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| U.S. spying row overshadows McCain's trip to India | |  By Sruthi Gottipati NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A visit to India by U.S. Senator John McCain on Wednesday was overshadowed by a row over reports that the National Security Agency was authorised to spy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in 2010. McCain cancelled a news conference due to be held outside India's foreign ministry after India summoned a senior U.S. diplomat to the ministry over the spying report.
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| France's Sarkozy faces corruption probe in blow to comeback hopes | |  By Gregory Blachier and Gérard Bon PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed under formal investigation on Wednesday on suspicions he tried to use his influence to thwart an investigation of his 2007 election campaign, the prosecutor's office said. The step, which often but not always leads to trial, is a major setback to Sarkozy's hopes of a comeback after his 2012 defeat by Socialist rival Francois Hollande. Magistrates are looking at whether Sarkozy used his influence to secure leaked details of a inquiry into alleged irregularities in his victorious 2007 campaign. The first former president to spend time in police custody, Sarkozy, 59, was detained for 15 hours on Tuesday before being transferred to appear before investigating magistrates who will run the inquiry.
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| Myanmar police fire rubber bullets to end sectarian trouble in Mandalay | | | By Jared Ferrie and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police fired rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse crowds of Buddhists and Muslims facing off in the second-largest city of Mandalay, police said, in the latest outbreak of trouble in two years of sectarian unrest. Police deployed more than 600 officers after a crowd of about 300 Buddhists including 30 monks began throwing stones near a tea shop owned by a Muslim man at 11 p.m. (1630 GMT) on Tuesday, according to a statement released by Mandalay police. "Two of the three injured Buddhist men are receiving treatment in Mandalay hospital and the rest got treatment as outpatients." Police said they fired three rubber bullets in an attempt to control the crowd, which dispersed at around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday after monks helped convince people to leave. A witness who lives in the mostly Muslim neighbourhood said a Buddhist mob had gathered in Mandalay after rumours spread that the Muslim owner of a tea shop had raped a Buddhist woman. |
| Pre-teen defendants in 'Slenderman' stabbing case due in court | | | By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Two Wisconsin girls accused of luring a friend into the woods and stabbing her 19 times to please a fictional Internet character are due back in court on Wednesday where the mental competency of one may be addressed. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, were charged in June as adults with first-degree attempted homicide after they allegedly attacked a classmate in a park in Waukesha, a western suburb of Milwaukee. Geyser's family and prosecutors both commissioned mental competency exams, which may be raised during Wednesday's hearing in Waukesha County Circuit Court, attorneys said. The evaluations will remain sealed, but the conclusions are expected to be briefly discussed in court, said attorney Anthony Cotton, who represents Geyser. |
| U.S. privacy board says NSA Internet spying program is effective but worrying | |  The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)'s data collection program has been an effective tool to enhance the country's security but some elements of the cyber-spying raises privacy concerns, a U.S. federal privacy watchdog said in a report. Privacy issues have become a hot topic since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed the spy agency's phone and Internet spying programs.
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| Afghan election results delayed amid fraud accusations | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Preliminary results from Afghanistan's presidential election, due to be announced on Wednesday, have been delayed, an election official said, amid accusations of fraud that threaten to split the fragile country along ethnic lines. Votes from around 2,000 polling stations in the June 14 run-off are to be reviewed and recounted, said Sharifa Zurmati Wardak of the Independent Election Commission (IEC). The contest pitted former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah against former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani. A senior U.N. official said the delay was intended to take account of allegations by Abdullah that his rival engaged in mass vote rigging.
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| Palestinian teen killed in possible revenge attack | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The discovery of a body in a Jerusalem forest on Wednesday raised suspicions that a missing Palestinian youth had been killed by Israelis avenging the deaths of three abducted Jewish teens. Rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in Jerusalem after the news, but no serious injuries were reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, urged police to "to swiftly investigate who was behind the loathsome murder and its motive". Palestinian residents in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem, told Reuters they had seen a teenager forced into a vehicle outside a supermarket on Tuesday night.
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| Chennai building collapse death toll rises to 47 | |  The death toll in a collapsed building in Chennai has risen to 47, the latest disaster to highlight poor safety standards in India's booming construction industry. The number of people rescued alive has now risen to 27, senior police officer Karuna Sagar told Reuters, as search operations continued. Six people including construction company managers and engineers have been arrested in connection with the collapse, Sagar said.
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| Hong Kong protesters lifted kicking and screaming from downtown rally | |  By James Pomfret and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of Hong Kong police forcibly removed kicking and screaming protesters from the Central business district on Wednesday, holdouts of a mass rally demanding greater democracy from Communist Party rulers in Beijing. The pro-democracy march on Tuesday, which organisers said attracted more than 510,000 people, and a subsequent sit-in by mainly student groups could be the biggest challenge yet to China which resumed control over the former British colony on July 1, 1997. We don't need police permission," the crowd chanted as they sat sweltering in Hong Kong's summer heat and humidity. I will come out to protest again, because it is the only way Hong Kong can change," said To Chun Ho, who was released on Wednesday without charge.
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