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| In blow to Trump, U.S. court denies Republican poll monitor request | |  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a blow to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a U.S. judge on Thursday upheld a Pennsylvania state law that could make it difficult for his supporters to monitor Election Day activity in Democratic-leaning areas. Trump has repeatedly said that the Nov. 8 presidential election may be rigged, and has urged supporters to keep an eye out for signs of voting fraud in Philadelphia and other heavily Democratic areas. Democrats worry that could encourage Trump supporters to harass Hispanics, African-Americans and other minority voters in a state that could determine whether Trump or his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, wins the presidency.
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| UK court says Brexit needs parliament's approval, complicates govt plans | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A British court ruled on Thursday that the government needs parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, potentially delaying Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans. The government said it would appeal against the High Court ruling and Britain's Supreme Court is expected to consider the case early next month. Many investors took the view that lawmakers would now be able to temper the government's policies, making it less likely that the government would opt for a "hard Brexit" -- a scenario in which it prioritises tight controls on immigration over remaining in the European single market.
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| Russian dancer jailed for acid attack returns to Bolshoi for ballet classes | |  A former dancer at Russia's famous Bolshoi Theatre who was jailed for organising an acid attack on his boss has been allowed to attend ballet classes at the theatre, a Bolshoi spokeswoman said on Thursday. The Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko was sentenced in December 2013 to six years in prison over the attack, in which a masked assailant threw sulphuric acid in the face of Sergei Filin, who was then the theatre's artistic director. "The administration of the Bolshoi Theatre decided to meet the request of Pavel Dmitrichenko and to allow him to attend a morning ballet class.
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| South Carolina cop staged scene after shooting black man - prosecutor | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A South Carolina prosecutor accused a white former police officer on Thursday of staging a crime scene where he had just shot dead an unarmed black motorist, by moving a Taser closer to the handcuffed dead body so he could claim the victim had taken the stun gun.Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, 34, is on trial for murder over the shooting death of Walter Scott, 50. Slager shot Scott five times in the back as Scott fled from the 2015 traffic stop for a broken tail light. The shooting, captured on a bystander's cellphone video, intensified a national debate over police use of deadly force against black men.Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson told the jury in opening statements that Scott may have grabbed Slager's Taser as it was pressed against his body during a struggle, but Slager had attempted to make the scene look as if Scott had possession of the weapon as he fled.
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| UK voters would now opt to stay in the EU - BMG poll | |  The British electorate would now vote narrowly to stay in the European Union, according to a BMG poll published on Thursday. The United Kingdom voted 51.9 percent to leave the bloc in a June 23 referendum while 48.1 percent voted to remain. A poll by BMG Research, showed that when asked if the United Kingdom should stay or go, 45 percent opted to remain, 43 opted to leave and 12 percent did not know.
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| Scotland's Sturgeon: court ruling underlines UK govt Brexit confusion | |  By Elisabeth O'Leary EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Political leaders in Scotland and Northern Ireland - which both voted to stay in the EU - said Thursday's legal blow to the British government had exposed the confusion of Prime Minister Theresa May's approach to Brexit. The High Court in London ruled that the government could not trigger the formal start of the two-year leaving process on its own but required prior parliamentary approval. "(The ruling) is hugely significant and underlines the chaos and confusion at the heart of the UK government," Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said.
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| South Africa presents bill to quit global war crimes court | |  South Africa's justice minister presented a bill in parliament on Thursday to repeal the country's membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC) - which the government has said clashes with diplomatic immunity laws. Pretoria last year announced its intention to leave after the ICC criticised it for disregarding an order to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a visit to South Africa. Bashir faces charges of orchestrating genocide and war crimes - charges that he dismisses.
