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| UCLA murder-suicide gunman had planned third killing - police | |  By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former University of California, Los Angeles, student shot dead a woman at her home in Minnesota before he drove almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km) to the school and killed one professor but failed to find a third intended victim, police said on Thursday. Mainak Sarkar, 38, had intended to kill a second professor in addition to engineering professor William Klug, 39, at a small office on the campus, police said. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters on Thursday that a search of Sarkar's St. Paul, Minnesota, home turned up a "kill list" that included the name of the woman found dead nearby, as well as the name of the other UCLA professor, who was not harmed.
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| Brazil Congress signals approval of spending ceiling - Meirelles | |  By Alonso Soto and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said on Thursday that Congress has signalled it is willing to approve tough measures to control spending, as Brazil fights to emerge from its worst recession since the 1930s. Meirelles said he is confident a political scandal that cost the jobs of two of Interim President Michel Temer's cabinet ministers will not hinder planned efforts to enact a permanent ceiling for public spending. "This is a key discussion that is not subject to mood swings of the moment," Meirelles told Reuters.
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| Singer Prince died of accidental painkiller overdose - medical examiner | |  By Fiona Ortiz and Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - Music superstar Prince, who was found dead in his home in a Minneapolis suburb in late April, died of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller, the county medical examiner said in a death report on Thursday. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Anoka County, Minnesota, had been investigating the 57-year-old singer's death since he was discovered in an elevator in his home and studio on April 21. "The decedent self-administered fentanyl," the medical examiner's report said, listing cause of death as "fentanyl toxicity" and noting it was accidental.
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| Ex-Tunisia leader's kin disappears ahead of Canada deportation | | | By Ethan Lou TORONTO (Reuters) - The brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has disappeared in Canada ahead of his deportation, but his lawyer says he will continue to challenge the removal order. Belhassen Trabelsi, a wealthy Tunisian businessman, moved to Canada after Ben Ali was ousted in 2011 in a wave of protests against his 23 years of power. Trabelsi was due to be deported on Tuesday and had been challenging that order. |
| 'We want food!', Venezuelans cry at protest near presidency | | | By Efrain Otero and Marco Bello CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation. Hundreds of angry Venezuelans heading for Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas were met by National Guard and police who blocked a major road. President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to address a rally nearby. |
| Court convicts 24 in Gulbarg society massacre case | |  A court convicted 24 Hindus on Thursday of murder and other charges related to an anti-Muslim riot in Gujarat in which dozens of Muslims were killed at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister. A total of 69 Muslims, including a former lawmaker, were killed at a housing society in Ahmedabad in the 2002 riot when a mob set fire to their homes and attacked fleeing families, prosecutors said. "It has taken me 14 years to prove the crime committed against innocent Muslims.
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| Ohio prosecutor reviewing Cincinnati Zoo gorilla case | |  Prosecutors are reviewing a police investigation into the parents of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday, prompting the killing of an endangered gorilla. Cincinnati police have said the child's parents and family were the target of the probe and not the operation or safety of the zoo. The Cincinnati Zoo said on Thursday it has re-evaluated its Gorilla World exhibit and will modify the railing that surrounds it.
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| Chilean ex-soldier faces U.S. trial in death of singer Victor Jara | |  By Gram Slattery SANTIAGO (Reuters) - An army lieutenant under late Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the U.S. human rights group bringing the suit said on Thursday. Jara, also a poet and political activist, inspired generations of artists from U2 to Bruce Springsteen with his lyrical odes to the working class. A communist, he fell afoul of the Chilean government when leftist president Salvador Allende was overthrown by right-wing Pinochet in a bloody 1973 military coup.
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| Germany triggers Turkish outcry with Armenian genocide vote | |  By Madeline Chambers and Tulay Karadeniz BERLIN/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey recalled its ambassador to Germany on Thursday in protest against a parliament resolution declaring the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide at a time when Europe is looking for Ankara's help in the migrant crisis. Turkey rejects the idea that the killings of Christian Armenians during World War One amounted to a genocide.
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| Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's "shoot from the hip" style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing once he is formally anointed as the Republican presidential nominee. Eight senior security officials told Reuters they had concerns over briefing Trump, whose brash, unpredictable campaign style has been a feature of his rise as an insurgent candidate. Current and former officials said that the scandal over Hillary Clinton's use of emails also raises concerns about her handling of sensitive information.
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| Philippines' Duterte offers no apology for attacks on media | |  By Neil Jerome Morales DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday offered no apologies for his fierce criticism of the country's media, insisting some journalists were "vultures". On Wednesday, international and local media groups denounced Duterte for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt. About 175 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986.
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| Three Syrians arrested in Germany suspected of planning attack | | | By Noah Barkin and Michelle Martin BERLIN (Reuters) - Three Syrian men with suspected links to Islamic State have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a large-scale attack in the western city of Duesseldorf, the federal prosecutor said on Thursday. The plot was uncovered because a fourth Syrian man, identified as Saleh A., voluntarily turned himself in to authorities in Paris on Feb. 1 and confessed to the plot. Saleh A. remains in custody in France and Germany is seeking his extradition, the prosecutor said. |
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