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| Merkel wants to "drastically reduce" refugee arrivals in Germany | | Monday, December 14, 2015 3:00 AM | |
|  Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she wanted to "drastically decrease" the number of refugees coming to Germany, signalling a compromise to critics of her open-door policy from within her conservatives on the eve of a party congress. Merkel has resisted pressure from allies within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to put a cap on the number of refugees entering Germany, which is expected to top 1 million this year. Merkel, whose popularity has fallen over her handling of the refugee crisis, said the word "limit" did not feature in the CDU's main resolution which will be debated at the two-day party congress starting on Monday in the southern city of Karlsruhe.
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| Brazilians take to streets to demand Rousseff's impeachment | | Monday, December 14, 2015 2:54 AM | |
|  By Caroline Stauffer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday to demand President Dilma Rousseff's ouster, but the first nationwide protests since formal impeachment proceedings began were smaller than similar events earlier this year. Pollster Datafolha said 40,000 people turned out in Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo, down from 135,000 in an August protest and 210,000 in March. "This is just a warm-up, there will be a huge mobilization in January," said Paloma Morena, a 35-year-old scientist on Sao Paulo's most famous street, Avenida Paulista, where protesters carried blow-up caricatures of Rousseff and her predecessor, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, dressed in prison uniforms.
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| EXCLUSIVE - U.S. investigates broadcasters in widening FIFA case | | Monday, December 14, 2015 2:52 AM | |
|  By Mica Rosenberg and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A sports marketing company that was described in a sweeping indictment this month as retaining contracts because of the "support" of corrupt soccer officials has longstanding ties to the U.S. entertainment company 21st Century Fox, according to securities filings and other government documents. The description of T&T Sports Marketing Ltd in the indictment signals that U.S. prosecutors have intensified their focus on media companies and what they might have known about any bribes, people familiar with the matter said. When prosecutors announced their corruption investigation of world soccer's governing body FIFA in May, they spoke in court papers about "an array of broadcasters and advertisers" but otherwise did not specifically address their role.
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| FBI ends search of lake for clues in San Bernardino attack | | Monday, December 14, 2015 2:48 AM | |
|  By Brendan O'Brien and Eric M. Johnson REUTERS - FBI divers wrapped up a three-day search of a California lake where authorities suspect a couple inspired by Islamic State may have dumped evidence linked to their massacre of 14 people, an official said on Sunday, adding the team retrieved some objects. The search at the lake in a public park 2.5 miles (4 km) north of the site of the Dec. 2 shooting at a regional center in San Bernardino, began on Thursday after reports the suspects were spotted nearby either before or after the attack. ABC News and other news organizations had reported that the divers at San Bernardino Lake were looking for a computer hard drive that belonged to the married couple, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29.
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| Prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang stands trial in China | | Monday, December 14, 2015 2:44 AM | |
|  By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Pu Zhiqiang, one of China's most well-known human rights lawyers, was tried on Monday on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", in the country's most high-profile human rights trial this year. Pu, who has spent nearly 19 months in detention, faces up to eight years in prison if convicted, according to one of his lawyers Shang Baojun. The main accusations against Pu revolve around seven microblog posts on his online accounts, his lawyers say.
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| Death toll from day of clashes in Burundi capital rises to nearly 90 | |  Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday's clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May. Blasts and gunfire echoed around Bujumbura for most of Friday and residents said officials spent the day collecting bullet-riddled bodies from city streets. Army spokesman Gaspard Baratuza said on Saturday gunmen had attacked three military sites in Bujumbura, kindling a day of clashes across the city. Unrest erupted in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced plans for a third term in office.
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| As Cruz rises in U.S. presidential polls, Trump calls him "maniac" | |  By Doina Chiacu and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump had a new target on Sunday, calling fellow White House contender Ted Cruz "a little bit of a maniac" as the U.S. senator surpassed him in an Iowa poll.Cruz's dogged pursuit of conservative Iowa voters has paid off in the form of a 10-point lead over Trump in the state, which has one of the earliest presidential contests. Unlike the other Republicans in the 2016 White House race, the U.S. senator from Texas has embraced Trump and avoided public criticism of the popular candidate.
