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| Guatemalan president Perez resigns - newspaper citing spokesman | |  Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, local newspaper El Periodico quoted his spokesman as saying on Thursday. "The president has submitted his resignation" to parliament, the newspaper quoted Jorge Ortega as saying in its online edition. On Wednesday a Guatemalan judge issued a detention order for Perez amid a graft scandal that has gutted his government and plunged Guatemala into chaos days before a presidential election.
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| Migrants storm train at Budapest's main station after police withdraw | |  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Migrants poured into Budapest's main railway station on Thursday after Hungarian police withdrew following a two-day standoff, triggering chaotic scenes. Hungary's main railway operator, however, said there were no direct trains leaving to western Europe. Over 2,000 migrants, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, had been camped in front of the Keleti Railway Terminus, closed to them by authorities saying European Union rules bar travel by those without valid documents.
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| Refugees threaten Europe's Christian roots, says Hungary's Orban | |  The influx of refugees into Europe threatens to undermine the continent's Christian roots and governments must control their borders before they can decide how many asylum seekers they can take, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. In an opinion piece for Germany's Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Orban said the people of Europe were at odds with the majority of governments on the refugee crisis. "The people want us to master the situation and protect our borders," he wrote.
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| Guatemala judge orders detention of President Perez in graft scandal | |  By Alexandra Alper and Enrique Pretel GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan judge has issued a detention order for President Otto Perez, the attorney general´s office said on Wednesday, amid a graft scandal that has gutted his government and plunged Guatemala into chaos days before a presidential election. Perez had his immunity from prosecution stripped by lawmakers on Tuesday in a fast-moving climax to a crisis that has roiled Guatemala for months. Guatemala's top prosecutor's office tweeted late on Wednesday that Attorney General Thelma Aldana had sought an arrest order for Perez.
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| Village council denies ordering rape of sisters | |  By Andrew MacAskill and Mayank Bhardwaj SANKROD, India (Reuters) - A village council in Uttar Pradesh has denied allegations that it ordered two young sisters to be raped because their brother eloped with a higher caste woman. Now, members of the village council in the Baghpat region have told Reuters they passed no such order. Family members of the two sisters also told Reuters they are unsure if the ruling was made.
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| Sony, former workers in deal to settle lawsuit over 'Interview' hacking | |  Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc has reached a settlement agreement with nine former employees who had filed a lawsuit claiming that their personal data was stolen in a 2014 hacking tied to the studio's release of a comedy film set in North Korea, "The Interview." The plaintiffs' have until Oct. 19 to submit a motion for preliminary approval of the proposed settlement case, according to a court filing. Sony Pictures declined to comment on the settlement. In June, a U.S. judge had rejected a bid by Sony Pictures, the entertainment arm of Sony Corp, to dismiss the lawsuit.
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| Fox News anchor sues Hasbro over toy hamster sharing her name | |  An anchor for Fox News Channel has sued Hasbro Inc for more than $5 million over the company's sale of a plastic toy hamster that shares her name, and which she says resembles her. In a complaint filed on Monday, Harris Faulkner, who joined Fox News in 2005, called it "demeaning and insulting" for Hasbro to portray her as a rodent with its Harris Faulkner hamster, and said the toy damages her credibility as a journalist. Faulkner also said the hamster bears a "physical resemblance" to her through its complexion, eye shape and eye makeup design, and poses a choking hazard to small children.
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