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| FBI probes fire and 'Vote Trump' graffiti at Mississippi church | | | (Reuters) - A black church in Greenville, Mississippi, caught fire and was spray-painted with the words "Vote Trump" a week before the U.S. presidential election, police said on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was working with local authorities to probe the blaze at the Hopewell M.B. Church on Tuesday night. "The FBI Jackson Division is aware of the situation in Greenville, and we are working with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to determine if any civil rights crimes were committed," the federal agency said in a statement. |
| Russia asks Czech Republic to extradite Voina artist | |  Russia has asked the Czech Republic to extradite exiled Russian underground artist Oleg Vorotnikov who has been in the country since being detained by police in September, the Czech Justice Ministry said on Wednesday. Vorotnikov, the founder of the art collective Voina who fled Russia five years ago, was detained in Prague after a routine identity check and released the next day but ordered to stay in the country to await a possible extradition request from Moscow. A Czech court will rule on his extradition but Justice Minister Robert Pelikan has the final say.
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| Two Iowa police officers slain in ambushes, suspect caught | |  By Scott Morgan DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Two Iowa police officers were shot dead on Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars in what authorities called separate and unprovoked attacks, and a 46-year-old man suspect was captured hours later, police said. The man, Scott Michael Greene, was taken into custody after police named him as their suspect in the ambushes in Des Moines and a suburb of the Iowa capital, a police spokeswoman in Urbandale, Iowa said.
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| Bill Clinton, Tim Kaine cancel Iowa event after police shooting | | | Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign canceled an event in Iowa on Wednesday with former President Bill Clinton and vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine after the deadly shooting of two police officers. The campaign announced the cancellation of the Des Moines "get out the vote" event after two Iowa police officers were shot dead in separate "ambush-style" killings as they sat in their patrol cars in the Des Moines area. |
| Asian MPs urge probe of reported abuses, envoys visit Myanmar's Rakhine | |  By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Parliamentarians from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) urged Myanmar on Wednesday to probe reports of human rights abuses in Rakhine state as top foreign diplomats set off for the troubled area. Troops have poured into northern Rakhine since militants believed to be Rohingya Muslims attacked border posts on Oct. 9, killing nine police. Residents and human rights advocates have said abuses by government forces included summary executions, rape and setting fire to homes.[nL4N1CR4B2] The government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has denied any abuses have been committed.
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| FIFA chamber recommends lifetime ban for Bin Hammam aide | |  FIFA's investigatory chamber has recommended an aide to former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam be banned for life from all soccer-related activities after completing an investigation into payments made to several soccer officials. The body wants Najeeb Chirakal to be punished for allegedly breaching seven of the scandal-hit soccer body's rules, it said in a statement on Wednesday. The charges included infringements to FIFA's rules on general conduct, duty of disclosure and reporting, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts, bribery and corruption.
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| Forced by tradition to give up inheritance, Indian women embrace property ownership | | | By Rina Chandran CHAKSU, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Days before she was married 18 years ago, K. Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parents and four brothers. There, in a short ceremony witnessed by village elders, she and her sister signed a piece of paper giving up their share of the family property to their brothers. It is widely practised in the Indian state of Rajasthan despite a 2005 national law that gave women equal inheritance rights. |
| South African judge orders graft report released amid anti-Zuma protest | |  By TJ Strydom and Mfuneko Toyana PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African judge ruled on Wednesday that a report over alleged influence peddling in government should be released, after President Jacob Zuma dropped a court bid to delay its publication and thousands marched against him. Police fired stun grenades and used water cannon to disperse demonstrators who had marched to the Union Buildings, the seat of government where Zuma's offices are located in the capital Pretoria. Outside the court deliberating whether to release the report, protesters carried "Zuma must go" placards.
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| German court weighs arguments to ban poem mocking Erdogan | |  By Jan Schwartz HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - A German court weighed up the limits of artistic freedom on Wednesday in considering whether to ban a satirical poem that mocked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and caused a diplomatic spat between Ankara and Berlin. The Hamburg court had issued a preliminary injunction in May banning re-publication of parts of the poem, suggesting the president engaged in bestiality and watched child pornography, which Jan Boehmermann recited on German television in March.
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| Rajasthan to set up first authority to guarantee land titles | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rajasthan is setting up an independent authority to verify and guarantee land titles in its cities, a move seen by experts as speeding up property transactions, freeing up the courts and boosting urbanisation in the state. Its creation comes after the northwestern state passed the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification of Titles) Bill in April - becoming the first state in the country to do so. Under the new law, property owners in urban areas that are governed by municipal or state authorities can ask the new certification authority to verify ownership for a nominal fee. |
| UK PM May says FIFA ban on poppy armbands is "outrageous" | |  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday it was "utterly outrageous" that soccer's governing body FIFA will not allow English and Scottish footballers to wear armbands featuring poppies during their World Cup qualifier on Nov. 11. The Scottish FA said on Tuesday that FIFA had rejected a request by England and Scotland for their players to wear the armbands in commemoration of the armistice that ended World War One. FIFA rules forbid players from wearing poppies as they are perceived as a political statement.
