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| Quebec suspect seen as nerdy outcast,' fan of France's right-wing Le Pen | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:28 AM | |
|  By Kevin Dougherty QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student charged in a shooting spree that killed six people at a Quebec City mosque was known in online circles as a supporter of far-right French politician Marine Le Pen and described by a former classmate as a "nerdy outcast." Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, the sole suspect in Sunday night's shooting, was charged on Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. On his Facebook page, he indicated he liked Le Pen, U.S. President Donald Trump, the separatist Parti Quebecois as well as Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, the Israeli Defense Forces, heavy metal band Megadeth and pop star Katy Perry.
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| Odebrecht pulls out of Panama canal bridge tender amid probe | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:23 AM | |
|  Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, under investigation for paying hundreds of millions in bribes across Latin America, withdrew its bid to build a bridge over the Panama canal, the president of the Central American nation said on Monday. Last week, Panama prosecutors said they had charged 17 people, including several businessmen and former government officials, with money laundering in its bribery case against Odebrecht S.A. Prosecutors have not yet identified the people involved. President Juan Carlos Varela announced Odebrecht's pull-out via Twitter.
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| Top government lawyer defies Trump on immigration order | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:21 AM | |
|  The federal government's top lawyer made an extraordinarily rare move to defy U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday by saying the Justice Department would not defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations because she was not convinced they were lawful. Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates told Justice Department lawyers that she did not believe defending the order would be "consistent with this institution's solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right." Trump's directive on Friday put a 120-day hold on allowing refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria and a 90-day bar on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
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| Despite tough Canadian rules, illegal guns within reach | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:20 AM | |
|  By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams WINNIPEG/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's gun control laws ban dozens of assault rifles, but some permitted firearms are easily modified for greater damage, and more lax regulations in the United States make smuggled weapons accessible, experts said after a rare Canadian mass shooting on Sunday. A man was charged on Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon in the shooting at a Quebec City mosque. Semi-automatic guns can legally hold magazines up to five rounds in Canada, but many military-style semi-automatics are easily modified to 30 rounds, said A.J. Somerset, an author on gun issues.
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| Exclusive - Trump administration to allow 872 refugees into U.S. this week: document | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:12 AM | |
|  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has granted waivers to let 872 refugees into the country this week, despite President Donald Trump's executive order on Friday temporarily banning entry of refugees from any country, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document seen by Reuters. A Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the waivers, noting that the refugees were considered "in transit" and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect. The waivers, granted by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), came amid international protests against Trump's rushed executive order.
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| Quebec mosque shooting - A shout, a hail of bullets, then death | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:10 AM | |
|  Abdi was sitting cross-legged on the floor reading the Quran with his friends when the shooting began - a staccato spray of bullets into the crowd of worshippers gathered on Sunday at the mosque in Quebec City, Canada. It was the shout from the doorway that alerted them: "Allahu akbar!" which means "God is greatest!" "We all turned … and that's the point when they started shooting," said Abdi, a 22-year-old student who declined to give his last name, fearing for his safety. Abdi hit the floor, arms over his head and ears.
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| Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:01 AM | |
|  By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette, a student at Université Laval, was set to appear again on Feb. 21.
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| Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:00 AM | |
|  By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette, a student at Université Laval, was set to appear again on Feb. 21.
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| May's Brexit plan likely to survive parliamentary assault | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 12:08 AM | |
|  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the European Union is expected to survive weeks of intense parliamentary scrutiny starting on Tuesday, despite pro-EU lawmakers' attempts to force the government to rethink its strategy. May's government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the bloc - after the Supreme Court ruled last week that she could not take that decision unilaterally. Some lawmakers will try to use the legislative process to press her to reveal closely-guarded details of her negotiating strategy, give parliament and devolved governments more say over the exit talks, or even block Brexit entirely.
