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| U.N. peacekeeping chief pushes for South Sudan arms embargo | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous pushed the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and to blacklist more rival leaders in the war-torn country, where he sees little prospect of a political solution. As the world's newest state marks four years of independence from Sudan, Ladsous briefed the council behind closed doors after the United Nations accused government forces of sexually abusing women and girls and reportedly burning some alive. "What really should be looked at is a possibility of more sanctions towards more leaders." "There should be a decision about an arms embargo because it is really completely questionable that the very meagre resources that the country has go into buying more weapons," he said.
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| Corrected - Cosby accuser asks for entire deposition to be made public | |  A Canadian woman at the centre of sexual assault allegations against comedian Bill Cosby accused him on Wednesday of violating a confidentiality agreement in their 2005 lawsuit, and asked a court to make public his entire testimony. Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, filed court papers in Pennsylvania district court, also accusing Cosby and his advisers of manipulating the media through interviews and statements about the slew of sex assault allegations against him. The lawsuit was filed two days after a Pennsylvania judge unsealed testimony in Constand's 2005 civil lawsuit against Cosby, in which the actor said he had obtained Quaaludes with the intent of giving the sedatives to young women in order to have sex with them.
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| Tom Selleck accused of taking water for California ranch | |  Actor Tom Selleck is accused by a California agency of unlawfully taking water from a public hydrant to supply his ranch as the state grapples with a devastating drought, court papers showed on Wednesday. The Calleguas Municipal Water District submitted a complaint on Monday in Ventura County Superior Court against the star of 1980s television series "Magnum, P.I." and police show "Blue Bloods," which airs on CBS. The complaint comes as California deals with a devastating four-year drought that has damaged the state's multi-billion dollar agriculture industry.
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| Nigeria's president meets campaigners for girls abducted by Boko Haram | |  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday held his first meeting with campaigners calling for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern town of Chibok last year. The militant Islamist group, whose six-year insurgency has seen thousands killed in Africa's most populous nation and top oil producer, caused an international outcry when it took the girls from secondary school dormitories in April 2014. Buhari praised members of the Bring Back Our Girls group for their efforts to prevent the missing children being forgotten.
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| Despite peace talks breakthrough, Afghan leader under pressure at home | |  By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - If Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was savouring inaugural peace talks with Taliban insurgents held in Pakistan on Wednesday, celebrations of the milestone he has worked so hard to reach may be short-lived. The lower house of parliament is threatening to impeach Ghani's interior minister over his failure to stem violence by Islamist militants. Last week lawmakers rejected the president's third nominee for defence minister.
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| Suspended FIFA official Webb was director of Warner's company | |  By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - Suspended CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb was a director 10 years ago of a Cayman Islands company controlled by Jack Warner, the former head of the Americas regional football body who is facing U.S. corruption charges, a court document shows. The document links Webb, who is also facing U.S. charges and who pledged to fight corruption when he took over CONCACAF in 2012, to controversial television rights deals that were struck in the region during Warner's 21 years at the helm of CONCACAF. Webb had vowed to reform the confederation which governs the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean following a "cash for votes" scandal involving Warner and Qatari Mohammed Bin Hammam, then president of the Asian Football Confederation A lawyer for Warner declined to comment on the document.
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| Myanmar sets date for election that may define scope of reform | | | By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Timothy Mclaughlin YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar will hold a general election on Nov. 8, its election commission said on Wednesday, its first nationwide ballot since the end of direct military rule and a vote that could decide the scope of the country's reforms. The election comes at a critical time for Myanmar, which has undergone major changes since shifting to a quasi-civilian system in 2011 but is now seeing tensions between rival forces vying for power after an unprecedented period of reform. The Nov. 8 date was confirmed by Nyunt Tin, a director of the Union Election Commission (UEC), when contacted by Reuters. |
| FBI chief warns encryption emboldens would-be Islamic State attackers | |  By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barring law enforcement authorities' access to encrypted communications would make it easier for Islamic State sympathizers to attack the United States, FBI Chief James Comey told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pushing technology companies to let law enforcement authorities have access to encrypted communications to investigate illegal activities. Comey has previously criticized Apple Inc and Google Inc for ramping up encryption.
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| Over 200 Americans have gone or tried to go to Syria to fight - FBI | | | More than 200 Americans have travelled or attempted to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic militants, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said on Wednesday. "We continue to identify individuals who seek to join the ranks of foreign fighters ... and also homegrown violent extremists who may aspire to attack the United States from within," Comey told lawmakers on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The radicalization of Americans by Islamic State is a top concern for the agency, and earlier on Wednesday Comey urged technology companies to allow law enforcement authorities access to encrypted communications to help combat the threat. |
| Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 26 people in Chad attacks | | | By Madjiasra Nako N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Suspected militants from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram killed 26 people in night attacks on two villages on Lake Chad over the weekend, Chadian officials said. Boko Haram has stepped up assaults in recent weeks across the region in what appears to be a fight back against an offensive mounted by soldiers from Nigeria and its neighbours, Chad, Cameroon and Niger. Boko Haram, fighting to carve out an Islamist state in northeast Nigeria, has also launched a string of cross border raids. |
| Berlusconi found guilty of bribing Italian senator | |  NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty on Wednesday of bribing a senator in 2006 in an effort to topple the then centre-left government. The court in southern Italy sentenced Berlusconi to three years in jail and banned him from holding any public office for five years, a judge said in a ruling shown live on television news networks. The four-times prime minister, who is struggling to revive his political fortunes, denied the charges. ...
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