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| Insight - India savers in dark over Sahara's latest shadow banking schemes | | Wednesday, December 23, 2015 12:22 AM | |
|  By Sumeet Chatterjee PATNA, India (Reuters) - In 2004, Khitish Kumar Pandey took 10,000 rupees ($150) out of his pension and put it into a savings plan run by India's embattled Sahara conglomerate. The Sahara agent told him his money would triple in 10 years. Sahara India Pariwar (family) had become one of India's most successful companies over the past three decades with this kind of financial alchemy, turning tiny deposits into dreams for small farmers, rickshaw pullers and food vendors with little financial knowledge.
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| 'Star Wars' fan arrested over threat to student who revealed plot - prosecutor | | Wednesday, December 23, 2015 12:18 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A Montana man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to shoot a student for divulging a plot line from the newly released Star Wars epic, court documents showed on Tuesday. Police say Arthur Roy, of Helena, got "angry" with a student he had befriended on Facebook after the boy gave up a subplot to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" during an online conversation last week. During the online fight that ensued, Roy is alleged to have posted a photo of himself in which he appears to brandish a gun, which he indicates is a Colt 1911 with a "hair trigger," according to a probable cause affidavit. |
| Polish parliament passes contentious amendment to top court law | |  By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's lower chamber of parliament passed a constitutional court law amendment on Tuesday that the supreme court and activists said would undermine the separation of power and paralyse the constitutional court. The vote was a twist in a constitutional crisis that Poland entered after lawmakers from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party appointed five judges to the 15-member constitutional court, also called the constitutional tribunal, in a move the opposition said was illegal. The amendment approved by the PiS-controlled lower chamber would require the 15-member constitutional court to pass most of its rulings with two-thirds of votes with at least 13 judges present.
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| After Paris accord, most U.S. Republicans back action on climate | |  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of U.S. Republicans who had heard of the international climate deal in Paris said they support working with other countries to curb global warming and were willing to take steps to do so, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday. The desire for action is notable for an issue that has barely made a ripple on the campaign trail among 2016 Republican presidential candidates. Few of the Republican White House contenders have said much at all about the United Nations summit in Paris this month, though Democratic candidates, such as Hillary Clinton, have welcomed it.
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| Driver who plowed into Las Vegas crowd charged with murder | | | By Alexia Shurmur LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An Oregon woman accused of plowing her car into a crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing one person and injuring dozens of others, was charged with murder on Tuesday as investigators sought a reason for her actions. Lakeisha N. Holloway, 24, who was arrested after the incident on Sunday, has been charged with murder with a deadly weapon in the death of a 32-year-old Arizona woman. "I am confident that, as the investigation unfolds, we will be filing many more charges against Ms. Holloway," he said. |
| French minister questions ban on would-be FIFA chief Platini | |  France's sports minister questioned the legitimacy of FIFA's Ethics Committee on Tuesday after it imposed an eight-year ban that appears to have ended his compatriot Michel Platini's chances of becoming head of the world football body. FIFA's outgoing president, Sepp Blatter, and Platini, head of the European football body UEFA, were both banned on Monday over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) made to Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011 for work done a decade earlier. The committee said the payment, made at a time when Blatter was seeking re-election, lacked transparency and presented conflicts of interest, though both men denied wrongdoing.
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| Brazil lawmaker's report could sink impeachment push | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A key member of Brazil's Congressional budget committee has recommended the approval of the 2014 accounts of President Dilma Rousseff's government, which could undermine her opponents' case for impeaching her. Senator Acir Gurgacz, who is charged with reporting to the committee on a ruling by Brazil's Federal Audit Court that the Rousseff administration broke the law by disguising spending last year, said he recommends approving the 2014 accounts. Rousseff's opponents are seeking to impeach her alleging that she broke Brazil's budget law by resorting to accounting tricks to hide greater public spending aimed at boosting the economy during her re-election campaign last year.
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| Pennsylvania teen indicted for aiding Islamic State -Justice Dept | | | A Pennsylvania teenager was indicted on Tuesday after investigators said he tried to help individuals travel to the Middle East to join Islamic State, the U.S. Justice Department said. Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 19, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the militant group, the Justice Department said in a statement. When Aziz was arrested on Thursday, prosecutors said he had used at least 57 Twitter accounts to advocate violence against Americans, disseminate Islamic State propaganda and post the names of U.S. military members that he said should be targeted. |
| IAAF's Davies steps aside to allow ethics investigation | |  By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - Nick Davies, a leading official at the world athletics federation (IAAF), said on Tuesday he would step aside while an ethics committee investigated emails he had sent regarding Russian doping ahead of the 2013 world championships in Moscow. On Monday, the French newspaper Le Monde published an email sent by the Briton to Papa Massata Diack, a former IAAF marketing consultant and the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack, that discussed developing a media strategy to limit the news impact of a series of positive tests by Russian athletes. Davies was the IAAF's director of communications at the time, but is now director of IAAF President Sebastian Coe's office.
