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| Duterte declares 'state of lawlessness' after Philippine blast kills 14 | | Saturday, September 03, 2016 2:49 AM | |
|  By Karen Lema and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte declared on Saturday a "state of lawlessness" in the country after an explosion in a market killed 14 people in his home city of Davao while he was on a regular weekend visit there. Duterte, who ran Davao for more than two decades as its crime-busting mayor, said the explosion late on Friday outside a high-end hotel intensified what was an "extraordinary time" in the Philippines, and police and military would redouble efforts to crush crime, drugs and insurgency. "I must declare a state of lawless violence in this country, it's not martial law," Duterte told reporters on a Davao street at daybreak.
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| Jessie J beats copyright appeal over smash hit 'Domino' | | Saturday, September 03, 2016 2:44 AM | |
|  British pop singer Jessie J on Friday persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reject a California songwriter's claim that she stole the melody from one of his songs for her 2011 hit "Domino." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Will Loomis did not show that Jessie J, Dr. Luke, Max Martin and other "Domino" writers had access to his 2008 song "Bright Red Chords," and that his copyright was infringed. Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and various affiliates were also defendants. Loomis said he had furnished a copy of his song, recorded in 2009 with his band Loomis and the Lust, to a record executive assigned to "find" and "share" music, and that through her it could have found its way to the "Domino" writers.
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| Gabon's Ping declares himself president after post-poll riots | | Saturday, September 03, 2016 12:11 AM | |
|  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabonese opposition candidate Jean Ping declared himself president on Friday, after a disputed election that triggered two days of post-election riots against President Ali Bongo. Violence erupted across the Central African country on Wednesday following the announcement of a slim victory for Bongo, who was first elected in 2009 after the death of his father Omar, Gabon's president for 42 years. "I am the president," Ping told a news conference after being freed from his headquarters, which had earlier been surrounded by Gabonese security forces.
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| Anger as ex-Stanford swimmer freed after three months for sex assault | |  By Jane Lanhee Lee and Cassie Paton SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman caused uproar was released from jail on Friday after serving half of his time. Controversy over the short sentence for Brock Turner, a one-time U.S. Olympic hopeful, has stoked the intense debate about sexual assault on U.S. college campuses. Turner, 21, left the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose before dawn, three months after being jailed for assault with intent to commit rape, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person.
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| Brazil Supreme Court urged to bar Rousseff from politics | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Major parties in Brazil's governing coalition pressed the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a Senate decision allowing former President Dilma Rousseff to remain politically active after her dismissal in an impeachment trial this week. The Senate voted on Wednesday to remove Rousseff from office for manipulating the federal budget to hide the real state of Brazil's ailing economy in the run-up to her 2014 re-election. In an unexpected separate vote, lawmakers spared the leftist leader from an eight-year ban on running for public office or holding any position in government, as provided for in Brazil's constitution.
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| Clinton tells FBI she could not recall all briefings on preserving documents | |  By Julia Edwards and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, under questioning by federal investigators over whether she had been briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to leave the State Department, said she had suffered a concussion, was working part-time and could not recall every briefing she received. Clinton, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, raised the health scare during her 3-1/2-hour interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department prosecutors on July 2, according to an FBI summary released on Friday.
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| Obama urges China to stop flexing muscles over South China Sea - CNN | |  China needs to be a more responsible power as it gains global influence and avoid flexing its muscles in disputes with smaller countries over issues like the South China Sea, U.S. President Barack Obama told CNN in an interview to be aired on Sunday. Obama, who meets with President Xi Jinping at a G20 summit next week in China, told CNN the United States supports the peaceful rise of China but that Beijing had to recognize that "with increasing power comes increasing responsibilities," according to excerpts released on Friday. "If you sign a treaty that calls for international arbitration around maritime issues, the fact that you're bigger than the Philippines or Vietnam or other countries ... is not a reason for you to go around and flex your muscles," Obama said.
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| Chris Brown's lawyer says police found no gun at pop star's home | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for Chris Brown said on Friday that the pop star cooperated with police after a woman called 911 from his Los Angeles home and that contrary to her claims that he pointed at gun at her, no such weapon was found. Brown, 27, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on Tuesday after the woman, who has not been identified by authorities, called 911 from the home in the early hours that day. Police have declined to elaborate on the woman's accusations against Brown.
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| Turkey wants more U.S. pressure on Syrian Kurdish YPG -deputy PM | | | Turkey wants the United States to put more pressure on Syrian Kurdish fighters to return to the east of the Euphrates River, the deputy prime minister said on Friday, as Ankara seeks to limit the advance of the U.S.-backed rebels in northern Syria. In an interview with Reuters while on a visit to the United States, Numan Kurtulmus also said that Washington had a responsibility to work with its NATO ally Turkey on "all different terrorist threats" - a reference to their stark differences in Syria policy. |
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