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| Bomb threats target U.S. Jewish centres for third time in a month | | | More than a dozen Jewish community centres around the United States and one in Canada received bomb threats on Tuesday, the third wave of threatened attacks against them this month. A total of 14 centres across 10 states, along with one in Canada, received the threats, according to David Posner, a director at the JCC Association of North America who advises centres on security. Jewish community centres in California, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada received the threats, according to the statement. |
| Kuwait minister to face no-confidence vote over sports ban | | | Ten Kuwaiti lawmakers filed a motion on Tuesday to hold a vote of no-confidence in the minister of information and youth after questioning him over the country's 15-month international sports ban, according to state news agency KUNA. Sheikh Salman Humoud Al-Sabah, a member of the ruling family, will face the vote on Feb. 8 after lawmakers accused him of "complacency and mismanagement," the KUNA statement said. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended Kuwait in October 2015, accusing the government of interference in its national Olympic Committee. |
| Challenges to Trump's immigration orders spread to more U.S. states | |  Massachusetts, New York and Virginia joined the legal battle against the travel ban, which the White House deems necessary to improve national security. San Francisco became the first U.S. city to sue to challenge a Trump directive to withhold federal money from U.S. cities that have adopted sanctuary policies toward undocumented immigrants, which local officials argue help local police by making those immigrants more willing to report crimes.
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| Germany arrests three suspected of Islamic State links | | | German police arrested three men in Berlin on Tuesday on suspicion of having close links to Islamic State militants and planning to travel to the Middle East for combat training, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. The newspaper Bild reported that the three suspects had close links to Islamic State members in Syria and Iraq and were frequent visitors of a mosque in the Berlin district of Moabit that Anis Amri, who attacked a Berlin Christmas market in December, also used to visit. |
| Trump pushes drugmakers for lower prices, more U.S. production | |  By Roberta Rampton and Deena Beasley WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump in a meeting on Tuesday with pharmaceutical executives called on them to manufacture more of their drugs in the United States and cut prices, while vowing to speed approval of new medicines and ease regulation. Trump told them the government was paying "astronomical" prices for medicines in its health programs for older, disabled and poor people and said he would soon appoint a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration leader. "We're going to streamline the FDA," Trump said in a statement, referring to the regulatory agency responsible for vetting that new drugs are safe and effective.
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| Trump's embattled U.S. education sec. pick may face Senate fight | | | By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, already known as one of the most controversial nominees for education secretary in U.S. history, now risks a rare Congressional rejection. The deeply divided U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday agreed to send her nomination to the full chamber for a vote, the final step in the confirmation process. |
| Some nations affected by U.S. immigration order may stay on list - official | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nationals from the seven Muslim-majority countries temporarily blocked from entering the United States by President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration may be barred indefinitely, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Tuesday. Under the order released Friday, travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are banned from entering the United States for at least 90 days while Kelly and others determine whether there is enough information available to vet them. White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Tuesday described the seven countries affected by the executive order as places "where frankly we don't get the information that we need for people coming into this country." Confusion mounted over the weekend as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, rushed to brief airlines, customs agents and others involved in air travel about how to implement Trump's executive order, which was not explicit about how to handle green card holders and other previously admissible populations.
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| Trump set to name conservative judge as U.S. Supreme Court pick | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was set to unveil his pick on Tuesday for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, likely choosing a conservative judge to try to shape the court for years to come on issues like abortion and gun and religious rights. Democrats, still fuming over the Republican-led Senate's refusal to act on former President Barack Obama's court nominee last year, girded for a fight. Trump has announced he will reveal his choice to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last February, at the White House at 8 p.m. (0100 GMT on Wednesday).
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| Defence for accused New York bomber Rahimi vows fight over DNA | |  By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the man accused of injuring 30 people by detonating a bomb in New York City complained that government investigators took a DNA sample from him without his attorneys present and promised a fight to keep that evidence out of court. Defence attorneys also sought to delay the trial of Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen, saying a U.S. judge and prosecutors were pushing for too prompt a start for a case that could result in life in prison. Rahimi has pleaded not guilty to a host of both U.S. and New Jersey state charges that he detonated bombs in New York and New Jersey in September and left behind others that failed to explode.
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| Olympians urge speedy resolution to Trump travel ban | |  (Reuters) - The World Olympians Association (WOA) expressed concern on Tuesday about the potential impact U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on visitors from some Muslim-majority nations could have on athletes and urged a quick resolution. The WOA, which serves as the member organization for the more than 120,000 Olympians worldwide, wants to ensure the right of athletes to compete is protected in the wake of Trump's controversial immigration order. "Like many across the world, the WOA is concerned about the impact of the recent executive order on immigration signed by President Trump," WOA President Joël Bouzou said in a statement.
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| Canada shooting suspect rented apartment close to mosque - neighbours | |  By Kevin Dougherty and Allison Lampert QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student accused of killing six people during evening prayers in a Quebec City mosque had rented an apartment nearby, neighbours said on Tuesday, a sign he may have been targeting the house of worship. Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was charged in court on Monday with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon after Sunday evening's massacre at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec. The mass shooting, which was rare for Canada and which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack," prompted an outpouring of support for the mosque and for Canada's one million Muslims in the country of about 35 million.
