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| This is not a pipe - the surrealist Brexit summit | | Friday, February 19, 2016 1:06 AM | |
|  As Europe's leaders bargained through the night on a deal to help Prime Minister David Cameron keep Britain in the EU, a "war room" of lawyers wrangled over how to reconcile diametrically opposite meanings of the same three words - "ever closer union". It reminded one official of Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte's painting of a pipe, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is Not a Pipe), when is a thing real and when merely an image? Does the treaty vow commit governments to build a United States of Europe, as the Union's federalist host Belgium hopes and eurosceptic Britons fear?
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| Biden says Obama won't be able to pick the 'most liberal jurist' | | Friday, February 19, 2016 1:04 AM | |
|  By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cannot select the most liberal possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court and should seek a "consensus" pick who could attract Republican support, Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday. A fierce political fight is brewing as the Democratic president prepares to name a successor to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday. Obama's nominee could change the court's balance of power.
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| U.S. Vice President Biden says 'no desire' to be on Supreme Court - MSNBC | | Friday, February 19, 2016 1:02 AM | |
|  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he will be "deeply involved" in advising President Barack Obama on picking a candidate for the Supreme Court but said he had "no desire" himself to be named to the nation's highest court. Obama is preparing to name a successor to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday. Biden, who was a long-time chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an interview that Obama has asked for his advice on who to choose, and believes the president will choose a "consensus candidate." "I haven't even had a chance to sit down with him yet to talk about the potential candidates," Biden told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
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| Colombia stops visits by FARC leaders aimed at briefing fighters on peace talks | | Friday, February 19, 2016 12:51 AM | |
| | Colombia's government on Thursday suspended further visits to the country by Marxist FARC negotiators, saying they violated the terms under which they were allowed to return from Havana to explain agreements reached at peace talks to their fighters. Three members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's, or FARC, negotiating team had been given permission to travel from Cuba, where talks have been held since late 2012, to a rural area in northern La Guajira province to provide details of accords. Chief government negotiator Humberto de la Calle said President Juan Manuel Santos had suspended any further visits and asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to help the FARC representatives return to Cuba immediately. |
| Key U.S. lawmaker suggests openness to encryption legislation after Apple order | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker expressed a new willingness to support legislation establishing ground rules for when technology firms should grant authorities access to their products, after Apple Inc said it would fight a court order to unlock an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino shooting rampage. Apple said it would fight the court order, which it said would set a dangerous precedent that could ultimately undermine the security of its iPhones.
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| SGS, Weatherford trade blame over Iraq's missing nuclear material | |  By Michael Shields and Stephen Kalin ZURICH/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Swiss inspections group SGS and U.S. group Weatherford International Plc traded recriminations on Thursday, both denying responsibility for the disappearance last year of radioactive material used to test pipes at an oil field in southern Iraq. Reuters reported on Wednesday that Iraq was searching for a "highly dangerous" radioactive source whose theft in November had raised fears among Iraqi officials that it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State. SGS said in a statement that the equipment and material, when not in use, had been stored in a "secured bunker" provided by Weatherford, which it said was the "main contractor" and had hired its Turkish unit to perform the tests.
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| Pope says Trump 'not Christian' in a sign of global concern | |  By Emily Flitter NEWBERRY, S.C. (Reuters) - Pope Francis forcefully injected himself into the U.S. presidential campaign on Thursday, assailing Republican candidate Donald Trump's views on U.S. immigration as "not Christian" in a sign of growing international concern at the billionaire businessman's election prospects. Trump struck back. Francis told reporters during a free-wheeling conversation on his flight home from a visit to Mexico, "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." Trump has accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug runners across the United States' southern border and has vowed if elected president to build a wall to keep out immigrants who enter illegally.
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| U.S. prosecutors to turn over records on 9/11 conspiracy suspects | |  By Lacey Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday they would turn over more than 1,000 pages of CIA documents to attorneys for five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. Defence lawyers for the men, held at a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have fought for years to gain access to records about how their clients were treated by the Central Intelligence Agency. All five contend they were tortured in secret CIA prisons before arriving at Guantanamo in 2006.
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| New guilty plea, charges in global press release hacking scheme | | | A third trader has entered a guilty plea over what U.S. authorities have called a more than $100 million international scheme to hack into newswires that distribute corporate press releases, and use stolen information to conduct insider trading. Arkadiy Dubovoy, 51, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey. Dubovoy, of Alpharetta, Georgia, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in Newark, New Jersey. |
| Ivory Coast soldiers get life sentences for killing ex-president | | | A military tribunal in Ivory Coast on Thursday sentenced three senior military officials to life in prison for the 2002 murder of former junta leader turned president Robert Guei, and handed out lesser terms to others. The sentencing ends a three-week trial in the Ivory Coast, the economic powerhouse of francophone West Africa, which has been going through a reconciliation process after more than a decade of political turmoil. Guei was named head of state after a coup d'etat in 1999 but lost an election to Laurent Gbagbo a year later. |
| Opposition candidate detained as Ugandans vote for president | |  By Edith Honan and Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - The man hoping to break Yoweri Museveni's 30-year grip on Uganda's presidency was briefly arrested on Thursday and the government shut down social media sites as voters cast their ballots under the gaze of police and soldiers in riot gear. Opposition officials said Kizza Besigye was arrested at dusk on polling day and held for about 30 minutes in the capital Kampala, but despite the tough security there were no reported flare ups of violence. All sides accuse each other of stoking tensions and assembling vigilante groups to intimidate rival candidates, and the leading opposition contenders predicted vote rigging in the ballot that Museveni is widely expected to win.
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| Prince Ali invites Kofi Annan to lead new FIFA reform group | |  FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan said he would set up an independent oversight group led by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan if elected. A statement on Thursday by Prince Ali's campaign organisers said the group would "help steer FIFA through its first year to recover from crisis and to support the future reform process." Football's world ruling body is engulfed in a graft scandal that has led to the indictment of several dozen leading football officials in the United States, and is under enormous pressure to reform. Prince Ali is one of five candidates standing to replace outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter, himself banned for eight years for ethics violations, in the Feb. 26 election.
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| U.N. aims to air drop food to IS-besieged city in eastern Syria | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food and other aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, an eastern city of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic State, including the city, where civilians face severe food shortages and sharply deteriorating conditions. Speaking a day after U.N. road convoys reached five areas, some besieged by government forces and others by rebels, Jan Egeland said the organisation's World Food Programme (WFP) had a "concrete plan" for carrying out the Deir al-Zor drop in coming days.
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| FBI searches home of brother of San Bernardino shooter Farook | |  (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched the Southern California home of the brother of one of the shooters in the Dec. 2 San Bernardino attack, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said on Thursday. The source said that investigators with a search warrant went to the Corona home of Syed Raheel Farook, a Navy veteran whose brother and sister-in-law, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people at a holiday party. Officials are battling Apple Inc in court to get the company to help them unlock an iPhone that had been used by one of the shooters.
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