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| Armed men storm raki festival in Turkey in anti-alcohol protest | | | A group of armed men stormed a festival in southern Turkey devoted to the traditional alcoholic drink raki over the weekend, firing shotguns into the air and shouting anti-alcohol slogans, Dogan News Agency reported on Sunday. Plainclothes police later arrested four suspects for allegedly hitting tables with the long knives used to carve up kebabs, Dogan said. Now its sixth year, the event was previously called the "World Raki Festival" but organisers changed the name this year because of pressure from conservative anti-alcohol groups who had wanted it banned, Dogan said. |
| Death toll in northwest Pakistan blast rises to 24 | | | By Javed Hussain PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A blast killed 24 people and injured 70 in the northwestern Pakistani city of Parachinar on Sunday, officials said, and a banned Sunni Islamist group claimed responsibility for the attack. "This is revenge for the killing of Muslims by the Syrian president and Iran," said Ali bin Sufyan, spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), an Islamist group whose sectarian ideology is closely aligned with Islamic State. Earlier this week Reuters reported that a Shi'ite unit of Pakistani fighters known as the Zeinabiyoun were joining the war against Islamic State in Syria. |
| Spain arrests man for performing forced abortions on Colombian rebels | | | Spanish police said on Sunday they had arrested a man accused of performing more than 500 forced abortions on women fighters belonging to rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The man, known as "The Nurse" and described by Spanish police in a statement as an ex-fighter himself, was detained in Madrid. The arrest comes after Colombia's top prosecutor, Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre, said on Friday that his office was investigating 150 cases of former female rebel fighters who claimed they had been forced to terminate their pregnancies. |
| California sheriff deputies kill armed black man, video appears to show him crawl away | | | Deputies in southern California shot dead an armed black man who refused to drop his weapon, according to law enforcement authorities, but a video posted online by local media appeared to show him crawling away from the officers as they shot him. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department could not be reached immediately on Sunday to comment on the reports of the video capturing the incident, which occurred a day earlier. There is currently heightened scrutiny in the United States over police use of lethal force, especially against unarmed black people. |
| FBI wraps up search of California lake for shooting clues | |  FBI divers have wrapped up a three-day search of a lakebed where authorities suspect a couple inspired by Islamic State dumped evidence linked to their massacre of 14 people, an official said on Sunday. The divers have retrieved objects from Seccombe Lake, Laura Eimiller, a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman, said in an email. Since Thursday, divers have been searching the San Bernardino lake, in a public park, about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of the site of the shooting.
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| Clashes erupt in Central African Republic amid crucial referendum | | | By Serge Leger Kokopakpa BANGUI (Reuters) - Voters in Central African Republic cast their ballots on Sunday in a constitutional referendum seen as crucial to ending nearly three years of violence, as heavy fighting erupted in the capital amid a call by rebels for the process to be cancelled. The former French colony descended into chaos in early 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized control in the majority Christian nation. Clashes broke out after U.N. peacekeepers from the MINUSCA mission, brought in to protect poll workers and voters, came under fire in PK5, an enclave of Muslims who have refused to flee the capital Bangui despite attacks by Christian militias. |
| Brazilians protest to demand President Rousseff's impeachment | | Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Sunday to demand President Dilma Rousseff's ouster in the first nationwide protests since formal impeachment proceedings began against the leftist leader. A congressional committee is considering her impeachment for allegedly violating budget laws to increase spending during her 2014 re-election campaign. Lower House Speaker Eduardo Cunha opened impeachment proceedings on Dec 2.
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| Ecuador signs deal with Sweden for Assange questioning | |  Ecuador and Sweden have signed a pact that would allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned by Swedish authorities at Ecuador's embassy in London where he has been holed up for more than three years since facing sexual assault charges, the Quito government said. Assange, 44, took refuge in the embassy building in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault and rape against two women in 2010.
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| Getting, sharing data quickly key to fighting terror finance - expert | |  Getting and sharing data quickly is the key to tracking down the people behind terrorist attacks, a senior money-laundering expert told a Swiss newspaper, calling for broader official powers that could infringe on traditional civil liberties. Daniel Thelesklaf, chairman of the Council of Europe's MONEYVAL advisory panel on combating money-laundering and terrorism finance, said his group was actively studying how terrorist cells in Europe function and secure funding. Financial data play an important role here," he said.
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