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| Third migrant dies in a week in harsh Greek camp conditions | |  By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - The third migrant to perish in a week was found dead in his tent on Monday on Greece's Lesbos island, raising alarm about the grim winter conditions in overcrowded camps that critics have denounced as deplorable. Another migrant who shared his tent was critically ill and taken to hospital. The death at the island's Moria camp follows those of a 22-year-old Egyptian and a 46-year-old Syrian who shared a tent and died days apart.
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| University student sole suspect in shooting at Quebec mosque - source | |  TORONTO (Reuters) - University student Alexandre Bissonnette is the sole suspect in a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six worshippers on Sunday night, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. A second person being held in connection with the shooting is now considered a witness and not a suspect, the source said. (Reporting by Allison Lampert in Quebec City; Writing by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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| Shooting suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Florida airport attack | |  By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Iraq war veteran pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges accusing him of opening fire in the baggage claim area of a Florida airport this month in an attack that killed five people. Esteban Santiago, 26, wore shackles and a red jail jumpsuit at his arraignment hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, near the airport where the Jan. 6 shooting occurred. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer read aloud the 22 criminal counts Santiago faces, emphasizing the names of those killed.
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| Los Angeles police solve 1976 murder of singer Bill Medley's ex-wife | | | Police and prosecutors scheduled a press conference on Monday to announce that they had solved the 1976 murder in Los Angeles of the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley, saying the killer was identified through familial DNA testing. Karen Klaas, 32, was attacked at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Hermosa Beach on the morning of Jan. 30, 1976. Familial DNA testing involves using a national DNA database to search for people who may be related to the suspect. |
| Colombia's FARC rebels march one last time, to demobilisation camps | | | Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels are on the move one final time, traveling by boat, road and on foot across jungle and mountains to demobilisation camps, as part of a deal to end more than 50 years of war, guerrillas and the government said. Just under 4,400 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fighters are currently making their way to more than two dozen rural camps scattered around the country, accompanied by officials from the United Nations and the government. The remainder of an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 FARC fighters are already at or near the demobilization sites, where U.N. personnel are responsible for collecting weapons from the guerrillas. |
| Canadian PM says mosque shooting a "terrorist attack on Muslims" | |  By Kevin Dougherty QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack on Muslims". Initially, the mosque president said five people were killed and a witness said up to three gunmen had fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. "Six people are confirmed dead - they range in age from 35 to about 70," Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe told reporters, adding eight people were wounded and 39 were unharmed.
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| Trump signs executive order to slash regulations | |  President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically pare back federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced. There will be regulation, there will be control, but it will be normalized control," Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office, surrounded by a group of small business owners. Trump's latest executive action will prepare a process for the White House to set an annual cap on the cost of new regulations, a senior official told reporters ahead of the signing.
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| Pakistan places alleged mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attacks under house arrest | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Monday ordered Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States and India of masterminding the 2008 attacks on the Indian financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people, placed under house arrest, a spokesman for Saeed's organisation said. The move comes after years of pressure on Pakistan to put Saeed on trial and could ease recently escalating tensions with neighbour and arch-foe India. The United States has offered $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Saeed, who heads Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
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| Romania will amend decrees that could weaken anti-graft effort | | | Romania's government will probably amend proposed decrees that critics say would weaken a drive against corruption, the country's justice minister said on Monday, although he declined to say exactly what would be changed. The government had planned to issue emergency decrees, which unlike bills passed by parliament would take effect immediately, to reduce the sentences for some offences and grant pardons to those convicted of others . Roughly 100,000 Romanians rallied in the capital, Bucharest, and in other cities on Sunday to protest the plans, which had raised concern they will weaken a crackdown on corruption. |
| Don't let Trump embarrass our queen, say 1.3 million Britons | |  By Alistair Smout and Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Well over a million people in Britain have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's planned state visit to be cancelled to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, in a grassroots backlash against his immigration policies. The invitation to make a state visit, which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by the monarch, was conveyed by Prime Minister Theresa May when she visited Trump in Washington last week. The petition against the state visit, which is on the British parliament's website, passed the one million mark on Monday morning and by mid-afternoon local time had more than 1.3 million signatories.
