Wednesday, June 10, 2015

OSBORNE TO DELIVER MANSION SPEECH WITH BANKS CONSIDERING EXIT

British Chancellor George Osborne's annual Mansion House speech later will be closely watched for potential olive branches to banks like HSBC, considering leaving the UK.

HSBC announced massive job cuts on Tuesday, and is to decide whether to leave Britain for Hong Kong by the end of the year.

It's one of several banks considering a move over what they see as a punitive regulatory regime in the UK.

And it follows a surprise hike in the bank levy - a tax on their balance sheets - announced before May's election.

Alex Brummer, City editor of the Daily Mail, says George Osborne knows HSBC have threatened a return to Hong Kong before.

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MENEZES FAMILY TAKE SHOOTING TO EUROPEAN COURT

The family of the innocent Brazilian man shot dead by London police in 2005 because they thought he was a suicide bomber, are taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights (Wednesday).

His relatives are challenging a UK Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute anyone over his death.

Jean Charles de Menezes was shot at a London Underground station after police mistook him for a terrorist, in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings and the failed suicide bombings two weeks later.

Tom Swarbrick reports.

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Court Upholds Stringent Texas Abortion Law

A US court has upheld some of the most stringent measures of a Texas abortion law. 
The ruling could shutter nearly half of the few remaining abortion clinics in Texas. 
Rachel Silverman reports. 

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Hunt for escaped prisoners focuses on New York town

Police hunting for two escaped prisoners in New York are focusing their search on a small town just 35 miles from the jail.


A local farmer encountered two men who fit the description of the two escaped murderers on Monday night.


From Washington, Simon Marks reports.


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Bomb threat evacuates US Congress building, White House

A pair of bomb threats prompted the evacuation of a U.S. Senate office building and then a short while later, the White House press room while the daily briefing was underway.

Both locations were checked and nothing suspicious found.

Our Washington Correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:

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Once the all-cleared was announced, White House spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed that the U.S. Secret Service had received a bomb threat against the press briefing room.

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The U.S. Secret Service brought in bomb sniffer dogs to search the briefing room.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest was not able to confirm if offices nearby - such as the Oval offive or the White House itself - were evacuated.

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Daughter of murdered opposition leader leaves Russia

A daughter of murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov says she has left Russia to live in exile.


She accuses pro-Kremlin media of spreading hateful propaganda.


Tom Barton reports.


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Libya parliament rejects UN-power sharing proposal


Libya's elected government has rejected a United Nations-proposed power-sharing deal

The country's parliament suspended it's involvement in UN-brokered talks after claims the draft proposal would give a rival administration more power.

Libya has been hit by instability since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 - the country currently has two rival governments in place, and nearly two thousand militia groups vying for territorial control.

Jeff Rathke speaking for the US State Department said the peace talks were still on track. 

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Jeff Rathke responded to reports that dozens of Eritrean Christians has been kidnapped by ISIS militants in Libya

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Libya's elected parliament rejects UN proposal for unity government

A fourth attempt by the United Nations to find a political solution for the Libyan crisis has hit a wall.

Libya’s elected parliament on Tuesday rejected the latest U-N proposal for a unity government, and backed off from negotiations.

U-N Correspondent Liling Tan reports from New York.

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Libya's elected parliament rejects UN proposal for Libya unity government

A fourth attempt by the United Nations to find a political solution for the Libyan crisis has hit a wall.


Libya's elected parliament on Tuesday rejected the latest U-N proposal for a unity government, and backed off from negotiations.


U-N Correspondent Liling Tan reports from New York.


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Pentagon admits live anthrax sent to Britain

The Pentagon has admitted it sent live anthrax to Britain, widening the scandal over the mishandling of the pathogen.

As John Clarke reports from Washington, the latest revelation is another embarrassment to the American government.

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Activists seek to move ahead on murder charges in Tamir Rice case

Community leaders and activists in Cleveland, Ohio say they plan to invoke a rarely-used law to bypass prosecutors and go directly to a judge to request murder charges against the officers involved in the killing of Tamir Rice.

Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy, was shot dead in November while playing with a toy gun in a park. This comes amid widespread skepticism towards the court system after prosecutors have declined to bring charges against officers in similar cases.

US Correspondent Mary MacCarthy reports:

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Protests over policing at Texas pool party

Hundreds of protesters have marched to a swimming pool, where a white police officer pinned a black teenage girl to the ground and pointed his gun at others.

The police officer was filmed as he responded to a fight that had broken out at a pool party in McKinney, Texas on Friday.

Our US correspondent Kate Fisher reports

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US May Charge GM With Criminal Wire Fraud Over Faulty Ignitions

The US Justice Department is weighing up criminal wire fraud charges against General Motors, over the company's failure to recall vehicles equipped with faulty ignition switches - that's according to the Wall Street Journal.

The newspaper says US prosecutors haven't yet made a final decision but hope to reach a settlement with the car maker by around the end of the summer. 

Our US correspondent Lorna Shaddick reports.

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Argentinian involved in FIFA scandal turns himself in


An Argentinian media executive wanted by U.S. authorities over the FIFA bribery investigation has turned himself in to Italian authorities after two weeks on the run. 

U.S prosecutors have accused Alejandro Burzaco, along with two other Argentinians, of bribing soccer officials in order to win lucrative media rights contracts to international tournaments.

Andrea Arenas reports. 

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Red Cross: 'urgent action' needed to avert South Sudan disaster


As the world's newest country nears its fourth year of existence, South Sudan is facing a disastrous reality.  

Extreme levels of violence in and around the Town Leer, over the last month, have forced an estimated 100,000 people to flee their homes and to seek safety in low-lying swamps.

This comes on top of around two million people already displaced during the past eighteen months since fighting broke out between government and rebel forces. 

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Police Question Prison Worker After NY Jail Break

The manhunt continues for two inmates who used power tools to escape
an Upstate New York prison, but police suspect the breakout may have
been an inside job. Local media reports say investigators are
questioning a female Clinton Correctional Facility worker who
supervises prisoners in the tailor shop.

Patrice Howard reports.

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US Army website restored after Syrian hack attack

The U.S. Army's army-dot-mil website is back up after an alledged hack attack by the Syrian Electronic Army.

The group claimed responsibility for taking over the home page and changing the introductory message, but the U.S. military has not confirmed who was responsible.

Our U.S. correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:

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Louisiana ordered to free prisoner after 40+ years in solitary confinement

An American prisoner who has spent more than 40 years in solitary confinement could soon be freed, after a judge ordered the state of Louisiana to let him go.


Albert Woodfox is the last jailed member of a group known as the "Angola Three".


From Washington, Simon Marks reports.


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Major recruitment firm warns against Brexit

A major British recruitment firm is warning that the UK's withdrawal from the European Union would threaten jobs and damage the economy. 

The warning from Manpower over the so called "Brexit" comes as the referendum bill continues through the country's parliament. 

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Decision on EU migration plan to be delayed

An European Union plan to distribute 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean migrants across its 28 member states is likely to be delayed well past the summer. 

EU ministers are unlikely to approve the migration proposal at their meetings next week according to a senior EU spokesperson. 

Jack Parrock reports.

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