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- Hundreds arrested at California electronic music festivals
- Iran arrests two journalists as crackdown gathers pace
- Barclays in $94 million Euribor accord, other banks may follow
- Google aims to begin drone package deliveries in 2017
- Islamist al Shabaab ambushes Somali military trainees, says kills 30
- Palestinians attack Israeli soldiers, civilians, with knives, one killed - Israel
- Lebanese authorities charge Saudi prince with drug smuggling - sources, agency
- Two soldiers, six others killed in Lebanon shootout
- Romanian club owners face manslaughter probe over fire, death toll at 31
- Fourteen humanitarian workers kidnapped in eastern Congo
- Mourinho named in Carneiro legal action
- Nepali police kill Indian protester at border blockade
- Vatican arrests cleric, laywoman suspected of leaking secret documents
- Modi, facing tight election, hits back at "intolerance" criticism
- Woman tries to pet Omaha zoo tiger, gets bitten
| Hundreds arrested at California electronic music festivals | | | (Reuters) - Police in Southern California arrested hundreds of people over the weekend at several electronic dance music festivals, authorities said, as scrutiny mounts on the high-profile events known as raves due to drug-related deaths in recent years. Police in Pomona, some 30 miles east of Los Angeles, arrested 310 people at the two-day HARD Day of the Dead festival, headlined by popular artists including Deadmau5 and Skrillex. Another 30 miles east of Pomona, authorities in San Bernardino arrested about 180 people at the Escape: Psycho Circus, the Los Angeles Times reported. |
| Iran arrests two journalists as crackdown gathers pace | | | By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities arrested two prominent journalists on Monday as the head of the judiciary dismissed international condemnation of what appears to be a crackdown on writers and artists. Isa Saharkhiz, a well-known independent journalist, was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on charges of "insulting the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and propaganda against the regime", his son Mehdi said in a telephone interview from the United States. Ehsan Mazandarani, managing director of the Farikhtegan newspaper, was arrested on security charges, the Tasnim news agency, which is linked to the IRGC, said. |
| Barclays in $94 million Euribor accord, other banks may follow | | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barclays Plc agreed to pay $94 million to settle U.S. antitrust litigation in which investors accused 11 banks of conspiring to manipulate the benchmark European Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) and related derivatives. The London-based bank is the first defendant to settle, according to court papers filed late on Friday in federal court in Manhattan. ... |
| Google aims to begin drone package deliveries in 2017 | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google, which hopes to revolutionize consumer deliveries via drone, expects to begin delivering packages to customers by unmanned aircraft sometime in 2017, an executive said on Monday. "Our goal is to have commercial business up and running in 2017," David Vos, the project lead for Google's Project Wing, told an audience at an air traffic control convention outside Washington. (Reporting by David Morgan)
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| Islamist al Shabaab ambushes Somali military trainees, says kills 30 | | | By Feisal Omar and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamists al Shabaab said they had ambushed a group of military trainees on Monday southwest of the capital Mogadishu and killed 30 of them, though the claim could not be independently confirmed. The ambush came a day after at least 13 people were killed after al Shabaab militants stormed a hotel in Mogadishu where government officials and lawmakers stay. The militants, which aim to topple the Western-backed Somali government, and local authorities often cite different numbers of casualties after such attacks. |
| Palestinians attack Israeli soldiers, civilians, with knives, one killed - Israel | | | Three Palestinians attacked Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank and civilians in the Tel Aviv suburbs with knives on Monday and one of them was shot dead, Israeli authorities said. Now in its second month, the worst spate of violence since the 2014 Gaza war has been caused by tensions over Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, a site sacred to both Muslims and Jews, and by deadlocked talks with Israel on Palestinian statehood. The Israeli military said troops approached two Palestinians at a petrol station near a checkpoint inside the West Bank boundary. |
| Lebanese authorities charge Saudi prince with drug smuggling - sources, agency | | | Lebanese judicial authorities charged a Saudi prince and nine other people with drug smuggling via Beirut airport, and referred the case to an investigating judge, judicial sources and the National News Agency reported on Monday. The prince has been widely identified in Lebanese media and by security officials speaking anonymously as Abdulmohsen bin Walid bin Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Lebanese authorities detained five Saudi citizens at the airport last week after finding two tonnes of Captagon amphetamine pills bound for Saudi Arabia on a private jet, security sources and the NNA said, the biggest smuggling operation ever discovered at the airport. |
| Two soldiers, six others killed in Lebanon shootout | | | Two Lebanese soldiers and six other people including two men wanted in connection with organised crime were killed in a shootout at a nightclub north of Beirut on Monday, the Lebanese army said in a statement. The shooting began when one of the wanted men and his associates opened fire at an army intelligence patrol that had entered the nightclub in Jounieh, north of Beirut, in search of suspects. The two wanted men and four others with them were killed. |
| Romanian club owners face manslaughter probe over fire, death toll at 31 | |  Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal manslaughter investigation on Monday against the three owners of the Bucharest nightclub where a fire killed 31 people and injured nearly 200 during a weekend rock concert. On Monday, an unidentified man died of his injuries in hospital, bringing the death toll to 31, deputy prime minister Gabriel Oprea was quoted saying by local news agency Mediafax. The fire that ravaged the Colectiv nightclub is one of the worst disasters to hit the European Union state in decades and has shaken up Romanians, who are distrustful of building safety and the way local authorities issue permits and licenses.
