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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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| Huge construction crane collapses in Manhattan, kills one | |  At the time, workers were lowering the crane in order to secure it as winds approached 25 miles per hour, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference. An investigation was underway, and the crane operator was being interviewed, de Blasio said. One person was killed in the collapse, David Wiches, a 38-year-old Manhattan resident, police said.
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| WikiLeaks' Assange calls on Sweden, Britain to allow him freedom after U.N. panel report | |  By Costas Pitas and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on Britain and Sweden on Friday to let him freely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a U.N. panel ruled he had been arbitrarily detained and should be awarded compensation. 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 embassy since June 2012 to avoid a rape investigation in Sweden. Both Britain and Sweden denied that Assange was being deprived of freedom, noting he had entered the embassy voluntarily.
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| 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. |
| Germany investigates link between Berlin arrests and Paris attacks - police | |  German police said on Friday they were investigating whether two men arrested a day earlier over suspicions they were preparing attacks in Berlin were linked to attacks in Paris last year. "We are investigating whether there is a link to the Paris attacks," police spokesman Stefan Redlich said. Police and special forces on Thursday raided four flats and two offices in Berlin and properties in the northern regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, arresting two Algerian men.
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| U.N. rights boss urges abortion right upheld in Zika outbreak | |  The top U.N. human rights official called on Friday for countries with the Zika virus to make available sexual and reproductive health counselling to women and uphold their right to terminate pregnancies. "Laws and policies that restrict her access to these services must be urgently reviewed in line with human rights obligations in order to ensure the right to health for all in practice," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement.
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| U.N. police base in Mali's Timbuktu retaken from Islamist militants | |  By Adama Diarra and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian troops backed by U.N. helicopters stormed a U.N. police base in the city of Timbuktu and recaptured it from suspected Islamist militants who had seized it hours before on Friday, the United Nations said. Malian Defence Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly told reporters that an army commander was killed in the rescue operation as well as three of the attackers, whom he called terrorists but did not identify. The incident followed a series of bold attacks by al Qaeda militants in West Africa, including a hotel siege in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou last month in which 30 people including many foreigners were killed.
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| Accused "flash crash" trader Navinder Sarao's actions not a crime in UK, court hears | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A London-based trader, accused by the U.S. of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash", should not be extradited because the offences he is accused of are not crimes in Britain, his lawyers said on Friday. Navinder Sarao also had only a "gossamer thin" link to the 2010 market plunge, his lawyer Joel Smith told London's Westminster Magistrates Court. "Anybody who knows anything seems to be saying (it's) nothing to do with Mr Sarao," Smith said.
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| Time to free Assange, Ecuador says after U.N. panel decision | |  CARACAS (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must be allowed to go free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London following a U.N. panel ruling calling for that on Friday, the South American country's Foreign Minister said. "What more do they want to be accused of before they start to rectify their error?" Ricardo Patino told regional broadcaster Telesur, in reference to Britain and Sweden. Assange, a computer hacker who enraged the United States bypublishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. ...
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| U.N. says its police base in Mali's Timbuktu retaken from attackers | | | BAMAKO (Reuters) - The U.N. mission to Mali said on Friday that Malian forces backed by U.N. helicopters had retaken a police base in Timbuktu from unknown assailants who had captured it early in the morning. "It's over now," said spokesman Olivier Salgado, without saying whether there had been casualties. "They are now inspecting the site and looking for explosive devices," he added. (Writing by Emma Farge; Editing by Kevin Liffey) |
| German far-right's language is close to that of Nazis, Gabriel says | |  Germany's far-right, led by the rising anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is using language similar to that deployed by Hitler's Nazis, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday. Support for the AfD has jumped amid deepening public unease over Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy for refugees from Syria and elsewhere after some 1.1 million migrants came to Germany last year. Concern over the refugee influx has hurt support for Merkel and fuelled the AfD's rise.
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| WikiLeaks Assange speaks to reporters via video conference from Ecuador's embassy | |  LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to reporters on Friday via a video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London after a U.N. panel ruled that he should be allowed to go free and be awarded compensation. "We have today a really significant victory that has brought a smile to my face," Assange said. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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| French PM defends emergency rule, says terror threat "here to last" | |  By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of house searches since November's Islamist attacks in Paris have helped foil another terrorist plot, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday as his government sought to extend emergency rule. Valls, defending state of emergency rules that have allowed police conduct thousands of house searches in just a few months, also said over 2,000 French residents were believed to be involved with jihadi networks based in Syria and Iraq.
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