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| Turkish media boss quits after email "scam" fuels press freedom fears | | | By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - The head of one of Turkey's largest media groups, Dogan Media, quit on Friday after hackers released what they said were emails showing him yielding to editorial pressure from members of President Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle. In a statement announcing his resignation, Mehmet Ali Yalcindag denied that the emails leaked on social media this week by the leftist RedHack group had come from him, and vowed to take legal action. The resignation of the head of a group whose titles include leading newspaper Hurriyet, broadcaster CNN Turk and mainstream television channel Kanal D, comes amid concern about pressure on the media in Turkey, particularly since emergency rule imposed after a failed July coup, gave the authorities sweeping powers. |
| Interview: After Nissan ultimatum, Jaguar Land Rover says Brexit must be fair for all | |  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Jaguar Land Rover will "realign its thinking" on investment after Britain's vote to leave the EU and if Nissan gets a Brexit compensation deal then other automakers would need a level playing field, Britain's biggest carmaker said. Chief Executive Ralf Speth also told Reuters on Friday that there were signs that some customers in Europe, Jaguar Land Rover's biggest market, no longer wanted to buy British cars.
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| India cracks down on illegal mica mines after expose reveals child deaths | |  By Nita Bhalla and Jatindra Dash NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in India have raided mica mines, arrested traders and begun steps to regulate the underground industry, local officials said, after a Thomson Reuters Foundation expose revealed a cover-up of child deaths in illegal mica mining. A three-month investigation in the mica-producing state of Jharkhand found that a flourishing black market had resulted in at least seven children being killed since June, mining for the prized mineral that adds sparkle to makeup and car paint.
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| Austrian court acquits U.S. rapper Gibbs of sexual assault | | | U.S. rapper Freddie Gibbs was acquitted on Friday of sexually assaulting a woman in Austria, a Vienna court spokeswoman said. Gibbs, 34, whose real name is Fredrick Tipton, was extradited from France to face charges that he spiked a woman's drink and sexually abused her while he was on tour in Vienna last year. "Gibbs was acquitted of sexual assault," the spokeswoman said, adding the decision is not yet effective. |
| Missing Van Gogh paintings turn up in Italian mafia country house | |  By Toby Sterling and Steve Scherer AMSTERDAM/ROME (Reuters) - Two stolen Vincent Van Gogh paintings worth millions of euros were found in an Italian country house belonging to an alleged mafia drug smuggler, police said on Friday, 14 years after they disappeared in a daring heist in Amsterdam. Italian investigators displayed the recovered artworks - a sea scene and a church where the painter's father was minister - to reporters in Naples, saying each was worth an estimated 50 million euros ($56 million). "It is a great day for us today to see the works and to know that they are safe and that they are in safe hands," said Axel Ruger, director of Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, who was present when the paintings were shown to reporters.
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| Philippine hitman says tired of running, ready to die | | | By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - A self-confessed Philippine hitman who testified that President Rodrigo Duterte had personally issued assassination orders while a city mayor said on Friday he was sorry for the dozens of people he had killed and was ready die for his sins. Edgar Matobato, 57, told a Sept. 15 Senate hearing investigating Duterte's anti-crime crackdown he had killed more than 50 people while a member of a "death squad" in the southern city of Davao, when Duterte was mayor. Since giving his testimony, Matobato has been living under the protection of a senator, guarded by former soldiers. |
| Bulgaria bans full-face veils in public places | | | Bulgaria's parliament on Friday banned the wearing of face veils in public in a move which supporters said would boost security in the wake of Islamist militant attacks in Europe. The "burqa ban" law, pushed by the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition, echoes similar measures in western European countries such as France, Netherlands and Belgium which have various laws banning the wearing of burqas or niqabs. People who do not follow the ban in Bulgaria face fines of up to 1,500 levs ($860) as well as suspension of social benefits. |
| Dutch government rebukes Russian ambassador over MH17 remarks | |  The Dutch Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's ambassador in The Hague for a diplomatic rebuke on Friday after Moscow made remarks critical of the criminal investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Earlier this week, a team of international investigators presented findings showing that the missile launcher used to shoot down MH17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 came from Russia and was returned there afterward - despite Russian denials of involvment in the conflict in Ukraine. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said Russian reactions to the investigation's findings "cast doubt on the integrity, professionalism and independence" of the investigators.
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| Family dispute over money blamed for 19 murders in China village | | | A man killed his parents in a squabble over money in a remote Chinese village before killing 17 neighbours to try to cover his tracks, state media said on Friday, an unusual crime in a country in which such mass killings are extremely rare. Police in the southwestern province of Yunnan, where the crime occurred, have already arrested Yang Qingpei for the murders. The official Xinhua news agency said a police investigation had found that Yang, who normally worked in the provincial capital Kunming, returned to his home village at midday on Wednesday. |
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