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| Myanmar releases political prisoners before power transfer | | | By Soe Zeya Tun and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 political prisoners on Friday, government officials said, days before democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's party is to form a new government after an election victory in November. The freeing of prisoners by the outgoing administration of President Thein Sein comes after U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Myanmar to free all of its political prisoners during a visit on Monday. "So far, 18 political prisoners were released from Insein Prison. |
| Samarco, Brazil government move closer on $4.8 billion dam-disaster accord | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government and Samarco Mineração SA moved closer to a deal to settle a 20 billion-real ($4.8 billion) lawsuit for damages related to a deadly November dam disaster, Brazil's attorney general said on Thursday. The two sides met in Brasilia on Thursday and talks have "advanced significantly" with the likelihood that the outline of an accord can be completed by early February, Attorney General Luis Inacio Adams told reporters after the meeting. Brazil sued Samarco, a 50-50 joint venture between Brazil's Vale SA and Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd, for 20 billion reais ($4.8 billion) after an iron ore tailings dam burst.
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| Johnson & Johnson stops trials of drug similar to one linked to brain death in France | | | (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has suspended international trials of a drug in the same class as an experimental drug made by Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial, whose tests in France left one person brain dead and five others hospitalized. A spokesman for Johnson & Johnson said in an emailed statement that it voluntarily suspended two mid-stage trials and had not received reports of serious adverse events in its studies of patients with social anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder with anxious distress. Officials in France have said 90 people have taken part in the Bial trial, taking some dosage of the drug aimed at tackling mood and anxiety issues, as well as movement coordination disorders linked to neurological issues. |
| Insight - Wife of U.S. pastor imprisoned in Iran hopes to reunite, rebuild marriage | |  By Ben Klayman BOISE (Reuters) - Naghmeh Abedini is looking forward to reuniting next week with her husband, Saeed, the Iranian-American pastor freed on Saturday after more than three years in an Iranian prison. In an interview at her parent's home in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday, Abedini said that rebuilding their marriage after her husband's imprisonment will take time. Reuters could not independently confirm Abedini's allegations about her husband.
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| Militant attacks in Asia inject new urgency into U.S. bomb training | |  Nearby, a man on a motorbike detonates his suicide vest. The two-week course, taught by experts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is held at least once a year in Thailand. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, raising fears of more violence by the group's supporters across the region.
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| Judge dismisses Pennsylvania woman's lawsuit against Bill Cosby | |  A U.S. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman against Bill Cosby, which contended the comedian smeared her character when he accused her of lying in claiming he had sexually assaulted her in the 1980s. Renita Hill, 48, had claimed she was defamed her when the comedian and his representatives called her a liar and extortionist as he defended himself after she went public in 2014 with allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct. The three statements in question "do not support a claim for defamation as defined by Pennsylvania law," U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab said in his dismissal ruling, court documents showed.
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| Two Americans held in Iran arrive home after prisoner swap | |  By Emily Stephenson ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - A Christian minister and a former U.S. Marine who were released by Iran in a prisoner swap returned to the United States on Thursday after years behind bars in the Islamic Republic. Pastor Saeed Abedini, 35, arrived in North Carolina on Thursday afternoon, a spokesman for a Christian group said. Ex-Marine Amir Hekmati, 32, touched down in a private jet at the airport in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and stepped onto a small red carpet on the tarmac.
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| U.S. congressman from Michigan pushed Iran to free detainee | |  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressman from Michigan said he worked in public and behind the scenes, once meeting privately with Iran's foreign minister, to win the release of an Iranian-American prisoner from his congressional district sentenced to death for spying. Amir Hekmati, 32, a Marine veteran who grew up in the Flint area, was released as part of a swap of American and Iranian prisoners and arrived back in Michigan on Thursday. Hekmati, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Iranian origin, had been detained in August 2011 while visiting family in Iran.
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| Ex-FIFA VP to be freed on bond before U.S. trial on bribery charges | |  A U.S. judge has approved the release pending trial of Alfredo Hawit, a former vice president of world soccer's governing body FIFA and one of more than 40 people and entities charged in an anti-corruption sweep in the sport, his lawyer said on Thursday. Hawit is to be released on a $1 million personal recognizance bond secured by $50,000 cash and real estate, lawyer Justin Weddle said. It was not immediately known when he would be released, but Hawit would be subject to home detention and electronic monitoring, Weddle said.
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| Samarco, Brazil government come closer on $4.8 billion dam-disaster accord | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:42 PM | |
| BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government and Samarco Mineração SA, a joint venture between Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd, are inching closer to a deal to settle a 20 billion-real ($4.8 billion) lawsuit for damages related to a deadly November dam disaster, Brazil's attorney general said on Thursday. The two sides met in Brasilia on Thursday and talks have "advanced significantly" with the likelihood that the outline of an accord can be completed by early February, Luis Inacio Adams, Brazil's attorney general, told reporters after the meeting. ...
