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| Republican Trump says 70 percent of federal regulations 'can go' | | Friday, October 07, 2016 12:53 AM | |
|  By Chris Kaufman NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said as many as 70 percent of federal agency regulations could be eliminated if he is elected in November, just hours after an adviser said the candidate would seek to cut 10 percent. Trump, who blamed regulations for stifling business, told a crowd at a town hall event in New Hampshire on Thursday night that regulations for the environment and safety would remain. "We are cutting the regulation at a tremendous clip.
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| TV show on hold as Kim Kardashian leaves New York after robbery | | Friday, October 07, 2016 12:14 AM | |
|  By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Production on the TV reality show "Keeping up with the Kardashians" is on hold, the E! Network said on Thursday, just days after the show's star, Kim Kardashian, was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. Flanked by multiple security guards, Kardashian and her family on Thursday left their Manhattan apartment, where they have been closeted since she returned from Paris. News video and photos showed Kardashian, 35, her face partly hidden by a hoodie and baseball cap, getting into a car with her two young children and rapper husband Kanye West.
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| Brazil lawmakers approve spending cap in victory for Temer | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - A congressional committee in Brazil approved a constitutional amendment on Thursday that would limit public spending increases for 20 years, handing President Michel Temer an initial victory in his plan to plug a widening deficit. The unprecedented amendment, which limits the growth of federal spending to the rate of inflation, is aimed at gradually closing a yawning budget gap that topped 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year. It is the first of a series of austerity measures to assuage market concerns that the once-booming economy, which was stripped of its investment grade rating last year, could be hurtling towards a debt crisis.
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| Deutsche Bank in informal talks about raising capital - Bloomberg | |  (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG is in informal talks with securities firms to explore options including raising capital should mounting legal bills require it, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Senior advisers at top Wall Street firms are speaking to representatives of Deutsche Bank about ideas including a share sale and asset disposals, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. A spokeswoman for Deutsche Bank in New York declined to comment.
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| U.S. researcher killed in Ethiopia praised for work, kindness | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The California university researcher killed in Ethiopia protests was a brilliant scientist with an infectious smile who was studying the effects of climate change at the time of her death, the colleague who was travelling with her said on Thursday. Sharon Gray, a 31-year-old postdoctoral scientist at the University of California, Davis, was riding through Addis Ababa with her co-researcher Siobahn Brady when their car was attacked by demonstrators hurling rocks. The U.S. State Department was assisting in bringing Gray's body home.
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| At least 22 Niger soldiers killed in attack on refugee camp | | | At least 22 soldiers were killed in Niger on Thursday when unknown assailants attacked a camp for Malian refugees, the West African nation's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said. The attack targeted a camp in the village of Tassalit in Niger's Tahoua region, around 525 km (326 miles) northeast of the capital Niamey. The camp's residents are Malians who fled to neighbouring Niger after Islamist militants, some with links to al Qaeda, seized Mali's desert north in 2012. |
| Clinton Foundation warns donors about targeted phishing attempts | |  The Clinton Foundation warned donors about targeted hacking attempts to steal donors' personal information, according to two contributors and a copy of an email seen by Reuters, in a year that has seen an unprecedented wave of hacks of U.S. political organizations. While the New York-based charitable organisation reiterated previous statements that it has "no evidence that our system was breached," it said in its email on Wednesday that hackers were trying to obtain information from donors with fraudulent emails claiming to be from the foundation. The foundation's email went out about a month before the Nov. 8 general election, in which a number of hacks have played outsized roles in the contest between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
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| Factbox - Clinton's policies on economy, Islamic State, other issues | |  (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy, preserve the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and provide a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. Here are the proposals the former secretary of state has made as part of her argument that she is best qualified to occupy the Oval Office. Clinton has also called for an additional 4 percent tax on those making more than $5 million annually.
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| Factbox - Trump's policies on immigration, economy, other issues | |  (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to build a wall on the border with Mexico, boost spending on the military and slap trade tariffs on China. Here are those positions and others the New York businessman, who has never held elective office, has put forward to convince the American people that he should be the next U.S. chief executive. Trump has proposed increasing spending on the U.S. military and infrastructure but says he would reduce spending on other categories by 1 percent each year.
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| U.N. sets limits on global airline emissions amid dissent | |  By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - A United Nations agency approved a landmark accord on Thursday to curb aviation pollution amid criticism the deal, which will cost the industry billions of dollars, fails to trim emissions enough on international flights. The International Civil Aviation Organization's global carbon offseting system, the first such scheme for a single industry, is expected to slow the growth of emissions from commercial flights, costing the industry less than 2 percent of revenues. Airlines will have to buy carbon credits from designated environmental projects around the world to offset growth in emissions.
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| UKIP EU lawmaker in hospital after 'altercation' with colleague | |  By Gilbert Reilhac and Michael Holden STRASBOURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Steven Woolfe, a candidate to be the new leader of Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party, was recovering in hospital after suffering seizures on Thursday following an "altercation" with a colleague at a meeting about the party's future. Described as "unseemly behaviour" between "two grown men" by UKIP's leader, the incident took place as the UKIP members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in Strasbourg, sought to clear the air amid factional infighting which has grown since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June. Brexit has shaken all parties across the British political spectrum, leading to Conservative Theresa May replacing David Cameron as prime minister, a leadership election in the opposition Labour Party and deep division in UKIP as to its purpose now it has achieved its goal of securing EU withdrawal.
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