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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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| U.S. court deals Trump a setback in fight over poll monitors | |  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, 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 Hispanics, African-Americans and other minority voters in a state that could determine whether Trump or his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, wins the presidency.
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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. |
| U.S. could file charges in generic drug probe by year-end - Bloomberg | | | (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors could file the first charges in their criminal investigation of generic drugmakers over suspected price collusion by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported. The antitrust investigation by the Justice Department spans more than a dozen companies and about two dozen drugs, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The grand jury probe is examining whether some executives agreed with one another to raise prices, Bloomberg reported. |
| 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 peacekeeping 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 sacked Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki after a U.N. inquiry into the response by peace keepers 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. Kenya said it would withdraw some 1,000 troops deployed with the 13,000-strong peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where U.N. peace keepers have been deployed since 2011 when it gained independence from Sudan.
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| 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. |
| 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 escalated protests and drew hundreds of thousands into the streets when authorities quashed its drive for a referendum against Maduro last month. Carlos Ocariz, an opposition mayor speaking at a news conference 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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| Britain's appeal on Article 50 ruling to be settled in UK court - May's spokeswoman | |  The British government's appeal against a court ruling on its Brexit plans will be settled in the country's Supreme Court, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday, saying it was not a dispute over EU law. Earlier, a British court ruled that the government needed parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, potentially delaying May's Brexit plans. "First and foremost ... the next step is to appeal and for the Supreme Court to hear that," the spokeswoman told reporters.
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| Amnesty says Italy abused migrants under EU pressure | |  By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - Italy has committed human rights abuses that may amount to torture as it tries to process tens of thousands of boat migrants, Amnesty International said on Thursday, prompting a sharp denial from the national police chief. The report included allegations of beatings, electric shocks and sexual humiliation in a handful of cases involving mainly African migrants who resisted having their fingerprints taken. Italian police chief Franco Gabrielli dismissed the accusations, saying his officers, who work alongside EU officials and human rights groups in the migration centres, had shown enormous responsibility in dealing with the crisis.
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| Swiss seize 11 cars in probe of Equatorial Guinea's VP | | | Swiss authorities said on Thursday they had confiscated 11 luxury cars as part of criminal proceedings opened against the son of Equatorial Guinea's longtime leader on suspicion of money laundering. Through his lawyer, 47-year-old Teodorin Obiang, who is also the small central African country's vice president, denied that the vehicles - which include a Bugatti, several Ferraris and a rare Koenigsegg sports car - belonged to him. Obiang is the eldest son of 73-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea for nearly four decades since a 1979 coup. |
| UK court says Brexit needs parliament's approval, complicates govt plans | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ruled on Thursday that the government needs parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans. The government said it would appeal against the High Court ruling and Britain's Supreme Court is expected to consider the case early next month. Many investors took the view that lawmakers would now be able to temper the government's policies, making it less likely that the government would opt for a "hard Brexit" -- a scenario in which it prioritises tight controls on immigration over remaining in the European single market.
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| Russian dancer jailed for acid attack returns to Bolshoi for ballet classes | |  A former dancer at Russia's famous Bolshoi Theatre who was jailed for organising an acid attack on his boss has been allowed to attend ballet classes at the theatre, a Bolshoi spokeswoman said on Thursday. The Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced in December 2013 to six years in prison over the attack, in which a masked assailant threw sulphuric acid in the face of Sergei Filin, who was then the theatre's artistic director. "The administration of the Bolshoi Theatre decided to meet the request of Pavel Dmitrichenko and to allow him to attend a morning ballet class.
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| South Carolina cop staged scene after shooting black man - prosecutor | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A South Carolina prosecutor accused a white former police officer on Thursday of staging a crime scene where he had just shot dead an unarmed black motorist, by moving a Taser closer to the handcuffed dead body so he could claim the victim had taken the stun gun.Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, 34, is on trial for murder over the shooting death of Walter Scott, 50. Slager shot Scott five times in the back as Scott fled from the 2015 traffic stop for a broken tail light. The shooting, captured on a bystander's cellphone video, intensified a national debate over police use of deadly force against black men.Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson told the jury in opening statements that Scott may have grabbed Slager's Taser as it was pressed against his body during a struggle, but Slager had attempted to make the scene look as if Scott had possession of the weapon as he fled.
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| UK voters would now opt to stay in the EU - BMG poll | |  The British electorate would now vote narrowly to stay in the European Union, according to a BMG poll published on Thursday. The United Kingdom voted 51.9 percent to leave the bloc in a June 23 referendum while 48.1 percent voted to remain. A poll by BMG Research, showed that when asked if the United Kingdom should stay or go, 45 percent opted to remain, 43 opted to leave and 12 percent did not know.
