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| U.S. charges Platinum Partners executives with $1 billion fraud | |  By Nate Raymond and Lawrence Delevingne NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top executives of New York-based hedge fund manager Platinum Partners were arrested on Monday and charged with running an approximately $1 billion fraud that federal prosecutors said became "like a Ponzi scheme" as its largest investments lost much of their value. Mark Nordlicht, Platinum's founding partner and chief investment officer, was arrested at his New Rochelle, New York, as federal prosecutors in Brooklyn accused him and six others of participating in a pair of schemes to defraud investors.
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| Russian ambassador shot dead in Ankara gallery | |  By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Umit Bektas ANKARA (Reuters) - The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot in the back and killed as he gave a speech at an Ankara art gallery on Monday by an off-duty police officer who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo" and "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire. The Russian foreign ministry confirmed the death of envoy Andrei Karlov, calling it a "terrorist act". Relations between Moscow and Ankara have long been strained over the conflict in Syria, with the two support opposing sides in the war.
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| Factbox - Contenders for senior jobs in Trump's administration | |  (Reuters) - The following people are mentioned as contenders for senior roles as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump assembles his administration before taking office on Jan. 20, according to Reuters sources and other media reports. Trump already has named a number of people for other top jobs in his administration. [nL1N1EE0X0] AGRICULTURE SECRETARY * Chuck Conner, a former acting secretary of the U.S. Agriculture Department and current head of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives * Tim Huelskamp, Republican U.S. ...
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| Gunman who killed Russian ambassador was Turkish riot police, minister says | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - The gunman who killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey in an attack at an art gallery on Monday evening was a police officer who worked for the Ankara riot police, Turkey's interior minister said. Suleyman Soylu told reporters that the assassination "has deeply" saddened the Turkish nation, saying it came at a time when Turkey and Russia had improved relations. Soylu also said that three other people were wounded in the attack, none seriously, and that one had been released already. (Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Humeyra Pamuk) |
| Cyrus Mistry quits Tata group company boards, but vows to fight on | |  By Promit Mukherjee and Abhirup Roy MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Sons' [TATAS.UL] ousted chairman Cyrus Mistry in a surprise move late on Monday said he was resigning from the boards of all listed Tata companies, but he vowed to keep fighting to improve governance within the $100 billion software-to-salt conglomerate. In a letter to all shareholders, Mistry hinted that he plans to continue his battle against Tata Sons in court. Mistry has for weeks waged a war of words against Tata Sons and Tata family patriarch Ratan Tata, who is back at the helm of the conglomerate on an interim basis.
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| U.S. ready to help Russia, Turkey investigate diplomat's killing - Kerry | |  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the killing of the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday, and said the United States was ready to help Russia and Turkey investigate the attack. Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot in the back and killed while giving a speech at an art gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara. "The United States condemns the assassination today in Ankara of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov," Kerry said in a statement.
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| IMF's Lagarde guilty, but not punished, in French negligence trial | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - French judges convicted IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Monday of negligence for a state payout made while she served as France's finance minister in 2008, but imposed no punishment, citing her preoccupation at the time with the global financial crisis. It was unclear whether the verdict would force Lagarde from her position as managing director of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund, a job she started in 2011. The French government, which controls about 4 percent of the IMF board's voting power, said it had complete confidence in Lagarde's ability to carry out her responsibilities.
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| Turkey will not allow Russian ambassador shooting to overshadow ties - ministry | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will not allow Monday's shooting of Russia's ambassador to Ankara to "cast a shadow" over Turkish-Russian friendship, the Turkey's foreign ministry said on Monday, expressing deep sadness and condemning the "lowly terrorist attack". The statement, paying tribute to the ambassador as being a well respected diplomat, said the attacker had been "neutralised" and that those responsible for the attack would be brought to justice. (Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by David Dolan) |
| New Yorker gets 30 years in prison for 'death ray' plot against Muslims | | | A white supremacist convicted on charges he planned to use a "death ray" to kill Muslims and President Barack Obama was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison, federal prosecutors in New York said. Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a self-proclaimed member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a "death ray" by tabloids. Crawford is the first person to be convicted under a law barring attempts to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device. |
| U.S. judge orders unsealing of Clinton email probe search warrant | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the unsealing of the application used to obtain a search warrant that allowed the FBI to gain access to emails related to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private server before the Nov. 8 election. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan directed the release by Tuesday of redacted materials used to obtain a search warrant after Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey informed Congress of newly discovered emails on Oct. 28. Comey's letter drew new attention to a damaging issue for Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and roiled the campaign 11 days before the Nov. 8 election, won by Republican Donald Trump.
