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| Trump urges waterboarding and more after Brussels attacks | |  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for tougher U.S. border security after the attacks in Brussels. "Waterboarding would be fine. If they can expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding," Trump said, adding he believed torture could spark useful leads for officials.
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| Islamic State's claim for Brussels bombings likely authentic - U.S. | |  U.S. agencies believe the claim of responsibility by Islamic State for the deadly Brussels attacks on Tuesday is authentic, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials said they believe that the attacks were most likely carried out by militants linked to 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, the suspected participant in Nov. 13 Paris attacks who was captured last week, and the cell that carried out the Paris attacks.
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| One Brussels airport attack suspect being hunted - prosecutor | |  Belgium authorities were searching for a man shown in a photograph walking beside two other suspects who appear to have blown themselves up at Brussels Airport on Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people. "A photograph of three male suspects was taken at Zaventem. Two of them seem to have committed suicide attacks.
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| Ivory Coast arrests 15, seeks leader of al Qaeda beach attack | | | ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast authorities arrested 15 people in connection with an attack claimed by al Qaeda that killed 19 people at a beach resort earlier this month, a state prosecutor said on Tuesday. They were still seeking the suspected ring-leader, who prosecutor Richard Adou named as Kounta Dallah. Gunmen shot swimmers and sunbathers before storming into several hotels when they burst onto the beach in the town of Grand Bassam, 40 km (25 miles) from the commercial capital Abidjan, on March 13. ... |
| Kesha appeals court decision, likening recording contract to slavery | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop star Kesha has appealed a court decision that ties her to a recording contract with companies owned by music producer Dr. Luke, who she has accused of rape, saying the ruling was akin to slavery. The "Tik Tok" singer, 28, has been seeking to nullify her six-album recording contract with her producer Dr. Luke, his associated record labels, and Sony Music. ...
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| Police issue wanted notice for suspect after Brussels attacks | |  Police issued a wanted notice for a man suspected of involvement in Tuesday's bomb attacks at Brussels airport that left at least 10 people dead. Broadcasters RTL and RTBF reported anti-terrorist police were carrying out searches in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek and Jette.
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| At Brussels airport, kids thought "fireworks", parents knew "bomb" | |  By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Horst Pilger said his children thought fireworks were going off when the first explosion struck on Tuesday, but he instantly knew that Brussels Airport was under attack. It was massive." Pilger, an Austrian who works for the European Union, was planning a short family trip to Rome and, two hours before departure, was sitting at a coffee shop in the main departure hall. It was a bit distant, but fairly loud," Pilger said by telephone from a hotel opposite the terminal building where travellers have been take by airport staff.
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| Rob Ford, notorious for smoking crack while Toronto mayor, dead at 46 | |  By Andrea Hopkins and Matt Scuffham TORONTO (Reuters) - Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, whose tumultuous four years as leader of Canada's largest city included an admission he smoked crack cocaine and a history of erratic behavior, died on Tuesday after struggling with cancer. Ford, 46, was serving as a city councillor and undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer that recurred despite surgery and several rounds of chemotherapy. The man who replaced Ford as mayor, John Tory, offered condolences, calling Ford "a man who spoke his mind and who ran for office because of the deeply felt convictions that he had." Ford, married and a father of two young children, was diagnosed with a rare and hard-to-treat cancer in September 2014 after being hospitalized with abdominal pain.
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| U.S. cities on high alert after deadly bombings in Belgium | |  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. cities deployed police in large numbers, some with heavy weapons patrolling transit hubs, after at least 30 people were killed in attacks on a Brussels airport and subway, though officials said there was no evidence of specific threats to the United States. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago stepped up their security and major airlines scrambled resources to cope with closings at the airport in Belgium's capital. Islamic State, a militant group that has gained control of large areas of Iraq and Syria and has sympathizers and supporters around the world, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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| Islamic State claims Brussels attacks that kill at least 30 | | | By Philip Blenkinsop and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, a news agency affiliated to the group said. The coordinated assault triggered security alerts across Europe and drew global expressions of support, four days after Brussels police had captured the prime surviving suspect in Islamic State's attacks on Paris last November. A witness said he heard shouts in Arabic and shots shortly before two blasts struck a packed airport departure lounge at Brussels airport. |
| Islamic State claims Brussels blasts - Amaq agency | |  Islamic State claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks that killed at least 30 people in Brussels on Tuesday, a news agency affiliated with the group said. "Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station," the Amaq agency said. The attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital came four days after Brussels police captured the prime suspect in attacks by the jihadist groups in Paris.
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| Non-essential staff at Belgian nuclear plants Doel and Tihange sent home | |  Staff not essential for the running of nuclear plants in Doel and Tihange in Belgium have been sent home at the request of Belgian authorities following the deadly attacks in Brussels, the plants' French operator, Engie, said on Tuesday. A spokesman for Engie - which owns and operates seven reactors in Belgium through its Electrabel unit - told Reuters that key staff remained on site to continue operating the facilities, however. "Only those who are really needed are staying, the other people were sent home," Belgium's Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) spokeswoman Nele Scheerlinck told Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws.
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| Russian court sentences Ukrainian pilot to 22 years in jail | |  By Gennady Novik and Alexander Reshetnikov DONETSK, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court sentenced Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in jail on Tuesday after finding her guilty of involvement in the killing of two Russian journalists during the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country would never recognise the verdict of what he called a "kangaroo court" and called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to send Savchenko back home to Ukraine. Fighting in eastern Ukraine has subsided since a fragile ceasefire was agreed, but Savchenko's trial showed the depth of bitterness that remains.
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| Brussels attacks won't shake resolve to defeat Islamic State - U.S. | |  The attacks in Brussels on Tuesday that killed at least 34 people will not undermine the will of the United States and its allies to ramp up the campaign against Islamic State, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress. "No attack will affect our resolve to accelerate the defeat of ISIL," Carter told a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, using an acronym for Islamic State. The United States was monitoring the situation in Brussels, including ensuring that U.S. personnel and citizens were accounted for, he said.
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