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| Inmates hold two correctional staffers hostage at Delaware prison in U.S. | | | (Reuters) - Inmates at a prison in Delaware held two correctional staff members hostage early on Thursday as they demanded improved conditions and a chance to speak with senior officials, according to local media reports. Some 14 inmates were released at 12:30 a.m. local time from the hostage situation and moved to another part of the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, a men's prison in the town of Smyrna, where an uprising had begun a day earlier, an ABC affiliate in Philadelphia reported. Inmates were demanding improved conditions and wanted to speak with senior officials, the website of the News Journal of Delaware reported, citing phone calls with people inside the prison that were relayed through relatives of prisoners. |
| Fillon bid for French presidency in turmoil as MPs break rank | |  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Pressure on French presidential candidate Francois Fillon to pull out of the election race intensified on Thursday as some lawmakers in his own camp urged him to abandon his scandal-tainted bid to save the conservatives from defeat. The scandal, which erupted last week when a newspaper reported the 62-year-old ex-prime minister had paid his wife hundreds of thousands of euros for work she may not have done, has thrown Fillon's campaign off track. Fillon denies wrongdoing, but opinion polls show support for Fillon eroding fast to the benefit of far right leader Marine Le Pen and a former investment banker, Emmanuel Macron, who is running as an independent.
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| Romania's justice minister hands over duties to deputy until Feb. 7 - agency | | | BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Justice Minister Florin Iordache, who brought in the corruption decree that sparked protests by tens of thousands of Romanians, has handed over his duties to his deputy until Feb. 7, state news agency Agerpres said. Constantin Sima will deal with "the intense activity required by the 2017 budget adoption", Agerpres news agency quoted a ministry official as saying. (Reporting by Radu Marinas; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Deutsche Bank lags rivals with big quarterly loss | |  By Arno Schuetze FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank fell further behind its Wall Street rivals in 2016, lagging their strong rebound in bond trading in the last three months of the year and increasing pressure on CEO John Cryan ahead of an expected strategy update this spring. Germany's flagship lender posted a net loss of 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in the final quarter of 2016 as legal costs for past misdeeds weighed heavily on results. Deutsche Bank shares fell more than 5 percent in early Thursday trading.
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| Thailand hopes for upgrade in U.S. human trafficking report | | | By Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has stepped up prosecutions for human trafficking and hopes its status will be upgraded in the annual U.S. Trafficking in Persons report, the foreign minister said on Thursday. The report, which ranks countries based on anti-trafficking efforts, matters to Thailand's junta as it tries to fully normalise relations with Washington and to show it is tackling tough issues better than previous civilian administrations. Last year, Thailand's status was upgraded a notch to Tier 2 "Watch List". |
| Romanian minister resigns after huge anti-graft protest | |  By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian cabinet minister resigned on Thursday, testing the stability of the month-old leftist-led government after 250,000 people came out in protest over a decree that could effectively amnesty dozens of officials accused of corruption. The government order, hastily adopted late on Tuesday, has triggered the biggest nationwide protests since the fall of communism in 1989. Critics say decriminalising a number of graft offences marks the most significant retreat on anti-corruption reforms since Romania joined the European Union in 2007.
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| Congo's Tshisekedi leaves legacy of democratic struggle, unfulfilled promise | | | By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - The dates below the framed black-and-white photograph of Etienne Tshisekedi in the reception hall of the prime minister's offices in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, testify to a fraught and complicated relationship with power. Tshisekedi, who died on Wednesday in Brussels at 84, was named prime minister four times of the country then known as Zaire, between 1991 and 1997. Nicknamed "the Sphinx" for not speaking much but causing a lot of trouble when he did, Tshisekedi was a crusading voice for political pluralism and democracy in Congo, whose politics since independence in 1960 from Belgium has been marred by foreign intervention, civil war, coups and authoritarian rule. |
| Romania's ruling party vice-president wants withdrawal of graft decree | | | BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A vice-president of Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) called on his party's leadership and government to withdraw a decree decriminalising some graft offenses, a move that has brought tens of thousands of Romanians out in protest. Private television station Digi24 TV quoted Mihai Chirica, also mayor of the northern city of Iasi, as saying he understood protesters' legitimate demands and that he backed them. (Reporting by Radu Marinas) |
| Cambodian law change could ban PM's opponent from elections | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday a law was being amended to stop anyone convicted of an offence from running for office for five years, effectively barring his main rival from elections. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has been convicted of a series of defamation charges and has lived in exile in France since 2015 to avoid them. Opponents accuse Hun Sen of manoeuvring to try to keep his three-decade grip on power.