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| Republicans take first steps to kill Obama-era regulations | | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 12:06 AM | |
|  By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Monday continued their drive to loosen U.S. regulation, taking the first step to kill five Obama-era rules on corruption, the environment, labour and guns under the virtually untested Congressional Review Act. Republicans put as much urgency on limiting what they consider over-regulation that stifles economic growth as they do on overhauling the tax code and dismantling the Affordable Care Act, according to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. This is the first time the Republican-led House of Representatives has targeted specific rules since convening on Jan. 3.
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| Medical students, faculty rally to try to save Obamacare | |  By Bob Chiarito CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of medical students and faculty members gathered at Northwestern University's school of medicine in Chicago on Monday to voice their opposition to the dismantling of Obamacare. The demonstration was part of a larger White Coats for Coverage effort organised by medical students across the country and came a day before the annual deadline to enrol in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), former President Barack Obama's healthcare law. "The ACA is not perfect, but pulling the rug out from under the feet of our most vulnerable patients is not the answer," Dr. Bruce Henshaw, a faculty member at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, told the group of around 600 people.
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| Exclusive - Trump administration to allow 872 refugees into U.S. this week: document | | | By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has granted waivers to let 872 refugees into the country this week, despite President Donald Trump's executive order on Friday temporarily banning entry of refugees from any country, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document seen by Reuters. A Homeland Security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the waivers, noting that the refugees were considered "in transit" and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect. The waivers, granted by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), came amid international protests against Trump's rushed executive order. |
| Canadian police patrol mosques, reach out to Muslims after attack | |  By Allison Lampert and Alastair Sharp QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police visibly patrolled mosques and schools in Muslim communities in several cities on Monday following the shooting attack at a Quebec City mosque that killed six worshippers. Authorities said a French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in Sunday's shooting that also wounded 17 people and was described by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "a terrorist attack." While mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States, Canada's neighbour to the south, they are rare in a country with more stringent gun laws. In Quebec City, police cars were stationed in front of various mosques, with officers checking the identification of reporters waiting outside.
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| Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people | | By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the gunman in the attack on Sunday evening prayers as Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, and charged him with six murder counts and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. The slightly-built Bissonnette made a brief appearance in court under tight security wearing a white prison garment and looking downcast. Prosecutors said all of the evidence was not yet ready and Bissonnette was set to appear again on Feb. 21.
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| France's Fillon and his wife questioned in 'fake work' probe | |  By Chine Labbé and Gérard Bon PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife were questioned for five hours by police investigators on Monday as part of a probe into allegations that Penelope Fillon had been paid for fake jobs. The allegations, which Fillon rejects, are sapping the popularity of the former prime minister and could shake up the April-May presidential contest, for which he has so far been the clear favourite. Fillon said in a statement that he and his wife had provided investigators with information that would help "establish the truth on the work carried out by Mrs Fillon." Such questioning is a normal step in a preliminary probe and not an indication of guilt.
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| Jailed Libor trader Hayes launches fresh appeal against conviction | | | By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the first person worldwide to be jailed for conspiring to manipulate Libor interest rates, on Monday night launched a last-ditch appeal against his conviction and 11-year sentence in Britain, alleging his trial was unfair. Hayes, a gifted mathematician with mild Asperger's syndrome, was initially sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2015 for conspiracy to rig the London interbank offered rate (Libor), a benchmark for rates on around $450 trillion worth of loans worldwide, while working as a Tokyo-based trader for UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc from 2006 to 2010. Hayes, backed by his family and supporters, has lodged a fresh appeal bid with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which looks at miscarriages of justice, after raising around 78,000 pounds ($97,000) through crowdfunding. |
| More than $900,000 raised to rebuild fire-ravaged Texas mosque | |  More than $900,000 has been raised in an online fundraiser for a south Texas mosque destroyed by fire over the weekend, exceeding the amount needed to rebuild the place of worship, according to the fundraising page on Monday. The GoFundMe page for the Victoria Islamic Center received donations from more than 19,000 people in the two days after the mosque, about 125 miles (200 km) southwest of Houston, was gutted by flames early on Saturday. "Our hearts are filled with gratitude for the tremendous support we've received," mosque leaders said in a statement on the online fundraising page.
