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| Trump chooses congressman Zinke for interior secretary - reports | |  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose first-term Republican Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, a former Navy SEAL commander, as his interior secretary, according to media reports. Zinke, 55, has yet to accept the offer and has given no indication as to which way he is leaning, Politico reported, citing two transition officials and someone familiar with the offer. The Washington Post, citing an individual with first-hand knowledge of the decision, also reported that Zinke had been tapped to lead the Interior Department.
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| White House - Reversing U.S. opening to Cuba would be harmful | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday it would be "very damaging" to both Cubans as well as the United States' standing in Latin America if the next administration reverses President Barack Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba. "We're seeing real progress that is making life better for Cubans right now. Sustaining this policy will allow for further opening ... further U.S. business opportunities," Ben Rhodes, the U.S. deputy national security adviser, said in a call with reporters. ...
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| Argentine firm reaches $112.8 million deal with U.S. in FIFA probe | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday announced an agreement allowing Argentine sports media Torneos y Competencias SA to pay about $112.8 million to settle charges stemming from a sweeping bribery probe targeting FIFA, soccer's world governing body. The deferred prosecution agreement with Torneos, whose former chief executive pleaded guilty last year to engaging in schemes to bribe soccer officials, was approved by U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn. Outside of court, Ignacio Galarza, the company's general manager, said he welcomed the agreement, which is the first with a company in the FIFA corruption probe.
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| U.S. judge to review FBI's Clinton emails search warrant | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to show him the search warrant application used to enable the FBI to access emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server that were discovered shortly before the Nov. 8 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered prosecutors by Thursday to turn over the application, which investigators obtained shortly after FBI Director James Comey informed Congress of newly discovered emails on Oct. 28, 11 days before the election won by her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Castel made the order as he considered whether any portion of the search warrant materials could be made public in response to a lawsuit filed by Randol Schoenberg, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who specializes in cases to recover artwork stolen by the Nazis, seeking to force the release of the documents.
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| Afghan First Vice President denies abusing rival, West urges investigation | |  Afghanistan's First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum denied on Tuesday accusations that he had beaten and abducted a political rival and threatened him with sexual violence, in a case that sparked Western calls for a full and fair investigation. Dostum, a former warring faction commander with a fearsome reputation and a lingering power base in northern Afghanistan, was witnessed by hundreds of people, according to The New York Times, beating and then ordering his men to detain Ahmad Ishchi at a public sporting event in late November. Ishchi was once a member of the same political faction as Dostum but later fell out with him.
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| Cosby's lawyers, prosecutors clash in court over female accusers | |  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Lawyers for Bill Cosby and Pennsylvania prosecutors clashed angrily in court on Tuesday over whether the defence team was deliberately trying to intimidate women who have accused the entertainer of sexual assault. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele contended defence attorneys were trying to "manipulate" Cosby's upcoming criminal trial by publicly naming the 13 accusers prosecutors want to call to prove Cosby was a serial abuser of women. Cosby's reputation as a family-friendly entertainer has suffered from allegations by about 50 women that he sexually assaulted them in a series of alleged attacks dating back decades.
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| Islamic State claims Cairo cathedral bombing | |  By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bombing at Cairo's main Coptic cathedral on Sunday that killed at least 25 people. The militant group said in a statement carried by its news agency Amaq that a suicide bomber whom it identified as Abu Abdallah al-Masri had detonated his explosive belt inside the church. "Every infidel and apostate in Egypt and everywhere should know that our war ... continues," it said.
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| British tourist sentenced on weapons charge over Trump rally scare | |  A 20-year-old British tourist who prosecutors say caused a security scare at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas by trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a day in prison. Michael Sandford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Mahan in Las Vegas after pleading guilty in September under a plea agreement with prosecutors to one count each of illegal weapon possession by an alien and disrupting the orderly conduct of government business or functions. A lawyer for Sandford, federal public defender Brenda Weksler, said she was "happy with the result," calling the sentence a "fair disposition of the case given the unique circumstances." When asked whether Sandford intended to harm Trump, Weksler said: "Our client is not political at all." Sandford admitted as part of the plea deal that he had approached a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer at the event in June, saying he wanted an autograph from the presidential candidate, then tried to pull the officer's gun from his holster with both hands.
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| EU conservatives pick Italy's Tajani as candidate for parliament speaker | |  By Francesco Guarascio STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union's centre-right grouping on Tuesday elected Antonio Tajani as its candidate to replace socialist Martin Schulz as speaker of the European Parliament, a move that could increase calls for a reshuffle of other top EU jobs. Tajani, a former EU commissioner, is a member of the rightist Forza Italia party and a close ally of former Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The socialists, the second biggest grouping, have said the election of a conservative president would unsettle the EU's balance of power by giving the conservative European People's Party (EPP) the presidencies of all three major EU bodies.