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| Scotland's Sturgeon: court ruling underlines UK govt Brexit confusion | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Political leaders in Scotland and Northern Ireland - which both voted to stay in the EU - said Thursday's legal blow to the British government had exposed the confusion of Prime Minister Theresa May's approach to Brexit. The High Court in London ruled that the government could not trigger the formal start of the two-year leaving process on its own but required prior parliamentary approval. "(The ruling) is hugely significant and underlines the chaos and confusion at the heart of the UK government," Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said.
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| South Africa presents bill to quit global war crimes court | |  South Africa's justice minister presented a bill in parliament on Thursday to repeal the country's membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) - which the government has said clashes with diplomatic immunity laws. Pretoria last year announced its intention to leave after the ICC criticised it for disregarding an order to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a visit to South Africa. Bashir faces charges of orchestrating genocide and war crimes - charges that he dismisses.
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| Myanmar to resume humanitarian aid to northern Rakhine - diplomats | |  By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar has agreed to allow aid to resume to the troubled north of Rakhine state and permit international observers to monitor whether help is reaching people displaced by violence, diplomats on a mission to the area told reporters on Thursday. The diplomats, including the ambassadors of the United States and Britain and the top United Nations representative to the country, also called for an "independent and credible investigation" into attacks on security forces on Oct. 9 and the army operation launched in their aftermath. The mission spent two days in northern Rakhine, closed to aid workers and observers for more than three weeks, and visited several villages, but were not taken to the scene of some of the most serious allegations of abuses by troops against civilians.
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| South Carolina officer who killed black man went 'too far' - prosecutor | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A South Carolina prosecutor on Thursday told jurors they had been called to bring accountability to a white former patrolman on trial for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist who ran from a traffic stop last year. Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, 34, is standing trial on a murder charge "for his decision to go too far," prosecutor Scarlett Wilson said at the start of her opening statement. Slager shot Walter Scott, 50, in the back five times after he fled from an April 2015 traffic stop for a broken tail light.
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| Turkish academics, students protest against post-coup purges | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of academics, students and union members staged a protest on Thursday against a purge of thousands of educational staff since Turkey's attempted military coup in July. Turkey accuses U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the July 15 putsch and has dismissed or suspended more than 110,000 civil servants, academics, judges, police and others over suspected links to the preacher. The crowd chanted "We will win by resisting" in front of Istanbul University as dozens of riot police wearing gas masks looked on.
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| If ruling upheld, Britain to need act of parliament to trigger Brexit - Davis | |  If upheld, a court ruling demanding parliamentary approval to trigger the formal divorce procedure with the EU would require an act of parliament involving both the upper and lower houses, Britain's Brexit minister David Davis said on Thursday. Passing an act of parliament would take more time than a simple resolution, requiring votes in both the House of Commons and House of Lords and potentially delaying the government's plans to invoke Article 50 by the end of March. "The judges have laid out what we can't do and not exactly what we can do, but we're presuming it requires an act of parliament therefore both Commons and Lords," Davis told the BBC.
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| Corrected - Obama says U.S. mulling alternate routes for N. Dakota pipeline | |  (Corrects destination of pipeline in paragraph 10 to Illinois from Gulf Coast refineries in story released on Nov. 2, 2016) By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said the U.S. government is examining ways to reroute an oil pipeline in North Dakota as it addresses concerns raised by Native American tribes protesting against its construction. Obama's comments late on Tuesday to online news site Now This were his first to directly address the escalating clashes between local authorities and protesters over Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline project. "My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans.
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| Saudi activist on hunger strike in jail - rights group | | | A Saudi activist has begun a hunger strike after being kept in jail past his release date for an eight-year sentence, a human rights group said on Thursday. Khaled al-Omair had been due to be freed on Oct. 5, after completing a prison term for crimes related to a planned protest against Israeli bombing of Gaza, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement. Another rights group, Amnesty International, reported that he had been tortured and placed in solitary confinement for extended periods while in detention. |
| Violence and political pressure anger Nigeria's Shi'ites | |  By Alexis Akwagyiram KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Blackened walls and piles of rubble are all that is left of the house of a leader of Nigeria's Shi'ite minority after it was burned down by machete-wielding youths in the tense northern city of Kaduna. A wave of attacks on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Shi'ite sect combined with a security crackdown by the authorities is worsening sectarian rivalries in northern Nigeria, where the army is already fighting Boko Haram, a Sunni militant group that has killed thousands. The violence risks radicalising the sect, creating another problem for President Muhammadu Buhari as he struggles with an insurgency in the Niger Delta oil region, secession calls in the southeast and Nigeria's first recession in more than 20 years.
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