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| France's Hollande may ease self-defence rules for police amid protests | |  France may make it easier for police to defend themselves under new measures laid out by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Wednesday, as police protested across the country. Other proposed measures include doubling sanctions for insulting police, easing conditions to wear hoods to better protect the identity of police officers and 250 million euros (US$273 million) to buy new equipment, Cazeneuve said after a meeting with President Francois Hollande and police unions. "All these measures ... are aimed to make into law provisions that will protect law enforcement officers and impose the respect they deserve," Cazeneuve said.
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| WADA says second McLaren report due in early December | |  (Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Wednesday that a second report from Richard McLaren, whose initial probe confirmed allegations of a broad doping scheme in Russian sport, will be released in early December. WADA did not say what the 'McLaren Investigation Report, Part II' would focus on but some reports have suggested the Canadian lawyer could provide the doping agency with a future roadmap against doping. The original McLaren report, released in July, was one of two commissioned by WADA over the last year which revealed widespread state-sponsored doping in Russian sport.
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| Man charged after suspicious item found on London tube train | | | (Reuters) - British police said on Wednesday a man would appear in court on Thursday in connection with an incident last week in which a suspicious item was found on a London underground train. The Metropolitan Police website said Damon Joseph Smith, 19, had been charged with possession of an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury. British police carried out a controlled explosion on Oct. 20 at North Greenwich underground station, near the Canary Wharf financial district, on the suspect item found by staff on a train. |
| Enraged Venezuela opposition escalates anti-Maduro protests | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's increasingly militant opposition stepped up its push to remove leftist leader Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday with rallies that drew hundreds of thousands of protesters and calls for a general strike and march on the presidential palace. Enraged by last week's suspension of their push for a referendum to remove Maduro and determined to end 17 years of socialism in the South American OPEC nation, Venezuela's opposition has sharply ramped up its tactics in recent days. Maduro, the unpopular 53-year-old successor to Hugo Chavez who has presided over an unprecedented economic crisis, accuses the opposition of seeking a coup with U.S. help.
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| Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalised on video | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was defaced by a vandal wielding a sledgehammer and a pick-axe on Wednesday in an act captured on video, police said. Los Angeles police expect to arrest someone for the vandalism, which left Trump's name scratched out of the star, the emblem in the middle dislodged and chips missing. A video posted at Deadline.com, a Hollywood media industry website, showed a man wearing a hard-hat and reflective vest swinging a sledgehammer and pick-axe in the pre-dawn darkness.
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| Rajoy urges MPs to back his bid to end Spanish gridlock | |  By Inmaculada Sanz and Adrian Croft MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged parliament on Wednesday to back his bid to form a minority government and end 10 months of political paralysis, offering to work with his opponents on major challenges like pension and education reform. Rajoy's conservative People's Party won two elections in December and June but failed to secure a majority and attempts to put together a viable coalition government have failed. Rajoy knows he will need the support of opposition parties to push through legislation and the Socialists warned him on Tuesday that they would not approve any budgets proposed by a Rajoy-led government.
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| Republican hold on U.S. state legislatures could slip in election | |  By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Republican Party's grip on U.S. state legislatures could loosen in next month's election as Democrats seek to link Republican candidates to the sinking fortunes of the party's White House candidate, Donald Trump. Republicans, who have dominated control of legislatures since the mid-term election in 2010, currently hold the majority in 67 of the country's 98 partisan legislative chambers, while Democrats have 31. More than 80 percent of the nation's 7,383 state legislative seats are up for grabs on Nov. 8 and the race between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is expected to influence races further down the ballot papers.
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| Italian student's murder in Egypt is 'open wound' - Italy minister | |  The case of Italian student Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Egypt in February, is an "open wound" for Italy, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Wednesday. "We got a few hopeful signals in September from the Egyptian judicial authorities, and the Rome prosecutor interpreted that as some willingness to collaborate," the minister said during a meeting with students at Rome's LUISS University.
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| Burundi notifies U.N. of International Criminal Court withdrawal | |  Burundi has informed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of its decision to quit the International Criminal Court, it said on Wednesday, adding momentum to mounting African opposition to the Hague-based tribunal. African states have long complained the ICC is biased, prosecuting Africans while ignoring others, but they had until recently resisted withdrawing. Burundi now says it has joined South Africa in taking such a step.
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| Pakistan arrests 'Afghan Girl' from iconic photo, on ID fraud charge | |  By Sami Yousafzai ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested the green-eyed Afghan woman who became a symbol of her country's wars 30 years ago when her photo as a girl appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine, her family said. Sharbat Gula, who grew up in a refugee camp and is now in her 40s, is accused of having a forged Pakistani identity card. Gula is being held in jail in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, said her brother-in-law Shahshad Khan, who added that Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided her home early on Wednesday morning.
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| Syria denies its forces used chemical weapons - state media | | | Syria's government denied on Wednesday that its forces had used chemical weapons in the country's civil war, days after an international inquiry found it responsible for a third toxic gas attack during the conflict. The foreign ministry "denies ... the accusations circulated by some Western circles and their institutions about the use of chemical materials ... during military operations", state news agency SANA reported. The fourth report inquiry by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical weapons watchdog, blamed Syrian government forces for a toxic gas attack in Qmenas in Idlib governorate on March 16, 2015, according to a text of the report seen by Reuters last week. |
| Pakistan to execute schizophrenic murder convict | | | By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan issued a death warrant on Wednesday for a paranoid schizophrenic convicted of murder, his lawyers said, after the Supreme Court ruled his condition was not a permanent mental disorder and therefore not legally relevant. Imdad Ali, 50, was certified by government doctors as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in 2012, following his conviction for the 2001 murder of a Muslim cleric. |
| Republicans may be on verge of losing U.S. Senate majority - aides | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican Party's two-year run in the majority of the U.S. Senate is at serious risk and may well end on Nov. 8, senior congressional aides said on Wednesday, blaming Donald Trump as a drag on down-ballot Republican candidates. With 13 days to go before elections, several Senate aides from both parties privately warned of trouble for Republicans. "Things are not good ... the Senate is gone," said one Republican aide who asked not to be identified in order to candidly discuss the turbulent outlook for the 2016 campaign.
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