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| Twitter says widespread outages resolved; blames glitchy software update | |  By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had reversed a glitchy software update and resolved outages widely reported across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America that affected users of the social network on computers and phones. In a status update at 1800 GMT (1 p.m. EST), Twitter said an "intermittent issue affecting some users" was related to "an internal code change." "We reverted the change, which fixed the issue," Twitter said in a statement. Twitter Inc shares were down almost 7 percent at market close.
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| Islamic state media outlet confirms 'Jihadi John' is dead - SITE | |  A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for "Jihadi John", a member of the militant group who won global notoriety for his filmed executions of hostages, the monitoring organisation SITE reported. The militant, who was identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen of Arab origin, was described in Islamic State's Dabiq magazine by his nickname in the group of "Abu Muharib al-Muhajir".
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| Americans missing in Baghdad kidnapped by Iran-backed militia - Iraqi, US sources | | | By Mark Hosenball, Lesley Wroughton and Stephen Kalin WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. citizens who disappeared last week in Baghdad were kidnapped and are being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, two Iraqi intelligence and two U.S. government sources said on Tuesday.Unknown gunmen seized the three on Friday from a private residence in the southeastern Dora district of Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. The U.S. sources said Washington had no reason to believe Tehran was involved in the kidnapping and did not believe the trio were being held in Iran, which borders Iraq. |
| Chile national soccer coach Sampaoli reaches agreement to quit | |  Jorge Sampaoli, the coach of Chile's national soccer team, quit amid weeks of festering tensions with the nation's ANFP soccer governing body after details of his work contract were exposed and amid speculation he used a tax haven to lower his tax bill. The ANFP said in a statement on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Sampaoli to end his work contract. The Argentine coach, who led Chile to its first ever victory in Latin America's Copa America tournament in 2015, said last week that he no longer feels respected in Chile and was hoping to resolve his differences with the ANFP in order to end his contract early.
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| UEFA continue to pay banned Platini but Webb 'terminated' by CONCACAF | |  By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - Banned UEFA president Michel Platini will continue to be paid "until further notice" despite being unable to carry out his duties, European soccer's governing body said on Tuesday. UEFA's statement came after FIFA told Reuters on Monday that their banned president Sepp Blatter was still being paid and would continue to receive his salary until FIFA elect a new leader on Feb. 26.
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| Turkish operations against Kurdish militants nearing end - PM | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish security force campaign against Kurdish militants in the southeast has been largely completed, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was reported as saying on Tuesday, as he outlined plans to maintain tighter control in parts of the region. The army says it killed more than 500 PKK rebels in the campaign, adding to a death toll of more than 40,000 people killed since the PKK took up arms in 1984.
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| U.S. top court to decide major case on Obama immigration plan | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for a major ruling on the limits of presidential powers, agreeing to decide the legality of President Barack Obama's unilateral action to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation. The court agreed to hear Obama's bid to resurrect his plan, undertaken in 2014 through executive action bypassing the Republican-led Congress, that was blocked last year by lower courts after Texas and 25 other Republican-governed states sued to stop it. The case is not the first time Obama has asked the Supreme Court to rescue a major initiative. |
| European border checks would cost German trade billions - media | |  Reinstating border controls within Europe's passport-free Schengen zone because of the migrant crisis would significantly increase costs for Germany's foreign trade, national trade organisations told German media on Wednesday. "About 70 percent of German foreign trade takes place within Europe, particularly with countries of the euro zone," Anton Boerner, head of the BGA trade federation, told newspaper Tagesspiegel. "The cost for international road transport alone would increase by about three billion euros ($3.27 billion)." Stefan Genth, head of the HDE retail group, said checks would severely impact the transport of goods throughout Europe due to delays at the borders.
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| Libya's presidential council names new government amid divisions | |  By Aidan Lewis TUNIS (Reuters) - Libya's Presidential Council announced a new government on Tuesday aimed at uniting the warring factions, though two of its nine members rejected it in a sign of continuing divisions over its U.N.-backed plan for a political transition. Western powers hope the new government will deliver stability to Libya, deeply fractured since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and tackle a growing threat from Islamic State militants. Only a unity government, Mogherini said, would be able "to end political divisions, defeat terrorism, and address the numerous security, humanitarian and economic challenges the country faces".
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| Two dead in suspected Yemen drone strike, coalition orders ships out | | | Two people were killed in eastern Yemen on Tuesday in what local residents said was probably an attack by a U.S. drone on al Qaeda members, and Saudi-led coalition warships appeared to be preparing to move against a port held by militants. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has taken advantage of a conflict pitting Houthi militiamen against forces loyal to Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to grab territory and operate more openly. The United States has mounted its own campaign against the Islamist militants The group operates across Yemen and controls the Hadramout provincial capital, Mukalla, which it seized in April last year, soon after the Iranian-allied Houthis forced Hadi to flee the southern port city of Aden for Saudi Arabia. |
| Latin America's biggest medical cannabis farm sprouts in Chile | |  By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin America's largest medicinal marijuana farm was formally inaugurated on Tuesday, marking another step in the region's growing acceptance of therapeutic uses for the formerly illegal plant. The 6,900-stalk plantation, located in the small town of Colbun, some 275 kilometers (170 miles) south of Santiago, will help treat some 4,000 patients from across Chile, organizers said. This project follows on the work of a smaller, experimental plantation at a secret location in the capital, Santiago, and comes as Chile's Congress debates the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana for personal use and cultivation.
