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| FBI examining fake documents targeting Clinton campaign - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said. U.S. Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has referred one of the documents to the FBI for investigation on the grounds that his name and stationery were forged to appear authentic, some of the sources who had knowledge of that discussion said.
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| Turkey's pro-Kurdish party HDP's 11 MPs detained - party lawyers | |  Two co-leaders and nine lawmakers of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were detained early on Friday over reluctance to give testimony for crimes linked to "terrorist propaganda." Turkish police raided the Ankara house of co-leader Selahattin Demirtas and the house of co-leader Figen Yuksekdag in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, the party's lawyers told Reuters. Nine other HDP parliamentarians were also detained, lawyers said. Turkey accuses the HDP of links to the Kurdish militant group PKK, which is deemed a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.
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| U.S. House Speaker Ryan running for re-election - spokeswoman | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan is running again for the job in the next Congress, a spokeswoman said on Thursday after a media report quoted several unidentified House Republicans as saying they expected him to step down next week. "He is running," Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said. The Hill cited four House Republicans as saying that they expected Ryan to step aside as Speaker after next Tuesday's general election.
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| U.S. court deals Trump a setback in poll-monitor fight | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a blow to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a U.S. judge on Thursday upheld a Pennsylvania state law that could make it difficult for his supporters to monitor Election Day activity in Democratic-leaning areas. Trump has repeatedly said Tuesday's presidential election may be rigged, while providing scant evidence, and has urged supporters to keep an eye out for signs of voting fraud in Philadelphia and other heavily Democratic areas. Democrats worry that could encourage Trump supporters to harass minority voters in a state that could determine whether Trump or his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, wins the presidency.
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| Drugmakers under fire for possible U.S. price fixing | | | Two prominent U.S. lawmakers on Thursday called on federal antitrust regulators to probe whether Sanofi SA , Eli Lilly and Co , Merck & Co Inc and Novo Nordisk A/S colluded to set prices for insulin and other diabetes drugs. The request by Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland, follows a similar letter they sent last fall calling for an investigation into 14 drug companies over price increases of generic drugs. |
| A year inside America's militia | |  In the United States, many local militias are armed and have taken issue with some government policies. After spending a year with groups in Oregon, Montana, Nevada and Idaho protesting what they describe as government overreach, I've decided not to label them at all. In April 2015, I was assigned to cover the Oath Keepers during a tour of the Sugar Pine gold mine in Oregon after the group of former cops, military, firefighters and other first responders had risen to prominence during a standoff in Nevada over land rights.
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| VW says defeat device in conformity with European law | |  Volkswagen said the software allowing its diesel vehicles to evade emissions rules does not violate European law, as the carmaker aims to toughen its legal defences in view of a possible rise in compensation claims in its home region. The European Commission has been raising the pressure on Volkswagen (VW) to compensate owners of rigged cars in Europe, where the majority of affected vehicles are registered. Last month, a Spanish court for the first time ruled in favour of a VW customer and imposed a fine on VW's local units, leading Spanish consumer lobbies to urge other people with affected cars to join a class-action lawsuit against VW.
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| Venezuela opposition gives Maduro until November 11 to meet demands | |  By Andreina Aponte and Anggy Polanco CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition exhorted President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday to set an election and start releasing jailed activists within days, while students opposed to Vatican-led talks protested in the streets. The opposition coalition drew hundreds of thousands into the streets when authorities quashed its drive for a referendum against Maduro last month in the country of 30 million people. Carlos Ocariz, an opposition mayor speaking on behalf of the coalition, reiterated their first demand was the revival of the referendum or a moving forward of presidential elections to the first quarter of 2017.
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| Russia says U.N. South Sudan mission 'in ruins' after firing | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday criticized U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's decision to fire a Kenyan peace keeping commander in South Sudan as premature, saying the mission there was now "in ruins" after Kenya vowed to withdraw all its troops in response to the move. Ban dismissed Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki after a U.N. inquiry into the response by peacekeepers to several days of violence in the capital Juba in July found a lack of leadership and that U.N. troops failed to protect civilians.
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| FBI fear of leaks drove decision on emails linked to Clinton - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey was driven in part by a fear of leaks from within his agency when he decided to tell Congress the FBI was investigating newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clinton, law enforcement sources said on Thursday. Several sources said it was unclear whether the FBI would make any further public disclosures about its latest review before Tuesday's presidential and congressional elections. Another source, recently in contact with top investigators, said: "It depends on how it goes and what they find." The source said that, as of Thursday, "nobody really knows" whether the FBI will have anything further to say before the election.
