Thursday, December 31, 2015

Palestinian in West Bank rams Israeli forces with car, shot dead


A vehicle involved in a car ramming attack next to the Huwara checkpoint near Nablus, on December 31, 2015A Palestinian drove his car into Israeli forces in the northern West Bank on Thursday before being shot dead, the Israeli army said.


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'Affluenza' teen held at Mexican immigration holding center


In this frame from video provided by TVAzteca, Ethan Couch, center, is led through a detention center in Guadalajara, Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015. Couch, a Texas teen known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident was transported late Wednesday from a detention facility in Guadalajara to one in Mexico City, an official said. (TV Azteca via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT; MEXICO OUTMEXICO CITY (AP) — A Texas teen known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident is being held at a Mexico City immigration detention center in one of the capital's poorest areas, where he will likely spend weeks, if not months, as he appeals deportation.


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Rouhani says Iran has right to develop missiles, expands programme


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talks to journalists after he registered for February's election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at Interior Ministry in TehranPresident Hassan Rouhani ordered his defence minister on Thursday to expand Iran's missile programme, in response to a U.S. threat to impose sanctions over a ballistic missile test Iran carried out in October. "As the U.S. government is clearly still pursuing its hostile policies and illegal meddling ... the armed forces need to quickly and significantly increase their missile capability," Rouhani wrote in a letter to Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan, published on the state news agency IRNA. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is preparing new sanctions against international companies and individuals over Iran's ballistic missile programme, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.


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France deploys over 100,000 police for New Year's Eve


France is beefing up security for New Year's Eve celebrations, six weeks after jihadists attacked the capital, leaving 130 people deadMore than 100,000 police will be deployed throughout France to guard New Year's Eve celebrations that come six weeks after the jihadist attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.


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Canada misses Syrian refugee target for 2015 as 6,000 arrive


Syrian refugees arrive at the Pearson Toronto International Airport in Mississauga(Reuters) - Canada will bring in more than 6,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, missing its already delayed target of accepting 10,000 by year-end, the Canadian government said on Thursday. Immigration Minister John McCallum said he expects Canada to reach that goal by mid-January, and meet its larger target of accepting 25,000 refugees by the end of February. Canada's recently elected Liberal government campaigned on a promise to accept 25,000 refugees by the end of 2015.


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Osborne Accused After Banking Review Scrapped


Osborne Accused After Banking Review ScrappedThe Chancellor is under fire after a City regulator dropped its review into Britain's banking culture. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that if George Osborne does not use his influence to keep the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) review going, he will be letting down the public. Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, meanwhile, said that any "hope of change and progress" had been "dashed" as a result of the decision.


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Ukraine to investigate suspected computer attack on energy grid


An illustration picture shows projection of binary code on man holding aptop computer in WarsawUkraine will investigate a suspected computer malware attack on its energy grid, the energy ministry said on Thursday, an incident the country's secret service has blamed on Russia. A power company in western Ukraine, Prykarpattyaoblenergo, said on Dec. 23 that a swath of the area it serves had been left without energy, including the regional capital Ivano-Frankivsk, due to "interference" in the work of the system. The Ukrainian Security Service SBU later blamed Russia, which has not so far commented on the allegation.


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Correction: GOP 2016-Carson's Enterprises story


Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson poses for a photograph following an interview with The Associated Press in his home in Upperco, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Dec. 25 about Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's business enterprises, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Lawrence Noble, a campaign-finance expert quoted in the story, was from the Campaign Finance Center. He is from the Campaign Legal Center.


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Biggest Dutch department store chain declares bankruptcy


Biggest Dutch department store chain declares bankruptcyPeople shop at a Christmas market in Amsterdam


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Belgium detains six people over New Year's attack plot


Belgian soldiers stand next to a military armoured vehicle as they patrol in central BrusselsBy Robert-Jan Bartunek and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police detained six people during house searches in Brussels on Thursday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to carry out an attack in the capital on New Year's Eve. Police carried out searches at six locations in the Belgian capital and one just outside the city, seizing computers, mobile phones and equipment for airsoft, a sport involving guns that shoot non-lethal plastic pellets. Two Belgian nationals arrested earlier this week and named as 30-year-old Said S. and 27-year-old Mohammed K., are being held on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, prosecutors said.


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Before Mosul, Iraqi army may face fight at the gates of Baghdad


A tank of the Iraqi army is seen on the outskirts of the city of FallujaBy Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces may face a big battle near Baghdad before they can try to retake the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul: Falluja, a long-time bastion of Sunni Muslim jihadists at the capital's western gates. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's government and the U.S.-led coalition backing it have been cagey so far in plans for Falluja, which lies between Baghdad and Ramadi, the capital of western Anbar province that the Iraqi military recaptured this week from the militants. Falluja was the first Iraqi city to fall to Islamic State in January 2014, six months before the group that emerged from al Qaeda swept through large parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria.Abadi said on Monday the army would head next to Mosul, the biggest urban centre under Islamic State control.


