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| Barcelona's Neymar to appear in court as defendant in fraud case | |  Barcelona forward Neymar has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court next month as one of the defendants in a fraud case brought by Brazilian investment fund DIS. The firm alleges it was the victim when Barca signed the player, third in the latest world football player of the year poll, from Brazilian club Santos. A judge in Madrid, acting on a request from the state prosecutor, ordered Neymar, his parents, former Barca president Sandro Rosell, incumbent Josep Maria Bartomeu and two former Santos officials to present themselves on Feb. 1 and 2.
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| No signs Germans were target of Istanbul attack - minister | |  Germany's interior minister said on a visit to Istanbul that there were no indications that Germans had been deliberately targeted in Tuesday's suicide bomb attack in the city. "Based on what we know so far from the investigation, there are no indications that the attack was explicitly targeting Germans," Thomas de Maiziere said at a news conference with his Turkish counterpart. De Maiziere added that he saw no reason for people to change plans to travel to Turkey following the attack, which killed 10 tourists, including nine Germans.
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| China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion | |  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have formally arrested China's most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. The lawyer, Wang Yu, was taken into custody last July and accused the next month of inciting subversion and "causing a disturbance". On Wednesday, Wang's mother received a notice, dated Monday, from police in the northern city of Tianjin, said Wang's lawyer, Li Yuhan.
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| Supreme Court allows Italy marine to delay return for murder trial | |  The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed one of two Italian marines facing murder charges over the deaths of two Indian fishermen to stay in his home country until April 30 following heart surgery. The decision defuses a possible judicial standoff after an Italian senator said the day before that Massimiliano Latorre would not return to face trial as he had been due to by this Friday, having earlier been allowed home for medical treatment. "We allow him to stay in Italy until April 30 on health grounds," a three-judge bench of India's highest court, headed by Justice Anil R. Dave, said in its order.
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| Suicide bomber kills at least 15 outside Pakistan polio centre | |  Two militant groups - the Pakistani Taliban and Jundullah, which has links with the Taliban and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State - separately claimed responsibility for the attack. "It was a suicide blast, we have gathered evidence from the scene," Ahsan Mehboob, the provincial police chief told Reuters. "The police team had arrived to escort teams for the polio campaign." Ahmed Marwat, who identified himself as a commander and spokesman for Jundullah, said his group was responsible.
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| Hackers bring down Thai websites over British murders verdict | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - International hacking movement Anonymous said it attacked hundreds of Thai government websites on Wednesday over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists. A court sentenced Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 22, to death on Dec. 24 after finding them guilty of murdering tourists Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in 2014. Witheridge had been raped and bludgeoned to death, according to police, and Miller suffered severe head injuries and was left to drown in the surf.
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| FIFA fires Secretary General Valcke | |  FIFA said on Wednesday it had fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales, one of many scandals surrounding soccer's governing body. "The FIFA Emergency Committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA Secretary General with immediate effect," Zurich-based FIFA said in a statement without giving a reason for the dismissal. Valcke was once one of the most powerful men in FIFA and responsible for ensuring that preparations for the last two World Cups, in South Africa and Brazil, were completed in time.
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| South Korea calls for painful sanctions response to North's nuclear test | |  By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park 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 called on China to do its part to rein in its isolated neighbour. With tension high on the border between North and South Korea after the North's fourth nuclear test on Wednesday last week, South Korean forces fired shots towards a flying object that Yonhap News Agency said was a suspected North Korean drone.
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| Scotland's Sturgeon says Britain could be heading for EU exit - report | |  British voters may opt to leave the European Union if Prime Minister David Cameron holds a referendum on membership as early as June, Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon has said, The Scotsman newspaper reported on Wednesday. Cameron is pushing for a deal on new membership terms from other EU leaders before a referendum which he could call this summer, though opinion polls have shown that opposition to the European Union is growing in Britain. Sturgeon was quoted by The Scotsman newspaper as saying that if the referendum was called in June there might be too little time to convince voters in the rest of Britain that EU membership was the right choice.
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| German minister says deportations will rise after Cologne attacks | |  German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday more foreign criminals would be expelled once new restrictions are rolled out in the wake of sexual attacks on women blamed on migrants in Cologne. Maas and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere outlined plans on Tuesday to speed up the deportation of foreigners who commit physical and sexual assaults, resist police or damage property - crimes which mostly carry probationary sentences but do not trigger expulsion under current law. "There will certainly be more deportation orders as a result of changes to the law because we are lowering the requirements for a deportation," Maas told German television channel ARD.
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| No concrete clues of "attack targets" in Germany after Istanbul bomb - minister | |  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday that the security situation in Germany had not changed after a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, mainly German tourists, in Istanbul on Tuesday. "We know Germany is also a target for terrorists and so a general danger certainly cannot be denied but at the moment there are no concrete indications of attack targets but the authorities are very, very alert," he told broadcaster ARD. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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| Behind both Obama and Haley speeches, Trump looms | |  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump was not in the room during President Barack Obama's final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner held the center of attention 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 mogul 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 defense on Tuesday of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.
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