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| UK foreign minister Johnson defends Trump state visit plan | |  LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended the decision to invite U.S. President Donald Trump to London for a state visit, amid criticism prompted by Trump's immigration policies. "It is totally right that the incoming president of our closest and most important ally should be accorded the honour of a state visit, and that is supported by this government" Johnson told parliament. (Reporting by Kylie Maclellan, writing by William James, editing by Stephen Addison)
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| One suspect in Quebec attack is French-Canadian, one of Moroccan heritage - source | |  By Allison Lampert QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Two suspects were under arrest after six people were killed in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque, police said on Monday, and a source said one was French-Canadian and the other was of Moroccan heritage. One suspect in Sunday evening's attack was identified as Alexandre Bissonnette, a French-Canadian, the other as Mohamed Khadir, who is of Moroccan descent although his nationality was not immediately known, according to the source. Bissonnette is a 27-year-old student at nearby Université Laval, said a former high school classmate, Simon de Billy.
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| Ex-tycoon Batista jailed in graft probe on return to Brazil | |  By Pedro Fonseca and Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man and most flamboyant national booster, was detained by federal police on Monday on allegations of bribing a former governor, putting an end to his brief stint as an international fugitive. Batista, a brash entrepreneur whose meteoric rise and fall made him the poster boy of Brazil's decade-long boom before the global commodities crash, flew overnight from New York to Rio de Janeiro, where police had raided his luxury home on Thursday. The 60-year-old businessman, who has sold or forfeited his stakes in the energy, mining and logistics empire known as EBX Group, was once married to a Carnival queen and is the son of a former chief executive officer of mining company Vale SA. Five years ago, he had a net worth exceeding $30 billion and was considered one of the world's 10 richest people.
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| Trump brushes off outcry over travel ban, airport chaos | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday brushed off outcry at home and abroad over an immigration ban on refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a move that caused chaos at U.S. airports over the weekend. The leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, said he would bring legislation to the chamber on Monday evening seeking to end the ban. An executive order issued by Trump on Friday banned immigration from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, and temporarily halted the entry of refugees.
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| Trump to announce U.S. Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday night | |  By Ayesha Rascoe and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he will announce his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as he looks to quickly put his stamp on the court by restoring its conservative majority. Trump said on Monday that he will unveil at the White House at 8 p.m. on Tuesday (0100 GMT on Wednesday) his pick to fill the lingering vacancy on the nation's highest court left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. Trump told reporters at the White House he would name "a person who is unbelievably highly respected.
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| Austrian coalition pledges face veil ban, curbs on foreign workers | | | By Francois Murphy and Kirsti Knolle VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's coalition government promised on Monday to ban Muslim face-covering veils and to restrict eastern European workers' access to the labour market, in a package of policies aimed at countering the rise of the far-right Freedom Party. The anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPO) has topped opinion polls for months, boosted by the influx of more than a million migrants into Europe in the past two years and concerns over their impact on jobs and security. Last month the FPO candidate came close to winning Austria's presidential election. |
| Trump immigration order is "highly controversial" - UK foreign minister | |  The executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries is a highly controversial policy, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told parliament on Monday. Johnson said he had received assurances from the U.S. embassy that the order would make no difference to British passport holders, irrespective of their country of birth or whether they held a second passport. "This is, of course, a highly controversial policy, which has caused unease and, I repeat, this is not an approach that this government would take," Johnson said.
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| Argentina changes immigration law to limit entry, ease deportation | | | Argentina changed its immigration law to make it easier to deport foreigners who commit crimes and to prohibit individuals with criminal records from entering the country, according to a post in the government's official bulletin on Monday. The measure cited "recent acts of organized crime" and noted that the percentage of foreigners in the country's corrections system had grown in recent years, reaching 21.35 percent of the prison population in 2016. Under the revamped law, foreigners who commit a "malicious" crime will be expelled from the country and prohibited from returning for at least eight years. |
| Indonesia names Islamist leader a suspect for insulting state ideology | | | By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police on Monday named the leader of an Islamist group, the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), as a suspect over allegations that he insulted the secular state ideology in the world's biggest Muslim-majority country. Police in the province of West Java had been investigating Habib Rizieq over allegations that he made defamatory comments in 2014 about one of Indonesia's founding fathers, Sukarno, and questioned the legitimacy of the state ideology Pancasila. |
| Israel postpones vote on bill legalising settlement outposts | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government postponed a vote in parliament on Monday on a bill retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land, a measure the attorney-general has said is unconstitutional. The legislation, which is backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, had been expected to pass in an evening session, but a filibuster threat from the opposition and discussions over its final wording slowed its progress. Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right lawmaker who helped draft the bill, said the vote had been postponed and would probably be held on Tuesday.
