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| Trump calls Russian hacking controversy a 'witch hunt' - NYT | |  By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump dismissed a controversy over Russian hacking during the 2016 U.S. election campaign as a "political witch hunt," the New York Times reported on Friday before U.S. intelligence agencies were to brief him on the matter. The 12:30 p.m. (1730) briefing coincides with deep tension between U.S. intelligence agencies and Republican Trump, who has disparaged their conclusions that Russia staged cyber attacks to interfere in the election by hacking Democratic Party institutions and campaign staff of his opponent Hillary Clinton. "China, relatively recently, hacked 20 million government names," Trump said in a telephone interview with the New York Times, referring to the Office of Personnel Management breach in 2014 and 2015.
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| Trump to seek probe of secret report he says was given to NBC | |  President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he would ask congressional committees to investigate NBC's receipt of top secret information, apparently referring to a report on Russian hacking to influence the 2016 U.S. election. "I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," Trump said in a post on Twitter. The report was delivered to President Barack Obama earlier in the day.
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| Disgruntled soldiers seize control of Ivory Coast's second city | | | By Ange Aboa and Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Disgruntled soldiers demanding salary increases and the payment of bonuses seized control of Ivory Coast's second-largest city, Bouake, on Friday, according to the defence minister. Ivory Coast - French-speaking West Africa's largest economy - has emerged from a 2002-2011 political crisis as one of the continent's rising economic stars. A statement from Defence Minister Alain-Richard Donwahi read out on state-owned television said a group of soldiers had used their weapons to force their way into the military headquarters in Bouake soon after midnight and then made their demands. |
| Trump says U.S. funds spent on border wall would be repaid by Mexico | |  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump criticized news reports on Friday that U.S. taxpayers would pay for his planned border wall with Mexico, saying they were failing to report that U.S. funds used to start the project would be repaid by Mexico. "The dishonest media does not report than any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!" Trump said on Twitter. CNN and other media organizations reported on Friday that Trump's transition team had signaled to congressional Republicans that he preferred to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April.
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| Kosovo to review ties with Serbia after ex-PM arrest - foreign minister | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj said on Friday his country had retaliated against neighbouring Serbia and would do so again after an ex-prime minister was arrested in France on a warrant issued by Belgrade. The arrest on Wednesday of Ramush Haradinaj, a guerrilla commander in the 1998-99 war against Serbian rule who served briefly as prime minister in 2004 and 2005, has heightened tensions between the Balkan neighbours. Kosovo seceded from Serbia in 2008.
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| FACTBOX: Trump to meet with intel chiefs, Kentucky lt. governor, media | |  REUTERS - Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continued holding meetings on Friday in New York as he prepares to take over the White House from Democrat Barack Obama on Jan. 20. Below is a list of meetings for Friday, according to Trump's transition team. U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY DIRECTORS * Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan * Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey * Director of National Intelligence James Clapper * A briefing on the U.S. intelligence agencies' final report on the subject of Russian hacking of U.S. ...
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| In Istanbul district, horror but scant surprise at links to nightclub shooter | |  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - In a working-class Istanbul neighbourhood that Central Asian migrants have called home for decades, there is horror but scant surprise that a gunman who killed 39 people in a nightclub on New Year's Day may have spent time in their community. Just beyond the ancient walls on Istanbul's historic peninsula, Zeytinburnu could not be farther removed from the upscale Ortakoy district on the shores of the Bosphorus where the gunman opened fire with an automatic rifle last Sunday. The gunman, whom Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said is thought to be an ethnic Uighur, is believed to have travelled by taxi from Zeytinburnu before the shooting and to have returned to a restaurant there afterwards, asking to borrow money to pay the driver.
