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| Colombian peace deal passed by Senate, moves to lower house | |  By Helen Murphy BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Senate approved a new peace deal with FARC rebels late on Tuesday, despite objections from former president and now Senator Alvaro Uribe, who said it was still too lenient on the insurgents who have battled the government for 52 years. The agreement was approved by 75 to zero after lawmakers from Uribe's Democratic Center party left the floor of the Senate in protest just before voting began. President Juan Manuel Santos and rebel leader Rodrigo Londono signed the revised accord last week in a sober ceremony after the first deal was rejected by millions at a plebiscite.
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| Belgium detain six suspected of links to August machete attack | | | Belgian police detained six people on Wednesday suspected of links to a machete attack on two female police officers in August that was claimed by Islamic State. Federal prosecutors said that during searches of eight houses in and near the city of Charleroi, several weapons were seized, some of them similar to the one used in the attack. A machete-wielding Algerian man yelling "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greatest) seriously wounded the two policewomen before being fatally shot in Charleroi outside the city's police headquarters on a Saturday in August. |
| Europol: terrorism data put online accidentally by agent | | | Europol said on Wednesday that information on international investigations into terrorism groups was put online accidentally by one of its former agents and it had no indication that any of its operations had been compromised. Europol, which helps European Union national police organisations with coordination and cooperation, said the data was ten years old and that the agent was an experienced policewoman who took the dossier in order to work from home. After the police officer left, the agency changed its systems to prevent employees from being able to upload information to memory storage devices, Europol spokesman Jan Op Gen Oorth said. |
| Insurgents behead Somali village elders over Islamic tax | | | By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants have beheaded eight Somali village elders and killed at least seven other people during fighting spurred by a dispute over payment of an Islamic tax, a villager and a local official said on Wednesday. The Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab is battling a weak United Nations-backed government in Mogadishu in an effort to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic law in areas of the country it controls. "Al Shabaab ordered us to pay dozens of animals for zakat (Islamic tax) and we rejected this - that is how the fighting started. |
| Swiss authorities carry out fresh house searches in FIFA case | |  Swiss authorities have searched more houses as part of their criminal investigation into suspected corruption in world soccer and have added former FIFA general secretary Urs Linsi to their list of suspects, they said on Wednesday. "The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland confirms that on 23 November 2016 it conducted house searches with the support of the Federal Office of Police (fedpol) at various locations in the German-speaking part of Switzerland," the OAG said in an emailed statement. "The measures were carried out as part of the investigations relating to a payment of 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) made in April 2005 by the German Football Association (Deutscher Fussball-Bund, DFB) to Robert Louis-Dreyfus." That payment which went via soccer's world governing body FIFA, according to German authorities, to the late Adidas boss Dreyfus, was a return of a loan made years earlier when Germany was bidding to host the 2006 World Cup.
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| Ohio State assault by immigrant raises fears in Somali community | |  By Kim Palmer COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Immigrants in Columbus, Ohio's Somali community fear a backlash after a young immigrant injured 11 people in an attack at Ohio State University, the second attack by an African immigrant in the area this year. With the second-largest Somali population in the United States, the area's 38,000 immigrants fear the college town and state capital may be less welcoming of foreigners. The attack also comes at a time when President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to suspend immigration from countries where Islamist militants are active and new arrivals cannot be safely vetted.
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| Philippines ends five-day siege against rebels pledged to Islamic State | | | Troops in the southern Philippines retook a disused building from Muslim militants on Wednesday, ending an intense five-day siege that killed dozens of fighters the authorities say had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. The militants belonged to the Maute group, one of several Islamist groups in the country's restive south. The siege ended as Duterte visited injured soldiers in Lanao del Sur province, where seven of his advance security party were wounded on Tuesday, when suspected Maute militias set off a bomb under their truck. |
| Rwanda to probe possible role of French officials in genocide - prosecutor | |  By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda has launched an inquiry into the possible role of at least 20 French military and other officials in the 1994 genocide, the prosecutor general said on Wednesday, a move that will deepen already strained relations with Paris. Rwanda has frequently had diplomatic rows with France since the genocide, when about 800,000 mostly ethnic minority Tutsis and moderates from the Hutu majority population were killed. Rwandan officials have long accused France of supporting the former government of President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu whose death when his plane was shot down in 1994 sparked the bloodbath.
