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| Trial of IMF's Lagarde hears that payout decision was rushed through | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - A French ex-treasury official told a court trying IMF chief Christine Lagarde for negligence on Wednesday that he had been shocked at how quickly the government had given up on contesting a huge state payout to business tycoon Bernard Tapie in 2008. Lagarde, 60, faces charges, which she denies, of being negligent when, as French finance minister, she approved a payout to Tapie in a rare out-of-court settlement which cost the French taxpayer 400 million euros ($425 million). The prosecution alleges Lagarde showed negligence, leading to misuse of public funds, by accepting too easily a costly arbitration settlement with Tapie and not contesting it to the benefit of the state.
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| Philippines' Duterte "in the pink of health", ministers say | |  Ministers in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's cabinet on Wednesday said he was in good health, after the leader talked about ailments afflicting him and said he might not live to complete his six-year term. Duterte told a gathering of business leaders on Monday that he suffered from back pains, migraines and Buerger's disease, a cause of blockages in the blood vessels, associated with smoking in his youth. The 71-year-old president stirred further questions about his health by telling a crowd of a few thousand expatriate Filipinos in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where he is on a visit, that he might not "be around" until the end of his term.
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| EU, Denmark find deal on Europol after Danes voted to quit | | | The European Union and Denmark have found a way to continue police cooperation vital to counterterrorism and crime fighting after Danes voted to leave Europol, two EU sources said. Since then, the government has sought a compromise to maintain police cooperation with the EU. The deal is expected to be confirmed on Thursday when Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and EU leaders meet, on the sidelines of a regular EU summit, officials said. |
| U.N. envoy says Gambia's Jammeh must leave power by Jan. 19 | |  DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nations Special Representative for West Africa said on Wednesday that Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh would be "strongly sanctioned" if he sought to remain in power after his mandate ends on January 19. "For Mr. Jammeh, the end is here and under no circumstances can he continue to be president," Mohammed Ibn Chambas told Reuters by telephone. Jammeh lost elections on December 1 and, despite initially accepting the outcome, has since changed his mind and is challenging the outcome at Gambia's Supreme Court. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Joe Bavier)
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| Afghan police kill one foreigner, wound another outside Kabul airport | | | An Afghan police officer shot and killed one foreigner and wounded another at a security checkpoint outside the Kabul airport on Wednesday, a security official said. Dozens of Zardad supporters gathered at the airport to greet him. |
| French Middle East peace conference to be postponed - Palestinian official | |  RAMALLAH/PARIS (Reuters) - France will postpone a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, Voice of Palestine radio reported on Wednesday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refusing to participate and U.S. attendance in doubt. France has been trying to persuade Netanyahu, who has repeatedly rejected the conference proposal, to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the French capital to try to revive moribund peace talks between the two sides. Voice of Palestine radio quoted Palestinian Ambassador to France Salman El Herfi as saying that Paris had informed the Palestinians of its delay to the peace conference until January "to make better preparations".
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| Philippines cancels visit by U.N. rapporteur on extrajudicial killings | |  The Philippines has cancelled a trip next year by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings to look into the rising death toll in its war on drugs, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Perfecto Yasay said the United Nations could not pursue its investigation because special rapporteur Agnes Callamard had declined to accept the conditions set by the government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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| Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings | |  By Noah Browning DUBAI (Reuters) - Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings. U.S. officials told Reuters that Trump is receiving an average of one presidential intelligence briefing a week - far fewer than most of his recent predecessors - but that his deputy Mike Pence gets briefings around six days a week. Panetta, a former Democratic Congressman who served as CIA director and defense secretary in President Barack Obama's first term, told the Arab Strategy Forum, a conference sponsored by the government of Dubai, that Trump's aversion "can't last." "I've seen presidents who have asked questions about whether that intelligence is verifiable, what are the sources for that intelligence, but I have never seen a president who said, 'I don't want that stuff,'" Panetta said.
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| Fugitive former Syrian diplomat held in France on rape charge-Swiss | | | A former Syrian diplomat convicted in absentia of a brutal rape in Switzerland in 2001 has been arrested in Versailles, France, living under a false identity as a refugee, the Geneva prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The Geneva court cited the "unbearable severity" and perversity of his acts against the woman he had met at a spa. Previously accredited as a Syrian diplomat to the United Nations in Geneva, he had been living in Versailles "under a new identity, with the status of a political refugee" before his arrest on Tuesday, the prosecutor's statement said. |
| Turkey's Syria campaign has killed 1,800 IS and Kurdish militia fighters - Erdogan | |  Turkey's military operations in Syria have killed around 1,800 Islamic State and Kurdish militia fighters since being launched in August, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Turkey launched "Operation Euphrates Shield" four months ago in a bid to push Islamic State militants away from its border in northern Syria and prevent Kurdish militia groups from seizing territory in their wake.
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| China jails former Nanjing city chief for 12 years for graft | | | A court in eastern China on Wednesday sentenced the former Communist Party chief of the major city of Nanjing to 12-1/2 years in jail, after finding him guilty of corruption. Yang Weize, Nanjing's top official, was put under investigation early last year by the party's internal anti-graft watchdog. The court in Ningbo said Yang accepted bribes, either directly or through his wife, worth 16.4 million yuan ($2.38 million) between 2005 and 2014. |
| Myanmar govt 'following the law' in Rakhine, probe panel says | |  A commission set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate attacks on border posts and the army's brutal response on Wednesday said security forces had abided by the law in a Muslim-majority area of northwestern Rakhine State. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate established the body amid growing international pressure to investigate allegations that Myanmar soldiers had killed and raped civilians and burned down their homes, as well as to allow aid agencies to reach the area. On Tuesday, the body wrapped up a three-day visit to Maungdaw, where at least 86 people have been killed since the Oct. 9 attacks and where the military sweep has prompted about 27,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
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| Cancelled meetings expose fraught Myanmar-Bangladesh ties amid Rohingya crisis | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - As Myanmar's army was stepping up an anti-insurgency operation in the country's northwest in October, senior officers cancelled talks with their Bangladeshi counterparts, straining ties with a key potential ally in dealing with the violence on their border. The cancelled meetings, revealed in documents seen by Reuters, are the latest on a long list of failed initiatives to improve relations between fractious neighbours who both see the largely stateless Muslim Rohingya at the heart of the crisis as the other nation's problem. Bangladeshi diplomats say the abrupt cancellation of the talks, planned for mid-October, reflected Myanmar's reluctance to deepen bilateral ties and press ahead with talks on security cooperation and the establishment of border liaison officers.
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