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| Insight - Plaintiffs' lawyers wary of taking on Flint water scandal | |  The water scandal in Flint, Michigan has many of the ingredients for a mass, class-action lawsuit: danger signs that may have been ignored, many thousands of potential victims, the possibility of lifelong health problems, and the alleged systemic failure of people in charge. What's holding them back, several lawyers said, is not the facts or the victims, but the prospective targets: The State of Michigan, the city of Flint, and officials at various levels of government. Special legal protections make it difficult to hold governments liable for damages, they said.
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| Exclusive - South Sudan needs arms embargo; leaders killing civilians: U.N. panel | | | By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council should place an arms embargo on South Sudan, while the oil-rich country's President Salva Kiir and a rebel leader qualify to be sanctioned over atrocities committed in a two-year civil war, U.N. sanctions monitors said in an annual report. The confidential report by a U.N. panel that monitors the conflict in South Sudan for the Security Council stated that Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar are still completely in charge of their forces and are therefore directly to blame for killing civilians and other actions that warrant sanctions. |
| Merkel opens exhibition of Holocaust art in Berlin | |  German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the biggest exhibition of Holocaust art outside Israel in Berlin on Monday, after pledging to take concerns about rising anti-Semitism seriously. The "Art from the Holocaust" show features 100 works from Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial centre, which were created by Jewish inmates at concentration camps, labour camps and ghettos during the Nazi time.
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| U.S. justices snub conservative lawyers over hefty legal fees | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by conservative lawyers to claim $2 million in legal fees from the government in a case in which they persuaded the justices in 2013 to strike down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act. By declining to hear the case, the court left in place a September ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that turned down the fee request made by the lawyers who represented Shelby County, Alabama. In the United States, each side in a lawsuit pays its own attorneys' fees. |
| U.S. Treasury official calls Russia's Putin corrupt - BBC | |  A U.S. Treasury official said the United States considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt and that it has known this for "many, many years," the BBC reported on Monday. Adam Szubin, acting Treasury secretary for terrorism and financial crimes, said in an interview with BBC Panorama that the Russian president has been amassing secret wealth. Whether that's Russia's energy wealth, whether it's other state contracts, he directs those to whom he believes will serve him and excludes those who don't.
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| Central American group backs Infantino for FIFA president | |  MIAMI (Reuters) - The Central American Football Union (UNCAF), with seven votes in next month's FIFA presidential election, have announced their support for Gianni Infantino. Infantino is currently general secretary of European football body UEFA and one of the frontrunners in the election to replace disgraced fellow-Swiss Sepp Blatter, which will be held on Feb.26. UNCAF is part of the CONCACAF confederation and in a letter provided to Reuters on Monday, the presidents of the seven national federations in the region expressed their support for Infantino. ...
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| Teen charged in Canada school shooting appears in court | |  (Reuters) - The 17-year-old male charged in the shooting deaths of four people in northern Canada appeared briefly in court on Monday and remained in custody, media reported. Police arrested the teen, who cannot be publicly named under Canadian law because he is under 18, on Friday after a shooting at a high school and home in remote La Loche, Saskatchewan, about 600 km (375 miles) northwest of Saskatoon. The youth appeared in provincial court in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, staring at the floor during a brief hearing in which a judge banned publishing the identities of the surviving victims, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. He will next appear in court by video from jail on Feb. 22.
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| University of Oklahoma pledges changes after lab fined for animal mistreatment | | | By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The University of Oklahoma has changed the way it runs a lab that uses live animals after the facility was found to have violated federal regulations for treatment that includes allowing guinea pigs the bleed to death, it said on Monday. The university was fined $19,143 for violating the U.S. Animal Welfare Act by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which cited the lab for violations that occurred in 2014 and 2015, the USDA said in late 2015. The university's Health Sciences Center has implemented comprehensive corrective actions in response to each of the incidents, the school said. |
| Police arrest Bosnian tycoon-turned-politician | |  A Bosnian tycoon and head of a party in the ruling coalition was arrested on Monday on suspicion of obstructing justice, just weeks before the Balkan country is expected formally to apply for European Union membership. Fahrudin Radoncic is a former owner of Bosnia's largest newspaper, Dnevni Avaz, and leader of the co-ruling Union for Better Future (SBB) party. It was unclear what ramifications his arrest might have for the ruling coalition, which is just weeks away from applying for Bosnian membership of the European Union, two decades after the end of a 1992-95 war.
