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| U.S. TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau loses appeal of conviction, sentence | | | (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected former TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau's bid to overturn his conviction and 10-year prison sentence for having exaggerated the content of a weight-loss book he marketed through infomercials. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago rejected Trudeau's claims that there was not enough evidence to convict him, that his jury was instructed improperly, and that his sentence was too long. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by James Dalgleish) |
| Guinea journalist killed in clashes between opposition factions | | | A journalist was shot and killed in Guinea on Friday during clashes between rival factions of the West African nation's main opposition party, witnesses and the government said. El Hadj Mohamed Diallo was killed at the headquarters of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) in the capital Conakry. Violence broke out when Mamadou Oury Bah, a founding member of the UFDG who was excluded from the party earlier in the day, attempted to enter the party headquarters accompanied by his supporters to participate in a leadership meeting. |
| Texas 'affluenza' teen transferred to adult jail, held without bail | |  By Marice Richter FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas teenager who was derided for an "affluenza" defence for killing four people while driving drunk was transferred to an adult jail on Friday from the juvenile centre where he has been held since he was deported from Mexico in late January. Ethan Couch, 18, was in custody in a single cell, for his own protection, at an adult jail in Tarrant County, Sheriff Dee Anderson said. A hearing planned for Feb. 19 will determine if his case will move to the adult system, Anderson said.
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| Australian foreign minister met Assange lawyers, offers consular assistance | | | By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has met with lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and offered consular assistance for the Australian, after a U.N. panel ruled he had been arbitrarily detained for almost four years. Assange, a computer hacker who enraged the United States by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid a rape investigation in Sweden. The Australian citizen called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the embassy, after the ruling in his favour by the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. |
| Jailed Uruguayan reaches plea bargain in FIFA case | | | The former head of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) has agreed to hand over more than $10 million in stocks and property in a deal to reduce his punishment in the FIFA corruption scandal, a prosecutor in the case said Friday. Eugenio Figueredo, a former FIFA vice president, also agreed to cooperate with police in Uruguay, where the 83-year-old is from. Figueredo was arrested in Zurich last May as part of the sweeping investigation into corruption at football's governing body. |
| Haiti protesters stone man to death as political crisis deepens | |  By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti slipped deeper into unrest on Friday as gangs of former soldiers roamed the capital and a mob of protesters beat a man to death with stones, following a botched election that has left no successor for outgoing President Michel Martelly. Reuters witnesses said the crowd attacked an unidentified man wearing military style clothes. The protesters accused him of being a member of a widely unpopular army that was disbanded in 1995. ...
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| Al Qaeda group claims kidnapping of Australians in Burkina Faso | | | The recording by the al Mourabitoun branch of AQIM, released on its official Telegram channel, also said the group had decided to release one of the captives - a woman - unconditionally. "The primary motive behind their kidnapping was an attempt to (gain) release of our captives who sit behind bars and suffer the pain of imprisonment, as well as being deprived of their basic rights," the recording stated. In the recording, AQIM said it was releasing the woman under public pressure and in accordance with what it said was guidance from al Qaeda leaders not to involve women in war. |
| Italian actor dies after live hanging scene goes wrong | | | An Italian actor has been declared brain dead after being strangled on stage when a hanging scene went wrong in the central region of Tuscany, a judicial source said on Friday. The Teatro Lux in Pisa said in a statement it was closing for 10 days because "following the unthinkable tragedy ... we think it right to suspend all our activities, including shows". Raphael Schumacher, a 27-year-old from northern Italy, had been performing a monologue on adolescent existential unhappiness that ended with a scene of simulated suicide by hanging, local media reported. |
| Colombian leader says received assurances of support from Republican U.S. lawmakers | |  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Friday that Republican members of the U.S. Congress had indicated their continuing support for Colombia's effort to achieve peace with leftist rebels and recover from years of civil war. Asked whether Republicans had backed the administration plan, Santos told reporters at the State Department he "did not hear one single voice" doubting the success of the current U.S. aid effort, Plan Colombia, and he had received "expressions of continuing support." He said he did not receive any formal commitments but hoped Congress would support the new proposal.
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| Exclusive - Obama to propose $2.5 billion tax credit for community college investment | |  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose a $2.5 billion tax credit over five years for businesses that invest in programs at local community colleges and hire their graduates, administration officials said on Friday. The proposal, dubbed the Community College Partnership Tax Credit, would require businesses to donate funds for equipment, instruction, or internships related to programs in areas such as healthcare, energy and information technology. Employers that hire students from such programs would get a one-time, $5,000 tax credit per individual brought aboard.
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| Huge construction crane collapses in Manhattan, kills one | |  At the time, workers were lowering the crane to secure it as winds approached 25 miles per hour, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. An investigation was underway and the crane operator was being interviewed, de Blasio said. Manhattan resident David Wichs, 38, was killed in the collapse, police said.
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| Italian student killed in Egypt criticised Cairo govt in articles | |  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - An Italian student found dead by a roadside in Cairo with cigarette burns and other signs of torture on his body had written articles critical of the Egyptian government, according to the Italian newspaper that published them. Il Manifesto, a left-wing newspaper based in Rome, published Giulio Regeni's final article on Friday, written by the 28-year-old graduate student before his Jan. 25 disappearance. The article describes the difficulties faced by independent unions in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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