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| IMF's Lagarde says she was not negligent in payout to French magnate | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde sought on Tuesday to convince judges she was not negligent in signing off on a 400 million euro ($425 million) French state payout to a business tycoon in 2008. Lagarde, 60, is fighting charges of negligence leading to the misuse of public funds when she approved, while finance minister, a rare out-of-court settlement with magnate Bernard Tapie in a long-running dispute. The head judge, Martine Ract Madoux, quizzed Lagarde about why in particular she did not ask more questions about 45 million euros in damages included in the settlement while the original approval to seek arbitration did not cover damages.
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| Turkey detains hundreds over PKK links after Istanbul blasts | | | Turkey has detained 568 people over alleged links to Kurdish militants in raids over the last two days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, intensifying a crackdown after twin bombings killed 44 people outside an Istanbul soccer stadium. The operation was launched at around dawn on Monday and detentions made in 28 provinces across Turkey, the ministry said in a statement. An offshoot off the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday night, which also wounded more than 150 people. |
| Italy convicts Tunisian over sinking that killed almost 700 migrants | |  Only 28 people survived the disaster in April last year, when the small fishing boat capsized off the coast of Libya, with hundreds trapped in the hold. Mohammed Ali Malek, 28, was one of those rescued and denied being the captain, saying he had paid for passage like everyone else, but a court in the city of Catania dismissed his defence. The court also sentenced 26-year-old Syrian Mahmud Bikhit to five years in prison on charges of people-smuggling.
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| West African leaders press Gambia's Jammeh to quit | |  By Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) - Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and other African leaders on Tuesday urged Gambia's long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to respect the will of the people and step down following his defeat in an election. Jammeh, who seized power in a coup in 1994 and has earned a reputation as a repressive leader, has declined to relinquish power despite initially conceding that he had lost to opponent Adama Barrow in the election on December 1. Jammeh's change of mind drew international criticism, and a delegation of West African leaders under the auspices of the regional body ECOWAS was in the capital Banjul on Tuesday on a mission to resolve the crisis.
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| UAE student killed by Ohio police on December 4 was unarmed - official | | | A college student from the United Arab Emirates was unarmed when an Ohio police officer shot him to death this month after a traffic accident, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general said on Tuesday. Saif Nasser Mubarak Alameri, a 26-year-old student at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, was shot in the head on December 4 in a struggle with a Hudson, Ohio, police officer. "No weapon," Jill Del Greco, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Mike DeWine, replied when asked if Alameri was armed. |
| Gambia military takes over offices of electoral commission | | | BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's security forces entered the building of the Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday morning, instructed its chairman to leave and have since barred other employees from entering, the chairman, Alieu Momarr Njai, told Reuters. "The military came to my office and said I am not to touch anything and told me to leave," he said. "I am worried for my safety." West African heads of state began arriving in the country on Tuesday to try to convince long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to relinquish power after losing an election this month. ... |
| Brazil's Senate begins final debate on spending cap | | | Brazilian senators began a final debate session on Tuesday over a 20-year public spending cap proposed by President Michel Temer to control a ballooning budget deficit, a crucial step in his plan to rescue Brazil's stalled economy. The Senate is expected to approve the spending ceiling by a wide margin, though leftist opponents of the austerity measure have sought to delay the vote as long as possible. Authorities braced for protests outside Brazil's Congress organized by labor unions and left-wing groups opposed to cutbacks they say undermine education and health services that will hurt Brazil's poor. |
| Focused global strategy needed to end child slavery by 2025 - Jeffrey Sachs | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries can end child slavery within the next decade if there is a focused global strategy that includes modernising laws, getting companies to clean their supply chains and breaking trafficking networks, said economist Jeffrey Sachs. While 193 countries have committed to ending child labour and slavery by 2025 under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sachs said there now needs to be a targeted plan of action in place in order to meet the deadline. "We have agreed globally to end child labour and to end trafficking and all forms of modern slavery, but we have to do it now," Sachs, a top adviser to the U.N. on the SDGs, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview over the weekend.
