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| U.S. probing Venezuelan officials for possible drug trafficking - WSJ | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating Venezuela's powerful parliamentary head, Diosdado Cabello, and other senior officials for possible cocaine trafficking and money laundering, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Citing more than 12 people familiar with the probes, the newspaper said federal prosecutors in New York and Miami and a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit were gathering evidence from former cocaine traffickers, Venezuelan military defectors and people once close to top Venezuelan government officials. ...
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| Macedonia's embattled leader rallies supporters in show of force | |  By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's embattled prime minister rallied tens of thousands of supporters on Monday in a show of force a day after opponents held their own mass protest to demand his resignation over damaging wire-tap revelations. The crowd in central Skopje appeared comparable in size to Sunday's opposition rally calling for Nikola Gruevski to quit over a flood of disclosures that the West says have cast serious doubt on the state of democracy in the former Yugoslav republic. The crisis rocking Gruevski's nine-year conservative rule is the worst since Western diplomacy dragged Macedonia from the brink of all-out civil war during an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001, promising it a path to European Union and NATO membership. A dispute with neighbouring Greece over Macedonia's name has halted its Western integration, and in that time critics say Gruevski has tilted to the right, stoking nationalism and monopolising power in coalition with a party of ethnic Albanian former guerrillas.
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| Mass arrests, revenge fears after deadly Texas biker gang shootout | |  By Lisa Maria Garza WACO, Texas (Reuters) - Police braced for retaliation attacks after 170 people were charged on Monday in connection with the shootout among motorcycle gangs a day earlier that left nine dead and 18 wounded at a Waco, Texas, restaurant turned into a blood-soaked crime scene. Bikers from five rival gangs attacked each other with guns, knives, brass knuckles, clubs and motorcycle chains at a Twin Peaks Sports Bar and Grill in the central Texas city. When the shooting ended, bodies were scattered in the restaurant and across two parking lots. When our officers arrived, those bad guys turned their guns on our officers," Waco Police Sergeant Patrick Swanton told a news briefing.
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| Ukraine says it will prosecute captured Russian soldiers for terrorist acts | |  By Richard Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Monday showed two prisoners it said were Russian soldiers who had killed Ukrainian troops in fighting in its east and said they would be prosecuted for "terrorist acts". Russia denies active military involvement. In a video posted online by the Ukrainian interior ministry, one of the prisoners gave his name as Alexander Alexandrov. He said he had been on a spying mission in Ukraine as part of a 14-member special forces group from the Russian town of Togliatti.
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| EU agrees Mediterranean naval mission to tackle people smugglers | |  By Robin Emmott and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union agreed a naval mission on Monday to target gangs smuggling migrants from Libya but parts of a broader plan to deal with the influx began to unravel in a row over national quotas for housing asylum seekers. Many hundreds of deaths at sea, including the drowning of up to 900 on a single vessel in the Mediterranean last month, have jolted European governments into a more robust response, but beyond greater funding for rescue operations, the EU is divided on how to act as anti-immigrant parties gain support at home. Now the planning starts," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said of the naval mission, adding that the operation could start next month. "There is a clear sense of urgency," Mogherini said of the migrants, most of whom make for her native Italy.
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| Four passengers sue Amtrak over deadly Philadelphia derailment | |  Four passengers on the Amtrak commuter train that derailed in Philadelphia last week filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. rail service, as operations resumed on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor. The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia, cited "serious and disabling" injuries from the May 12 derailment that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. Last week, an Amtrak worker who was riding the train as a passenger, filed the first lawsuit, citing a brain injury he said he suffered in the crash. The latest passengers' lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages, accused Amtrak and train engineer Brandon Bostian of negligence and recklessness.
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| 'Home-brew' morphine from brewer's yeast now possible - study | | | By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home-brewing could soon take on a more dangerous twist: Scientists have engineered brewer's yeast to synthesize opioids such as codeine and morphine from a common sugar, an international team reported on Monday. "It is going to be possible to 'home-brew' opiates in the near future," Christopher Voight of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the research, told reporters. The process described in Nature Chemical Biology is inefficient, requiring 300 liters of genetically engineered yeast to produce a single 30 milligram dose of morphine. For centuries, morphine and other opioids have been the go-to drugs for pain relief. |
| Chastened Church leaders take back seat in Irish gay marriage vote | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Its word was once law in Ireland on everything from contraception to divorce. Now, shorn of much of its influence, the Catholic Church has limited campaigning on Friday's gay marriage referendum to sermons to its remaining flock. Little over two decades after it legalised homosexuality, Ireland will become the first country to approve same-sex marriage via a popular vote, if polls that predict a victory by as much as two-to-one prove accurate. The issue has dominated the media for weeks but the Church has been largely absent, its influence ravaged by revelations of child abuse by priests and members of religious orders, after decades of gradual decline. Although the main political parties are campaigning for a 'Yes' vote, the head of the Irish Catholic Church said it "would be wrong (to think) that somehow this is a Church-state battle." "We would see ourselves as important contributors and we will primarily exercise that voice to our own people, in our own churches," Archbishop Eamon Martin told state broadcaster RTE.
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