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| Vatican paper lauds 'Spotlight' for giving voice to abuse victims | |  The Vatican newspaper on Monday lauded the film "Spotlight", which took home this year's Oscar for best picture, for giving voice to the pain of the victims of sexual abuse by the clergy. The film tells the story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a massive scandal of child molestation in the city's archdiocese. The Osservatore Romano said the film did not take a hostile position against the Church.
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| No. 2 U.S. Senate Republican voices unease over Trump candidacy - CNN | |  The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate said on Monday he was worried that Donald Trump could be an "albatross" for Republicans running in other races if he were to win the party's nomination for president, CNN reported. "We can't have a nominee be an albatross around the down-ballot races," John Cornyn, the Senate majority whip, said when asked if he had concerns about the possibility Trump could win the nomination, according to CNN.
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| North Korea says U.S. student confessed to theft of item with propaganda slogan | |  By James Pearson and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to "severe crimes" against the state, the North's official media said on Monday. Otto Warmbier, 21, a University of Virginia student, was detained before boarding his flight to China over an unspecified incident at his hotel, his tour agency told Reuters in January. North Korea has a long history of detaining foreigners and has used jailed U.S. citizens in the past to exact high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations.
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| U.S. lawmakers urge caution on potential Chinese deal to buy U.S. crane maker | | | Three U.S. lawmakers are urging the U.S. Treasury Department to conduct a rigorous national security review of any deal that China's Zoomlion makes to buy U.S. crane maker Terex Corp . CFIUS reviews mergers and investment by foreign firms that might harm national security. Republican Representatives Mike Rogers of Alabama and Walter Jones of North Carolina wrote letters last week to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urging that CFIUS carefully review the prospective deal because of Terex's defence contracts. |
| U.S. State Department to release final Clinton email batch | |  By Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said it would release the final batch of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time at the department's helm later on Monday evening, meeting an extended deadline set by a federal judge. The release of the remaining 1,700 emails yet to be made public does not mark the end of a controversy that has dogged Clinton's campaign to be elected president in November since her use of a private email server in her home first came to light a year ago. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken the server and U.S. Department of Justice attorneys are investigating whether laws were broken through the unusual arrangement.
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| Suicide bombings kill 40 in eastern Iraq, eight west of Baghdad | | | At least 40 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a funeral in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala while a suicide blast at a security checkpoint in Baghdad's western outskirts killed eight members of the security forces, police said on Monday. The larger attack in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killed six local commanders of the Hashid Shaabi umbrella group of Shi'ite militias who were attending the funeral of a commander's relative, security officials and police in Diyala said. |
| Brazil's justice minister quits in internal row over graft probe | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's justice minister has resigned amid a firestorm in the ruling Workers' Party over his failure to curb a corruption probe that has targeted prominent figures including the country's popular former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Jose Eduardo Cardozo, who had served as justice minister since 2011, will be replaced by Wellington César Lima e Silva, a prosecutor from the state of Bahia linked to the Workers' Party, President Dilma Rousseff's office said in a statement on Monday. Brazilian dailies Folha de S.Paulo and Estado de S.Paulo said the pressure on Cardozo increased in recent days after Lula, who was president from 2003-2010, was notified that courts were planning to subpoena his bank, telephone and financial records.
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| Irish rivals drag out stalemate, each aiming to form government | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's two biggest parties said on Monday they would each try to form a government over the next 10 days, but analysts said last week's inconclusive election meant they may be forced to set aside their differences and form a grand coalition. The second-largest party, Fianna Fail, raised the prospect of an even longer delay by calling for a cross-party deal on reforming parliament before any coalition talks, a process it said could take more than a month. The threat of weeks of political stalemate and a possible second election could take its toll on investors' appetite for Irish government bonds, although yields were little changed on Monday.
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| Pakistan not to blame for Afghan troubles, official says on U.S. visit | |  By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan should not be blamed for carrying out a "duplicitous policy" or for the problems of Afghanistan, a senior Pakistan official said on Monday at the start of talks in the United States. U.S. lawmakers have expressed concern about a possible sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan because of its impact on relations with India and Pakistan's policies in Afghanistan, but national security adviser Sartaj Aziz said the sale would help stability in the region. "We are blamed (for) pursuing a duplicitous policy," Aziz said to reporters and U.S. and Pakistani officials before the meetings in Washington began.
