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| Lebanon dialogue suspended as Christian party pulls out | | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 3:20 AM | |
|  The speaker of the Lebanese parliament on Monday suspended a national dialogue of rival politicians after one of the main Christian parties walked out, deepening the country's political crisis. Speaker Nabih Berri took the decision after the withdrawal of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) which criticised the dialogue as pointless and condemned what it called contraventions of a national pact on sectarian power-sharing among the Lebanese. "There is no benefit from the dialogue and its continuation, therefore we announced this position in cabinet, and we announced it now at the dialogue table," FPM leader Gebran Bassil said in a statement reported by the National News Agency.
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| Brazil police ready formal accusation in Irish ticket scandal | | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 3:05 AM | |
|  Brazilian police said on Monday they have "overwhelming" proof the former head of the Olympic Council of Ireland led an illegal ticketing ring at the Rio Games and are preparing to make a formal accusation later in the week. Patrick Hickey will be accused, along with Kevin Mallon, a director of international sports hospitality company THG Sports, with scalping, ambush marketing and criminal association, said Rio de Janeiro police chief Ricardo Barbosa.
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| Sweden fires board of institution handing out medicine Nobel after scandal | | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 3:05 AM | |
| | The Swedish government has dismissed the board of the Karolinska Institute after an investigation showed it was negligent when hiring surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and letting him operate on patients. The hiring of Italian surgeon Macchiarini had already led to the resignation of the secretary of the Nobel Committee at the Institute as well as the then chancellor in February and to the Institute chairman last week. Macchiarini was fired in March when Karolinska said he had supplied false information on his resume and was guilty of scientific negligence after two of his patients died. |
| Journalist charged in Venezuela after anti-Maduro protest | | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 3:00 AM | |
| | By Girish Gupta CARACAS (Reuters) - A prominent journalist and lawyer jailed on Venezuela's Margarita island was charged on Monday with money laundering, according to family and a rights group, following his arrest after publicizing a protest against President Nicolas Maduro. The incident came as the opposition has been stepping up its campaign for a referendum to recall Maduro, who says a coup is being planned against him. All those held in Margarita were released after a few hours except Braulio Jatar, 58, who was picked up on Saturday morning on his way to host his regular morning radio show, according to his family. |
| Clinton voices concern about Russian interference in election | | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 2:56 AM | |
|  By Jeff Mason HAMPTON, Ill. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday expressed concern about "credible reports" of Russian interference in the U.S. election and accused Donald Trump of being fixated on dictators including Russia's Vladimir Putin. Taking questions from reporters for more than 20 minutes on her campaign plane, Clinton said both Democrats and Republicans should be concerned about Russia's behavior. "The fact that our intelligence professionals are now studying this and taking it seriously raises some grave questions about potential Russian interference with our electoral process," Clinton said.
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| Attacks in Afghan capital kill at least 24 | | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 2:28 AM | |
|  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - A car bomb hit the centre of Kabul late on Monday, just hours after a Taliban suicide attack near the Defence Ministry killed at least 24 people including a number of senior security officials, and wounded 91 others, officials said. Gunmen who followed the initial attack appeared to have barricaded themselves into a building and security forces blocked off a large area in the city centre. Just a month before a conference in Brussels where international donors are expected to pledge continued financial support to Afghanistan, the attacks highlighted the precarious security climate in the capital.
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| Gunfire kills two at New York Caribbean street party | |  (Corrects to more than 3,400 from more than 34,000 officers patrolled event) By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event, authorities said on Monday. Gunfire erupted in three separate incidents during J'Ouvert, a street party tied to the Caribbean Carnival that draws tens of thousands of revelers in the borough of Brooklyn over the Labor Day Weekend. At the same event last year, two people were killed, including a top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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| Domestic abuse trial in UK soap opera sheds light on needs of real-life victims | | | By Pietro Lombardi LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A fictional domestic abuse trial in the popular British radio soap opera "The Archers" has prompted charities to call for more support for real-life victims of domestic abuse. The plight of character Helen Titchener, standing trial for stabbing her abusive husband Rob, has sparked a fundraising campaign, a social media hashtag and a debate on prison reform. "If Helen had access to specialist domestic abuse support in Ambridge (the fictional village where the character lives) perhaps she would not be on trial now," Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid England said in a statement. |
| Bahrain brings new charges against man believed to be top democracy activist | |  Bahrain prosecutors on Monday filed new charges against a man believed by rights activists to be the Gulf state's most prominent jailed democracy campaigner, Nabeel Rajab, after the New York Times published an op-ed under his byline. The prosecutor of the Gulf state's northern region, Mohammed Salah, said a man had been questioned over a complaint from the cybercrime unit accusing him of "publishing a column in a foreign newspaper in which he deliberately broadcast news, statements and false rumours that undermine the kingdom's prestige and stature". Salah did not identify the man or name the newspaper, but a rights group and a lawyer said the statement clearly referred to Rajab, who had been in jail since June on charges related to anti-government tweets published last year, including one accusing the security forces of torturing detainees.
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| G20 promises to coordinate on economy, but little in way of concrete steps | |  By Kevin Yao and Michael Martina HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's top economies broadly agreed at a summit in China on Monday to coordinate macroeconomic policies, but few concrete proposals emerged to meet growing challenges to globalisation and free trade. At the two-day gathering in the scenic Chinese city of Hangzhou, the world's most powerful leaders also agreed to oppose protectionism, with Chinese President Xi Jinping urging major economies to drive growth through innovation, not just fiscal and monetary measures. "We will support multilateral trade mechanisms and oppose protectionism to reverse declines in global trade." Discussions at the meeting were distracted by North Korea test-firing three medium-range ballistic missiles in a defiant reminder of the risks to global security.
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| British lawmakers debate petition demanding second Brexit referendum | |  British lawmakers on Monday debated a petition signed by more than 4.1 million people that demands a second referendum on European Union membership. Britain's government has ruled out a second referendum and says that it is preparing to trigger the formal divorce proceedings that would eventually take Britain out of the club it joined in 1973. In the days following the referendum result, millions of people signed the petition calling for a second vote on membership.
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| Tata applies to set aside DoCoMo court order on asset claims | |  By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tata Sons Ltd said on Monday it had made an application to set aside an order obtained by NTT DoCoMo from a London court that would allow the Japanese company to lay claim to Tata's overseas assets to settle a dispute over Tata Teleservices. In June, London's Commercial Court ordered Tata to pay $1.17 billion to DoCoMo to settle the dispute. Tata has said it is willing to pay DoCoMo and has already deposited the money with the High Court of Delhi, but India's central bank has refused to allow the payment as it would contravene domestic regulations.
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| Obama throws planned meeting with Philippines leader into doubt | |  By Roberta Rampton and Manuel Mogato HANGZHOU, China/VIENTIANE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he was considering whether or not to meet his Filipino counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, as planned, amid alarm over the latter's campaign against illegal drugs in which thousands of people have died. Earlier in the day, the plain-talking Duterte had told reporters he would swear at Obama if he tried to question him about extrajudicial killings, using a Filipino phrase for "son of a bitch" to describe the U.S. president. Speaking at a G20 meeting in China, and before travelling to Laos for a summit where he was due to hold talks with Duterte, Obama said he had asked his team to find out if "constructive, productive conversations" were possible.
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