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| UK parties head for leadership battles amid Brexit fallout |
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 By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main opposition Labour Party headed for a leadership battle, mirroring a fight for control of the ruling Conservative Party, after the decision by voters to leave the European Union last week led to upheaval in Westminster. Angela Eagle, a senior Labour lawmaker, will announce on Thursday that she will challenge leader Jeremy Corbyn who has been facing a growing revolt within the party, media reports said on Wednesday. Eagle, a former pensions minister, quit as Labour's top business official on Tuesday, one of more than 20 people to resign from Corbyn's opposition policy team.
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| Chinese national gets 30 months in U.S. prison for military exports |
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| A Chinese national has been sentenced to 30 months in a U.S. prison for smuggling or trying to smuggle to China high-tech U.S. military hardware, including night vision and thermal imaging rifle scopes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. Kan Chen, 26, of Ningbo, in China's Zhejiang Province, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release for illegally exporting or trying to export over 180 items worth over $275,000 (£204,485) to China, the department said in a statement. |
| Special Report: Attacks on LGBT people rarely prosecuted as hate crimes |
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 (Corrects size of increase in number of people charged with federal hate crimes in paragraph 24 and adds that 33 prosecutions in past seven years were under the Shepard/Byrd Act in paragraph 25.) By Ned Parker and Mimi Dwyer KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Dionte Greene, a 22-year-old black gay male, was looking for a hook-up. "I'm not interested in smoking weed with you, Travone," Greene wrote to the teenager, Travone Shaw, in their first exchange. "I just find you attractive and I want to have a sexual encounter with you." "I ain't gay," Shaw replied, according to court documents.
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