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| Fourteen humanitarian workers kidnapped in eastern Congo | | | Fourteen humanitarian workers have been kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the latest in a spate of hostage-takings in the region, the United Nations and local activists said on Monday. Eastern Congo was ravaged by two wars between 1996 and 2003 that killed millions of people, most dying from hunger and disease, and the region remains plagued by dozens of armed groups who compete over reserves of gold, tin and tantalum. The employees of a Congolese non-governmental organization were abducted on Sunday in the Rutshuru region in North Kivu province, the U.N. mission in Congo's humanitarian coordinator, Mamadou Diallo, said in a statement. |
| Mourinho named in Carneiro legal action | |  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been a named a respondent in the legal action being brought against the club by their former team doctor Eva Carneiro for constructive dismissal, sources close to the case said on Monday. Papers have been served for a preliminary hearing date, which has not been disclosed, and the Premier League champions have 28 days to file a response. Chelsea's Portuguese manager was angry when Carneiro ran on to the pitch to treat midfielder Eden Hazard during the opening match of the season against Swansea City at Stamford Bridge.
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| Nepali police kill Indian protester at border blockade | |  By Ross Adkin and Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police shot and killed an Indian citizen at a border checkpoint on Monday as they tried to clear protesters whose blockade has strangled Nepal's fuel supplies and badly damaged relations between the neighbours. Nepal has faced an acute fuel crisis for more than a month since protesters in the lowland south, angered that a new constitution fails to reflect their interests, prevented supply trucks from entering from India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the killing of an Indian youth and spoke with Nepal's Prime Minister KP Oli to seek details about the incident.
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| Vatican arrests cleric, laywoman suspected of leaking secret documents | | | By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Two members of a commission Pope Francis set up to study reforms, including a high-ranking Holy See official, have been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents, the Vatican said on Monday. It was one of the biggest internal scandals to hit Francis' papacy so far and was reminiscent of the "Vatileaks" furore that preceded the resignation of former Pope Benedict in 2013. Spanish Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, number two at the Vatican's Prefecture for Economic Affairs, and Italian laywoman Francesca Chaouqui, a public relations expert, were arrested over the weekend, a Vatican statement said. |
| Modi, facing tight election, hits back at "intolerance" criticism | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi, battling to win power in the heartland state of Bihar and revive stalled economic reforms, hit back at critics on Monday for painting a picture of intolerance in the country. Rivals say the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is whipping up religious tensions to win the election in Bihar, the country's third most populous state and critical to Modi's plans to improve his party's strength in the upper house of parliament. Modi's administration has faced a rising tide of criticism for failing to rein in hardline Hindu groups that are campaigning for issues such as cow worship in a multi-faith country.
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| Woman tries to pet Omaha zoo tiger, gets bitten | | | A woman who broke into an Omaha zoo was bitten by a tiger when she tried to pet it in its cage, police said. The woman, Jacqueline Eide, 33, was hospitalized at Creighton University Medical Center after being bitten on the left hand, police said in a statement on Sunday. Eide entered the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium after it was closed and reached into a tiger's cage to pet it. |
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