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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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| Wife of U.S. pastor freed by Iran says husband threatened end of marriage | |  The wife of Saeed Abedini, an American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison as part of a prisoner swap, said on Wednesday that her husband had threatened the end of their marriage and she had taken legal action to ensure their children remain in Idaho. Naghmeh Abedini said her husband landed in Boise on Tuesday and already had a "wonderful reunion" with their children Rebekka, 9 and Jacob, 7, but on the same day she also filed a domestic relations case according to a Idaho state judiciary website. In a statement posted on Facebook, she said on Wednesday that the legal filing was made to ensure the couple's children would remain in Idaho.
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| Anti-government groups urge calm in Oregon standoff after occupier killed | |  Anti-U.S. government groups called on supporters to "stand by" on Wednesday after one protester was killed and eight arrested in the month-long occupation of an Oregon wildlife reserve over federal control of land. U.S. authorities tightened security after their standoff with the occupiers turned violent on Tuesday when officers stopped a car carrying occupation leader Ammon Bundy and his group near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Activists said Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher who acted as a spokesman for the group, was killed in that confrontation.
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| U.N. urges more Darfur aid access as fighting displaces 34,000 | |  The United Nations urged Sudan on Wednesday to allow more aid into the western region of Darfur where fighting that broke out two weeks ago has displaced about 34,000 people. About 19,000 civilians have fled into North Darfur and up to 15,000 into Central Darfur, escaping fighting in the mountainous Jebel Marra region that straddles three of Darfur's five states, it said. "While it is encouraging that some humanitarian assistance is being provided, clearly much more is needed," Marta Ruedas, U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said in a statement.
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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. |
| Brazil says beach apartments tied to corruption scheme | | | By Caroline Stauffer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Beach-side apartments in Brazil may have been used as bribes and to launder money for members of the ruling Workers' Party, police and prosecutors said on Wednesday after ordering six arrests and 15 search warrants. In the latest phase of Brazil's largest-ever corruption probe, investigators are looking into whether construction firm OAS SA used apartments in the Solaris complex in Guaruja as bribes in a corruption scheme involving state-run oil firm Petrobras. Dozens of executives and politicians have been arrested or are under investigation on suspicion of overcharging Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the company is formally known, and using part of the proceeds to bribe members of President Dilma Rousseff's ruling coalition. |
| Tunisia says breaks up militant cell linked to Islamic State | | | Tunisian police have broken up a cell recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Libya and Syria, authorities said on Wednesday. Tunisia declared a state of emergency after a suicide bombing killed 12 presidential guards on a bus in the capital Tunis in November. It said those arrested had admitted recruiting for Islamic State in Libya and Syria. |
| Britain could use sanctions to pressure Maldives government | |  Britain could impose sanctions on Maldivian individuals if the Maldives' government fails to take action to free political prisoners, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically elected president, is serving a 13-year sentence on terrorism charges for the alleged abduction of a judge after a rapid trial last March which drew international criticism.
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| FIFA candidate Champagne courts Europe support over Qatar World Cup | |  By Mike Collett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne said that as head of soccer's governing body he would seek to move the 2022 Qatar World Cup from November-December to late European spring - a step that would please European associations by averting disruption of their season. The 57-year-old Frenchman also accused Swiss rival Gianni Infantino, who according to UEFA has the broad support of European nations, of abandoning the region's soccer interests in backing the change in timing of the tournament from traditional mid-year to avoid searing Gulf summer heat. Champagne told Reuters in an interview he did not believe the graft allegations that have pitched FIFA into the worst crisis in its 112-year history meant the organisation itself was corrupt "no matter what some people might like to believe".
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| Russian prosecutor general's office reviewing WADA report - TASS | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Prosecutor General's office is reviewing a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which exposed wide-spread cheating and corruption in Russian athletics, TASS news agency cited Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko as saying on Wednesday. "The prosecutor general's office is reviewing the doping report, as is a group of lawyers," TASS quoted Mutko as saying. "If needed, they are ready to initiate criminal proceedings." (Reporting by Jack Stubbs; Editing by Maria Kiselyova) |
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