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Iraq's Abadi plants flag in Ramadi to mark Islamic State defeat

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 10:27 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi walks with his security detail in the city of RamadiBy Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi planted the national flag in Ramadi on Tuesday after the army retook the city center from Islamic State a day earlier, a victory that could help vindicate his strategy for rebuilding the military after stunning defeats. If the Anbar provincial capital can be fully secured and re-populated, it would be the first major success for the U.S.-trained force that fled 18 months ago as jihadist Islamic State militants surged through northern and western Iraq. Three mortar rounds landed about 500 meters (0.3 miles) from Abadi's location during his visit, three security sources said.


Exclusive: Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 07:43 AM PST

Militant Islamist fighters hold the flag of Islamic State (IS) while taking part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in this June 30, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesBy Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females. The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.


France calls for EU crackdown on fake Syrian passports

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:34 PM PST

Police take up position near the Stade de France stadium the morning after a series of deadly attacks in ParisFrance has asked the European Union to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe after two of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks were found carrying such passports. In a letter to the European Commission, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called on the EU to tighten security by improving the quality of equipment used to check travel documents at external borders, notably in Greece and Italy.


Top aide to North Korea leader Kim Jong Un dies in car crash: KCNA

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 03:15 PM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un addresses commanding officers of the combined units of the Korean People's Army (KPA)A senior North Korean ruling party official and a top aide to leader Kim Jong Un has died in a car accident, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, in the latest event to hit the close circle of deputies of the country's leader. Kim Yang Gon, who was a secretary of the Workers' Party and the head of its United Front Department, the unit that handles the North's ties with South Korea, was Kim Jong Un's "closest comrade, a solid revolutionary partner," KCNA said. KCNA said Kim died on Tuesday in an automobile accident at the age of 73.


Syrian army, backed by air strikes, advances toward southern town

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:01 PM PST

A doctor walks as he inspects the damage, after what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, on a hospital in the city of Nawa, in Deraa province, SyriaBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by heavy aerial bombardment pushed toward a strategic town in the southern province of Deraa on Tuesday after capturing a nearby military base, the army said. The Syrian army said it retook Brigade 82, one of the largest bases north of the mainly rebel-held town of Sheikh Maskin, whose capture by rebels earlier this year threatened the army's supply routes to the south. A group monitoring the war said later on Tuesday that insurgents were putting up fierce resistance and that fighting raged on, counting more than two dozen air strikes during the assault.


Georgia, with eye on 2016 election, switches prime minister

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:27 PM PST

Georgian Foreign Minister Kvirikashvili attends a meeting in KutaisiBy Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Georgia voted on Tuesday to approve Georgy Kvirikashvili as the ex-Soviet state's new prime minister, an appointment widely seen as an attempt to boost the ruling coalition's flagging popularity amid an economic slump. Kvirikashvili, his replacement, was previously foreign minister. Opposition politicians and analysts linked the switch to a decline in the popularity of the ruling Georgian Dream party, saying it wanted to overhaul its image before contesting a parliamentary election in October next year.


Pep Boys soars on latest Icahn offer; Bridgestone bows out

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:37 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Icahn appears to have emerged as the winner of the bidding war for auto parts and services retailer Pep Boys after Japanese tiremaker Bridgestone said it won't counter his latest offer of about $1 billion.

Severe floods hit Missouri as U.S. storms sweep north

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:36 PM PST

Submerged roads and houses are seen after several days of heavy rain led to flooding, in an aerial view over Union, MissouriBy Kevin Murphy and Mary Wisniewski KANSAS CITY, Mo./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Missouri residents struggled through a fourth straight day of storms on Tuesday, fighting rising floodwaters that inundated homes, forced evacuations and closed highways and even part of the Mississippi River. Missouri has been pounded by downpours since Saturday, and forecasters warned that its major rivers were still days away from cresting at record levels. At the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, about 20 miles (32 km) north of St. Louis, residents of the small cities of West Alton and Arnold were told to evacuate on Tuesday due to rising waters.


Release from jail of far-right Colombian warlord hits snag

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:27 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2006 file photo, Ramon Isaza Arango, center, commander of the Magdalena Medio Bloc, speaks with his men before turning in their weapons during a disarmament ceremony in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia. Isaza, who was released from prison on Dec. 29, 2015 after serving 10 years, created the first of the right-wing militias at the end of the 1970s in the Magdalena Valley. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides, File)BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A last-minute judicial review has blocked the release of a longtime paramilitary warlord in Colombia who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for ordering hundreds of murders.


