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| French police intercept over tonne of cocaine from Colombia | | | French police have intercepted over a tonne of cocaine that had arrived by plane from Colombia, a public prosecutor said on Thursday. The drug, worth about 100 million euros ($100 million dollars), was seized in a warehouse in the southwest France town of Bayonne on Wednesday, the Bordeaux prosecutor said in a statement. |
| Battle for Iraq's Mosul could take months - ICRC | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Iraqi government's assault to retake the city of Mosul could take months, prompting more and more civilians to try to flee to avoid being trapped between frontlines, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross told Reuters. A growing number of wounded, more than 100 on some days, are emerging from rural areas surrounding the city of one million that is held by Islamic State forces, said Dominik Stillhart, director of ICRC operations worldwide. "What we see now on the ground is indeed that the fight in Mosul is not just going to stop anytime soon because the resistance is very strong," Stillhart, back from visiting Iraq, said in an interview on Thursday at ICRC headquarters in Geneva.
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| Newsmaker: Daunting task faces Thailand's new king | |  Thailand's new monarch, who will be known as King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, faces a daunting task after his father gained semi-divine status in a kingdom that underwent profound changes during his 70-year reign. Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn was invited to ascend the throne by parliament on Tuesday and formally accepted the invitation on Thursday, when he was proclaimed king. Thailand has been without a monarch since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Oct. 13 plunged the Southeast Asian nation into mourning.
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| Executive of Turkey's Dogan faces inquiry as Erdogan vows to 'cleanse' | | | By Daren Butler and Birsen Altayli ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities are investigating an executive at Dogan Holding, the conglomerate said on Thursday, heightening concern President Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown after a failed coup may now spread to the country's top companies. Companies with longstanding ties to the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan has accused of masterminding the failed coup, have also been targeted in the crackdown. Until now, Turkey's leading firms, mostly Istanbul-based and affiliated with the secular elite, have been largely untouched. |
| Islamist mole in German spy agency had been gay porn actor - report | | | The Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) intelligence agency declined to comment on the report because of the ongoing investigation. It has said the man was arrested after making Islamist statements on the Internet and offering to share sensitive data about the spy agency's work in chatrooms.. The BfV defended its security checks after the arrest, saying that the man had behaved completely inconspicuously. Conservative politicians demanded more frequent security checks to avoid similar problems in future. |
| Thailand's crown prince becomes country's new king | |  Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, became Thailand's new king on Thursday after he accepted an invitation from parliament to succeed his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October. King Bhumibol, 88, was widely loved and regarded as a pillar of stability during decades of political turbulence and rapid development in the Southeast Asian nation. Prince Vajiralongkorn, who will be known as King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, according to a statement released by parliament's public relations department, met Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, president of the National Legislative Assembly, at Bangkok's Dusit Palace.
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| Ethnic cleansing going on in South Sudan - U.N. commission | | | By Tom Miles and Ed Cropley GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ethnic cleansing is taking place in some areas of South Sudan and the stage is set for a repeat of the Rwandan genocide, the head of the U.N. commission of human rights in the country said on Thursday at the end of a 10-day visit. "The stage is being set for a repeat of what happened in Rwanda and the international community is under an obligation to prevent it," she said, referring to Rwanda's 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people died. |
| Iranians face terrorism charges after filming Israeli embassy in Kenya | | | By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two Iranians and their Kenyan driver, who worked for the Iranian embassy in Nairobi, were charged on Thursday with collecting information for a terrorist act after filming the Israeli embassy, lawyers said. Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi, Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe and driver Moses Keyah Mmboga "were found taking video clips of the Israeli embassy ... for the use in the commission of a terrorist act", according to a charge sheet produced in court. The three men were in a car belonging to the Iranian embassy when they were arrested on Tuesday, the court papers said. |
| South Sudanese flee as country edges closer to "genocide" | | | By Aaron Ross KARUKWAT, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Charity Mandulu said the executions began soon after government soldiers - around 100 of them mostly from South Sudan President Salva Kiir's Dinka ethnic group - arrived in her home town of Tore Payam. If you didn't give to them, they killed you," she said, visibly exhausted from what she said was a week-long walk through the bush and across the southern border to relative safety in Democratic Republic of Congo. Mandulu's account and those of some of the other 64,000 people who have fled South Sudan to isolated northeastern Congo could not be independently verified. |
| Britain shocked by growing soccer child abuse scandal | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - What began as a harrowing account of child abuse suffered by a former professional English soccer player last month has lifted the lid on what could be one of the worst paedophile scandals Britain has ever known. Andy Woodward, 43, who played in the lower divisions of English soccer, told the Guardian newspaper in an interview two weeks ago how his life had been ruined because he had been molested as a boy by a youth team coach. The allegations of child sex abuse in English soccer from the 1970s through to the 1990s has shocked Britain and led to deep soul-searching in the game amid fears hundreds of young boys might have been involved.