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| Sparks fly as culprit sought for Chile blazes | |  By Anthony Esposito SANTIAGO (Reuters) - As Chilean authorities battle the historic blazes that have taken 11 lives, burned over 1,000 homes and wiped an entire town off the map, the theories about who may be to blame have spread as quickly as the wildfires themselves. The fires have consumed over 379,000 hectares (937,000 acres) in recent days, and cost Chile's forestry industry $350 million in losses. Forest fires are a regular feature of Chile's hot, arid summers, but a nearly decade-long drought combined with historically high temperatures have created tinder-dry conditions.
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| U.S. school shootings linked to unemployment - university study | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin CHICAGO (Reuters) - School shootings in the United States rise as the economy slows and unemployment increases, according to a university study published on Monday. Over the past 25 years there have been two periods of increased gun violence in U.S. schools and "the timing of these periods significantly correlates with increased economic insecurity," said researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. "The link between education and work is central to our expectations about economic opportunity and upward mobility in America," said John Hagan, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University and one of the authors of the study, which was published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
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| Democratic effort to overturn Trump travel ban blocked in Senate | |  Democratic U.S. senators tried to force a vote on a bill to rescind President Donald Trump's order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations on Monday, but were blocked by a Republican lawmaker. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said she had 27 co-sponsors of a bill to rescind the order Trump signed on Friday, but under Senate rules it takes only one member to prevent a vote. Republican Senator Tom Cotton blocked consideration of the measure.
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| Washington faith leaders reject immigration orders in Sunday sermons | |  By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sun had just risen when the head of St. John's Church across the street from the White House broke from his standard practice of avoiding politics and spoke passionately against sweeping new restrictions on immigration ordered by President Donald Trump. Reverend Luis Leon, St. John's rector, told the 20 people gathered for the early Sunday service that he was a Cuban refugee who came to the United States as a child and that Friday's executive order barring entry to refugees fleeing violence in Syria was "very personal." "I can't stand to think that we've become the kind of people who reject people who are fighting for their lives," he said. "To send them back to where they came from is unbelievable and unbearable to me." Leon said his Christian beliefs gave him a "thirst and hunger for righteousness" to stand up against the ban.
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| Washington state to sue over travel ban, pressures on Trump grow | |  Pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump grew on Monday over his order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, as the state of Washington announced a legal challenge and former President Barack Obama took a swipe at his successor. The leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, said he would bring legislation on Monday evening seeking to end the ban, although his effort stood little chance of being passed by the Republican-led Congress British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson joined a chorus of concern expressed by U.S. allies, ranging from Iraq to Germany, at Trump's executive order to forbid entry into America by refugees and people from some predominantly Muslim countries.
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| Mylan says being investigated over EpiPen practices | |  (Reuters) - Mylan NV said on Monday U.S. antitrust authorities had launched an investigation into its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment. The Federal Trade Commission had asked the company for information months ago as part of a preliminary investigation, a company spokesperson said in an email. The company did not provide any further details on the investigation but said suggestions it took any inappropriate or unlawful actions to prevent generic competition was "without merit." Mylan has come under fire for raising the price of a pair of EpiPens to $600 from $100 in 2008 and listing it with Medicaid as a generic product even though it is listed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a branded product.
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| Former New York fund analyst convicted of insider trading | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former analyst at Michael Dell's New York-based investment fund was convicted of insider trading on Monday, just a week after he was arrested for refusing to come to court to face trial. John Afriyie, 29, was found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan of securities fraud and wire fraud for misusing secret information about a deal that MSD Capital, named for the Dell Inc founder, was considering financing. Jurors immediately began hearing additional evidence to decide whether Afriyie should forfeit about $2.6 million, money that prosecutors said he made through insider trading and re-investing his over $1.5 million in illegal profits. |
| Trump order targeting business rules leaves key regulations untouched | |  By Ayesha Rascoe and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically reduce federal regulations, but the policy will not apply to most of the financial reform rules introduced by the Obama administration. Trump's latest executive action will require that agencies cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced and it will set an annual cap on the cost of new regulations. For the rest of fiscal 2017, the cap will require that the cost of any additional regulations be completely offset by undoing existing rules.
