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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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| Chicago officer's bond set at $1.5 million in killing of black teen | |  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - A judge on Monday set a $1.5 million bond for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a patrol car's dashboard camera video showed him shooting a black teenager 16 times. Protesters including NAACP President Cornell William Brooks were arrested on Monday, tweets from Brooks and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said, as demonstrations continued against the 2014 shooting and 13-month delay in releasing the video. At Monday's hearing, Cook County Criminal Court Associate Judge Donald Panarese, Jr. ruled police officer Jason Van Dyke, who appeared in shackles, must post 10 percent of the total amount.
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| Suspect in Colorado clinic shooting told he faces murder charge | |  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 charges including first-degree murder during his first court appearance on Monday. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, appearing by video link from jail, spoke only to tell the judge he had no questions. There was no discussion of the suspect's motives during the brief hearing, and formal charges will be filed at a court appearance scheduled for Dec. 9.
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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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| Chicago student arrested for gun threat linked to McDonald shooting - report | |  By Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - A University of Illinois at Chicago student arrested in connection with an online threat that closed the University of Chicago on Monday had threatened to kill 16 white male students or staff in retaliation for the shooting last year of black teenager Laquan McDonald, the Chicago Tribune reported. The UIC student was only identified by UIC officials as living off campus, and a spokesman for the FBI would only say an arrest has been made and charges are pending. The Tribune, citing a police report it obtained, said a New York resident called the FBI to report a comment he saw on the website www.worldstarhiphop.com, posted in response to a video clip from the 1995 movie "Panther." The commenter threatened to shoot and kill students, staff and police on the University of Chicago's campus at 10 a.m. on Monday and then kill himself, citing the fatal shooting last year of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a white Chicago police officer, the newspaper said.
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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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| Turkey's Davutoglu wins parliamentary vote of confidence | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's government on Monday won an expected vote of confidence in parliament and approval for its programme, according to a live broadcast from parliament. Davutoglu's AK Party won 49.5 percent of the vote in a Nov. 1 election, just five months after it had lost its single-party majority in a June ballot. It failed to find a coalition partner, forcing the country into another round of voting. (Reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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| U.S. tightens visa waiver programme in wake of Paris attacks | |  By Roberta Rampton and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House announced changes to the U.S. visa waiver programme on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travellers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel. Under the new measures, which were prompted by the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State militants, the Department of Homeland Security would immediately start to collect more information from travellers about past visits to countries such as Syria and Iraq, the White House said.
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| Venezuela arrests three for killing of opposition candidate | | | By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Authorities arrested three people on Monday suspected in the murder of an opposition leader that shook Venezuela and drew international condemnation in the run-up to this weekend's election for a new legislature. Opposition leaders blamed last week's shooting of Luis Diaz, 44, a candidate for the Democratic Action party in central Guarico state, on the ruling Socialists. Officials say Diaz was a well-known criminal caught in a gang dispute linked to unions in Guarico, whose death was being manipulated to discredit the Socialist Party. |
| Northern Irish abortion laws breach human rights - court | | | By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion laws are in breach of human rights by failing to provide exceptions in the case of fatal foetal abnormality and sexual crime, Belfast's High Court found in a landmark ruling on Monday. Unlike other parts of the United Kingdom, abortion is banned in Northern Ireland unless the life or mental health of the mother is in danger. After four months of deliberation, Judge Mark Horner upheld a challenge by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission that the laws breached the European Convention on Human Rights and asked the parties involved to consider whether the ruling could be applied under current legislation. |
| Syria air strikes will get parliament majority - Hammond | |  British foreign minister Philip Hammond said on Monday he was confident the government would secure a parliamentary majority in support of launching air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. "I am confident that when we bring this matter to a vote in parliament we will now see a majority of parliamentarians supporting the action," he told reporters after meeting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. "During the course of today there has been significant progress in the task of building a coalition in parliament in favour of air strikes in Syria and ensuring that when it comes to a vote that coalition is able to find its voice," he said, according to the Press Association news agency.
