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Gina Haspel set to become first woman CIA director, but torture allegations continue to haunt her career
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Gina Haspel set to become first woman CIA director, but torture allegations continue to haunt her career
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Taiwan government calls Chinese military drills a threat to regional peace and stability
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Indian-Americans in Washington protest in front of Indian Embassy against Kathua, Unnao rapes, demand swift justice
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Donald Trump says he will pull out of summit with Kim Jong-un if he feels meeting isn't 'fruitful'
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Apr 19, 2018
Stormy Daniels' lawyer offers $100,000 to identify man she says threatened her
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Tuesday released a sketch of a man she said warned her in 2011 to stop discussing her claims she had a sexual encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump, while her lawyer offered a $100,000 reward for information about the man -
Apr 19, 2018
'Windrush generation' migrants are British - PM May
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday the "Windrush generation", people who came to Britain as children after World War Two, were British and her government would not tell them to leave the country. -
Apr 19, 2018
Top Japanese finance bureaucrat resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top finance bureaucrat resigned on Wednesday after a weekly magazine said he had sexually harassed several female reporters, the latest blow for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe whose ratings have been hit by a series of scandals. Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters that he had accepted Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda's resignation. It is the latest in a number of headaches for Aso and Abe -
Apr 19, 2018
Russia's Lavrov to hold talks with U.N. Syria envoy
MOSCOW/GENEVA (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with the United Nation's Syria peace envoy, Staffan de Mistura, on Friday, the RIA news agency reported, citing the foreign ministry. "I confirm that these talks are planned for Friday," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. De Mistura is conducting an intensive round of talks with world powers with a view to relaunching stalled peace talks between Damascus and the armed opposition, his office said in Geneva. -
Apr 19, 2018
British regulator opens seven investigations into Russia's RT news channel
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator has opened seven investigations into whether Russian news channel RT broke impartiality rules in broadcasts made since a Russian double-agent was poisoned in the English city of Salisbury last month. The regulator Ofcom had warned that RT producer TV Novosti could lose its right to broadcast in Britain if it failed its "fit and proper" test. "Until recently, TV Novosti's overall compliance record has not been materially out of line with other broadcasters," Ofcom said on Wednesday -
Apr 19, 2018
Syrian rescuers give OPCW team locations of suspected attack graves
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian "White Helmets" rescue organisation has pinpointed for international inspectors the places where the victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack on April 7 are buried, its head Raed Saleh said on Wednesday. -
Apr 19, 2018
Trump says CIA director Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un last week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director and his nominee to be the top U.S. diplomat, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week. -
Apr 19, 2018
Tens of thousands detained in China's Xinjiang, U.S. diplomat says
By Philip Wen BEIJING (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people have been detained in China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang, a senior U.S. State Department diplomat said on Wednesday, amid a deepening crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in China. Laura Stone, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told reporters in Beijing that the mass detentions in so-called political re-education centres "paints a disturbing picture" and called on Chinese authorities to have a "more transparent and accountable system". -
Apr 19, 2018
Russia's Lavrov to hold talks with U.N. Syria envoy on Friday: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with Staffan de Mistura, the United Nation's Syria peace envoy, on Friday, the RIA news agency reported, citing the foreign ministry. "I confirm that these talks are planned for Friday," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said -
Apr 18, 2018
Britain opens seven investigations into Russia's RT news channel
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator said it had opened seven investigations into whether Russian news channel RT had broken impartiality rules in broadcasts made since a Russian double-agent was poisoned in the English city of Salisbury last month. The regulator Ofcom had warned that RT producer TV Novosti could lose its right to broadcast in Britain if it failed its "fit and proper" test. RT did not immediately respond to a request for comment. -
Apr 18, 2018
Airlines inspecting Boeing 737 engines after fatal Southwest incident
