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| Australian PM Turnbull scrambles for independent votes as race tightens | | Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:44 AM | |
|  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scrambled on Thursday to gain support from a small handful of independent lawmakers whose backing he will likely need to form a workable government and end a political vacuum after an unexpectedly close election. There were signs that the instability was beginning to take its toll on the Australian economy, with Standard and Poor's cutting Australia's credit rating outlook to negative from stable, threatening a downgrade of its coveted triple A status. The Australia dollar fell half a U.S. cent after S&P's announcement.
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| Italian victims tortured in Bangladesh attack, autopsies show | | Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:28 AM | |
|  Islamist militants tortured a group of Italians before killing them during an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka last week, a legal source said on Wednesday. The bodies of the nine Italians, most of whom worked in the clothing industry, were flown back to Rome on Tuesday. The victims, mostly foreigners, included Japanese, Indians and Americans as well as the Italians.
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| Corrected - Protests and U.S. probe after Louisiana police shoot black man | | Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:28 AM | |
|  (In 19th paragraph, corrects spelling of name to Jonny Dunnam, not Johnny Dunham) By Bryn Stole and Kathy Finn BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it would investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by two white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Captured on at least two videos, graphic images of the shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, early Tuesday morning stirred protests and social media outcry over the latest case of alleged police brutality against African-Americans in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and New York. One of the two officers shot Sterling five times at close range, and the other removed something from Sterling's pants pocket as he was dying, according to images on a video recorded by Abdullah Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was killed in the parking lot.
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| Briton pleads not guilty to weapons charges over Trump rally incident | | Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:25 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - A British man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to weapons charges stemming from an incident where he was accused of trying to steal a gun from a policeman during a Las Vegas rally for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Michael Steven Sandford, 20, of Britain, was charged with two felony counts of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and one felony count of impeding and disrupting the orderly conduct of government business, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Las Vegas. Brenda Weksler, one of Sandford's federal public defenders, declined to comment when reached by email on Wednesday evening.
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| U.S. attorney general closes Clinton email probe, says no charges | | Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:20 AM | |
|  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of private email while secretary of state is closed, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday, removing a legal cloud that threatened the presumptive Democratic nominee's presidential bid. Lynch said she accepted the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recommendations that no charges be brought in the probe, as Republicans made clear they would not let Clinton's email headaches fade away easily. With the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential and congressional elections beginning to heat up, Republicans called on the administration to make public key documents in the Clinton email case.
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| 'Vatileaks' trial due to end after nearly eight months | | Thursday, July 07, 2016 12:25 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The trial of five people accused of leaking or publishing confidential documents depicting a Vatican plagued by corruption and mismanagement goes to a panel of judges for verdicts on Thursday. Verdicts in the "Vatileaks II" trial, which started in November, are expected for Thursday afternoon. Once colleagues in a now-defunct papal reform commission investigating Vatican finances, their past relationship was at best ambiguous, and they spent most of the trial hurling insults and accusations at each other.
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| Protests and U.S. probe after Louisiana police shoot black man | | By Bryn Stole and Kathy Finn BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it would investigate the killing of a black man pinned to the ground and shot in the chest by two white police officers outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Captured on at least two videos, graphic images of the shooting of Alton Sterling, 37, early Tuesday stirred protests and social media outcry over the latest case of alleged police brutality against African-Americans in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and New York. One of the two officers shot Sterling five times at close range, and the other removed something from Sterling's pants pocket as he was dying, according to images on a video recorded by Abdullah Muflahi, owner of the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was killed in the parking lot.
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| Accused al Qaeda supporter in U.S. charged with seeking judge's murder | | | A man already awaiting trial on charges of conspiring to aid the late U.S.-born al Qaeda preacher Anwar al Awlaki and an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen was indicted on Wednesday over accusations he plotted to have the federal judge presiding over the case murdered. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, was accused in the three-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Toledo, Ohio, with attempting to pay an undercover FBI agent $15,000 to have the judge killed. "Conspiring to have a judge killed is not the way to avoid being prosecuted - now Mohammad will be held accountable for additional serious federal charges," Stephen Anthony, special agent in charge of the FBI's office in Cleveland, said in a written statement released with the indictment. |
| Two leading Republicans shy away from being Trump's VP pick | |  By Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidential running mates got a little shorter on Wednesday when one prominent U.S. senator withdrew from consideration and a second said she wanted to focus on her home state. The moves by Bob Corker of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa could complicate Trump's efforts to rally establishment Republicans behind his presidential bid. With Trump looking at a self-imposed deadline of July 15 to announce his pick, there was no indication that the wealthy businessman was anywhere close to reaching what is perhaps the most important decision he will make as the presumptive Republican nominee.
