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| U.S. soldier wounded helping to overpower gunman on train in France | | Saturday, August 22, 2015 2:04 AM | |
|  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. Officials said the attacker was arrested after the shooting when the Amsterdam-to-Paris train stopped at Arras station in northern France. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the French anti-terrorism prosecutor was investigating the incident and that the gunman's motives were not known.
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| Brazil judge asks for investigation of Rousseff re-election campaign | | Saturday, August 22, 2015 1:28 AM | |
|  The vice president of Brazil's TSE electoral authority on Friday asked for an investigation of President Dilma Rousseff's 2014 re-election campaign, citing evidence that it may have been financed with money from a corruption scheme at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA . In a document sent to federal prosecutors and federal police, Gilmar Mendes said a 17-month-old investigation into a massive price fixing and political kickback scandal had found evidence that Rousseff's Workers' Party was indirectly funded by money stolen from Petrobras, as the firm is known.
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| Public plazas in New York's Times Square bring business, chaos | | Saturday, August 22, 2015 1:25 AM | |
| | By Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Times Square is notorious for its fast talkers, street walkers and con-men mingling among artists scrounging tips from tourists who gawk at themselves on jumbo video screens or take selfies with accommodating cops on horses. Much of the action takes place in pedestrian plazas carved into Broadway, souvenirs of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts in 2009 to make parts of the city more accessible to the public. It all contributes to a boom in Time Square's retail business and billboard advertising, plus fewer traffic accidents. |
| Apple defends Dr Dre after he apologies to 'women I've hurt' | | Saturday, August 22, 2015 1:13 AM | |
|  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc. came to the defence of rapper and Beats co-founder Dr Dre on Friday following his apology "to the women I've hurt" as reports of his past altercations with women resurfaced around the release of N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton." Apple, which acquired Dr Dre's headphone and music streaming company Beats Electronics last year for $3 billion and made Dre an executive, said the company believed in the rapper's sincerity. "Dre has apologised for the mistakes he's made in the past and he's said that he's not the same person that he was 25 years ago," Apple said in a statement to Reuters. "After working with him for a year and a half, we have every reason to believe that he has changed." Dr Dre, 50, a founding member of Compton rap collective N.W.A., the subject of Universal Pictures' box office hit "Straight Outta Compton," apologised for his actions from 25 years ago, which included an incident with female presenter Dee Barnes.
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| Obama praises U.S. service members' action on French train - White House | |  President Barack Obama expressed his gratitude on Friday for the "courage and quick thinking" of the passengers on a high-speed train in France, including U.S. service members, who overpowered a gunman. French authorities said the machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on the Paris-bound train before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. "The President expressed his profound gratitude for the courage and quick thinking of several passengers, including U.S. service members, who selflessly subdued the attacker," the White House said in a statement.
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| Black teen killed by St. Louis police shot in back - autopsy | |  A black teenager shot and killed by white St. Louis police officers this week died from a single gunshot that entered his back and struck his heart, a medical examiner said on Friday, which appears to contradict the police account of the shooting. News of the preliminary results of an autopsy escalated tensions that had flared after Wednesday's killing of Mansur Ball-Bey, as protesters and family of the slain 18-year-old questioned police accounts that he pointed a gun at officers. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said additional officers would be available for the weekend in anticipation of further protests.
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| Violence in Central African Republic town kills 10 | | | About 10 people were killed in the Central African Republic town of Bambari in an incident that began when a mainly Christian militia group beheaded a Muslim youth leading to reprisals from Muslims, witnesses said. "Two young Muslims leaving the city (on Thursday) were detained by anti-balakas who beheaded one and wounded another. "This triggered the anger of young Muslims who have carried out reprisals against Christians," he said, speaking from the central town of Bambari, which is a Seleka stronghold. |
| North Korea goes on war footing against South Korea as deadline looms | |  By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea put its troops on a war footing on Friday as South Korea rejected an ultimatum to stop propaganda broadcasts or face military action, prompting China to voice concern and urge both sides to step back after an exchange of artillery fire. North Korea's Foreign Ministry said the country's military and the public stood ready to safeguard its regime even if it meant fighting an all-out war, and rejected the idea of restraint in an apparent rebuff to China's call. North Korea's official media said its military was not bluffing, and the deputy North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, An Myong Hun, reiterated Pyongyang's threat of "strong military counter-action" if the South Korean broadcasts did not stop.
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| MH370 debris exposes divisions over air crash investigations | |  By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Air crash investigators risk being sidelined in a tussle to unlock the secrets of lost flight MH370, fuelling concerns that their role in making flying safer could be diminished. By drifting on to Reunion Island, the barnacled remains of a Boeing wing part from the Malaysia Airlines jet have given the upper hand to a French judicial investigation, exposing for the second time this year how civil crash investigations struggle to compete with police-led probes. For decades, reconstructions of disasters by specialist safety investigators have been seen as crucial to making aviation safer, with accident rates at historically low levels.
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| Guatemala prosecutors seek to impeach president after ex-VP's arrest | |  By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Prosecutors sought to impeach Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday over a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of his former vice president, deepening a government crisis ahead of presidential elections next month. Perez's conservative administration has spent the past few months mired in public protests and scandals over corruption allegations against senior officials, several of whom the retired general fired during a cabinet purge in May. Prosecutor Thelma Aldana said at a press conference that it was "highly probable" that recordings of telephone conversations of people involved in the customs corruption racket had referred to Perez. Earlier on Friday, former vice president Roxana Baldetti was arrested while she was receiving treatment at a hospital.
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| Guatemala prosecutors seek to impeach president over corruption | | | GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court for the right to impeach President Otto Perez over a corruption scandal that earlier in the day prompted the arrest of his former vice president, Roxana Baldetti. Last week, Perez narrowly avoided losing his presidential immunity from prosecution when more than half of Congress voted that he should be stripped of it to face investigations over a string of corruption scandals that have hit his government. If the Supreme Court approved prosecutors' request, Congress would still have to give its consent. ... |
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