Burkina Faso swears in new president, capping transition

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:23 PM PST

Burkina Faso's new president Roch Marc Christian Kabore reviews a military honour guard following his swearing-in ceremony in Ouagadougou on December 29, 2015Roch Marc Christian Kabore was sworn in as Burkina Faso's president on Tuesday, completing the troubled west African state's transition after the overthrow of its longtime ruler, Blaise Compaore. "It's a triumph of orderly transition, democracy and freedom," said interim president Michel Kafando at the swearing-in ceremony, which kicked off the first of two possible five-year terms for Kabore. Regional leaders from Benin, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Senegal were on hand for the event attended by some 5,000 people at a sports centre in the capital Ouagadougou.


Latest: Call for pizza led authorities to 'affluenza' teen

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:19 PM PST

FILE- This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, shows Ethan Couch. A Texas district attorney's office said Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, that Mexican authorities have detained Couch, who disappeared with his mother after video surfaced online showing he may have violated his probation for causing a drunken wreck that killed four people. (U.S. Marshals Service via AP, File)FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The latest in the case of a Texas teenager serving probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck after invoking an "affluenza" defense (all times local):


Time running out to avoid new Haiti poll delay

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 04:06 PM PST

A worker at the Tabulation Center in Port-au-Prince checks electoral material on October 26, 2015Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Haiti's electoral commission was running out of time on Tuesday to study polling returns from October's first round of presidential elections, threatening to further delay the process. The second round had been due to go ahead on Sunday but has already been delayed indefinitely, and opposition flagbearer Jude Celestin had refused to campaign until the ballot-rigging is investigated. Haiti's latest period of electoral limbo -- polling has never gone smoothly in the western hemisphere's poorest country -- has been accompanied by rising tension in the streets and fears of unrest.


Williamson to captain New Zealand in T20s vs Sri Lanka

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 03:34 PM PST

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Kane Williamson will captain New Zealand in its two-match Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka next month, taking over from Brendon McCullum who is not available for the later World Twenty20.

Iranian navy test fires rockets near US carrier

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 03:26 PM PST

This US Navy handout photo released on December 10, 2012 shows the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman in the Atlantic OceanThe Iranian navy test fired several rockets near three Western warships including the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier last week, a US military official said Tuesday. The official confirmed details of an NBC News report that said one rocket came within about 1,500 yards (meters) of the USS Truman as it transited the Strait of Hormuz. The incident took place on December 26, shortly after the Iranian navy had announced via radio it was about to conduct a live-fire exercise and warned ships to steer clear.


Puerto Rico police shooting suspect had troubled past

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 03:23 PM PST

In this photo provided by El Vocero, a police officer stands guard behind the Ponce police station where a hearse awaits the bodies of three slain officers in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Police say Guarionex Candelario, a 19-year police veteran, is suspected of shooting a female lieutenant, a male commander and a policewoman Monday while holding them hostage at the station. (Eric Rojas/El Vocero via AP)SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The policeman who allegedly shot three fellow officers to death at work underwent psychological treatment for a decade and had faced three separate investigations for insubordination and unexcused absences, a Puerto Rico police spokesman said Tuesday.


Venezuelan socialists fight election of opposition lawmakers

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 03:21 PM PST

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro are disputing the election of eight opposition candidates to the National Assembly.

Posh New York City hotels pledge to go green

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 03:19 PM PST

By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some of New York's most iconic hotels, comprising more than 11,000 guest rooms, promised to cut their carbon footprints on Tuesday and join a city effort to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The famed Waldorf Astoria, The Peninsula New York and The Pierre are among 16 well-known, high-end hotels that committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 percent in the next ten years, according to the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Leicester, Man City draw 0-0; Arsenal top going into 2016

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:58 PM PST

Leicester's Jamie Vardy, centre, has a shot at goal flanked by Manchester City's Eliaquim Mangala, left, and Manchester City's Joe Hart during the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Manchester City at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)LEICESTER, England (AP) — Leicester relinquished first place in the English Premier League heading into 2016 after drawing 0-0 with Manchester City in an entertaining stalemate on Tuesday.


IS leader linked to Paris attacks 'mastermind' killed in Syria

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:53 PM PST

French police officers stand guard at Place de la Republique in Paris on November 21, 2015 as people gather to pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 terror attacks in the cityAn Islamic State leader with "direct" ties to the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks was among 10 of the group's higher-ups killed in Syria and Iraq this month, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The US military says such strikes are helping to weaken the jihadist group, which captured large parts of Iraq and Syria last year but has recently seen significant setbacks including this week's loss of Ramadi in Iraq. Baghdad-based US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said French national Charaffe el Mouadan was killed in a US-led coalition strike on December 24.


