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Violence in some areas of Colombia has worsened since peace deal, Red Cross says

Christoph Harnisch, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Colombia, poses for a photo after a news conference in Bogota
Christoph Harnisch, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Colombia, poses for a photo after a news conference in Bogota, Colombia March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

March 28, 2019

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Violence in some regions of Colombia has worsened significantly since the 2016 signing of a peace deal with Marxist rebels, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.

Problems include mass displacements and injuries from landmines, as a power vacuum created by the demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) left smaller armed groups fighting for control of the lucrative drug trade.

Improving the situation will require a robust response from all parts of the government, the ICRC said, including the provision of basic services to the most deprived areas.

The FARC, the country’s largest rebel group, demobilized after signing an accord in late 2016 with the government to end more than five decades of war.

But implementation of the deal has been fraught. President Ivan Duque, who took office last year, has criticized it for being too lenient on rebels and is asking Congress to approve changes to a tribunal meant to try guerrillas for war crimes.

And conflict continues between the government, FARC members who refused to demobilize, the smaller ELN rebel group and crime gangs, the ICRC said.

Conditions are especially bad in provinces like Choco, Cauca, Arauca and Norte de Santander, where armed groups are fighting for control of drug trafficking routes and coca plantations.

“These civilian populations are in a more difficult situation than before,” ICRC delegation head Christoph Harnisch told journalists. “Peace did not reach these areas.”

Those battles meant mass displacement increased by more than 90 percent last year, affecting 27,780 people, the organization said.

The number of land mine victims, more than half of whom were civilians, climbed last year by more than 280 percent to 221 people, the ICRC said. Thirty-one died of their injuries.

Duque’s government will need to bring more state resources to bear in these areas to improve the situation, Harnisch said, citing the need for health centers and other services.

“The answer cannot just be one of security – the answer must be from all of the government,” he said.

The arrival of more than 1 million Venezuelan migrants, fleeing food shortages and an ongoing political crisis in their country, has put additional pressure on deprived areas, he said.

Migrants are especially vulnerable to extortion or forced recruitment by armed groups and need access to healthcare and utilities.

“The response (to Venezuelan migration) up to now has been very generous, but it needs more structure and a more long-term strategy,” Harnisch said.

(Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Helen Murphy and Rosalba O’Brien)

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Eagle lands for Scott as Australian ties for halfway Masters lead

Second round play of the Masters at Augusta National
Golf - Masters - Augusta National Golf Club - Augusta, Georgia, U.S. - April 12, 2019 - Adam Scott of Australia finishes on the 18th hole during second round play. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

April 13, 2019

By Andrew Both

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) – Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters when he took the Green Jacket in 2013 and he was back in unfamiliar territory at Augusta National on Friday when he ended the second round tied at the top of the leaderboard.

His five-way share of the lead marked the first time Scott has either led or co-lead after 18, 36 or 54 holes at Augusta National. He lurked close to the lead in 2013 before timing his run to beat Angel Cabrera in a playoff.

On Friday, it was a mighty two-iron at the 15th hole that gave Scott a taste of the lead.

His drive found the fairway at the par five, leaving him 230 yards from the hole when play was halted because of rain. During a 40-minute delay the wind shifted into his face, making for a much more precarious shot over the pond guarding the green.

He thought it through and decided not to go for the smart option.

“My shot got significantly longer, and it was now instead of a four-iron, it was now a two-iron, and I was thinking whether I should be smart and lay it up or not,” he told reporters.

“I had that discussion with the caddie, but it was kind of a perfect number for a two-iron, if there is such a thing, on 15 at Augusta, and hit a great shot, which set up an eagle.

“These are the kind of momentum things that you have to sometimes make happen to put yourself in a good position. When you’re swinging well, you have to go for it. I don’t know if it was the smartest decision, but it certainly paid off.”

The eagle took Scott into the sole lead at eight-under par, but he missed a three-foot par putt at the next hole and squandered a great birdie chance at the last.

He shot 68 to join compatriot Jason Day, American Brooks Koepka, Italian Francesco Molinari and South African Louis Oosthuizen at seven-under 137, with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson among a group one behind.

“I think it’s going to be an incredible weekend no matter what happens now,” said the 38-year-old.

“There are so many great players in with a chance, and I think my game plan has to be the same as where I started the week.

“I wanted my ball‑striking to kind of show up this week a little more than it has any other week this year, and it looks like it has.

“I’m tied for the lead in the Masters. You can’t ask to be in a better position.

“I believe I’ve got the game to match it with everyone these days. It’s always a knife edge on who comes out on top of these things.”

(Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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German court rejects second investor group action against Volkswagen and Porsche SE on diesel scandal

FILE PHOTO: A Volkswagen badge on a production line at the VW plant in Wolfsburg, Germany
FILE PHOTO: A Volkswagen badge on a production line at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo

March 27, 2019

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German court on Wednesday said it won’t allow a second investor group action against Volkswagen AG and its controlling shareholder, Porsche SE, for allegedly failing to inform investors about the Diesel scandal in 2015.

Investors have brought multiple cases against Volkswagen and Porsche SE in the southern city of Stuttgart, arguing that the companies should have issued adhoc-statements earlier to inform the market about U.S. authorities starting to investigate the emissions cheating.

Stuttgart’s court of appeal said these cases could not be bundled in a group action against the companies as a similar lawsuit was already pending in the city of Braunschweig and according to German law, there could only be one such case at a time.

Group actions aim at facilitating legal actions brought by investors against companies as they bundle a large number of individual cases, allowing investors to team up and save litigation costs.

(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Riham Alkousaa)

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Current Fed Policy Proves Past Failures

There’s that word again — patient.

Jerome Powell once again emphasized patience during the most recent FOMC meeting. The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and took any hikes for 2019 off the table. It went a step further and projected just one rate hike in 2020.

During his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff said most people expected a dovish Fed, “But I don’t think they were expecting the Fed to be this dovish.”

“In light of global economic and financial developments and muted inflation pressures, the Committee will be patient as it determines what future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate may be appropriate to support these outcomes,” the central bank said in its monetary policy statement.

Patient…

During his post-meeting news conference, Powell said, “It may be some time before the outlook for jobs and inflation calls clearly for a change in policy,” Powell said. “Patient means that we see no need to rush to judgment.”

Powell also said the Fed will freeze bond sales from its $3.8 trillion balance sheet later this autumn. In other words, the balance sheet reduction program that was on “autopilot” just six months ago is done.  As Peter said, despite all the talk about normalizing its balance sheet and shrinking it back down to the size that it was before the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed didn’t even get anywhere close.

Peter said the increasingly dovish tone comes as no surprise to him.

“The only thing that surprises me is how long it took for the Fed to get here … The only reason I think it took this long was because of the election of Trump. I think this pushed back these admissions by a couple of years as the Fed was able to take cover in all the enthusiasm that resulted from Trump making America great again, and the tax cuts, and all the stimulus, and all the positive outlooks for change and all that.”

Peter said this delay was actually unfortunate because the delay allowed the underlying problems to get much worse while the central bank kicked the can down the road.

“So now, we have a much bigger problem. We have a much bigger crisis in our future as this problem comes to a head, you know, when the Fed finally has to go back to zero, when the Fed has to go back to QE4, which the Fed is still not admitting that they’re going to do.”

In fact, despite the increasing dovishness, the Fed still hasn’t admitted that there are any real problems in the US economy.

Meanwhile, the pundits on the financial networks were generally applauding the Fed’s recent trajectory. Peter said nobody acknowledges the real problem here.

“The Fed is not getting it right. What the Fed is doing now just proves how much they got wrong in the past. The reason the Fed had to abort the process prematurely is because they couldn’t finish it. The reason they had to stop raising rates was because they couldn’t keep raising them because we have too much debt. The reason they had to call off the reduction of their balance sheet was because they can’t do it. The Fed can’t do what they were pretending they were going to be able to do the entire time.”

(Photo by Chris Dlugosz, Flickr)

Peter said the Fed was able to convince people that its policy not only worked, but it could actually unwind it. He said it was like believing you could get drunk, quit drinking, and then stay high.

“The Fed did not create a sustainable recovery. They simply inflated a bubble, and the air is already coming out of that bubble. That is why the Fed has made these changes. That is why it did the 180-degree switch. That is why the Fed is now ‘patient.’ It’s not because circumstances have changed. That’s just the excuse that I knew they would come up with from the very beginning.”

The Dow initially rallied on the Fed statements, but sold off late, closing down about 141 points. Peter said this indicates that there isn’t much upside left in the stock market when it comes to the “Powell Pause.”

“I think the bear market rally that the Fed created with that unexpected policy shift has pretty much run its course, and that there’s really nothing the Fed can do on this path to get the markets to go higher.”

Gold was up on the Fed news. As we reported yesterday, a Fed shift to neutral policy has historically been good for gold.

Peter also touched on the Fed’s view of inflation and oil prices. Listen to the whole podcast for more in-depth analysis.


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EU gets heavy-duty on pollution: 1st standards for trucks

The European Union has reached a tentative agreement on the first specific EU standards for trucks, to get polluting CO2 levels down.

