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| Mississippi church burned, vandalized with 'Vote Trump' | | | (Reuters) - A black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with "Vote Trump," officials said on Wednesday, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was looking into the incident, which comes one week before the U.S. presidential election. No one was injured in the Tuesday evening blaze at Hopewell M.B. Church in Greenville, and the cause of the fire has not been determined, Greenville Fire Chief Ruben Brown Sr. said in a telephone interview. Black churches in the U.S. South have long been a base of support for the Democratic Party. |
| Suspect in ambush killings of two Iowa police officers captured | |  By Scott Morgan DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Two Iowa police officers were shot and killed early on Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars in what authorities called separate and unprovoked ambushes, and a 46-year-old suspect was captured hours later, police said. The man, Scott Michael Greene, was taken into custody in the killings in the Iowa capital Des Moines and its affluent suburb Urbandale, a police spokeswoman said. The shootings represented the latest attacks on police in the United States during a time of intense public debate over race and the criminal justice system in America.
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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. |
| 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. |
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