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| Texas teen arrested over homemade clock heads to United Nations | |  By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas teenager who became a global sensation after he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb will be meeting foreign dignitaries at the United Nations this week, a family friend said on Tuesday. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a Muslim student who dabbles in robotics and attended a Dallas area high school, touched off a social media firestorm with many seeing his the arrest as being tied to his religion.
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| Zico says FIFA elections outdated, lack legitimacy | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Zico believes that the rules for electing the head of soccer's governing body are unfair, outdated and subject voting federations to outside pressure. Speaking to Reuters on a tram taking him to FIFA headquarters to meet president Sepp Blatter, Zico said it was wrong that candidates had to have written backing from five national football associations. "I knew about this and the difficulties other candidates went through but you always have to try in life," he said during a 20-minute journey on the number six.
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| White House seeks answers from China on U.S. woman detained in spy probe | |  By Megha Rajagopalan and Jon Herskovitz BEIJING/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The White House has contacted China's Foreign Ministry over the detention of an American businesswoman accused of spying, a spokesman said on Tuesday, in a case that blew up just as President Xi Jinping began a visit to the United States. Sandy Phan-Gillis of Houston, Texas, has been held by Chinese authorities for about six months under suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets, according to a statement from her family released this week. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters it was "disconcerting" that many of the U.S. government's questions "have gone unanswered" by Chinese officials about the status of Phan-Gillis.
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| Billionaire Chinese developer paid others for 'unlawful activities' - U.S. | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The right-hand man to a billionaire Chinese real estate developer arrested by U.S. authorities for smuggling $4.5 million into the country has admitted the money was used to pay people for "unlawful activities," a federal prosecutor said. Jeff Yin, who worked for Macau developer Ng Lap Seng, made those statements during a post-arrest interview on Saturday with U.S. law enforcement, prosecutor Daniel Richenthal told a federal judge in Manhattan. "He made admissions consistent with the complaint and consistent with other evidence that among other things that cash was sent to people to engage in unlawful activities," Richenthal said. |
| Exclusive - "Putin's banker" Pugachev files $12 billion claim against Russia | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Stephen Grey PARIS (Reuters) - Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed "Putin's banker", said on Tuesday that he had filed a $12 billion compensation claim against Russia for carving up his business empire after he fell out of favour with the president. Pugachev, who said his fortune was once worth $15 billion, told Reuters that President Vladimir Putin's allies had pursued him in courts across Europe with fictitious allegations of embezzlement, adding that he had feared for his life. "They expropriated my assets," Pugachev, 52, told Reuters in an interview in Paris.
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| Gunmen abduct three foreign tourists from southern Philippines resort | | | By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a popular resort island in the southern Philippines, the army said on Tuesday. Philippines army Captain Alberto Caber said the four were taken at gunpoint during a raid late on Monday night on the Oceanview resort on Samal island, near Davao City, the largest city on Mindanao island in the restive southern Philippines. |
| Polish court to decide on Polanski's extradition on Oct 30 | |  By Wojciech Zurawski KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - A Polish court said on Tuesday it would rule on a U.S. request to extradite Roman Polanski over a 1977 child sex conviction at a sitting on October 30. The United States requested Polanski's extradition from Poland after he made a high-profile appearance in Warsaw in 2014. Polanski, now 82, hopes to make a movie in his homeland, something that would be jeopardized if the extradition request is granted.
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| Apple plans steps to prevent future App Store attacks | |  By Paul Carsten and Jim Finkle BEIJING/BOSTON (Reuters) - A senior Apple Inc executive on Tuesday said the company would make it easier for Chinese app developers to download its tools for building mobile apps in a bid to prevent further attacks on its App Store. In the wake of the first major breach on its outlet for distributing iPhone and iPad software, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller told Chinese news site Sina.com that it will offer domestic downloads within China of its software for developing apps. Unknown hackers infected legitimate programs by persuading app developers to download a tainted copy of the toolkit.It was the first time a company executive has talked about efforts to secure the App Store since the attack surfaced late last week.
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| Rajapaksa criticises U.N. findings on Sri Lanka war crimes | |  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa criticised on Tuesday the findings of a UN probe into war crimes and called on the government to reject the report, which called for suspects to be prosecuted by a hybrid court with international judges. Rajapaksa won the 26-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009, but his military was accused of killing thousands of civilians during the final weeks of the conflict. The U.N. report found "patterns of grave violations" between 2002 and 2011 and said it was likely that tens of thousands lost their lives in the final stages of the war.
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