Tuesday's agreement among negotiators from the European Parliament and member states says that such emissions will have to be 30 percent down by 2030 compared with today's levels. Heavy trucks carry over two-thirds of freight across the bloc.

EU Commissioner Arias Canete said the standards "will help tackle emissions, as well as bring fuel savings to transport operators and cleaner air for all Europeans."

The rules will still need to be formally endorsed but are not expected to pose any political problems after Tuesday's deal. The EU also has such standards for cars and light vans.

The ACEA producer's association called for refueling infrastructures to cope with alternative power sources.

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Ukraine blasts Austria after barring its reporter

Ukraine has defended its decision to deny entry to an Austrian journalist, claiming that Austria has been too friendly to Russia.

Austria has strongly protested Ukraine's move to bar Christian Wehrschuetz, the bureau chief for the Austrian national broadcaster ORF, as a "threat to national security." It criticized the ban as an "unacceptable act of censorship."

Ukrainian officials have made conflicting statements on the issue. Ukraine's security agency initially said the reporter was barred for his own safety after facing threats from ultranationalists.

But on Wednesday, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Kateryna Zelenko declared that the journalist was denied entry for "disrespect for Ukrainian law." She also charged that Austria maintains exceedingly warm ties with Russia, adding that "cozying up to the aggressor doesn't fit with Austria's claim of neutrality."

Source: Fox News World

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Interviewing Islamic State detainees in Syria

FILE PHOTO: Belgian women Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal, each 26, who joined Islamic State in Syria are pictured in Ain Issa
FILE PHOTO: Belgian women Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal, both 26, who joined Islamic State in Syria are pictured in Ain Issa, Syria March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah/File Photo

April 3, 2019

AIN ISSA, Syria (Reuters) – The Reuters team sat down in the dimly lit room in the camp in Ain Issa, northern Syria, and waited for the two Belgian sisters-in-law to arrive.

Our reporters in Brussels had been following their story for months: the women had joined Islamic State in Syria at its height, surrendered to Kurdish forces in 2017, and one of their mothers was trying to get them home with their six children.

Now Tatiana Wielandt and Bouchra Abouallal had agreed to speak to us face to face in the camp, a fenced-in expanse of tarpaulin tents close to the Turkish border under the control of their captors, the U.S.-backed SDF.

We had their location. But questions remained – not least how freely would they be able to talk, surrounded by their guards?

A security official brought them in with Wielandt’s youngest son – blond, barefoot and clinging to her robe – then left them alone for an hour-long interview.

Our team in Syria – correspondent Ellen Francis and video journalist Issam Abdallah – began by trying to make sure the women wanted to be there, watching for any signs that they were under mental or physical strain or under the sway of the guards.

“You can never be fully sure people in captivity are speaking of their own free will, but we still did our best to establish that they had consented,” said Francis. “We explained who we were and what we planned to report, trying to give them the chance to back out.”

The team’s reports made the context of interviews clear for the reader, with the TV footage showing the fenced-in life at the camp.

COMMON GROUND

Francis and two women were all the same age, 26 – a small piece of common ground that helped ease some awkwardness.

Abouallal and Wielandt said they had renounced Islamic State and were prepared to let their children go home without them if the Belgian government continued to block their return.

The interview went to the heart of a debate still raging about what to do with fighters’ families trying to get back to Europe, amid fears that they would bring their militancy back with them.

As everyone relaxed, the conversation ranged wider. The women, wearing hijab but showing their faces, asked for news from the outside world and shared anecdotes about their children’s troubles living in the camp.

They talked about falling in love with the two men they followed to Syria – Wielandt married Abouallal’s brother when they were teenagers. Both men died within a year of arriving in Syria.

“I felt we managed to have a long, relaxed conversation given all the circumstances – the chaos of the camp, the reality that they were in custody,” Francis said.

“We are there to move a story forward, not to judge. We regularly report on people from all sides of a conflict, asking them about their choices without dehumanizing them.”

(Reporting by Ellen Francis in Beirut and Alissa de Carbonnel in Brussels; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Multiple people died Thursday when a semitrailer plowed into stationary traffic that resulted in explosions and flames on a Colorado freeway, authorities said.

The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. in the Denver suburb of Lakewood when a truck driver lost control while traveling east on Interstate 70, according to a preliminary investigation. The collision started a chain reaction and a diesel fuel spill, Lakewood police spokesman Ty Countryman told the Denver Post.

“This is looking to be one of the worst accidents we’ve had here in Lakewood,” he said.