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| Abused housemaid's death in New Delhi raises trafficking concerns | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The death of a housemaid who said she was abused by her New Delhi employers after being lured to the city with the promise of a job has raised new concerns over those trapped in domestic servitude in India. Campaigners are demanding a renewed crackdown on unregulated employment agencies that profit from workers from impoverished states attracted to cities hoping to earn money to support their families back home. The 24-year-old housemaid died in hospital on Wednesday, two weeks after she was admitted with multiple fractures and injuries, police said. |
| At least 33 inmates killed in new Brazil prison riot | |  By Pedro Fonseca and Brad Brooks RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - At least 33 inmates were killed in a prison riot in Brazil on Friday, officials said, possibly in retaliation after members of a powerful drug gang were targeted in the worst prison massacre in decades that left 56 people dead earlier this week. State officials said the riot in Monte Cristo, Roraima state's largest penitentiary, was brought under control by elite police forces. Violence between rival drug gangs in the prison had ended with 10 dead in October.
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| Bieber, Usher win dismissal of copyright lawsuit | |  A federal judge has dismissed a $10 million lawsuit accusing Justin Bieber and Usher of illegally copying parts of their song "Somebody to Love" from an identically titled song by two Virginia songwriters. In an order on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen in Norfolk, Virginia adopted a federal magistrate judge's finding that Devin Copeland and his cousin Mareio Overton failed to show that Bieber and Usher had access to their 2008 song before creating their own work in early 2010. Duncan Byers, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond on Friday to requests for comment.
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| Trump's aides say president-elect open to Russian hack info | |  Donald Trump's top aides said he would have an open mind on Friday when he is briefed on what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded were Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 election campaign, despite rising tensions between the president-elect and the nation's spy agencies. Trump has been dismissive of findings that Russian hackers worked on his behalf and spokesman Sean Spicer told ABC News that Trump has "a healthy skepticism of everything." Spicer and Kellyanne Conway, who will be a counselor to Trump when he takes office on Jan. 20, said Trump would question the heads of the top U.S. intelligence agencies about their methods and conclusions. Conway said it was too soon for Trump make a judgment even as he has repeatedly tweeted this week about the hacking issue.
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| Turkey detains 18 people over Izmir attack, sees PKK responsible - minister | | | By Mehmet Emin Caliskan IZMIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 18 people over a gun and bomb attack that killed two people in the city of Izmir and the justice minister said on Friday there was no doubt Kurdish militants were responsible. Militants clashed with police and detonated a car bomb outside the main courthouse in Turkey's third largest city, located on its western Aegean coast, on Thursday after their vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint. A police officer and a court employee were killed. |
| Brussels police call in sick, protesting against overwork since security crackdown | | | Police officers collectively called in sick in the Brussels district of Molenbeek on Friday, complaining that a security crackdown had left them overworked, a senior officer said. Molenbeek has been in focus since it emerged that militants who attacked Paris in November 2015 had lived there. Patrols and other measures stepped up even further after two coordinated suicide bombings hit Brussels in March last year. |
| S.Korea court convicts ex-Reckitt Benckiser unit chief in sterilizer case | | | A South Korean court on Friday convicted 14 people including a former head of the local unit of British consumer goods maker Reckitt Benckiser over the sale of humidifier sterilizers linked to deadly lung injuries, sentencing the former boss to seven years in prison. The Seoul Central District Court found the former executive, Shin Hyun-woo, guilty of criminal negligence for failing to inspect the safety of the product and allowing its sale, and false labeling for marketing it as safe, according to a spokeswoman for Reckitt. Two current employees of Reckitt Benckiser Korea, research and development head Cho Hanseog and R&D manager Michael Choi, were convicted of the same charges, as was former R&D head Kim Jingu. |
| FIFA says court rules in its favour over Qatar working conditions | |  A court has rejected a lawsuit against FIFA brought by labour unions which said it had failed to use its influence to ensure fair treatment for people working on 2022 World Cup facilities in Qatar, the world soccer body said on Friday. FIFA said in a statement it welcomed the decision by the Commercial Court of Zurich in the case which concerned its "alleged wrongful conduct and liability for human rights violations." The court could not immediately be reached for comment and FIFA did not give further details on the case itself. The suit was filed by Bangladesh Free Trade Union Congress, backed by the Dutch union FNV, on behalf of a Bangladeshi man who says he was exploited in Qatar.
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