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| Analysis - Trump presidency heralds new era of closer ties with Egypt | |  By Lin Noueihed and Yara Bayoumy CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Friendly phone calls, an invite to the White House, a focus on Islamic militancy and what Donald Trump called "chemistry" have set the tone for a new era of warmer U.S.-Egyptian ties that could herald more military and political support for Cairo. The mutual admiration dates back to a U.N. meeting in September, when then-presidential candidate Trump found common ground with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's hard line on extremism. Trump described the ex-general, who rights groups criticise as authoritarian and repressive, as a "fantastic guy".
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| Colombia's Santos calls for probe of Odebrecht role in 2014 campaign | |  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday called for a thorough investigation of allegations his 2014 re-election campaign may have received $1 million from a Brazilian firm embroiled in a wide-ranging corruption scandal. Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez has said a portion of the $4.6 million allegedly paid by engineering firm Odebrecht SA to a former senator currently accused of graft may have been funneled to the Santos campaign. "I ask the electoral commission for a thorough investigation as quickly as possible so all of the truth about the Odebrecht case can come to light," Santos said on Twitter.
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| Pirates kidnap seven Russians, one Ukrainian in Nigerian waters | | | Pirates have kidnapped seven Russians and one Ukrainian after attacking the cargo ship the BBC Caribbean off the coast of Nigeria, the Russian embassy said on its official Twitter account. The Nigerian navy and police were not immediately available for comment. The general cargo vessel BBC Caribbean is managed by Briese Schiffahrts. |
| Trump calls courts 'so political' as travel ban faces scrutiny | |  President Donald Trump stepped up his criticism of the U.S. judiciary on Wednesday, saying courts seem to be "so political," a day after his U.S. travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries faced close scrutiny from an appeals court. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments on the Trump administration's challenge to a lower court order putting his temporary travel ban on hold. Trump on Saturday accused the judge who issued the order of opening the United States to "potential terrorists." The appeals court is expected to issue a ruling as soon as Wednesday.
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| Former prime minister Farmajo wins Somalia's presidential vote | |  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a U.S.-educated former prime minister, was sworn in as Somalia's new president on Wednesday after lawmakers gave him an unassailable lead in the second round of an election in Mogadishu's secure airport compound. Celebratory gunfire erupted across the city at his victory. Outgoing President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud conceded defeat as it became clear he could not win a third round. "This is a victory for Somalia and the Somalis," Farmajo told lawmakers who had gathered in a hall behind the airport's blast walls to vote. ...
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| Italy says new tests find no defeat devices on Fiat Chrysler cars | |  By Massimiliano Di Giorgio ROME (Reuters) - New tests carried out on Fiat Chrysler (FCA) vehicles during Italy's emission-cheating investigation have found no illegal engine software, Italy's Transport Minister Graziano Delrio said on Wednesday. Delrio made the comments after a preliminary report from the ministry showed FCA vehicles were initially allowed to skip key tests during the investigation launched in the wake of the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal.
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| Erdogan, Trump agree joint action against Islamic State in Syria -Turkish sources | |  By Tulay Karadeniz and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in an overnight phone call on joint action against Islamic State in the Syrian towns of Raqqa and al-Bab, both held by the militants, Turkish presidency sources said on Wednesday. U.S.-Turkish differences during former President Barack Obama's administration impeded the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State, and closer coordination could mean faster progress towards freeing swathes of northern Syria from IS. Erdogan now hopes that relations with Washington, strained by the presence in the United States of a cleric he blames for an attempted military coup last year and by U.S. support for Kurdish militia in Syria, can be reset under Trump.
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| Gunfire erupts in Somali capital during vote, possibly in celebration - witness | | | MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunfire echoed across the Somali capital on Wednesday evening during the second round of voting by lawmakers for their president, a Reuters witness said. The reason for the firing was not immediately clear, but it appeared to be celebratory as it erupted as former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo took a strong lead in the vote, over incumbent Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. A third candidate was trailing further behind. None of the trio seemed on course to secure the necessary votes to avoid a third round face-off between the top two. ... |
| Belgium holds 11 people in hunt for Syria returnee fighters | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police detained 11 people after a series of raids across Brussels overnight as part of an investigation into possible returning fighters from Syria. The federal prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday that police had carried out searches at nine addresses in various districts of the Belgian capital and one district outside. No weapons are explosives were found. A judge will determine later on Wednesday whether those detained would have to remain in custody. ... |
| Brazil state wants more troops amid crime wave due to police strike | |  By Paulo Whitaker VITORIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Authorities in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo on Wednesday requested more federal troops to stem a crime wave amid an ongoing police strike that in five days has led to more than 80 reported deaths. Despite the pending mobilization of 1,000 soldiers, and a contingent of 200 federal police officers who arrived in the southeastern state on Tuesday, violence continues its grip after state police began striking in a pay dispute last weekend. The stoppage, assisted by family and friends of officers who have blocked access to barracks and police stations, comes as Espirito Santo, like many states wracked by Brazil's worst recession on record, struggles to ensure even basic health, education and security services.
