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| Olympic U.S. swimming champion Phelps arrested for drunken driving |
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps was arrested for drunken driving early on Tuesday after speeding and then crossing the double-lane lines inside the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland Transportation Authority Police said. Phelps, 29, was clocked by radar at around 1:40 a.m. traveling 84 miles per hour (135 km per hour) in a 45 mph (72 kph) zone, police said. The 18-time Olympic gold medalist was booked and released. ...
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| Wife of Briton held by Islamic State calls for his release |
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| LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of a British aid worker being held by Islamic State insurgents made a renewed appeal for his release on Tuesday, a week after receiving an audio message from her husband. Alan Henning, 47, was part of an aid convoy taking medical supplies to a hospital in northwest Syria in December last year when it was stopped by gunmen and he was abducted. He appeared in a video released by IS earlier this month, which showed the murder of another Briton, David Haines. ... |
| Sri Lanka police stop online media workshop - rights groups |
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| COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka media rights groups said on Tuesday police had stopped an online journalists' association from holding a workshop on ethics and digital security at the weekend, the fourth disruption of media gatherings since May. The Action Committee for Media Freedom, an umbrella organization of media rights groups, said police officers threatened the owner of the resort where the workshop was to be held in Negombo, a popular coastal town 38 km (24 miles) north of Colombo. ... |
| U.S. lawmakers scold Secret Service over White House breach |
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 By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers scolded the head of the U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday over a security breach that allowed a knife-wielding intruder to run deep into the White House, and Director Julia Pierson promised to make changes to agency procedures to ensure it would never happen again. "This is unacceptable and I take full responsibility," Pierson told a U.S House of Representatives committee investigating the Sept. 19 incident in which an intruder jumped the fence, burst through the front door and ran into the East Room of the White House. ...
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| Deputy of ousted Ukraine leader beaten by mob in Odessa |
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| KIEV (Reuters) - A deputy from the party of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich was attacked and beaten by a crowd in the Black Sea resort of Odessa on Tuesday during political campaigning for a parliamentary election set for Oct. 26. Nestor Shufrich, a deputy of Yanukovich's Regions Party and a critic of Kiev's military campaign against pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, was left bleeding from blows to the face, his shirt ripped to the waist, before he was bundled into a van by his bodyguards. ... |
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