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| Mayoral offices in Milan and Rome come under investigation | |  The governments of Italy's two biggest cities came under judicial scrutiny on Friday, with Milan's mayor suspending himself from his duties and a top aide in Rome's administration put under arrest. Milan mayor Giuseppe Sala said late on Thursday he had learned from the media that he was under investigation in a case involving tender bids at last year's Expo world fair. "While I have not the slightest idea of the investigative allegations, I have decided to suspend myself from my position as mayor," Sala said, six months after taking over Milan city hall.
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| Chinese legal activist missing after police say they released him - lawyer | | | The family of prominent Chinese legal activist Jiang Tianyong is unable to locate him despite police saying that he had been released on Dec. 1 after spending nine days in detention, his family's lawyer said on Friday. Disbarred lawyer Jiang, 45, has spoken out about a government crackdown on legal defenders and has been involved in high-profile cases of dissidents who have angered authorities, including blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who left China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in 2012. Jiang's wife, Jin Bianling, told Reuters in November that she and his friends had been unable to contact him since Nov. 21 after he travelled to Changsha in Hunan province to visit relatives of an arrested human rights lawyer, Xie Yang. |
| Philippines wants United States to provide aid without conditions | |  The Philippines on Friday appealed to former colonial ruler the United States to reconsider a decision to withhold humanitarian aid, with Manila's foreign minister asking for the assistance to be provided without any conditions. President Rodrigo Duterte told U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" in October, and has alluded to severing ties, after being infuriated by U.S. criticism of his war on drugs, which has claimed 2,000 lives since he took office on July 1. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. poverty reduction agency, said on its website its board had "deferred a vote on the re-selection of the Philippines for compact development, subject to further review of concerns around rule of law and civil liberties".
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| U.N. rights expert urges Duterte to allow Philippines visit | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights expert urged Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday to reconsider allowing her to visit to investigate alleged extrajudicial killings in the country's drug war, but on U.N. terms guaranteeing her independence. The Philippines has cancelled a trip scheduled for next year by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings to look into the rising death toll in its war on drugs, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. Perfecto Yasay said the U.N. could not pursue its inquiry as special rapporteur Agnes Callamard had declined to accept conditions set by the government.
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| Benzema trial to go ahead, Cisse's case sent back to judge | |  A French court rejected Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema's request to stop a trial over his alleged attempt to blackmail fellow French soccer international Mathieu Valbuena using a sex video, a judicial source said on Friday. The affair involved phone-recorded sex footage that could prove embarrassing for Valbuena, according to sources close to the inquiry. Benzema's name came up during phone taps in relation to the inquiry opened last July, police sources say.
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| Kremlin says Washington must prove hacking accusations or shut up | | | TOKYO (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that the United States should either prove accusations that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party organisations or drop the issue. "Either stop talking about it or finally provide some evidence. Otherwise it looks indecent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Tokyo. Russia has repeatedly denied the hacking allegations. (Reporting by Katya Golubkova; Writing by Peter Hobson; Editing by Andrew Osborn) |
| Thailand passes amendment to cyber law despite opposition | | | Thailand's parliament passed legislation amending a cyber crime law on Friday, which rights groups have criticised as likely to lead to more extensive online monitoring by the state. Thailand's military government has ramped up online censorship since it seized power in a 2014 coup, in particular to block perceived insults to the royal family. Thailand has some of the world's toughest laws against royal insult, which has curtailed public discussion about the monarchy's role following the Oct. 13 death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was seen as a unifying figure. |
| Lawyers for South Korea's Park say impeachment vote is groundless | |  By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Lawyers for embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye struck a defiant note on Friday, saying a parliamentary vote to impeach her had no legal basis and should be overturned by the Constitutional Court. "We see no grounds for impeachment and it should be struck down," Lee Joong-hwan, a former prosecutor who is part of the team representing Park, told reporters at the court building where her fate will be decided. In their first comments since the impeachment vote, Park's lawyers also said it was unlikely she would appear before the court when it begins hearing the case.
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| FBI kept tabs on Muhammad Ali in 1966 during Nation of Islam probe | |  The FBI kept tabs on the late boxer Muhammad Ali in 1966, including his divorce and his speech at a Miami mosque, in its investigation of the religious group Nation of Islam, according to documents released by the agency. The release of the documents, recently posted on the website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was first reported by the New York Times online on Thursday. Former President Bill Clinton was among the dignitaries at his funeral.
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| Thousands of Filipinos gather to cheer Duterte in Singapore | |  By Fathin Ungku SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Thousands of Filipinos gathered in Singapore on Friday to catch a glimpse of their president, Rodrigo Duterte, in a big show of support for a leader whose bloody war on drugs has horrified global rights groups but won support at home. Duterte retained a "very good" opinion-poll rating after six months in office, with a net satisfaction rating of 63 percent, a Philippine polling agency reported this week.