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| Myanmar to resume humanitarian aid to northern Rakhine - diplomats | |  By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar has agreed to allow aid to resume to the troubled north of Rakhine state and permit international observers to monitor whether help is reaching people displaced by violence, diplomats on a mission to the area told reporters on Thursday. The diplomats, including the ambassadors of the United States and Britain and the top United Nations representative to the country, also called for an "independent and credible investigation" into attacks on security forces on Oct. 9 and the army operation launched in their aftermath. The mission spent two days in northern Rakhine, closed to aid workers and observers for more than three weeks, and visited several villages, but were not taken to the scene of some of the most serious allegations of abuses by troops against civilians.
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| South Carolina officer who killed black man went 'too far' - prosecutor | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A South Carolina prosecutor on Thursday told jurors they had been called to bring accountability to a white former patrolman on trial for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist who ran from a traffic stop last year. Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, 34, is standing trial on a murder charge "for his decision to go too far," prosecutor Scarlett Wilson said at the start of her opening statement. Slager shot Walter Scott, 50, in the back five times after he fled from an April 2015 traffic stop for a broken tail light.
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| Turkish academics, students protest against post-coup purges | |  By Humeyra Pamuk and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of academics, students and union members staged a protest on Thursday against a purge of thousands of educational staff since Turkey's attempted military coup in July. Turkey accuses U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the July 15 putsch and has dismissed or suspended more than 110,000 civil servants, academics, judges, police and others over suspected links to the preacher. The crowd chanted "We will win by resisting" in front of Istanbul University as dozens of riot police wearing gas masks looked on.
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| If ruling upheld, Britain to need act of parliament to trigger Brexit - Davis | |  If upheld, a court ruling demanding parliamentary approval to trigger the formal divorce procedure with the EU would require an act of parliament involving both the upper and lower houses, Britain's Brexit minister David Davis said on Thursday. Passing an act of parliament would take more time than a simple resolution, requiring votes in both the House of Commons and House of Lords and potentially delaying the government's plans to invoke Article 50 by the end of March. "The judges have laid out what we can't do and not exactly what we can do, but we're presuming it requires an act of parliament therefore both Commons and Lords," Davis told the BBC.
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| Corrected - Obama says U.S. mulling alternate routes for N. Dakota pipeline | |  (Corrects destination of pipeline in paragraph 10 to Illinois from Gulf Coast refineries in story released on Nov. 2, 2016) By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said the U.S. government is examining ways to reroute an oil pipeline in North Dakota as it addresses concerns raised by Native American tribes protesting against its construction. Obama's comments late on Tuesday to online news site Now This were his first to directly address the escalating clashes between local authorities and protesters over Energy Transfer Partners' $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline project. "My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans.
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| Saudi activist on hunger strike in jail - rights group | | | A Saudi activist has begun a hunger strike after being kept in jail past his release date for an eight-year sentence, a human rights group said on Thursday. Khaled al-Omair had been due to be freed on Oct. 5, after completing a prison term for crimes related to a planned protest against Israeli bombing of Gaza, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement. Another rights group, Amnesty International, reported that he had been tortured and placed in solitary confinement for extended periods while in detention. |
| Violence and political pressure anger Nigeria's Shi'ites | |  By Alexis Akwagyiram KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Blackened walls and piles of rubble are all that is left of the house of a leader of Nigeria's Shi'ite minority after it was burned down by machete-wielding youths in the tense northern city of Kaduna. A wave of attacks on members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Shi'ite sect combined with a security crackdown by the authorities is worsening sectarian rivalries in northern Nigeria, where the army is already fighting Boko Haram, a Sunni militant group that has killed thousands. The violence risks radicalising the sect, creating another problem for President Muhammadu Buhari as he struggles with an insurgency in the Niger Delta oil region, secession calls in the southeast and Nigeria's first recession in more than 20 years.