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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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| Syria's Assad says terrorists among Syrian refugees - Czech Television | |  There are terrorists among the Syrian refugees making their way to Europe, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Czech Television in an interview, excerpts of which were broadcast on Monday. Asked whether Europeans should fear refugees from Syria, Assad said: "It's a mixture. The majority, they are good Syrians, they are patriots... But of course you have infiltration of terrorists among them, that is true." Czech Television said it had interviewed Assad in Damascus and would air the piece in full on Tuesday.
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| Obama to meet Turkey's Erdogan in Paris -White House | |  PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday at the international climate talks in Paris, the White House said on Monday. Obama earlier on Monday met with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Ankara and Moscow remain locked in a dispute over the downing of a Russian jet last week. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Julia Edwards; Editing by Susan Heavey)
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| Brazil's BTG Pactual looks to new leadership; Esteves quits amid graft probe | |  By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Grupo BTG Pactual SA looked to new leadership to steer it out of crisis on Monday after controlling shareholder André Esteves resigned as CEO and chairman following his jailing as part of the country's sweeping corruption probe. Shares and bonds in Latin America's largest independent investment bank plummeted, reflecting concerns about the impact of the investigation on operations after the Supreme Court extended the financier's detention indefinitely. Esteves, jailed since last Wednesday, quit as head of the bank late on Sunday, as prosecutors prepared to file charges against him.
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| Thailand knew deported Chinese were refugees awaiting resettlement in Canada: U.N. document | | | By Aubrey Belford and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai junta knew that two Chinese men it detained were refugees awaiting resettlement in Canada but still deported them to China, according to a United Nations letter seen by Reuters. The letter, sent by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Thai foreign ministry, contradicts Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's statement last week that Thailand "did not know" that the men were under UNHCR protection. Military-ruled Thailand has been criticised for deporting the two dissidents, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping, at Beijing's request in mid-November, despite both being recognised as refugees. |
| Two French men stopped on way to Islamic State in Libya - official | | | Two French nationals suspected of wanting to join Islamic State training camps in Libya before heading to Syria were arrested in Tunisia in mid-November, according to an official at the Paris prosecutor's office. It is the first case made public of potential French Islamic State recruits travelling to Libya instead of Syria, where hundreds of French citizens have already joined the ranks of the hardline group. According to the official, the two men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested near Tunisia's southern border with Libya. |
| At NATO, Turkey remains defiant over Russian jet | |  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister dismissed on Monday any suggestion Ankara should apologise for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself. Six days after NATO member Turkey shot down the Russian bomber in the first known incident of its kind since the Cold War, calls for calm have gone largely unheeded as Ankara refuses to back down and Russia responds with sanctions. "No country should ask us to apologise," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters following a meeting with NATO's secretary general at alliance headquarters in Brussels.
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| Hours after EU deal, Turkey rounds up 1,300 migrants bound for Greece | |  Turkish authorities rounded up some 1,300 migrants on Monday that they said were planning to sail to Greece from hideouts near secluded Aegean beaches and forests, hours after striking a deal with the European Union on stemming refugee flows. In the largest operation of its kind in recent months, the migrants were sent to a repatriation centre where some could face deportation, the officials said. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday struck a deal with EU leaders to prevent migrants from travelling to Europe in return for 3 billion euros (dollars) in cash, a deal on visas and renewed talks on joining the 28-nation bloc.
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| Insight: Decades after Nigeria's war, new Biafra movement grows | |  By Alexis Akwagyiram ENUGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nearly half a century after a civil war in which a million people died, 27-year-old Okoli Ikedi is part of a new protest movement in southeastern Nigeria calling for an independent state of Biafra. Such calls have become common since the leader of the group Ikedi represents in Enugu, the region's main city, was arrested in October, prompting thousands in the oil-producing southeast to join demonstrations in recent weeks calling for his release. It's another challenge for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is grappling with a sharp slowdown in Africa's biggest economy, the bloody Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast and fears that militancy may resume in the oil-rich southern Delta region when an amnesty ends in December.
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