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| EU's Tusk calls on Russia to end violence in east Ukraine | | | European Council President Donald Tusk, the chairman of EU leaders' meetings, called on Russia on Thursday to use its influence with rebels in east Ukraine to stop a recent spike in violence there. "We are reminded again of the continued challenge posed by Russia's aggression in eastern Ukraine," Tusk told a news conference. The ceasefire must be honoured." "Russia should use its influence to disengage the Russian-backed separatists." The latest spike in violence in east Ukraine - where Russia-backed rebels face off against Kiev government troops - coincides with the taking office by the new U.S. President Donald Trump, who has promised to seek rapprochement with Moscow. |
| Romanian president challenges government decree in court | |  Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday he had filed a challenge with the Constitional Court to a government decree decriminalising some graft offenses and which has brought hundreds of thousands of Romanians out in protest. "It is obviously a legal constitutional conflict between the government and the judicial system and parliament," Iohannis said in a televised news conference. Romania's top judicial watchdog has also filed a court challenge to the decree.
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| Europe lifts ban on Iraqi Airways entering airspace | |  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The European Aviation Safety Agency has lifted a ban on Iraqi Airways entering European airspace, Iraq's transport minister Kadhim al-Hamami told state television on Thursday. The national carrier was banned from flying to Europe in 2015 because it did not meet International Civil Aviation Organization safety standards. "Iraqi Airways were removed from the black list and put under monitoring by the European Aviation Safety Agency, Hamami said. (Reporting by Saif Hameed; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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| Turkish foreign minister warns of Greek 'provocations' | |  Turkey has accused Greece of provocative actions and warned there could be "no going back" if tensions were allowed to escalate, a newspaper said on Thursday, underscoring strains from territorial disputes and Athens' failure to hand over Turkish soldiers who fled after an abortive coup. Tensions between the NATO allies rose when a Greek court last week blocked the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers Ankara accuses of involvement in July's failed coup. The move angered Turkey, which said relations with Greece would be reviewed.
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| Philippine leader to use troops in drug war, says willing to 'kill more' | |  By Karen Lema and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he would issue an executive order for military support in his fight against illicit drugs, which he said was a national security threat and he would "kill more" people if he had to. The mercurial leader ruled out declaring martial law and said he did not need extra powers, but wanted to bring the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) into his drugs war because he could no longer trust law enforcement agencies. Duterte has placed an anti-drugs agency in charge of the campaign and has said he wants the armed forces to play a supportive role.
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| South Africa's ANC denies Zuma accused Treasury of foiling transformation | |  South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) denied a newspaper report on Thursday that President Jacob Zuma had accused the finance ministry of thwarting the party's efforts to give blacks a bigger stake in the economy. Citing sources that attended an ANC meeting of top leaders last week, Business Day newspaper said Zuma had accused the National Treasury of restricting funds for certain projects. ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa denied the president had attacked the ministry, saying the article was "poor journalism." "It's not true.
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| Deadly U.S. raid may bolster Yemen's al Qaeda - Crisis Group | | | A commando raid approved by new U.S. President Donald Trump this week may have given al Qaeda in Yemen a propaganda boost in killing civilians, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report on Thursday. Local medics said 30 people including 10 women and children were killed in the helicopter-born Navy SEAL attack on a cluster of houses in Yemen's southern al-Bayda province. Al Qaeda said in a statement that a senior leader and an unspecified number of other militants were killed. |
| Merkel visits Turkey with ties frayed over fight against terror, free speech | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey on Thursday for the first time since July's failed coup, seeking to bolster a relationship frayed by differences over issues from the fight against terrorism to free speech. Merkel is due to hold talks with President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during the one-day visit to Ankara, and is also expected to meet members of the main secularist and pro-Kurdish opposition parties, officials said. Turkey's migration deal with Europe, cooperation in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, intelligence sharing and human rights are expected to be on the agenda.
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| One killed in Bangladesh protest against Chinese-backed power plant | | | By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A protest against a $2.4-billion Chinese-backed power plant in Bangladesh turned violent, killing one person and injuring about a dozen, risking delay to a project seen as a symbol of warming ties between the two nations. The coal-fired plant being built 265 km (165 miles) southeast of Dhaka, the capital, is a major draw for foreign investment in Bangladesh, and is expected to begin power generation by the end of 2019. "There is an uneasy situation, and police are patrolling the area to avoid any further clashes," said Alamgir Hussain, an official of the Banshkhali police station near the plant site. |
| Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam - sources | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," the sources said, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.
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