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| Al Shabaab car bomber strikes hotel in Somali capital, at least 15 dead | |  By Abdirahman Hussein, Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber crashed into a gate outside a hotel frequented by lawmakers in the centre of the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday and the attack was followed by gunfire, killing 15 people, police said. Police said among the dead were two lawmakers. "Lawmakers Mohamud Mohamed and Abdullahi Jamac died in the hotel.
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| Venezuela says Americas bloc suspension threat is 'imperial' plot | |  By Daniel Kai and Julia Harte CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government said on Wednesday that a move by the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) to censure the country for breaching democratic norms is an "imperialist" scheme to take the OPEC member's oil. Under increasing international pressure and facing an internal opposition push for a referendum to recall Maduro, the government has reacted with fury to OAS chief Luis Almagro's request for an emergency meeting on Venezuela. "The empire has decided that it's time to take our resources," Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez told reporters, casting Almagro as a tool of U.S. policy.
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| Family will not sue Cincinnati zoo over child-gorilla incident | |  By Ginny McCabe CINCINNATI (Reuters) - The family of a 3-year-old boy who fell into an animal enclosure, prompting the killing of an endangered gorilla, said on Wednesday that it would not sue the Cincinnati Zoo over the incident. The family, whose name has been withheld by police, said through a spokeswoman, Gail Myers, that the boy was doing well. A 17-year-old western lowland silverback gorilla named Harambe was shot and killed by zoo staff on Saturday after the boy fell into its enclosure.
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| Battling to hold off Sanders, Democrat Clinton to assail Trump on foreign policy | |  By Amanda Becker and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's campaign signalled on Wednesday plans for a big assault on Republican Donald Trump even as she battles to hold off rival Bernie Sanders in California. Clinton, a former secretary of state, is to deliver what her campaign described as a major speech on Thursday in San Diego to underscore what she feels would be the threat posed by Trump to U.S. national security if he is elected president on Nov. 8. On Wednesday, she seized on testimony released in a lawsuit against Trump University in which some former workers said they believed Trump's for-profit school was fraudulent.
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| Murder-suicide kills two at UCLA, shuts down campus | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A murder-suicide killed two people at the University of California, Los Angeles on Wednesday, shutting down the campus for two hours as officers in camouflage and tactical gear responded to reports of a shooting. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck confirmed one man shot another and then himself in the engineering building and that police recovered a gun at the scene. "There are no suspects outstanding and no continuing threat to UCLA's campus," Beck told reporters without offering further details about the victims.
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| Obama slams Trump for promising to roll back Wall Street reforms | |  By Jeff Mason ELKHART, Ind. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump's proposal to weaken Wall Street reforms and touted his own economic record on Wednesday during a trip to a city he visited three weeks into his presidency that has recovered from its recession lows. Obama's remarks in Elkhart, Indiana, foreshadowed the arguments he is likely to make on the campaign trail this fall against the likely Republican presidential nominee. Obama did not mention Trump by name, but he lambasted the billionaire's policy proposals, particularly his promise to dismantle most of the U.S. Dodd-Frank financial regulations.
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| Drive to oust Venezuela's Maduro returns old foe to front line | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Sweating, hoarse and jostled at every turn, opposition leader Henrique Capriles is back pounding Venezuela's streets, exhorting crowds and fuming about corruption and shortages. Capriles' profile faded after his failed presidential runs in 2012 and 2013 but the Miranda state governor is again on the political front line, this time driving an opposition push for a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro. "The only way to fix Venezuela's crisis is asking Venezuelans," he told Reuters after a day campaigning in the pressure-pot nation reeling from economic hardships, protests and viciously polarized politics.
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| Kenyan government urges end to protests, opposition defiant | |  By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy urged the opposition on Wednesday to end unrest over alleged bias in the electoral commission, but opposition leaders said protests would continue if their demands for dialogue were not met. To help defuse tensions, Kenyatta on Tuesday had talks with his political rival, the leader of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy Raila Odinga, but the rare meeting between the two appeared to have little impact. The president's office said Tuesday's meeting yielded no deal between Kenyatta and Odinga on how to revamp the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
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| Brazil, after Europe attacks, raises guard against Olympic terror | |  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil is raising its guard and tightening security ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels and a threat by an alleged Islamic State militant. "A bell went off in terms of terrorism," Admiral Ademir Sobrinho, the chairman of Brazil's joint chiefs of staff told Reuters, adding that Brazil has ramped up cooperation with foreign governments to prevent possible attacks from radical groups such as Islamic State or from a lone wolf.
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