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| Top U.S. intelligence official 'resolute' in belief Russia hacked election | |  By Dustin Volz and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence official told Congress on Thursday he was "even more resolute" in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats in the 2016 election campaign, despite skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about findings on Moscow's role. James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, said he had a very high level of confidence that Russia hacked Democratic Party institutions and operatives, as well as disseminating propaganda and fake news aimed at the Nov. 8 election.
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| Suspected Kurdish militants kill two in car bombing in Turkey's Izmir | |  By Nevzat Devranoglu and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Suspected Kurdish militants clashed with police and detonated a car bomb in western Turkey on Thursday after their vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint, killing a police officer and a court employee, officials said. The explosion and gunfire outside the main courthouse in Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, highlighted the country's deteriorating security five days after a gunman killed 39 people in a New Year's Day mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub. Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said a much larger attack was apparently being planned, based on the weapons found at the scene in Izmir, which is located on the Aegean coast.
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| Red Cross worker shot dead in northern Mali | | | A local worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross was shot dead in the northern Mali town of Gao late on Wednesday night, a spokesman for the aid organisation and local residents said. "We are trying to confirm the details, but we can confirm the worker was killed," Saoure Barthelemi said on Thursday, without providing further details. Kader Toure, a resident of Gao, said the worker had been shot by two men on a motorcycle late at night. |
| France's far-right FN scrambles to raise cash for election battle | | | By Simon Carraud and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front is struggling to raise millions of euros it needs to fund its presidential election campaign, but leader Marine Le Pen vowed: "We will find one bank somewhere in the world that is willing to lend us that money." Le Pen - who has been tipped to make it through to the second-round runoff in May - accused French banks of playing politics by refusing to lend money to her party, suggesting it was being marginalised because of its far-right policies. The National Front (FN) said in December it needed to raise 27 million euros ($28 million) to fund its campaigning for the presidential and parliamentary elections in April-June. It has borrowed about 6 million euros from a political fundraising association headed by Le Pen's estranged father and FN founder Jean-Marie - an ironic twist given she threw him out of the party in 2015. |
| U.S. intelligence chief says Russia involvement in 2016 election unprecedented | | | U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Thursday that Russia has a "long history" of interfering in elections, but that U.S. officials had never encountered activity like its efforts during the 2016 U.S. campaign. "The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections. |
| Reports that Trump eyeing revamp of spy agencies are false - spokesman | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's spokesman on Thursday rejected media reports that said the Republican president-elect was planning to restructure the nation's intelligence agencies, calling the reports "100 percent false." "There is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure," Trump spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters in a conference call. "All transition activities are for information gathering purposes and all discussions are tentative." (Reporting by Amy Tennery and Mohammad Zargham; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| One dead, three held in connection with Cairo bomb attack | | | One suspect was killed and three others arrested in a police raid in connection with a bomb attack that killed six policemen in Cairo on Dec. 9, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said those arrested in the raid on the outskirts of Cairo belonged to a militant group called the Hasm Movement, which claimed responsibility for the attack. Hasm is described by security forces as an armed wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| Massachusetts sheriff offers prison inmates to build Trump's wall | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts county sheriff has proposed sending prison inmates from around the United States to build the proposed wall along the Mexican border that is one of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's most prominent campaign promises. "I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall," Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said at his swearing-in ceremony for a fourth term in office late Wednesday. Hodgson, who like Trump is a Republican, said inmates from around the country could build the proposed wall, described by Trump as a powerful deterrent to illegal immigration.
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| Four arrested over New Year attack on woman in Bengaluru | |  By Aby Jose Koilparambil and Brijesh Patel BENGALURU (Reuters) - Police have arrested four men accused of attacking a woman in the technology hub city of Bengaluru on New Year's Day, a case that has sparked a national debate about women's safety. Police made the arrests after examining closed-circuit camera footage of the attack as the woman walked down a secluded lane in a residential area in the early hours of Jan. 1, Police Commissioner Praveen Sood told reporters on Thursday.
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| Charlie Hebdo tribute marks two years of Islamist attacks on France | |  France paid tribute on Thursday to the journalists, police officers and shoppers at a kosher store killed two years ago by Islamist gunmen, the first of a wave of militant attacks that has left more than 230 dead and triggered a state of emergency. On a cold day in Paris, uniformed police, ministers and the city's mayor stood in silence outside the old office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and other sites as floral wreaths tied in blue-white-and-red ribbons were laid to mark the anniversary. The killing spree shocked the world and preceded further attacks that did little for the declining popularity of President Francois Hollande and deepened tensions between France's secular state and its large Muslim minority.
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| Trump presses Democrats on Obamacare, urges bipartisan fix | |  U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump kept up his attacks on Democrats and Obamacare on Thursday while calling for a bipartisan congressional effort to come up with a healthcare alternative that would lower costs and improve care. In a series of tweets, Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, blasted Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and his fellow Democrats, who have vowed to preserve President Barack Obama's legacy-defining healthcare law even as Republicans move ahead with their long-running bid to scrap it. Taunting Schumer as "head clown," Trump said on Twitter that Democrats are doing "the typical political thing" and casting blame.
