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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. "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 in excerpts released by CNN.
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| Anger as ex-Stanford swimmer freed after three months for sex assault | |  By Jane Lanhee Lee and Cassie Patton 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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| Countdown to third Spanish election begins as Rajoy loses vote | |  By Sonya Dowsett MADRID (Reuters) - Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy failed in a second attempt on Friday to win parliament's backing to form a government, increasing the likelihood that Spain will have to hold another election - its third in a year. After inconclusive elections in December and June, an entrenched stand-off between the parties has left Spain without a government for eight months, posing a threat to the economic recovery and putting a freeze on spending plans. Rajoy, leader of the centre-right People's Party (PP), stumbled at the first attempt to win a second term on Wednesday when he fell six short of the 176 votes needed for an absolute majority in the 350-seat assembly.
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| Gabon security forces oversee tense calm after post-vote riots | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Hundreds of soldiers and police officers were deployed in Gabon's capital Libreville on Friday to restore order after two days of post-election riots that appeared to threaten the half-century grip President Ali Bongo's family has held on power. Violence erupted across the Central African nation on Wednesday with the announcement of a slim victory for Bongo, who was first elected in 2009 on the death of his father Omar, Gabon's president for 42 years. Five people died in the unrest, Bongo's spokesman Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze said on Friday, and up to 1,100 arrests had been made by Thursday, according to the interior minister.
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| Brazil's Supreme Court urged to bar Rousseff from politics | |  Brazil's Supreme Court has been asked to overturn a contentious Senate decision allowing former President Dilma Rousseff to remain politically active following her removal from office in an impeachment trial this week. The Senate voted on Wednesday to oust Rousseff for manipulating the federal budget to hide the real state of Brazil's ailing economy in the run-up to her re-election in 2014. 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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| South Africa says minister not cabinet asked for Gupta accounts inquiry | |  By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's presidency said on Friday that a minister not a cabinet team had asked for a judicial inquiry into why major banks cut ties with a company belonging to the Gupta family, which been accused of holding undue sway over the president. The prominent business family is accused by the opposition of being behind President Jacob Zuma's abrupt sacking of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December, a move that rattled investor confidence and triggered calls for Zuma's resignation. The Guptas have denied using their friendship with Zuma to influence his decisions, including on cabinet appointments, or to advance their business interests.
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| Clinton offers plan to curb 'unjustified' price hikes on life-saving drugs | |  By Amanda Becker and Ransdell Pierson WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton said on Friday that if elected to the White House she would create an oversight panel to protect U.S. consumers from large price hikes on long-available, lifesaving drugs and to import alternative treatments if necessary, adding to her pledges to rein in overall drug prices. Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, would seek to give the panel an "aggressive new set of enforcement tools," including the ability to levy fines and impose penalties on manufacturers when there has been an "unjustified, outlier price increase" on a long-available or generic drug, her campaign said. "Over the past year, we've seen far too many examples of drug companies raising prices excessively for long-standing, life-saving treatments with little or no new innovation or R&D," Clinton said in a statement.
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| Gunmen take over central Mali village - witness | | | "The armed men descended on the town shooting in every direction," Ali Dicko, a resident of Boni, said by telephone, adding they had surrounded a building in which a youth group was meeting. Armed groups have proliferated in Mali since Islamists took advantage of an ethnic Tuareg uprising in 2012 to seize the north of the desert country. Dicko said the gunmen were speaking Bambara, Mali's lingua franca, and Peul. |
| Bangladesh police kill man they believe trained Dhaka cafe attackers | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh police on Friday killed the man they believe trained the militants who attacked a Dhaka cafe on July 1 killing 22 people, a senior police official said. The man, known as Murad, was the head of the military wing of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, Additional Inspector General of Police Mokhlesur Rahman said. Four police officers were wounded when the militant attacked them with machetes, a pistol and grenades, Rahman said.
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| Spain's acting PM Rajoy loses second parliamentary vote of confidence | |  Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy failed on Friday to win the confidence of parliament to serve a second term as prime minister, starting the countdown to a possible third election if a deal can't be brokered in the next two months. As on Wednesday when he lost a first investiture vote, Rajoy secured the backing of only 170 representatives in the 350-strong assembly. Liberal newcomer Ciudadanos voted in favour of Rajoy, as did a small party from the Canary Islands.
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| After huge Venezuela protest march, government says foils coup | |  By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist government said on Friday it thwarted a coup plot this week as opponents planned to build on their biggest protest in more than a decade with further street action demanding a referendum to remove the president. Buoyed by rallies in Caracas on Thursday that drew hundreds of thousands, the opposition coalition is planning more marches on Sept. 7 to demand a plebiscite against President Nicolas Maduro this year. As the Democratic Unity coalition detailed its timetable for future actions, the government convened foreign diplomats on Friday to show how the arrest of several activists and capture of weapons evidenced plans to topple Maduro by force.
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| State Department vetted Bill Clinton's contacts, emails show | |  By Emily Stephenson and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton Foundation on multiple occasions during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state asked senior U.S. government officials to vet her husband's contacts with potentially controversial international figures, according to emails released by the State Department. The emails, reviewed by Reuters, were part of a batch of nearly 400 messages recently released by the State Department after requests from the conservative group Citizens United, a group that has long been critical of the Clintons. The exchanges show a top foreign policy adviser to the foundation sought guidance from the State Department on former President Bill Clinton's interactions with people including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian government officials and business leaders, and Gulnara Karimova, the socialite daughter of Uzbekistan's late president.
