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| U.S. 'deeply troubled' by U.N. report of Myanmar atrocities against Muslims | |  The United States is "deeply troubled" by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar's Rakhine State had committed atrocities against minority Muslims, the State Department said on Monday. Washington was still studying the report, but urged the Myanmar government "to take its findings seriously and redouble efforts to protect the local population," a spokeswoman for the department, Katina Adams, said. "We are deeply troubled by the findings," Adams said, referring to the Feb. 3 report from the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
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| Woman in Vatileaks trial got messages via confession box - book | |  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - The woman convicted of helping leak Vatican documents says in a new book that an official in a key office of the Holy See left her secret messages in the confession box of a Rome church during the trial. The episode is one new element in the book "In Peter's Name", by Francesca Chaouqui, who got a 10-month suspended sentence at the end of a sensational eight-month trial dubbed "Vatileaks 2" last July. Asked for a comment on the book, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said: "We're not losing sleep over it".
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| Israel legalises settler homes on private Palestinian land | |  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel passed a law on Monday retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Knesset voted 60 to 52 to pass the law, which has drawn international concern and Palestinian anger. (Reporting by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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| Meteor lights up the night sky over Illinois and Wisconsin | | | The meteor's fiery descent is likely to rank as one of the most spectacular events of its kind anywhere in the world this year, Mike Hankey, operations manager for the society, said by telephone. The meteor broke apart into pieces of rock and metallic dust that descended in a cloud onto Lake Michigan, Hankey said. |
| Romanian government urges calm after graft U-turn, protests persist | |  By Luiza Ilie and Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Social Democrats appealed for calm on Monday after withdrawing a decree widely condemned as reversing the country's anti-corruption drive, but protesters again took to the streets to demand the government's resignation. On Sunday the government rescinded the decree, which would have shielded dozens of politicians from prosecution, following the largest demonstrations in Romania since the fall of communism in 1989. Political analysts said the government – in power for barely a month – now faced an uphill task restoring shattered public confidence.
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| German coalition parties agree to tighten security after truck attack | |  The leaders of Germany's "grand coalition" have agreed to tighten security measures after the deadly truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, including tougher steps to deport migrants seen as security risks, officials said on Monday. Leaders of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its CSU Bavarian sister party and the Social Democrats (SPD), agreed at a meeting in Munich to move ahead with the proposals made last month by Justice Minister Heiko Maas and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.
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| Legal deadline approaches for Trump's travel ban | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - National security veterans from both parties and major U.S. technology companies expressed opposition to Donald Trump's temporary travel ban in a court case as his administration prepared on Monday to justify the measure, the most controversial policy of his two-week old presidency. Trump's executive order of Jan. 27, temporarily barring entry to the United States of people from seven Muslim-majority countries and halting the U.S. refugee programme, was suspended by a federal judge in Seattle on Friday.
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| Scandal-hit Fillon sorry, but staying in French presidency race | |  By Brian Love and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday vowed to fight on for the presidency despite a damaging scandal involving taxpayer-funded payments to his wife for work that a newspaper alleges she did not do. At a news conference in Paris, Fillon, 62, apologised for what he said was his error of judgement regarding the employment of family members - though he said his wife's work as parliamentary assistant over 15 years had been genuine and legal.
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| Brazil's Temer picks justice minister as Supreme Court nominee - source | |  Brazil's President Michel Temer has picked Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes as his nominee to the Supreme Court, a government source said on Monday, in a move that would place a close ally on the tribunal as it rules on a major graft scandal. A photo taken by Reuters had earlier shown Moraes confirming his nomination in a cellphone text conversation. Moraes, whose appointment needs to be ratified by the Senate, would replace justice Teori Zavascki, who was killed in a plane cash on Jan. 20.
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| U.S. should expand missile defence due to North Korea, Iran - Congress head | |  The United States should expand its missile defence systems given missile testing by North Korea and Iran, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee said on Monday. The comments by Republican Representative Mac Thornberry followed new U.S. sanctions against Iran after the Persian country's recent ballistic missile test. The United States is also concerned North Korea may be preparing to test a new ballistic missile.
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| Moroccan police clash with protesters | | | Protesters marking the anniversary of the death of an anti-colonial hero have clashed with police in northern Morocco, in violence which authorities said left 27 officers injured. Thousands protested in Al-Hoceima in October against corruption and official abuses after a fishmonger was crushed to death inside a garbage truck as he tried to retrieve fish confiscated by police. The region was home to Mohammed Ben Abdelkerim El-Khattabi, who fought against Spanish and French occupation in the 1920s and was seen as an opponent of the ruling elite. He died in exile in Egypt on Feb. 6, 1963. Activists said police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters in the latest unrest, injuring some. |
| Facebook, Google join drive against fake news in France | |  Giant Internet firms Facebook and Google joined forces with news organisations on Monday to launch new fact-checking tools designed to root out "fake news" stories in France ahead of the country's presidential election. Social networks and news aggregators came under fire during the U.S. presidential vote when it became clear they had inadvertently fanned false news reports. Facebook , said it would work with eight French news organisations, including news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), news channel BFM TV, and newspapers L'Express and Le Monde to minimise the risk that false news appeared on its platform.
