Monday, 9 October 2017

Protests but no talks as Catalonia crisis goes down to wire

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BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government and its Catalonia region showed no signs of compromise on Monday, a day after hundreds of thousands of pro-Spain unionists protested in Barcelona against Catalan leaders' plans to declare independence as early as this week.


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Brexit talks stutter, but EU leaders might give May break

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union negotiators see no big breakthrough in a new round of Brexit talks from Monday nor when Theresa May attends a summit next week, yet leaders could offer the beleaguered British prime minister a hand, EU officials believe.


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Srebrenica's Muslim defender cleared of crimes, Serbs protest

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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Naser Oric, the Bosnian Muslim commander who led the defense of Srebrenica during the 1992-95 war, was cleared of war crimes against Serbs on Monday, a ruling that is set to exacerbate ethnic divisions two decades after the conflict.


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NATO to launch Black Sea force as latest counter to Russia

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - NATO launches a new multinational force in Romania on Monday in its latest step to counter Russia along its eastern flank and to check a growing Russian presence in the Black Sea following the Kremlin's 2014 seizure of Crimea.


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Many Las Vegas Strip lights dimmed exactly a week since the shooting - CBS News

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Many Las Vegas Strip lights dimmed exactly a week since the shooting
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Apparently Trump can deny birth control to millions of American women – but can’t do a thing about guns

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Apparently Trump can deny birth control to millions of American women – but can’t do a thing about gunsIt’s not unusual for dinners with friends to dissolve into seances of despair about Donald Trump and America’s Republican leaders. First, disgust at Trump showing up in Puerto Rico and lobbing rolls of paper towel into the crowd, not surprising perhaps given the number of Spanish-speakers present, feeling raw on the topic. The Mayor of Puerto Rican capital San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz (whom I’d interviewed on the island on Monday), deemed the display “terrible and degrading”.




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Poles pray en masse at border; Some see anti-Muslim agenda

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Poles pray en masse at border; Some see anti-Muslim agendaGDANSK, Poland (AP) — Polish Catholics held rosaries and prayed together Saturday along the country's 3,500-kilometer (2,000-mile) border, appealing to the Virgin Mary and God for salvation for Poland and the world in a national event that some felt had anti-Muslim overtones.




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Trump says giving peace a chance before U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem: interview

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Trump says giving peace a chance before U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem: interviewPresident Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that he wanted to give a shot at achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians before moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In June Trump signed a temporary order to keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, despite a campaign promise he made to move it to Jerusalem. In an interview with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on the TBN program "Huckabee," Trump noted his administration was working on a plan for peace between the two sides.




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Gunman kills two guards at Saudi royal palace

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Gunman kills two guards at Saudi royal palaceA gunman shot dead two Saudi guards and wounded three others at the gate of the royal palace in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Saturday, the interior ministry said. Royal guards killed the gunman, identified by the ministry as a 28-year-old Saudi national armed with a Kalashnikov and three grenades. "An outpost of the royal guard came under fire by a person who got out of a Hyundai car," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.




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Iran Guard chief warns US against imposing new sanctions

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Iran Guard chief warns US against imposing new sanctionsTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The chief of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Sunday the U.S. should move its military bases farther from Iran's borders if it imposes new sanctions against Tehran, the official IRNA news reported.




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Danish divers find missing body parts of Swedish journalist

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Danish divers find missing body parts of Swedish journalistBy Teis Jensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor's homemade submarine. Peter Madsen has been charged with killing the Swedish journalist who disappeared after she went on a trip with him in his submarine on August 10. Madsen, a Dane, was arrested after his submarine sank and he was rescued.




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Let's get started on coalition talks, Germany's Greens say

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Greens on Monday said talks on a three-way coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) should get under way after the conservative bloc overcame a key stumbling block by settling its migrant row.


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US, Turkey mutually suspend visa services in escalating row

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US, Turkey mutually suspend visa services in escalating rowThe United States and Turkey on Sunday scaled back visa issuing services in each other's countries in a deepening diplomatic row sparked by the arrest of a Turkish staffer at the American mission in Istanbul. The American embassy in Ankara said that "recent events" forced the US government to reassess Turkey's "commitment" to the security of US mission services and personnel in the country. In order to minimise the number of visitors while the assessment is carried out, "effective immediately we have suspended all non-immigrant visa services at all US diplomatic facilities in Turkey," it said.




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