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| France and India look to the sun to save the planet | | Tuesday, December 01, 2015 2:52 AM | |
|  By Barbara Lewis PARIS (Reuters) - France and India on Monday launched an international alliance seeking to mobilise more than a trillion dollars by 2030 and deliver clean, solar energy to some of the planet's poorest. French President Francois Hollande, host of two weeks of U.N. talks, needs to win the support of nearly 200 nations if the summit is to forge a global deal to curb climate change. In the past, India has been one of the obstacles to consensus as it pushes for leeway to allow its population of more than a billion to develop.
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| Suspect in Colorado clinic shooting told he faces murder charge | | Tuesday, December 01, 2015 2:45 AM | |
|  By Keith Coffman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was told he faces first-degree murder charges during his first court appearance on Monday. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, appearing by video link from jail, spoke only to tell a judge he understood and had no questions. Police records from North Charleston, South Carolina, showed that Dear was charged with rape there in 1992, although Reuters could not determine in court records how the case was resolved.
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| Powerful New York legislator Silver convicted in bribery case | | Tuesday, December 01, 2015 2:30 AM | |
|  By Nate Raymond and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sheldon Silver, one of New York state's most powerful politicians for two decades, was convicted on Monday of abusing his office to collect as much as $4 million in illegal bribes and kickbacks. A federal jury in Manhattan found Silver, 71, guilty of all seven counts he faced, including fraud, extortion and money laundering, following a three-week trial. The verdict caps a stunning fall for Silver, a Democrat who as speaker of the New York State Assembly enjoyed immense political influence before his arrest in January.
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| Barring Syrians could cost U.S. states funding for other refugees - U.S. agency | | Tuesday, December 01, 2015 1:18 AM | |
|  By Julia Edwards and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Services to help refugees acclimate to life in the United States could be jeopardised in states where governors block Syrians, according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants, 30 U.S. governors including in Florida, Texas and Michigan have vowed to block Syrian refugees.
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| Relief agency to resettle Syrians in Texas despite threats from state | | Tuesday, December 01, 2015 12:36 AM | |
| | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A relief agency said on Monday it plans to resettle Syrian refugees in Texas despite a threat from the state to cut funding to the nonprofit organisation if it tries to do so. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission warned the Dallas office of the International Rescue Committee in a letter last week that it would be in violation of its contract with the state if it did not comply with Governor Greg Abbott's order to stop accepting Syrian refugees. "As part of our mission and mandate from the U.S. Federal government, we will continue to resettle refugees in Texas and other states," a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee said in response to a Reuters email. |
| U.N. says Burundi on brink of war but no need for peacekeepers yet | |  By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Burundi is on the brink of a war that could have "potentially disastrous effects in an already fragile region" but there is no immediate need to deploy United Nations peacekeepers, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Monday. Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands have fled the African state during months of violence that began when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided in April to run for a third term. Earlier this month the 15-member Security Council asked Ban to provide options for boosting the U.N. presence in Burundi amid growing international concern that the violence could spiral into an ethnic conflict.
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| Relief agency seeks talks over Texas threat on resettling Syrians in state | | | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A relief agency said on Monday it wants to hold talks with Texas Governor Greg Abbott to discuss a threat from the state to cut funding to the nonprofit organisation if it tries to resettle Syrian refugees in the state. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission warned the Dallas office of the International Rescue Committee in a letter last week that it would be in violation of its contract with the state if it did not comply with Abbott's order to stop accepting Syrian refugees. Abbott, a Republican, is concerned that U.S. security screening is ineffective and could allow in people with ties to terrorism, the letter said, giving the group until Monday to reply. |
| Chicago officer, charged with murdering black teen, posts bond | |  By Mary Wisniewski and Justin Madden CHICAGO (Reuters) - A white Chicago police officer, charged with murdering a black teenager, posted bond on Monday afternoon as protests continued over a patrol car's dashboard camera video that showed the officer shooting the teen 16 times. Protesters including NAACP President Cornell William Brooks were arrested on Monday, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Police officer Jason Van Dyke appeared in shackles at Monday's hearing, where Cook County Criminal Court Associate Judge Donald Panarese, Jr. set bail at $1.5 million, of which 10 percent had to be posted.
