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| 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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| U.S. Justice Department to probe police shooting of Louisiana black man | |  By Bryn Stole and Kathy Finn BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it will 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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| 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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| 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. Carlson, 50, claimed in a lawsuit that Ailes, a former Republican political consultant who built the Fox News television network into the most-watched U.S. cable news channel, took her off the morning show "Fox & Friends" in 2013 and cut her pay because she refused to have a sexual relationship with him.
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| Two leading Republicans shy away from role of Trump VP pick | |  By Susan Cornwell and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump's list of potential vice presidential candidates 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 July 15 deadline 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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| 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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| Egypt considers retaliating for Italy's decision to cut military supplies | | | Egypt said on Wednesday it was considering retaliating against Italy for halting military supplies to protest the killing of an Italian student earlier this year. Italy's Senate voted last week to halt supplies to Egypt of spare parts for F16 warplanes, the first commercial steps taken against Cairo since the death of Giulio Regeni. Italy has repeatedly complained that Egyptian authorities have not cooperated to find those responsible for the 28-year-old student's death. |
| Brazil's Rousseff gives impassioned defence against impeachment | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff presented her written defence to a Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday, denouncing the proceedings as a farce and saying her alleged crimes were no more than "routine acts of budgetary management." "Everybody knows that you are judging an honest woman, a public servant dedicated to just causes," the suspended leftist leader said in a document read aloud by her lawyer and former Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo. Rousseff has repeatedly said her impeachment is an attempt by Temer and other right-leaning members of her one-time governing coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), to remove her because she did not impede a sweeping probe of corruption at state-run oil company Petrobras.
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| Imprisoned U.S. soldier Manning hospitalized in Kansas | |  (Reuters) - U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for handing over classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, was hospitalized, her attorney said on Wednesday, after media reports that Manning had attempted to commit suicide. The Army confirmed Manning, 28, who was born male but identifies as a woman, had been released back into custody from the hospital, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio said. Manning's medical condition was not released.
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| British inquiry slams ex-PM Blair for catalogue of failures over Iraq war | |  By Michael Holden and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's justification, planning and handling of the Iraq War involved a catalogue of failures, a seven-year inquiry concluded on Wednesday in a scathing verdict on Britain's role in the conflict. Eight months before the 2003 invasion, Blair told U.S. President George W. Bush "I will be with you, whatever", eventually sending 45,000 British troops into battle when peace options had not been exhausted, the long-awaited British public inquiry said. More than 13 years since the invasion, Iraq remains in chaos, with large areas under the control of Islamic State militants who have claimed responsibility for attacks on Western cities.
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| For Chile's lawyers, country's new labour laws a mystery | | | By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Two weeks after Chile's government completed work on a landmark labour reform, leading lawyers in the world's top copper exporter say the bill is filled with gaping regulatory voids that have replaced many laws with question marks. The reform, aimed at strengthening organised labour in the South American country, was initially passed by Chile's Senate in March after a bruising battle that opened up divisions within the governing coalition. The removed parts, however, contained a huge chunk of the laws that define the nation's collective bargaining framework. |
| U.S. sanctions North Korean leader over rights abuses | |  By David Brunnstrom, Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday sanctioned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first time, citing "notorious abuses of human rights," in a move that diplomats say will incense the nuclear-armed country. The sanctions, the first to target any North Koreans for rights abuses, affect property and other assets within U.S. jurisdiction and extend to 10 other individuals and five government ministries and departments, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. "Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea continues to inflict intolerable cruelty and hardship on millions of its own people, including extrajudicial killings, forced labour, and torture," Acting Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam J. Szubin said in the statement.
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| Italian victims tortured in Bangladesh attack, autopsies show | |  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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| Soccer superstar Messi gets 21 months jail for tax fraud, unlikely to serve time | |  By Emma Pinedo and Angus Berwick MADRID (Reuters) - World soccer superstar Lionel Messi was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison and fined 2 million euros ($2.2 million) after being found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, although it is unlikely he will serve time in jail. The Spanish court handed the same sentence to the Argentine player's father, Jorge Horacio, with a 1.5 million euro fine. "The sentence is not correct and we are confident the appeal will show the defence was right," Messi's lawyers said in a statement.
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| France sentences two men to life in prison for 1994 genocide in Rwanda | | | France on Wednesday sentenced two former Rwandan mayors to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the African country in 1994. Tito Barahira, 65, and Octavien Ngenzi, 58, were tried over attacks against ethnic Tutsis in the town of Kabarondo, where they both have been mayor. A number of Rwandan genocide-related crimes have been tried in recent years in Rwanda and other countries. |
| France puts two Paris attack suspects under formal investigation | |  French magistrates on Wednesday put under formal investigation two men suspected of helping the main surviving suspect of the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris last November, a judicial source said. Mohamed Amri and Ali Oulkadi were extradited earlier in the day from Belgium. Investigators say Amri drove to Paris shortly after the attacks to bring key suspect Salah Abdeslam back to Belgium.
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| Italian agent and coach held in Kenya for questioning | | | Italian sports agent Federico Rosa and coach Claudio Berardelli are being questioned by Kenyan police over the alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes they managed and trained, court documents showed on Wednesday. Kenya, renowned for its distance runners, has faced frequent allegations of doping, with some 40 cases reported in the past four years. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said last month that competitors from Russia and Kenya, given the recent history of doping in both countries, would have to be screened individually before being allowed to participate in the Rio Games next month. |
| 'Please stop saying I was lying,' says ex-UK PM Blair after Iraq war inquiry | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair, the former prime minister who led Britain into war in Iraq in 2003, launched a defence of his legacy following the publication of a highly critical report into the war with a simple message: "Please stop saying I was lying." The long-awaited report into a war which has cast a shadow over British foreign policy for more than a decade found that Blair relied on flawed intelligence and that the way the war was legally authorised was unsatisfactory. Blair faced hostile questioning from national and international media, who said his assurances to former U.S. President George Bush had amounted to a "blank cheque for war" and that he had abandoned diplomatic channels too easily.
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