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| U.S. court rules for music companies in MP3tunes copyright case | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that record companies and music publishers that once formed part of EMI Group Ltd could pursue additional copyright infringement claims in a long-running lawsuit over defunct online music storage firm MP3tunes. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, and reinstated much of a jury 2014's verdict awarding the music companies $48 million that a trial judge later reduced. The ruling marked the latest turn in protracted court battles between the music industry and online content providers. |
| U.S. judge approves $14.7 billion deal in VW diesel scandal | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved one of the biggest corporate settlements on record, Volkswagen AG's $14.7 billion deal arising from its diesel emissions cheating scandal, and the German automaker said it would begin buying back polluting cars in mid-November. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco signed off on VW's settlement with federal and California regulators and the owners of the 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles in a pivotal moment for the world's No. ...
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| FAI's Delaney quits as Olympic Council of Ireland vice president | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) vice president John Delaney resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first board member to quit since its chief, Pat Hickey, was charged in Brazil over an alleged scheme to sell Olympic tickets illegally. Delaney, who is head of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), said last month that he had no role or involvement in the OCI's handling of ticketing arrangements and would consider his position as the FAI's member of the OCI Executive Committee.
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| Trump: Obama should be investigated over Clinton email server | |  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson DORAL, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama should be investigated over a private email server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state, saying Obama "knew all about" her email arrangements. "That's why he stuck up for Hillary, because he didn't want to be dragged in. Because he knew all about her private server," Trump said of the Democratic president in an interview with Reuters.
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| Turkey detains co-mayors of mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir | |  Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained the co-mayors of the mainly Kurdish southeast's biggest city on charges they aided militants, part of a government crackdown after more than a year of violence in the region. Gultan Kisanak, a former member of parliament before her election as mayor in Diyarbakir, and Firat Anli, her co-mayor, were taken into custody as part of an investigation into terrorism links, the local prosecutor said in a statement. President Tayyip Erdogan has said the removal of elected officials and civil servants who are accused of links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, is a key part of the fight against the armed group.
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| Exclusive - Trump says Clinton policy on Syria would lead to World War Three | |  By Steve Holland DORAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrat Hillary Clinton's plan for Syria would "lead to World War Three," because of the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia. In an interview focussed largely on foreign policy, Trump said defeating Islamic State is a higher priority than persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, playing down a long-held goal of U.S. policy. Trump questioned how Clinton would negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin after demonising him, and blamed President Barack Obama for a downturn in U.S. relations with the Philippines under its new president, Rodrigo Duterte.
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| Exclusive - U.S. House to vote on Iran Sanctions Act renewal as soon as November | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorisation of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday, setting up a potential showdown with the White House and Senate. The Iran Sanctions Act, or ISA, which expires on Dec. 31, allows trade, energy, defence and banking industry sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme and ballistic missile tests. Its fate in the Senate was much less certain, and a White House spokesman would not say whether President Barack Obama would sign it into law.
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| American Paul Beatty's race satire wins Man Booker Prize | |  By Nigel Stephenson LONDON (Reuters) - Paul Beatty was on Tuesday named as the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker fiction prize for "The Sellout", a biting satire on race relations in the United States. Chair of the five judges for the 50,000 pound ($60,900) prize Amanda Foreman said "The Sellout" had been a unanimous choice, reached after a meeting lasting some four hours. "It manages to eviscerate every social nuance, every sacred cow, while making us laugh and also making us wince ... It is really a novel for our times." "The Sellout" tells the story of an African-American, "Bonbon", who tries to put his Californian town back on the map, from which it has been officially removed, by re-introducing slavery and segregation in the local high school.
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| Pop singer Timberlake under investigation for Tennessee ballot selfie | |  Pop star Justin Timberlake may have run afoul of Tennessee election law when he posted a photo of himself in a polling station on social media, authorities said on Tuesday, the latest controversy over so-called ballot selfies. Timberlake, 35, posted the photo on Monday and said in the caption that he had travelled from Los Angeles to his hometown of Memphis to take part in early voting ahead of the Nov. 8 election. "Get out and VOTE! #exerciseyourrighttovote," Timberlake said in part of the photo's caption, which was posted on Instagram, a social media site where he has over 37 million followers.