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| Russia opposition leader Navalny says Kremlin sabotaging his presidential bid | |  By Alexander Reshetnikov and Maria Tsvetkova KIROV/MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused the Kremlin of trying to block him from running in next year's presidential election after a court on Wednesday found him guilty of embezzlement. The court, in the provincial city of Kirov, found Navalny guilty of embezzlement in relation to a timber firm called Kirovles, and gave him a five-year suspended prison sentence. Navalny denies wrongdoing.
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| Factbox - Who decides whether Scotland holds a new independence referendum? | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The June Brexit referendum called the future of the United Kingdom into question because majorities in England and Wales voted to leave but in Scotland and Northern Ireland, most people voted to stay. The Scottish National Party (SNP), the biggest party in Scotland's parliament, has said Scotland should hold another independence vote, its second since 2014, if its views on Brexit are rejected. While most polls show that support for independence has barely moved from the 45 percent who backed it at in the 2014 referendum, a poll published on Wednesday showed that support for independence had risen to 49 percent.
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| Support for Scottish independence rises after PM May goes for 'clean break Brexit' | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary and Alistair Smout EDINBURGH/LONDON (Reuters) - Support for Scottish independence has risen since British Prime Minister Theresa May came out last month in favour of Britain making a clean break with the European Union when it leaves the bloc, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. The poll still showed a slim majority opposed to independence, but the ruling Scottish Nationalist Party said the fact that almost half those asked said they supported secession indicated that sentiment was shifting and could embolden calls for a new vote. In 2014, Scots voted roughly 55 percent to 45 percent to remain in the United Kingdom.
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| When will I see my royalties? The Three Degrees sue Sony | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Three Degrees, a female vocal group best known for the 1974 smash "When Will I See You Again," has sued Sony Music Entertainment Inc, seeking to recoup decades of royalties it says were withheld by a former manager and his widow. According to a complaint filed on Tuesday night, the group has "never received one penny" of royalties under an oral agreeing it struck in the mid- to late-1970s with the former manager, producer Richard Barrett, for a 75 percent share. The group said Barrett's widow Julie and her company Three Degrees Enterprises Inc have instead kept its royalties, including through payments from Sony.
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| Searches in Germany, Britain focus on Islamist suspects - prosecutor | | | Police searched properties in Britain and Germany on Wednesday for evidence on two suspects believed to have supported Islamist group Nusra Front, Germany's chief federal prosecutor's office said. "The two suspects are believed to have supported the foreign terrorist group JAN (Nusra Front) for several years," the office in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia said in a statement. The Nusra Front, which is active in Syria but is not a party to peace talks, changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham last year and said it was breaking its links with Islamist group al Qaeda. |
| Zimbabwe's top court throws out case against Mugabe | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court dismissed a case against President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday lodged by an activist who accused the ageing leader of violating the southern African country's supreme law during protests last year. The case was the first time a private citizen has asked the court to decide whether actions by 92-year-old Mugabe, the world's oldest leader, violated the constitution. Mugabe, who has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980, was last year confronted by the biggest anti-government protests in a decade.
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| Romanian government survives no-confidence motion over graft debacle | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat-led government easily survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Wednesday, three days after mass street protests forced it into an embarrassing U-turn over a graft decree. Critics said the decree, which also drew rebukes from Romania's Western allies, would have turned back the clock on the fight against corruption in the ex-communist nation of 20 million people. The government rescinded the decree on Sunday.
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| Exclusive: More than 1,000 feared killed in Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya - U.N. officials | |  By Antoni Slodkowski COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported. The officials, from two separate U.N. agencies working in Bangladesh, where nearly 70,000 Rohingya have fled in recent months, said they were concerned the outside world had not fully grasped the severity of the crisis unfolding in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Myanmar's presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay, said the latest reports from military commanders were that fewer than 100 people have been killed in a counterinsurgency operation against Rohingya militants who attacked police border posts in October.
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| Rights groups challenge Israel's new settlements law in court | |  By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Rights groups petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday to annul a heavily criticised law that retroactively legalised some 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The law, approved by parliament on Monday, has drawn condemnation from Europe and the United Nations and has been described by Israel's attorney general as unconstitutional. Acting on behalf of 17 Palestinian villages and towns, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah), and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center also asked the court for an injunction in order to stop any registration of the plots as under settler ownership.
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| Trump defends immigration order, says courts 'so political' | |  Republican President Donald Trump defended his immigration executive order on Wednesday as necessary for the nation's security in a speech to law enforcement officers in which he criticized U.S. courts as being political. "I don't ever want to call a court biased, so I won't call it biased," Trump said.
