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| Exclusive: Obama expected to move on Taiwan arms sales before year-end | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:36 AM | |
|  By Patricia Zengerle and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is expected as soon as this week to authorize the sale of two guided missile frigates to Taiwan, U.S. congressional sources said on Monday, in spite of China's opposition to the deal. The sale would mark the first time in four years that the United States has shipped arms to Taiwan, the longest gap in such arms sales in nearly four decades. It comes a year after Congress passed the Naval Transfer Act authorizing the sale of up to four Perry-class frigates to Taiwan in December 2014.
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| U.S. soldier Bergdahl may face life sentence in court-martial over desertion | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:21 AM | |
|  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a Taliban prisoner for five years, will face court-martial with a potential life sentence, the Army said on Monday. In ordering the court martial on Monday, Army General Robert Abrams did not follow the recommendation of a preliminary hearing which, according to Bergdahl's lawyer, called for Bergdahl to face a proceeding that could impose a potential maximum penalty of a year in confinement. Bergdahl's lawyer, Eugene Fidell, said the defence team "had hoped the case would not go in this direction." He also urged Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor," to "cease his prejudicial months-long campaign of defamation against our client." In a later interview on Monday, Fidell also criticized members of Congress for publicly saying they were closely monitoring the outcome of the case.
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| Thai activists urge release of man detained over Facebook post | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:17 AM | |
| | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai activists demanded on Monday the release of a man arrested for sharing an infographic on Facebook detailing alleged graft in an army-built park, saying plainclothes security officers had taken him by force. Since taking power in a military coup in May 2014, Thailand's ruling junta has issued directives that have largely stifled dissent, including barring political discussions and debate. "Thailand's junta has reached a new level of ruthlessness by snatching an activist from his hospital bed, putting him in military detention, and depriving him of needed medical treatment," Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. |
| Samsung appeals Apple patent 'windfall' ruling to U.S. Supreme Court | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:05 AM | |
|  By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - Samsung took to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a last-ditch effort to pare back the more than $548 million in damages it must pay Apple for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone. Samsung's petition must first be accepted for review by the Supreme Court. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd paid Apple Inc $548.2 million on Monday, fulfilling part of its liability stemming from a 2012 verdict for infringing Apple's patents and copying the iPhone's look.
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| California shooter messaged Facebook friends about support for jihad - LA Times | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:24 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - One of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging her support for Islamic jihad and saying she hoped to join the fight one day, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. The messages were posted before Malik, 29, entered the United States on a K-1 fiancée visa in July 2014, the Times said, citing two top federal law enforcement officials. Malik's messages were recovered by FBI agents investigating whether she and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had been in direct contact with foreign militant organizations and were directed to carry out the Dec. 2 attack in which 14 people were killed, the Times reported.
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| Media mogul Redstone's ex-girlfriend alleges forgery in U.S. lawsuit | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:18 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - Sumner Redstone's former girlfriend, Manuela Herzer, filed a new lawsuit in California on Monday alleging that the 92-year-old media mogul's signature was forged on a document removing her as his health care agent. Redstone is the controlling shareholder of Viacom Inc and CBS Corp and Herzer's allegations, in lawsuits filed in the past few weeks, that he is no longer mentally competent to run the companies has concerned investors. Redstone had picked Herzer to make his healthcare decisions in case he was not able to but removed her as his health care agent on Oct. 16.
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| Planned Parenthood gets restraining order in Ohio lawsuit over fetal remains | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:10 AM | |
|  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday temporarily blocked Ohio from initiating legal action against three Planned Parenthood facilities the state's attorney general accused last week of violating rules for disposal of fetal remains. Planned Parenthood, which denied violating any state rules, sued Ohio in U.S. District Court, saying state Attorney General Mike DeWine had singled out the organisation over all other healthcare providers in violation of its rights to due process and equal protection under the U.S. Constitution. DeWine said on Friday he would seek injunctions against Planned Parenthood facilities in Cincinnati, Columbus and Bedford Heights, seeking to stop the current method of disposal of fetal remains.