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| Thousands protest against Polish government on martial law's anniversary | |  By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Thousands marched across Poland's capital on Tuesday to protest the policies of the current government on the 35th anniversary of the martial law crackdown by the former communist regime. Protests also took place in other cities, in a show of strength by the opposition after roughly a year in power for the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. The protesters in Warsaw carried Polish and European Union flags, blew trumpets and chanted "Here is Poland" as they banged on drums and marched from the former headquarters of the communist party to the headquarters of PiS.
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| Migrants in Libya facing 'human rights crisis' - U.N. report | |  By Aidan Lewis TUNIS (Reuters) - Migrants in Libya are suffering consistent and widespread abuse, including arbitrary detention, forced labour, rape and torture, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. Record numbers of migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, have been trying to reach Europe via Libya, usually in flimsy inflatable boats provided by smugglers. Armed groups have taken effective control of official detention centres for migrants amid the political chaos that now reigns in Libya and they also run their own centres, competing and cooperating with criminal gangs and smugglers.
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| Gambia's Jammeh digs in as regional leaders fail to reach deal | |  By Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's ruling party challenged his defeat in a Dec. 1 election at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as West African leaders failed to reach a deal that would see him accept the result and end a deepening political crisis. Soldiers also seized the headquarters of the national elections commission and sealed it off just hours before the mediation delegation representing regional bloc ECOWAS touched down in the tiny riverside nation. Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia since taking power in a 1994 coup and is accused of widespread rights abuses, initially conceded defeat to his main challenger, Adama Barrow.
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| Tech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 100 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc and Salesforce pledged on Tuesday to not help U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration build a data registry to track people based on their religion or assist in mass deportations. Drawing comparisons to the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the employees signed an open letter at neveragain.tech rebuking ideas floated by Trump during the campaign trail. The protest comes a day before several technology company executives are due to meet with the real-estate developer in New York City.
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| Story to be withdrawn | |  Please ignore this story, sent at 1758 GMT on Dec. 13, which was published in error.
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| Russia declares Aleppo offensive over, U.S. dubs it 'modern evil' | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Syrian government military offensive in Aleppo, backed by Russia and Iran, was over, Russia's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday as the United States described the violence in the besieged city as "modern evil." Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said an agreement had been struck for rebels to evacuate the north-western city and he said civilians would be unharmed, despite western and U.N. accusations of the intentional killing of civilians. "Over the last hour we have received information that the military activities in east Aleppo have stopped, it has stopped," Churkin told a heated U.N. Security Council meeting called by France and Britain. "The Syrian government has established control over east Aleppo." A surrender or withdrawal of the rebels from Aleppo would deliver Syrian President Bashar al-Assad his biggest battlefield victory in the nearly six year conflict.
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| Gulf Cooperation Council condemns 'barbaric shelling' of Aleppo | |  The Arab states of the Gulf, including regional powerhouse Saudi Arabia, condemned on Tuesday what they described as "the barbaric shelling" of Aleppo and called on the United Nations to move quickly to provide relief to the Syrian people. As resistance crumbled, reports emerged that Syrian soldiers and allied Iraqi fighters had shot dead 82 civilians in recaptured Aleppo districts, the U.N. said. "The Gulf Cooperation Council states strongly denounce the killing, siege and starvation that the ancient and historic city of Aleppo is subjected to as a violation of all humanitarian rights guaranteed by international law," the GCC said in a statement issued by its secretary-general, Abdullatif al-Zayani.
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| 'Get us out of here' - desperate Aleppo residents fear arrest, death | |  By Laila Bassam and Lisa Barrington ALEPPO, Syria / BEIRUT (Reuters) - As the four-month siege of eastern Aleppo neared its end, some survivors trudged in the rain past dead bodies to the government-held west or the few districts still in rebel hands. The United Nations said it had reports that Syrian government troops and their Iraqi militia allies had killed civilians in eastern Aleppo, including 82 people in four different neighbourhoods in the last few days. Speaking from a small area still under rebel control, father of five Abu Ibrahim, said he knew of two families executed by the advancing militias that have formed the vanguard of the assault on Syria's second city.
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| ICRC says ready to help in east Aleppo evacuation | |  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stands ready to act as a neutral intermediary in an evacuation from eastern Aleppo being negotiated by various parties, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday. ICRC spokeswoman Krista Armstrong said in Geneva: "At the moment, the different parties are still discussing the details of this agreement and how it will be implemented. "If the basic humanitarian principles are met, and if the parties are all in favour, we stand ready to act as a neutral humanitarian intermediary and to assist civilians who are in need.