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| Court hands Russian opposition leader Navalny 5-year suspended sentence | |  A Russian court on Wednesday handed a five-year suspended sentence to prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny after finding him guilty of embezzlement, a move that will complicate his plans to run for president against Vladimir Putin in 2018. Navalny said he would appeal against the sentence and would take part in the presidential race regardless.
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| France's Fillon makes appeal to voters, retains party backing | |  Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon appealed to voters on Wednesday via a newspaper column to back his campaign, trying to claw back support after losing his place as frontrunner over accusations of fake jobs for his family. Fillon has managed to stem a rebellion within his party, partly for lack of a clear "plan B", but plunging popularity ratings show the 62-year-old, who pegged his campaign on an image of integrity, faces an uphill battle to convince voters. "I have nothing to hide," Fillon said in his letter to voters.
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| There should not be a second Scottish independence vote - UK PM May's spokesman | |  The British government does not believe there should be a second referendum on Scottish independence, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said when asked about a report it was preparing contingency plans for one. A majority of Scots backed staying in the EU in last year's referendum and the ruling Scottish National Party, which lost a bid for independence in 2014, has said there should be another vote on the issue if its views on Brexit are ignored. A report by Dundee-based newspaper the Courier said that May believes Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is two weeks away from demanding an independence referendum, adding that May is privately working on a strategy to deal with it.
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| Romanian government survives no-confidence vote | | | BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat government survived a no-confidence motion by the centre-right opposition in parliament on Wednesday with ruling coalition partners abstaining from the vote. Lawmakers from the ruling coalition, Social Democrats, their long-time allies ALDE, and the ethnic Hungarian UDMR, which has about 61 percent of parliamentary seats, abstained. The motion needed 233 votes, or 50 percent of lawmakers, to topple the government. (Reporting by Radu Marinas; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Duterte defends drugs war, rejects advice of 'idiot' ex-Colombia president | |  By Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a vigorous defence of his war on drugs on Wednesday, rejecting not only allegations of extrajudicial killings, but the advice of a former Colombian leader who urged him not to repeat his mistakes. The ex-prosecutor promised to stand behind those on the front lines of his war and called Cesar Gaviria an "idiot" for a newspaper article in which the former Colombian president warned Duterte that a security-centred approach "do more harm than good". Duterte said his campaign was about destroying the apparatus of the drugs trade, not killing, and only he would be accountable if law enforcers were accused of wrongful killings during raids and sting operations.
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| Kenya arrests three over UK-linked voting forms scandal | | | By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan investigators arrested the former chief executive of the electoral commission and two others in dawn raids on Wednesday, the latest twist of a scandal that has already led to Britain's first conviction of a company for foreign bribery. President Uhuru Kenyatta is under increasing pressure to curb endemic corruption before elections due in August. Former election official James Oswago was charged in court with receiving bribes from Trevy Oyombra, the agent for British firm Smith and Ouzman Ltd, a printing firm that won contracts to print election material in past votes. |
| Armed men kidnap Colombian nun in southern Mali | | | BAMAKO (Reuters) - Armed men have kidnapped a Colombian nun from the town where she worked in southern Mali, officials said on Wednesday. The woman was taken late on Tuesday evening from Karangasso, where she had been working in a health centre, about 300 km (186 miles) east of the capital Bamako, security ministry spokesman, Baba Cisse, said. They also stole an ambulance and then abandoned it for a motorcycle, Cisse said. Army spokesman Colonel Diarran Kone said the men had not yet been identified and that the army was searching for them. ... |
| Yemen expresses concern at U.S. raid but stops short of ban | | | (Reuters) - The Yemeni government has expressed concern to the United States over a U.S. commando raid targeting al Qaeda militants which killed several civilians, but it stopped short of revoking permission for future operations. The nighttime raid in southern al-Bayda province, approved by new U.S. President Donald Trump, resulted in a gun battle that left one Navy SEAL dead and an American aircraft a charred wreck. "We have not withdrawn our permission for the United States to carry out special operations ground missions. |
| Trump travel ban shows U.S. misunderstanding of anti-terror duties – Chinese state media | |  U.S. President Donald Trump's order temporarily banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries shows that his administration does not understand its counterterrorism duties, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. Trump's Jan. 27 order, which he says is necessary for national security, sought to bar entry by travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, and by all refugees for 120 days, except for refugees from Syria, who face an indefinite ban. China's government has offered mild criticism of the ban, saying immigration policy was a sovereign right but "reasonable concerns" must be considered.
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| Islamist gunmen kill four guards in hotel attack in Somalia | | | Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, killing four guards, a senior official and an Islamic State agency said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in Bosasso, according to its news agency Amaq. A group declaring allegiance to Islamic State has been active in the Puntland region in recent months. |
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