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| Bosnian Serb woman indicted over wartime killing of 37 Muslims | | | A Bosnian Serb woman has been indicted for taking part in the killing of 37 Muslim Bosniak prisoners of war early in the Balkan country's 1992-95 war, the office of a Bosnian war crimes prosecutor said in a statement on Monday. Visnja Acimovic, known as 'Beba', 44, is accused of war crimes against the civilian population and of acting against international humanitarian law by violating provisions of the Geneva Conventions, the statement said. The war crimes department at Bosnia's state court is pursing the prosecution. |
| Trump needs to accept waterboarding is prohibited torture, U.N. specialist says | | | U.S. President Donald Trump needs to acknowledge that the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and therefore absolutely prohibited, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture said on Monday. "Without any doubt, waterboarding amounts to torture," Nils Melzer said in a statement, adding that a U.S. revival of torture would be catastrophic because other countries would also "get back into the torture business". "I urgently appeal to President Trump to carefully consider not only U.S. legal obligations, doctrine and tradition, but also the consolidated legal and moral views of the entire international community before allowing the re-introduction of methods or interrogation that are more closely associated with barbarism than with civilization," he said. |
| South Africa's Gordhan alleges campaign by Guptas against Treasury | |  By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in court documents on Monday that a trio of Indian-born businessmen was waging an "organized campaign" against him and the Treasury, the latest salvo in a legal and financial battle that has unsettled investors. The Gupta brothers, who deny allegations that they wield excessive influence over President Jacob Zuma, had themselves accused Gordhan in a court filing 10 days ago of conducting a vendetta against them and trying to damage their business. The dispute is an unwelcome distraction for the finance minister, whose own relationship with Zuma has been tense, as he tries to persuade ratings agencies not to downgrade South Africa to 'junk' status in response to stuttering economic growth.
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| Two more missing Pakistani activists return | | | By Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two more missing Pakistani activists have reappeared after vanishing earlier this month, their families told Reuters on Monday, but relatives were unable to shed any light on who had been holding the men or why. Waqas Goraya and Ahmed Raza Naseer, who went missing from the eastern city of Lahore and from southern Punjab province, respectively, returned on Saturday, but their families waited to get them to safe places before informing the media. In their absence, the five were accused on social media and some mainstream television programs of blasphemy against Islam, a highly charged allegation in Pakistan that could put their lives at risk from hardline religious groups. |
| Italy smashes gang that smuggled migrants into France in vans | | | Italian police said on Monday they had smashed a criminal gang that smuggled migrants packed into vans across the border with France for up to 1,000 euros ($1,063) each. Police issued more than 30 arrest warrants for human trafficking after a two-year investigation that documented dozens of smuggling incidents. About half the suspects targeted by the warrants lived outside Italy, the statement said. |
| Macedonia's Social Democrats seek mandate to form government | | | By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's opposition Social Democrats urged the president on Monday to give them a mandate to form a new coalition government and to rebuff calls by the ruling conservatives to hold a new election. As a midnight deadline expired, the conservative VMRO-DPMNE party announced it had failed to reach agreement on a renewed coalition with ethnic Albanians after a December election. The VMRO-DPMNE, in power from 2006 to 2016, said the most "mature solution" would be fresh elections, but it remained possible that President Gjeorge Ivanov would pass the mandate to Zoran Zaev, leader of the second-placed Social Democrats (SDSM). |
| Merkel says U.S. travel ban not justified by terror fight | |  Chancellor Angela Merkel said the global fight against terrorism does not warrant putting groups of people under suspicion, adding U.S. President Donald Trump's order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States violates the spirit of international cooperation. "The necessary and decisive battle against terrorism does not in any way justify putting groups of certain people under general suspicion -- in this case people of Muslim belief or of a certain origin," Merkel told a news conference in Berlin. "In my opinion, this act runs contrary to the basic principles of international refugee help and international cooperation," she said.
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| Trump travel ban leaves Iraq's persecuted Yazidis in limbo | |  By Isabel Coles ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Khudeeda Naif won refuge in the United States as a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority, but what he fears more than religious persecution is retribution for his brother's work as an interpreter for the U.S. army in Iraq. Naif is one of the many affected by the U.S. President Donald Trump's decision on Friday to temporarily ban the entry of refugees and others from seven Muslim-majority countries. Naif was scheduled to leave Iraq this week with his wife and two children when the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told him the trip was off until further notice.
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| Russia appeals to WTO over EU duties on Russian steel | |  Russia said on Monday it was appealing to the World Trade Organisation to settle a dispute with the European Union over anti-dumping duties imposed on its steelmakers. The EU in August introduced duties of up to 36.1 percent on Russian cold rolled steel, a product used in the construction and automotive industries, following allegations Russian steelmakers were exporting at unfairly low prices. It also imposed duties on Chinese cold rolled steel.
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