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| Spanish police arrest two Moroccans suspected of Islamist State links | | | Two Moroccan men suspected of having links to Islamic State have been arrested in Spain and police say one of them played an important role in spreading propaganda for the militant group, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Investigators found he had closely followed websites dedicated to Islamist militant suicide attacks and Islamic State activity over a long period of time and had used a number of different online profiles, it said in a statement. The man was a "key element" of Islamic State's decentralised propaganda machine to recruit others to join the group, it said. |
| Thai police arrest three suspected of plotting bombs at tourist sites | | | Thai police on Wednesday arrested three men suspected of planning bomb attacks at tourist suites in the capital, Bangkok, and nearby provinces, a top officer said. The three hailed from Thailand's Muslim-majority south, where a decades-old insurgency has pitted separatist militants against government forces, said deputy national police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul. "All three came from the southern provinces and were prepared to carry out an attack in Bangkok and surrounding areas but we believe they are not separatists," Srivara told reporters. |
| South Korea opposition rejects Park's offer to quit, pushes impeachment | |  By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean opposition parties vowed on Wednesday to push ahead to try to impeach President Park Geun-hye amid a growing influence-peddling scandal, rejecting her offer to resign, and called on members of her Saenuri Party to join them. In a dramatic move that shifted the burden of resolving the crisis engulfing her presidency, Park asked parliament on Tuesday to decide how and when she should quit, which opposition lawmakers dismissed as a ploy to buy time and avoid impeachment. The leaders of the three opposition parties, which together hold 165 of the single-chamber parliament's 300 seats and can initiate an impeachment motion, said they would not negotiate with Park's party on her proposal to step down.
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| Vietnam upholds 20-month jail term for land grab protester | |  A high-profile Vietnamese activist on Wednesday lost a bid to overturn a 20-month jail term for protesting against illegal land grabs, her lawyer said, after a judge upheld a lower court ruling that had outraged human rights groups. Vietnam's boom in real estate in recent years has spurred protests by small landowners evicted to make way for construction projects. The Hanoi city court did not alter the prison sentence for Can Thi Theu, 54, lawyer Ha Huy Son told Reuters after the half-day hearing.
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| CIA's Brennan says tearing up Iran deal would be "folly" | |  Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan has said it would be the "height of folly" for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to tear up Washington's deal with Tehran because it would make it more likely that Iran and others would acquire nuclear weapons. "It could lead to a weapons programme inside of Iran that could lead other states in the region to embark on their own programmes," Brennan said in an interview with the BBC aired on Wednesday. "So I think it would be the height of folly if the next administration were to tear up that agreement." Brennan also said that in dealing with the Syrian crisis, Trump should be cautious in trying to work with Russia.
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| South Korea's Park names prosecutor to probe corruption scandal | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday appointed a special prosecutor to head an independent investigation of a corruption scandal engulfing her presidency, her office said. Park Young-soo, who is not related to the president, was one of two veteran former prosecutors nominated by opposition parties and will lead a team of investigators looking into the case. (Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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| Curbs on extremist online content threaten free speech - report | |  The Global Network Initiative said companies should not be pressured by governments to change their terms of service, and demands to restrict content due to public safety concerns need to be consistent with existing legal frameworks. Members of the group, which began developing its recommendations in July 2015, include Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, LinkedIn Corp and Yahoo! Inc, and civil society groups and academics. The report came as governments around the world are pushing companies to do more to stop digital proselytizing on the internet by Islamic jihadists and other extremist groups.
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