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| Islamic State fighters advance into Syrian border town of Kobani | |  MURSITPINAR (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters pushed into two districts of the strategically important Syrian border town of Kobani in fierce fighting late on Wednesday, Kurdish officials among the town's defenders said. "Tonight (Islamic State) has entered two districts with heavy weapons, including tanks. Civilians may have died because there are very intense clashes," Asya Abdullah, co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Syrian Kurdish group defending the area, told Reuters from the town. Another PYD official said that despite continuing U.S. ...
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| As money runs out, fallen Brazilian tycoon Batista faces the law | |  By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A year after the epic collapse of his industrial empire, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista's financial and legal troubles appear far from over. Once worth more than $30 billion and listed as the world's eighth-richest man by Forbes Magazine, Batista says his debts now exceed his assets by $1 billion and the value of his remaining stakes in the oil, shipbuilding, mining and transportation companies he founded continues to shrink. Batista also faces criminal and regulatory investigations into suspected insider trading and fraud. ...
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| AT&T to pay $105 mln to settle charges it "crammed" phone bills | |  By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Telecommunications giant AT&T Inc has agreed to pay $105 million to settle allegations that it put unauthorized charges on customers' cell phone bills, a practice known as cramming, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. The settlement comes after years of complaints from consumers about being charged for services, for example daily horoscopes or trivia, that they never requested. AT&T will pay $80 million to refund customers while $20 million is earmarked for penalties and fees to all 50 U.S. states and Washington, the FTC said. ...
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| Appeals court wrestles with secret U.S. demands for telecom records | |  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court grappled on Wednesday with a lawsuit challenging the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ability to force Internet and telecommunications firms to turn over customer records without revealing the government's demands. A lower court judge in San Francisco previously ruled such gag orders were unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed by an undisclosed telecom company. At a hearing on Wednesday, a three-judge 9th U.S. ...
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| Peace will cost Colombia $44 billion over 10 years, senator says | | | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia must invest at least 90 trillion pesos ($44.4 billion) to implement a peace deal with Marxist rebels to end a 50-year conflict, says a senator who backs the current peace talks, adding the amount is much less than the cost of waging war. The figure is the first estimate of the cost of a peace accord to end the conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. "The minimum cost for the next 10 years is estimated at 90 trillion pesos," Senator Roy Barreras, president of the Colombian Congress's peace commission, said late on Tuesday. ... |
| Video game win cited at trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber's friend | | | By Tim McLaughlin and Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who says he was too high to remember the removal of a backpack from the college dorm room of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was alert enough to win a video game that same night, a key prosecution witness testified on Wednesday. Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, recounted how he lost an Xbox NBA video game to his friend Robel Phillipos, before they want to the dorm room of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. "I don't remember him having a problem," Tazhayakov said of Phillipos' victory in the game. ... |
| U.S. justice grants Idaho's request to block gay marriage | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday granted a request from Idaho officials by temporarily blocking gay marriages from beginning, following a regional federal appeals court's ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban. There was some confusion over whether the court's order also affects the ban in Nevada, which was struck down as part of the same 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that invalidated the Idaho ban. Nevada did not ask the Supreme Court to block the ruling. ...
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| South Korea indicts Japanese journalist for defaming President | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors indicted a Japanese journalist on Wednesday for defamation of President Park Geun-hye over an article he wrote about her personal life and whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in April. The Seoul Central District Prosecution said it had indicted the former Seoul bureau chief for Japan's Sankei Shimbun, Tatsuya Kato, after concluding a report he wrote about Park on Aug. 3 was based on "false information," the prosecutors' office said in a statement. ...
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