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Nigeria demands MTN pay $3.9 bn telecoms fine as deadline expires


Nigeria demands MTN pay $3.9 bn telecoms fine as deadline expiresNigeria expects MTN to meet a deadline for paying a record $3.9 bn fine despite a court challenge


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Syrian rebels push back after government onslaught


Syrian rebels push back after government onslaughtFighters try to reclaim land lost near Sheikh Maskin after major offensive by government forces and Russian air power.


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IOC to cut diesel, petrol prices from Friday


A worker prepares to fill a jerry-can at a fuel station in KolkataREUTERS - Indian Oil Corp (IOC) will cut the price of diesel by 2.3 percent from Friday and that of petrol by 1 percent, reflecting changes in global fuel prices. The retail price of diesel will be cut ...


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Ex-member of Bosnia's presidency charged with war crimes


The war among Bosnia's main ethnic communities -- Croats, Muslims and Serbs -- claimed 100,000 lives and left homeless some two million people, almost half of the country's pre-war populationA former Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes against Croats and Muslims in the 1992-1995 war, a Bosnian prosecutor said on Thursday.


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Israeli police question PM's wife over household spending


FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands by his wife Sara as she casts her ballot at a polling station in Jerusalem. Israeli media reported Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, that Israeli police are questioning Sara Netanyahu over her alleged inflated household spending. The Netanyahus have long faced scrutiny over their spending and accusations that their lifestyles are out of touch with regular Israelis. (AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police questioned the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday over her alleged inflated household spending, the latest in a string of accusations that have led critics to portray the first couple as a petty pair who improperly use state funds to subsidize an excessive lifestyle.


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Istanbul blanketed in snow and flights disrupted


Tourists pull their luggage through snow in the Hagia Sofia district in Istanbul on December 31, 2015Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Thursday from Istanbul's two main airports after the city was hit by a picturesque but troublesome snowfall on the last day of the year.


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New York Man Accused Of New Year Attack Plot


An alleged Islamic State supporter has been arrested in New York on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack on a restaurant on New Year's Eve. http://ift.tt/1Vscj3A

2 Sentenced to Death in Killing of Bangladeshi Activist in 2013


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Ringing In 2016 Around The World

Ringing In 2016 Around The World
A few cities, including Paris and Brussels, have canceled fireworks over fears of terrorist attacks. But in most of the world's major cities, celebrations are going forward as planned.

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21 Injured on Air Canada Flight After Sudden Turbulence


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Mother of 'affluenza' teen is jailed in Los Angeles


Mother of 'affluenza' teen is jailed in Los AngelesThe mother of a fugitive Texas teen known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident is jailed in Los Angeles on Thursday after being deported from Mexico, police said. ...


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High security in C. African Republic as vote count starts


Senegalese UN peacekeeping forces stand guard as people wait to vote at a polling station during presidential and legislatives elections in the streets of the Muslim PK-5 district of Bangui on December 30, 2015UN troops stood guard over the main vote-counting centre in Bangui on Thursday after a peaceful election in the Central African Republic aimed at turning the page on years of inter-religious violence.


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Oil market to end 2015 in downbeat mood; hangover to be long, painful


Driver waits to fill his car with fuel at a petrol station in RiyadhNEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices steadied on Thursday but were still headed for a second year of steep declines after a race to pump by Middle East crude producers and U.S. shale oil drillers created an unprecedented global glut that may take through 2016 to clear. Global oil benchmark Brent and U.S. crude's West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were on track finish 2015 down more than 30 percent after another year that showed the helplessness of Saudi Arabia and others in the once-powerful Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to support oil prices. The U.S. shale industry, meanwhile, surprised the world again with its ability to survive rock-bottom crude prices, churning out more supply than thought, even as the sell-off in oil slashed by two-thirds the number of drilling rigs in the country from a year ago.


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Ukraine to investigate suspected computer attack on energy grid


Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in WarsawUkraine will investigate a suspected computer malware attack on its energy grid, the energy ministry said on Thursday, an incident the country's secret service has blamed on Russia. A power company in western Ukraine, Prykarpattyaoblenergo, said on Dec. 23 that a swath of the area it serves had been left without energy, including the regional capital Ivano-Frankivsk, due to "interference" in the work of the system. The Ukrainian Security Service SBU later blamed Russia, which has not so far commented on the allegation.


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Cosby 'accused unjustly' in sex assault case: attorney


US comedian Bill Cosby arrives on December 30, 2015 at the Court House in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania to face chargesFallen TV superstar Bill Cosby is in "good spirits" and is confident he will be cleared of a felony sex assault charge brought against him, his attorney said Thursday.


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Iran denies firing rockets near US warships in the Gulf


Iran denies firing rockets near US warships in the GulfIranian army spokesman dismisses as "psychological warfare" US claims that rockets were fired near its warships.


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