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| Detectives have not interviewed suspect in Iowa police killings | |  An Iowa man suspected of killing two police officers in separate gun attacks as they sat in their squad cars was still in the hospital on Thursday and has not yet been interviewed by detectives, authorities said. Scott Michael Greene, 46, was arrested after turning himself in to authorities hours after the shootings early on Wednesday in Des Moines and the city's suburb of Urbandale. Des Moines Police Department spokesman Sergeant Paul Parizek said the suspect was being treated for a pre-existing medical condition.
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| Dozens of Afghan civilians, two US service members killed in clashes in north | |  By Sardar Razmal KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Dozens of Afghan civilians were killed on Thursday in air strikes called in when U.S. and local troops came under heavy fire during an operation in the north of the country in which two American service members also died. Afghan officials said there was heavy fighting overnight in the village of Buz Kandahari, about 5 km (3 miles) from the centre of the city of Kunduz, which Afghan Taliban fighters succeeded in entering as recently as last month. Air strikes called in to protect U.S. and Afghan special forces conducting the operation caused heavy casualties.
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| Jacob Zuma, South Africa's $50 billion burden? | |  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - It is the question on the lips of many South Africans: how much is Jacob Zuma's crisis-ridden leadership costing them? When Zuma, whose seven years in office have been marked by scandal and economic stagnation, withdrew a last-ditch court bid this week to block a watchdog report on alleged influence-peddling, the currency jumped 1 percent against the dollar. It gained further when the Pretoria High Court ordered the report by the constitutionally mandated Public Protector to be released by close of business - before retreating again when its contents failed to deliver a killer blow to Zuma.
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| South Africa's Zuma faces no-confidence vote in corruption crisis | |  By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Jacob Zuma faces a no-confidence vote in parliament next week with his presidency mired in crisis, after investigators documented allegations of government corruption and thousands of people took to the streets to demand he resign. The vote was called by the main opposition on Thursday following a report by the country's anti-corruption watchdog calling for a judicial inquiry into allegations of influence-peddling in the ANC government. Police used stun grenades and water cannon to disperse protesters in Pretoria carrying "Zuma must go" placards.
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| Notorious apartheid killer dies in Pretoria hospital | |  South African right-wing politician Clive Derby-Lewis, who tried to trigger a race-war in the dying days of apartheid with the assassination of communist party leader Chris Hani, died on Thursday, his lawyer said. Sentenced to life behind bars for masterminding the 1993 shooting of Hani, Derby-Lewis was freed on medical parole last year after being diagnosed with cancer. The murder of Hani, the charismatic leader of the South African Communist Party (SAPC), triggered nationwide riots and almost derailed the 1994 transition to multi-racial democracy after decades of white-minority apartheid rule.
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| U.S. deputy U.N. envoy to head Clooney Foundation for Justice | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations David Pressman is set to become executive director of the new Clooney Foundation for Justice, set up by George and Amal Clooney, as well as a partner at the Boies, Schiller & Flexner law firm. After some two years as deputy to U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, Pressman said he would leave on Friday and start his new roles on Monday. |
| Swiss attorney general halts Iran talks political espionage case | |  Switzerland's attorney general has halted an investigation into suspected political espionage at a Geneva hotel, which was opened a month after talks on Iran's nuclear plans took place. There was a lack of evidence about the people behind the spying, the Office of the Attorney (OAG, said. It opened criminal proceedings in May 2015 after malware was discovered on computers in the hotel.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says Germany has become "haven for terrorists" | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Germany had become a haven for terrorists and would be "judged by history", accusing it of failing to root out supporters of a U.S.-based cleric Ankara blames for July's failed military coup. Erdogan said Germany had long harboured militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy, and far-leftists from the DHKP-C, which has carried out armed attacks in Turkey. "We are concerned that Germany, which has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years, has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organisation," Erdogan said, referring to the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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| Kyrgyz leader's party forges new parliamentary coalition | | | Kyrgyzstan Social Democratic party formed a new governing coalition, it said on Thursday, comprising lawmakers who a day earlier voted for constitutional reforms that opponents say are aimed at extending President Almazbek Atambayev's rule. |
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