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| Trump's EPA pick vote delayed in boycott by Senate Democrats | | | By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. senators on Wednesday delayed a committee vote on President Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency after the panel's Democrats boycotted the meeting, saying that nominee Scott Pruitt doubts the science of climate change. Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat, said he could not support Pruitt, a Republican and the attorney general of Oklahoma, for a public health position because he "denies the sum of empirical science and the urgency to act on climate change." At a committee confirmation hearing last month Pruitt, who has sued the agency he intends to run more than a dozen times on behalf of the oil-drilling state Oklahoma, expressed doubt about climate change science. |
| Britain's Brexit bill clears first legislative hurdle | |  Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to take Britain out of the European Union easily cleared its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday, paving the way for the government to launch divorce talks by the end of March. May's government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty - the legal process for leaving the bloc - after the Supreme Court ruled she could not take that decision unilaterally. The bill could complete the legislative process by March 7.
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| Hostages taken at Delaware prison, facility locked down | | | (Reuters) - Hostages were taken at a men's prison in Delaware and the facility was locked down on Wednesday, a state Department of Correction spokeswoman said. The James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in the town of Smyrna, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Wilmington, was locked down between 10:30 a.m. ET and 11 a.m. ET (1530-1600 GMT), spokeswoman Jayme Gravell said. ABC 7 television news, citing the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, reported the hostages were prison guards. |
| Canadian government abandons electoral reform vow | |  The Canadian government on Wednesday abandoned plans to change the country's electoral system, breaking a major campaign promise in a move that prompted one opposition politician to call Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "a liar." The reversal of the election pledge adds to pressure Trudeau is already facing for controversies surrounding cash-for-access fundraisers, as well as an ethics probe into a vacation at a private island over the New Year's holiday. Trudeau had promised during his successful 2015 election campaign that Canada would have a new voting system in place by the 2019 election, an overhaul that was expected to benefit smaller parties, such as the left-leaning Green Party which holds only one seat in parliament.
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| White House says has updated guidance for green card holders | | | The White House said on Wednesday it has issued updated guidance on President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration clarifying that legal permanent residents, or green card holders, do not require a waiver to enter the United States. "They no longer need a waiver because if they are a legal permanent resident they won't need it anymore," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a news briefing. The restriction on green card holders was among the most confusing element in the executive order signed on Friday. |
| Western states concerned over Romanian government decree | | | Six western states expressed deep concerns on Wednesday over the Romanian government's decree to decriminalise some anti-graft offenses, saying they could undermine the European Union state's anti-corruption progress and put its international partnerships at risk. |
| In Fillon's provincial French fiefdom, locals spellbound by fake work scandal | |  By Richard Balmforth SABLE-SUR-SARTHE, France (Reuters) - On the main square of the northern provincial town where French presidential candidate Francois Fillon launched his political career, a branch of Credit Agricole, where he banks, stands next to a bar called Pub Elysee. The ironic imagery is hard to miss: Fillon's money nestled alongside the Elysee presidential palace that is now slipping from his grasp because of a scandal over taxpayer cash paid to his wife for work she may not have done. Satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, which last week broke the story now dubbed "Penelopegate", was selling better than usual in Sable-sur-Sarthe on Wednesday.
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| U.N. chief says Trump travel ban 'not best way to protect U.S.' | |  By Ned Parker UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's travel restrictions on people with passports from seven countries and a freeze on refugee resettlement was "not the best way to protect the U.S." and should be lifted sooner than later. Guterres' comments were his first to directly address Trump's signing of an executive order last Friday on immigration amid a drumbeat of criticism from around the world and protests.
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| Senate panel advances Trump's nominee for attorney general | |  The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Tuesday to confirm Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general of the United States, sending President Donald Trump's pick to be the nation's top law enforcement officer to the full Senate for a final vote. The role got a higher profile on Monday night when the Republican president promptly fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to enforce his executive order temporarily banning all refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
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| Fears of U.S. visa overhaul push Indian IT stocks lower | |  By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Indian technology companies deepened losses on Wednesday as investors worried U.S. President Donald Trump and legislators would impose tougher rules on skilled-worker visas that those firms rely on. U.S. shares of Infosys fell 1.5 percent, bringing their loss to 4 percent since the introduction of legislation in Congress last week aimed at tightening requirements for H-1B work visas. Indian IT companies serving U.S. corporations are among the largest sponsors for H-1B visas, using them to employ programmers and other technology workers.
