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| IAAF's Davies steps aside to allow ethics investigation | |  The chief of staff of the IAAF, world athletics' governing body, said on Tuesday he would step aside from his role to allow an ethics committee to investigate emails he sent regarding Russian doping ahead of the 2013 world championships in Moscow. On Monday, a leaked email sent by the official, Nick Davies, to Papa Massata Diack, the son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack and a former IAAF marketing consultant, discussed a "special dossier" that could be prepared to limit the impact of a series of positive tests by Russian athletes.
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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. |
| Oregon woman charged with murder after Las Vegas sidewalk crash | | | An Oregon woman was charged on Tuesday with murder in connection with an incident on the Las Vegas Strip where authorities say she drove into pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one woman and injuring at least 35 others. Lakeisha Holloway, 24, who had a toddler in the car at the time of the incident, also was charged with leaving the scene of a collision and child abuse or neglect. |
| 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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| Nepal's Madhesis decide to press on with protests on India border | |  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Ethnic Madhesis in Nepal have vowed to continue with protests at border crossings with India after rejecting a government plan which they said did not meet their call for a redrawing of internal boundaries or offer adequate national representation. The landlocked Himalayan nation, which serves as a natural buffer between China and India, adopted its first post-monarchy constitution in September hoping this would usher in peace and stability after years of conflict. About 50 people have been killed in police shooting and arson attacks by protesters who are demanding that the entire southern plains region, Nepal's breadbasket and business hub, not be split into more than two provinces as the government plan envisages.
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| Armed Russian police raid offices of Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky | |  By Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armed Russian police on Tuesday raided the offices of a pro-democracy movement founded by outspoken Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a move they said was part of a criminal investigation into the former tycoon and his associates. Khodorkovsky, whom police accused this month of organising a contract killing in 1998, interpreted the latest pressure on him as payback for his criticism of President Vladimir Putin. "Searches at the Open Russia (movement) after my meeting with journalists," the 52-year-old wrote on his official Twitter feed.
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| India lowers crime trial age to 16 after Delhi gang rape furore | |  By Rupam Jain Nair NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16, spurred into action by an uproar over the release of a minor convicted in a 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Tuesday the legislation aimed to strike a balance between the rights of a child and the need to deter heinous juvenile crimes, especially against women. "Juvenile crime is the fastest rising segment in the country and the bill will help to stop (this)," she said.
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| Apple hits out at British plans to extend online surveillance | |  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Apple has warned that a British plan to give intelligence agencies extra online surveillance powers could weaken the security of personal data for millions of people and paralyse the tech sector. Critics however say the Investigatory Powers Bill gives British spies authority beyond those available in other Western countries, including the United States, and that it constitutes an assault on personal freedom. Apple submitted its response to a British parliamentary committee that is scrutinising the new bill in the latest clash between Western governments seeking to monitor the threat from Islamist militants and online companies working to maintain security.
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| Deutsche Bank's suspicious Russian trades count rises to $10 bln - source | |  By Arno Schuetze and Kathrin Jones FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank may have been used by some of its Russian clients as a hub for money laundering to a greater extent than previously assumed, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The "mirror trades" may have allowed Russian customers to move money from one country to another without alerting the authorities, potentially allowing them to breach the sanctions against Russia after its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Deutsche Bank, which declined to comment on the size of the trades, said it is investigating certain equity trades in Moscow and London, adding the total volume of the transactions under review is "significant".
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