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| India probing Kingfisher Airlines over alleged financial irregularities | |  India's financial fraud investigating agency has sought information from drinks company United Spirits Ltd in connection with a probe into former group firm Kingfisher Airlines Ltd over alleged diversion of funds. The agency is looking into alleged financial irregularities from 2005, when liquor baron Vijay Mallya's UB Group controlled both companies, TV channel CNBC TV18 reported on Tuesday. United Spirits, India's largest spirits company and now controlled by Britain's Diageo, said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday that it was cooperating with the investigating authority, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), in a probe of Kingfisher Airlines and was providing the required information.
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| Malaysia to help arrange for Swiss to interview witnesses in 1MDB probe | |  Switzerland's federal prosecutor said on Tuesday that Malaysia had agreed to arrange for Swiss investigators to interview witnesses in their investigation of alleged corruption and money laundering related to the Malaysian state-owned fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). In a statement, Switzerland's Office of Attorney General said that its chief, Michael Lauber, met on Tuesday with his Malaysian counterpart, Tan Sri Dato Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali, to discuss "mutual cooperation" in the 1MDB case. Lauber is currently hosting a meeting in Zurich of the International Prosecutors' Association.
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| Malaysia's attorney-general says Najib not linked to Mongolian model's murder | |  Malaysia's attorney-general on Tuesday said Prime Minister Najib Razak had no connection to the 2006 murder of a Mongolian woman, following a documentary on the subject broadcast last week by Doha-based network Al Jazeera. Najib is facing the biggest crisis of his political career after media reports of a mysterious transfer of more than $600 million into an account under his name, but he has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the funds. Model and translator Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered in 2006 and her body was blown up with military grade explosives in a forest on the outskirts of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.
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| Britain proposes paramilitary watchdog to break N.Ireland impasse | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Conor Humphries LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday proposed the creation of an independent watchdog to monitor paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland after a shooting linked to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) threatened to unravel a two-decade old peace deal. The region's pro-British First Minister Peter Robinson, who last week walked out of a power-sharing government with Irish nationalists Sinn Fein, said he would need more details before deciding if his party would commit to multi-party talks. A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence between Catholics who want a united Ireland and Protestants who want Northern Ireland to remain British.
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| GE to move turbine jobs to Europe, China due to EXIM bank closure | |  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Tuesday that it will move 500 U.S. power turbine manufacturing jobs to Europe and China because it can no longer access U.S. Export-Import Bank financing after Congress allowed the agency's charter to lapse in June. GE said that France's COFACE export agency has agreed to support some of the industrial giant's global power project bids with a new line of credit in exchange for moving production of 50-hertz heavy duty gas turbines to Belfort, France, along with 400 jobs. GE also said in a statement that 100 additional jobs will move from the United States to Hungary and China.
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe reads wrong speech at opening of parliament | |  Zimbabwe's 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, his spokesman said, blaming a mix-up in his office for the error. Mugabe had delivered the same speech during a state of the nation address on Aug. 25, in which he pinned his hopes on China to help revive Zimbabwe's struggling economy. "The mix-up happened in his secretarial office.
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| Rouhani's nuclear dividend to feature in Iranian elections | |  Iran's nuclear deal may be eroding its isolation overseas, but at home it is deepening political infighting within the country's complex power structure before two important elections, officials and analysts say. The agreement - welcomed by Iranians eager for a lifting of sanctions and improved living standards - has increased the popularity of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani, alarming hardline allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "The president's popularity has already increased since 2013 (when Rouhani won elections) because of the deal.
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| U.N. expects refugees to find new route avoiding Hungary | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Refugees seeking asylum in the European Union may end up seeking a new route as a result of Hungary's crackdown on entry, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday, and one refugee suggested it might be through Croatia and Slovenia. UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said the agency was discussing the likelihood with various countries although she would not name them or suggest any possible route. "We're definitely in touch with different countries on contingencies and UNHCR is ready to move and assist different countries as best we can," Fleming said.
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| Thai bomb revenge for trafficking crackdown, not Uighur expulsion - police | |  By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - The perpetrators of last month's deadly Bangkok bombing were members of a network that trafficked Uighur Muslims and launched the attack in anger with Thailand's crackdown on the trade, police said on Tuesday. No group has claimed responsibility for the Aug. 17 bombing at the Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people, an attack police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang ruled out as revenge for Thailand's forced repatriation in July of 109 Uighurs to China. "It's about a human trafficking network that has been destroyed," he told reporters.
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