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| Dead ex-Russian press minister may have been attacked outside hotel -source | | Saturday, March 12, 2016 12:03 AM | |
|  Police are investigating whether former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, who was found dead in a Washington hotel in November, was brutally assaulted before returning to the hotel, a U.S. law enforcement source said on Friday. U.S. authorities said on Thursday that Lesin died of blunt force injuries to the head. State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Friday that U.S. officials had facilitated contact between Washington police and the Russian government. "There is an avenue of direct communication between the police department and the Russian government," he told reporters. Rumours have swirled around the death of the former Putin adviser since he was found dead in his room in the Doyle Washington Hotel, which is also known as the Dupont Circle Hotel, last Nov. 5.
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| Hulk Hogan's side rests after slamming Gawker in sex tape lawsuit | |  By Letitia Stein ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) - Attorneys for wrestling celebrity Hulk Hogan rested their $100 million privacy invasion case against the Gawker news outlet on Friday, wrapping up a lively week of testimony in a Florida lawsuit examining the posting of a sex tape in modern media. Next week, Gawker will call the editor behind the post and other witnesses, that could include founder Nick Denton, at a civil trial in St. Petersburg, Florida, near Hogan's home. Gawker's one-minute, 41-second edited excerpt shows Hogan having consensual sex with the wife of his then best friend, radio "shock jock" personality Bubba the Love Sponge.
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| U.N. adopts resolution on combating sex crimes by peacekeepers | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Friday backed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's recommendations to repatriate peacekeeping units where there are grounds to suspect their personnel have engaged in widespread sexual exploitation and abuse. The United Nations last week reported 99 allegations that U.N. staff took part in sexual exploitation or sexual abuse in 2015.
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| Big audience for panel with Dalai Lama despite Beijing protest | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama took part in a panel of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Geneva on Friday, addressing a full auditorium about Chinese repression in his native Tibet despite Beijing having urged people to shun the event. China wrote this week to diplomats and U.N. officials calling on them not to attend the panel at Geneva's Graduate Institute, saying it opposed the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's appearance at all venues due to his "separatist activities". Some of these (Chinese) hardliners, that part of brain is missing," the crimson-robed Dalai Lama, 80, told the audience of students and diplomats.
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| TV channel defends 'Dog Whisperer' in probe over cruelty to a pig | |  (Reuters) - TV channel Nat Geo WILD on Friday rallied around popular "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan, who is being investigated for animal cruelty, as thousands signed a petition demanding his television show be cancelled. The American Humane Society said it also had received complaints about a February episode of the TV series "Cesar 911" in which Millan uses a pig to train a French bulldog terrier mix called Simon, who had killed two pigs in the past. Nat Geo WILD, a unit of 21st Century Fox , said investigators from Los Angeles County Animal Control had been in touch with Millan after complaints from the public.
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| Myanmar military chooses hardliner to work with Suu Kyi's proxy president | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's military nominated a former junta stalwart who remains on a U.S. sanctions list as its choice for vice president on Friday, pointing to battles ahead for National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her hand-picked president. Myanmar's first democratically elected government for more than 50 years faces a formidable challenge delivering the reform and economic growth demanded by the electorate while working alongside a military that retains much political power. ...
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| Charges, threat of jail cast Brazil's Lula in familiar role - martyr | |  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Criminal charges and a request by prosecutors to jail Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are putting the former Brazilian president and leftist icon back in a role he has long relished: that of the martyr. Last week, after federal police took him into custody briefly for questions about a far-reaching graft probe around Brazil's state-run oil company, Lula said he "felt like a prisoner" and urged leftist organizations, from landless peasants to labour unions, to rally. "I am going to travel this country." For the beleaguered government of President Dilma Rousseff, Lula's successor and protégé, any traction Lula gets could provide relief at a time when it is crippled by impeachment proceedings, an economy that shrunk by 3.8 percent last year and a corruption scandal that is drawing ever closer to her inner circle.
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| Malware suspected in Bangladesh bank heist - officials | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Investigators suspect unknown hackers installed malware in the Bangladesh central bank's computer systems and watched, probably for weeks, for how to go about withdrawing money from its U.S. account, two bank officials briefed on the matter said on Friday. More than a month after hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems and attempted to steal nearly $1 billion from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, cyber security experts are trying to find out how the hackers got in. The hackers appeared to have stolen Bangladesh Bank's credentials for the SWIFT messaging system, which banks around the world use for secure financial communication.
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| 'Big Bang Theory' trumps TV audience for latest Republican debate | |  Some 11.9 million Americans watched Thursday's unusually restrained Republican presidential debate on CNN, the network said on Friday, a sharp drop from the 16.9 million who tuned in last week when the Republican contenders faced off on a much rowdier evening. Thursday's figure marked the second-smallest audience for a Republican presidential encounter since the 2016 campaign debates began in August 2015, according to Nielsen data. The CNN-hosted debate at the University of Miami came just five days before voters in Florida and Ohio will determine whether U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Ohio Governor John Kasich will be able to continue with their increasingly long-shot candidacies for the party's nomination to run in the Nov. 8 general election.
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| Russian accused by U.S. of spy ring role pleads guilty | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Russian citizen whom U.S. authorities accused of posing as a banker while participating in a New York City spy ring that sought to collect economic and other intelligence pleaded guilty to a criminal conspiracy charge on Friday. "I would take certain actions" at the direction of a Russian trade representative, he said. Prosecutors said the representative was also an officer of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service. |
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