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| Brazil police say gang arranged false documents for Syrians -Globo | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:58 AM | |
| | Police in Rio de Janeiro have broken up a ring that arranged fake Brazilian citizenship for dozens of Syrian nationals, TV Globo's Jornal Nacional newscast reported, raising security concerns following militant attacks in the United States and Europe and before the Rio Olympics in August. Police have identified 72 Syrian nationals involved in the scheme, which arranged false Brazilian birth certificates for Syrian immigrants, the report said on Monday. Among the false birth certificates identified, 20 were used to obtain Brazilian passports, Jornal Nacional reported. |
| FBI opens criminal probe into report that Seattle police beat student | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:34 AM | |
| | By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - The FBI has launched a criminal civil-rights probe into a 2012 incident in which a university student claims police beat him and who last month received a $100,000 settlement from the city of Seattle. The student, David Pontecorvo, was filming the police making an arrest as they responded to a noise complaint at his house party. The federal probe also comes as the Seattle Police Department undergoes a number of court-ordered reforms stemming from a 2012 consent decree between the city and the U.S. Justice Department to curb a pattern of excessive force and biased policing. |
| Nigeria army raids Shi'ite sect; hospital says at least 60 killed | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:19 AM | |
| | By Garba Muhammad ZARIA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 60 people were killed this weekend when the Nigerian army raided a minority Shi'ite sect and arrested its leader in the northern city of Zaria, the director of a local hospital said on Monday. The army said the Islamic Movement in Nigeria was trying to assassinate the chief of army staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, when members of the sect blocked his convoy in Zaria on Saturday. On Sunday, the army raided several buildings connected to the sect and the home of its leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky. |
| Former U.S. treasure hunter faces sentencing, contempt hearing | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:13 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A former treasure hunter and fugitive who was captured after two years eluding authorities has refused to answer questions about missing coins and could be found in further contempt on Tuesday at his sentencing, a federal judge in Ohio said on Monday. Thomas "Tommy" G. Thompson, 63, was captured in Florida in January with his girlfriend, Alison Antekeier, with hundreds of thousands of dollars they had received for loot recovered from a shipwreck that was due his crew and investors, prosecutors said. Both pleaded guilty to criminal contempt and agreed to forfeit the $425,380 in cash authorities seized from them when they were captured. |
| Cameron's reforms will not fundamentally change UK-EU relationship - lawmakers | | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:07 AM | |
|  By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron's proposed European Union reforms would not fundamentally change Britain's relationship with the bloc and there is no certainty anything promised would actually be delivered, a committee of lawmakers said on Tuesday. Last month, Cameron set out in a letter to Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, the four key areas where he wants to see changes ahead of a membership referendum he has promised to hold in Britain by the end of 2017.
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| Ex-Costa Rica chief agrees to extradition to U.S. on bribery charges | |  A former Costa Rican football chief has agreed to stop fighting extradition from Switzerland to the United States to face charges that he accepted bribes in exchange for media and marketing contracts, his U.S. lawyers said on Monday. Eduardo Li, former president of the Costa Rican football federation, was one of seven football officials arrested in a dawn raid on a luxury Zurich hotel in May. He had been about to join the executive committee of Zurich-based FIFA, world football's governing body. "Mr. Li has decided to deal with the charges in a direct manner rather than through the extradition process," said Samuel Rosenthal, one of Li's lawyers.
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| U.S. presidential hopeful Clinton calls for easier naturalization | |  Clinton's remarks, in which she also repeated calls for a pathway to citizenship, ending family detention and closing private detention centres, underscore efforts within the Democratic Party and the presidential race to court Latino voters as that population grows briskly. "I don't want anyone who could be a citizen to miss out on that opportunity," Clinton said in New York at a conference on integrating immigrants into the United States. Clinton said she would work to expand fee waivers for people looking to naturalize and become U.S. citizens, as well as increasing access to language programs to improve English language proficiency.
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| U.S. Justice Department reviews black teen's shooting by Memphis police | | | (Reuters) - The fatal shooting in July of an unarmed black teenager by a white Memphis police officer is being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the city's federal prosecutor said on Monday, a month after a grand jury decided not to charge the officer. Several inquiries have been conducted into the shooting of Darrius Stewart, 19, by Officer Connor Schilling, one of several deaths involving officers around the United States that have raised concerns about excessive use of force by police, especially against minorities. "The DOJ has been conducting an independent, comprehensive, and careful review of the evidence collected related to the shooting of Mr. Stewart," U.S. Attorney Edward Stanton III of Memphis told a news conference. |
| Colorado movie gunman Holmes moved to specialised prison | |  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado cinema massacre gunman James Holmes was moved on Monday to a prison that specializes in holding convicts with mental-health conditions, and which will allow him to have more contact with other inmates, a prisons spokeswoman said. Holmes was moved from a transitional lockup to the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo one day after his 28th birthday, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections. "He is now in more of a general population setting," Jacobson said. "It's a normal progression move." The prison, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver, houses about 250 inmates, but not all the convicts have mental-health issues, Jacobson said.
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| Jury starts deliberations over Baltimore officer charged in man's death | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore jury on Monday began weighing the fate of a police officer charged in the death of a black detainee that triggered rioting and intensified a U.S. debate on police tactics. The seven-woman, five-man jury started deliberations in the case of Officer William Porter, 26, after almost two weeks of testimony in Baltimore City Circuit Court. About two hours after starting deliberations, jurors sent Judge Barry Williams notes asking for transcripts of radio traffic on April 12, the day Gray was arrested, and of Porter's statement to investigators on April 17.
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| New York lawyer convicted of Maxim magazine deal fraud | |  By Nate Raymond and Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer was found guilty on Monday of engaging in a fraud in which a con man impersonated his successful father in order to raise money to buy Maxim magazine. Harvey Newkirk, 39, was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan on one count of wire fraud stemming from his involvement in helping convicted felon Calvin Darden Jr secure financing for the failed $31 million deal. To close that deal, prosecutors said Darden impersonated his father, Calvin Darden Sr, a former senior executive at United Parcel Service Inc, who lenders were falsely told was putting up collateral for the loans.
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| Trial of China rights lawyer lasts three hours, police block court access | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - The trial of one of China's most high profile human rights lawyers on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble lasted just three hours on Monday, with police blocking diplomats, foreign reporters and protesters from the court. Pu Zhiqiang, who has spent nearly 19 months in detention, faces up to eight years in prison if convicted, according to one of his lawyers, Shang Baojun. As many as 11 diplomats from countries including the United States, Germany and France congregated near the Beijing courthouse seeking to observe the trial.
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