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| South Korean prosecutors arrest woman at centre of political crisis | | Tuesday, November 01, 2016 1:23 AM | |
|  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - The woman at the centre of a political scandal that has cast the South Korean presidency into crisis was detained late on Monday, a prosecution official said, hours after she had arrived at the office of local prosecutors to answer questions. Prosecutors are investigating allegations that Choi Soon-sil used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs by gaining access to classified documents and benefited personally through non-profit foundations, another prosecution official said earlier. Park is in the fourth year of a five-year term and the crisis threatens to complicate policymaking during the lame-duck period that typically sets in towards the end of South Korea's single-term presidency.
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| Democrats sue Trump for alleged voter intimidation in four states | | Tuesday, November 01, 2016 12:49 AM | |
|  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Party officials sued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in four battleground states on Monday, seeking to shut down a poll-watching effort they said was designed to harass minority voters in the Nov. 8 election. In lawsuits filed in federal courts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Ohio, Democrats argued that Trump and Republican Party officials were mounting a "campaign of vigilante voter intimidation" that violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act and an 1871 law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. "Trump has sought to advance his campaign's goal of 'voter suppression' by using the loudest microphone in the nation to implore his supporters to engage in unlawful intimidation," the Ohio Democratic Party wrote in a legal filing.
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| Tippi Hedren accuses Hitchcock of sexual harassment in memoir | | Tuesday, November 01, 2016 12:30 AM | |
|  Hitchcock died in 1980 at age 80. Hedren, 86, recalled Hitchcock making unwanted advances during her gruelling six-month shoot for "The Birds" in 1962, including one encounter while riding back to her hotel with the filmmaker in his limousine. The breaking point, she wrote, came in 1964 during production of Hedren's second Hitchcock film, "Marnie," when the director "suddenly grabbed me and put his hands on me." "It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly, and I couldn't have been more shocked and more repulsed," she added, alleging that Hitchcock threatened to ruin her career when she insisted on ending her contract, which she did that day.
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| Behind Philippines' ties with China, a billionaire and his rehab centres | |  By Adam Jourdan and Jackie Cai SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At the end of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's landmark visit to China last month, he held a brief private meeting with a businessman who may have played a crucial role in improving ties between the two nations. Huang Rulun, a rags-to-riches Chinese billionaire funding two huge drug rehabilitation centres in the Philippines, has been held up by Duterte as a symbol of the relationship between the two nations. Born to a poor family in coastal Fujian province, Huang was a small-time businessman in the Philippines in the 1980s.
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| Trump raises spectre of crisis if Clinton wins the White House | |  By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton GRAND RAPIDS, Mich./KENT, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton a threat to the country on Monday, saying that if she is elected a probe into her emails could shadow her entire term in office, as the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton's lead narrowing slightly. The trial will probably start," Trump told a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Nothing's going to get done." The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday said it was investigating newly discovered emails that might relate to Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.
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| South Korean prosecutors arrest woman at centre of political crisis - onhap | | The woman at the centre of a political scandal that has cast the South Korean presidency into crisis was detained late on Monday, Yonhap News Agency reported, hours after she had arrived at the office of local prosecutors to answer questions. Prosecutors are investigating allegations that Choi Soon-sil used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs by gaining access to classified documents and benefited personally through non-profit foundations, a prosecution official said earlier. Worried that Choi may be a flight risk and could destroy evidence, prosecutors placed her under emergency detention without a warrant, Yonhap reported, citing a prosecution official.
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| U.S. judge drops part of lawsuit over debunked Rolling Stone rape story | | | (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday dismissed part of a $7.9 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine filed by a University of Virginia administrator over a debunked gang rape story. District Judge Glen Conrad ruled that the November 2014 Rolling Stone story "A Rape on Campus" did not defame administrator Nicole Eramo by its overall implications. Rolling Stone retracted the story after inconsistencies in her account surfaced and police found no evidence of an assault. |
| Uproar over whether FBI chief broke law by raising new Clinton emails | | | By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whether FBI Director James Comey broke the law may hinge on whether he had political motivations or was merely doing his job by reviving Democrat Hillary Clinton's email controversy just days before the Nov. 8 presidential election. Richard Painter, a chief White House ethics lawyer to former Republican President George W. Bush, on Saturday accused Comey of violating the 1939 Hatch Act when the FBI chief wrote Congress on Friday that more of the candidate's emails would be scrutinized. |
| Bahrain activist's trial postponed to Dec. 15 - rights group | |  Bahrain on Monday postponed until Dec. 15 the trial of prominent democracy activist Nabeel Rajab to permit more investigation of a Twitter account he is accused of using to publish criticism of the government, the government and his human rights group said. Rajab's Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said the High Criminal Court postponed the trial for a fourth time to enable it to hire a cyber crime expert to verify that the Twitter handle in question was managed by him.
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| Exclusive - U.S. stopped Philippines rifle sale that senator opposed: sources | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department halted the planned sale of some 26,000 assault rifles to the Philippines' national police after Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it, Senate aides told Reuters on Monday. Aides said Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reluctant for the United States to provide the weapons given concerns about human rights violations in the Philippines.
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