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| Fresh protests set for Thursday after no charges in NYC chokehold case | |  By Daniel Bases, Robert MacMillan and Zachary Goelman NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protesters vowed a new round of demonstrations in New York on Thursday after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island. National civil rights leaders pledged to release a longer-term "2015 action plan" on Thursday morning to address excessive force by law enforcement and police accountability one day after the grand jury cleared New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner during an arrest attempt in July. ...
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| Chief suspect in Thai graft probe is princess's uncle - police | | | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Thursday the chief suspect in a high-profile corruption scandal is the uncle of Princess Srirasmi, who is married to Thailand's heir apparent, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn. News about the palace in Thailand is tightly controlled and perceived insults against members of the royal family are often punished with jail. Police had not previously confirmed to Reuters the link between the princess and the suspect. ... |
| Child disabled by mother's drinking not crime victim - UK court | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Court of Appeal on Thursday rejected claims that a child born with severe brain damage because her mother drank excessively while pregnant was a victim of crime, a ruling which has important consequences for expectant women. Lawyers acting for the girl, now aged 7 and known only as CP, had argued that she should be entitled to compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority as her mother, who had an alcohol addiction, had inflicted "grievous bodily harm" by poisoning her. ... |
| "Victory" as Kenya police jail child rapists after court order | | | By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two men have been jailed for gang raping children after Kenya's high court ordered the police to re-open 10 cases where officers had yelled at, demanded bribes from and even locked up girls who tried to report rape to them. The 2013 high court ruling came after a rescue centre in Meru, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of the capital Nairobi, sued the police for failing to investigate hundreds of child rape cases which it reported to them. ... |
| At least 16 killed, 28 policemen wounded in Russia's Chechnya attack | |  GROZNY/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a building in Chechnya's regional capital of Grozny on Thursday killing 16 people, including ten police, hours before President Vladimir Putin vowed in a policy speech to defend Russia against what he called efforts to dismember it. Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that "six terrorists were annihilated" after they had opened fire at a police patrol car, killing three officers and then stormed offices housing local media. ...
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| British Conservative lawmaker arrested on suspicion of rape | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Mark Pritchard, a lawmaker from British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, has been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to official parliamentary records and police. Details in Hansard, parliament's official account of proceedings, recorded that London police (MPS) had sent a letter on Wednesday to the Speaker of the House of Commons "relating to the arrest of Mark Pritchard", 48, who represents the Wrekin constituency in Shropshire, western England. "I write to inform you that on 2nd December 2014, Mark Pritchard MP was arrested at 6.14 p.m. ... |
| Afghan soldier who killed US general acted independently-report | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Afghan military policeman who fatally shot a U.S. general and wounded more than a dozen other people at a training center in Kabul apparently acted independently and had no links to the Taliban or other extremist groups, according to a report released on Thursday. An investigation by the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the insider attack was not premeditated and that the shooter, identified as Rafiqullah, may have been ill or a self-radicalized. On Aug. ...
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| U.S. begins largest auction of bitcoins seized in Silk Road bust | |  By Nate Raymond and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday began auctioning off 50,000 bitcoins seized during the prosecution of the alleged owner of Silk Road, an Internet black-market bazaar where authorities say drugs and other illegal goods could be bought. The six-hour online auction began at 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) for nearly $18.6 million worth of bitcoins, and the winning bidders will be notified Friday. ...
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| Cyber attacks, drones increase threats to plane safety - insurer | |  By Jonathan Gould and Victoria Bryan FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Cyber attacks and commercial drones pose a growing risk of commercial aeroplane crashes, a major insurer said, running counter to a long-term decline in fatal accidents and insurance premiums. Technical advances in aircraft design and navigation systems have reduced the chance of dying in a plane crash, but the reliance on computers poses new types of risks. ...
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| Al Qaeda's Yemen branch issues video purporting to show U.S. captive | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Yemen branch published a video purporting to show an American hostage and threatened to kill him if unspecified demands were not met. In the video, the man identified himself as Luke Somers and said he had been kidnapped well over a year ago. He was looking for "any help that can get me out of this situation". Reuters was unable to confirm the authenticity of the video, which was posted on YouTube and social media late on Wednesday and carried by SITE, an organisation that monitors militant statements. ... |
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