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| Swiss upper house backs immigration bill avoiding EU quotas | | | By Michael Shields and Gabriela Baczynska ZURICH/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Swiss efforts to curb immigration from the European Union without provoking a clash with Brussels cleared another hurdle on Thursday when parliament's upper house backed giving locals first crack at open jobs rather than adopting outright quotas. The step is roughly in line with a bill the lower house adopted in September, skirting direct confrontation with the EU which says free movement of people is a key condition for free Swiss access to the bloc's single market of 500 million people. The two bills still must be reconciled ahead of a final vote later this month, but both stop short of upper limits and quotas on immigration that Swiss voters demanded in a binding 2014 referendum. |
| Blocked Qatari news site blames government censorship | | | By Tom Finn DOHA (Reuters) - An independent English-language news site in Qatar accused the Gulf state of censorship on Thursday, saying two Internet service providers had simultaneously blocked access to it. "We can only conclude that our website has been deliberately targeted and blocked by Qatar authorities," the Doha News said in a statement. "We are incredibly disappointed with this decision, which appears to be an act of censorship." A spokesman for the Qatari government did not respond to phone messages seeking comment. |
| Corrected: Rwandan tribunal charges ex-military officer over genocide | |  (Corrects spelling of prosecutor's name) By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - A Rwandan military tribunal began hearings on Thursday against a former army officer deported from Canada last month to face charges over Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Jean Claude Seyoboka is accused of genocide, planning genocide, and murder and rape as crimes against humanity. The military prosecution told the court that Seyoboka, who was deported from Canada on November 18, trained the Interahamwe militia and killed Tutsi in several parts of the capital, Kigali.
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| Belgium charges two over August attack claimed by IS | | | (Reuters) - A Belgian judge charged two people with participation in a terrorist organisation and attempted murder, prosecutors said on Thursday, in connection with a machete attack on two policewomen claimed by Islamic State. The two charged were a 36-year-old woman, identified only as Sabrina Z, and a 37-year-old man, named as Farid L, prosecutors said. |
| Beaten and bruised, detainee recounts Islamic State torture | | | By John Davison FADILIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Abdel Razzaq Jalal paused, visibly traumatised, as he told how Islamic State militants tortured him in a Mosul prison to force him to say he was a spy. The ultra-hardline group arrested the 39-year-old in his village near Mosul in northern Iraq earlier this year, accusing him of spying for Kurdish forces. After six nights and seven days of beatings, abuse and death threats, he says the militants let him go, after an Islamic State judge ruled there was not enough evidence to sentence him. |
| Colombia postpones peace talks with ELN guerrillas | | | The Colombian government said its peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN) were postponed to Jan. 10 while the guerrilla force conducts internal consultations and is to free a kidnapped politician. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said negotiations with the ELN, which the United States and European Union consider a terrorist organization, could only begin after the release of Odin Sanchez, who was kidnapped in April. Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, has wagered his legacy on bringing stability to Colombia and on Wednesday succeeded in getting an accord with the FARC guerilla force through Congress. |
| Chinese bishop excommunicated by Vatican takes part in ordination | | | A Chinese Catholic bishop excommunicated by the Vatican took part in the ordination of a new bishop in China on Wednesday, a move that some experts said could complicate Pope Francis' drive to heal a decades-old rift with the Communist government in Beijing. The ordination of the new Chinese bishop, which was witnessed by a Reuters reporter, took place under heavy security at the cathedral in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Lei Shiyin, the government-backed bishop of Leshan in Sichuan province where Chengdu is also located, was ordained in China in June 2011 without Rome's blessing, at a time of heightened tensions between the Vatican and Beijing. |
| Turkey may hold constitution referendum in early summer of 2017 - PM | |  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey may hold referendum on constitutional change including a more powerful executive presidency at start of summer next year, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday. Speaking at a joint press conference with nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli, Yildirim said the ruling AK Party was planning to present to parliament its constitutional change proposal next week. He added that the changes will allow the president to retain ties with his political party. ...
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| Surge in online sex trade of children challenges anti-slavery campaigners | | | By Paola Totaro LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Technology has fuelled a surge in the buying and selling of children online for sexual abuse with advertising a child on the internet as "easy as booking an airfare", campaigners told an anti-slavery conference in London. Lawyer Carol Robles-Roman, who was deputy mayor for legal affairs to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said legal reform was urgently needed to protect children from online sexual exploitation. The International Justice Mission (IJM), an anti-slavery organization, this week launched a campaign to tackle the "horrific crime" of cybersex trafficking that involves the sexual abuse of children in front of a live webcam. |
| Qatari news site says website blocked, blames state censorship | | | An independent English-language news site in Qatar accused the Gulf state of censorship on Thursday, saying two internet service providers had blocked access to its website. The Doha News, which stirred a debate about the limits of tolerance in the conservative country in August with an opinion column on gay rights in Qatar, said the two internet firms had simultaneously barred access to its website on Wednesday. "We can only conclude that our website has been deliberately targeted and blocked by Qatar authorities," the Doha News said in a statement. |
| Insight: Iraq's Shi'ite militias could prove bigger test than Mosul | |  By Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In early June, two Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias under the nominal control of the Iraqi government stormed into an Iraqi military airbase north of Baghdad. The Iraqi commander at the base, near the town of Balad, asked the militiamen to leave. The June standoff grounded four Iraqi F-16 fighter jets and pushed more than a dozen U.S. contractors – there to help local pilots bomb Islamic State militants – to flee, according to the army officers and an Iraqi military intelligence source.
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| Computer virus attack targeted Saudi government installations - state news agency | | | A computer virus attack in mid-November targeted Saudi government bodies and vital installations including the kingdom's transport sector, Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Thursday. The attack appeared to originate outside the country and was one of "several ongoing cyberattacks targeting government authorities", SPA quoted the National Cyber Security Center, an arm of the Ministry of Interior, as saying. A Ministry of Interior spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
| Philippines raises terror alert after foiled Manila bomb plot | |  The Philippines has raised its terror alert to its highest level after police said they had discovered a plot by Islamic State-linked militants to attack a park, following a foiled bombing near the U.S. embassy this week. Ronald dela Rosa, the national police chief, said the plot was revealed by two men arrested over the planting of a bomb near the embassy in Manila on Monday. "These men planned to detonate a bomb in a public park, but it failed, then they planted another improvised explosive device near the U.S. embassy," dela Rosa told a news conference, standing beside two men in yellow prisons shirts.
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