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| Trump set to name U.S. high court pick as Democrats plan fight | |  By Susan Heavey and Susan Cornwell 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, even as Democrats geared up for a Senate confirmation fight. Trump, set to fill the lingering vacancy on the nation's highest court left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, said on Monday he will reveal his choice at the White House at 8 p.m. on Tuesday (0100 GMT on Wednesday), two days earlier than previously planned. Three conservative U.S. appeals court judges appointed to the bench by Republican former President George W. Bush were among those under close consideration.
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| Tens of thousands protest in British cities against Trump's travel ban | |  Thousands of people, some holding placards reading "No to Racism, No to Trump", "Dump Trump" and "I stand with Muslims", joined a protest on Monday outside the Downing Street residence of Prime Minister Theresa May, the first leader to visit President Trump. Some chanted "Shame on May" for her offer to Trump of a visit to Britain while 1.5 million people signed a petition calling for Trump's planned trip - which will involve lavish displays of royal pageantry and a banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth - to be cancelled. "It's a lot worse under Trump than I was expecting, because it's only been 10 days but he's changed so much already," Rawnak Jassm, a 23-year-old British-Iraqi, who joined the protest, told Reuters.
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| Canada's terrorism threat level unchanged after shooting - minister | | | OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's national terrorism threat level remains unchanged at medium after a shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six people and injured 17 others, federal Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told reporters in Ottawa on Monday. Police in the capital of the province of Quebec have a suspect in custody and believe the person acted alone. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the shooting, which happened during prayers at the mosque on Sunday evening, "a terrorist attack." (Reporting By David Ljunggren; Writing by Alan Crosby; editing by Diane Craft) |
| Toronto college on alert after shots fired nearby | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - George Brown College in Toronto issued a "hold and secure" alert on Monday after shots were fired nearby and police in Canada's largest city said a man was found unconscious. The call came in at 2:47 p.m. ET, a police spokeswoman said. The college said campus buildings were locked and asked people to remain indoors, but said it was not on "lockdown". The suspect was seen fleeing the area, but police could not confirm further details. Local media reported the victim was pronounced dead. (Reporting by Solarina Ho; editing by Diane Craft) |
| Republicans take first steps to kill five Obama-era regulations | | By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republicans on Monday began the process of killing five Obama-era rules on corruption, the environment, labour and guns under the first real test of the Congressional Review Act, a law intended to keep regulation in check. Republicans put as much urgency on limiting what they consider over-regulation that stifles economic growth as they do on overhauling the tax code and dismantling the Affordable Care Act, according to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. This is the first time the Republican-led House of Representatives has targeted specific rules since convening on Jan. 3.
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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 the richest and most outspoken cheerleader for Brazil's ill-fated commodities bubble, flew back to Rio de Janeiro Monday and was arrested at the airport by federal police over corruption allegations after four days as a fugitive. Batista, a brash entrepreneur whose meteoric rise and fall made him the poster boy of a decade-long boom in Brazil that turned to bust three years ago, is accused of paying a former Rio state governor millions in bribes. Batista has not been formally charged.
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| Two pro-Kurdish lawmakers in Turkey arrested on terrorism charges - sources | | | A Turkish court ordered the arrest of two lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Monday, security sources said, bringing the total of jailed deputies from the Turkish opposition group to 12. HDP's Adana deputy Meral Danis Bestas was detained by police at her home in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, while Ayhan Bilgen, the head of the party's parliamentary group chief, was taken by security forces at the city's airport. Both are accused of being members of an armed terrorist organisation, sources said. |
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