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| Thai court rejects petition to free detained critic, activist says | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Tuesday rejected a petition to free a critic of Thailand's junta who was arrested in hospital, a leader of an anti-government activist group said. Since then, it has pursued perceived critics of the monarchy and stifled freedom of expression, detaining activists, journalists and opposition politicians at military camps for attitude adjustment sessions. Sirawit Serithiwat, the activist, said the Ratchada Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected a petition he filed for the release of Thanet Anantawong, 25. |
| Blatter reasserts innocence ahead of FIFA ethics hearing | |  Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter again proclaimed his innocence in a corruption scandal gripping the world soccer body as he prepares to testify this week before the group's ethics panel. "I am suspended but not isolated and not at all mute." FIFA ethics investigators called in November for sanctions against Blatter and European (UEFA) soccer chief Michel Platini, both of whom were suspended from their posts for 90 days on Oct. 8 pending a full investigation. FIFA's ethics panel is set to rule on the matter next week.
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| Climate deal typo hiccup solved "in a small room," France says | |  A last minute dispute over an apparent typing error in last weekend's global climate deal in Paris was solved "in a small room" and thanks to trust established during the talks, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday. After two weeks of intense negotiations, the deal was almost derailed in the final hours when the more legally binding word 'Shall' appeared in one of the articles in the place of 'Should.' The last-minute change in text article 4.4 of the COP 21 agreement aimed at limiting global warming by capping CO2 emissions said that developed nations 'shall' have 'economy-wide absolute emissions reduction targets', instead of 'should' as written in previous drafts.
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| Putin signs law allowing Russia to overturn rulings of international rights courts | |  President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts. The law, published on Tuesday on the government website, enables the Russian court to overturn decisions of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) if it deems them unconstitutional. Human Rights Watch has said the law is designed to thwart the ability of victims of human rights violations in Russia to find justice through international bodies.
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| Vatican must step up prosecutions of financial crimes - watchdog | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican should be much more aggressive in dealing with people suspected of financial crimes such as money laundering and step up prosecutions and indictments, a European finance watchdog agency said on Tuesday. Moneyval, the monitoring body of the Council of Europe, said that while the Vatican has made great strides in cleaning up its scandal-plagued bank and other financial departments, it was still excessively timid on the judicial front. There was no immediate response from the Vatican but Pope Francis has made cleaning up finances a priority and Holy See staff worked with the Moneyval evaluators.
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| One pct of China billionaires jailed for bribery, other crimes - report | |  By Shu Zhang and Matthew Miller BEIJING (Reuters) - Just over one percent of Chinese billionaires identified by the Hurun Report as the country's richest over the past 17 years have been jailed, charged or even executed mainly for bribery, embezzlement or economy-related crimes, the publication said. On its website, the Hurun Report said 35 of the more than 3,000 billionaires that have featured on its annual Hurun Rich List, dubbed by local media as a "slaughter list" since it was launched in 1999, have run into trouble with the law. Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf told Reuters the number of billionaire offenders was lower than the number of government officials and executives at state-owned enterprises who have been arrested or are under investigation for corruption.
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| Exclusive: Obama expected to move on Taiwan arms sales before year-end | |  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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| Knocking down Detroit to revive it comes at a price | |  By Dave McKinney DETROIT (Reuters) - Nowhere in America bulldozes derelict homes with Detroit's ferocity, as the city that has become a byword for U.S. urban decay seeks to engineer a recovery by tearing itself down. The number of fires - often caused by arson attacks on abandoned homes - dropped in October from a year ago, and deeply depressed property values have ticked higher in areas close to demolitions. Duggan, whose program has razed more than 7,000 homes in two years, denies any wrongdoing.
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