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| Supreme Court says 1993-2009 government coal block allocations illegal | |  The Supreme Court on Monday held as illegal all coal blocks allocated by the government to various firms between 1993 and 2009, adding that a final decision on the fate of the blocks would be taken next week. The court's decision pushed down sharply shares of Jindal Steel and Power and Hindalco Industries - two of the firms that won blocks during the time. "There was no transparency by the companies as well as the central government," Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha said in his observations. "On many occasions guidelines had been breached, the approach casual and at times illegal." Amit Anand Tiwari, a lawyer for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that is also investigating illegalities in coal mine allocations, said wrongful grant of blocks had cost the public exchequer 290 billion rupees ($4.8 billion).
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| New premier shares Erdogan's vision of Turkey's place in the world | |  By Jonny Hogg and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - By temperament they appear opposites, but Turkey's softly spoken new prime minister and the man he replaces - firebrand president-elect Tayyip Erdogan - share a deep bond based on a determination to restore Turkey to its former glories. Outgoing foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu will be confirmed by the ruling AK party as its new chairman this week and will become prime minister after Erdogan is sworn in as Turkey's first directly elected head of state on Aug. 28. The appointment of Davutoglu, who owes much of his political success to Erdogan, is a further sign that modern Turkey's most powerful leader has little intention of loosening his grip on the day-to-day running of the country as president, a role that until now has been largely ceremonial.
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| Father of black Ferguson teen appeals for calm at funeral | |  By Nick Carey and Edward McAllister FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - The father of Michael Brown, the black teenager who was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on Aug. 9, appealed for calm as family, politicians and activists gathered for the funeral on Monday following weeks of unrest. "All I want tomorrow is peace while we lay our son to rest," Michael Brown Sr. said at a rally against police violence that he led on Sunday with civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton. "Please, that's all I ask," he told the crowd of hundreds, including the parents of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager shot dead by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in 2012. Sharpton, who will also attend the funeral, said: "We don't want anything tomorrow that will defile Michael Brown's name." Authorities remained braced for a possible flare-up around the funeral, although clashes between protesters and police had significantly decreased by midweek and the National Guard began a gradual withdrawal from the St. Louis suburb on Friday.
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| Vietnam court finds 10 guilty of rigging AFC Cup match | | | A Vietnam court found nine soccer players and a bookmaker guilty of match-fixing on Monday after they colluded to throw an AFC Cup game in Malaysia in return for a $40,000 bribe, state media reported. The court jailed bookmaker Dao Duc Loi and former national team player Tran Manh each for 30 months, but gave suspended sentences to eight others from Vissai Ninh Binh who rigged the away match against Malaysia's Kelantan in March. The sentences were lenient for Vietnam, a country known for harsh penalties for criminals and notorious for illicit gambling and match-fixing. |
| Sony says PlayStation network back online, user information safe after attack | |  By Malathi Nayak and Sophie Knight SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's PlayStation Network was back online on Monday following a cyber attack that took it down over the weekend, which coincided with a bomb scare on a commercial flight carrying a top Sony executive in the United States. Sony said on its PlayStation blog that its PlayStation network had been taken down by a denial of service-style attack, which overwhelmed the system with traffic, but did not intrude onto the network or access any of its 53 million users' information. A Twitter user with the handle @LizardSquad claimed responsibility for the attack on Sunday, and said the attack was meant to pressure Sony to spend more of its profits on the network.
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| Ferguson's old quarter a world away from protests | |  By Edward McAllister FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Images of rioting and demonstrations after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, have provoked outrage across the world. Yet just a 10-minute drive from where Michael Brown was killed on Aug. 9, signs of the unrest that has beset the poorer neighborhoods of this St. Louis suburb are strikingly absent. The sometimes violent protests have had little visible impact on the quiet tree-lined streets of Ferguson's historic district, where some of the city's grandest houses are located and many of its white residents live. We are far away enough from the isolated parts of Ferguson and are virtually unaffected," said Ruth Brown, a 72-year-old white woman, sitting on a white couch in the spacious living room of her 130-year-old home.
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| Mozambique government, Renamo opposition sign peace deal | | | By Manuel Mucari MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's Frelimo government and the Renamo main opposition party have signed a formal end to hostilities, sealing a peace pact ahead of a presidential election scheduled for Oct 15, negotiators from both sides said. The signing of the document late on Sunday declared an end to nearly two years of sporadic clashes between armed partisans of Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama and the security forces of President Armando Guebuza's government. Elements of the peace accord had already been announced in recent weeks between the former civil war foes, including an amnesty law approved two weeks ago that will allow Dhlakama to leave his temporary hideaway in the bush and run for the presidency in the coming election. Dhlakama, whose Renamo party has lost every election to Frelimo since the end of the war, had taken his fighters back to the bush after accusing Guebuza and Frelimo of unfairly monopolising political and economic power in the country. |
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