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| Sudan says defeats Darfur rebel group after two weeks of fighting | |  Sudan's army said it defeated one of the main rebel groups in the Jebel Marra region of war-torn Darfur on Wednesday and now controls the area following two weeks of intense fighting. The army has opened main roads in the region after dealing heavy blows to the SPM Abdelwahed movement, local Darfur officials told Sudanese Media Centre, a website close to the country's security services. SPM Abdelwahed is one of the main rebel groups in Darfur.
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| Saudi strikes on Yemen civilians may be crimes against humanity - U.N. | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Saudi-led coalition fighting in neighbouring Yemen has targeted civilians with air strikes and some of the attacks could be a crimes against humanity, United Nations sanctions monitors said in an annual report to the Security Council. The report by the U.N. panel that monitors the conflict in Yemen for the Security Council, seen by Reuters on Wednesday, sparked calls by rights groups for the United States and Britain to halt sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia that could be used in such attacks. The panel of experts documented 119 coalition sorties "relating to violations of international humanitarian law" and said that "many attacks involved multiple air strikes on multiple civilian objects." The U.N. experts said all parties to the conflict in Yemen were violating international humanitarian law.
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| Accused UK trader likely not a factor in 'flash crash' - paper | |  By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British trader facing extradition to the United States in a trial next week for allegedly helping trigger the 2010 "flash crash" likely had little, if anything, to do with the event, according to a draft of a new academic research paper. Navinder Singh Sarao was arrested by British police on a U.S. extradition warrant in April after being charged with wire fraud, commodities fraud and market manipulation by the U.S. Justice Department. The U.S. authorities accuse him of playing a part in the Wall Street flash crash on May 6, 2010, in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunge more than 1,000 points, temporarily wiping out nearly $1 trillion in market value.
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| Before arrest, U.S. sought Shkreli's communications with lawyer | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Days before Martin Shkreli's arrest for securities fraud, U.S. prosecutors obtained a secret court order ruling that communications between the former pharmaceutical executive and a corporate lawyer also under investigation were not protected by attorney-client privilege. The order by U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York, unsealed on Tuesday, provides a glimpse into how prosecutors built their case against Shkreli during his time as a hedge fund manager and CEO of drug company Retrophin Inc . Shkreli, who until recently was Turing Pharmaceuticals' chief executive, was arrested Dec. 17, along with Retrophin's outside counsel, Evan Greebel.
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| Italy parliament rejects two no-confidence votes against Renzi | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday defeated two no-confidence motions brought by the opposition in parliament, which has accused the government of having a conflict of interest during the rescue of four small banks last year. Renzi's Senate allies easily repulsed the no-confidence motions - brought separately by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the centre-right opposition - that would have prompted the collapse of the government had they been lost. The motions accused Renzi's government of having a conflict of interest because his 35-year-old reform ministerm Maria Elena Boschi, was linked to one of the saved lenders.
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| Authorities urge remaining Oregon occupiers to quit after killing | |  By Peter Henderson BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) - State and federal authorities urged a group of armed men occupying a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon to abandon the protest over land rights on Wednesday, a day after their leader and seven other people were arrested and one man killed. Law enforcement tightened security around the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after occupation leader Ammon Bundy and his group were taken into custody at a traffic stop on Highway 395 in northeast Oregon. Authorities declined to give details of what led to the fatal shooting of one member of Bundy's group, identified by activists as Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers.
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| Italy Senate rejects second of two no-confidence motions against Renzi | | | Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday defeated the second of two no-confidence motions brought by the opposition in parliament which accused the government of having a conflict of interest during the rescue of four small banks last year. The Senate voted 174 to 84 to reject the motion. The votes, brought by two separate opposition groups, would have prompted the collapse of Renzi's government had he lost them. |
| Wife of U.S. pastor freed by Iran files for legal separation | |  The wife of Saeed Abedini, an American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison as part of a prisoner swap, has filed for legal separation from her husband, according to an Idaho state judiciary website. Naghmeh Abedini previously said in a message to supporters that became public last fall that her husband had been abusive and suffered from a pornography addiction. Naghmeh Abedini said on Wednesday that her husband, freed earlier this month, had threatened the end of their marriage.
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| Curfew widened in southeast Turkey, clashes kill 23 | |  By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey while three Turkish soldiers died in a rebel attack, the military said on Wednesday, as authorities widened a curfew in the mainly Kurdish region's largest city, Diyarbakir. Hundreds of locals, including children and the elderly, fled curfew-bound areas of Diyarbakir's Sur district as gunfire and blasts resounded and police helicopters flew overhead, a Reuters witness said. Southeastern Turkey has endured its worst violence in two decades since a 2-1/2-year-old ceasefire between the state and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants collapsed in July, reviving a conflict that has killed 40,000 people since 1984.
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| EU seeks more powers over national car regulations after Volkswagen scandal | |  By Alissa de Carbonnel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union sought sweeping powers over national car regulations on Wednesday, aiming to prevent a repeat of Volkswagen's emissions test cheating scandal and sparking a tough debate as governments and industry resist change. Under the proposed new rules, Brussels would be able to demand spot checks on vehicles, order recalls and impose penalties on carmakers of up to 30,000 euros ($32,600) per vehicle for failure to comply with environmental laws if no fine is being imposed by the member state. The new plans would also authorise individual EU member states to recall cars in violation of regulations but approved by other members of the bloc, encouraging peer review.
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| Turkish prosecutor seeks life without parole for jailed journalists - document | |  By Gulsen Solaker and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish prosecutor is seeking life sentences without parole for two prominent journalists on charges of assisting terrorists, according to a court document seen by Reuters, after they published video footage purporting to show the state intelligence agency helping to send weapons to Syria. Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the secular Cumhuriyet newspaper, and senior editor Erdem Gul were arrested in November in a case that has drawn international condemnation and revived concern about press freedom under President Tayyip Erdogan. Cumhuriyet published photos, videos and a report in May which it said showed intelligence officials transporting arms to Syria in trucks - allegedly to opposition fighters - in 2014.
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| Twenty years on, TV series brings O.J. Simpson case full circle on race | |  When producers began work three years ago on a new TV series about the O.J. Simpson murder trial, they took a chance on whether Americans would still care about a case that captivated the nation 20 years ago. "The People v. O.J. Simpson," a 10-episode drama series starting on the FX network on Feb. 2, sets the 1994 arrest, year-long trial and acquittal of one of America's best-loved sporting heroes firmly in the arena of the nation's still troubled history of race relations. The first image viewers see is TV footage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King.
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| At least 12 killed in suicide blasts in north Nigeria | | | By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls almost two years ago, police and residents said. Boko Haram has been waging a six-year armed campaign in Nigeria's remote north to build an Islamic state. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has been using suicide bombers since the army expelled the group from much of the northern territory it had captured previously. |
| International court to investigate 2008 Georgia-Russia war | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - International Criminal Court judges ordered an investigation of alleged crimes committed during the 2008 Georgian-Russian over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia - the court's first investigation outside Africa. The five-day war saw Russia strengthen its grip over largely pro-Russian South Ossetia, which had effectively been beyond Tbilisi's control since 1990. In a statement on Wednesday, judges said there was reason to believe crimes against humanity, including murder and the driving of Georgians from their homes, had been committed during the conflict, as well as war crimes including attacks on peacekeepers by Russian-backed South Ossetian and by Georgian forces. |
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