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| Family of slain Oregon protester challenges FBI account of his death | | Saturday, January 30, 2016 2:24 AM | |
|  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - As four armed anti-government protesters held their ground at a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon on Friday, the family of a protester killed by police said he seemed to have been shot in the back with his hands up, although authorities said he was reaching for a gun. Relatives of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, 54, a spokesman for the group that seized buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, said he posed no threat and they were not accepting the authorities' assertion that he was armed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released video on Thursday of state police fatally shooting Finicum, and contended it showed him making a move for a gun in his coat pocket.
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| Rights group sues for details of U.S. counter terrorism effort | | Saturday, January 30, 2016 12:29 AM | |
| | By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A civil liberties group said on Friday it has sued the U.S. government for more information about a federal programme that tries to enlist Americans in helping to identify and discourage violent extremism in their communities. The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University said it filed the lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan to force the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to release records about their "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) programme. Spokespeople for Homeland Security and the Justice Department were not immediately available to comment. |
| Oregon occupation organizer Ammon Bundy, brother denied bail | | | Portland, Ore. (Reuters) - Ammon Bundy, organizer of the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge, will remain in custody pending his trial on felony conspiracy charges, a U.S. District Court judge ruled on Friday. U.S. Magistrate Stacie Beckerman said she believed Bundy might attempt to occupy other federal property if she allowed him to be released on bail before his trial on charges of conspiracy to use force, intimidation or threats to impede federal officers from discharging their duties. Bundy's brother, Ryan Bundy, was also ordered held. ... |
| Kerry says can't comment on content of Clinton emails | | | QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said he could not comment on private email chains of his predecessor Hillary Clinton, saying they were being withheld at the request of the U.S. intelligence community. "I can't speak to the specifics of anything with respect to the technicalities, the contents ... because that's not our job," Kerry told a news conference in Canada. "We don't know about it, it's in other hands." (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton Writing by David Ljunggren; Editing by Eric Walsh) |
| FBI says video shows slain Oregon occupier reach for jacket pocket | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - The FBI released a video on Thursday investigators say shows one occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge reach for his jacket pocket before being shot dead by law enforcement, after speeding away from a traffic stop where the group's leader was arrested. Authorities said 54-year-old Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, was armed when he was stopped by police and killed on Tuesday afternoon. The aerial video taken by a law enforcement aircraft showed Finicum speed away from authorities in a white truck and nearly strike a law officer, while trying to evade a police barricade before barreling into a snowbank and exiting the car.
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| Factbox - How EU offer to Britain's Cameron is shaping up | | | (Reuters) - A draft EU reform package to help keep Britain in the European Union could be circulated on Monday following meetings between Prime Minister David Cameron and top EU officials. The following are key points of what Reuters has been told by sources close to the negotiations could be the proposal European Council President Donald Tusk will send to EU governments after talks over dinner with Cameron in London on Sunday: THE FORM Negotiators will work through the weekend to craft a single document laying out legislative and other measures responding to Cameron's November demands for reforms so he campaigns to keep Britain in the EU in a referendum by the end of next year. Depending on how Friday's talks in Brussels with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have gone, and on the Cameron-Tusk meeting, the document could set out in more or less detail a classic EU negotiating text, including blank spaces and alternative wordings in brackets, to be haggled over up to and during a summit chaired by Tusk in Brussels on Feb. 18-19. |
| Slain Oregon occupier's family say seems his killing unjustified | | | (Reuters) - The family of an anti-government protester who was killed by law enforcement agents near an occupied U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon said on Friday it seems his death was unjustified and that he was shot in the back while posing no threat. The relatives of Robert LaVoy Finicum said they were not accepting at face value the FBI's statement that the 54-year-old rancher from Arizona had been armed when he was fatally shot after fleeing from a traffic stop on Tuesday. |
| Diamond League should ban dopers like we do-marathon boss | | | By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - Any athlete convicted of a serious doping offence should be banned from the Diamond League, following the "zero tolerance" approach of the London Marathon, the race's chief executive told Reuters on Friday. City marathons have, like the rest of athletics, been hit hard by doping in recent years. Russian Liliya Shobukhova, who won the London race in 2010 and was runner-up in 2011, has since been banned for doping and turned whistle-blower to help expose the extent of the problem in her country. |
| 'Making a Murderer' shines unwanted spotlight on Wisconsin city | |  By Brendan O'Brien MANITOWOC, Wis. (Reuters) - The television documentary "Making a Murderer," a gripping series about two Wisconsin men convicted of murder, has put this blue-collar city of 35,000 on the map, to the dismay of many residents. The wildly popular Netflix series, spread out over 10 episodes, details the case against Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey. The Netflix series may be a popular success but some residents are tired of hearing about it.
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| Islamic State suicide bomber kills two at checkpoint in Yemen's Aden | | | Two people were killed and five wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Friday, the latest in a spate of deadly attacks by Islamic State militants. Police tried to stop the vehicle but it failed to slow down and blew up at the checkpoint in Aden's central Crater commercial neighbourhood, local officials and witnesses said. Medical sources said there were two dead and that five wounded were taken to the local hospital in Aden. |
| European, U.N. troops accused of sexual abuse in Central African Republic | | | By Stephanie Nebehay and Michelle Nichols GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Twelve more children in the Central African Republic have accused European soldiers and United Nations peacekeepers of sexual abuse, the United Nations said on Friday, with one senior official saying such abuse was "rampant" there. Foreign troops were deployed in Central African Republic after mainly Muslim rebels seized power in the majority Christian country in 2013, provoking reprisals and fuelling religious and inter-communal violence that has killed thousands. European Union troops were there from April 2014 to March 2015. |
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