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| Anti-abortion activists indicted in Texas for Planned Parenthood video | | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 12:52 AM | |
| | By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Two anti-abortion activists behind the filming of videos on fetal tissue procurement by Planned Parenthood were indicted by a Texas grand jury on Monday, while clearing the women's health group of any wrong-doing. The videos released last summer led Texas and other Republican-controlled states to try to halt funding for local Planned Parenthood operations, with Republicans in the U.S. Congress also pushing for a funding cut. The grand jury reviewed the case for more than two months and its decision was a result of a probe launched last year under Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who accused Planned Parenthood of the "gruesome harvesting of baby body parts." "After a lengthy and thorough investigation by the Harris County District Attorney's Office, the Texas Rangers, and the Houston Police Department, a Harris County grand jury took no action Monday against Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast," the Harris County District Attorney's office said in a statement. |
| U.S. judge asked to remove lead lawyers for GM switch plaintiffs | | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 12:52 AM | |
|  By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge was asked on Monday to remove three lawyers from their leadership roles in litigation against General Motors Co over a faulty ignition switch linked to nearly 400 injuries and deaths, after the stunning collapse last week of the first federal test trial over the part. The motion from Lance Cooper, who represents other ignition-switch plaintiffs, said the "poor decisions and mismanagement" of lawyers Robert Hilliard, Steve Berman and Elizabeth Cabraser was hindering resolution of hundreds of lawsuits against the automaker, which recalled 2.6 million vehicles with the defective part in 2014. A series of test trials, known as bellwether trials in legal circles, are often used in large scale litigation to help both sides gauge the collective value of plaintiffs' claims.
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| U.N., El Salvador launch U.S.-backed anti-corruption programme | | Tuesday, January 26, 2016 12:42 AM | |
| | By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The U.N. on Monday announced a U.S.-financed pilot programme to help fight corruption in El Salvador, a Central American country so torn by drugs and gang warfare that it ranks among the most violent in the world. The three-year programme, with an unknown price tag, will support the government of leftist President Salvador Sanchez Ceren but lacks the broad investigative powers of the U.N.-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The CICIG was instrumental in gathering evidence that Guatemalan President Otto Perez was part of a customs racket, leading to his resignation and eventual arrest last year. |
| N.Y. police officer reckless in shooting of black man -prosecutor | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Akai Gurley bled to death in a New York stairwell, the police officer who fired the fatal bullet 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 and other crimes in the Nov. 20, 2014, shooting inside a Brooklyn public housing project. "Akai Gurley is dead today because he crossed paths with Peter Liang," Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Marc Fliedner told jurors in his opening statement. |
| Police appeal to Vietnamese community in hunt for California escapees | | | Police in Southern California appealed to the Vietnamese community on Monday to come forward with any information about three dangerous men who are on the loose after an audacious jailbreak. Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac Duong, 43, slipped away early on Friday after cutting through steel plate and using plumbing tunnels to elude guards before rappelling from a roof at the central men's jail in Orange County. "We know that in some of the local communities, specifically the Vietnamese community, there is fear that exists about these individuals," said Orange County Sheriff's Lt. Dave Sawyer. |
| Top aboriginal chief to Canada's Trudeau - Words are easy, take action | | | By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada's top aboriginal chief wants more action from new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to alleviate crippling poverty and poor living conditions among the country's indigenous community, saying: "Words are easy." Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, the main political group representing the country's aboriginal people, said he would put pressure on Trudeau to deliver on election promises to his community. "It's a travesty that this quality of life persists in this great, rich country called Canada," Bellegarde said in an interview on Monday after a shooting spree in a remote aboriginal town last week. |
| 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 United Nations-backed plan to resolve the country's political crisis and armed conflict. Of 104 members who attended the session in the eastern city of Tobruk, 89 voted against an administration nominated last week, demanding a new proposal within 10 days. Since 2014, Libya has had two competing parliaments and governments, one based in Tripoli and the other in the east. |
| Central American group backs Infantino for FIFA president | |  By Simon Evans 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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| U.S. justices expand ban on mandatory life sentences for juvenile killers | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday expanded its ban on mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole for inmates convicted of murders committed before age 18, saying even those imprisoned years ago should have an opportunity to argue for their release. The court, in a 6-3 ruling, sided with Louisiana inmate Henry Montgomery, who was convicted in the 1963 fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy at age 17 and has spent more than a half century behind bars with an automatic sentence of life without possibility of parole. The court in 2012 had ruled that mandatory life sentences without parole in homicide cases involving juvenile killers violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. |
| 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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| 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. |
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