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| L.A. jury acquits man accused of stalking Gwyneth Paltrow | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 2:36 AM | |
|  An Ohio man convicted 15 years ago of stalking Oscar-winning screen star Gwyneth Paltrow was found not guilty of that charge on Wednesday in a more recent case brought against him, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Dante Michael Soiu, 67, was acquitted of felony stalking and a lesser charge of attempted stalking by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury after a trial capped by the testimony of Paltrow herself last week. Soiu was convicted in a December 2000 jury trial of stalking Paltrow after sending her sexually graphic letters and packages and showing up twice outside her parents' home.
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| Bill Cosby sued an accuser of sex assault and her attorneys - NY Times | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 1:35 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - Bill Cosby has sued a woman whose allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted her sparked the only criminal charges against the disgraced comedian over his running sexual assault scandal, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The lawsuit, which was filed under seal in a federal court in Pennsylvania, named Andrea Constand and her attorneys, Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz, the Times reported. The Times said U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno lifted the seal on only parts of the civil action, so the full extent was not immediately known.
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| Republican presidential contender Rubio nabs big endorsement before crucial primary | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 1:00 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson CHARLESTON, S.C./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, viewed as a possible Republican vice presidential candidate, endorsed U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday for their party's 2016 White House nomination, three days before the state's presidential primary. "If we elect Marco Rubio, every day will be a great day in America," Haley said, with Rubio at her side at an event in Chapin, South Carolina. Haley's endorsement gave Rubio, 44, a valuable ally to try to sway voters in South Carolina, the third contest after Iowa and New Hampshire to pick a party nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.
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| At Mexico-U.S. border, Pope slams hell faced by migrants | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:34 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella and Gabriel Stargardter CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday railed against immigration policies that force many underground and into the hands of drug gangs and human smugglers, praying at Mexico's border with the United States in what was once one of the world's deadliest cities. Overlooking the Rio Grande that separates the two countries, it was the closest the pope came to the U.S. border during his six-day visit to Mexico. "We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis," the pope said on the last day of a six-day visit to Mexico.
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| Police raid Madrid office of China's biggest bank | | Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:01 AM | |
|  Spanish police raided the Madrid offices of China's biggest bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering, the Interior Ministry said. The investigation by police, the Spanish tax agency and Europol involves funds handled by a criminal group acting in Spain which the Ministry says passed through the bank and were transferred to China.
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| Murders in Honduras drop 12 percent in 2015 as drug bosses extradited - group | | | Homicides in Honduras fell 12 percent in 2015 thanks in part to the capture and extradition to the United States of drug cartel bosses, a United Nations-backed organisation said on Wednesday. In the last two years, Honduras says it has extradited eight gang leaders to the United States. Since taking office in 2014, President Juan Hernandez' ramped-up military offence against drug traffickers and gangs has dramatically driven down the homicide rate. |
| U.N. Yemen envoy says divisions over truce preventing peace talks | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations special envoy for Yemen said on Wednesday he was unable to call another round of peace talks because the warring parties are deeply divided over whether there should be a ceasefire to coincide with a new round of negotiations. "Deep divisions persist that prevent me from calling for the next round of talks," U.N. Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the U.N. Security Council. A Saudi Arabia-led coalition began a military campaign in March to prevent Iran-allied Houthi rebels and forces loyal to former Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh, from taking complete control of Yemen.
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| Dissidents fearful as Thailand, once a haven, favours China | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall BANGKOK (Reuters) - One night last month, Liu Xuehong stood weeping outside the gates of the United Nations headquarters in Bangkok, begging the guards to let her in. The Chinese dissident had received a threatening call from an anonymous Chinese official, and feared that she, like other asylum seekers in Thailand, would be snatched away by agents of China or deported by a Thai junta increasingly allied to it. "We still live in fear here." Liu is one of hundreds of Chinese who have fled for Thailand, say human rights groups.
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| U.S. CEO group wants Pacific trade deal but could work with Trump | |  The captains of corporate America want congressional approval for a new Pacific trade deal this year, but the head of their main lobbying group said on Wednesday they could find a way to be comfortable with tariff-promoter Donald Trump if the Republican front-runner became president. The Business Roundtable, a lobby group that represents major corporate chief executive officers, has made the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a top priority for this year and believes the trade deal could have enough bipartisan support in Congress to win approval, according to Caterpillar Inc Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman, the group's new chairman. The Roundtable, a lobbying group for corporate CEOs, is also pushing for comprehensive tax reform this year as an antidote to inversion deals that have allowed U.S. companies to establish headquarters overseas.
