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| Missing Van Gogh paintings turn up in Italian mafia country house | |  By Toby Sterling and Steve Scherer AMSTERDAM/ROME (Reuters) - Two stolen Vincent Van Gogh paintings worth millions of euros were found in an Italian country house belonging to an alleged mafia drug smuggler, police said on Friday, 14 years after they disappeared in a daring heist in Amsterdam. Italian investigators displayed the recovered artworks - a sea scene and a church where the painter's father was minister - to reporters in Naples, saying each was worth an estimated 50 million euros ($56 million). "It is a great day for us today to see the works and to know that they are safe and that they are in safe hands," said Axel Ruger, director of Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, who was present when the paintings were shown to reporters.
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| Philippine hitman says tired of running, ready to die | | | By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - A self-confessed Philippine hitman who testified that President Rodrigo Duterte had personally issued assassination orders while a city mayor said on Friday he was sorry for the dozens of people he had killed and was ready die for his sins. Edgar Matobato, 57, told a Sept. 15 Senate hearing investigating Duterte's anti-crime crackdown he had killed more than 50 people while a member of a "death squad" in the southern city of Davao, when Duterte was mayor. Since giving his testimony, Matobato has been living under the protection of a senator, guarded by former soldiers. |
| Bulgaria bans full-face veils in public places | | | Bulgaria's parliament on Friday banned the wearing of face veils in public in a move which supporters said would boost security in the wake of Islamist militant attacks in Europe. The "burqa ban" law, pushed by the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition, echoes similar measures in western European countries such as France, Netherlands and Belgium which have various laws banning the wearing of burqas or niqabs. People who do not follow the ban in Bulgaria face fines of up to 1,500 levs ($860) as well as suspension of social benefits. |
| After Nissan ultimatum, Jaguar Land Rover says Brexit must be fair for all | |  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Jaguar Land Rover will "realign its thinking" on investment after Britain's vote to leave the EU and if Nissan gets a Brexit compensation deal then other automakers would need a level playing field, Britain's biggest carmaker said. Chief Executive Ralf Speth told Reuters on Friday that there had been signs that some customers in Europe, Jaguar Land Rover's biggest market, no longer wanted to buy British cars after the Brexit vote.
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| Dutch government rebukes Russian ambassador over MH17 remarks | |  The Dutch Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's ambassador in The Hague for a diplomatic rebuke on Friday after Moscow made remarks critical of the criminal investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Earlier this week, a team of international investigators presented findings showing that the missile launcher used to shoot down MH17 over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 came from Russia and was returned there afterward - despite Russian denials of involvment in the conflict in Ukraine. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said Russian reactions to the investigation's findings "cast doubt on the integrity, professionalism and independence" of the investigators.
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| Family dispute over money blamed for 19 murders in China village | | | A man killed his parents in a squabble over money in a remote Chinese village before killing 17 neighbours to try to cover his tracks, state media said on Friday, an unusual crime in a country in which such mass killings are extremely rare. Police in the southwestern province of Yunnan, where the crime occurred, have already arrested Yang Qingpei for the murders. The official Xinhua news agency said a police investigation had found that Yang, who normally worked in the provincial capital Kunming, returned to his home village at midday on Wednesday. |
| Mother of Californian man shot by police says he was having breakdown | |  By Dan Whitcomb and Patrick Fallon SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The mother of an unarmed black man shot dead in Southern California this week said on Thursday her son was having a mental breakdown when he was confronted by police and they should have helped him instead of quickly opening fire. Within two minutes of police officers arriving, they had shot Alfred Olango, 38, after he pointed an object at them that turned out to be an electronic cigarette, authorities said. The shooting in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon has sparked protests and calls from activists for a federal investigation.
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| Kyrgyzstan to downgrade OSCE ties after government critic attends conference | | | The government of Kyrgyzstan plans to downgrade the status of local office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the cabinet said on Friday, after the human rights watchdog invited Bishkek's outspoken opponent to a conference. The move follows the cancellation of a cooperation treaty between Kyrgyzstan and the United States for similar reasons: Washington had given a human rights award to a man convicted and imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan. Kadyrzhan Batyrov, a businessman and an ethnic Uzbek community leader, has lived in Sweden since 2011 and has been sentenced in absentia to a prison term at home on charges of being involved in the 2010 ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan in which hundreds died. |
| Britain's child abuse inquiry denies crisis as top lawyer quits | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's beleaguered national inquiry into child sex abuse, one of its largest and most expensive ever undertaken, has denied it is in crisis after its most senior lawyer became the latest figure to quit. Since then it has suffered numerous setbacks and three figures appointed to lead the investigations have stepped down, the latest being New Zealand High Court Judge Lowell Goddard who resigned in August. In the latest blow, Ben Emmerson, the most senior lawyer appointed to help the inquiry, resigned late on Thursday shortly after he had been suspended because of concerns about "aspects" of his leadership. |
| Philippines' Duterte likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill millions of drug users | |  By Karen Lema and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country. Duterte recently insulted President Barack Obama and in a series of remarks he has undermined the previously close relationship between Manila and Washington. In a rambling speech on his arrival in Davao City after a visit to Vietnam, Duterte told reporters that he had been "portrayed to be a cousin of Hitler" by critics.
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| Turkey pulls plug on 20 radio, TV channels in post-coup emergency decree | | | By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has ordered the closure of 20 television and radio stations, including one that airs children's programmes, on charges they spread "terrorist propaganda", adding to fears that emergency rule is being used to stifle the media. President Tayyip Erdogan has said he wants a three-month state of emergency, imposed after a failed coup attempt in July, to be prolonged past October so authorities can eradicate the threat posed by a religious movement blamed for the attempt, as well as Kurdish militants who have waged a 32-year insurgency. The banned channels are owned or operated by Kurds or the Alevi religious minority, according to Hamza Aktan, news editor at IMC TV, a news broadcaster slated for closure. |
| Turkey suspends 1,500 prison personnel and guards in post-coup probe - minister | |  Turkish authorities have suspended 1,500 prison personnel and guards over links with the U.S.-based cleric Turkey accuses of orchestrating the failed July coup, justice minister Bekir Bozdag said. Speaking at an event in the Turkish capital, Bozdag said the prison personnel and guards were temporarily suspended to remove individuals linked to the cleric Fethullah Gulen in Turkish prisons, but could be sacked if concrete links were found.
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| Bomb threat at Malaysia's stock exchange a hoax | | | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A bomb threat which prompted the evacuation of Malaysia's stock exchange on Friday was a hoax, state news agency Bernama reported, quoting police. The police bomb disposal unit had declared the Bursa Malaysia building safe and no suspicious object had been found, it said. Staff were allowed back in the building about three hours after the threat was received. Bursa had said in a statement earlier that it received a bomb threat shortly after noon. Trading resumed as normal after lunch. (Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Nick Macfie) |
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