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| British victims of modern slavery recount abuse in TV documentary | | | By Sally Hayden LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of modern slavery in Britain have spoken about being forced to work 19 hour days for little or no pay, beaten up and having their IDs taken from them, in a programme by the UK's Channel 4 television. Due to be broadcast on Tuesday evening, The Modern British Slave Trade follows prosecutors as they investigate cases of labour exploitation, and interviews victims about the abuse they experienced. Filmed over two years, it details the story of Christopher Nicholls, whose skeletal remains were discovered in 2008, six years after he disappeared. |
| San Francisco sues Trump over sanctuary city order | | | By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump's executive order directing the U.S. government to withhold money from cities that have adopted sanctuary policies toward undocumented immigrants. The lawsuit, filed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, marks the first court challenge over the sanctuary order filed by one of the targeted cities. Trump signed the directive on sanctuary cities on Jan. 25, along with an executive order to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, as he charged ahead with sweeping and divisive plans to transform how the United States deals with immigration and national security. |
| Trump to name U.S. high court pick on Tuesday as Democrats plan fight | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was set to unveil his pick for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as Democrats, still fuming over the Republican-led Senate's refusal to act on former President Barack Obama's nominee last year, girded for a fight. Trump has announced he would reveal his choice to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last February, at the White House at 8 p.m. (0100 GMT on Wednesday). The court is ideologically split with four conservative justices and four liberals, and Trump's pick can restore its conservative majority.
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| French police search Fillon office as fraud affair rocks campaign | |  By Emile Picy and Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French police searched presidential candidate Francois Fillon's office in parliament on Tuesday as an inquiry into alleged fake work by his wife threatened his campaign and party leaders began to consider a 'Plan B' without him. Fillon had been favourite to win the presidency for the conservative Republicans party until a week ago, when it was reported that his wife Penelope had drawn hundreds of thousands of euros in pay from state funds without doing any work. Fillon has said his Welsh-born wife, with whom he has five children, did real work for her pay as a parliamentary assistant.
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| Chinese billionaire whereabouts a mystery but denies abduction - media | | | A missing China-born billionaire was quoted by state media on Tuesday as saying he had not been abducted from Hong Kong by mainland Chinese agents as some news outlets had reported but was receiving medical treatment. Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Xiao Jianhua, who was last seen in Hong Kong on Friday when some overseas Chinese news outlets reported he was taken by Chinese agents from the luxury Four Seasons hotel. Chinese news portal Cankao Xiaoxi, published by the official Xinhua news agency, cited Xiao's Beijing-based Tomorrow Group as saying in a statement on its verified WeChat account that the billionaire had "not been abducted" and had not been taken to mainland China. |
| France's Fillon says unfazed, waiting fake job probe to end | |  French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon said on Tuesday that he remained unfazed and confident while waiting for the end of a probe into allegations that his wife and children were paid hundreds of thousands euros for fake work. Fillon had been favourite to win the presidency for conservative party The Republicans until a week ago, but his campaign is now threatened and party grandees are considering a 'Plan B' without him.
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| Massachusetts joins court battle against Trump travel ban | |  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts on Tuesday joined a legal effort to block U.S. President Donald Trump's order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, which the state's attorney general has said is unconstitutional. Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, said her office was joining the lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday challenging the ban and also filing its own lawsuit seeking to have the ban struck down. Over the weekend, a federal judge in Boston, home to Logan International Airport, blocked Trump's order from being enforced for seven days.
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| Ex-owner of Hitler's birthplace challenges state's expropriation | |  By Shadia Nasralla VIENNA (Reuters) - The former owner of Adolf Hitler's birthplace has launched a legal challenge against its expropriation by the government which wants to ensure the house can never become a shrine for neo-Nazis, a court spokesman said on Tuesday. Parliament voted last month for the compulsory purchase of the three-storey house in the town of Braunau am Inn, aiming to end a long-standing dispute with its owner, a retired woman who had turned down previous offers by the state to acquire it. The Interior Ministry had been renting the building since 1972 and it has been used for a variety of purposes by the authorities in the city which is near the border with Germany.
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| Kenya extradites four men to U.S. on suspicion of heroin smuggling | | | By Nate Raymond, Katharine Houreld and David Lewis NEW YORK/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four men charged with directing a major heroin trafficking ring have been extradited to the United States from Kenya, U.S. prosecutors announced on Tuesday, in what officials say is a major blow to East Africa's cartels. Baktash Akasha, who U.S. prosecutors say led a Kenyan crime family called the Akasha organization that was involved in distributing heroin and methamphetamine, arrived in New York from Kenya along with three co-defendants on Monday. |
| Missouri man set to be executed for 1998 triple murder | |  (Reuters) - A man convicted of killing a woman and her two children after a break-in at their home in southern Missouri in 1998 was set to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Mark Christeson, 37, was sent to death row for the murders of Susan Brouk, her 12-year-old daughter, Adrian, and 9-year-old son, Kyle. The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted the execution in 2014 after Christeson's legal team argued his previous attorneys had failed to meet a key deadline for filing court papers in 2005 and had refused to cooperate when the mistake came to light.
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| Gorsuch told he is likely Trump's Supreme Court pick - CNN | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch has been told he is likely President Donald Trump's pick to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that has been vacant for almost a year, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source. Gorsuch, 49, who would replace the late Antonin Scalia, is a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006. Some Democrats in the U.S. Senate, which votes on whether to confirm judicial nominees, have already said they would seek to block whoever Trump nominates. ... |
| Britain pardons thousands of gay men convicted under defunct laws | | | Britain has granted posthumous pardons to thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of sexual offences under laws which have since been abolished, the government said on Tuesday. The mass pardon, which had been announced several months ago, became a reality when a new law received royal assent. The policy is known as "Turing's Law" after the celebrated mathematician and World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing, who was stripped of his job and chemically castrated after being convicted of gross indecendy in 1952 for having sex with a man. |
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