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| Divisions in Italy's ruling party may crimp chances of early vote | |  By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) - Widening divisions in Italy's ruling Democratic Party (PD) may reduce the chance of the early elections its leader Matteo Renzi has been calling for since he was toppled as prime minister last month. Rivals in the PD threaten to break away and two opinion polls this week suggest they would take lots of votes with them, sharply reducing Renzi's chances of returning to power. Renzi, who stepped down as premier when Italians threw out his proposals for constitution reform in a referendum, has been pushing for a vote by June, around a year ahead of schedule.
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| France's Le Pen defiant as EU seeks return of misspent money | |  France's far-right candidate for president, Marine Le Pen, was set to lose 7,000 euros a month from her European Parliament earnings from Wednesday after defying a demand to repay nearly 300,000 euros of EU funds an investigation says she misspent. The parliament concluded that, in her role as French National Front leader, Le Pen had during the 2011-12 legislature paid party staff with the funds, which EU rules say should be used only to pay EU lawmakers' assistants. Le Pen, locked in an increasingly tight three-way race to succeed Francois Hollande this spring, said she would not "submit to persecution" by paying the money back.
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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, which started 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 May 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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| Protests after Pakistan detains Hafiz Saeed, alleged architect of Mumbai attack | |  By Saad Sayeed and Mehreen Zahra-Malik LAHORE, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani supporters of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed staged small protests on Tuesday and condemned the United States, after police detained the accused architect of an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008. Saeed, pointed to by critics as evidence of Pakistan's reluctance to crack down hard enough on militants, was held late on Monday at the headquarters of his charity before being placed under house arrest at his home in the eastern city of Lahore. The move follows a U.S. visa ban by President Donald Trump aimed at countries deemed linked to terrorism, and, while Pakistan was not named, a Pakistani official said worry over the new administration was a factor in the decision.
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| Italy police arrest three suspected of running arms trafficking ring | | | Three Italians were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of smuggling helicopters and surface-to-air missiles into Libya and Iran between 2011 and 2015 in violation of international embargoes, police said. The three Italians and the Libyan were accused of smuggling military helicopters and weapons such as surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank missiles to Libya and Iran between 2011 and 2015. The Rome company also exported so-called "dual use" industrial equipment - which could be used for both military and civilian purposes - without authorisation from Italian ministries. |
| Britain to have closest possible nuclear ties post-Brexit, says minister | |  Britain will maintain the closest possible nuclear cooperation with the European Union after it leaves the bloc and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), Britain's Brexit minister David Davis said on Tuesday. Presenting a new law to parliament to trigger the formal divorce procedure with the bloc, Davis told lawmakers: "Our aims are clear, we will maintain the closest possible nuclear cooperation with the European Union, that relationship could take a number of different forms and will be subject to negotiation." Experts have said that Britain's departure from Euratom could raise costs, delay new nuclear power projects and complicate research and international cooperation agreements.
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| Austrian court sentences Afghan teenagers to prison over gang rape | | | An Austrian court sentenced three Afghan asylum seekers to prison on Tuesday over the gang-rape of a woman at a train station last year, a case that fuelled debate over immigrants and security during the country's presidential election. The rape of a 21-year-old in a station toilet in Vienna last April was one of the first serious crimes committed by asylum seekers after Austria was swept up in Europe's migration crisis in 2015, and was covered at length by the tabloid press. |
| Trump state visit to Britain "months away" - UK PM May spokeswoman | |  A planned state visit to Britain by U.S. President Donald Trump is months away and any programme has yet to be worked out, a spokeswoman for British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday. More than 1.6 million people have signed an online petition calling for Trump's visit to be cancelled to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth, in protest at his immigration policies.
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| U.N. court orders Turkey to release imprisoned judge | | | A United Nations court ordered Turkey to release Aydin Sefa Akay, a Turkish judge and diplomat caught up in the post-coup crackdown, so he could resume his place on the court's bench hearing a case against a Rwandan genocide suspect. The U.N. Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals said in a ruling on Tuesday that as a U.N. judge, Akay enjoyed diplomatic immunity and his imprisonment violated judicial independence. The court, legal successor to the tribunals that tried crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan genocide, had been due to hear pleadings by Augustin Ngirabatware, a Rwandan politician serving 30 years for inciting genocide. |
| Poland's Walesa collaborated with communist secret police - institute | |  By Anna Koper WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's government-affiliated history institute said on Tuesday it had new evidence that Lech Walesa, who led protests and strikes that shook communist rule in the 1980s, had been a secret police informant in the 1970s. A lawyer for Walesa, whose actions leading the Solidarity trade union contributed to the fall of communism throughout eastern Europe, said the evidence could be faulty and asked to question the assessors. The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) said a handwriting study showed recently-publicised documents suggesting Walesa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace prize and later became president, had indeed collaborated were genuine.