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| Singapore jails second BSI banker on charges linked to 1MDB probe | |  A Singapore court on Friday jailed a second former banker from Swiss wealth manager BSI on charges stemming from a money laundering investigation linked to state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Yvonne Seah, 45, was sentenced to two weeks in prison and a fine of S$10,000 ($6,929), after pleading guilty to three charges including forgery and failure to disclose suspicious transactions involving Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho. Singapore authorities have described Low, also known as Jho Low, as a key figure in the money-laundering investigation.
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| Factbox: How Switzerland's new immigration law works | | | Swiss efforts to curb immigration from the European Union without provoking a clash with Brussels cleared a final hurdle on Friday when parliament agreed not to adopt outright quotas on newcomers. The law stops far short of the upper limits on immigration that Swiss voters had demanded in a 2014 referendum. |
| Swiss parliament skirts clash with EU over immigration curbs | | | By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland approved a law on Friday aimed at curbing immigration by giving local people first crack at open jobs, skirting voters' demand for outright quotas that it feared could disrupt close ties with the European Union. After parliament passed the new immigration law , the focus will now shift to how the EU responds. Brussels so far has shown scant flexibility on the free movement of people - the principle underpinning Swiss access to the single market -- so as not to encourage Britain as it negotiates its EU divorce. |
| Putin gave clear response to U.S. hacking allegations - TASS cites Kremlin | |  The Kremlin said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin had given President Barack Obama "a really clear response" to U.S. allegations that Moscow had interfered in the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party organisations. Russia's TASS news agency cited Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as telling reporters in Tokyo that Putin had explained Russia's stance on the issue to Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit in September.
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| Turkey arrests Dogan executive in Gulen-linked probe - state media | | | Turkey has formally arrested an executive of Dogan Holding, a conglomerate with major media interests, in a widening probe into a U.S.-based cleric Ankara accuses of masterminding July's attempted coup. State-run Anadolu agency said late on Thursday that a court had remanded the executive in custody on an accusation of "aiding a terror group" as part of an investigation into the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his followers. Ankara refers to the group as the "Gulenist Terror Organisation". |
| Aurobindo shares hit 9-month low on U.S. price-fixing lawsuit | |  Drugmaker Aurobindo Pharma Ltd's shares hit their lowest in more than nine months on Friday after the company was named in a lawsuit alleging it colluded with other drugmakers to fix prices of two commonly used drugs in the United States. Aurobindo said it was aware of the suit and would comply with authorities. The company's U.S. subsidiary sold about $1.1 million of glyburide in 2016 as per consultancy IMS Health's data, Aurobindo said in a statement, adding that the impact was "not material" to the company.
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| 12-year old boy tried to blow up bomb at German Christmas market - Focus | | | A 12-year old German-Iraqi boy suspected of having links to extremist group Islamic State (IS) tried to blow up a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen, German magazine Focus reported on Friday, citing security and judicial sources. The suspect put down a backpack containing a self-made nail bomb at the Christmas market on Nov. 26, but the device did not go off because the detonator failed, it said. Police identified and arrested the boy, who is now in a youth detention centre, the report said, adding that the Federal Public Prosecutor had taken over investigations on the charge of a serious act of violent subversion. |
| Affordable housing ideas: City tents and roofs to dry chillies on | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Hasit Ganatra was brainstorming modular housing ideas for Indian slums four years ago, he did not realise that what residents wanted most were good roofs: durable and leak proof that could also be used to store water and dry chillies. Ganatra, who studied engineering at the University of Southern California, had worked with start-ups in solar power and affordable housing. Most live in makeshift homes and shacks built with bricks, mud, plastic and tin, and roofs of cement or corrugated metal, usually covered with tarpaulin. |
| South Korea Park's lawyers say no legal grounds for impeachment | |  SEOUL (Reuters) - The impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye by parliament has no legal basis and should be struck down by the Constitutional Court, lawyers representing the embattled leader engulfed in a corruption scandal said on Friday. Park is unlikely to appear in the Constitutional Court for hearings, one of her lawyers told reporters. Parliament passed an impeachment vote on Dec. 9 and her powers have been suspended until the court reviews and rules on the motion, which can take up to 180 days. (Reporting by Christine Kim; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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| Thailand charges 19 'red shirt' leaders with violating junta ban | | | Thailand's military-appointed attorney-general on Friday charged 19 leaders of the opposition "red shirt" group with violating a junta ban on political gatherings. The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, known as the "red shirts", led street rallies in 2009 and 2010 in support of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, and staged rallies in 2014 when his sister, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was toppled in a coup. Since taking power in the May 2014 coup the junta has moved to root out Thaksin's influence and has cracked down on activists, journalists and dissidents. |
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