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| Missouri professor who called for 'muscle' against reporter charged | | | A University of Missouri communications professor who called for "some muscle" to get a student journalist to back off during campus protests in November was charged on Monday with misdemeanour assault, prosecutors said. The student journalist, whose video of the incident during anti-racism protests went viral, had filed a complaint against Melissa Click with university police. Click, an assistant professor in the university's communication department, and university officials could not be reached immediately for comment. |
| Court rules in favour of Spain in suit against renewable energy cuts | | | An international arbitrator threw out claims from two investors protesting against Spain's 2010 cuts to renewable energy subsidies, the country's Industry Ministry said on Monday, setting a potential precedent for other lawsuits pending. "Of the claims filed against the Kingdom of Spain, this is the first international arbitration ruling to be resolved in the renewable energy sector under the Energy Charter Treaty," the ministry said in a statement. Charanne BV and Construction Investments SARL, the two investors in a renewable energy plant run by Spanish company Isolux, will have to pay some 1.2 million euros in costs, it added. |
| Florida State settles rape lawsuit involving former football star | | | By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida State University has agreed to pay $950,000 to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of failing to adequately investigate a woman's allegations that she was raped in 2012 by the school's former star quarterback, Jameis Winston. The university said on Monday it was seeking to avoid the expense of ongoing litigation by settling the lawsuit filed by former student Erica Kinsman under Title IX, which requires colleges receiving federal funds to thoroughly investigate all sexual abuse complaints. "Although we regret we will never be able to tell our full story in court, it is apparent that a trial many months from now would have left FSU fighting over the past rather than looking towards its very bright future," university President John Thrasher said in a statement. |
| Tanzania suspends officials over national ID card project | | | Tanzanian President John Magufuli suspended the head of a national electronic identification-card project and four other officials on Monday, opening the way for a corruption investigation into a public procurement process. Magufuli, who took office late last year, has pledged to root out corruption and inefficiency in Tanzania. On Monday, the president said he had suspended the director general of the National Identification Authority (NIDA), Dickson Maimu, and other officials of the authority pending a graft investigation and an audit of the 179.6 billion-shilling (£57.6 million) that NIDA has so far spent on the project. |
| Ex-cop pleads guilty to murdering Oregon woman found in suitcase | | | By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A former Wisconsin police officer accused of killing two women, stuffing their bodies into suitcases and dumping them on a rural road pleaded guilty on Monday to murder in one of the cases, online court records showed. Steven Zelich, 54, entered guilty pleas in Kenosha County Circuit Court to charges of first-degree reckless homicide with use of a dangerous weapon and hiding a corpse. "We know that there is behaviour here that is extremely dangerous and this was the surest way to be sure that Steven Zelich was not going to be able to end anybody else's life," Graveley said. |
| North Carolina's voter ID law goes on trial | | | By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Minority voters in North Carolina will have a harder time casting a ballot this presidential election year if a judge allows a law requiring photo identification at the polls to take effect, challengers of the law said in federal court on Monday. "It's a policy question," lawyer Thomas Farr said. Proponents of the measures say they are intended to prevent voter fraud. |
| Swedish NGO worker released by China - Swedish foreign ministry | | | China has released a Swedish man taken into custody earlier this month suspected of acts detrimental to the country's national security, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Peter Dahlin, 35-year-old co-founder of the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, an organisation that worked with Chinese human rights lawyers, was taken into custody three weeks ago. Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement she had been informed by Chinese authorities that Dahlin had been released and that she welcomed his release. |
| N.Y. police officer on trial for accidental shooting of black man | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Akai Gurley bled to death in a New York stairwell, the police officer who accidentally shot him was upstairs arguing with his partner about whether to call in the incident, prosecutors said at the start of the officer's trial on Monday. New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang is charged with manslaughter for shooting Gurley in a Brooklyn public housing project on Nov. 20, 2014. "Akai Gurley is dead today because he crossed paths with Peter Liang," Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Marc Fliedner told jurors in an impassioned opening statement. |
| Libya's recognised parliament rejects U.N.-backed unity government | | | By Ayman al-Warfalli BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's internationally recognised parliament voted on Monday to reject a unity government proposed under a U.N.-backed plan to resolve the country's political crisis and armed conflict. The rejection was widely expected, but signalled that mediators still face a steep challenge in winning support for a new government. Since 2014, Libya has had two competing parliaments and governments, one based in Tripoli and the other in the east. |
| Former Maldives' president calls for sanctions against government figures | |  Former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed, freed from jail last week to seek medical care in Britain, called on Monday for sanctions against Maldivian government figures as his lawyer warned a militant attack on tourists was highly likely. Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, was jailed for 13 years on terrorism charges last March after a rapid trial that drew international condemnation. In his first comments since being released, he indicated he would not return before that deadline and called on the international community to impose sanctions against those responsible for human rights abuses in the Maldives.
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| U.N. sees six-month Syria talks starting on Friday | |  Talks on ending the war in Syria are expected to start on Friday and take six months, although invitations have still not been sent due to "intense disagreements", the U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told a news conference on Monday. Governance, a constitutional review and future U.N. sponsored elections would also be priorities, he said.
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| Rwandan police kill suspected Islamic State recruiter | | | A Rwandan man who had been accused of recruiting for the Islamic State was shot and killed in the capital Kigali while attempting to escape police custody, police said in a statement on Monday. Muhammad Mugemangango, a deputy imam at Kimironko Mosque in Kigali, was under investigations for encouraging Rwandan youth to join the Islamic State, which is fighting in Iraq and Syria. After news of Mugemangango's death broke, the country's main Muslim association, Rwanda Muslims, said it planned to circulate messages condemning radicalisation to all of Rwanda's mosques. |
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