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| Romanians rally in biggest anti-corruption protest in decades | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - More than 250,000 Romanians demonstrated on Wednesday against a government decree decriminalising some graft offences, seen as the biggest retreat on reforms since the country joined the European Union in 2007. Romania's top judicial watchdog, the Superior Magistrates' Council (CSM), earlier in the day filed a constitutional court challenge to the decree unveiled by the new Social Democrat government of Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu. The number of protesters rose to a new high in the evening, reaching 130,000 to 150,000 outside the cabinet building in Bucharest.
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| Trump urges Republicans to 'go nuclear' to defend high court pick | |  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Senate Republicans to "go nuclear" and impose a rule change to force a simple majority vote on confirmation if Democrats block his U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, as Democrats manoeuvred for a hard fight. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge from Colorado seen as a conservative intellectual, began holding private meetings with senators, starting with top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, to drum up support for his nomination a day after Trump picked the 49-year-old for a lifetime job on the country's top court.
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| Five hostages taken, one released at Delaware prison | |  (Reuters) - Prisoners took five hostages at a Delaware prison on Wednesday, later releasing one and entering into negotiations with state and federal authorities while continuing to hold the remaining four, police said. All five hostages were state Department of Correction employees, and the one who was released was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Sgt. Richard Bratz, a spokesman for Delaware State Police, told a news conference. "Working with the Department of Correction, the FBI and the Delaware State Police will continue negotiations to obtain a peaceful and safe resolution," Sgt. Richard Bratz, a spokesman for the Delaware State Police, told a news conference.
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| Brazil's Senate picks Temer ally to head upper chamber | | | Brazil's Senate elected an ally of President Michel Temer as its new leader on Wednesday, providing key support in the upper chamber for proposed reforms to restore fiscal discipline. Senator Eunicio Oliveira, 64, was elected Senate president by a vote of 61-10, despite accusations that he took a bribe of 2.1 million reais ($670,000) from a defendant in a sweeping graft investigation. Oliveira was leader of Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) in the Senate. |
| Suspect in Canada mosque shooting sought money, scouted site | |  By Allison Lampert QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The suspect in the shooting rampage at a Canadian mosque visited the site before Sunday's massacre, asking for money and scouting the scene before returning with guns and killing six men as they prayed, a member of the mosque said. 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. Members of the mosque were shocked to find the man that had been seen twice outside the centre in the days before the shooting was the same slightly built French-Canadian that police said was the lone attacker in the shooting.
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| As private lawyer, Trump high court pick was friend to business | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As a lawyer in private practice for a decade, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch often fought on behalf of business interests, including efforts to curb securities class action lawsuits, experience that could mould his thinking if he is confirmed as a justice. Gorsuch, a conservative federal appeals court judge from Colorado nominated by wealthy businessman Trump on Tuesday, could turn out to be a friend to business, having represented the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in fending off securities class actions, one of the most hotly contested areas of corporate law.
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| Florida nightclub gunman's widow knew of his plan: U.S. prosecutors | |  By Curtis Skinner OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The widow of the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history knew he was planning an attack and concocted a cover story for him, federal prosecutors said in a California court on Wednesday. Prosecutors revealed new details about their case against Noor Salman, 30, as they argued she should remain jailed on charges stemming from the June 2016 shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu did not immediately rule, instead ordering psychiatric and psychological tests for Salman.
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| Libyan officials criticise U.S. travel ban, doubt over February conference | | | By Aidan Lewis TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed government has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's temporary ban on its nationals and those of six other countries entering the United States, which put in question attendance at a high-profile conference on Libya planned in Washington for mid-February. The executive order by Trump comes at a time of uncertainty over U.S. policy in Libya, which remains mired in the chaos that followed the NATO-backed 2011 uprising against long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi. |
| Serbia's authorities order lockdown at a migrant camp | | | The Serbian authorities on Wednesday imposed restrictions on the movements of migrants in a camp near Belgrade, after three men allegedly attacked a woman and her children near the refugee centre, a minister said. The migrants will now need permission to leave the camp, a set of former army barracks in the town of Obrenovac, just outside Belgrade, said Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin, who is also in charge of refugee centres. "We are introducing tougher measures ... they will have to return to the camp by a certain time and they will be issued identification documents," Vulin said, according to the Tanjug news agency. |
| 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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| 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. |
| Rio's murder rate soared last year despite calm during Olympics | | | The homicide rate in Rio de Janeiro climbed by 20 percent in 2016 from the previous year, as violence soared in the Brazilian metropolis amid rising unemployment and sharp cuts in public security budgets as the country struggles through a recession. According to state security statistics released on Wednesday, 5,033 people were murdered in Rio during the year, up from 4,200 in 2015. The figures confirm growing concerns in Rio, a city and surrounding state home to more than 16 million people, that hard-won gains in security over the past decade are quickly backsliding along with Brazil's economy, now in its worst recession on record. |
| U.S. Senate confirms Tillerson as secretary of state | |  The U.S. Senate confirmed Rex Tillerson as President Donald Trump's secretary of state on Wednesday, filling a key spot on the Republican's national security team despite concerns about the former Exxon Mobil Corp chief executive officer's ties to Russia. In the vote, 56 senators backed Tillerson, and 43 voted no. The tally was largely along party lines, with every Republican favouring Tillerson, along with four members of the Democratic caucus, Senators Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Manchin and Mark Warner as well as Angus King, an independent.
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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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| 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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| 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. |
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