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| Kremlin critic Khodorkovsky named as murder suspect in Russia |
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 Russia wants to question former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a suspect in a murder case that has been reopened because of new evidence, federal investigators said on Tuesday. Khodorkovsky, the former owner of the now-defunct Yukos oil company, spent a decade in jail after falling out with Vladimir Putin. Announcing on its website that the case had been reopened, the federal Investigative Committee, which answers directly to Putin, said it wanted to question Khodorkovsky.
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| Tunisia sees Libya link to beach resort attacker - source |
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| By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian gunman who killed 39 people at a resort hotel, mostly British holiday-makers, probably spent time in a training camp in Libya and had been in contact with militants over the border, a security source said on Tuesday. The attack on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular resort town of Sousse came just months after militants attacked the Bardo museum in Tunis, killing 21 people and delivering a blow to the vital tourism industry. Investigators were verifying whether the gunman, student Saif Rezgui, had received militant training in a jihadist camp across in Libya. |
| We did not block FIFA reforms - UEFA |
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 By Brian Homewood PRAGUE (Reuters) - UEFA has hit back at suggestions that it and other continental confederations have been responsible for blocking reforms aimed at cleaning up soccer's scandal-plagued world governing body FIFA. UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said there were enough mechanisms in place to ensure that only officials with a clean past were elected on to FIFA committees.
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| Back to the drachma? Greek lawmaker touches a nerve |
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 By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - An opposition lawmaker in Greece touched a nerve on Tuesday when he told parliament the left-wing government had a team preparing the ground for a return to the drachma, a prospect many Greeks fear would bring chaos. The government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras angrily dismissed the claim as "fantasy". "There's already a team within the prime minister's office, with staff from the general accounting office, right now working on the drachma," Haris Theoharis of the centrist opposition party To Potami told the chamber.
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| UAE man jailed for tweets critical of high court - newspaper |
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| A man in the United Arab Emirates was sentenced to three years in jail on Monday for Twitter posts allegedly insulting the Gulf country's Supreme Court, a local newspaper reported. Nasser al-Faresi, 27, allegedly called the proceedings of a 2012 sedition trial a "judicial farce" and insulted the UAE's president and Abu Dhabi's crown prince, according to The National. The UAE, a U.S. ally and major oil exporter, was rattled by the rise of Islamists in the aftermath of the uprisings that rocked the Arab world from 2011. |
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