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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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| Florida police say officer ambushed in patrol car shooting | | | By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A gunman shot and wounded a Florida police officer who was sitting in a patrol vehicle on Friday in an ambush-style attack, said the Miami Gardens Police Department, which apprehended the suspect. Shortly after 8 a.m. local time, the officer noticed a black BMW sports utility vehicle driving back and forth past him. "The officer was ambushed," Police Chief Antonio Brooklen told reporters. |
| Exclusive - FTC probes Turing over drug prices, Shkreli's lawyer says | |  By Nate Raymond 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 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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| Democrats to demand restructuring mechanism for Puerto Rico - letter | |  (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. senators have drafted a letter to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisting legislation aimed at solving Puerto Rico's debt crisis include a mechanism for the island to restructure debt, according to a draft of the letter seen by Reuters. A democratic Capitol Hill source said the letter was slated to be made public on Tuesday, but added that the timing could change. Congressional Republicans have pushed bills to bring Puerto Rico's finances under federal oversight, while Democrats have said such oversight should be conditioned on allowing the U.S. commonwealth access to a bankruptcy or debt restructuring law.
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| Sarkozy draws presidential election spotlight with book | |  Nicolas Sarkozy said his "frankness" and "free spirit" had led him to make errors during his 2007-2012 term as French president, in a book unveiled on Friday that is key to his bid for re-election in 2017. It was a mistake telling a hostile bystander at a farm fair "Get lost, you jerk", and it was another error to have celebrated his 2007 election win on a French tycoon's yacht, he said in the book headlined "France for life". The mea culpa on his abrasive style and efforts to counter the "President Bling-Bling" nickname he earned after the luxury boat trip address what were seen as key factors in his 2012 election defeat to Socialist Francois Hollande.
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| North Korea detains U.S. student on New Year trip for "hostile act" | | | By James Pearson and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has detained a U.S. university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", it said on Friday. Otto Frederick Warmbier, 21, of the University of Virginia, was in North Korea for a five-day New Year trip and was detained at Pyongyang airport on Jan. 2 ahead of a flight back to China, said Gareth Johnson of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized the visit. According to the North's official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and "was caught committing a hostile act against the state", which it said was "tolerated and manipulated by the U.S. government". |
| Police ban first PEGIDA demonstration in Switzerland | | | Police in Basel have banned the first anti-Islam demonstration by the German-based PEGIDA movement in Switzerland and a counter-rally by left-wing groups, they said on Friday, citing security concerns. It said the "expected participation of several groups prone to violence on both sides, from Switzerland and from abroad, led to this decision". Riot police broke up a PEGIDA-organised march by far-right protesters in the German city of Cologne earlier this month as they demonstrated against Germany's migration policy after asylum seekers were identified as suspects in assaults on women on New Year's Eve. |
| U.S. Vice President Biden chides Turkey over freedom of expression | |  By David Dolan ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday that Turkey, once vaunted by Washington as a model of Islamic democracy, was setting a poor example for the region in intimidating media, curtailing internet freedom and accusing academics of treason. On a two-day visit to the NATO ally, part of the U.S.-led alliance against Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, Biden said the strength of Turkey's democracy had a direct impact on its ties with the United States. Turkey is a vital partner for both Washington and Europe in efforts to combat Islamic State, end Syria's civil war, and curb the flow of migrants and refugees.
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| France's Hollande seeks three-month extension to state of emergency | |  French President Francois Hollande will ask parliament to extend by three months the state of emergency which was declared in the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, according to a statement issued by his office on Friday. "The French President has announced that, given the terrorist threat, the government would present (...) a bill extending the state of emergency for a period of three months," the statement from the French presidency read.
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| Calls to protect sex workers as Mumbai's red-light industry goes underground | |  By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai's commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers' lives are not put at risk. The commercial sex industry in Mumbai, one of the biggest destinations in the country for trafficked women, was once concentrated in decrepit brothels in the Kamathipura and Falkland Road areas in South Mumbai. The move from the traditional red-light district has come as industries including financial services moved north due to soaring real-estate prices but raised fears about protecting sex workers, many of whom are victims of trafficking.
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| Pope defends traditional marriage as Italy debates civil unions | |  By Isla Binnie VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis issued a stern reminder of the Catholic Church's opposition to gay marriage on Friday as a fierce debate raged in Italy ahead of a vote that would give legal recognition to homosexual couples. Next week, the Senate is due to resume debating a bill that would legalise civil partnership for homosexuals as well as for unmarried heterosexual couples. Many opponents say the law is a Trojan horse that would lead to legalising gay marriage.