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| After FBI report, Clinton aides could find it harder to get security clearances | |  By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI's harsh criticism of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email system as U.S. secretary of state could make it difficult for some of her closest aides to keep or renew government security clearances, but it would not affect Clinton herself if she is elected president, experts said. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Tuesday an FBI investigation had found evidence that Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, and her aides "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information" at the State Department.
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| Japan election manifestos free LGBT rights from political closet | |  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - When openly gay independent candidate Wataru Ishizaka campaigned for a 2007 Tokyo local election, people snickered at his speeches, but now even Japan's conservative ruling party mentions gay rights in its platform for this year's upper house election. By Asian standards, Japanese laws are relatively liberal - homosexual sex has been legal since 1880 - but social attitudes keep the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community largely invisible.
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| Ex-Fox News anchor accuses former boss Ailes of sexual harassment | |  Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Fox News Channel architect Roger Ailes on Wednesday for sexual harassment, claiming her ex-boss wrongfully fired her after she rebuffed years of unwanted advances. Ailes, the network's chairman and chief executive officer, denied Carlson's allegations in a statement late on Wednesday. The parent of Fox News, 21st Century Fox , said it had begun an internal review of the matter.
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| 'Special K' party drug to be trialled as treatment for alcoholics | | | By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists are recruiting volunteers to test whether ketamine, also known as the party drug "Special K", may be helpful in reducing relapse rates among people with severe alcoholism. After pilot studies that showed ketamine combined with psychotherapy might make detoxing alcoholics less likely to relapse, the scientists are looking for 96 volunteers with severe alcohol disorder who have been "recently abstinent". Ketamine is a licensed medical drug, widely used as an anaesthetic and to relieve pain. |
| China chides U.N. group over criticism of 'arbitrary' detention | |  China said on Wednesday U.N. authorities should respect its judicial independence after a U.N. agency said last week that an American businesswoman who is accused of spying in China had been detained arbitrarily. The U.S. State Department said it was concerned about the welfare of Sandy Phan-Gillis of Houston, Texas, who has been held for more than a year without formal charge. It urged China to resolve the case "expeditiously." State Department spokesman John Kirby said that although the ruling of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was not legally binding, "we would encourage the Government of China to review and consider the opinion and recommendations received..." Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei criticized the U.N. group after it said Phan-Gillis's detention violated international human rights norms and that authorities had not provided evidence for holding her without any specific charges.
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| U.S. attorney general says no charges in Clinton email case | | U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday she had accepted the FBI's recommendation that no charges should be brought in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email system. "I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, year-long investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation," Lynch said in a statement. On Tuesday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, had been "extremely careless" in her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, but he recommended no criminal charges be filed in the case.
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| Man killed by Louisiana police said to be 'gentle,' led hardscrabble life | |  By Bryn Stole and Kathy Finn BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The black man shot dead by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was described by those who knew him as a fun-loving guy who scraped together a living selling music recorded on compact discs. The father of five had been arrested several times in his 37 years of life, and a felony conviction landed him on a list of sex offenders. Alton Sterling, 37, was shot at close range by two white police officers at about 12:30 a.m. CDT on Tuesday.
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| Wall Street scion Caspersen pleads guilty to $38 million fraud | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he defrauded investors out of over $38 million, blaming his conduct on a gambling addiction he could not control. Caspersen, who worked at a unit of investment banker Paul Taubman's PJT Partners Inc prior to his arrest in March, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to securities fraud and wire fraud. Caspersen, who graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, choked up in court as he admitted to cheating numerous people, mostly family and friends, through what he called a "simple" fraud.
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| Slow and injured - Stepanova's comeback falls flat | |  Yulia Stepanova's much-heralded return to action turned into a damp squib on Wednesday when the Russian whistleblower, running as an independent athlete, dropped out of her 800 metres heat with a foot injury having been off the pace throughout. Stepanova has not raced since September due to the ban on Russian athletes but raced under the European Athletics Association (EAA) flag at the European championships after the sport's governing body had requested she be given special dispensation to compete as an independent. "Yulia is very weak psychologically and she can only run when she has been doping," her former coach Vladimir Kazarin told Sport Express newspaper.
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