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62-yr-old Indian-origin neurologist in US charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud
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62-yr-old Indian-origin neurologist in US charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud
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Sushma Swaraj appeals to 500 Indians to leave Tripoli immediately as situation in Libya deteriorates
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Hi, Hitler: What creators looking to satirise the Führer must remember about the perils of parody
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Papal Good Friday service draws attention to world's poor
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Apr 19, 2019
Time-lapse shots of Notre-Dame spire may yield clues on blaze
By Michel Rose and Julie Carriat PARIS (Reuters) - A time lapse camera installed just hours before Monday's devastating blaze at Notre-Dame de Paris may contain vital clues as to what caused the inferno, a French scaffolding company working at the cathedral said on Thursday. Europe Echafaudage was one of five companies contracted to restore Notre-Dame's 90-metre (295-foot) spire, which collapsed in the blaze, crashing through the cathedral's vaulted ceiling. Footage from the camera, which was placed on the northern belltower and is now in the hands of investigators, shows the first smoke coming out of the spire's base, Marc Eskenazi, a representative for Europe Echafaudage, told Reuters -
Apr 19, 2019
Mueller finds no conspiracy, but extensive Trump-Russia contacts
By Nathan Layne and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller may not have found evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia, but his report details extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives who sought to influence the election. Mueller said in his report released on Thursday that he found "numerous links" and that the Trump campaign "expected it would benefit" from Russia's effort to tilt the ballot in Trump's favour. Ultimately, Mueller determined the various contacts either didn't amount to criminal behaviour or would be difficult to prove in court, even if people in Trump's orbit sometimes displayed a willingness to accept Russian help, the report showed. Trump and his allies, who derided the Mueller probe as a political "witch hunt", portrayed the report as vindication -
Apr 19, 2019
How Mueller's decision on obstruction helped save Trump
By Jan Wolfe and Noeleen Walder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Attorney General decided that President Donald Trump did not obstruct a probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia, but some legal experts said prosecutors laid out a wealth of evidence to the contrary and that they intended to leave that determination to Congress -
Apr 19, 2019
Ecuador judge orders detention for ex-minister connected to Assange
QUITO (Reuters) - A judge in Ecuador has ordered former foreign minister Ricardo Patino be held in pre-trial detention on a so-called instigation charge, the attorney general's office said on Thursday, but the ex-official's whereabouts are unknown. The administration of President Lenin Moreno has said that Patino, who served as foreign minister under the previous government of President Rafael Correa, is connected to WikiLeaks. Moreno stripped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of his diplomatic asylum last week. -
Apr 19, 2019
Protesters converge on Sudan defence ministry to demand civilian rule
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Huge crowds formed outside Sudan's defence ministry on Thursday, joining a sit-in protest to demand that the country's transitional military council hand power to civilians. Hundreds of thousands packed the streets by early evening - the largest crowds to gather in the centre of the capital since last week, when former President Omar al-Bashir was ousted and the military council took over. Protesters chanted "Freedom and revolution are the choice of the people" and "Civilian rule, civilian rule", and waved national flags. -
Apr 19, 2019
Islamic State cites 69 casualties from Nigerian army and African troops
By Hesham Hajali CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) has recorded 69 casualties from the Nigerian Army and troops from an African anti-militant force in attacks over the past week, the Jihadist group said in its weekly paper on Thursday. -
Apr 19, 2019
Mali government resigns after massacre, insecurity
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga and his whole government resigned on Thursday, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation. "The President accepts the resignation of the prime minister and that of the members of government," a statement from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's office said -
Apr 19, 2019
Islamic State says records 69 casualties from Nigerian army and African troops over past week
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) has recorded 69 casualties from the Nigerian Army and troops from an African anti-militant force in attacks over the past week, the Jihadist group said in a weekly paper on Thursday. In its newspaper Al-Nabaa, it said the attacks took place in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno and a town in the Lake Chad region, which covers Chad and Nigeria -
Apr 19, 2019
Brazil president says he wants the Amazon to be exploited 'in a reasonable way'
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that he wanted the country's vast Amazon rainforest to be exploited "in a reasonable way" and criticized the creation of new indigenous reserves by previous governments. In a Facebook live video, the far-right leader also said he planned to travel to Hungary and Poland in the second half of the year. -
Apr 19, 2019
Mortar bombs land on Tripoli suburb as two-week battle rages on
By Hani Amara and Ulf Laessing AL-SUANI, Libya/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of Tripoli on Thursday, almost hitting a clinic and adding to people's suffering after two weeks of an offensive by eastern troops on the Libyan capital, which is held by an internationally recognised government. Shelling could be also heard late at night in parts of Tripoli, residents said -
Apr 19, 2019
Islamic State claims its first Congo attack
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed its first attack in Congo on Thursday, and declared it the "Central Africa Province" of the "Caliphate," after two Congolese soldiers and a civilian were killed in a shootout. The three died in clashes on Tuesday in Bovata, near the town of Beni, a source at the U.N. peacekeeping mission and a civil society leader told Reuters. -
Apr 19, 2019
Trump curses Mueller appointment: 'This is the end of my presidency'
By Ginger Gibson and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump believed the appointment of a special counsel to take over the federal probe of Russian interference into the 2016 election would spell the end of his presidency, according to the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. When then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions informed Trump of Mueller's appointment in May 2017, the report said, Trump slumped back in his chair and said: "Oh my God. -
Apr 19, 2019
In unflattering detail, Mueller report reveals Trump actions to impede inquiry
By Sarah N. Lynch and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on his inquiry into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. -
Apr 19, 2019
North Korea calls for Pompeo to be dropped from talks; tests tactical weapon
By Joyce Lee and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and that he should be replaced in talks by someone more mature, hours after it announced its first weapons test since nuclear talks broke down -
Apr 19, 2019
For Notre-Dame, lessons from a fire-damaged New York cathedral
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris can begin, engineers may have to tap nearly every stone in the cathedral and listen for subtle sounds of damage, according to specialists who repaired one of the largest cathedrals in the world in New York after a devastating 2001 fire. -
Apr 19, 2019
Thousands of Peruvians say goodbye to ex-president following suicide
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Thousand of Peruvians said goodbye on Thursday in Lima to ex-president Alan Garcia -- who killed himself this week - in the second of three days of national mourning declared by President Martin Vizcarra. Garcia shot himself in the head on Wednesday to avoid arrest in connection with alleged bribes from Brazilian builder Odebrecht, in the most dramatic turn yet in Latin America's largest graft scandal -
Apr 19, 2019
Officials pay tribute to victims of Madeira tourist bus crash
By Rafael Marchante, Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira CANICO, Portugal (Reuters) - In a show of solidarity, the foreign ministers of Germany and Portugal laid two wreaths near the site where 29 German tourists died on Wednesday after their bus overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira. -
Apr 19, 2019
Mueller report leaves Democrats in a quandary
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats clamoured for the speedy release of U.S. -
Apr 19, 2019
U.S. launches four-state study to find ways to reduce opioid overdose deaths
By Manas Mishra and Tamara Mathias (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Thursday said they will spend $350 million in four states to study ways to best deal with the nation's opioid crisis on the local level, with a goal of reducing opioid-related overdose deaths by 40 percent over three years in selected communities in those states. -
Apr 19, 2019
Expansive New Kingdom tomb unveiled in Egypt's Luxor
LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled an unusually large tomb on Luxor's west bank dated to ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty.
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