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| Colombia's defence minister investigated over rebel visit | |  The office of Colombia's investigator general said on Monday it had started an investigation into possible failures on the part of the defence minister and high levels of the military which may have left civilians unprotected during a visit by leftist rebel leaders in the country's north. The office said Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas, as well as the heads of the armed forces and army and four unit commanders, may have broken the law by allowing four members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to visit El Conejo in La Guajira province earlier this month. The four rebels, part of the FARC's negotiating team at peace talks in Cuba, made the visit to provide details of accords to some of their fighters.
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| Thomas ends decade of self-imposed silence at U.S. Supreme Court | |  Clarence Thomas ended a decade of silence from the bench during U.S. Supreme Court arguments on Monday when the conservative justice unexpectedly posed questions during a gun rights case from Maine. Thomas has been a consistent vote on the court for robust gun rights under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. Thomas, 67, had not asked a question during oral arguments since Feb. 22, 2006, when he made queries during a South Carolina death penalty case.
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| U.S. waging cyber war on Islamic State, commandos active | |  By Phil Stewart and David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is waging cyber attacks against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and its newly deployed commandos are also carrying out secret missions on the ground, Pentagon leaders said on Monday, in the latest signs of quietly expanding U.S. activity. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the cyber attacks, particularly in Syria, were designed to prevent Islamic State from commanding its forces, and Washington was looking to accelerate the cyber war against the Sunni militant group.
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| U.S. Air Force vet one of first to face trial for Islamic State support | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force veteran betrayed his country and tried to become a fighter for the militant group Islamic State, federal prosecutors told a New York jury on Monday at the start of his criminal trial. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh traveled to Turkey in an effort to join Islamic State after he "immersed himself" in the group's violent propaganda, watching videos of beheadings and expressing approval on Facebook, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bini said in Brooklyn federal court. The case appears to be only the second Islamic State-related prosecution to reach trial, out of more than 75 brought by the U.S. Department of Justice since 2014. |
| Kuwaiti minister hints driver who killed policeman may be a militant | | | Kuwait's interior minister said on Monday that a man who rammed his car into a group of police officers last week, killing one of them, "belonged to an organisation" - a wording that suggested the incident was an Islamist militant attack. The Western-allied oil exporter has been on alert against Islamist militants since a suicide bomber killed 26 people in June last year at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Sheikh Mohammad al-Hamad al-Sabah, speaking at a ceremony to honour the deceased police officer, said the man who carried out the attack "belonged to an organisation," state news agency KUNA said, quoting a statement by the interior ministry. |
| Iran reformists cheer election gains, conservatives play down shift | |  By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani and his allies won big gains in elections that could deepen Iran's engagement with the world after his government ended years of sanctions by agreeing to curb its nuclear programme. The outcome in the results for Tehran on Monday was a blow to the conservative Islamic establishment, although it retains decisive power due to Iran's unwieldy dual system of clerical and republican rule. Most of the lawmakers who failed to win re-election to the new parliament strongly opposed the nuclear deal, including Mehdi Kouchakzadeh, who called Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a traitor, and Rouhollah Hosseinian, who threatened to bury the negotiators under cement for agreeing to concessions to world powers.
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| Exclusive: Major powers team up to tell China of concerns over new laws | | | By Jason Subler BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the European Union have written to China to express concern over three new or planned laws, including one on counterterrorism, in a rare joint bid to pressure Beijing into taking their objections seriously. The U.S., Canadian, German and Japanese ambassadors signed a letter dated Jan. 27 addressed to State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun, voicing unease about the new counterterrorism law, the draft cyber security law, and a draft law on management of foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In what sources said was a coordinated move, the ambassador of the European Union Delegation to China, Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, sent a letter expressing similar concerns, dated Jan. 28. |
| Ex-teacher faces Timbuktu monument destruction charges at ICC | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A former trainee teacher accused of damaging monuments in the name of Islam in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu will stand before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for a hearing to decide if he should face a landmark trial. Malian citizen Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is the first person to be accused of destroying cultural artefacts by prosecutors at the court, which has previously focused on human rights abuses. The ICC has been examining events in Mali since 2012, when Tuareg rebels seized part of the north, imposing a strict interpretation of Islamic law. |
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