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| At least two dead, student held in Canada school shooting - reports | | | By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - At least two people were killed in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan, Canada, on Friday and a student is in custody, the aboriginal chief in the area told Canadian media. Police said there was a "serious incident" in La Loche, which is about 600 km (375 miles) from the city of Saskatoon, but declined to give more details. La Loche Acting Mayor Kevin Janvier said that police confirmed to him that one person was in custody, the Canadian Press reported. |
| Bergdahl lawyer may call Trump as witness in U.S. court-martial | |  Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has made "appalling" comments about Bowe Bergdahl and may be called as a witness in the Army sergeant's court-martial on a desertion charge, one of Bergdahl's lawyers said on Friday. Eugene Fidell, a military law attorney at Yale Law School who is defending Bergdahl, said on CNN that Bergdahl's legal team has been monitoring statements by the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in November's election as possibly affecting his client's right to a fair trial. Fidell said the defence team has compiled an eight-page log of "some of the various appalling comments that Mr. Trump has made in an effort to - it's like a lynch mob actually - to incite ill will and vilification of Sergeant Bergdahl." Bergdahl is accused of abandoning his combat outpost in Afghanistan before being captured by the Taliban in 2009.
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| White House turns to Pentagon in U.S. background checks shake-up | | | By Ayesha Rascoe and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will set up a new agency to do background checks on employees and contractors, the White House said on Friday, after a massive breach of U.S. government files exposed the personal data of millions of people last year. As a part of a sweeping overhaul, the Obama administration said it will establish a National Background Investigations Bureau. It will replace the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Federal Investigative Services (FIS), which currently conducts each year more than 2 million background investigations for scores of federal agencies. |
| Exclusive - U.S. FTC probes Turing over drug prices, Shkreli's lawyer says | |  By Nate Raymond and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating Turing Pharmaceuticals for possible antitrust violations in connection with the company's decision to hike the price of a life-saving drug by more than 5,000 percent, a lawyer for former Chief Executive Officer Martin Shkreli wrote on Friday. The probe was disclosed in a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from Baruch Weiss, Shkreli's lawyer, as grounds for why his client would not answer questions about drug prices at a Jan. 26 hearing. The committee had subpoenaed Shkreli, who has been indicted separately on securities fraud charges, to appear to discuss why, as Turing's CEO, he decided to raise the price of Daraprim to $750 a tablet from $13.50.
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| Florida police say officer ambushed in patrol car shooting | | | By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A gunman shot and wounded a Florida police officer in a parked patrol vehicle on Friday in an ambush-style attack, said the Miami Gardens Police Department, which apprehended the suspect. Around 8:30 a.m., Officer David Starling noticed a black BMW sports utility vehicle driving past him, police said. "The officer was ambushed," Police Chief Antonio Brooklen told reporters. |
| Spain's Rajoy forces new round of talks to counter left-wing alliance | |  By Julien Toyer and Blanca RodrÃguez MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, deferred on Friday a decision on whether to seek a confidence vote to form a government, forcing a new round of talks on resolving the country's political deadlock. The unexpected move came in response to an announcement earlier in the day that the Socialists and anti-austerity party Podemos would, after meeting King Felipe, seek a deal to form a left-wing coalition. Discussions on the next government with all groups with parliamentary representation would resume on Wednesday, the palace said in a statement.
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| Spanish court provisionally releases former ally of Mexican president - source | |  Humberto Moreira, a former ally of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto who was detained in Spain last week in a money-laundering probe, was released from custody on Friday but ordered to remain in Spain, a High Court official said. Moreira, who was chairman of Pena Nieto's PRI party in 2011 but stood down after a debt scandal was uncovered in his state of Coahuila, had been arrested at Madrid's international airport. Court sources told Reuters last week that he had been detained as part of an operation against money laundering and other crimes.
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| U.S. envoy says little achieved in U.N. meeting with Burundi president | |  By Michelle Nichols BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council met with Burundi's president on Friday to push for peace talks and an international force to quell worsening political violence, but U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said little was achieved. The meeting came a day after rebels in the tiny African state raised the stakes in the crisis by declaring a general who led a failed coup in May as their leader, deepening concerns that Burundi is sliding back into conflict after its ethnically charged civil war ended in 2005. The 15-member council, which arrived in Burundi's lakeside capital Bujumbura on Thursday, met with President Pierre Nkurunziza in Gitega for more than two hours.
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| Democrats to demand restructuring mechanism for Puerto Rico - letter | |  By Nick Brown and Richard Cowan SAN JUAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. senators have drafted a letter to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisting legislation designed to solve Puerto Rico's debt crisis should include a mechanism for the island to restructure its debt, according to a draft of the letter seen by Reuters. The move is a challenge to Republicans pushing bills in Congress to bring Puerto Rico's finances under federal oversight, who are generally opposed to letting the U.S. commonwealth restructure its debt. Democrats have argued that any such oversight should be conditional on allowing Puerto Rico to be governed by federal bankruptcy or debt restructuring laws.