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| Turkey jails two commanders for life in first ruling over coup attempt | | | Two senior Turkish military officers were jailed for life on Thursday for involvement in July's failed coup attempt that killed almost 250 people, marking the first conviction related to the putsch, news agencies said. The court found that a colonel and a major had been assigned duties as provincial commanders after the intended overthrow of President Tayyip Erdogan. It described them as members of a network headed by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of orchestrating the failed coup, media reports said. |
| Prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher freed from jail on probation | |  Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher, a symbol of the popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011, has been released after three years in prison for breaking a law that bans unapproved protests, his lawyer said on Thursday. Maher, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a founder of the April 6 movement, broke the 2013 law that is seen by activists as unconstitutional and designed to prevent a repeat of the mass protests that have toppled two presidents in five years. The 36-year-old civil engineer now starts three years of probation and will have to stay in a police station every night between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., his lawyer, Mohamed Gaheen, said.
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| U.S., European weapons used to commit war crimes in Iraq - Amnesty | | | Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against Islamic State are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by the United States, Europe, Russia and Iran, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The rights group said that the predominantly Shi'ite Muslim militias, known collective as the Hashid Shaabi, were using weapons from Iraqi military stockpiles to commit war crimes including enforced disappearances, torture and summary killings. |
| Rights groups oppose German EU Commissioner's promotion over "racist" remarks | |  Human rights and transparency groups on Thursday urged European Union lawmakers to reject the promotion of Germany's Commissioner to head of human resources at the EU executive over remarks they view as "racist, sexist and homophobic". The campaign groups protested after Guenther Oettinger, the current Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, called Chinese people "slit-eyes" and joked about "compulsory gay marriage" - comments for which he has apologised. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced Oettinger's appointment to a new role as Commissioner for the Budget and Human Resources in October and his confirmation hearing is due in the European Parliament on Jan. 9.
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| Pakistan to release 218 Indian fishermen | |  Pakistan began releasing 218 Indian fishermen on Thursday, police said, the second such gesture in a month that could begin to ease tension between the neighbours. India is also holding Pakistani fishermen for the same reason, and Pakistan hopes its release will be reciprocated. "They are being released by the orders of the federal government," said Ali Hassan Setho, a superintendent of police in the port city of Karachi, where the men are being held.
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| Greek police arrest fugitive militant | | | Greek police early on Thursday arrested a militant who was in hiding with her child and whose Revolutionary Struggle group has carried out more than a dozen armed attacks, including one on the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007. Police said Panagiota Roupa, 48, on the run since 2014, was involved in many of the attacks by Revolutionary Struggle, a group which declared war on all forms of government in 2003. Roupa is the partner of Nikos Maziotis who is in jail for attacks claimed by the group, including a car bomb that damaged the Athens stock exchange in 2009. |
| Turkey orders detention of 380 businessmen in Gulen investigation - AA | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 380 businessmen accused of providing financial support to the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating July's failed coup, media reports said on Thursday. State-run Anadolu news agency said prosecutors had also issued demands for searches of the suspects' homes and offices. Gulen denies accusations of involvement in the attempted putsch, in which more than 240 people were killed. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall) |
| Sweden says it will be some weeks before decision on Assange inquiry | |  Sweden will not decide for several weeks whether to drop or proceed with an investigation into allegations of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, its Prosecution Authority said on Thursday. Prosecutors said they have now received a transcript of an interview conducted with Assange, 45, in November at Ecuador's embassy in London. "The documentation is in Spanish and consists of several hundred pages, which now will be translated," the Prosecution Authority said in a statement.
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| Executives from top Turkish conglomerate held in post-coup probe | | | By Ceyda Caglayan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Police detained the top legal advisor and a former chief executive of Dogan Holding, one of Turkey's biggest conglomerates, on Thursday in an investigation into the network of the U.S.-based cleric blamed for a failed coup. Companies with ties to the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom President Tayyip Erdogan and the government accuse of orchestrating the coup attempt, have also been targeted in the crackdown. Dogan - which has interests in media, finance, energy and tourism and owns newspaper Hurriyet and broadcaster CNN Turk - said the raids were on the personal offices and homes of the two individuals and that its operations were unaffected. |
| Romanian ombudsman challenges law banning convicted officials from govt | | | Romania's ombudsman asked the Constitutional Court on Thursday to strike down a law that bars people convicted of a criminal offence from joining the government, a move that could help the leader of the ruling party to become prime minister. The 2001 law prevented Liviu Dragnea, leader of the leftist Social Democrats (PSD), from becoming premier after his party won a Dec. 11 parliamentary election as he is serving a two-year suspended jail sentence over a 2012 vote-rigging case. President Klaus Iohannis, a former centre-right leader and opponent of the PSD, has made clear he would refuse to appoint as prime minister any candidate with a criminal record. |
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