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| Ohio grand jury hears from mother of Cleveland boy shot by police | |  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The mother of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot in November 2014 outside a Cleveland recreation centre testified on Monday to a grand jury weighing whether to charge two officers in his death, her attorney said. "An indictment would give me just a little bit of breath," Samaria Rice said afterward, saying she was anxious for a decision but not prepared if the grand jury does not indict the officers in the death of her son, Tamir Rice. Rice's attorney, Subodh Chandra, said her appearance before the grand jury lasted a little over an hour.
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| Chicago man arrested for gun threat linked to black teen's killing | |  By Suzannah Gonzales and Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Chicago man was arrested on Monday for threatening to kill 16 white male students or staff on the University of Chicago in retaliation for the shooting last year of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a white police officer, according to law enforcement officials. Jabari R. Dean was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce and, if convicted, could face up to five years in prison, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago said in a statement. The University of Illinois at Chicago said one of its students, living off campus, was arrested for making the threat, which caused the University of Chicago to cancel classes on Monday.
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| Condemning attacks, leaders in Paris make careful leap to climate change | |  By Alister Doyle PARIS (Reuters) - For world leaders attending a long-planned climate summit in Paris just weeks after 130 people were killed by Islamic State militants in the French capital, addressing the coincidental convergence of global warming and terrorism was unavoidable. In a series of some 150 opening speeches at the heavily guarded facility on the outskirts of Paris, most heads of state and prime ministers offered condolences to their French hosts, pivoting quickly, sometimes awkwardly, to the climate talks. Many said the decision to press on with the summit in Paris so soon after the attacks was itself a rebuke to extremists trying to sow fear and disrupt normal life.
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| Four men charged in shooting of Minnesota protesters | |  By David Bailey and Kristoffer Tigue MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Four men were charged on Monday in connection with the shooting of five protesters near the site of a demonstration outside a Minneapolis police station over the police killing of a black man earlier this month. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman called the shooting racially motivated, and said additional charges are possible against the defendants and others. Allen Scarsella, 23, who prosecutors said in a complaint had admitted to opening fire on the five protesters, was charged with one count of second-degree riot while armed and five counts of second-degree assault.
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| Iraq blames Iran after thousands of pilgrims storm border crossing | |  Iraq's interior ministry blamed Iranian authorities on Monday for allowing tens of thousands of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims to storm a border crossing and enter the country without visas, in a rare public confrontation between the two neighbours. The ministry said in a statement that the pilgrims, travelling on foot towards the Shi'ite shrine city of Karbala to take part in the annual Arbaeen religious ritual, overwhelmed security forces on Sunday, pulling down fences and injuring border guards. It accused them of deliberately rushing the border crossing in order to pressure security forces to allow them to enter illegally, and it said the border guards had refrained from exercising their right to use force against them.
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| Thanksgiving White House fence jumper pleads not guilty | | | A Connecticut man charged with jumping a White House fence on Thanksgiving while wearing an American flag pleaded not guilty on Monday to a federal misdemeanour charge of illegally entering restricted grounds. The man, 22-year-old Joseph Caputo, has been ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation after triggering a lockdown at the White House while President Barack Obama was present. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay on Monday ordered Caputo to be released while awaiting trial but ordered him to stay away from Washington, except for meetings with his attorney and court appearances. |
| Man throws liquid at Finnish finance minister | |  A man walked up to Finland's finance minister, Alexander Stubb, and threw liquid on him on Monday in a gesture of anger at comments Stubb made about a government bill on securities holdings but which he later retracted as wrong. Stubb was meeting people in a cafeteria in Tampere when the man approached and threw what appeared to be a soft drink on him, calling him "liar" and "cutter", local media reported. Stubb, a member of the centre-right government which plans to cut spending and workers' benefits, last week said that 90 percent of experts and authorities supported the government's plan to reform the system in which investors hold securities.
