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- Ex-pro wrestler Snuka pleads not guilty to murdering girlfriend in 1983
- FCC, Justice Department investigate covert Chinese radio network
- Porsche, more Audi models pulled into Volkswagen emissions scandal
- Canada's new PM to move quickly on pledges, faces refugee challenge
- Kuwait court sentences five to prison for militant funding
- Erdogan says world must respect Turkish election result
- Italian chief in hot water over discriminatory remarks
- 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
| Ex-pro wrestler Snuka pleads not guilty to murdering girlfriend in 1983 | | | By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, a professional wrestling star in the 1980s, pleaded not guilty on Monday to third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 1983 death of his girlfriend. The 72-year-old Snuka appeared before Judge Kelly Banach in Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas in Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to a spokeswoman for District Attorney James Martin. A native of Fiji who now lives in Camden County, New Jersey, Snuka was charged in September with killing his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, 23, of New York. |
| FCC, Justice Department investigate covert Chinese radio network | |  By John Shiffman and Koh Gui Qing WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government, officials said. Both investigations come in response to a Reuters report published on Monday that revealed the existence of the covert radio network, which broadcasts in more than a dozen American cities, including Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston and San Francisco.
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| Porsche, more Audi models pulled into Volkswagen emissions scandal | |  By Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen used devices to cheat air pollution tests in diesel luxury vehicles in model years 2014 through 2016, U.S. and California environmental regulators said on Monday, widening their investigation into the carmaker's emissions scandal. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it is now looking at 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines used mostly in larger, more expensive models like the Porsche Cayenne sport utility vehicle in addition to the smaller diesel engines whose test-deceiving software were initially targeted by the agency. The move pulls luxury brands Porsche and Audi deeper into the scandal that has already engulfed the corporate parent Volkswagen AG and its mass-market VW brand.
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| Canada's new PM to move quickly on pledges, faces refugee challenge | |  By Randall Palmer and David Ljunggren TORONTO (Reuters) - Incoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will move quickly to implement campaign promises such as overhauling security legislation, sources in his party say, but faces early challenges with pledges on Syrian refugees and climate change. A second party source, who also spoke off the record, said other measures the Liberals would quickly act on include reinstating a mandatory long-form national census that was cancelled by the Conservatives, and naming a commissioner to head an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. Trudeau pledged during the campaign that his first piece of legislation would enact tax cuts for income from C$44,700 ($34,140) to C$89,401 and tax hikes for incomes above C$200,000.
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| Kuwait court sentences five to prison for militant funding | | | A Kuwaiti court sentenced five people to 10-year prison terms on Monday on charges of collecting money for the Islamic State group, the court said, the first verdict of its kind in the conservative Gulf monarchy. The defendants admitting transferring $400,000 to Islamic State, senior Kuwaiti sources said. The United States and other Western countries have criticised Kuwait for what they have described as a permissive approach to militant financing. |
| Erdogan says world must respect Turkish election result | |  By Nick Tattersall and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - A jubilant President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday cast the return of Turkey to single-party rule as a vote for stability that the world must respect, but opponents fear it heralds growing authoritarianism and deeper polarisation. The AK Party, whose roots are in political Islam, defied pollsters and even the expectations of its own strategists in a general election on Sunday, consolidating support from the right to claw back a parliamentary majority that will bolster Erdogan's grip on power. The result handed the AKP 317 of the 550 seats in parliament, only 13 short of the number Erdogan would need for a national referendum on constitutional changes he wants to forge a presidential system granting him full executive powers.
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| Italian chief in hot water over discriminatory remarks | |  Italian soccer federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio is in trouble again, this time for apparently making disparaging comments about Jews and gays, which have led to fresh calls for his resignation. An Italian newspaper published extracts at the weekend of an interview Tavecchio had given to sports website SoccerLife.it last June, shortly before he became head of the FIGC. Tavecchio said the interview was taped without his knowledge and questioned whether the recording had been manipulated.
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| 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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