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| U.S. expects donor conference to pledge $3 billion a year for Afghanistan | | | An international conference on Afghanistan in Brussels next week is expected to pledge over $3 billion a year in development support to the Central Asian nation up to the end of 2020, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. Richard Olson, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told a forum in Washington that the U.S. government would seek via Congress to maintain U.S. assistance to Afghanistan "at, or near" current levels for the period. The European Union and Afghanistan will host a donor conference on Oct. 4-5 in Brussels to seek backing for reforms to stabilize and develop the country. |
| U.S. teen's family decries 'senseless' shooting as police seek clues | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The family of a 14-year-old South Carolina boy accused of killing his father and wounding two elementary school students and a teacher lamented his actions on Thursday but gave no clues about a motive for the shooting spree a day earlier. The teenager, who was in custody and whose name has not been released, fatally shot his father, Jeffrey DeWitt Osborne, 47, on Wednesday afternoon in rural Townville, about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Atlanta, police said. "Our entire family is absolutely shocked and saddened by the senseless actions of our son and grandson," the Osborne family said in a statement provided to The Greenville News.
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| U.N. fails to set international probe on Yemen war crimes | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday declined to set up an independent inquiry into abuses in Yemen, instead calling on a national inquiry to investigate by violations by all sides, including the killing of civilians and attacks on hospitals. The move disappointed activists, who, along with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, had called for an independent probe, especially into air strikes by a Saudi-led Arab coalition backing the Yemeni government. The United Nations blames the coalition strikes for 60 percent of some 3,800 civilian deaths since March 2015.
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| Syria's U.N. envoy says: 'We don't bomb civilians' | |  Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari rejected accusations on Thursday that the Syrian government was killing civilians. "The Syrian government is not bombing civilians. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week accused the Syrian government of killing the most civilians during the country's five year conflict.
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| Family wants answers over police shooting death in Washington | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a District of Columbia police officer wants answers to unresolved questions in the case, which has sparked protests in the U.S. capital, an attorney said on Thursday. Terrence Sterling, 31, of Fort Washington, Maryland, was shot early on Sept. 11 after police said he intentionally crashed his motorcycle into a police cruiser. The District of Columbia's medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide. |
| U.S. 9/11 law exasperates Saudis, government silent | |  By Katie Paul and Hadeel Al Sayegh RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11 attacks met a stony silence from Riyadh on Thursday but some Saudis bristled, saying the kingdom should curb business and security ties in response. The Senate and House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve legislation that will allow the families of those killed in the 2001 attacks on the United States to seek damages from the Saudi government. Riyadh has always dismissed suspicions that it backed the attackers, who killed nearly 3,000 people under the banner of Islamist militant group al Qaeda.
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| Celtic fined by UEFA over supporters' Palestinian flags | | | (Reuters) - Celtic have been fined 10,000 euros ($11,241) by Europe's governing body UEFA over Palestinian flags displayed by fans during their Champions League match against Hapoel Beer Sheva last month. Home fans flew the flags before and during the match against Israeli opposition at Celtic Park, drawing a charge from UEFA, who viewed the flags as "illicit banners". The charge was the ninth levelled at the club by UEFA in recent years for supporter misconduct. |
| U.S. House panel lambasts Wells Fargo boss over phantom accounts | |  By Patrick Rucker and Dan Freed WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf on Thursday offered Capitol Hill lawmakers a series of actions to fix widespread sales abuses but remained defensive on issues like consumer lawsuits, the weakness of an internal investigation and his sale of Wells Fargo shares. Jeb Hensarling, the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in his opening statement that he has lost faith in Wells Fargo, where he has a mortgage. "Mr. Stumpf, I have a mortgage with your bank," Hensarling said.
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| Erdogan says to extend Turkey's emergency rule, rounds on rating agencies | |  By Seda Sezer and Tuvan Gumrukcu ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan suggested on Thursday that emergency rule could be extended beyond a year and rounded on rating agencies after Moody's cut Turkey to "junk" status, helping send the lira to its weakest in almost two months. In a speech in Ankara, Erdogan said Turkey would benefit from a three-month extension to the three-month state of emergency declared after a failed July 15 coup, which the government says is needed to hunt down those responsible, but which critics say is being used to stifle dissent. "It would be in Turkey's benefit to extend the state of emergency for three months," he told a group of provincial leaders at the presidential palace.
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| U.S. top court to hear dispute over trademark for band The Slants | | | The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide whether a federal law barring trademarks on racial slurs violates free speech rights in a case involving an Oregon band called The Slants that could impact the high-profile dispute over the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins. The justices said they would hear the Obama administration's appeal of a lower court ruling last year that sided with the Portland-based Asian-American rock band in its free-speech challenge to part of the 1946 law governing federal trademarks. The Redskins have separately challenged the law, also arguing it violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of free speech. |
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