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| Trump picks loyalists for economic posts, Obamacare critic for cabinet | | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:56 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday chose a former Goldman Sachs banker and a billionaire investor to steer economic policy in his administration and a fierce Obamacare critic to dismantle President Barack Obama's signature healthcare program. Trump, a Republican, is expected to name Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier, as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post. Mnuchin, who spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs before leaving in 2002 to launch a hedge fund, served as Trump's campaign finance chairman.
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| Trump flag-burning tweet leads activists to burn some flags in New York | | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 2:52 AM | |
|  By Shannon Stapleton NEW YORK (Reuters) - A small group of hard-left activists burned foot-long U.S. flags outside the Trump International Hotel in New York on Tuesday, in an angry response to a tweet by President-elect Donald Trump that flag-burners should face legal consequences. Social media was itself ablaze on Tuesday in response to Trump's tweet, which suggested that burning the U.S. flag should be punishable by a year in jail or a revocation of citizenship. Trump's provocative tweets on flag-burning and other topics, including efforts to recount the Nov. 8 presidential vote, came as the Republican worked to fill his Cabinet in advance of his inauguration in January.
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| Nevada man pleads guilty to conspiracy for attacks in India | | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:01 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - A Nevada man who prosecutors say conspired to provide materials and support to co-conspirators to carry out terrorist attacks in India aimed at creating an independent Sikh state pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges. Balwinder Singh, 42, made the plea in U.S. District Court in Reno as part of an agreement with prosecutors, the Department of Justice said in a written statement. According to prosecutors Singh, also known as Jhaji, Happy Possi and Baljit, plotted terrorist attacks in India with several other people as part of a movement to create a Sikh state in the Punjab region. |
| Ohio State attacker may have self-radicalised, officials say | | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 12:32 AM | |
|  By Mark Hosenball and Kim Palmer WASHINGTON/COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A Somali immigrant who injured 11 people at Ohio State University in a vehicle and stabbing attack before he was shot dead may have followed the same path to self-radicalisation as militants in a number of "lone wolf" attacks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 20, was shot dead by a police officer on Monday moments after he ploughed his car into a crowd of pedestrians and then leapt out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife. Investigators were probing the background of Artan, a Muslim who was a lawful permanent resident of the United States and a student at Ohio State.
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| Arabian Sea raids on arms smugglers show Iran-Yemen link - report | | Wednesday, November 30, 2016 12:03 AM | |
| | By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - When Western navies raided three dhows in the Arabian Sea this year, some of the weapons they found matched arms taken from Houthi rebels in Yemen, a report said, suggesting links between Iranian suppliers and the Yemeni war. Two of the dhows, all of which were unregistered and therefore stateless, were manufactured by Al Mansoor, an Iranian shipbuilder whose yard is next to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base, the report said, citing Iranian state records. "Since 2012, Al Mansoor dhows have been involved in multiple cases of trafficking in heroin, cannabis, and more recently, weapons," British-based organisation Conflict Armament Research said in its report on Wednesday. |
| Contenders, picks for key jobs in Trump's administration | | | (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Republican Representative Tom Price of Georgia as his pick to be health and human services secretary and Elaine Chao, a former labor secretary, to head the Transportation Department. The following are people mentioned as contenders for senior roles as the Republican works to form his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, 2017, according to Reuters sources and media reports. See end of list for posts already filled. ... |
| Trump turns to Obamacare critic to overhaul health system | |  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a health policy expert to key appointments on Tuesday to help him repeal and replace President Barack Obama's signature healthcare programme. Republican U.S. Representative Tom Price, an orthopaedic surgeon from Georgia, will be Trump's health and human services secretary, and Seema Verma, the founder of a health policy consulting company, will lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is part of Health and Human Services and oversees government health programs for the poor and the elderly and insurance standards.
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| Hardline Islamists push agenda as blasphemy case ignites Indonesia | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) - When Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama had some of the capital's sprawling slums levelled this spring, Muslim groups including the hardline "Islamic Defenders Front" (FPI) moved in quickly to help some of the city's poorest residents. After a video circulated in October of Purnama, also known as "Ahok", making comments that some Muslims said insulted the Koran, the FPI went into overdrive. It called for his arrest, bombarded its social media pages with fiery messages and rallied some 150,000 protesters to the streets of the capital earlier this month.
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| Callers for dollars - Inside India's scam call centres | |  By Rajendra Jadhav, Euan Rocha and Rahul Bhatia MUMBAI (Reuters) - In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over "tax evasion or tax fraud". In interviews before the U.S. charges were filed, police, suspects and call centre workers in India told Reuters how the scam was run.
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| U.N. warns Myanmar government reputation at stake over Rohingya crisis | |  The reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi's government in Myanmar is at stake amid international concerns over how it is dealing with violence in the country's divided northwest, a senior United Nations official warned on Tuesday. The conflict in Myanmar's Rakhine State has sent hundreds of Rohingya Muslims fleeing across the border to Bangladesh amid allegations of abuses by security forces. The crisis poses a serious challenge to Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi, who swept to power last year on promises of national reconciliation.
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| Violent protests erupt outside Brazil Congress over austerity | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Youths protesting against austerity measures aimed at restoring fiscal discipline in Brazil burned cars and smashed windows of government buildings with rocks on Tuesday as lawmakers debated a 20-year cap on federal spending. The angry outburst pointed to growing social unrest with the government's austerity drive in the midst of Brazil's worst recession since the 1930s, which has left 12 million people out of work. Police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse a crowd they estimated at 10,000 demonstrators, which converged on Congress on the ministry-lined central esplanade of Brasilia.
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| Suspected Islamist who worked for German domestic spy agency arrested | | | A German citizen employed by Germany's domestic intelligence agency has been arrested on accusations that he made Islamist declarations on the internet and revealed internal agency material, the agency said on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) declined to provide details on the man's position at the agency or say when he joined. "There is no evidence to date that there is a concrete danger to the security of the BfV or its employees." "The man is accused of making Islamist statements on the Internet using a false name and of revealing internal agency material in Internet chatrooms," he said. |
| U.S. Senate leader hopes to have several Trump nominees confirmed on Jan. 20 | |  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he hopes to have several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees confirmed on his first day in office on Jan. 20. "In the past, we've been able to confirm a number of an incoming president's Cabinet appointments on day one, and we hope on January 20," McConnell said. "Even though there's a lot going on that day, we hope to be able to vote on and confirm a number of the president's selections for the Cabinet so he can get started," the Kentucky Republican said.
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| Agnelli heir Elkann faces charges in New York over false kidnap claim | |  By Joseph Ax and Agnieszka Flak NEW YORK/MILAN (Reuters) - Lapo Elkann, grandson of late Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli, is facing charges in New York for falsely reporting he had been kidnapped, law enforcement sources said on Tuesday. Elkann apparently concocted the fake kidnapping scheme in an effort to get ransom money after running out of cash during a drug-fuelled partying binge, one law enforcement source said. Elkann's publicist declined to comment.
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