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| Corrected: About 3,500 slaves held by Islamic State in Iraq - U.N. report | | | (Corrects timeframe for casualty figures in para 4) By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 3,500 people, mainly women and children, are being held as slaves in Iraq by Islamic State militants, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The Islamist group, which also controls large parts of Syria, is responsible for acts that may "amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide", particularly against minorities, a report said. Iraqi security forces and allied groups including Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have also killed and abducted civilians, it said. |
| Israeli travel agents arrested for Nazi camp tour price-fixing | | | Israeli investigators have busted a ring of travel agency officials they say are suspected of price fixing for school trips to Nazi death camp sites in Poland, police said. Nine people were arrested, spokeswoman Luba Samri said in Tuesday, from various travel agencies suspected of colluding during a government tender to fix prices to prevent competition for Poland trips. Lawyers for the suspects, six of them agency executives, according to Israeli media, could not be reached for comment or did not respond to requests for comment. |
| Jailed journalists in Turkey say arrest aimed at gagging press | |  By Gulsen Solaker ANKARA (Reuters) - Two jailed Turkish editors, accused of spying and helping a terrorist group, have told Reuters in a faxed message from prison that their arrest was designed to send a warning to journalists. Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the left-wing Cumhuriyet newspaper, and its senior editor Erdem Gul were arrested on Nov. 26 over the publication of footage purporting to show the state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. The issue of Turkey's involvement in Syria is particularly sensitive as the NATO member comes under pressure to take a more active role in the fight against Islamic State militants there.
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| UK deeply concerned about missing British book publisher in China | |  Britain remains deeply concerned about a British publisher of books critical of China's leaders who went missing in Hong Kong and is pressing for information about his welfare, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said on Tuesday. Hong Kong police confirmed late on Monday that they had been advised by authorities in China's southern Guangdong province that British passport holder Lee Bo was in the mainland. "We remain deeply concerned about a British citizen missing from Hong Kong with four colleagues and have raised this at the highest levels," a spokesman for the Foreign Office said when asked about the case.
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| British spy agency hailed as best gay-friendly employer | | | Just over 25 years since Britain's powerful domestic spy agency dropped a ban on hiring homosexuals, MI5 was hailed on Tuesday as the country's most gay-friendly employer. Just six years ago, MI5 was ranked at 134th in the index. "People can only give the best they can give when they feel supported, valued and treated with respect by their colleagues," Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, told the charity. |
| Julius Baer dismisses employee in internal FIFA probe | |  By Joshua Franklin and Mark Hosenball ZURICH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swiss bank Julius Baer has dismissed one of its client advisers as part of its internal investigation into ties with world soccer's governing body FIFA, the bank said on Tuesday. The employee left soon after several soccer officials were arrested in Zurich last May, a source familiar with the matter had said earlier, adding this was the only member of the bank's staff to be dismissed so far in connection with the probe. "I can confirm to you that this employee has been dismissed," spokesman Jan Vonder Muehll said by telephone, adding that the employee was dismissed in summer 2015.
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| Lanka captain Angelo Mathews defends players after coach gets fixing ban | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews defended the team's cricketers on Tuesday after recording a statement before police in connection with a match-fixing scandal that has led to the suspension of a bowling coach. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) handed Anusha Samaranayake a two-month ban on Monday over his relationship with net bowler Gayan Vishwajith, who allegedly approached national team players to under-perform during a test match against West Indies in October. "Sri Lanka Cricket has received several complaints regarding the close acquaintance of Anusha Samaranayake and the main suspect Gayan Vishwajith, who had approached several national players for the alleged illegal activities of match-fixing," the SLC said in a statement.
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| Helsinki police report 15 sexual harassment cases on New Years Eve | | | Finnish police are investigating 15 reported cases of sexual assault of women near Helsinki city centre on New Year's Eve carried out by men of foreign appearance some of whom were likely to be asylum seekers, a police report said on Tuesday. The report, commissioned by the Finnish government, reflects similar events in Germany where more than 600 women in Cologne and other cities filed complaints of sexual molestation on the New Year's weekend, deepening public doubts about Germany's 'open door' policy on refugees and migrants. The Helsinki police report said they had received reports of one rape, two attempted rapes and 12 cases of sexual harassment by several groups of 10-20 men with foreign backgrounds who roamed around the city centre during New Year celebrations. |
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