US official: Airstrikes have killed 10 Islamic State leaders

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:39 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and coalition airstrikes killed 10 Islamic State leaders over the past month, including several linked to the Paris attacks or other plots against the West, a U.S. military official in Iraq said Tuesday.

Giorgi Kvirikashvili confirmed as Georgia PM

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:29 PM PST

A technocrat with little political experience, Georgia's former vice premier and foreign minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili holds a master's degree in finance from the University of Illinois in the United States and is also a trained doctorGeorgia's parliament confirmed Wednesday former foreign minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili as the country's prime minister, six days after Irakli Garibashvili's surprise resignation from the post. "The parliament has approved the new government by 86 votes to 28," parliament speaker David Usupashvili said. The parliamentary vote also ratified Kvirikashvili's choice of cabinet.


In a year of odd moves, FIFA and Al Capone become neighbors

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:23 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, file photo, Items on FIFA corruption are on display at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. The display is titled "The 'Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly". All across Europe and the Americas as they plot legal strategy, await extradition hearings and consider the billable hours run up by their lawyers, FIFA officials can take comfort in this: They are serving the cause of art. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)All across Europe and the Americas — as they plot legal strategy, await extradition hearings and consider the billable hours run up by their lawyers — FIFA officials can take comfort in this: They are serving the cause of art.


Leicester frustrate title rivals Man City

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:18 PM PST

Leicester City's striker Jamie Vardy prepares to shoot as Manchester City's defender Nicolas Otamendi (R) closes in during the English Premier League football match in Leicester, central England on December 29, 2015Manchester City were frustrated again on the road as Leicester bounced back from defeat at Liverpool with a 0-0 draw that maintained their surprise Premier League title challenge. Leicester had to withstand a barrage of first-half pressure from their visitors but they held firm for the point that took them level with Arsenal at the top of the table. Manchester City are without a win in six Premier League away games but boss Manuel Pellegrini will take heart from a dominant performance before half-time.


US 'affluenza' teen detained in Mexico

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 02:11 PM PST

A photo released by state prosecutors shows Couch with his hands behind his back and shirt open, with his hair apparently dyed black and sporting facial hairA notorious Texas teenager has been detained in Mexico with his mother, weeks after holding a "going-away party" and fleeing probation imposed for a deadly drunk-driving crash, officials said Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother Tonya were arrested at an intersection in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday night, said the Jalisco state prosecutor's office.


French jihadist Mouadan was close to Paris attacker: investigators

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:59 PM PST

An undated picture obtained by AFP on December 29, 2015 shows Frenchman Charaffe al Mouadan (Charaffe el Mouadan in French), an Islamic State group leader with "direct" links to the alleged ringleader of the Paris attacksFrench jihadist Charaffe el Mouadan, who the United States said Tuesday was killed in Syria, was close to at least one of the gunmen who carried out a massacre at a Paris concert hall, according to investigators. The Pentagon said Mouadan had "direct" links to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian jihadist who was suspected of planning the coordinated attacks on Paris on November 13 and was killed by police five days later. A French source was cautious as to whether Mouadan played any operational role in those attacks but gave details about his part in France's jihadist scene.


Businessmen, officials jailed for Argentina train crash

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:54 PM PST

Police and rescue workers transport an injured person on a stretcher after a train crashed at Once train station in Buenos Aires on February 22, 2012A court in Argentina sentenced 21 people including an ex-railway company boss and two former state officials to jail Tuesday for a train crash that killed 51 people in 2012. Judges handed a three-and-a-half year sentence to the driver of the train that ploughed into the buffers at a rail terminal in Buenos Aires with 1,200 passengers on board. The court also sentenced former state transport secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi to eight years and his predecessor Ricardo Jaime to six years.


US warns Russian strikes in Syria killing civilians

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:54 PM PST

A Syrian youth carries an injured boy on December 9, 2015, following airstrikes said to have killed at least 11 in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, though it was unclear whether they were carried out by Russian aircraft or regime forcesThe United States expressed concern on Tuesday at what it said was the heavy civilian toll of "indiscriminate" Russian air strikes in Syria. US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday and conveyed Washington's worries.


How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Tuesday

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:46 PM PST

U.S. stocks are closing broadly higher on Tuesday as traders were encouraged by a pickup in consumer confidence and rising prices for energy. The gain pulled the Standard & Poor's 500 index back into positive territory for the year.

Ex-gov't officials in Argentina sentenced in 2012 rail crash

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:43 PM PST

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Two former transportation secretaries in Argentina have been convicted to prison sentences related to a 2012 train accident that left 51 people dead and hundreds injured.