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| NATO urges Russia to help stop violence in east Ukraine | |  By Gabriela Baczynska and Gleb Garanich BRUSSELS/AVDIYIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday called on Russia to use its "considerable influence" with separatist rebels to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine after a renewed surge in violence. The shelling eased on Wednesday, but Jan. 29-31 clashes near the Kiev-held front line town of Avdiyivka brought the festering conflict back into focus amid warnings of a looming humanitarian crisis in freezing winter temperatures. "We call for an immediate return to the ceasefire," Stoltenberg said in Brussels "We call on Russia to use its considerable influence over the separatists to bring the violence to an end." He urged both sides, which have been locked in a periodically violent stalemate, to respect the Minsk peace agreement, including its key provision that envisages a withdrawal of heavy weaponry from conflict zone.
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| U.S. Senate panel suspends rules, backs Price, Mnuchin for Cabinet | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee suspended committee rules and confirmed U.S. Representative Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services and banker Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury secretary Wednesday on a straight party line vote, sending the nominations to the Senate floor. Under pressure from their political base to block President Donald Trump's nominees, Democrats stayed away from the meeting for a second day running. This normally would have stopped action, but Republicans plowed ahead by voting to suspend the rule that required at least one Democrat to be present for business to be conducted.
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| Trump urges Republicans to force majority vote on Gorsuch if Democrats block | |  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would urge fellow Republicans in the Senate to invoke a rule change to force a simple majority vote on his Supreme Court nominee if Democrats block his choice. With some Democrats questioning Trump's choice of federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch the day after the president announced him, Trump said he would not want congressional gridlock to interfere with Gorsuch.
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| Ex-pimp helps trafficked women cook their way to new HK life | | | By Sylvia Yu Friedman HONG KONG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pimp turned do-gooder Kaushic Biswas has swapped the brothel for the kitchen and is now teaching the sort of women he once exploited how to cook their way out of sex trafficking. It is a total change from his Mumbai life back in the 1990s, when Biswas earned big money as a pimp, managing and selling women for sex after they had been trafficked into prostitution. Biswas was a trained chef whose life took a bad turn in 1991 and has now come full circle. |
| Germany arrests Tunisian asylum-seeker linked to Tunis museum attack | |  By Patricia Uhlig and Michelle Martin WIESBADEN, Germany/BERLIN (Reuters) - A 36-year-old Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in Germany is also wanted in his homeland over a deadly 2015 assault on a Tunis museum favoured by Western tourists, German officials said. The Tunisian is suspected of recruiting for Islamic State in Germany since August 2015 and building up a network of supporters with the aim of carrying out a terrorist attack, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said in a statement.
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| At least 94 psychiatric patients died of negligence in South Africa last year | | | About 1,300 psychiatric patients were moved from a unit of the Life Healthcare Group to charities during last year in a cost-cutting bid by the health department in Gauteng province, the commercial hub where Johannesburg and Pretoria are located. Experts say mental health care takes the backseat in funding and public hospitals do not have enough equipment or staff. |
| Senate Judiciary Democrat says panel should hold hearings for Gorsuch | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Wednesday the panel should hold hearings on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch but that Democrats would seek a 60-vote threshold for his confirmation in the full Senate. President Donald Trump announced his nomination of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Gorsuch on Tuesday night to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last year. The seat has remained vacant for nearly a year because Republicans refused to consider former President Barack Obama's nominee. ... |
| Challenges to Trump's immigration orders spread to more U.S. states | |  (In Jan. 31 item, in 11th paragraph corrects to show two Iranian plaintiffs are a man and a woman, not two men) By Scott Malone and Dan Levine BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Legal challenges to President Donald Trump's first moves on immigration spread on Tuesday, with three states suing over his executive order banning travel into the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries. Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Washington state joined the legal battle against the travel ban, which the White House deems necessary to improve national security.
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