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| Turkey dismissed more than 90,000 public servants in post-coup purge - minister | |  Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 90,000 public servants for alleged connections to a coup attempt in July as part of a purge critics say has broadened to target any political opposition to President Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking to reporters at a roundtable interview broadcast on television, Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said 125,485 people from the public service had been put through legal proceedings after the coup attempt, and that 94,867 of those had been dismissed so far. Turkey has been rooting out followers of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of having infiltrated state institutions and plotted to overthrow the government.
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| Philippines' Duterte asks China to patrol piracy-plagued waters | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he had asked China to help in the fight against Islamic State-linked militants by sending ships to patrol southern waters plagued by raids on commercial vessels. Speaking to newly promoted army generals, Duterte said he had sought China's help in dangerous waters in the south to check the activities of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim rebel group sustained by piracy and kidnap-for-ransom activities. A surge in piracy off parts of the Philippines is forcing ship-owners to divert vessels through other waters, pushing up costs and shipping times.
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| Philippines narcotics agency takes over drugs war, possible military role | |  By Manuel Mogato and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte suggested on Tuesday he may seek military support after withdrawing the national police from his war on drugs and handing the job to a much smaller anti-narcotics agency. More than 7,600 people, mostly users and small-time dealers, have been killed since Duterte took office at the end of June, vowing to crack down on methamphetamine use. About 2,550 of the deaths were in police operations while the others were vigilante killings or were unsolved murders.
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| French parliament searched as part of probe into Fillon's wife's "fake job" - source | |  Investigators are searching the French lower house of parliament as part of a probe into allegations that the wife of presidential candidate Francois Fillon had a "fake job", a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. The raid is not taking place in Fillon's office, a Reuters reporter witnessed, while the source said it was likely taking place in the parliament's administrative offices. France's financial prosecutor's office opened an investigation last week after the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine reported that Penelope Fillon had been paid 500,000 euros ($535,050) from state funds as a parliamentary assistant to her husband and his successor, but that it could find no evidence that she had actually done any work.
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| Malaysian police arrest three suspected Islamic State sympathisers | | | Malaysian authorities have arrested three men for suspected links with the Islamic State militant group, police said on Tuesday. Muslim-majority Malaysia has been on high alert since an attack last January by Islamic State-linked militants in Jakarta, the capital of neighbouring Indonesia. Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar said the suspects were detained in three separate raids from Jan. 27 to Jan. 29. |
| Interview - UK lawyer plots legal bid to make Brexit reversible | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - As British lawmakers gather to debate whether to trigger the formal exit from the European Union, London lawyer Jolyon Maugham is building a case which he hopes will ensure that British voters can still reverse it. The 45-year-old tax specialist, an opponent of leaving the EU, said it was right for Prime Minister Theresa May to start the exit process, but voters should also have a right to change their minds if parliament rejects the terms she negotiates. Maugham told Reuters at his offices in central London he believed last year's referendum meant parliament should vote to give May the authority to invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon treaty, which would pull Britain out of the bloc in two years.
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| Kenya extradites four men to U.S. on suspicion of heroin smuggling | | | By David Lewis and Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Four men charged with directing a major heroin trafficking ring have been extradited to the United States from Kenya, a law enforcement official and an investigator told Reuters on Tuesday, in what officials say is a major blow to East Africa's cartels. Baktash Akasha and his brother Ibrahim were arrested two years ago in Kenya along with two other men, Gulam Hussein and Vijaygiri Goswami, in a U.S.-led sting operation. |
| South African 'Bull Dog' prosecutor made famous by Pistorius trial resigns | |  South African prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who oversaw the conviction of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), its spokesman said on Tuesday. During the Pistorius trial, Nel painstakingly crafted a picture of Pistorius as a cold-blooded killer who fired through a door at his cowering girlfriend. For his no-nonsense attitude, Nel earned the nickname 'The Bull Dog' as a prosecutor.
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