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| California man shot in back by police wins $11.3 million jury award | | | By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man who was shot in the back by a police officer and left paralysed has been awarded $11.3 million by a federal jury in California. Hung Lam, a Vietnamese national, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of San Jose, its police chief and the officer who shot him on Jan. 3, 2014. The award is nearly double the $5.9 million settlement for the family of Eric Garner, whose death after a police chokehold in July 2014 triggered outrage around the United States. |
| Croatia may get PM-designate on Wednesday - president | | | By Igor Ilic ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia's president said on Tuesday she would nominate a prime minister-designate on Wednesday or call new elections, paving the way for the main opposition conservatives to form a cabinet together with a small reformist party. Croatia, the newest of the European Union's 28 members, is under EU pressure to enact economic reforms to spur investment and any delays caused by political deadlock would risk further crippling downgrades in its credit rating. President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said the conservative HDZ party and Most had now shown they had support of 78 deputies in the 151-seat parliament, just over the minimum required for a governing majority. |
| Prominent China rights lawyer convicted but avoids jail | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - A court convicted one of China's most prominent rights lawyers on Tuesday of "inciting ethnic hatred" with posts criticising the government, handing down a suspended sentence that means he avoids jail but will not practise law again. Activists said the three-year suspended sentence for Pu Zhiqiang would serve as a strong reminder to other rights lawyers that the Communist Party, currently engaged in a severe clampdown on dissent, would brook no challenge to its rule. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court said Pu was being punished on the charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", state television CCTV said on its microblog.
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| U.S. soldier Bergdahl arraigned on military charges, mulls options | |  By Colleen Jenkins FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, charged with deserting his combat outpost in Afghanistan before being captured by the Taliban in 2009, sought time on Tuesday to decide whether a military judge or jury of soldiers will decide his legal fate. Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner before gaining his release in a prisoner swap in 2014, faces a court-martial after being charged earlier this year with desertion and endangering U.S. troops. Republicans criticized the Obama administration for the deal that freed him in a prisoner swap with the Taliban.
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| Man who lent gun to Boston Marathon bombers to be freed | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who lent the convicted Boston Marathon bomber the gun used to kill a police officer three days after the deadly 2013 attack was set to be released from prison after a judge sentenced him to time served on Tuesday for drug and firearms charges. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf sentenced Stephen Silva, who was arrested in July 2014, to time served plus three years' supervised release for the charges that he pleaded guilty to last year. Silva was not accused of playing any role in the April 15, 2013, bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, which killed three people and injured 264, but admitted having possessed a handgun with its serial number filed off. |
| U.N. blames Saudi-led coalition for most attacks on Yemeni civilians | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a Saudi-led coalition's military campaign in Yemen appeared to be responsible for a "disproportionate amount" of attacks on civilian areas. Speaking at the council's first public meeting on Yemen since the Saudi-led bombing campaign began nine months ago, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said he had "observed with extreme concern" heavy shelling from the ground and air in civilian areas of Yemen including the destruction of hospitals and schools.
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| Iraqi troops storm into centre of Islamic State-held Ramadi | | | By Ahmed Rasheed and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's armed forces stormed the centre of Ramadi on Tuesday, a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units said, in a drive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in a city they captured in May. The operation to recapture Ramadi, a Sunni Muslim city on the river Euphrates some 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, began in early November after a months-long effort to cut off supply lines to the city, whose fall to Islamic State was a major defeat for Iraq's weak central government. ... |
| New boss in dash for simplicity at bloated Rolls-Royce | |  By Sarah Young and Paul Sandle FILTON, England (Reuters) - Twelve months and 80 signatures: that is what it recently took Rolls-Royce to approve a small change requested by a supplier, symptomatic of a business that had become as complex as the engines it makes to power the world's biggest jets. New chief executive Warren East says the number of sign-offs should be closer to 15, and it's an example of the complexity he says has jeopardised the financial health of Britain's engineering flagship, a rival to General Electric in making the engines of the world's largest passenger planes. At Rolls-Royce's factory in Filton, near Bristol, fitters make and maintain engines to power Tornado and Typhoon fighters in buildings that look more like Internet-era warehouses than the oily workshops of the past.
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| FIFA ethics committee unlikely to stop at Blatter, Platini | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Largely anonymous, lacking police powers and with its independence sometimes questioned, FIFA's ethics committee has often struggled to be taken seriously in the fight against corruption in soccer's world body. While U.S. and Swiss authorities have grabbed the headlines with dawn raids on a luxury Zurich hotel and the indictment of 27 soccer officials, FIFA's own watchdog has had to fend off criticism that it is a weak lame duck. Blatter and Platini were the biggest scalps so far for the watchdog that has also imposed life bans to a number of former FIFA executive committee members including Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar, Jack Warner from Trinidad and Tobago and Chuck Blazer from the United States for corruption.
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