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| White House rebuts Supreme Court hypocrisy charge against Obama | |  By Ayesha Rascoe and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House tried to defuse Republican charges of hypocrisy against President Barack Obama over Supreme Court nominees on Wednesday as liberal activists swung into action and the top Senate Democrat predicted a Republican "cave-in." The White House turned up the heat on the Republican-led Senate to allow fair hearings and a timely vote on Obama's impending selection to fill the court vacancy left by Saturday's death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. The Democratic president's nominee could change the balance of power on the top U.S. court - Scalia's death left it with four conservative and four liberal justices - and a monumental fight is brewing over Obama's pick for the lifetime appointment.
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| Maldives opposition leader jailed for 12 years for role in protests | | | By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - A Maldives court has sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to 12 years in jail, convicting him on terrorism charges related to a speech that protested the imprisonment of the islands' first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed. Best known as an exotic tourist destination, the Indian Ocean archipelago has been roiled by political unrest since Nasheed was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012. Under pressure from foreign governments, President Abdulla Yameen's government released Nasheed last month to let him seek medical treatment in London. |
| S&P cuts Brazil deeper into junk territory in blow to Rousseff | |  By Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's downgraded Brazil's credit rating deeper into junk territory on Wednesday, citing its failure to curb its fiscal deficit, in a surprise blow to President Dilma Rousseff`s bid to haul the economy out of its worst recession in decades. S&P cut Brazil's sovereign credit rating to BB from BB+ with a negative outlook, just five months after becoming the first agency to strip the country of its coveted investment grade. Fitch ratings followed suit in December.
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| Argentina judge releases ex-soccer official in FIFA probe | |  A judge in Argentina on Wednesday ordered the release of a former top South American football official who has been charged by U.S. justice officials with involvement in a FIFA bribery racket. Meiszner, the former secretary general of the South American regional CONMEBOL football federation, had surrendered to Argentine police in December, but requested to be put under house arrest due the state of his health. "We requested the suspension of arrest because we considered that certain issues were not clear," Meiszner's lawyer told local radio station Radio 10.
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| Blast hits Turkish cultural centre in Sweden | | | An explosion severely damaged part of a building that housed a Turkish cultural association in a Stockholm suburb late on Wednesday but no one was injured, police said. It had been locked since earlier in the evening," a police spokesman said. |
| In Mexican border city, Pope criticizes business 'slave drivers' | | By Philip Pullella and Gabriel Stargardter CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a scathing critique of capitalism on a trip to Mexico's border with the United States, saying that God will hold accountable "slave drivers" who exploit workers. "The flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people," he said in Ciudad Juarez, a gritty industrial city next to El Paso, Texas where many international companies have factories that export goods to the United States. In a speech to business leaders and labour representatives, Latin America's first pope assailed the "prevailing mentality (that) advocates for the greatest possible profits, immediately and at any cost." On the last day of a six-day visit to Mexico, the Argentine pontiff decried "the exploitation of employees as if they were objects to be used and discarded," saying the best investment business can make to help society is in people and families.
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| U.S. Republicans chide Apple over order on shooter's phone | |  Prominent U.S. Republicans criticized Apple Inc on Wednesday for opposing a government request for help hacking into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers, calling the issue tough but important to boosting national security. The technology company late on Tuesday said it was opposing a court order to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation break into an iPhone that belonged to the male shooter, Rizwan Farook, before the deadly Dec. 2 attacks in San Bernardino, California. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the demand threatened the security of Apple's customers.
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| White House hopeful Rubio nabs big endorsement before crucial primary vote | | By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson SUMMERVILLE, S.C./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, viewed in Republican circles as a possible U.S. vice presidential candidate, will endorse U.S. Senator Marco Rubio for their party's 2016 White House nomination on Wednesday, three days before her state's presidential primary, said a source familiar with the situation. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley, 44, seized the spotlight in January when in the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech she set herself apart from the party's presidential candidates by calling for tolerance on immigration and civility in politics. Rubio, 44, from Florida, hopes to get a boost from South Carolina voters, where Republicans on Saturday hold their third contest after Iowa and New Hampshire to pick a party nominee for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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| Brazil's Rousseff bolstered by allied whip victory in house | |  President Dilma Rousseff's main coalition partner, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PDMB), re-elected a key ally of hers as its leader in the lower house of Congress on Wednesday, enhancing her chances of blocking impeachment. Leonardo Picciani was confirmed as PMDB house whip in a 37-30 vote, defeating a rival backed by Rousseff's arch-enemy Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who took up an opposition request to impeach the president in December. Picciani's re-election brought some relief for the embattled president because he is expected to pick pro-Rousseff PMDB members to sit on a committee that must decide whether there are grounds for her impeachment.
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