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| U.S. woman China probes for spying cloud's President Xi's state visit | |  By Megha Rajagopalan and Jon Herskovitz BEIJING/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - As Chinese President Xi Jinping left for the United States on an official visit, Beijing said on Tuesday the country was investigating an American woman for spying, an allegation her husband in Texas said was groundless. 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. "I have absolutely no clue whatsoever why she was taken into custody," her husband, Jeff Gillis, told Reuters from their home in Houston, adding "Sandy is not a spy or a thief." Phan-Gillis ran a consulting business that helped pair U.S. and Chinese firms and had been to China numerous times without incident, Gillis said, adding he had asked the State Department for months to press for her release, but to no avail.
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| 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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| U.S. commander in Afghanistan denies child sex abuse was tolerated | | | The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Tuesday denied there was ever a policy for forces to ignore Afghan officials' sexual abuse of minors, days after a newspaper reported troops were told to look the other way to preserve relations with allies. Gen. John F. Campbell, who commands both U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, said he had discussed the media reports with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The New York Times reported on Sunday that U.S. service members stationed in Afghanistan had been instructed by superiors not to intervene when they witnessed Afghan police officers and military commanders abusing minors, even when the abuse occurred on military bases. |
| Pistorius appeal set for Nov. 3, state wants murder conviction | |  Oscar Pistorius should have been convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend, South African state prosecutors will argue at an appeal hearing set for Nov. 3, the supreme court of appeal said on Tuesday. The Paralympic gold medallist admitted killing law graduate and model Reeva Steenkamp, 29, in February 2013 by firing four shots into the locked door of a toilet cubicle. Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide, equivalent to manslaughter, last September and sentenced to five years in prison.
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| Obama, in prison documentary: U.S. legal system has been "unjust" | |  By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an unprecedented presidential visit to a prison. "They then get involved in the criminal justice system, and it just churns, and everybody thinks that's normal," the president told the nonviolent drug offenders at the medium-security El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma. Obama has made criminal justice reform a top priority of his final years in office and beyond.
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| FIFA to discuss possible new venue for December meeting | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA, grappling with a corruption scandal, said on Tuesday it would discuss a possible new venue and date for an executive committee meeting originally scheduled for Japan in December. The announcement came amid uncertainty over whether FIFA president Sepp Blatter would make the trip. Blatter has not been accused of any wrongdoing but retains an attorney.
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| Kentucky clerk Davis rejects marriage licenses as invalid - ABC | |  The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid, according to an interview that aired on Tuesday. "I can't put my name on a license that doesn't represent what God ordained what marriage to be," Kim Davis said in a television interview with ABC News, taped on Monday. "I have given no authority to write a marriage license.
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