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| Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe - U.S. sources | |  (This version of the Jan. 21 story corrects name to Counter Extremism Project in paragraph 5) By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr Organization are the principle focus of the investigation into the armed kidnapping of the three Americans in the Dora neighborhood, south of Baghdad, the sources said.
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| Spain's Rajoy says still candidate to be next prime minister | |  MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday said he was still candidate to form the country's next government although he was not in a position for now to seek the confidence of the parliament as he lacked support from other parties. "I am still candidate but I can't present myself now because I don't have the support that is needed," Rajoy told a news conference after meeting with King Felipe. The monarch had earlier announced he would hold new talks with political parties next week. (Reporting by Julien Toyer; Editing by Angus Berwick)
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| Luke Skywalker's 'Star Wars' prop gun set for auction | |  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A rare "Star Wars" prop piece, Luke Skywalker's DL-44 blaster used in the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back", is up for sale at auction with a minimum bid of $200,000. Auction house Nate D. Sanders said the prop gun, made of gray, brown and silver fiberglass, is still in its original filming condition, retaining "its original flash suppressor and scope, though it does not (and never did) fire". Actor Mark Hamill, who played Skywalker, gave the prop as a gift to a young fan in an episode of the BBC television show "Jim'll Fix It", the auction house added. ...
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| Colombians smuggled drugs to New York on Spanish Navy ship - prosecutor | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two Colombians ran a major heroin and cocaine smuggling operation to New York aboard the Royal Spanish Navy's official training ship, paying thousands of dollars in bribes to midshipmen on the vessel, prosecutors said on Friday. The two men were arrested late on Thursday in Colombia, said the office of New York's special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan.
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| Most UEFA associations back Infantino for FIFA presidency | |  By Brian Homewood NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) - Gianni Infantino's bid for the FIFA presidency with the aim of leading the world football body out of the worst graft scandal in its history was boosted on Friday when the Swiss lawyer won "overwhelming" backing from Europe's football associations. Infantino, general secretary of European football's ruling body UEFA and initially seen as a stop-gap candidate, said he was confident of winning the Feb. 26 election and dispelled the suggestion of a deal that would involve him withdrawing. The 45-year-old entered the race to succeed disgraced president Sepp Blatter after UEFA head and FIFA presidential candidate Michel Platini was suspended pending an ethics investigation in October.
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| Sarkozy draws presidential election spotlight with book | |  Nicolas Sarkozy said his "frankness" and "free spirit" had led him to make errors during his 2007-2012 term as French president, in a book unveiled on Friday that is key to his bid for re-election in 2017. It was a mistake telling a hostile bystander at a farm fair "Get lost, you jerk", and it was another error to have celebrated his 2007 election win on a French tycoon's yacht, he said in the book headlined "France for life". The mea culpa on his abrasive style and efforts to counter the "President Bling-Bling" nickname he earned after the luxury boat trip address what were seen as key factors in his 2012 election defeat to Socialist Francois Hollande.
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| North Korea detains U.S. student on New Year trip for "hostile act" | | | By James Pearson and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has detained a U.S. university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", it said on Friday. Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, of the University of Virginia, was in North Korea for a five-day New Year trip and was detained at Pyongyang airport on Jan. 2 ahead of a flight back to China, said Gareth Johnson of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized the visit. According to the North's official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and "was caught committing a hostile act against the state", which it said was "tolerated and manipulated by the U.S. government". |
| Police ban first PEGIDA demonstration in Switzerland | | | Police in Basel have banned the first anti-Islam demonstration by the German-based PEGIDA movement in Switzerland and a counter-rally by left-wing groups, they said on Friday, citing security concerns. It said the "expected participation of several groups prone to violence on both sides, from Switzerland and from abroad, led to this decision". Riot police broke up a PEGIDA-organised march by far-right protesters in the German city of Cologne earlier this month as they demonstrated against Germany's migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year's Eve. |
| U.S. Vice President Biden chides Turkey over freedom of expression | |  By David Dolan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday that Turkey, once vaunted by Washington as a model of Islamic democracy, was setting a poor example for the region in intimidating media, curtailing internet freedom and accusing academics of treason. On a two-day visit to the NATO ally, part of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, Biden said the strength of Turkey's democracy had a direct impact on its ties with the United States. Turkey is a vital partner for both Washington and Europe in efforts to combat Islamic State, end Syria's civil war, and curb the flow of migrants and refugees.
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| France's Hollande seeks three-month extension to state of emergency | |  French President Francois Hollande will ask parliament to extend by three months the state of emergency which was declared in the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, according to a statement issued by his office on Friday. "The French President has announced that, given the terrorist threat, the government would present (...) a bill extending the state of emergency for a period of three months," the statement from the French presidency read.
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| Calls to protect sex workers as Mumbai's red-light industry goes underground | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai's commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers' lives are not put at risk. The commercial sex industry in Mumbai, one of the biggest destinations in the country for trafficked women, was once concentrated in decrepit brothels in the Kamathipura and Falkland Road areas in South Mumbai. The move from the traditional red-light district has come as industries including financial services moved north due to soaring real-estate prices but raised fears about protecting sex workers, many of whom are victims of trafficking.
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