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| Lebanon indicts Syrian officers for twin 2013 mosque bombings - state media | |  Lebanon indicted two Syrian intelligence officers on Friday in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripoli in 2013, state media said, the deadliest attack in the city since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990. The two blasts, at the Sunni Muslim Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in the northern Lebanese city, happened within minutes of each other in August 2013 and killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds. A Lebanese military court accused Syrian intelligence officers Muhammad Ali Ali, of the "Palestine Branch", and Nasser Jubaan, of the "Political Security Directorate," of planning and overseeing the attacks, Lebanon's National News Agency said.
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| Blast kills 12 as Philippine president visits hometown | |  By Manolo Serapio Jr and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - An explosion at a packed night market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 12 people on Friday and wounded dozens more, officials said, but the cause of the blast was not immediately clear. The blast tore through a street market outside the high-end Marco Polo hotel, a frequent haunt of Duterte, who was in the southern city of Davao at the time but was not hurt. The first thing we thought was 'it's a bomb'," said John Rhyl Sialmo III, 20, a student at the nearby Ateneo de Davao University.
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| If prosecutor had his way, man in sex assault 'would be in prison' | |  REUTERS - Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen said on Friday that if he had his way the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman would be in prison. "If we had our way, Brock Turner would be in state prison serving a six-year sentence, not going home," Rosen said in a statement following Turner's release on Friday morning after three months in jail. ...
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| Ireland to join Apple in fight against EU tax ruling | |  Ireland's cabinet agreed on Friday to join Apple in appealing against a multi-billion-euro back tax demand that the European Commission has imposed on the iPhone maker, despite misgivings among independents who back the fragile coalition. The Commission's ruling this week that the U.S. tech giant must pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) to Dublin has angered Washington, which accuses the EU of trying to grab tax revenue that should go to the U.S. government. With transatlantic tensions rising, the White House said President Barack Obama would raise the issue of tax avoidance by some multinational corporations at a summit of the G20 leading economies in China this weekend.
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| WIDER IMAGE - Triple murder shakes colony of deaf people in rural Haiti | |  By Andrez Martinez Casares LEVEQUE, Haiti (Reuters) - A triple murder has shaken the village of Leveque in rural Haiti, testing the community and sense of security nurtured by its large population of deaf families who were relocated there after the devastating earthquake six years ago. The murders of three deaf women, Vanessa Previl, Monique Vincent and Jesula Gelin as they tried to get home from the capital Port-au-Prince in March seemed a chilling reminder of the prejudices and superstition that many in the village grew up with, even in their own homes. Built after the earthquake by Mission of Hope, a U.S. religious charity, and housing a high proportion of deaf families among its 615 households, Leveque's modest tin-roofed homes and unpaved streets have become a place of tolerance in an often hostile outside world.
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| Photos show South Sudan rebel leader in apparent good health | | | By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) - Supporters of South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar have released pictures showing him in apparent good health, more than a month after he fled fierce fighting in the capital, Juba, in which he was reported to have been wounded. Hundreds of people were killed in the battles that broke out in the world's youngest nation in July as troops loyal to Machar and President Salva Kiir, his long-time political foe, fought each other using tanks, artillery and helicopters. After withdrawing from the capital, Machar's whereabouts and condition remained unknown for several weeks until the United Nations said it had picked him up in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo with a leg injury. |
| Foreign-owned flower farms attacked in Ethiopia unrest - growers | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least seven foreign-owned flower farms in Ethiopia's Amhara region have been burnt to the ground or partially damaged in political violence afflicting the country over the past two months, producers said on Friday. Anti-government protests over disputed provincial boundaries and allegations of human rights violations have spread in the north-central province, the second region to be riven by turmoil this year alongside Oromiya province in central Ethiopia. In June, Human Rights Watch said security forces killed at least 400 people in Oromiya protesting at government plans to incorporate some parts of the region within the city limits of the capital Addis Ababa. |
| Member of UK armed forces charged with Northern Ireland-related terrorism offences | | | A serving member of the British armed forces was charged with terrorism offences on Friday in connection with Northern Ireland, London's Metropolitan Police said. Ciaran Maxwell, 30, was arrested in Somerset, southwest England, last month. Police said related property searches in Exminster were now complete but those at a wooded area in Devon would continue into next week. |
| EU ministers tone down rhetoric on Turkey but rights concerns persist | |  By Gabriela Baczynska and Sabine Siebold BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers toned down their sometimes harsh views on Turkey as they gathered in Slovakia on Friday, although concerns about a crackdown following a failed coup were still running high. Turkey has accused the EU of being slow and half-hearted in its condemnation of the attempted coup, while hurrying to criticise President Tayyip Erdogan for the ensuing purge of officials from the police and army to journalists and academics. The bloc wants to keep Turkish cooperation in cutting the influx of refugees from conflict zones such as Syria and the souring of relations has triggered worries that Ankara could walk away from the deal.
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| South Africa's cabinet seeks inquiry on banks' treatment of Zuma friends | |  By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The South African cabinet has asked President Jacob Zuma to launch a judicial inquiry into why the country's top banks cut ties with a company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, who have been accused of holding undue political sway over Zuma. The prominent business family is accused by the opposition of being behind Zuma's abrupt sacking of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December, a move that rattled investor confidence and triggered calls for the president's resignation. The Guptas, whose businesses stretch from media to mining, have denied using their friendship with Zuma to influence his decisions, including cabinet appointments, or advance their business interests.
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