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| South Carolina church gunman objects to tearful testimony | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Convicted murderer Dylann Roof said on Thursday tearful testimony by family members of those slain in the South Carolina church massacre was excessive and would prejudice jurors who will decide whether he should be sentenced to death. The 22-year-old white supremacist, found guilty last month of killing nine black people at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, said in written motions it was unfair for federal prosecutors to pile on given he does not plan to present any mitigating evidence. Roof is serving as his own lawyer during the penalty phase of his capital trial.
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| U.S. sues D-Link, alleges lax security in routers, cameras | |  By Diane Bartz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against D-Link Corp on Thursday, accusing the Taiwan-based manufacturer of failing to take reasonable steps to protect its routers and internet-linked security cameras from hackers. The FTC brought the charges as part of a broader effort to improve security of internet-connected devices, including routers, webcams, digital video recorders and other widely used consumer electronics devices. "The security of our products and protection of our customers private data is always our top priority." Concerns about security of internet-connected devices, which are sometimes referred to collectively as the internet of things, or IoT, have surged since last year when hackers used armies of compromised routers, webcams and other electronic devices to launch a series of increasingly powerful attacks that severed access to some of the world's biggest websites.
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| Tennis - Australian Boys champion Anderson charged with match fixing: local media | |  (Reuters) - Australian teenager Oliver Anderson, one of the brightest young talents in tennis, has been charged by police with involvement in match fixing following an investigation, local media reported on Thursday. Police in Victoria said in a statement that an unnamed 18-year-old Queensland man had been charged. Australian media identified Anderson and quoted a family statement saying the teenager from Brisbane was cooperating fully with authorities.
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| Brazil prosecutors eye contract corruption at massacre prison | |  By Ueslei Marcelino and Alonso Soto MANAUS/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a multi-million dollar private prison contract in Amazonas state be axed due to signs of corruption as the government blamed mismanagement for the country's bloodiest prison massacre in decades. Amazonas' accounting court prosecutor, Carlos Almeida, said he found signs of payment irregularities in a contract the state signed with the Pamas consortium to manage all its prisons, including the Anisio Jobim penitentiary where 56 inmates died in an uprising this week. The killings have raised questions about whether private companies should be running prisons in Brazil, especially in Amazonas where the inmate population has more than doubled since 2010.
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| Investigators return to question Netanyahu over alleged receipt of gifts | |  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police officers on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under caution for a second time this week on suspicion of taking gifts from businessmen in breach of his role as a public servant. Police said the session, which lasted some five hours, was held at Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem. "The investigation under caution of (Netanyahu's) alleged receipt of benefits continued today and involved questioning about another affair ... due to a fear of disrupting the investigation, no further details can be revealed at the moment," a police statement said.
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| U.S. Senate Democrats demand probe of Trump health nominee | |  By Susan Cornwell and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded an ethics probe into Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. health secretary, following a report that the fierce Obamacare critic traded in healthcare company stocks while pushing legislation in Congress that could affect those shares. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and others made their comments as congressional Republicans moved ahead with their long-desired effort to dismantle President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, and signalled the vehemence with which Democrats will fight to protect the 2010 law. Price is an orthopaedic surgeon and a Republican congressman from Georgia who, if confirmed by the Senate as Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, would be given the task of carrying out Trump's promise to gut the law that has enabled up to 20 million previously uninsured Americans to obtain medical coverage.
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| Kerry says he accepts U.S. intelligence assessment on Russian hacking | |  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday he accepted the U.S. intelligence assessment that the "highest level" of the Russian government was responsible for cyber attacks during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Asked during a news conference if he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin directed the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, Kerry said: "I accept the judgment of the intelligence community that this went to the highest level" of the Russian government.
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| U.S. spy chief 'resolute' on Russia cyber attack, differs with Trump | |  By Dustin Volz and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday he was "even more resolute" in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats during the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he had a very high level of confidence that Russia hacked Democratic Party institutions and campaign staff email, and disseminated 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 after a gunman killed 39 people in a New Year's Day mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub. "Based on the preparation, the weapons, the bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big atrocity was being planned," Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told reporters.
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| Yemeni detainees land in Saudi Arabia after transfer from Guantanamo | | | RIYADH (Reuters) - Four Yemeni detainees held by the United States at its Guantanamo Bay military prison landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, part of a final push by President Barack Obama to shrink the inmate population there before leaving office. Family members met the detainees in tearful reunions at the royal airport the capital Riyadh. (Reporting by Katie Paul; Editing by Dominic Evans) |
| Comey defends actions during 'challenging' U.S. election year | |  FBI Director James Comey on Thursday defended his handling of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email investigation during the contentious U.S. presidential election, according to a message to FBI staff reported by ABC News. Comey and the Federal Bureau of Investigation came under criticism from Republicans and Democrats amid its investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server while U.S. secretary of state. "I would be lying if I said the external criticism doesn't bother me at all, but the truth is, it doesn't bother me much because of the way we made the decision," Comey said in the New Year's message, ABC reported.
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| VW must face U.S. investor lawsuit in emissions scandal | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG and former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn must defend an investor lawsuit in California over the company's diesel emissions cheating scandal, a U.S. judge has ruled. The plaintiffs, mostly U.S. municipal pension funds, have accused VW of not having informed the market in a timely fashion about the issue as well as understating possible financial liabilities, according to the 41-court document seen by Reuters. The pension funds include those representing Arkansas State Highway Employees and Miami Police.
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| Germany is sued in U.S. over early-1900s Namibia slaughter | | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Germany was sued for damages in the United States on Thursday by descendants of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia, for what they called a genocide campaign by German colonial troops in the early 1900s that led to more than 100,000 deaths. According to a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Germany has excluded the plaintiffs from talks with Namibia regarding what occurred, and has publicly said any settlement will not include reparations to victims, even if compensation is awarded to Namibia itself. "There is no assurance that any of the proposed foreign aid by Germany will actually reach or assist the minority indigenous communities that were directly harmed," the plaintiffs' lawyer Ken McCallion said in an email. |
| Two arrested in Israel for threatening judges in soldier trial - police | | | By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police said on Thursday they arrested two people for inciting violence on social media against three military judges who convicted a soldier of manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian attacker. The judges found Sergeant Elor Azaria, 20, guilty of the charge on Wednesday, and supporters have set up several Facebook pages urging Israel's president to pardon him. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also called for a pardon on his own Facebook page. |
| Berlin truck attacker used at least 14 names - German police | |  By Joseph Nasr and Matthias Inverardi BERLIN/DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - The Tunisian man who killed 12 people last month by ploughing a truck into a Berlin Christmas market had lived under at least 14 different names in Germany, a regional police chief said on Thursday, raising more questions about security lapses. Anis Amri, shot dead by Italian police in Milan on Dec. 23, had been marked as a potential threat by authorities in the western federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)in February 2016, some six months after he arrived in Germany and applied for asylum. "He acted in a conspiratorial manner and used various personalities," Dieter Schuermann, head of the NRW Criminal Police Unit, told the regional parliament during a briefing.
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| More than 800 girls circumcised in Tanzania despite police crackdown | | | By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 800 girls were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in northern Tanzania last month, a local government official said, despite a police crackdown to stop the practice that affects millions of girls in the east African country. |
| 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. |
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