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| Missing Australian surfers used charred van found in Mexico | | | A burnt-out van containing two charred corpses found in a part of Mexico notorious for drug trafficking belonged to one of two Australian surfers who have gone missing in the region, Mexican state prosecutors said on Monday. Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman were due to travel to the western city of Guadalajara on Nov. 21 but never arrived, according to a message posted on social media site Facebook. The abandoned van was found near the Pacific coast in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, about 124 miles (200 km) south of where they were last seen and some 445 miles (716 km) north of Guadalajara, according to the Sinaloa state prosecutor's office. |
| White House - Russia has intensified strikes on Islamic State in Syria | |  The White House said on Monday it has seen "some intensification" of Russian air strikes against Islamic State in Syria during the past several weeks. White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that Russia previously had infrequently targeted Islamic State in its campaign in Syria. Maps of Russian airstrikes prepared by the British government and seen by Reuters show that, at least as of a week ago, there has been little change in Moscow's practise of targeting non-Islamic State areas in Syria with its airstrikes.
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| Britain to vote on Syria strikes this week, PM confident of support | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will vote on bombing Syria on Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron said, confident he can secure its approval after the opposition Labour Party allowed its members to vote freely on the issue. Cameron believes it is time to join other Western powers in bombing Islamic State militants in Syria, saying Britain could not "subcontract" its security to others after the group claimed responsibility for killing 130 people in Paris this month. By calling the debate this week it was clear the prime minister was sure he had won over some sceptical members in his own ruling Conservative Party and others in the Labour Party, which is deeply divided on launching strikes.
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| Philippine court to rule if U.S. Marine guilty of murder | |  A court in the Philippines will decide on Tuesday whether a U.S. Marine is guilty of murder in the killing of a transgender woman, a case that has reignited debate over the American military presence in the poor Southeast Asian country. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who is being held at a U.S. facility at the main army base in Manila, has been on trial for the murder of Jennifer Laude, who was found dead last year in a hotel in Olongapo City, near a former U.S. naval base northwest of the Philippine capital. "We've presented overwhelming evidence for the murder," Harry Roque, a lawyer for the victim, told Reuters, saying he was confident the court would find Pemberton guilty and sentence him to life imprisonment.
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| TV anchor seeks to be Cambodia's political peacemaker to avoid conflict | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian TV news anchor Soy Sopheap has again stepped into the role of political peacemaker in an effort to end the feud between Prime Minister Hun Sen and exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy which threatens to ignite political conflict. Hun Sen has warned Cambodia could descend into civil war if Sam Rainsy's party wins an election in 2018, while Rainsy has called for vigilance to prevent self-styled strong man Hun Sen using the deteriorating political climate to postpone elections. Soy Sopheap entered Cambodia's turbulent political arena in 2013 to act as peacemaker between the two rivals which allowed Sam Rainsy to return from four years in exile in France.
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| U.S. Republican sees no government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday said he expects lawmakers to have a "healthy debate" over Planned Parenthood this month as they consider spending legislation for the current fiscal year, but he did not expect a government shutdown over financing for the women's health group. McCarthy, responding to questions about whether the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado would affect Republican opposition to funding the group, said the top focus of many lawmakers had moved to homeland security in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris. Planned Parenthood critics in Congress want the government to stop providing funding for the group because it offers abortion services.
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| First police trial in Freddie Gray killing begins with jury selection | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in the April death of a black man from an injury in police custody that set off rioting in Baltimore and inflamed the U.S. debate on race and justice. The death of Freddie Gray, 25, followed police killings of black men in other cities, including New York and Ferguson, Missouri, that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, which has staged more than year of mostly peaceful protests across the United States. Some 20 protesters assembled outside the downtown courthouse where jury selection was underway.
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