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| Eleven killed in attack on two Ivory Coast military camps | | | Eleven people, including seven soldiers, were killed on Wednesday in clashes with 15 unidentified gunmen in two military camps in Ivory Coast near the border with Liberia, a U.N. source with knowledge of the events said. The West African nation has been attacked by unidentified armed men near its border with Liberia on at least three previous occasions in the past two years, including one assault in January in which two soldiers were killed. The United Nations deployed helicopters for reconnaissance of the clashes that injured 10 Ivory Coast soldiers, four seriously. |
| Appeals court to decide whether 'Blade Runner' Pistorius guilty of murder | |  By Zandi Shabalala BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South Africa's top appeals court could send "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius back to jail on Thursday for at least 15 years for killing his girlfriend on Valentine's Day 2013 in a sensational case that continues to fascinate and divide the nation. Last year a judge gave the disgraced Olympic and Paralympic gold medallist a five-year jail sentence for "culpable homicide" of Reeva Steenkamp, but prosecutors say he should be convicted of murder for firing four shots through a locked toilet door. The athlete left jail on parole in October and is meant to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest, but the Supreme Court of Appeals could now overrule the original verdict and find him guilty of murder or order a retrial.
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| Civic leaders look to internal candidate for Chicago's next top cop | | | By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - The perceived failings of the two most recent police chiefs - both selected from outside the city's insular police force - is leading Chicago politicians and activists to push for a current member of the department to be the next superintendent. Some protesters of the videotaped police killing last year of an African-American teenager have called for an outsider to replace Garry McCarthy, who was fired on Tuesday. A nine-citizen police board will winnow a candidates list to a final three from which Mayor Rahm Emanuel will choose. |
| Chicago police force needs a cultural change - mayor | |  By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico. Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, following protests over the police killing of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, which was caught on video. Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014, has been charged with murder and is out on bail.
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| Shooting rampage at California social services agency leaves 14 dead, 14 wounded | |  By Tim Reid SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed at a social service agency in the Southern California city of San Bernardino on Wednesday, and a manhunt was under way for up to three suspects who opened fire, the police chief said. A further 14 people were wounded, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a televised news briefing. Burguan said he knew no possible motive behind the attack, which unfolded at about 11 a.m. at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Former U.S. national security adviser Sandy Berger dies | |  Samuel "Sandy" Berger, a U.S. national security adviser to President Bill Clinton whose reputation was later marred by his theft of classified documents after leaving office, died early on Wednesday. Berger, who was 70, had been suffering from cancer, according to a statement from Albright Stonebridge Group, the consulting firm where he worked. "Sandy was a consummate national security adviser because he embraced our common humanity and advanced our national interests," Clinton said in a statement.
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| U.S. court rejects Sequenom bid to restore prenatal DNA test patent | | | By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court refused on Wednesday to reconsider its decision invalidating a Sequenom Inc prenatal DNA test patent, a decision that could put in doubt the validity of a wide range of medical and biotechnology patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington said in June the patent was not eligible for legal protection because it fell under the U.S. Supreme Court's rule against patenting natural phenomena. Sequenom shares fell 9.5 percent to $1.62 on Wednesday. |
| Obama calls for bipartisan effort to address shootings | |  U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a bipartisan effort "at every level of government" to address mass shootings, such as the one that injured as many as 20 people in San Bernardino, California. "We don't yet know what the motives of the shooters are, but what we do know is there are steps we can take to make Americans safer and that we should come together in a bipartisan basis at every level of government to make these rare as opposed to normal," he told CBS News.
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| Baltimore officer was negligent in black man's death - prosecutor | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore policeman on trial for the death of a black man from a spinal injury while in custody failed to secure him in the back of a van and ignored his request for medical aid, a prosecutor said in opening statements on Wednesday. Gray's death in April triggered rioting, arson and protests in the largely black city and fuelled a national debate over police tactics and relations with minorities. Porter, 26, faces charges in Baltimore City Circuit Court that include manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct.
