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| Five dead, two critically hurt in Canada school shooting - prime minister | |  By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Five people were killed and two critically injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan on Friday and a suspect is in custody, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau did not give a motivation for the shooting in La Loche, about 600 km (375 miles) north of the city of Saskatoon. With five dead, La Loche would be the country's worst school shooting since 14 college students were killed at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.
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| California judge rules Viacom's Redstone may undergo medical exam | | | (Reuters) - A California judge on Friday ruled that Viacom Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone can be examined by a doctor hired by Redstone's ex-girlfriend in a dispute over the media mogul's mental competency. Allan Mayer, a spokesman for lawyers representing ex-girlfriend Manuela Herzer, said the ruling came in a court hearing in Los Angeles. Investors in Viacom are closely following the dispute, which has raised concerns about whether Redstone is capable of continuing as executive chairman of Viacom and CBS Corp , both of which he controls. |
| 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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