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| Rights groups urge U.S. to reconsider Malaysia human-trafficking rating | |  By Jason Szep WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human rights groups and some U.S. lawmakers urged the U.S. government on Thursday to reconsider plans to upgrade Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking hubs, citing a lack of evidence that Malaysia had made advances against trafficking. The comments come a day after Reuters revealed that the U.S. State Department plans to reverse last year's downgrade of Malaysia in its annual "Trafficking in Persons" (TIP) report, a move that could smooth the way for a major U.S.-led free-trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation and 11 other countries.
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| FIFA bans Chuck Blazer from football for life | |  By Joshua Franklin and Brian Homewood ZURICH/BERN (Reuters) - Former FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer, a key figure in a U.S. investigation into corruption by soccer officials, on Thursday was banned for life from football activities by the sport's governing body. Blazer, who in 2013 secretly pleaded guilty in the United States to bribery and financial offences, was found by FIFA's ethics committee to have breached rules on loyalty, confidentiality, duty of disclosure, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and bribery and corruption.
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| FBI says thwarted Islamic State-inspired attacks on July 4 | | | U.S. authorities thwarted plots to kill people in the United States around the July 4 holiday, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday. Comey told reporters more than 10 people inspired by the Islamic State's recruitment online have been arrested over the past four weeks, some of which were focussed on attacks around the July 4 holiday. FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to local law enforcement to be on alert for attacks around July 4. |
| U.S. spy agency tapped German chancellery for decades - WikiLeaks | |  The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, according to WikiLeaks. A report released by the group suggested NSA spying on Merkel and her staff had gone on far longer and more widely than previously realised. WikiLeaks said the NSA targeted for long-term surveillance 125 phone numbers of top German officials.
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| Turkish PM, asked to form government, vows quick start on coalition talks | |  By Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed a quick start to coalition talks on Thursday, after President Tayyip Erdogan instructed him to form a new government more than a month after an election deprived their AK Party of a parliamentary majority. Opposition lawmakers had accused Erdogan, a founder of the AKP and Turkey's most popular - and polarising - political figure, of deliberately delaying the process to push for a snap election he hopes might see the AKP regain a majority. Erdogan gave Davutoglu the mandate to form a new government during a meeting in his palace in Ankara, the presidency said.
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| Bill Cosby's Walk of Fame star to stay, other honours scrutinized | |  Bill Cosby's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will not be removed, organizers said on Thursday, but other honours given to the beleaguered comedian came under assault in the face of mounting sexual abuse allegations against him. "The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a registered historic landmark. Once a star has been added to the Walk, it is considered a part of the historic fabric of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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| Thai PM defends decision to send Uighurs back to China | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Yesim Dikmen BANGKOK/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister defended on Thursday a decision to forcibly return nearly 100 Uighur Muslim migrants to China despite rights groups' fears they could face ill-treatment, saying it was not Bangkok's fault if they suffered problems. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha also raised the possibility of shutting the Thai Embassy in Turkey after protesters attacked the honorary consulate in Istanbul, smashing windows and ransacking parts of the building, over the expulsion of the Uighurs back to China. China's treatment of its Turkic language-speaking Uighur minority is a sensitive issue in Turkey and has strained bilateral ties ahead of a planned visit to Beijing this month by President Tayyip Erdogan.
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| U.S. universities seek to delay lawsuits over Asian-American admissions | |  By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) moved this week to delay lawsuits by a conservative group alleging that the schools unfairly limit the number of Asian-American students admitted. The universities have cited last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision to revisit a white student's lawsuit against the University of Texas that claims consideration of an applicant's race violates the Constitution. The schools say the lawsuits against them should be suspended until the Supreme Court rules on the Texas dispute, likely by June 2016.
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| Paraguay girl's rape case ramps up abortion debate before pope visit | |  By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - Pope Francis last year called abortion "horrific." But for the mother of a Paraguayan girl, so too was the rape of her then 10-year-old daughter, who was denied a termination of her pregnancy by doctors and judicial officials. When the Argentine-born pontiff lands in Paraguay on Friday, on the third and final leg of his "homecoming" tour, he will encounter an overwhelmingly Catholic nation struggling with violence against women and deeply divided over abortion. Paraguayan law permits abortion if a mother's life is endangered.
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| Georgia grand jury clears officer in shooting of unarmed black man | | | By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia grand jury on Thursday declined to indict an Atlanta-area police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black man who was fleeing in a Maserati, officials said. Nicholas Thomas, 25, was shot to death in March by Sergeant Kenneth Owens of the Smyrna, Georgia, police force. Thomas was driving toward officers, putting them at grave risk, when he was shot, police said. |
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