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| Europe shouldn't use force to stop people smugglers - U.N. investigator | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Europe should not use force to stop people smugglers in the Mediterranean, a U.N. investigator said on Friday, suggesting the European Union could team up with the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to resettle two million refugees. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, said the U.N. Security Council was mistaken to authorise European Union naval operations in the high seas off Libya to seize and dispose smugglers' vessels. Earlier this month the council approved the EU operation, which aims to help stem the flow of migrants and refugees as Europe faces its biggest migration crisis since World War Two. |
| Two more women accuse Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct | |  By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two more women accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct on Friday, and their attorney Gloria Allred said she has been contacted by even more women who are prepared to say the same. The two women join more than 50 who have come forward to accuse the veteran television star of sexual misconduct and assault dating back to the 1960s. One of the women, who identified herself only as Dottye, said Cosby drugged and raped her when she visited him in a New York City apartment to audition for "The Cosby Show" in 1984.
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| Turkish court sentences 244 to jail over 2013 protests - newspaper | | | A Turkish court on Friday sentenced 244 people to up to 14 months in jail over protests in 2013 that began as a bid to stop the redevelopment of an Istanbul park and spiralled into the worst political unrest for years, a major newspaper reported. Some 255 people had been charged with crimes such as damaging public property and taking part in illegal protests, and judicial authorities sought jail sentences of up to 11 years, according to the Hurriyet Daily News. The demonstrations over Istanbul's Gezi Park and the police crackdown captured international attention and sparked concern about growing authoritarian rule in Turkey. |
| U.S. states, business groups challenge Obama's carbon rules in court | |  By Valerie Volcovici and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-five states and several business groups on Friday launched legal challenges seeking to block the Obama administration's proposal to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the centrepiece of its high-profile climate change strategy. West Virginia, Texas, Florida and Ohio are among the states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan in a Washington, D.C. court, saying it pushes beyond the limits of the federal Clean Air Act.
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| Germany speeds up new measures to deal with refugee influx | |  Germany is speeding up measures to tackle its refugee crisis, a top government official said on Friday, allowing accelerated deportations to begin as early as next week. The tighter rules aim to speed up asylum and extradition procedures for migrants from southeastern Europe, in order to focus on refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Germany expects a record influx of more than 800,000 migrants this year, by far the most in the European Union.
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| Former German FA boss says slush fund allegations true | |  Germany's former top football official told a news magazine on Friday it was true that the country had used a secret 'slush fund' to pay bribes for the right to host the 2006 World Cup, contradicting repeated denials by his successor. The comments by former German Football Association (DFB) president Theo Zwanziger looked set to fuel a deepening crisis over the running of world football, whose governing body FIFA is the target of corruption investigations in Switzerland and the United States. "It is clear that there was a slush fund for the German World Cup bid," Zwanziger told Der Spiegel magazine, which first reported the allegations last week.
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| Witness in U.S. terror trial of London cleric spared prison | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former follower of radical London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri avoided prison on Friday after providing what a U.S. prosecutor said was over a decade of "unprecedented" cooperation in terrorism investigations that led to the conviction of his onetime mentor. James Ujaama, 49, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan after testifying last year at Abu Hamza's trial about his role trying to establish a training camp that prosecutors said was aimed at supporting al Qaeda. Out of prison, he fled to Belize in 2006 in violation of the plea deal, an act Forrest attributed to his fear of testifying.
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| Colombians pin hopes on new agency seeking missing war victims | | | "We think a historic moment has come, we are filled with hope," Ulianov Franco, director of Families Colombia, told Reuters on Thursday. "It needs to have a high profile that allows it to bring together institutions like the attorney general's office, the coroner's office, the investigator general, the ombudsman - so they make a joint effort," said Diana Arango, director of forensic charity Equitas. |
| New Jolie film puts spotlight on Ethiopia's child bride abductions | |  By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Ethiopian woman whose terrifying ordeal of kidnap and rape at the hands of her would-be husband inspired Angelina Jolie's new film Difret says she hopes her story will help end the tradition of child bride abductions. Difret, which is released in the United States on Friday, tells the story of Aberash Bekele who was put on trial for murder at the age of 14 after shooting dead her abductor in a case which sent shockwaves through Ethiopia. Bekele, who spent many years in exile after the trial, said she was inspired to speak out by Malala, the Nobel prize-winning girls' rights campaigner.
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| Bomb blast at procession for Shi'ite holiday in Pakistan kills 16 - police | | | A bomb blast at a Shi'ite Muslim procession in Pakistan's Sindh province for the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura killed 16 people on Friday and wounded at least 40, local Geo TV reported. Geo TV quoted a local police official as saying that 16 were dead and 40 wounded in the early evening blast. |
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