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| Venezuela says opposition activist killing was gang-related | | | By Brian Ellsworth and Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan police have determined that the Nov. 25 murder of an opposition activist during a campaign rally for the upcoming congressional vote was the result of a gang dispute and not linked to politics, the interior minister said on Wednesday. Luis Diaz, a local leader of opposition party Democratic Action, was gunned down in the central state of Guarico. "We are demonstrating the truth of what happened," Interior Minister Gustavo Gonzalez told a news conference, "... a death among criminals and mafia members disputing territory." "It is up to the political leaders to explain why this sort of person was in this position." Opposition leaders have been denouncing what they say is hostility against their candidates, including several incidents of shooting in the air during campaign events. |
| Brazil speaker opens impeachment proceedings against president | |  By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian opposition efforts to unseat President Dilma Rousseff advanced on Wednesday when the speaker of lower house of Congress opened impeachment proceedings against her, a move that threatens to mire the government in political wrangling as the economy nosedives. Opposition parties filed the request in September, accusing the unpopular president of violating Brazil's fiscal laws and manipulating government finances to benefit her reelection campaign last year. Lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha said he had agreed to open proceedings.
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| Factbox - Brazil's presidential impeachment process | | | Brazil's Congress will accept an opposition request to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly manipulating government finances to benefit her re-election last year, lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha said on Wednesday. Here are the steps of a presidential impeachment under Brazil's Constitution: 1) Any citizen can file an impeachment request to Congress. A special committee made up of members of all parties studies the request, which needs two-thirds, or 342, of the votes of the chamber for an impeachment trial to begin in the Senate. |
| Factbox - Major shootings in the United States | | | (Reuters) - Three people were killed and as many as 20 were wounded on Wednesday when at least one person opened fire at a social services agency in the Southern California city of San Bernardino, the latest of many deadly rampages in the United States. Below are some of the worst shooting incidents in recent years, ranked by the number of dead, including the gunman: Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 - A gunman slaughters 32 people and kills himself at Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia. Columbine April 20, 1999 - Two heavily armed teenagers go on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, shooting 12 students and a teacher to death and wounding more than 20 others before taking their own lives. |
| Canada deeply disappointed on Thai action on Chinese refugees | | | The Canadian government said on Wednesday it had registered serious concern with Thailand and China over a decision by Bangkok to send back to China two Chinese refugees who were awaiting resettlement in Canada. The two Chinese men were under the protection of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said Francois Lasalle, spokesman for Canada's foreign ministry. |
| Benzema insists he has done nothing wrong in sextape scandal | |  France and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema insisted on Wednesday he has done nothing wrong after being put under investigation in France in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail a fellow international with the use of a sex video. "I'm being accused, I'm being dragged into the mud as if I were a criminal, it's horrible," Benzema told French TV channel TF1 in his first interview since the scandal broke. The scandal has been in the public domain since details of the investigation, as well as the transcript of Benzema's hearing with a judge, were leaked in the French media.
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| Obama briefed on San Bernardino shooting: White House | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was briefed on Wednesday on a mass shooting in the Southern California city of San Bernardino, a White House official said. "The president has been briefed by his Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco about the shooting in San Bernardino and has asked to be updated on the situation as it develops," the official said. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Eric Beech) |
| Cameron urges UK parliament to back bombing of Islamic State in Syria | |  By William James and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron urged lawmakers on Wednesday to approve bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, saying Britain should join a U.S.-led campaign to destroy militants he said were plotting attacks on the West. As Cameron set out his case for war in what was expected to be at least a 10-hour debate, he was interrupted by opponents demanding he apologise for suggesting in a private meeting that those against air strikes were "terrorist sympathisers". Many British voters are wary of being dragged into another war in the Middle East: some view Western intervention in Iraq and Libya as a failure that sowed chaos across the region and helped fuel the rise of the ultra-radical Islamic State.
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| Al Qaeda militants take over two south Yemen towns, residents say | |  By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters retook on Wednesday two southern Yemeni towns they briefly occupied four years ago, residents and local fighters said, exploiting the collapse of central authority in Yemen in its eight-month war. In an early morning surprise attack on the Abyan province capital Zinjibar and neighbouring town of Jaar, the militants overcame local forces and announced their takeover over loudspeakers after dawn prayers. Residents identified them as Ansar al-Sharia, a local affiliate of al Qaeda.
