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| South Sudan rebels free U.N. peacekeepers, but still hold contractors | | Friday, October 30, 2015 3:08 AM | |
| | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Eighteen United Nations peacekeepers in South Sudan were freed on Thursday after being held for three days by heavily armed rebels, but a dozen U.N. contractors who were operating a fuel barge have not yet been released, the world body said. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous spoke to opposition leader Riek Machar about the incident on Thursday. The United Nations also said it is "extremely concerned" about the South Sudanese crew of the fuel barge who were still being held. |
| Allen Stanford loses appeal of Ponzi scheme conviction | | Friday, October 30, 2015 3:02 AM | |
|  A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford's bid to overturn his conviction and 110-year prison sentence for running what federal prosecutors called a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans turned aside 10 arguments raised by Stanford. "We find no evidence that the district court was partial to the government in derogation of Stanford's right to a fair trial under the Constitution," Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote for a three-judge panel.
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| Apologetic Venezuelan prosecutor says country's justice system ruled by fear | | Friday, October 30, 2015 12:26 AM | |
|  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - A Venezuelan state prosecutor who helped put prominent opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez behind bars said he apologised to the jailed man's parents by phone this week after fleeing the country to avoid pressing the government's trumped-up case. In 2012, supreme court magistrate Eladio Aponte fled the country and later accused the government of manipulating the courts for political ends.
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| Mexico to question army again over missing students | | Friday, October 30, 2015 12:23 AM | |
| | By Lizbeth Diaz and Anahi Rama MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican prosecutors will take new testimony from federal security officials to determine what part they played during the disappearance of 43 students training to be teachers last year, which battered the government's image at home and abroad. Families of the victims and an independent experts have pushed to clarify what the army and federal police did on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, when the students clashed with local police in the southwestern city of Iguala before disappearing. "Everything needed to settle the case will be investigated, everything," said Eber Betanzos, deputy attorney general for human rights, who will head a new inquiry into the case. |
| End of China's one-child policy may slow U.S. asylum cases - experts | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's decision on Thursday to allow couples to have two children after decades of limiting families to a single child may slow the flood of Chinese immigrants receiving political asylum in the United States, legal experts said. In recent years, more immigrants from China have been granted U.S. asylum than from any other country. In part, that reflects an unusual aspect of U.S. immigration law that lowers the bar required for Chinese nationals seeking asylum. |
| Illinois, New Jersey men admit to trying to support Islamic State | | | By Fiona Ortiz and Nate Raymond CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Thursday secured guilty pleas from two men in New Jersey and Chicago for trying to provide support to the Islamic State in a pair of cases following investigations nationally into potential supporters of the militant group. Alaa Saadeh, a 24-year-old who was among several men arrested in recent months in New York and New Jersey and accused of trying to aid the Islamic State, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to conspiring with others to provide material support to the group. In a separate federal case in Chicago, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 20, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, as part of deal in which prosecutors will seek at most five years in prison. |
| U.S. welcomes arbitration decision against China's claims in South China Sea - official | | | The United States on Thursday welcomed the decision of an arbitration court in the Netherlands that it has jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the Philippines filed against China over disputed parts of the South China Sea, a senior U.S. defence official said. |
| American Airlines flight diverted after passenger's 'alarming' 9-11 speech | | | An American Airlines flight bound for Philadelphia from Los Angeles was diverted to Phoenix on Thursday after a passenger made "alarming" statements referencing the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, police said. The passenger was removed from American Airlines Flight 754 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport and transported to a psychiatric facility for evaluation under an involuntary hold, said Sergeant Vince Lewis of the Phoenix Police Department. The flight, which departed Los Angeles International Airport at 8:38 a.m. Pacific Time, carried 150 passengers, three infants and six crew members, and was refueled and allowed to continue on to Philadelphia, a spokesman for American Airlines said. |
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