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| Lawyer's killing meant to 'destabilise' Myanmar, says president's office | |  By Simon Lewis and Shwe Yee Saw Myint YANGON (Reuters) - The office of Myanmar's civilian president said on Tuesday that the assassination of a lawyer advising the ruling party on amending a military-drafted constitution was likely an effort to destabilise the country. A lone gunman shot Ko Ni, 63, an adviser to the ruling National League for Democracy, in the head in front of onlookers as the widely respected Muslim advocate held his young grandson at Yangon's international airport on Sunday. "The initial interrogation indicates the intention to destabilise the state," the office of President Htin Kyaw said in a statement carried in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
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| Protests expected after Pakistan detains alleged architect of Mumbai attack | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police confined the accused architect of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to house arrest on Tuesday, manning barricades outside his home in the city of Lahore as supporters vowed protests. The detention of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed follows action by the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump aimed at countries deemed linked to terrorism, and one Pakistani official said the fear of U.S. action against Pakistan had been a factor in the decision to hold Saeed. India has been demanding action against him since the attack on Mumbai by 10 gunmen from Pakistan, who infiltrated the city by boat and killed 166 people in a rampage that included attacks on two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre and a train station.
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| May's Brexit plan likely to survive parliamentary assault | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to leave the European Union is expected to survive weeks of intense parliamentary scrutiny starting on Tuesday, despite pro-EU lawmakers' attempts to force the government to rethink its strategy. May's government is seeking approval for a new law giving her the right to trigger Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the bloc - after the Supreme Court ruled last week that she could not take that decision unilaterally. Some lawmakers will try to use the legislative process to press her to reveal closely-guarded details of her negotiating strategy, give parliament and devolved governments more say over the exit talks, or even block Brexit entirely.
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| Cambodia's opposition leader loses key role ahead of elections | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's parliament stripped the main opposition leader of a key role on Tuesday, further weakening veteran Prime Minister Hun Sen's opponents ahead of elections. Kem Sokha, deputy leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), had held the minority leader status under a 2014 agreement to end political deadlock and promote dialogue between Hun Sen and the Southeast Asian country's opposition. The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has a slim majority in parliament and voted unanimously on Tuesday to remove Kem Sokha's minority leader status.
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| Tech companies to meet on legal challenge to Trump immigration order | |  By Dan Levine and Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of technology companies plans to meet on Tuesday to discuss filing an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, said a spokesperson for a company organizing the gathering. Amicus, or friend of the court, briefs are filed by parties who are not litigants in a case but want to offer arguments or information to the judge. Alphabet Inc's Google, Airbnb Inc and Netflix Inc are among the companies invited, a separate person familiar with the situation said.
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| Fired: Trump dumps top lawyer who defied immigration order | |  By Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another dramatic twist in the unusually raucous roll-out of Trump's directive that put a 120-day hold on allowing refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria and a 90-day bar on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Friday night ban prompted protests and chaos at airports on the weekend as customs officials struggled to put the order into practise, and the fallout spread to U.S. markets on Monday, where stocks suffered their biggest drop of 2017 and companies affected by the change spoke out against it.
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| USOC say foreign athletes not affected by Trump travel ban | | | The U.S. Olympic Committee said on Monday they were told by the U.S. government that President Donald Trump's ban on visitors from some Muslim-majority countries should not impact athletes traveling to the United States for international events. USOC leaders have received a number of inquiries about the impact of Trump's travel ban and said the U.S. government told them it would work to ensure foreign athletes get expedited access to the United States for international competitions. "We have been specifically asked about the impact that the executive order could have on athletes and officials coming to the United States to compete," said USOC Chairman Larry Probst and chief executive Scott Blackmun. |
| Murder of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley's ex-wife solved | |  By Steve Gorman and Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Investigators have solved the 1976 murder of the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley, using DNA analysis to confirm she was slain by a career burglar who was killed six years later as a prison escapee, police said on Monday. Karen Klaas, a 32-year-old mother of two boys, was attacked in her home in Hermosa Beach, south of Los Angeles, shortly after returning from dropping her younger son off at school on the morning of Jan. 30, 1976. The killing grabbed headlines partly because of her former marriage to Medley, who with Bobby Hatfield made up the singing duo known for such hits as "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" and "Unchained Melody." Medley and Klaas were married from 1964 to 1970.
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| Quebec suspect seen as nerdy outcast,' fan of France's right-wing Le Pen | |  By Kevin Dougherty QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student charged in a shooting spree that killed six people at a Quebec City mosque was known in online circles as a supporter of far-right French politician Marine Le Pen and described by a former classmate as a "nerdy outcast." Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, the sole suspect in Sunday night's shooting, was charged on Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. On his Facebook page, he indicated he liked Le Pen, U.S. President Donald Trump, the separatist Parti Quebecois as well as Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, the Israeli Defense Forces, heavy metal band Megadeth and pop star Katy Perry.
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| Odebrecht pulls out of Panama canal bridge tender amid probe | |  Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, under investigation for paying hundreds of millions in bribes across Latin America, withdrew its bid to build a bridge over the Panama canal, the president of the Central American nation said on Monday. Last week, Panama prosecutors said they had charged 17 people, including several businessmen and former government officials, with money laundering in its bribery case against Odebrecht S.A. Prosecutors have not yet identified the people involved. President Juan Carlos Varela announced Odebrecht's pull-out via Twitter.
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| Despite tough Canadian rules, illegal guns within reach | |  By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams WINNIPEG/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's gun control laws ban dozens of assault rifles, but some permitted firearms are easily modified for greater damage, and more lax regulations in the United States make smuggled weapons accessible, experts said after a rare Canadian mass shooting on Sunday. A man was charged on Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon in the shooting at a Quebec City mosque. Semi-automatic guns can legally hold magazines up to five rounds in Canada, but many military-style semi-automatics are easily modified to 30 rounds, said A.J. Somerset, an author on gun issues.
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