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| Sofia airport announcer faces charges over mistaken bomb scare | | | An employee at Sofia airport has been sacked and faces criminal charges after mistakenly announcing over the tannoy that Bulgarian authorities had found an explosive device in a van parked outside the airport on Tuesday. The airport's chief executive corrected Daniela Veleva's announcement only a few minutes later. "Pre-trial proceedings have been initiated against the airport's employee for spreading false information," Georgi Kostov, the chief secretary of the interior ministry, said on Wednesday. |
| Russia says it has proof Turkey involved in Islamic State oil trade | |  By Maria Tsvetkova and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Erdogan responded by saying no one had the right to "slander" Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State, and that he would stand down if such allegations were proven to be true. At a briefing in Moscow, defence ministry officials displayed satellite images which they said showed columns of tanker trucks loading with oil at installations controlled by Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and then crossing the border into neighbouring Turkey.
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| Ukrainian mogul Firtash predicts Kiev government will fall next year | |  By Alessandra Prentice VIENNA (Reuters) - Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash said the Ukrainian government is politically bankrupt and will probably fall early next year, his most outspoken criticism of the pro-Western leadership in Kiev since it came to power almost two years ago. Firtash, a former supporter of ousted Moscow-friendly president Viktor Yanukovich, shelved a plan to return to Ukraine this week after officials there said they would act on a U.S. warrant for his arrest on suspicion of bribery and money-laundering. Speaking from his base in the Austrian capital, Firtash said he had lost faith in the ability of the government to conduct meaningful reform, and had decided Ukraine needed a movement which would push for political change.
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| Parliament no place for tear gas, Kerry tells Kosovo | |  By Arshad Mohammed PRISTINA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on opposition lawmakers in Kosovo on Wednesday to stop setting off tear gas in parliament, and on the young country to combat corruption, Islamic radicalism and ethnic division. In the Balkans for the first time as secretary of state, Kerry's brief stop in Kosovo underscored Western concern over the slow pace of progress 16 years after a U.S.-led NATO air war set the former Serbian province on the road to independence. The country of 1.8 million people - mainly ethnic Albanians - faces a deepening political crisis over relations with former master Serbia, against a backdrop of widespread frustration at a lack of progress on democracy, corruption and Western integration.
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| U.S. rejects Russian charge that Turkey involved in Islamic State oil smuggling | |  The United States on Wednesday flatly rejected Russian allegations that the Turkish government was in league with Islamic State militants to smuggle oil from Syria. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a news briefing that U.S. information was that Islamic State was selling oil at the wellheads to middlemen who in turn were involved in smuggling the oil across the frontier into Turkey. "We reject outright the premise that the Turkish government is in league with ISIL to smuggle oil across its borders," Toner said, using an acronym for the militant group.
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| Trump calls for targeting Islamic State fighters' families | |  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday his plan for combating Islamic State militants involves targeting not just the group's fighters but also their families. "When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families," Trump said on Fox News. "They care about their lives, don't kid yourselves." Trump said if he were president, he would try to avoid civilian deaths in going after the militant group, but he said the Obama administration was "fighting a very politically correct war." Trump's comments about the families of Islamic State fighters came a day after Lebanon released the ex-wife of the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other jailed Islamists in an exchange with al Qaeda's Syrian wing.
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| ISIS video purportedly shows killing of Russian spy - monitoring group | | | A video released online by Islamic State on Wednesday purportedly showed the beheading of a man the group said was a Russian spy its fighters had captured and who had been in Syria and Iraq since last year, the SITE monitoring group reported. The video shows the man sitting in an orange jumpsuit and giving details of his apparent recruitment by Russian intelligence services. Then, in a different outdoor location, an Islamic State fighter, who in Russian threatens Russia and President Vladimir Putin with attacks, appears to cut the man's throat and cut his head off. |
| More than 26 pounds of cocaine found on American Airlines plane in Tulsa | | | By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - Maintenance workers with American Airlines have discovered more than 26 pounds (11.8 kg) of cocaine in a Boeing 757 undergoing routine maintenance at Tulsa International Airport, officials said on Wednesday. The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office was called to the airport's maintenance centre after airline employees found packages of a white, powdery substance in the plane on Tuesday night, the sheriff's office said. Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were called in and removed 10 square packages, it said. |
| BP spill manslaughter charges dropped, one guilty of environmental crime | |  Manslaughter charges were dropped against two former BP well site managers involved in the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil drilling disaster on Wednesday, and one pleaded guilty to an environmental crime, federal prosecutors said. Donald Vidrine pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour violation of the Clean Water Act and "admitted to negligently causing the massive oil spill that resulted from the disaster," Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement.