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| Syrian army, Iraqi militia accused of "slaughter" of civilians in Aleppo | | | By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it had reports that Syrian government troops and an allied Iraqi militia had deliberately shot dead scores of men, women and children in eastern Aleppo, and warned the same "slaughter" could happen elsewhere. The U.N. human rights office cited reports that at least 82 people had been killed on the streets while fleeing or in their homes in four different neighbourhoods in the last few days. "The crushing of Aleppo, the immeasurably terrifying toll on its people, the bloodshed, the wanton slaughter of men, women and children, the destruction – and we are nowhere near the end of this cruel conflict," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said in a statement. |
| Russia says wants peace deal with Japan but sees no quick fix | | | Russia wants to boost bilateral ties with Japan on all fronts and hopes to reach a peace treaty with its eastern neighbour, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday, adding however that agreeing a peace treaty needed "scrupulous work." Ushakov was briefing reporters before Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan later this week. A territorial dispute between Tokyo and Moscow over a chain of western Pacific islands, seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War Two, has upset diplomatic relations ever since, precluding a formal peace treaty between the two countries. |
| I've always refused alcohol, says Toure after accepting drink-driving charge | |  Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure admitted on Tuesday to being over the legal limit following a drink-driving conviction but had no explanation for the reading after saying he does not consume alcohol because of his religious beliefs. Toure was arrested in London on Nov. 28 and was given an 18-month ban and an income-related fine of 54,000 pounds ($68,600) at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday. Anyone who knows me or follows football will have seen me refuse champagne for Man of the Match performances because of my commitment to my religion," Toure said, adding that he decided not to challenge the charge because he was above the allowed limit.
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| Japan casino bill clears panel, paves way to legalise gambling | |  By Thomas Wilson TOKYO (Reuters) - A contentious bill to legalise casinos in Japan cleared a key parliamentary panel on Tuesday, paving the way for high-stakes gambling in the world's third-biggest economy. Brushing off concerns - even from within Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition - over gambling addiction and other social ills, lawmakers in an upper house committee approved the bill, which essentially assures its enactment into law. Domestic and international companies from MGM Resorts International to Japanese game-machine maker Sega Sammy Holdings Inc could benefit from legalised casinos in Japan, a market that brokerage CLSA estimates could be worth up to $40 billion a year.
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| Friend of South Korea's Park chooses to appear to "get fair trial" | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the centre of a scandal that led to Park's impeachment in parliament will attend the preliminary hearing in her corruption trial next week, even though she is not required to, her lawyer said. Choi Soon-sil has not appeared in public since arriving at a prosecutors' office on Oct. 31, losing a shoe as she pushed through a scrum of journalists, and protesters demanding she be brought to justice. Prosecutors have charged Choi, 60, with colluding with Park into pressuring big businesses to pay funds to foundations that backed Park's policy initiatives.
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| Cosby in court as prosecutors aim to call 13 accusers as witnesses | |  Bill Cosby returns to a Pennsylvania courtroom on Tuesday, where his lawyers are expected to renew their battle with prosecutors over whether more than a dozen female accusers can testify at his criminal sexual trial next year. The outcome of the argument is crucial for Cosby, 79. If prosecutors are successful, the entertainer would face a parade of witnesses portraying him as a serial predator, rather than a single woman testifying about a decade-old encounter fueled by drugs and alcohol.
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| Romania's president calls parties for government consultations | |  BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's President Klaus Iohannis called political parties for a first round of consultations on Wednesday on forming a new government following Sunday's national election. The Social Democrat Party won the ballot with just under 46 percent of votes in both houses of parliament, official results from more than 99 percent of polling stations showed. It is in pole position to form the new government after its long-time ally ALDE secured about 6 percent. ...
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| Turkish military strikes Islamic State targets in northern Syria - army | | | Turkish warplanes pounded 28 Islamic State targets in northern Syria while another 157 targets were hit by artillery and other weaponry in the latest attacks, the army said on Tuesday. The jets hit shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, ammunition depots and other targets in the strikes on Monday in the al-Bab and Bzagah regions of northern Syria, the military said in a statement. The strikes in northern Syria are part of Ankara's almost four-month-old "Euphrates Shield" operation with Turkish-backed rebels, which aims to push the jihadists and Kurdish militia fighters away from the Syrian border region. |
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