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| China's Xi arrives in Washington for first U.S. state visit | | Friday, September 25, 2015 12:01 AM | |
|  By Michael Martina and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Thursday for a state visit and talks with President Barack Obama that are expected to be clouded by differences over alleged Chinese cyber spying, Beijing's economic policies and territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Vice President Joe Biden greeted Xi and his wife as they landed at Andrews Air Force Base on the second leg of a weeklong trip that begin in Seattle.
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| Addressing Congress, pope urges U.S. to end hostility toward immigrants | |  By Philip Pullella and Scott Malone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Francis beseeched Americans to end hostility toward immigrants in a historic speech before the U.S. Congress on Thursday, weighing in forcefully on a divisive issue that is stirring debate in the 2016 presidential campaign. Bringing a message that America's power and wealth should be used to serve humanity, the 78-year-old pontiff said the United States must not turn its back on "the stranger in our midst." "Building a nation calls us to recognise that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility," Francis told the Republican-led Congress in Washington a day after he met with Democratic President Barack Obama. Francis, born in Argentina to an Italian immigrant family, delivered a wide-ranging speech that addressed issues dear to liberals in the United States but also emphasized conservative values and Catholic teachings on the family.
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| Colombian rebels could escape extradition in peace deal | |  By Julia Symmes Cobb and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA/HAVANA (Reuters) - A breakthrough in talks between Colombia's government and Marxist guerrillas has raised hopes for a peace deal within six months and it may mean rebel leaders will avoid being extradited to face drug trafficking charges in the United States. President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group agreed on Wednesday to create special courts to try former combatants including guerrillas and also vowed to sign a peace deal by March to end five decades of war. Sergio Jaramillo, the government's peace commissioner, said the conditions under which rebels could be extradited will not be defined until the final peace deal is reached and he suggested the FARC would not agree to it.
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| Snowden launches push for global privacy treaty | |  Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday backed a push for an international treaty on privacy rights, protection against improper surveillance and of whistleblowers as he said more countries are trying to boost spying powers. Speaking via video conference from Russia, which granted him asylum in 2013 after he leaked details of mass U.S. surveillance programs, Snowden said mass spying was a global problem that needs a global response. "We have to have a discussion, we have to come forward with proposals to go 'how do we assert what our rights are, traditionally and digitally and to ensure that we can not just enjoy them, but we can protect them," Snowden said.
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| Israel tightens crackdown on Palestinian petrol bomb, stone-throwers | |  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will impose a minimum four-year jail term on Palestinian petrol bombers and rock throwers and will ease open-fire regulations and impose harsher fines, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The Israeli leader's "Security Cabinet" of senior ministers agreed measures aimed at quelling a recent rise in roadside attacks against Israeli vehicles in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. "The Security Cabinet unanimously adopted a series of measures within the framework of our fight against stone throwers, petrol bombs and flares," Netanyahu said in a recorded televised statement.
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| Blatter says failure to back reforms would be betrayal | | | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter told his scandal-plagued federation's 209 member associations on Thursday that failure to support reform would amount to a betrayal of millions of football fans. Blatter's comments came as FIFA's executive committee began a two-day meeting where it was due to discuss a request to provide greater transparency around investigations into allegations of corruption. The committee also will be given an update on the second of two reform processes which have begun since FIFA was plunged into the worst crisis in its 111-year history in May. Football's governing body has been in turmoil since 14 sports marketing executives and football officials, including several from FIFA, were indicted in the United States on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges. |
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