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| Pakistan denies bail to "Afghan Girl" from National Geographic photo | |  By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Wednesday denied bail to Sharbat Gula, who was arrested for illegally living in Pakistan and is best known as the green-eyed Afghan girl who posed for a National Geographic magazine photograph 30 years ago. Gula, now in her 40s, became a symbol of her country's internecine wars when her photo as a young girl with haunted eyes appeared on the cover of National Geographic.
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| Drones the new weapon in India's crackdown on illegal mining | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's mines ministry has told state governments to explore the use of drones to check illegal mining, as officials crackdown on an activity that has led to deforestation and the use of child labour. A satellite-based mining surveillance system was launched last month, and the ministry is now exploring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to curb instances of illegal mining, said a notification dated Nov. 1. Drones can be used to monitor illegal mining activities, check for activity at night and to track illegal truck movements, said Prithul Kumar, a director at the ministry of mines, in the note. |
| Japan to provide $7.73 bln in aid to Myanmar, PM Abe says | |  By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will provide aid worth 800 billion yen ($7.73 billion) to Myanmar over five years to support its peace-building and development efforts, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday. "We hope this aid will help spread the fruit of peace building to various regions in Myanmar, and drive it forward," Abe told a joint news conference in Tokyo with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi is visiting Japan to court investment and aid, as an upsurge in violence against a persecuted Muslim minority at home poses a crisis after six months in power and triggers U.S. criticism.
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| U.N. peacekeepers failed to respond to S.Sudan hotel attack - inquiry | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers failed to respond to an attack on civilians by South Sudanese government troops at the Hotel Terrain in the capital Juba in July, less than a mile from a U.N. compound, a U.N. inquiry found on Tuesday. "During the attack, civilians were subjected to and witnessed gross human rights violations, including murder, intimidation, sexual violence and acts amounting to torture perpetrated by armed government soldiers," the inquiry found. Despite multiple requests by the U.N. mission's joint operations center for peacekeepers to respond to the attack on Hotel Terrain, each "contingent turned down the request, indicating their troops were fully committed." After nearly four hours, South Sudan's National Security Service extracted most of the civilians. |
| Former BlackRock fund manager pleads guilty to insider dealing in UK | |  A former fund manager at the London division of asset manager BlackRock Inc on Wednesday pleaded guilty to two counts of insider dealing in a London court. Mark Lyttleton, 45, admitted buying shares shortly before public announcements about EnCore Oil Plc and Cairn Energy after working on deals or on the basis of conversations with colleagues, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. Lyttleton, who had been charged in September with three counts of insider dealing after being arrested in 2013, dealt through an overseas asset manager trading on behalf of a Panamanian registered company.
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| Saudi prince flogged in court-ordered punishment - newspaper | | | A prince of Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family was given lashes in a prison in Jeddah as a court-ordered punishment, a Saudi newspaper said on Wednesday, less than a month after the kingdom executed another prince for murder. Publication of the prince's flogging, carried out by a policeman on Monday after medical checks to ensure the prince was strong enough to endure the punishment, was unusual. Some Saudi social media users said it showed Islamic law did not differentiate between a prince and ordinary Saudis. |
| Philippines' Duterte rails at U.S. 'monkeys' for halting gun sale | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte chided the United States on Wednesday for halting the planned sale of 26,000 rifles to his country, calling those behind the decision "fools" and "monkeys" and indicating he might turn to Russia and China instead. Duterte's tirades against the former colonial power are routine during his speeches and he said on Wednesday he once believed in Washington, but had since lost respect for what is the Philippines' biggest ally. The U.S. State Department halted the sale of the assault rifles to the Philippine police after U.S. Senator Ben Cardin said he would oppose it, Senate aides told Reuters on Monday.
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| Swiss police arrest imam, four suspects after raid on mosque | | | Swiss authorities have arrested four people on suspicion of inciting violence and crime after a raid on a mosque in the northern city of Winterthur, the Zurich chief prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. According to local media, the An'Nur mosque is suspected of links to radical Islamism and several young men who used to frequent it have reportedly gone to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq. Prosecutors and police also searched the homes of three suspects on Wednesday morning, a statement from the prosecutor's office said, and criminal proceedings have been launched against all four people. |
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