By Jamie Freed SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some major customers of Boeing Co's popular 737 jets including Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Wednesday they were inspecting engines of the type that blew apart mid-air on a fatal Southwest Airlines Co flight on Tuesday. European regulators this month began requiring an inspection by early next year, and a person familiar with the matter said U.S. regulators were near a similar rule, which affects a number of 737s in operation globally -
Apr 18, 2018
In Sweden, wind farms and warplanes battle for airspace
By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO (Reuters) - Several wind farm projects in Sweden are under threat due to the government's decision to reserve more airspace for its armed forces, according to two companies and an industry lobby group. In November, the government said its air force had labelled more airspace as low-flying zones in order to protect its operations from the expanding wind power industry. The move, to avoid planes colliding with wind turbines, has created uncertainty for a number of planned wind farms. -
Apr 18, 2018
Greek ferries docked at ports as seamen strike against reforms
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek ferries remained docked at the country's ports on Wednesday as seamen, marine engineers and ship cooks walked off the job to protest against planned government reforms which they say will further hurt their labour rights. -
Apr 18, 2018
Top Japanese bureaucrat resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top finance bureaucrat resigned on Wednesday after a weekly magazine said he had sexually harassed several female reporters, the latest blow for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe whose ratings have been hit by a series of scandals. Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters that he had accepted Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda's resignation. It is the latest in a number of headaches for Aso and Abe -
Apr 18, 2018
Top Japanese bureaucrat resigns after allegation of sexual harassment
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top finance bureaucrat resigned on Wednesday, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, after a weekly magazine reported that he had sexually harassed several female reporters. Administrative Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda denied the allegations, published in the Shincho magazine. Aso told reporters that he had accepted Fukuda's resignation -
Apr 18, 2018
Mexico leftist opens up 22 point lead in presidency race - poll
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has extended his lead in the race to win the July 1 election, opening up a gap of 22 percentage points in effective terms, a poll by newspaper Reforma showed on Wednesday. The April 12-15 voter poll showed Lopez Obrador winning 48 percent support, a jump of six points from a February survey by Reforma -
Apr 18, 2018
Indonesia seeks to limit cash transactions to fight bribery
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government has proposed a law to parliament to limit cash transactions to curb bribery and money laundering in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, the head of the country's anti-money laundering watchdog said on Wednesday. The draft bill, which limits any cash payments to a maximum 100 million rupiah ($7,260), will be assigned as a legislative priority for 2018, said Ki Agus Badaruddin, head of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK), adding that he hoped the bill can be approved later this year. "Basically, the assumption is this restriction will reduce the space in which one can commit acts of money laundering and terrorism financing," said Badaruddin. -
Apr 18, 2018
Substance X furore rekindles Dutch debate on loosening euthanasia rules
By Stephanie van den Berg ZWOLLE, Netherlands (Reuters) - When a Dutch right-to-die group said in February it would make good on its promise to help members buy a cheap and painless suicide powder dubbed "Substance X", 81-year-old Carla Jas, who joined the group in 2013, celebrated the news. -
Apr 18, 2018
Southwest Airlines to speed up inspections after engine explodes, killing one
By Mark Makela PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co will speed up inspections of all related engines out of extra caution, the airline said, after a passenger was killed when an engine on one of its planes exploded and broke apart mid-air. Southwest Flight 1380, which took off from New York bound for Dallas with 144 passengers and five crew members aboard, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday after an engine on the Boeing 737-700 ripped apart, killing bank executive Jennifer Riordan, 43. -
Apr 18, 2018
USCIS tightens rules on US citizenship for children born outside America
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services today tightened its rules on citizenship requirements for children born outside the country in cases when when at least one of the child's parents already has US citizenship. America's visa regulator USCIS made edits in existing policy and is now mandating that at least one parent should have been physically present in the US for at least 5 years in all cases of children born to a US citizen and a foreign citizen. -
Apr 18, 2018
Narendra Modi in UK: Commonwealth must confront, exorcise ghosts of colonial past if it wishes to remain a viable project
If the Commonwealth is to be a viable and egalitarian contemporary project, it must first admit to the delinquencies of Empire and make some sort of reparation