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| New Italian PM wins first confidence vote, pledges to support banks | |  By Gavin Jones and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni won an initial vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament on Tuesday after laying out a limited programme for his new government, which might only survive a few months. Gentiloni has taken over from former premier Matteo Renzi, who resigned last week after Italians rejected his proposed reform of the constitution in a referendum. Making his maiden speech to parliament in his new role, the softly spoken Gentiloni said he was prepared to support Italy's ailing banks and demanded more help from the European Union in coping with an influx of migrants.
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| North Korea rejects U.N. report on abductions, separated families | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea protested on Tuesday against a U.N. report on alleged abductions of foreign nationals by Pyongyang and the many Korean families forcibly separated across the divided peninsula since the 1950s war. "This is not fair and also not impartial, it is just against the (U.N.) office's mission in principle," he said. The report, issued last week by Zeid's office, referred to international abductions as a "well-documented practice" by the North, targeting nationals of South Korea and Japan.
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| Corruption probe into Peru's president reopened | |  The office of Peru's attorney general has reopened a corruption inquiry into whether President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski helped a Brazilian company win public work contracts while he was prime minister a decade ago, legal documents showed on Tuesday. The anti-corruption unit in the attorney general's office ordered prosecutors to broaden a preliminary investigation into Kuczynski, ex-president Alejandro Toledo, and engineering conglomerate Odebrecht after concluding it had been prematurely closed in September, according to a decision signed by a leading prosecutor and seen by Reuters. Kuczynski is currently facing the worst political crisis so far in his five-month old government as the opposition-controlled Congress prepares to oust his education minister.
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| Brazil Senate passes spending cap in win for Temer | |  By Anthony Boadle and Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian senators on Tuesday passed a 20-year public spending ceiling proposed by President Michel Temer to control a ballooning budget deficit, a crucial step in an austerity drive to rescue Brazil's stalled economy. Approval of the centrepiece of his fiscal plan handed a welcome victory to Temer's scandal-plagued government, which is threatened by corruption accusations and citizens' deep frustration with economic malaise. The Senate approved the cap by a 53-16 margin, though leftist opponents sought to delay the vote as long as possible.
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| White House - Iran's nuclear vessel order does not violate atomic deal | | | The White House said on Tuesday that Iran's ordering of its scientists to develop systems for nuclear powered marine vessels does not violate the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. "Such an announcement does not run counter to the JCPOA," a senior Obama administration official said on condition of anonymity, in reference to the nuclear deal. Iran said the order was in response to what it considers a U.S. violation of the deal. |
| Court says Colombia can speed peace laws through Congress | |  Colombia's government can move laws needed to carry out the country's peace deal with the Marxist FARC rebels through Congress more quickly than usual, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday. Both the Senate and the lower house backed the accord with the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, in recent votes, giving necessary legislative approval to the deal to end 52 years of war that has killed more than 220,000 people and displaced millions. The coalition of President Juan Manuel Santos, who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, has a majority in Congress, where the peace-related laws are likely to pass easily.
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| Gambia's ruling party appeals Jammeh's poll defeat in court | |  DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambia's ruling APRC party on Tuesday filed a petition to the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of Dec. 1 polls which its candidate, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh, narrowly lost, court documents showed. "...The non compliance mentioned in this petition seriously affected the credibility of the result of the said Presidential elections and necessarily render them invalid," the document said. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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| Military court jails 141 Brotherhood supporters over 2013 unrest | | | A military court sentenced 141 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to up to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for ransacking public facilities and rioting, the defendants' lawyers told Reuters. The Assiut military court sentenced 96 of them to 15 years in absentia. The case dealt with events in August 2013 in the city of Malawi in the Province of Minya which were among a wave of unrest after the army removed elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi from power, following mass protests against his rule. |
| Syria's Ahrar al Sham rebel group says 'everyone' to be evacuated tonight to Aleppo countryside | | | The powerful Syrian Islamist rebel group Ahrar al Sham group said on Tuesday all of the fighters and civilians trapped in a tiny rebel enclave in eastern Aleppo would be evacuated this evening to rebel-held parts of its countryside. Spokesperson Ahmad Ali Qura said "everyone" would first go to the western and then northern Aleppo countryside "this evening". |
| IMF's Lagarde grilled over "punch in the gut" payout to French tycoon | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde fought negligence charges in a Paris court on Tuesday, arguing she had approved a 2008 French state payout of 400 million euro ($425 million) to a business tycoon only to end a costly legal battle. Aggressive grilling from the top judge put Lagarde on the defensive during the second day of the trial into her approval as finance minister of the rare out-of-court settlement with Bernard Tapie in a dispute over the sale of a stake in a company. Lagarde, 60, faces up to a year in jail and a fine of 15,000 euros ($16,000) if convicted.
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