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| 2020 logo designer asks for withdrawal of some designs after fresh plagiarism accusations | |  A Japanese designer who has been accused of plagiarism for his Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo said on Thursday he had asked a beer company to withdraw some of his designs due to new accusations of copyright infringement. Belgian designer Olivier Debie said in July the official logo for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was too similar to his design for the Theatre de Liege, but designer Kenjiro Sano denied any plagiarism.
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| At least five dead in spate of shootings around Boston | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - At least five people were killed in four apparently unrelated shooting incidents around Boston, police said on Thursday, provoking outrage from the city's mayor who said the violence "has to stop." Three of the deaths occurred in two apparently gang-related shootings in Boston late Wednesday - a man in the city's Mattapan neighborhood and two men in the Roxbury section, about 3 miles away, according to the Boston Police Department. The Boston victims appeared to have been targeted by their killers, said Boston Police Officer Rachel McGuire, noting, "They don't appear to be random." As of Sunday, some 151 shootings had been reported in Boston this year, a 25 percent increase from the same period last year. "It is my utmost priority to ensure the safety of our residents." Two other fatal shootings occurred in the neighboring cities, local police confirmed. |
| Kentucky county clerk's office defies order to issue marriage licenses | | | By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - A Kentucky county clerk's office defied a federal judge's order by continuing to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Thursday, saying the legal case was still pending. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported the Rowan County clerk's office had turned away David Moore and David Ermold, a gay couple seeking a marriage license, the newspaper said. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is currently on vacation but Nathan Davis, a relative who also works at the clerk's office, said Thursday morning the office was not currently taking licenses because of the active litigation. |
| Britain says to protest to Ecuador over Assange asylum | |  Britain said on Thursday it would make a formal protest to Ecuador over its decision to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy and so prevent his extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes. "Ecuador must recognise that its decision to harbour Mr Assange more than three years ago has prevented the proper course of justice," British Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said in a statement. Assange, who denies any wrongdoing, has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid being extradited to Sweden.
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| Greek ruling party heads towards split before bailout vote | |  By George Georgiopoulos and David Stamp ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling Syriza party edged towards a formal split on Thursday, hours before rebel leftist lawmakers plan to vote against a new bailout deal to keep the country afloat. With opposition support, the government is asking parliament to approve a 85 billion euro bailout deal that Greece needs to avoid defaulting on a debt repayment next week. The vote, expected in the early hours of Friday, will test the strength of a rebellion by anti-austerity Syriza lawmakers, which could raise pressure on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call snap elections as early as September.
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| Seven Deutsche Bank staff charged over carbon trading scandal | |  By Alexander Hübner and Jonathan Gould FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Frankfurt prosecutors have indicted seven current and one former employee of Deutsche Bank for conspiring to evade tax in the trading of carbon emission certificates more than five years ago. Prosecutors did not name Deutsche Bank on Thursday but sources familiar with the matter identified it as the institution involved. The bank's Frankfurt headquarters were raided by around 500 police and tax inspectors in late 2012, related to investigations into the carbon trading market.
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| Turkey does not plan to send ground forces to Syria -foreign minister | |  Turkey does not expect to deploy ground forces in Syria to fight Islamic State but that option should remain on the table, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. Long a reluctant partner in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, NATO member Turkey last month made a dramatic shift in policy, sending warplanes to attack the Islamist hardline group in northern Syria. "Right now, no ground operation is envisaged, but in the future whatever is needed to fight Islamic State - including ground operations - should be done.
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| Myanmar ruling party chief sacked in power struggle with president | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's powerful ruling party chief Shwe Mann has been ousted from his post, party members said on Thursday, apparently after losing a power struggle with President Thein Sein three months before a general election. The feud between the two old rivals became public in a dramatic way late on Wednesday evening, when security forces surrounded the vast headquarters of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in the capital, Naypyitaw. The United States expressed concern about the apparent use of security forces to help resolve the dispute. |
| Five held in connection with deadly Bahrain blast - interior ministry | |  Bahrain has detained five people behind a bomb attack in July that killed two policemen, the interior ministry said on Thursday, and accused them of being linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Sunni-ruled Bahrain, which has long accused Iran of stirring up unrest among its Shi'ite population, recalled its ambassador from Tehran last Saturday after what it said were repeated hostile statements made by Iranian officials. Iran denies the accusations but openly supports opposition groups seeking greater rights for fellow Shi'ites, who are in the majority in the island kingdom.
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| Political blocking leaves Modi's reform schedule in tatters | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda suffered another major setback on Thursday when lawmakers ended the monsoon session of parliament acrimoniously and without approving a tax reform bill aimed at faster economic growth. Modi's failure to secure parliament's backing for the measure could push back more contentious bills such as labour and land legislation, which businesses and economists say are critical to create millions of jobs. Debate descended into insults that spilled to the streets, where opposition lawmakers marched and Modi's cabinet staged a counter protest under a statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
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| Swedish prosecutor drops three Assange cases, rape case to continue | |  By Simon Johnson and Daniel Dickson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday they would push on with an investigation into an allegation of rape made in 2010 against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after dropping probes into three other allegations as they had run out of time to bring charges. Assange denies the accusations and has been holed up inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Ecuador has granted Assange asylum.
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