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| China tobacco monopoly pushes back on smoking curbs |
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - The chief of China's powerful tobacco monopoly on Monday pushed back against government efforts to curb smoking, a habit the World Health Organisation says accounts for as many as a million deaths a year. In an interview with the Study Times, controlled by the ruling Communist Party, Ling Chengxing, director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, said controls on tobacco should not take an "absolutist" or "expansionist" direction. "We must note that smoking has hundreds of years of history and objectively a market demand for cigarettes still exists," Ling said. ...
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| Pope calls on Muslim leaders worldwide to condemn terrorism |
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 By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism, saying it would help to dispel the stereotype that equates Islam with terror. Speaking to reporters aboard the plane as he returned from Turkey, where he condemned Islamic State insurgents several times, Francis said he made the suggestion in private talks on Friday with the country's president, Tayyip Erdogan. ...
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| U.S. loses bid to revoke Megaupload founder's bail conditions |
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 WELLINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have lost a motion to have cyber fugitive Kim Dotcom remanded in custody in New Zealand before his extradition hearing to face internet piracy charges in the United States. An Auckland court on Monday rejected allegations that Dotcom, the founder of the Megaupload online file storage site, was a flight risk and had broken the terms of his bail conditions imposed after flamboyant internet entrepreneur was arrested by U.S. and New Zealand authorities in early 2012. ...
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| Missouri officer in fatal shooting resigned without severance - mayor |
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 By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, in August got no severance deal when he resigned from the force, the mayor of the St. Louis suburb said on Sunday. The officer, Darren Wilson, announced his resignation late Saturday, saying he feared for his own safety and that of his fellow police officers after a grand jury decided not to indict him in the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. ...
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| China investigates senior Xinjiang security official for graft |
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - Prosecutors have begun an investigation into a former senior security official in China's unruly far western region of Xinjiang for suspected abuse of power and corruption, the government said on Monday. Li Yanming had been Communist Party chief of the Xinjiang Police College, which trains public security officials, and a member of the region's Public Security Department until the party opened the investigation in May. ...
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