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| Australian police say operation underway at Sydney Opera House | | Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:27 AM | |
|  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A police operation was underway at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday, police said, with at least one ferry leaving the area cancelled and media reporting that people were being cleared away from the site. A police spokeswoman said an operation was going on but could not provide any details. The Twitter account of the city's ferry service said one ferry service had been cancelled due to the operation.
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| China's Xinjiang to draft rules against extremism - China Daily | | Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:09 AM | |
| | Legislators in China's far-western region of Xinjiang will start drafting regulations this year against religious extremism, which they blame for violent attacks in the country in recent years, the China Daily reported on Thursday. Xinjiang's legislature will also draft local implementation guidelines for a new counterterrorism law, which the National People's Congress passed in December, the newspaper said. "Drafting local regulations on anti-terrorism and eliminating religious extremism are the main focus of this year's legislative work, which will provide solid legal support for Xinjiang to combat terrorism and religious extremism," Nayim Yassen, director of the Standing Committee of Xinjiang's regional People's Congress, was quoted as saying. |
| Man held on U.S. terror charges targeted Texas malls - newspaper | | Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:03 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A Palestinian born in Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee was an Islamic State sympathizer planning to set off bombs at two Houston malls, a federal investigator was quoted as telling a U.S. court on Wednesday. U.S. investigators began looking into Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardan in 2014 and found that he was buying components on eBay to detonate homemade bombs, the Houston Chronicle quoted Herman Wittliff, a Department of Homeland Security special agent, testifying at a federal court hearing. Al-Hardan, 24, pleaded not guilty at the court in Houston to charges he supplied support to Islamic State and lied to U.S. officials, it reported. |
| Smitten with actress, Mexico's 'Chapo' tripped up by flirting | | Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:59 AM | |
|  By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Details of flirtatious phone messaging chats between Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and actress Kate del Castillo have gripped Mexico, and an official said his "obsession" with her led him to lower his guard and be caught. Guzman, 57, was arrested in the northern city of Los Mochis on Friday, six months after a dramatic second jailbreak through a tunnel in his cell. Mexican authorities said they intercepted a series of instant message conversations in which del Castillo, 43, brokered a secret meeting between Guzman, herself and Hollywood star Sean Penn in October, helping them trace the kingpin.
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| Briton goes on trial in France for trying to smuggle Afghan child into UK | | Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:04 AM | |
|  By Ingrid Melander and Pauline Mevel BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - Former soldier Rob Lawrie goes on trial in France on Thursday for trying to smuggle a four-year-old Afghan girl into Britain at her father's request. Lawrie went to help migrants in the squalid "jungle" camp in Calais, northern France, where he met Bahar Ahmadi, known as Bru, and her father, who asked Lawrie to take the girl to Britain. "She's a special little girl," he told Reuters in Britain while awaiting trial.
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| FBI says probing Philadelphia police shooting as terrorist attack | |  (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the recent shooting of a Philadelphia police officer as a terrorist attack, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday, a Pennsylvania newspaper reported. Comey's comments at a Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in Pittsburgh and reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, were confirmed to Reuters by an FBI spokesman. FBI investigators were seeking to find out if suspected gunman Edward Archer, 30, was in touch with or inspired by anyone linked to Islamic State, the report said.
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| South Korea calls for 'bone-numbing' sanctions on North for nuclear test | |  By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea warned North Korea on Wednesday that the United States and its allies were working on sanctions to inflict "bone-numbing pain" after its latest nuclear test, and urged China to do its part to rein in its isolated neighbour. With tension high on the border after the North's fourth nuclear test on Wednesday last week, South Korean forces fired shots towards what Yonhap News Agency said was a suspected North Korean drone.
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| Niger says four have confessed to planning foiled coup | | | By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY (Reuters) - Four people arrested for ties to an attempted coup in Niger in December have confessed to the plot and asked for clemency, the defence minister said on Wednesday. At least 13 people, including a civilian, had been arrested, Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidio said. Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou said on national television on Dec. 17 that the coup had been foiled. |
| Ex-football boss in Americas pleads not guilty to U.S. bribery charges | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former high-ranking football official in the Americas pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme at the heart of a U.S. investigation into corruption in the sport's world governing body. Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, a former FIFA vice president who also led the North and Central America and Caribbean confederation, CONCACAF, entered his plea in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, after being extradited from Switzerland. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Levy began considering bail for Hawit at the court hearing and will resume on Thursday. |
| Brazil police accuse Samarco, Vale and executives in dam burst - report | |  Brazil's federal police informed mining company Samarco Mineração S.A. that some of its executives are accused of crimes relating to a dam burst in November that killed 17 people, a company representative said on Wednesday. Brazilian news website G1 said miner Vale SA, which co-owns Samarco along with BHP Billiton , Samarco Chief Executive Ricardo Vescovi, and a consulting firm that had audited the broken dam were also accused of unspecified crimes.
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| Australia knocks back Washington over more help against Islamic State | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday said that it had denied a request from the United States for a greater military commitment against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq made in the wake of the November attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its battle against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, has been one of the largest contributors to the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the group.
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| U.S. to expand refugee programme for Central Americans fleeing violence | |  By Julia Edwards and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will expand its programme helping the thousands of people fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. The announcement follows backlash from Democrats in the U.S. Congress who called on the Obama administration to halt its deportations of families who fled the three crime-infested Central American countries and entered the United States without documentation. The expanded Refugee Admissions Program would offer "a safe and legal alternative to the dangerous journey many are currently tempted to begin, making them easy prey for human smugglers who have no interest but their own profits," Kerry said in a speech at the National Defense University.
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| Interview: Hollywood's Sean Penn lied about 'Chapo' trafficking claim - lawyer | |  By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Sean Penn lied when he reported that Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told him he is the world's foremost drugs trafficker, and he should be called to testify, one of Guzman's lawyers said on Wednesday. Penn published an article in Rolling Stone magazine on Saturday in which he quotes Guzman boasting about his drug shipments and laundering money through major Mexican and foreign companies. "He (Guzman) could not have made these claims... Mr Guzman is a very serious man, very intelligent," Badillo said.
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| Niger presidential candidate declares himself political prisoner | | | Hama Amadou, a major opposition figure in Niger and a presidential candidate, has declared himself a political prisoner, his lawyer said on Wednesday, meaning he is now likely to spend time leading up to the February polls in jail. Amadou was one of 15 candidates approved by the constitutional court to stand in presidential elections. "Our client considers this no longer to be a judicial affair, but a political affair." The leaders of Amadou's Moden political party have also jailed, Oumarou said. |
| Trump looms behind both Obama and Haley speeches | |  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump was not in the room during U.S. President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner was a looming presence nonetheless. Both Obama's speech on Tuesday and, for that matter, the Republican response by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, took pains to rebuke Trump, the real estate billionaire whose red-hot rhetoric has endeared him to some and dismayed others in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election. Obama and Haley, although from different parties, offered a defence of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.
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