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| U.S. says troubled by reports of another U.S. citizen jailed by Iran | | | The United States is troubled by reports that an Iranian-American man may have been sentenced by Iran to 18 years in prison, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday, a week after an Iranian-American businessman and his father were also jailed by an Iranian court. "We are troubled by reports that Robin Reza Shahini, a person reported to be a U.S. citizen, may have been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison," spokesman John Kirby told a daily briefing. Last week, businessman Siamak Namazi and his 80-year-old father Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian provincial governor and former UNICEF official, were sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with the United States. |
| Mexican presidents do not yearn to 'screw' the country - Pena Nieto | | | Presidents of Mexico do not wake up thinking how to "screw" the country, current office holder Enrique Pena Nieto said on Tuesday, seeking to defend his record in government and encourage positive thinking. Pena Nieto's reputation has been dented by abuses by security forces, conflict-of-interest scandals and political corruption. It took a fresh hit this summer when he hosted U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Mexico City on Aug. 31 for a hastily arranged visit that surprised many members of his cabinet. |
| Sumner Redstone forced to borrow $100 million from National Amusements - lawsuit | |  Media mogul Sumner Redstone on Tuesday sued two ex-girlfriends for civil claims including elder abuse, alleging he was forced to borrow $100 million from the private company that holds his voting shares of CBS Corp and Viacom Inc to cover tax obligations on gifts he gave to the women. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks about $150 million that Redstone's lawyers say he gave to Manuela Herzer and Sydney Holland. Redstone's lawsuit is the newest front in a nearly year-long litigation war between the 93-year-old former Viacom chairman and Herzer.
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| Ex-'Real Housewives' stars pulled off flight sue Virgin America | | | Former "Real Housewives of New Jersey" stars Jim and Amber Marchese on Tuesday filed a defamation lawsuit against Virgin America Inc , after police pulled the couple off an April 20 flight and arrested Jim, who according to a flight attendant had attacked his wife. The Marcheses said they had been engaging in "flirtatious" conduct in their first class seats while returning home on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles International Airport, after three weeks in California filming another reality TV show, "Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars." But according to the complaint filed in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, flight attendant Moriah Rosser, who had recognised the Marcheses and "commented that she did not like" Jim, told airport police he had choked and threatened his wife. |
| Islamists launch three attacks in Somalia and Kenya in 24 hours | | | By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group rammed a military base with a suicide truck bomb, shot dead an intelligence officer and killed 12 people in a Kenyan border town in a series of strikes over 24 hours, the militants said on Tuesday. The group, which once ruled much of Somalia, wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and drive out African AMISOM peacekeepers made up of soldiers from Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Ethiopia and other African nations. Al Shabaab spokesman Abdiasis Abu Musab said the group was behind a truck bomb that rammed into an AMISOM base in the Somali town of Beledweyne, north of Mogadishu. |
| Venezuelan legislature launches trial against Maduro | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly voted on Tuesday to open a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro for violating democracy, but the socialist government dismissed the move as meaningless. The OPEC member's political standoff has worsened since last week's suspension of an opposition push to hold a referendum to try and recall Maduro, 53. With that avenue closed, the opposition coalition has raised the stakes, using its power base in congress to begin legal action against Hugo Chavez's unpopular successor.
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| New Jersey boys survive 100-foot fall with suicidal father | | | The father, identified as John Spincken, jumped from an overpass along Interstate 187 in Wanaque, New Jersey, sometime after 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on Monday in what police have described as a suicide. Spincken, 37, was found dead at the scene, but his 1- and 3-year-old sons were alive and taken to a hospital for treatment, according to Christopher DePuyt, a police captain in Pequannock, where Spincken lived. |
| Nurse charged with murdering 8 in Canadian old-age homes | | | By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian nurse was charged on Tuesday with using drugs to murder eight elderly patients at two long-term care facilities, a highly unusual case in a country where such crimes are almost unknown. Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, is accused of killing five women and three men in the Ontario towns of Woodstock and London between 2007 and 2014. "The victims were administered a drug ... there are obviously a number of drugs that are stored and are available in long-term care facilities," Woodstock Police Chief William Renton told a televised news conference. |
| As Calais 'Jungle' closes, women migrants in smaller camps fear influx | |  By Lin Taylor and Sally Hayden NORRENT-FONTES, France (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At a small, muddy makeshift migrant camp in the quiet countryside of Norrent-Fontes, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) from Calais in northern France, Ethiopian and Eritrean women prepare to cook injera, a type of flatbread, for their lunch. Inside a wooden shack lined with mattresses and belongings hanging in plastic bags overhead, Ethiopian migrant Sara, 26, stirs carrots, lentils and potatoes into a stew she is cooking for the 60 women in the camp. The security Sara feels in Norrent-Fontes contrasts with her experience of the "Jungle" camp outside Calais which the French authorities began clearing on Monday, ahead of its demolition.
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| Vatican and Argentina to release 'Dirty War' archives soon | |  By Juliana Castilla BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The Vatican and Argentina will soon release archives from the country's 1976-83 "Dirty War," when a military dictatorship killed as many as 30,000 people in a crackdown on left-wing opponents, officials said on Tuesday. The archives contain about 3,000 letters between the Roman Catholic Church and family members of the dictatorship's victims. Human rights groups have accused Catholic officials of covering up abuses by the junta when it was in power.
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