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| Fire in Venezuela prison kills 17 people, prosecutor says | | Tuesday, September 01, 2015 3:10 AM | |
| | A fire at Venezuela's central Tocuyito prison killed 17 people and injured 11 early on Monday, the state prosecutor said in a statement. Carlos Nieto, director of prison rights group Window To Freedom, said inmates told him an electrical fault had caused the fire. Jails in Venezuela are severely overcrowded, housing 55,000 inmates even though they are designed for around a third of that number, Nieto said. |
| College finds manuscript of song that inspired 'Happy Birthday' | | Tuesday, September 01, 2015 2:43 AM | |
| | By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - A college librarian in Kentucky has found the 19th-century manuscript of a musical number that gave rise to one of the most widely performed songs in the world, "Happy Birthday to You," University of Louisville officials said on Monday. The discovery will likely intensify interest in a high-profile U.S. court case over whether Warner Music Group has a valid copyright to the "Happy Birthday" song and can continue to reap from it an estimated $2 million in royalties every year. The university said its library director, James Procell, recently found the only known manuscript of "Good Morning to All," a melody that the public eventually began to sing with the familiar tribute, "Happy Birthday to You." The document was found in a sketch book belonging to Louisville native Mildred Hill, who wrote the "Good Morning" song along with her sister Patty, a kindergarten teacher, and published it in a children's song book in 1893. |
| Obama mulling options for closing Guantanamo prison - White House | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is considering a "wide array" of options for closing the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday, declining to rule out executive action as an option. Earnest said the best route for closing the prison would be winning congressional approval to do so. Asked if Obama would consider taking executive action to close the prison if Congress blocks him, Earnest said, "The president and his team are always considering a wide array of options.
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| White supremacist aiming to kill Jews convicted in three Kansas murders | |  By Kevin Murphy OLATHE, Kan. (Reuters) - A man who admitted in court to wanting to kill Jews was found guilty on Monday of murdering three people, including a teenage boy, outside two Jewish centres in Kansas last year. A seven-man, five-woman jury took less than two hours to convict Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, on the three murders as well as on three counts of attempted murder for firing at other people during the same shooting spree in April 2014. Jurors will next decide if Cross should get the death penalty, as prosecutors are seeking.
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| Migrant trains reach Germany as EU asylum system creaks | |  As thousands of men, women and children - many fleeing Syria's civil war - continued to arrive from the east, authorities let thousands of undocumented people travel on towards Germany, the favoured destination for many. The influx is a crisis for the European Union, which has eliminated border controls between 26 "Schengen area" states but requires asylum seekers to apply in the first EU country they reach - something that is often ignored as migrants race from the fringes of the bloc to its more prosperous heart.
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| Turkish court charges Vice News reporters with terrorism links | | | By Seyhmus Cakan and Humeyra Pamuk DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Monday formally charged three employees of Vice News with having links to a terrorist organisation, the online news channel said, days after they were detained while reporting from the mainly Kurdish southeast. Security sources and local media identified the three as two British reporters and their translator. "Vice News condemns in the strongest possible terms the Turkish government's attempts to silence our reporters who have been providing vital coverage from the region," Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice's head of news programming for Europe, said in a statement. |
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