Mexican prosecutor: Vigilantes infiltrated by criminals

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:36 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The chief prosecutor in the western Mexico state of Michoacan said Tuesday that criminals made up a large percentage of the "self-defense" vigilante movement that sprang up nearly three years ago to challenge a local drug cartel.

Court threat to Venezuela opposition's super-majority

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:29 PM PST

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro (L) and first lady Cilia Flores (R) greet supporters during the closing rally of the campaign on December 3, 2015 in CaracasVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's party has filed a legal challenge against the election of eight opposition lawmakers, threatening the two-thirds majority it won in landmark polls this month, the high court said Tuesday. The opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), accused the leftist ruling party of violating "the people's will" after the December 6 legislative polls, in which MUD won control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years. The opposition won 112 of 167 seats in the elections, a dramatic blow to Maduro and the "revolution" launched in 1999 by his late predecessor Hugo Chavez.


Kiev cries foul as historic Crimean wines go under hammer

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 01:13 PM PST

Workers at a wine cellar in the Massandra winery on July 23, 2004Legendary Crimean winemaker Massandra, once a supplier to Russia's Tsar Nicolas II, has provoked the ire of Kiev by putting 13,000 vintage bottles up for auction on Tuesday. Massandra described the wines, some dating back to 1935, as "pearls that have endured heavy ordeals including during the war". The Massandra region, which belonged to the Ukrainian state until the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, is now under Moscow's control with the rest of the peninsula.


Four-way phone talks Wednesday on Ukraine crisis: Kiev

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:59 PM PST

Ukrainian military vehicles carry 85 mm "Vasilyok" automatic mortars in Peski willage, in the Donetsk region, on November 7, 2015 before a weapons withdrawalThe leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France will hold a conference call Wednesday to assess implementation of a peace accord in pro-Russian eastern Ukraine, the government in Kiev said Tuesday. The phone call will bring together Ukrainian, Russian and French presidents Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin and Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Poroshenko conferred with Merkel on Tuesday "to coordinate positions", his office said in a statement.


Gains in Iraqi city vindicate US-led strategy, at high cost

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:47 PM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, center, smiles as he tours the city of Ramadi after it was retaken by the security forces in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — The advance of Iraqi forces into the heart of Ramadi, a restive city that fell to the Islamic State group earlier this year, in some ways vindicated the U.S.-led coalition's strategy for rolling back the extremists -- but victory has come at a high cost, and the same tactics might not work elsewhere.


Israel's Olmert to become first leader to go to prison

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:47 PM PST

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen in the court room as he waits for the judges at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. Israel's Supreme Court reduced Olmert's prison sentence for a sweeping bribery scandal from six years to 18 months, partially accepting his appeal and clearing the ex-premier of the main bribery charge against him. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who claimed to be on the cusp of a historic peace deal with the Palestinians just a few years ago, now is set to become the first Israeli leader to go to prison after the Supreme Court upheld a bribery conviction against him Tuesday.


Iraq PM visits newly reconquered Ramadi

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:38 PM PST

A handout image released by the press office of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on December 29, 2015 shows him (L) walking with Lieutenant-General Abdel Ghani al-Assadi (C) in RamadiIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday visited Ramadi, a day after federal forces announced the liberation of the city from the Islamic State group, clinching a landmark victory. Abadi arrived by helicopter in the battle-scarred city, which lies around 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad and is the capital of the province of Anbar, an AFP correspondent reported. The premier vowed Monday, after counter-terrorism forces raised the flag above the key government complex in Ramadi, to rid the whole country of IS by the end of 2016.


Peru warns against ritual New Year effigy-burning

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:33 PM PST

Each New Year's eve, Peruvians take delight in ritually torching dolls of their politicians, sportsmen or celebritiesPeru warned the public Tuesday against its popular New Year tradition of burning national hate figures in effigy, saying the smoke poses a cancer risk. A senior environmental official at the health ministry, Elmer Quichiz, issued a warning of the risk of lung damage from the toxic smoke the fires give off.


Obama to host Colombia's Santos for Feb. 4 White House visit

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:29 PM PST

Obama smiles as he holds his end of the year news conference at the White House in WashingtonU.S. President Barack Obama will host Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos for an "official working visit" in Washington on Feb. 4, the White House said on Tuesday. The visit will provide an opportunity to "support the efforts of President Santos to achieve a just and lasting peace accord with the FARC, and discuss a shared vision for future collaboration in the event of an historic peace agreement," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement.


Suicide bombing kills 26, wounds 45 in northwestern Pakistan

Posted: 29 Dec 2015 12:28 PM PST

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured man to a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government office in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people and wounding tens. A breakaway Taliban group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government office in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 45 in an attack claimed by a breakaway Taliban group.


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