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| Fearful Mozambicans flee as old foes clash | | | By Joe Brock KAPISE, Malawi (Reuters) - When Mozambican troops hunting opposition fighters attacked his village this week, 10-year-old Wit Messenger turned and ran, leaving behind parents he may never see again. Messenger is among thousands of Mozambicans who have fled across the border to refugee camps in Malawi in the last month, saying Frelimo government forces are burning homes and killing civilians in a campaign against Renamo guerrillas in an escalation of a simmering conflict between old civil war foes. The first Mozambicans arrived in the Malawian village of Kapise in June last year but the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) says the flow of migrants has rapidly increased this month and predicts the number could rise from 3,500 now to 5,000 in coming days, more than it can currently handle. |
| In Spain, left-wing coalition comes closer as king ends talks | |  By Julien Toyer and Blanca RodrÃguez MADRID (Reuters) - Prospects of a left-wing coalition government in Spain came closer on Friday as the Socialists and anti-austerity Podemos agreed to seek a deal to break a two-month political deadlock caused by an inconclusive parliamentary election. Such a combination remains uncertain but, after the leaders of both parties met King Felipe, it appeared far more likely than a centre-right/centre-left coalition proposed by acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who won the Dec. 20 ballot. "Spain can't afford to wait for Rajoy," Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias told a news conference after the meeting.
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| Ivory Coast army chief urged Burkina coup leader to act | |  By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's army chief encouraged a coup leader in neighbouring Burkina Faso during his failed bid to seize power last year, according to a recording of a conversation in the hands of Burkina Faso judicial authorities. The recording's emergence comes after Burkina Faso issued an arrest warrant for Ivory Coast's parliament speaker Guillaume Soro for alleged links to the coup, further straining relations between the two West African neighbours. Burkina Faso authorities issued the warrant against Soro for crimes including complicity in treason last week on the basis of another recorded phone conversation.
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| UEFA rules out presidential election until Platini appeal decided | |  (Reuters) - UEFA will not schedule a presidential election to replace banned Michel Platini until the Frenchman's appeal has been decided, the European soccer body said in a statement on Friday. Platini, who had been strong favourite to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, was banned for eight years from all football activities by the world body's ethics committee last month. "The UEFA Executive Committee decided there will be no UEFA presidential election scheduled until the sports justice appeal bodies, including potentially the Court of Arbitration for Sport, have taken a decision regarding Michel Platini's suspension," UEFA said.
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| Five children hurt in school attack in southeast Turkey blamed on PKK | | | Five children were hurt on Friday when an explosive ripped through a schoolyard in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a region gripped by violence between militants and state security forces for months, security sources said. The sources blamed the attack on the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), saying members tossed a homemade explosive into the yard of the middle school in the Baglar district of Diyarbakir, the region's biggest city. Turkish authorities have been battling PKK militants in cities and towns in the mainly Kurdish southeast since July, after a 2-1/2-year ceasefire collapsed. |
| IMF's Lagarde seeks second term in shadow of court case | |  By Michel Rose and Andrew Callus PARIS/DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Christine Lagarde launched her campaign for a second term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Friday with ringing endorsements from a host of major economies that looked past a court case against her in her native France. The former French finance minister who trained as a lawyer has no obvious challengers and has long been open to serving another five-year term. Britain and France backed her publicly on Thursday.
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| Mexico speeding efforts to ensure 'Chapo' extradited - president | |  The Mexican government is speeding up efforts to extradite notorious drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States after his recapture earlier this month, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday. Guzman was caught in early January after six months on the run following a spectacular prison break through a tunnel in his cell floor, embarrassing Pena Nieto and his government. "The order the Attorney General's office has is to speed up its work to ensure this highly dangerous criminal is extradited as soon as possible," Pena Nieto told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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| Afghanistan arrests Haqqani network members blamed for TV station attack | |  Afghan forces have arrested eight members of the feared Haqqani militant network who they say carried out a suicide attack this week on journalists working for the country's most-watched television channel. The Haqqani network, which mainly operates out of Pakistan's border areas, is blamed for some of the deadliest and most sophisticated attacks on U.S. and Afghan troops in Afghanistan. The National Directorate for Security (NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence agency, said in a statement those arrested were behind the attack that killed seven journalists in Kabul.
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| Belgium charges man with involvement in Paris attacks | | | Belgian prosecutors said on Friday they had charged one of two people detained earlier this week with terrorist offences in connection with the militant attacks in Paris which killed 130 people. The person charged was identified as Zakaria J, born in 1986. |
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