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| France and Germany seek to step up fight against militant financing | |  France and Germany pushed on Wednesday for Europe to speed up a crackdown on money laundering and said they would propose a package of new EU measures next week to cut off funding to militants. Germany has vowed to show solidarity with France after the Nov. 13 militant Islamist attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed. Berlin plans to join the military campaign against Islamic State insurgents in Syria.
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| Iraqi politicians, militias warn Abadi against U.S. force deployment | |  By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's ruling alliance and powerful Shi'ite militias say Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi would be digging his own political grave and undermining the fight against Islamic State if he permits the deployment of a new U.S. special operations force in the country. Washington said on Tuesday it would send troops, expected to number around 200, to Iraq to conduct raids against the ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim militants who have seized swathes of the country's north and west and neighbouring Syria. Abadi said hours later that any such deployment would require his government's consent, comments that may have been made for public consumption at home.
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| Victims and killers: Venezuela youth at sharp end of crime | |  Ever more youths like Yeyo are choosing the gang life in Venezuela where state rehabilitation programs are failing, impunity is widespread, and an economic crisis is weighing heavily on the population. U.N. children's agency Unicef says Venezuela is the world's third worst country for murders of young people, only surpassed by gang-plagued El Salvador and Guatemala. Alejandro Moreno, a Roman Catholic priest whose years living in a poor Caracas neighborhood have enabled him to study crime close up, needs no statistics.
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| Islamist leader asks Bangladesh court to commute death sentence | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - The lawyer representing the head of Bangladesh's Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party appealed on Wednesday to the Supreme Court to commute his death penalty for war crimes to life in prison. The country's war crimes tribunal, set up in 2010 to investigate abuses during the independence war in 1971, handed down the sentence in October last year. "Considering his age and physical condition, we appealed to reduce the gravity of the punishment," Motiur Rahman Nizami's defence lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain told Reuters.
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| Spanish court blocks Catalan independence drive | |  Spain's Constitutional Court blocked a Catalan secession drive on Wednesday, deepening confrontation and adding to political uncertainty in Spain before this month's national election. The Constitutional Court, in an unusually rapid decision, struck down a resolution by the Catalan regional assembly last month which set out a plan to establish a republic within 18 months in the well-off northeastern region which accounts for about a fifth of Spain's economic output. Declaring the resolution unconstitutional, the court said the Catalan assembly "cannot set itself up as a source of legal and political legitimacy to the point of assuming the authority to violate the constitutional order." The court was ruling on an appeal by the centre-right government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who has called Catalonian independence "nonsense" and declared that it will never happen.
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| In Erdogan insult case, Turkish court asks: is 'Hobbit' character Gollum evil? | |  A Turkish court has asked experts to determine whether the "Lord of the Rings" character Gollum is good or evil to decide whether a doctor insulted Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, the defendant's lawyer told Reuters on Wednesday. Erdogan's lawyers are sueing Bilgin Ciftci, a physician from the western city of Aydin, after he shared pictures on social media of the president juxtaposed with those of the "small, slimy creature" immortalised in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels. "The prosecutor didn't watch the movie and he defined Gollum as 'the monster in a bad role'.
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| U.S. Secret Service officer indicted on 'sexting' charges | |  A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Secret Service officer who allegedly sent naked pictures of himself to an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. The suspect, Lee Robert Moore, 37, was indicted on one count of attempting to send obscene material to a minor, the department said in a statement. Moore, a resident of Church Hill, Maryland, was assigned to the White House at the time of his arrest in early November and has remained in custody since that time, the department said.
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