of the commercial capital Abidjan were also killed, he said at the end of a cabinet meeting. (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Toby Chopra) |
| Bangladesh arrests Islamist militants over bomb plot, seizes explosives | | | Officials of Bangladesh's anti-terrorism unit on Monday detained five suspected members of a banned Islamist militant group for planning attacks during celebrations of the Bengali New Year next month, a spokesman said. Muslim-majority Bangladesh has experienced a surge in Islamist violence, targeting liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups. The five members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh were arrested in an overnight raid on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, said Mizanur Rahman Bhuiya, spokesman of the country's Rapid Action Battalion, drawn from its police and military. |
| Don't mention the "s" word: EU tries to hold firm on Russia sanctions | |  By Robin Emmott and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Supporters of the European Union's economic sanctions against Russia insisted on Monday they were still needed for the bloc's security amid signs of fraying unity in the 28-nation bloc over how to deal with Moscow. The EU imposed the sanctions two years ago over Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and its support for armed separatists battling Kiev's forces in mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine. Lithuania's foreign minister, whose country was part of the Soviet Union and controlled by Moscow until 1990, said the need to engage with Russia over Syria did not mean the EU should compromise in its support for Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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| Coal India to get anti-theft technology in place by end April | |  Coal India's measures to prevent theft by electronically "fencing" mining areas and fitting trucks with a GPS-based tracking system will be finished by the end of April, a government official said. Coal India's modernisation plan, first reported by Reuters in January, includes tracking trucks and using Google maps to "fence" mines, which will alert managers if a truck diverts from its route. India's Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said on Monday that reducing the amount of coal stolen and improving the quality of coal sold were his top priorities.
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| Three former South African officials banned over 2010 matches | |  By Brian Homewood LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Three more former South African Football Association (SAFA) officials have been banned from the sport in connection with international friendlies played by the national side in 2010, soccer's governing body FIFA said on Monday. Leslie Sedibe, a former chief executive of the South African Football Association (SAFA), was banned for five years and fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,250) by FIFA's Ethics Committee. Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse, both former heads of the SAFA's refereeing department, were each banned for two years, soccer's governing body said in a statement.
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