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| Red Cross says employee kidnapped in northern Afghanistan | | | By Sardar Razmal KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross is missing after being pulled from a vehicle in northern Afghanistan on Monday, the aid organisation said. The man was among several ICRC staff members travelling between Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz when gunmen stopped the vehicles. The other staff were released, the ICRC said. |
| African states narrowly fail to stop U.N. gay rights envoy work | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - African states narrowly failed on Monday for a second time to halt the work of the first U.N. independent investigator appointed to help protect gay and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination. The attempt was voted down in the U.N. General Assembly 84 to 77 with 16 abstentions, a month after African states made a similar unsuccessful move in the General Assembly's third committee, which deals with human rights. The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, created the position in June and in September appointed Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand, who has a three-year mandate to investigate abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. |
| Three people hurt in shooting near Zurich Islamic centre | |  By Michael Shields and Arnd Wiegmann ZURICH (Reuters) - Three people were hurt in a shooting near an Islamic centre in central Zurich on Monday, police said. Swiss media said a suspect was on the run after the incident near the main train station in Switzerland's financial capital. Zurich police confirmed people had been hurt in an incident on Zurich's Eisgasse, but gave no more details.
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| Soccer-British FAs fined over international poppy displays | |  The Football Associations of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have been fined for displaying poppies during World Cup qualifiers last month, soccer's governing body said on Monday. England, who said they would appeal, were fined 45,000 Swiss francs ($44,000) for what FIFA described as the "display of a political symbol" on players' shirts and around the stadium during the 3-0 win over Scotland at Wembley, plus crowd misconduct. Scotland were fined 20,000 Swiss francs for displaying the same political symbol as well as crowd problems.
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| Gunman who shot Russian ambassador was off-duty police officer - security sources | | | The gunman who shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey in an attack at an art gallery on Monday was an off-duty police officer who worked in the Turkish capital, two security sources told Reuters. Russia's foreign ministry earlier confirmed that the ambassador, Andrey Karlov, had died in the attack. |
| U.S. Electoral College meets to formally confirm Trump win | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Electoral College meets on Monday to officially confirm Republican Donald Trump as the next president, a vote that is usually a formality but that has taken on extra prominence after an unusual and particularly acrimonious election campaign. At meetings scheduled in every state capitol and the District of Columbia, the institution's 538 electors, chosen by state parties, will cast official ballots for president and vice president. The votes will be counted during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.
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| U.S. sees China returning drone as early as Tuesday in S.China Sea | |  By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expects China to soon return an underwater U.S. drone after a Chinese naval vessel seized it last week, with one U.S. official telling Reuters the exchange could happen as early as Tuesday at an agreed spot in the South China Sea. China's seizure of the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) triggered a diplomatic protest and speculation about whether U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will point to the incident as proof of the need to take a tougher line with Beijing. A Chinese warship took the drone, which the Pentagon says uses unclassified, commercially available technology to collect oceanographic data, on Thursday about 50 nautical miles ]northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines.
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| U.S. condemns attack on Russian ambassador to Turkey | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemns the gun attack on the Russian ambassador to Turkey earlier on Monday, the U.S. State Department said. Ambassador Andrei Karlov died of his gunshot wounds after he was attacked at an art gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday, the Russian RIA news agency reported. "We condemn this act of violence, whatever its source," said U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family." (Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
| Further gunfire heard at gallery where Russian ambassador shot - CNN Turk | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Gunfire continued to resound inside an art gallery in the Turkish capital Ankara where the Russian ambassador was shot on Monday, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. It said there were reports that the assailant had entered the gallery with a police ID and had opened fire on the ambassador as he made a speech. A photo broadcast on TV showed two people lying on the ground in the gallery. (Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) |
| Jordanian gunmen planned wider attacks - minister | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Four gunmen who shot dead nine people in Jordan on Sunday had stored suicide vests and other weapons that indicated they planned wider attacks across the country, Interior Minister Salamah Hamad said. Jordanian security forces said they had killed four "terrorist outlaws" after flushing them out of a Crusader castle in the southern city of Karak. Authorities have yet to say if the attack, unusual for Jordan, was driven by Islamist militancy, tribal grievances or some other cause.
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| Protesters, military on Congo streets as Kabila's mandate expires | |  Security forces blocked access to Kinshasa University, facing off against groups waving red cards saying "Bye, bye Kabila," as time ticked down to midnight. Militia fighters raided a jail in eastern Congo's Butembo trying to free prisoners, triggering clashes that killed a South African U.N. peacekeeper and a police officer. Seven attackers were also killed, Kabila's chief diplomat Barnabe Kikaya told a news conference in Kinshasa.
