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| Mistrial for Alabama police officer who threw Indian man | | | (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday declared a second mistrial when a jury deadlocked again in the case of an Alabama police officer accused of throwing an Indian man to the ground, according to federal prosecutors. Eric Parker, 27, was retried on accusations that he used unreasonable force while working as a Madison, Alabama, police officer. During his first trial in September, another jury in Huntsville, Alabama, federal court also deadlocked, resulting in the first mistrial. |
| Insight: India takes tough line on trafficking victims who get special U.S. visas | |  By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Ajay Ahir agreed to come to the United States, he had no idea the recruiter promising a high-wage welding job and legal residency in America was lying. After that visa expired and Eagle went out of business, the U.S. government recognised Ahir as a victim of human trafficking in July 2013, granting him a rare "T visa" that allows victims of forced labour to return home, collect family and re-settle in the United States.
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| Former IAAF head Diack targeted in corruption inquiry | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under formal investigation in France on suspicion of corruption and money laundering following a complaint from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). There is a large-scale corruption investigation at soccer's FIFA while athletics is fighting a desperate public relations rearguard battle in the face of continual doping issues. According to French news channel iTELE, the investigation is focussed on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing widespread doping of Russian athletes.
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| U.S. welcomes weapons pullback in Ukraine, criticizes cease-fire violations | | | U.S. officials on Wednesday welcomed signs that Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine are pulling some heavy weapons from the line of contact, but one official said the United States also was "disturbed" about a recent rise in cease-fire violations. "We are now starting to see for the first time some pullback of Russian and separatist weapons," Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. State Department spokesman John Kirby told a briefing later that while the United States welcomed the pullback of some heavy weapons, "we are disturbed by an uptick in cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks." "Throughout Donetsk and Luhansk, separatists have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian forces with small arms, grenade launchers, anti-aircraft weapons and high-caliber machine guns," Kirby said. |
| Exclusive - Myanmar's ousted ruling party head to work with Suu Kyi | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski PHYU, Myanmar (Reuters) - One of Myanmar's most powerful politicians, ousted as leader of the ruling party in August, said Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was the most popular in the country and he would work with the Nobel laureate in parliament after an historic election. Shwe Mann leads a sizeable parliamentary faction of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). If Suu Kyi fails to win a majority, support from one of the former top generals in the junta could help her form a government.
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| New charges in 'Sopranos' star's ex-husband's $300 million fraud case | | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday announced a new indictment against the former husband of "The Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and three additional arrests over allegations they ran a $300 million stock manipulation scheme. Sigler has not been charged or accused of wrongdoing. |
| Romanian PM Ponta quits after street protests, paves way for new cabinet | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta quit on Wednesday in a surprise move that will probably produce a new cabinet led by a technocrat, after street protesters demanded resignations over a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub. Ponta is facing trial for corruption and he was already under pressure to quit from the opposition and President Klaus Iohannis, who defeated him in last November's presidential election. "Last night, Romanians' outrage became true revolt," Iohannis said, referring to the more than 20,000 people who took to the streets in the capital on Tuesday, as well as protests elsewhere.
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| Obama not taking anything off table on closing Guantanamo - White House | |  The White House is considering all options in the effort to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday when asked whether the Obama administration would act without congressional approval. Earnest said the White House still hopes to close the prison "in a timely manner." President Barack Obama had vowed to close Guantanamo, which holds 112 inmates suspected of terrorism, by the time he left office in 2017 but members of Congress have blocked the move.
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| France ends law banning blood donation from homosexual men | | | France has decided to end a more than 30-year old law that banned homosexual men from donating blood, a measure originally put in place to stop the spread of diseases such as HIV. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Wednesday discrimination against potential blood donors on the basis of sexual orientation was unacceptable because it presumed that homosexual men all had HIV. After a review of the measure since 2012, Touraine opted to lift the exclusion that has been in place since 1983 and was subsequently reinforced three times. |
| India-born former soldier sworn in as Canada's new defence minister | | | By Leah Schnurr OTTAWA (Reuters) - Harjit Sajjan, a former police officer and veteran of three military deployments to Afghanistan, was named Canada's new minister of defence on Wednesday, bringing first-hand expertise to one of the country's top cabinet positions. Sajjan will oversee an anticipated change in Canada's military involvement in the battle against militants in Syria and Iraq. Newly sworn-in Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already said he wants to end Canada's air strikes in the region in favour of providing humanitarian help. |
| Woman who accused ex-climate chief of harassment quits think-tank | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A woman who accused climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri of sexual harassment quit her job at a leading green think-tank on Wednesday, saying the organisation treated her in the "worst possible manner" after she complained about his behaviour. The 29-year-old researcher, who filed charges against the former chief of a U.N. climate panel in February, said The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - where Pachauri was Director General - had discriminated against her. "TERI failed to uphold my interests as an employee, let alone protect them," the woman wrote in an email sent to Dinesh Varma, head of TERI's human resource department, and circulated to the media.
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| Bahrain says foils plans for attack by Iran-linked terrorist group | | | Bahrain said on Wednesday it had arrested 47 members of a group believed to have links to "terrorist elements in Iran" who it said were planning to carry out attacks in the coming days. An interior ministry statement carried by Bahrain's state news agency BNA said a large number of explosives and weapons had been found in secret caches in residential areas of several villages. "The results of the inquiry and investigation indicate that the group has close links to Iranian elements and terrorist elements residing in Iran," the statement said. |
| German police bust people smuggling ring | | | German police on Wednesday broke up an international ring of people smugglers whose members used falsified documents to bring foreigners into Germany, mainly by air, for a fee of up to 10,000 euros ($10,859.00) per person. A police statement said that 17 suspected members of the ring had been arrested in raids in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The ring provided foreign nationals, mostly Syrians and Lebanese, with falsified documents such as residency permits and travel documents. |
| Sisi says Muslim Brotherhood can play role in Egypt before UK visit | |  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suggested the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood could again play a role in public life if Egyptians wanted a return of the grouping he currently classifies as terrorist. Sisi, who launched the toughest crackdown on Islamists in Egypt's modern history after toppling President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood, was due in London on Wednesday on a visit to Britain criticised by rights campaigners. The visit has drawn criticism from rights campaigners and some politicians, with the leader of Britain's main opposition party saying it showed "contempt for human and democratic rights".
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| Palestinian driver shot dead after ramming Israeli officer - Israeli police | |  Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian driver in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after he rammed into an Israeli border policeman, critically wounding him, police said. "A border policeman was critically wounded in a ramming attack near (the city of) Hebron," police said in a statement. At least 68 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces, including 41 who Israel says were attackers.
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