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| Two Chinese consulate staff killed at Philippine restaurant lunch | | | A Chinese woman shot and wounded China's consul general to the Philippine city of Cebu at a restaurant lunch on Wednesday and killed two consulate staff, a police spokesman said. Consul General Song Ronghua was rushed to a hospital, Chief Superintendent Prudencio Banas said, adding the woman arrested and her husband held for questioning. |
| Netanyahu stirs up trouble with Muslim Holocaust comments | |  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying the former Muslim elder in Jerusalem convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of attacks by Muslims against Jews in Palestine during the 1920s that he said were instigated by the then Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Husseini famously flew to visit Hitler in Berlin in 1941, and Netanyahu said that meeting was instrumental in the Nazi leader's decision to launch a campaign to annihilate the Jews.
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| Migrants stranded in Balkans suffer bad weather, bottlenecks | |  By Marja Novak and Aleksandar Vasovic LJUBLJANA, Slovenia/BERKASOVO,Serbia (Reuters) - About 3,500 migrants spent the night camped out in freezing cold at the Berkasovo-Bapska border crossing between Serbia and Croatia after the Croatian government closed the gates to limit the number of people entering the country. At first light on Thursday, groups of refugees bypassed the official border crossing and walked through orchards into Croatia. The crossing is one of the new focal points of Europe's biggest refugee and migrant crisis since World War II, which has seen hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa this year to try to reach Europe's rich countries.
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| Three jailed as Thai police launch sweeping royal defamation probe | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military court jailed three people on Wednesday, including an aide to the crown prince, as part of a major probe into a group of people who allegedly falsely claimed links to the monarchy. Thailand's lese-majeste laws are the world's harshest and make it a crime to defame, insult or threaten the royal family. The investigation comes at a time when the government is cracking down on perceived royal defamation with prosecutions skyrocketing since a May 2014 coup. |
| Steenkamp's mother says wants no revenge against Pistorius | |  The mother of slain model Reeva Steenkamp said on Wednesday she did not want retribution against South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, who was released into house arrest this week just under a year into his five-year jail term. The disgraced track star, who was found guilty of culpable homicide for killing Steenkamp by firing four shots through a locked bathroom door, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a suburb of the capital, Pretoria. "I don't want him thrown in jail and be suffering ... that's not going to bring Reeva back.
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| NY federal prosecutor probes daily fantasy sports business - WSJ | | | (Reuters) - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating whether the business model behind daily fantasy sports companies such as DraftKings Inc and FanDuel Inc violates federal law, the Wall Street Journal reported. The investigation is at an early stage and senior Justice Department lawyers in Washington are undecided on whether daily fantasy sports betting violates federal gambling statutes, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately reach representatives at the prosecutor's office, DraftKings, and FanDuel for comment outside regular U.S business hours. |
| New York court rejects appeal, lets Yale keep van Gogh painting | | | By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld a lower ruling on Tuesday, allowing Yale University to keep a painting by famed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh and denying a request by the great-grandson of a Russian art collector to argue his ownership of the painting. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the arguments made by Pierre Konowaloff, the great-grandson of art collector Ivan Abramovich Morozov, lacked merit. The 1888 oil painting, titled "The Night Café," once belonged to Morozov, one of three major art collectors whose collections were expropriated in 1918 by the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary government. |
| Singapore megachurch leaders hit a sour note in pop music fraud case | | | The co-founder of a Singapore church and five other leaders were convicted of multi-million dollar fraud on Wednesday for diverting money to support his wife's pop singing career, a rare fall from grace in the tightly regulated city-state. The mix of money, faith and scandal in the case has fascinated the public in affluent Singapore, where such cases are rare under a system with little tolerance for corruption. Senior pastor Kong Hee heads City Harvest Church, one of a growing number of Singapore's megachurches preaching "prosperity gospel" that blends spiritual and material aspirations. |
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