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| Murdoch denies pressuring UK prime ministers ahead of Sky submission | |  Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he had never asked a British prime minister for anything, seeking to play down his influence ahead of what is likely to be a politically charged approval process for his $14.6 billion bid for pay-TV group Sky. The 85-year-old's Twenty-First Century Fox made a formal approach to take full control of the British-based Sky last week, reigniting a row over whether the media mogul controls too much of Britain's media and had too much sway over politicians. Murdoch's previous attempt to buy the 61 percent of Sky he did not already own was scuppered in 2011 by a phone-hacking scandal at one of his tabloid newspapers.
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| Deutsche Bank could settle U.S. penalty this week - source | |  By Andreas Kröner and Karen Freifeld FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank could this week agree a penalty with the U.S. Department of Justice over the sale of toxic mortgage debt, one person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday. The penalty stems from a 2012 initiative launched by U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to penalise banks for allegedly selling sub-prime debt while misleading investors about the risks, a practice that contributed to the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. This would remove the biggest uncertainty facing the bank, which had sought a deal before President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, takes office on Jan 20.
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| FIFA panel bans two former Honduran soccer officials for life | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer governing body FIFA's independent ethics committee on Monday imposed life-long bans on two former Honduran officials for involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme to which both have pled guilty. ...
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| Five men sentenced to death for 2013 Hyderabad bombings | |  Five men were sentenced to death by a court on Monday for their role in two deadly bombings in 2013 in the city of Hyderabad, including the co-founder of an outlawed Islamist group accused of involvement in a series of attacks. The convictions last week of Yasin Bhatkal, founder of Indian Mujahideen, and the others marked the first time members of the group had been found guilty, the National Investigation Agency, India's chief counterterrorism organisation, said after the sentences were handed down. The trial took place in a special court run by the NIA and the five convicted are expected to appeal against the judgment.
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| Forty-one die in Siberia after drinking bath oil for alcoholic kicks | | | By Andrew Osborn and Peter Hobson MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 41 residents of the Siberian city of Irkutsk have died after drinking scented bath oil in a desperate search for an alcoholic high in one of the deadliest cases of its kind in years, Russian investigators said on Monday. Use of counterfeit or surrogate alcohol is rife in Russia's regions, where two years of economic pain have pushed more people below the poverty line. Russian media reported that the victims were poor residents of Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow. |
| Duterte defends China, says unfair to blame Beijing for Philippines' drug problem | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's office, responding to a Reuters report, came to China's defence on Monday, saying it was unfair to hold Beijing responsible for the drug problem in the Philippines. "Many of those running the drug trade are Chinese triads, which are criminal syndicates. "China has strict anti-drug laws, which carries even the penalty of execution when caught," the statement from the Presidential Communications Office said.
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| IMF board to consider Lagarde negligence verdict - spokesman | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary's Executive Board is expected to meet shortly to consider the negligence verdict issued against Managing Director Christine Lagarde by a French court, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said on Monday. "The Executive Board has met on previous occasions to consider developments related to the legal proceedings in France," Rice said in a brief statement. "It is expected that the Board will meet again shortly to consider the most recent developments." (Reporting by David Lawder Editing by W Simon)
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| Cracks deepen in Palestinian politics as Abbas clamps down | |  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has tightened his grip on power by stripping the parliamentary immunity of five lawmakers seen as opposing him, weeks after being reappointed chairman of the main political party. The move follows a decision by a Palestinian court last week to sentence Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah party member and vocal Abbas critic, to three years in prison over the disappearance of $16 million when he was in office several years ago. While Abbas has no immediate challengers, he appears to be at pains to shore up his authority amid criticism over his rule from neighbouring Arab states, from the Hamas Islamist movement and from Israel.
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| Killings in Indian police custody go unpunished, says rights group | | | By Anuradha Nagaraj CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Senthil Kumar's mother saw him being dragged off by policemen on charges of extortion. Standing outside the Vadamadurai police station in Tamil Nadu, she heard him scream for mercy. "He didn't die, he was killed," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, recalling the events of April 2010. |
| IMF chief Lagarde has left France before trial verdict - lawyer | |  PARIS (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has left France for Washington and will not be present for the verdict in her negligence trial, her lawyer told Reuters. The verdict was due later on Monday. The trial relates to a case in which Lagarde, as French finance minister, approved a 400 million euro ($417 million) state payout to a business tycoon in 2008. She denies the negligence charges. (Reporting by Chine Labbe; Writing by Andrew Callus: Editing by Brian Love)
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