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Philippines' Aquino says will ask Congress to allow govt to expand power capacity | Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:09 AM | |
| MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino said on Thursday he will ask Congress to allow the government to enter into additional energy supply contracts and avert a looming power shortage in 2015. "I will ask Congress to sign a joint resolution allowing the government to expand power capacity," Aquino told an audience of power industry officials. Energy Secretary Carlos Jerico Petilla has been pushing for emergency powers for Aquino, giving the government a role in the broader electricity market for the first time since the privatisation of power utilities in 2001. ...
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With World Trade site largely rebuilt, New York marks Sept.11 | Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:59 AM | |
| By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and openness has taken root in the city blocks where two airliners hijacked by militants from al Qaeda crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. Rebuilding efforts at the site, where 2,753 people died, are nearing completion. ... |
Obama orders U.S. airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State | Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:35 AM | |
| President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. Obama's decision to launch attacks inside Syria, which is embroiled in a three-year civil war, showed the seriousness of the threat American officials see from Islamic State. A year ago, the president shied away from airstrikes against Syria's government for its use of chemical weapons against Syrians. Obama laid out his emerging plan for tackling the group in a widely anticipated White House speech, two weeks after coming under fire for saying: "We don't have a strategy yet" for the group in Syria and six months after declaring that groups like Islamic State were minor players.
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Obama asks Congress to approve aid to rebels in fight against Islamic State | Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:53 AM | |
| By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Congress to authorize aid for rebel groups fighting in Syria, a move that would put lawmakers on record backing his strategy to defeat Islamic State militants. The request by the president came on the eve of a speech laying out his plan for the United States to lead a broad coalition against the militants who have taken large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Obama requested that funds for training rebels be included in a stop-gap funding bill that would avert a U.S. government shutdown on Oct. ...
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Israeli policeman charged over violent arrest of U.S. teen | Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:18 AM | |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli policeman was charged on Wednesday with assault causing bodily harm against a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent during a protest over the revenge killing of the teenager's cousin days before the eight week war with Gaza. The indictment submitted to a Jerusalem court charged the policeman with grabbing the youth and throwing him to the ground, and subsequently pummelling and dragging him with help from other officers in the course of his arrest. The U.S. ... |
U.S. seeks up to 16 months in prison for Dinesh D'Souza | | By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government wants conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza to be sentenced to as much as 16 months in prison, following his guilty plea to a campaign finance law violation. In a Wednesday court filing, federal prosecutors rejected defense arguments that D'Souza was "ashamed and contrite" about his crime, had "unequivocally accepted responsibility," and deserved a sentence of probation with community service. D'Souza, 53, admitted in May to illegally reimbursing two "straw donors" who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 U.S. ...
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Corrected - With World Trade site largely rebuilt, New York marks Sept.11 | | By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - (Corrects para 11 to show 1 World Trade Center due to open later this year, not next year) Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and openness has taken root in the city blocks where two airliners hijacked by militants from al Qaeda crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. ...
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Judgement day for Oscar Pistorius | | By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - After 41 days of tears, anguish and at times gruesome testimony in the Pretoria High Court, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who became one of the biggest names in athletics, will learn this week whether he will spend the next 25 years behind bars. In a fitting reminder of how South Africa has changed in the 20 years since apartheid, the fate of Pistorius, a wealthy white man from privileged roots, rests in the hands of a 66-year-old black woman from Soweto, Judge Thokozile Masipa. ...
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Oscar Pistorius verdict hangs on 'possible improbabilities' | | By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Eighteen months ago, when he granted Oscar Pistorius bail after the killing of his girlfriend, South African magistrate Desmond Nair noted a number of "improbabilities" in the Olympic and Paralympic star's account of the shooting. After 41 days of testimony and drama in the Pretoria High Court, Pistorius's freedom hangs on whether the prosecution has made its case well enough to convince judge Thokozile Masipa that such improbabilities cannot be "reasonably possibly true". ...
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