The driver of the runaway truck survived. At least one truck was carrying lumber, another was hauling gravel and the third may have been carrying mattresses, KDVR-TV reported.

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Lakewood police tweeted there were multiple fatalities but did not give a specific number. Six people were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not released, according to the paper.

Lanes in both directions were closed and expected to remain so into Friday morning.

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President Trump will address members and leaders of the National Rifle Association on Friday at the group’s annual convention in Indiana.

Around 80,000 gun enthusiasts and more than 800 exhibitors are expected to pack the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis for the three-day event, the Indianapolis Star reported. It will mark the third straight year that Trump will deliver the keynote address, where he is expected to champion the rights of gun owners.

“Donald Trump is the most enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment to occupy the Oval Office in our lifetimes,” Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), said in a statement. “President Trump’s Supreme Court appointments ensure that the Second Amendment will be respected for generations to come. Our members are excited to hear him speak and thank him for his support for our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”

“Donald Trump is the most enthusiastic supporter of the Second Amendment to occupy the Oval Office in our lifetimes.”

— Chris Cox, executive director, NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action

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President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas last year. (Associated Press)

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Dallas last year. (Associated Press)

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke at last year’s convention in Dallas. During his speech, Trump assured gun owners that he would protect their Second Amendment rights, according to the paper.

“Your Second Amendment rights are under siege,” Trump told the cheering audience in Dallas. “But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I am your president.”

Trump has supported some gun control measures in the past. Last year, his administration imposed a ban on bump stocks, attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in rapid bursts. Although, he most recently threatened to veto two Democratic gun control bills.

This year’s convention comes as the NRA faces outside pressure and internal problems. The group has seen its legislative agenda stall amid a series of mass shootings — including a massacre at a Parkland, Fla., high school in February 2018 that left 17 dead and launched a youth movement against gun violence.

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It’s also grappling with infighting in its ranks, money problems and investigations into whether Russian agents courted officials and funneled money through the group.

“I’ve never seen the NRA this vulnerable,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control measure.

The convention will run through the weekend and conclude Sunday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk past the Debenhams department store on Oxford Street in London
FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk past the Debenhams department store on Oxford Street in London, Britain December 15, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – Ailing British retailer Debenhams said two proposed company voluntary arrangements (CVA) could see all its stores remaining open during 2019, with 22 closures planned for next year, putting about 1,200 jobs at risk.

Debenhams’ lenders took control of the retailer earlier this month in a process designed to keep its shops open at the expense of shareholders.

(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; editing by Gopakumar Warrier)

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FILE PHOTO: Xiaomi branding is seen on a carrier bag at a UK launch event in London
FILE PHOTO: Xiaomi branding is seen on a carrier bag at a UK launch event in London, Britain, November 8, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville

April 26, 2019

BENGALURU (Reuters) – Chinese brands controlled a record 66 percent of Indian smartphone market in the first quarter, led by Xiaomi Corp, a report showed, with volumes rising 20 percent on the back of popularity for brands like Vivo, RealMe and Oppo.

Xiaomi’s India shipments fell by 2 percent over last year, but the Beijing-based company was still the biggest smartphone brand in the country, followed by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, according to Hong-Kong based Counterpoint Research.

Shipment volumes for Vivo jumped 119 percent, while those of Oppo rose 28 percent.

“Vivo’s expanding portfolio in the mid-tier range ($100 to $180) drove its growth along with aggressive Indian Premier League cricket campaign,” Counterpoint analysts said.

India is the world’s fastest growing market for smartphones, where affordable pricing coupled with features like “selfie” cameras and big screens have popularized Chinese brands.

Video streaming services like Netflix Inc and Hotstar, as well as heavy usage of messaging apps like Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp have further spurred demand.

“Data consumption is on the rise and users are upgrading their phones faster as compared to other regions,” Counterpoint’s Tarun Pathak said.

“As a result of this, the premium specs are now diffusing faster into the mid-tier price brands. We estimate this trend to continue leading to a competitive mid-tier segment in coming quarters.”

(Reporting By Arnab Paul in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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The Dalai Lama has returned to his headquarters in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala after a brief stay in a hospital in the capital for treatment of a chest infection.

Hundreds of exiled Tibetans lined the streets of Dharmsala carrying ceremonial scarves and incense sticks to welcome the Dalai Lama on Friday.

The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader told reporters that he had fully recovered, but that the illness had been “a little bit serious.” He did not give any details.

The Dalai Lama usually spends several months a year traveling the world to teach Buddhism and highlight Tibetans’ struggle for greater freedom in China. But he has cut down on his travels in the past year to take care of his health.

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