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| Brazil's Lula detained in corruption probe; Rousseff objects | |  By Brad Haynes and Anthony Boadle SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. Lula's questioning in police custody was the highest profile development in a two-year-old graft probe centred on the state oil company Petrobras, which has rocked Brazil's political and business establishment and deepened the worst recession in decades in Latin America's biggest economy. The investigation threatens to tarnish the legacy of Brazil's most powerful politician, whose humble roots and anti-poverty programs made him a folk hero, by putting a legal spotlight on how his left-leaning Workers' Party consolidated its position since rising to power 13 years ago.
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| Slovenia parliament passes law to quicken processing of asylum seekers | | | By Marja Novak LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The Slovenian parliament passed legislation late on Friday that is aimed at speeding up the processing of asylum seekers in a country that in recent months has been flooded with migrants on their way to Western Europe. In line with the new law, the government will have to process asylum requests as quickly as possible. "With the new legislative framework the government wants to enable fast and efficient decision making about asylum requests," Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told the parliament. |
| Republican 'Dump Trump' effort struggles to gain traction | |  By Emily Flitter NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - A plan to block Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump struggled to gain traction on Friday as rival candidates rejected it, while Democrats revelled in the chaos they hoped would boost their chances of keeping the White House. The country's top elected Republican, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, said he was not interested in an effort to draft him into the White House race. If that will happen we will have a manifold revolt in this country," Cruz said at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington.
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| Father's dark legacy threatens Fujimori's run for Peru presidency | |  By Mitra Taj HUANCAVELICA, Peru (Reuters) - Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, is the front-runner in this year's election but her links to his authoritarian rule could derail her in a likely run-off vote. Languishing in a prison on the outskirts of the capital Lima, the 77-year-old Alberto Fujimori remains a deeply divisive figure in the Andean nation. Known in Peru simply as Keiko, his 40-year-old daughter is promising to battle rising crime and jump-start Peru's sluggish economy despite a global slump in commodity prices.
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| Foreign policy thinkers praised by Trump have divergent views | |  By Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Americans were looking for clarity on leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's world views, they might have come away disappointed from Thursday night's debate. Asked who he trusts on national security, Trump had warm words for three men with world views that differ from one another, and who diverge sharply on some key issues from Trump himself.
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| Turkish authorities seize newspaper close to cleric Gulen - state media | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish authorities seized control of the country's largest newspaper on Friday in a widening crackdown against supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an influential foe of President Tayyip Erdogan. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse a few thousand supporters who gathered outside Zaman newspaper's offices and chanted, "Free press cannot be silenced." Rights groups and European officials criticised the confiscation of Zaman and its sister publication, the English-language Today's Zaman, which occurred on the eve of a summit between Turkey and the European Union and as concerns mount that the Turkish government is stifling critical media. Erdogan accuses Gulen of conspiring to overthrow the government by building a network of supporters in the judiciary, police and media.
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| Latest Hillary Clinton bio for kids highlights successes and failures | |  As Hillary Clinton sets her sights on becoming the first female president of the United States, the Democratic front-runner has found herself in another role - the subject of children's books. In "Hillary Rodham Clinton: Do All the Good You Can," author Cynthia Levinson charts her rise from her youth in Park Ridge, Illinois, to her work as a U.S. senator and secretary of state. Levinson brought Clinton's story this week to fourth graders at Cold Spring Elementary School in suburban Washington, whom she found were paying close attention to the presidential race.
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| Republican candidate Trump reverses stance on torture | |  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump softened his stance on torture on Friday, saying he would not order the U.S. military to break international laws on how to treat terrorism suspects, as the top U.S. military commander was asked to weigh in on his comments. "I do, however, understand that the United States is bound by laws and treaties and I will not order our military or other officials to violate those laws and will seek their advice on such matters," Trump said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal. It is clear that as president I will be bound by laws just like all Americans and I will meet those responsibilities." In a Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, Trump indicated he might order the U.S. military to break the law on interrogation tactics, including waterboarding.
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| Turkish police fire tear gas, enter Zaman newspaper after seizure order | |  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and used water cannon on a crowd to forcibly enter the country's top-selling newspaper on Friday after a court ordered its confiscation, live web footage showed. Several hundred supporters had gathered outside Zaman newspaper to protest the ruling which state media said was issued following a request by a prosecutor investigating U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. ...
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| Lula arrest in Brazil graft probe raises risk of Rousseff's fall | |  By Anthony Boadle and Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - The implication of Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a graft scandal at state oil firm Petrobras has reignited opposition hopes of unseating his successor Dilma Rousseff and increased the risk she may not finish her term. The federal police's decision to take Lula in for questioning on Friday raised the temperature of Brazil's political crisis on the streets, with demonstrators for and against the ruling Workers' Party clashing outside his home in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. The main opposition party, the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), has asked Congress to impeach Rousseff and said it plans to add accusations made by prosecutors that Rousseff benefited from the Petrobras bribes and political kickbacks.
