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| Swiss launch criminal probe of German soccer great Beckenbauer | |  Swiss prosecutors are investigating German soccer great Franz Beckenbauer after a news report said he was suspected of money laundering and breach of trust in connection with the award of the 2006 World Cup to Germany. The report by Spiegel Online said the accusations were linked to Beckenbauer's role as head of the organising committee for Germany's successful bid to host the tournament, which is also being investigated by global soccer body FIFA. Beckenbauer, who could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday, has previously admitted to making mistakes but denied any wrongdoing.
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| EU ruling on Apple's Irish tax is 'total political crap' - CEO | |  By Conor Humphries and Alastair Macdonald DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook described an EU ruling that it must pay a huge tax bill to Ireland as "total political crap", but France joined Germany on Thursday in backing Brussels as transatlantic tensions grow. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager dismissed Cook's broadside, saying the demand for a 13 billion euro ($14.5 billion) back tax payment was based on the facts. Washington has lined up with the tech giant, accusing the European Union of trying to grab tax revenue that should go to the U.S. government.
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| Obama visits Midway Atoll, a symbol for his climate, Asia legacy | |  By Roberta Rampton HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday is set to visit Midway Atoll, the remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate challenges and the dominance the United States has held in the Pacific since its World War Two victory there. The journey, timed as Obama leaves for his last visit to Asia to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders, will also serve as a reminder of the American victory against Japanese forces on the island during World War Two. "It's a signal, it's a message saying the United States is committed to staying in the Pacific, and not sort of backing away," said naval historian Tom Hone, who has studied the infamous Battle of Midway.
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| Thai government to resume peace talks with Muslim insurgents | |  Thailand's military government said on Thursday peace talks with Muslim separatists operating in the far south of the country would resume in Malaysia, but no agreement would be signed unless the insurgents observed a ceasefire. The separatists from the far-south Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat have been blamed for an unprecedented string of bombings last month in several tourist towns that killed four people and wounded dozens. A decades-old insurgency in the deep south of predominately Buddhist Thailand flared in 2004 and more than 6,500 people have been killed since then, according to the independent monitoring group Deep South Watch.
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| Gabon opposition leader says two killed, many wounded after disputed vote | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping said on Thursday two people were killed and many wounded when the presidential guard and police attacked his party's headquarters overnight after an election narrowly won by President Ali Bongo. Ping called for international assistance to protect the population of the oil-producing state and said Saturday's election was stolen by Bongo, who was declared the winner on Wednesday. Bongo took power in 2009 on the death of his father, who had ruled for 42 years.
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| IOC sanctions 2 Beijing Olympians including Cuba silver medalist | |  The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday it has disqualified two athletes from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including a Cuban discus silver medalist, after retesting of samples found evidence they had used banned substances. Cuba's Yarelys Barrios, who placed second in the discus in Beijing, tested positive for the masking agent acetazolamide, according to a re-analysis by the IOC. Samuel Adelebari Francis of Qatar, who was sixteenth in the 100 metres event, was disqualified after the IOC's re-analysis resulted in a positive test for the steroid stanozol.
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| Pokemon Go hunters snare real thief in New Zealand | |  Some New Zealand fans of the smartphone game Pokemon Go caught more than they bargained for when they grabbed a thief who broke into a car and held him until police arrived. The young people were out hunting virtual cartoon characters in the North Island town of Napier on Wednesday night, when they heard a car alarm and saw a masked man run past, New Zealand Police said. "They didn't use Pokeballs to catch him, they just held him till police arrived," police said in a statement, referring to an online tool used to capture the Pokemons that appear in places such as temples and landmarks where people gather. A 28-year-old man was arrested and will face theft charges in court on Sept. 7, police said. Nintendo's Pokemon Go has become an unexpected smash hit, using augmented reality and Google mapping to make animated characters appear in the real world, overlaid on the nearby landscape viewed through players' mobile phone cameras.
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| Brazil's new leader a consensus-builder who must prepare for a fight | |  The Senate's dismissal on Wednesday of Dilma Rousseff, the least popular president since Brazil returned to democracy three decades ago, handed power to a politician almost as unpopular, vice president Michel Temer. For much of his five decades in politics, the softly-spoken Temer has worked in the shadows, building alliances within his fragmented Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and rising to become one of the leading dealmakers in Brazil's Congress. "It is time to reunite the country and put national interests above those of groups," Temer said in his first televised address as president.
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| Cambodia opposition senator loses immunity amid fears for free speech | | | Cambodia's Senate stripped an opposition senator of immunity from prosecution on Thursday, allowing a court to charge her over comments about Prime Minister Hun Sen amid increasing nervousness over speaking out against the government. Hun Sen filed a suit against Senator Thak Lany for accusing him in a speech of being behind the July killing of government critic Kem Ley. A lawyer for Lany, who now faces charges of defamation and incitement, denied the senator had ever made such an allegation. |
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