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| Former U.S. Marine held in Iran arrives home after swap | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:40 PM | |
| Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, released by Iran in a prisoner swap last weekend, arrived home on Thursday after more than four years in jail in the Islamic Republic where he faced the death sentence at one point. Hekmati 32, touched down in a private jet at the airport in his hometown of Flint, Michigan and stepped on to a small red carpet on the tarmac. Hekmati was arrested while visiting family in Iran in 2011 and accused of being a U.S. spy, a charge his relatives and the United States deny.
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| Iran clerics criticise mass disqualification of candidates - website | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:38 PM | |
|  By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Several Iranian clerics and politicians have strongly criticised the mass disqualification of moderate aspirants to run in parliamentary elections in February, the opposition website Kaleme said on Thursday. Preventing pro-reform hopefuls from entering the race by Iran's hardline watchdog body, the Guardian Council, is expected to deepen political infighting between hardliners and President Hassan Rouhani's allies in Iran. Moderate politicians believe the mass rejections via a vetting process are aimed at helping hardline candidates keep control of the 290-seat parliament, which could hinder political and social reforms promised by Rouhani during his 2013 election campaign.
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| For third time, Colombian drug kingpin pleads guilty in U.S | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:32 PM | |
|  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the third time in 15 months, a Colombian drug kingpin pleaded guilty on Thursday to U.S. charges that he conspired to manufacture and distribute hundreds of tons of cocaine annually that he trafficked throughout the world. The plea in Manhattan federal court clears the way for sentencing Daniel Barrera, who authorities say was one of the most prolific drug traffickers of the last two decades before his capture in Venezuela in 2012 following years in hiding. Barrera, also known as "Loco" (Crazy), was extradited from Colombia in July 2013 to face three indictments filed in federal courts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Miami, and pleaded guilty in 2014 in the New York cases.
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| U.S. tightens visa waiver rules for visitors after Paris attacks | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:25 PM | |
|  The United States on Thursday began implementing restrictions to its Visa Waiver Program under a law passed after last year's Paris attacks that makes it harder for citizens of some countries to visit. Several of the Islamic State attackers who killed 130 people in France held European passports that would have allowed them to easily enter the United States under the former system. Citizens of the 38, mainly European, countries in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP), who were previously able to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa, must now obtain one if they have visited Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria since March 1, 2011.
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| Iraqi minister says 'blackmail' behind kidnapping of US citizens | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:13 PM | |
| | Iraq's defence minister said on Thursday the three Americans who went missing in Baghdad last week had been seized by an "organised gang that carries out abductions for blackmail". In an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Khaled al-Obaidi did not elaborate.The three men are employed by a small company that is doing work for General Dynamics Corp, under a larger contract with the U.S. Army, according to a source familiar with the matter. Iraqi intelligence and U.S. government sources said on Tuesday the three were being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia. |
| NYC Marathon organizers are sued over lottery to enter race | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:56 PM | |
|  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The organizers of the New York City Marathon have been sued by two runners who said the use of a lottery to decide who gets to race in the world's largest marathon is illegal. In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Utah residents Charles Konopa and Matthew Clark said the nonprofit New York Road Runners Inc violated New York's constitution by operating a lottery because only the state itself can run chance-based lotteries.
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| U.S. judge dismisses lawsuit against Bill Cosby by Pennsylvania woman | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:50 PM | |
| A U.S. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman against Bill Cosby, which contended the comedian smeared her character when he accused her of lying in claiming he had sexually assaulted her. Renita Hill, 48, a Pittsburgh resident, in October filed the lawsuit for three separate comments made by Cosby and his representatives after she spoke publicly of alleged sexual misconduct in the 1980s. "The three statements do not support a claim for defamation as defined by Pennsylvania law," U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab said in his dismissal ruling, court documents showed.
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| White House reacts to Palin: 'Domestic violence is not a joke' | | Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:49 PM | |
|  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House pushed back on Thursday against former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's comments on domestic violence, saying the issues she raised on the campaign trail are some the Obama administration takes "quite seriously." Palin's son was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a woman and carrying a gun while intoxicated, police in the family's Alaska hometown said on Tuesday. In a speech she made Wednesday to support leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Palin linked her son's charges to his experience in the U.S. military and blamed the Obama administration for not doing enough to support its veterans. "And it makes me realise more than ever it is now or never for the sake of America's finest that we have a commander in chief who will respect them." White House spokesman Josh Earnest, asked about the comments at a news briefing on Thursday, said the instinct of many people is to "make light" of some of the rhetoric on the campaign trail, particularly from Palin.
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