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| Afghan diplomat shot dead at consulate in Karachi, Pakistan | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - An Afghan diplomat was shot dead on Monday by a guard at the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in a personal dispute, officials said. The consulate's third secretary was killed by the consulate guard, also an Afghan national, who had been arrested, police official Saqib Ismail told Reuters. Afghanistan's foreign ministry issued a statement identifying the murdered diplomat as Muhammad Zaki Abdu.
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| Brazil sends troops to state torn by violence due to police strike | |  Brazil's president on Monday ordered 200 troops to the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, where a police strike in recent days sparked a wave of violence including what is already believed to be dozens of murders. The law enforcement stoppage in a state struggling with a budget shortfall is the latest example of how depleted public finances, amid Brazil's worst recession on record, are crippling even basic health services, education and security in some states. The crime surge in Espirito Santo, a small coastal state just north of Rio de Janeiro, began over the weekend, after police on Friday stopped work because of the pay dispute.
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| Worried about Trump, asylum seekers walk cold road to Canada | |  By Rod Nickel and Anna Mehler Paperny WINNIPEG, Manitoba/BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - Refugees in the United States fearing a worsening climate of xenophobia in the wake of a divisive U.S. presidential campaign are flocking to Canada in growing numbers. Manitoba's Welcome Place refugee agency helped 91 claimants between Nov. 1 and Jan. 25 - more than the agency normally sees in a year. Most braved the freezing prairie winter to walk into Canada.
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| Ugandan bails traditional leader detained on terrorism charges | | | A Ugandan tribal leader accused of leading a secessionist movement in the country's western region was released on bail on Monday after more than two months in jail on charges including treason and terrorism, an official told Reuters. Security forces detained Charles Wesley Mumbere in November after his royal guards clashed with military and police who accused them of refusing an order to disarm and surrender. Government officials accuse Mumbere, a traditional leader of the Bakonzo people in Uganda's Rwenzori region near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, of seeking to create a separate state. |
| British Speaker opposes letting Trump address parliament | |  By William James and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament said on Monday he would not support any plans for U.S. President Donald Trump to address parliament during a state visit planned for later this year, citing Trump's temporary immigration ban as a factor. More than 1.8 million people in Britain have signed a petition calling for Trump's planned visit to be cancelled or downgraded to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, part of a grassroots backlash against his immigration policies. Prime Minister Theresa May has defended the decision to offer a state visit, but more than 150 lawmakers have signed a symbolic motion calling for Trump not to be given the honour of speaking in parliament.
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| Relaxing bank regulation is the last thing we need: ECB's Draghi | |  Financial regulation since the global financial crisis underpins stability and the idea of relaxing bank rules is 'very worrisome', European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Monday. The new U.S. administration last week ordered a reviews of major banking rules that were put in place after the 2008 financial crisis, signalling that looser banking regulations are coming. "The last thing we need at this point in time is the relaxation of regulation," Draghi told the European Parliament's committee on economic affairs in Brussels.
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| Luxembourg opens criminal case over VW emissions scandal | |  Luxembourg has launched criminal proceedings over Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal, showing the German carmaker is still struggling to draw a line under the crisis some 17 months after it broke. The European Union country said on Monday that following investigations it was taking legal action against "unknown persons" over the EA 189 engine made by Volkswagen's (VW) Audi division. The engine, which was tested and certified by Luxembourg authorities, was used in most of the cars that VW has admitted in the United States included illegal "defeat device" software that could conceal the true level of toxic emissions in tests.
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| Myanmar officials "in denial" over U.N. report on crimes against Rohingya | |  By Serajul Quadir and Simon Lewis DHAKA/YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government remains "in denial" about alleged atrocities by its military against minority Rohingya Muslims, officials present at a meeting in Bangladesh said, despite leader Aung San Suu Kyi's pledge to investigate the findings of a devastating U.N. report. The closed-door meeting of diplomats, government officials and international agencies in Dhaka follows a report last week from the United Nations human rights office that said soldiers committed mass killings and gang rapes in a "calculated policy of terror" in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine State in recent months. "When Bangladesh cited the horrific acts by Myanmar's law enforcing agencies, the Myanmar representative did not agree with this and was in complete denial," said H.T. Imam, a political advisor to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was at the meeting.
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| U.S. and Russian ministries must restore direct links - Russian diplomat | |  One of Russia's top diplomats said on Monday that government ministries in the United States and Russia should restore direct communications channels with each other as part of a first step to rebuild bilateral ties. U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have both said they would like to try to mend U.S.-Russia relations that slid to a post-Cold War low after Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, told the Moscow-based Security Index Journal in an interview published on Monday that restoring inter-ministerial and inter-agency ties between the two countries was now essential.
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| South Sudan president says soldiers who rape should be shot | |  By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - The president of South Sudan said on Monday that soldiers who rape civilians should be shot, trying to mollify citizens outraged by abuses by security forces and quell growing international anger over attacks. South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in 2013 when Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, an ethnic Nuer. Rights groups and U.N. monitors say soldiers have gang-raped women based on their ethnicity.
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