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| White House threatens to veto Republicans' Zika funding plan | |  By Roberta Rampton and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday threatened to veto the $1.1 billion approved by the U.S. House of Representatives to fight the Zika virus, blasting the measure for short-changing the administration's $1.9 billion funding request. The Republican-controlled House approved the funding deal early Thursday morning after reaching a deal with both House and Senate Republicans. White House spokesman Eric Schultz said the bill "falls far short" of the amount of money recommended by health officials to address the spread of the Zika virus.
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| Britain votes to leave EU in historic divorce - BBC | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has voted to leave the European Union, the BBC said based on voter tallies from Thursday's referendum, an outcome that would set the country on an uncertain path and deal the largest setback to European efforts to forge greater unity since World War Two. World financial markets dived as counting from 304 of 382 areas showed a 51.5/48.5 split for leaving.
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| U.S. Supreme Court upholds race-based college admissions | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students. The court, in a 4-3 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, decided in favor of the university and turned aside the conservative challenge to a policy intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity on campus. The ruling ended an eight-year legal challenge to the affirmative action admissions system used by the University of Texas at Austin brought by Abigail Fisher, who was denied a place in 2008.
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| OAS chief blames Maduro government for Venezuela crisis | |  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the OAS regional bloc, Luis Almagro, on Thursday blamed President Nicolas Maduro's government for Venezuela's crisis, saying the South American oil-rich nation was now mired in poverty, corruption and violence. Addressing the permanent council of the 34-nation Organization of American States (OAS), Almagro argued that Maduro's government had violated basic democratic principles, which had altered the constitutional order of the country.
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| Three dead, two injured in Cyprus resort 'gangland' shootout | | | ATHENS (Reuters) - Three people were killed and two injured during a shootout in Cyprus's tourist resort of Ayia Napa on Thursday, police said, in an incident possibly related to local crime gangs. Police declined to speculate on what was behind the killing, but a terror motive appeared to be ruled out. State radio reported that four people were killed in the shootout, including a local businessman. Serious crime is rare in Cyprus, which attracts more than 2 million, mainly western European tourists each year. But there are sporadic incidents of gangland violence. ... |
| Florida nightclub shooter buried in Muslim cemetery - reports | |  By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history has been buried at a Muslim cemetery in southern Florida, media reported on Thursday. Mateen, 29, was killed by police after he took hostages during a three-hour standoff inside the Pulse nightclub. It did not give Mateen's cause of death, the Sentinel reported.
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| Seven Indonesian sailors kidnapped in Philippines - foreign minister | | | Seven Indonesian sailors have been taken hostage in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines, Indonesia's foreign minister said on Friday, the latest in a string of abductions in the waters between the two Southeast Asian neighbours. "We got confirmation (yesterday) of an incident of kidnapping involving Indonesian crew of a ship," Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told reporters. Six of the 13 crew on board were freed, Marsudi said, and were on their way back to Indonesia. |
| Florida man brags about burglary on Facebook, lands him in jail | | | A Florida burglar who posted a Facebook video bragging about a $500,000 jewelry haul has landed himself and one of his accomplices in jail, police said on Thursday. Officers from Pinecrest, Florida said they arrested Raderius Glenn Collins, 18, after he uploaded the video to Facebook on May 27. The video, which runs more than seven minutes long and has over 3,000 views, showed the men bragging about their illegal earnings, exclaiming: "We got a safe" and "Can someone say check please?" The man in the driver's seat makes sure the traffic light is still red and proceeds to proudly reveal his bag of cash to the camera while the other two men cheer. |
| Mexican president vetoes package of anti-corruption bills | |  Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday vetoed a package of anti-corruption bills, asking Congress to change a measure that would have forced people or firms who receive government funding to publicly disclose their assets. Pena Nieto has made the push for tougher anti-corruption laws a top priority of his government, which has been embroiled in several conflict-of-interest scandals and accused by critics of a lax attitude toward graft. "The presentation of the declarations of millions and millions of Mexicans who ... earn their living honestly would in no way help combat corruption," Castillejos said in a live broadcast, adding the measure violated protections for personal data and human rights.
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| S.Korea issues arrest warrant for VW exec in emissions probe | |  A South Korean court on Friday issued the first warrant for the arrest of a Volkswagen AG executive in connection with its cheating of vehicle emissions tests, in another blow to the German automaker's efforts to move on from the scandal. The warrant is the first to be levelled against a Volkswagen executive anywhere in the world after the firm in September admitted to using software to falsify pollution tests on some diesel cars, spurring legal action in the United States, Germany, South Korea and elsewhere. The executive at Volkswagen's South Korean subsidiary faced five accusations including fabrication of documents and violation of the Air Quality Preservation Law, Seoul Central District Court spokesman Shin Jae-hwan said.
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| Tears of joy as rebels sign ceasefire with Colombian government | |  By Marc Frank and Carlos Vargas HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels signed a historic ceasefire deal on Thursday that brought them tantalizingly close to ending the longest running conflict in the Americas. The accord, capping three years of peace talks in Cuba, sparked celebrations and tears of happiness among some in the Colombian capital. "May this be the last day of the war," said bearded FARC commander Rodrigo Londono, better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, his voice choked, after shaking hands with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at a ceremony in Havana.
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