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| Iowa man charged with murder for ambush shooting of two police officers | |  An Iowa man who had several run-ins with police and was banned from his daughter's high school after waving a Confederate flag was charged with murder on Thursday for the ambush-style slaying of two police officers. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was arrested after turning himself in to authorities hours after the separate shootings early on Wednesday in Des Moines and the city's suburb of Urbandale.
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| Ukrainian hackers promise leaks on Putin spokesman | |  By Alessandra Prentice and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian hackers behind recent Kremlin email leaks said on Thursday they planned to release more information taken from accounts linked to senior Russian officials, including to President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman. A network of Ukrainian hacking groups, called the Cyber Alliance, has been releasing emails they say were sent to one of Putin's top advisers - a bid to disprove Russia's denial it has stoked separatism in eastern Ukraine and played a direct role in the 2-1/2-year-old conflict there. Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, two members of group RUH8, part of Cyber Alliance, said they would not stop their cyber attacks against Russia while the eastern fighting continues.
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| Exclusive - ACT cancels test scores in Asia after leak of essay question | |  By Steve Stecklow LONDON (Reuters) - Students in Asia have been notified that their scores on the writing section of last month's ACT college-entrance exam are being cancelled, in the latest example of how standardised test makers are struggling to contain an international epidemic of cheating. ACT spokesman Ed Colby declined to say how many students were affected by the October score cancellations, which he said involved test centres in Asia and Oceania. Your multiple choice ACT tests—English, mathematics, reading, and science tests—WILL be scored." The message added that ACT will issue each student a $16 refund.
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| A decade after fall from grace, Mel Gibson rises with 'Hacksaw Ridge' | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It has been ten years since Mel Gibson went on a drunken anti-Semitic rant that made him a Hollywood outcast, but the actor and director is finally climbing back into the industry's good graces. Gibson has kept a low profile with just a handful of small acting roles since his 2006 arrest in Malibu for drunk driving, after which he apologised for launching a diatribe against Jews and sought treatment for alcoholism. Now, his new war drama "Hacksaw Ridge," out in theatres on Friday, is winning the warmest reviews since his 1995 Oscar-winning movie "Braveheart." The film was screened at the Academy of Motion Pictures in Beverly Hills, and on Sunday, Gibson will be named best director at the Hollywood Film Awards - the start of the road to February's Oscars.
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| Cabinet reshaped by Spain's Rajoy draws strong opposition criticism | |  By Adrian Croft and Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy brought six new ministers into his cabinet on Thursday but opposition leaders said his new team showed no sign of being open to the dialogue his minority government will need to survive. The conservative Rajoy named a new, younger 13-member cabinet, including five women, for his second term after he won a parliamentary confidence vote on Saturday, ending 10 months of political paralysis that included two inconclusive elections. "It is a government that is not qualified for dialogue," Socialist spokesman Mario Jimenez told reporters.
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| Boat that attacked gas tanker off Yemen carried explosives - ship owner | | | By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Unknown assailants who opened fire on a gas tanker last week off the coast of Yemen were also carrying a "substantial amount of explosives", the vessel's owner said on Thursday, and a maritime source said it may have been an attempted suicide attack. Security experts said the new details of the Oct. 25 incident would heighten concerns for shipping in the narrow Bab al-Mandab waterway at the entrance to the Red Sea, a major choke point in the world oil trade. In an initial statement last week, shipping group Teekay said its LNG (liquefied natural gas) tanker Galicia Spirit had "experienced a suspected piracy attack" but no one had managed to board it. |
| Syrian held in Germany got Islamic State instructions for attack - prosecutors | | | A Syrian man arrested in Berlin is suspected of belonging to Islamic State and having received IS instructions from Syria to carry out an attack in Germany, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday. Police said on Wednesday that the man, identified by the prosecutor's office only as 27-year-old Ashraf Al-T, had been living in Germany since last year. In October, a Syrian refugee was arrested on suspicion of planning a major attack in Berlin after police discovered explosives in his flat. |
| U.S. officials to review sexual misconduct policy | | | USA Gymnastics has hired a former attorney to review its procedures for handling sexual misconduct issues in the wake of media reports earlier this year that the organisation turned a blind eye to allegations. Deborah Daniels, whose legal career includes a focus on physical and sexual abuse of children, will provide a final recommendation to the USA Gymnastics board of directors, the governing body said in a statement on Thursday. |
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