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| U.S. justices drill down on Venezuela oil rig dispute | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared wary about the foreign policy implications of making it too easy for foreign governments to be sued in U.S. courts as they considered a lawsuit by an Oklahoma-based oil drilling company that claims Venezuela unlawfully seized 11 drilling rigs six years ago. The eight justices heard an hour-long argument in Venezuela's appeal of a lower court ruling that allowed one of the claims brought by Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company against the South American nation to proceed. The company sued both the Venezuelan government and state-owned oil companies under a U.S. law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, claiming among other things that the property seizure violated international law. |
| Watford chairman Riva resigns | | | Raffaele Riva resigned on Wednesday as chairman of Watford, the Premier League club being investigated over allegations of falsified financial information before the current owner completed his takeover. Riva said in a statement on the Italian-owned club's website (www.watfordfc.com) that he had stepped down to focus on his other business interests. "I fully refute, and will protect vigorously my integrity against, any recent speculation," added Riva. |
| Mississippi church burned, vandalized with 'Vote Trump' | |  By Therese Apel JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - A black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump" and authorities said on Wednesday they were probing the incident as a hate crime committed one week before the U.S. presidential election. "We're investigating this as a hate crime," Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson told a news conference. "It tries to push your beliefs on someone else, and this is a predominantly black church and no one has a right to try to influence the way someone votes in this election." Black churches in the U.S. South have long been a base of support for the Democratic Party.
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| Mosul under Islamic State: hardship, terror and swift 'justice' | |  By Michael Georgy AL-KHAZER, Iraq (Reuters) - Whenever members of Islamic State's Mosul vice squad find a woman without gloves, they pull out a pair of pliers. What follows is just one of a wide range of punishments that the group - known in Arabic by its enemies as Daesh - metes out in its northern Iraqi stronghold. Firdos managed to escape such treatment herself, but she told Reuters that Islamic State has more ways of enforcing one of the many rules of its moral code - that women must not show their bare hands in public.
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| Argentina looks to tame Peronist opposition with election reform | | | By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's government has introduced a voting reform bill that could hurt the Peronist opposition in a mid-term election next year that will determine the legislative strength that President Mauricio Macri will have in the final two years of his term. Since his 2015 election, Macri has lowered energy subsidies, cut grains export taxes and ditched trade and currency controls. The October 2017 mid-term election will decide whether he can get the rest of his free-market programme through Congress. |
| Finland considers ban on coal-fired power stations by 2030 - Rehn | | | By Tuomas Forsell HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish government is considering banning all coal-fired power stations by 2030 to help meet emission reduction goals, Minister of Economic Affairs Olli Rehn said on Wednesday. "Finland is well positioned to be among the first countries in the world to enact a law to ban coal ... This will be my proposal," Rehn told Reuters. "Giving up coal is the only way to reach international climate goals," Rehn said, adding that the move would also reinforce Finland's image as a "clean tech" country. |
| Obama on FBI: 'We don't operate on innuendo,' leaks | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama defended Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday and criticized the FBI announcement of new emails linked to her private server, saying there was no room for innuendo in the investigative process. In his first comment since the FBI reported a new cache of emails possibly related to Clinton, Obama said in a radio interview he did not want to meddle in the process. The FBI said on Friday it had found new emails that might pertain to Clinton's use of a private server for government business while she was Obama's first secretary of state from 2009-13.
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| South Africa watchdog calls for probe on influence peddling in Zuma's govt | |  By TJ Strydom and Mfuneko Toyana PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's anti-graft watchdog called for a judge to investigate allegations of influence peddling in President Jacob Zuma's government, in a report released on Wednesday as thousands of protesters called for the president to step down. The 355-page report, titled "State of Capture", stopped short of reaching conclusive findings, but is likely to add to pressure on Zuma by demanding a full inquiry within 30 days into the biggest crisis of his scandal-plagued presidency. Police fired stun grenades and used water cannon to disperse demonstrators who had marched to the Union Buildings, where Zuma's offices are located.
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| Vietnam police arrest anti-government blogger | | | Vietnamese police on Wednesday detained a prominent blogger for distributing anti-state information, the latest in a crackdown on critics of the country's Communist rulers. Ho Van Hai, 52, was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City and accused of "spreading information and documents on the internet that are against the government of the Social Republic of Vietnam", according to a statement by Ho Chi Minh City police on their website. Despite sweeping reforms to its economy and increasing openness toward social change, including gay, lesbian and transgender rights, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and zero tolerance for criticism. |
| Gunman suspected of killing two Iowa police officers acted alone | |  By Scott Morgan DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Two Iowa police officers were shot and killed on Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars in what police called unprovoked ambushes, and a 46-year-old suspect who investigators believe acted alone was captured hours later, officials said. The suspect, Scott Michael Greene, was taken into custody in the killings in the Iowa capital Des Moines and its affluent suburb Urbandale, police said. Greene, who has not yet been charged, had a recent run-in with local police after waving a Confederate battle flag, a racially charged symbol, in the crowd while the national anthem was played at the start of a high school football game, Urbandale Police Chief Ross McCarty said.
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| Cosby renews effort to toss sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby on Wednesday renewed his attempt to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out, with the comedian's lawyers arguing in a Pennsylvania court that an 11-year gap between the incident and Cosby's arrest had violated his rights. The argument was made during a two-day hearing to determine the scope of evidence prosecutors can introduce at Cosby's trial next June, including whether they can call as witnesses more than a dozen other women who have accused him of sexual assault. Cosby, 79, who once enjoyed immense popularity as a family-friendly entertainer, is facing assault allegations going back decades from about 60 women, many of whom say he provided them with alcohol and pills before attacking them.
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| 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
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