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| Questions remain after Bobbi Kristina Brown's cause of death revealed | |  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Bobbi Kristina Brown's autopsy shows evidence of recent cocaine use by the daughter of Whitney Houston before she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her home last year, but a medical examiner's office said on Friday it could not establish whether her death after months in a coma was accidental or intentional. Brown, the only child from Houston's marriage to fellow Grammy-award winning singer Bobby Brown, suffered brain damage and died of pneumonia resulting from drug intoxication and her face being immersed in water, the Fulton County Medical Examiner said. The circumstances under which the aspiring 22-year-old singer entered a bathtub in her north Atlanta, Georgia home are unknown, the autopsy report said, leading the medical examiner to classify her manner of death as undetermined.
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| 'Joe the Plumber' praises Trump, cites his 'beautiful women' | |  By Tim Reid HOLLAND, Ohio (Reuters) - "Joe the Plumber," the Ohio workingman who came to symbolize U.S. taxpayer frustration in the 2008 presidential election, is still angry. And like many angry voters, he likes insurgent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump - in part because the New York billionaire dated attractive women. "He's a winner. He's made billions. He's dated beautiful women. His wife is a model. That's not to sniff at. ...
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| U.S. Republican governors steer clear of 'dump-Trump' push | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Republican leaders desperately seek ways to derail the U.S. presidential campaign of billionaire Donald Trump, many of the party's 31 state governors are staying out of the fray. New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez endorsed Marco Rubio on Friday, making her only the 10th governor to back one of the four Republican presidential rivals left in the race. Much more typical is Governor Rick Scott of Florida, who said on Thursday he would not endorse a candidate before his state's hotly contested March 15 primary.
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| Spain's Socialists fail to form government, new talks to start | |  By Angus Berwick and Blanca RodrÃguez MADRID (Reuters) - The leader of Spain's Socialists failed on Friday to win the confidence of parliament to become prime minister, opening a new round of talks between parties who now have just two months to break a 10-week deadlock and avoid a fresh election. In a first for Spain, Pedro Sanchez lost his second investiture vote, securing the support of only 131 members of the 350-strong assembly for his proposed coalition which sets the country on course for its second election in six months. Spain's parties have been in fruitless negotiations to form a government since a December vote when Spaniards weary of austerity and corruption deserted the two traditional parties to vote for newcomers.
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| Frenchman arrives in Dominican Republic for 'air cocaine' trial | |  By Jorge Pineda SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A Frenchman wanted in the Dominican Republic for helping to orchestrate a dramatic speedboat escape of two pilots convicted of cocaine trafficking arrived in the capital early on Friday to face trial in the Caribbean nation. Looking haggard and unshaven, Christophe Naudin was escorted by over 50 officers in a motorcade to be arraigned on Saturday over the Oct. 27, 2015, escape of pilots Jean Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos, who were under loose house arrest at the time. Naudin, 53, a criminologist specializing in aviation security who had admitted in the media that he helped arrange the escape, was hustled into the public prosecutor's office in Santo Domingo past a throng of local and foreign media.
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| Closing arguments begin in Erin Andrews stalker civil trial | |  (Reuters) - Closing arguments began on Friday in sportscaster Erin Andrews' civil trial against a Nashville hotel over a 2008 nude video of her taken by a stalker in an adjoining room at the hotel. Andrews testified for two days at the two-week trial, in which she is seeking $75 million in damages, saying she has experienced depression and spells of crying and sleeplessness since the video went viral in 2009. Andrews' attorney Bruce Broillet asked jurors to find for his client, saying employees at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University violated standards by allowing Michael David Barrett to book a room next door to hers, where he rigged a peephole and videotaped Andrews changing.
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| U.S. calls decision by Turkey to seize newspaper 'troubling' | |  The U.S. State Department on Friday called the decision by Turkish authorities to seize control of the country's largest newspaper "troubling." "We see this as the latest in a series of troubling judicial and law enforcement actions taken by the Turkish government targeting media outlets and others critical of it," State Department spokesman John Kirby told a news briefing. Turkish authorities seized control of the Zaman newspaper on Friday at the request of an Istanbul prosecutor, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, in a widening crackdown against supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, an influential foe of President Tayyip Erdogan.
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| Brazil's Rousseff dismayed at police questioning of Lula | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff expressed her total disagreement with the police questioning of her political mentor and predecessor, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on Friday, calling it unnecessary after his voluntary testimony. Rousseff reiterated in a public statement that the graft probe now focused on the former president should carry on until those responsible are punished, adding that she had guaranteed the independence of the organs investigating corruption. (Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Brad Haynes; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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| No proof of 2006 World Cup vote buying, Beckenbauer under pressure | |  There is no evidence of vote-rigging in the awarding of the 2006 football World Cup to Germany, says a report into the scandal which piled more pressure on former World Cup chief Franz Beckenbauer over a payment to a disgraced ex-FIFA official. "We have no proof of vote buying," Christian Duve of the Freshfields law firm, commissioned by the German Football Association (DFB), told a news conference on Friday. "Although we cannot rule it out completely." He said his firm had not been able to talk to everyone involved, including Sepp Blatter, the former president of world football's governing body FIFA who has been suspended from football over a separate, wide-reaching corruption scandal.
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| Gunmen kill at least 15 in old people's home in Yemen | |  Gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Christian nuns from India, local officials and medical sources said. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says at least 3,081 civilians have been killed in the conflict and 5,733 injured since then.
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