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Sudan frees detained editor who criticized ruler al-Bashir

A Sudanese newspaper is reporting that its chief editor has been freed after a month in detention for speaking out against President Omar al-Bashir's state of emergency declaration.

Al-Tayar independent newspaper wrote on its Facebook page Friday that Osman Mirghani has been released from detention.

Reporters Without Borders said Mirghani was "clearly paying for his criticism" of the state of emergency declared Feb. 22.

Sudan has been rocked by near daily protests since mid-December against the longtime ruler al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur.

Al-Bashir's government has met the protests with a heavy-handed crackdown and last month declared a state of emergency.

Source: Fox News World

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Friends: Englishwoman's death in Guatemala seems accidental

Friends who were with an Englishwoman found dead near a Guatemalan highland lake in her final days recall her as a spiritual person who spread joy to others, and said numerous details of the case suggest to them that it was an accident.

Those who helped search for Catherine Shaw, 23, of Witney, England, said several things didn't seem to square with possible foul play, such as that her sweater was found near the body carefully folded with her rings inside. Also found nearby was the puppy she adopted as a sidekick the day she arrived in San Juan La Laguna.

Now they're looking for someone else to take care of the small dog, which they've named "Cat," after Shaw's nickname.

"She was like a fairy who went around spreading happiness," said Elena Consolini, describing Shaw as relaxed and without conflicts.

"I thought she seemed a bit sad the last days, but we didn't talk much," Consolini added. "We just played music, without speaking."

She was among the two dozen or so people who gathered to say a final goodbye to Shaw on Tuesday evening, lighting 23 candles — one for each year Shaw spent on Earth.

Later, around a campfire on a hotel terrace, they told stories about their time with her. As the night advanced they held hands, sang, took a group photo and said, in unison, "See you later, Cat!"

The informal wake took place a day after Shaw's unclothed body was found in the shrubs near a mountain overlook above Lake Atitlan, found four days after she was reported missing.

An autopsy found she died of hemorrhaging from traumatic brain injury. Authorities have not said what may have caused that, though the doctor who carried out the procedure told The Associated Press the body had no gunshot or stab wounds.

The woman's father, Tarquin Shaw, identified her body Tuesday at a morgue about 30 miles (50 kilometers) away in the city of Quetzaltenango. He later visited the MayAchik hotel, a thatched-roof eco-lodge where she had been staying up the slope from the lake in San Juan La Laguna.

Escorted by police, Shaw did not want to speak to reporters but told AP he was grateful to those who searched for his daughter and for the support of the Lucie Blackman Trust, which has been assisting the family.

Catherine Shaw had arrived early last week at the hotel where she struck a deal with management to do volunteer work in exchange for lodging. She roomed with Consolini, an Italian who is the last known person to see Shaw alive and was the one who reported her missing last Thursday.

"They didn't pay any attention. The police just said she would appear — 'Go looking for her, she must be around somewhere,'" Consolini said.

She and others spent two days asking whomever they could to help, but it wasn't until Saturday a serious search was launched. Shaw's friends collected money to pay for a helicopter to fly over the area, and local Tzutujil indigenous residents, foreign tourists and some police officers scoured the mountainous terrain.

Finally Shaw's body was located Monday afternoon around the overlook of Indian Nose, a mountain formation that from a distance looks like the face of someone lying down. The uninhabited area has some walkable trails and other parts can only be climbed, said Johanna Rodriguez, who took part in the search.

Shaw's friends were eager to counter rumors on social media of purported drug use, sexual assault or the possibility she was responsible for her own death. Those unsupported accounts, plus a grisly photo of the body that circulated online, gave an inaccurate portrait of who Shaw was, they said.

"She had a free spirit," said Francisco "Paco" Rosales, a Mexican who said he met Shaw four years ago and traveled with her in several countries. "She was very spiritual. She liked to meditate. She was a master of Reiki and yoga."

Atitlan is popular among travelers seeking a connection with nature, and Rosales, who traveled from Mexico to join the search, said Shaw had left the hotel to see the sunrise. The Indian Nose overlook affords a dramatic, east-facing view of the lake and the mountains that ring it.

Amy Farrow, a U.S. paramedic who has been living in the area for several years and helped coordinate the search, said she had reviewed security camera video of Shaw from the day she was last seen. Shaw was captured leaving her room last Tuesday at 1:30 a.m. carrying a drum with her, and again around 5 a.m.

"She did not seem intoxicated," Farrow said. "She was acting normal."

The autopsy estimated the time of death at four to six days earlier, roughly coinciding with her disappearance.

While authorities have yet to say why Shaw died, Rosales thinks he knows what happened: She hiked to the place alone and took off her clothes due to the heat, before falling to her death. In Shaw's circle, being nude in an unpopulated place because of warm temperatures or while meditating wouldn't be considered odd.

"Many people had morbid thoughts from the photograph of her unclothed at the scene, quickly saying that she had been raped," Rosales said. "But she saw the body as something natural ... that's why it's easy to believe that she undressed."

Rosales and others said Shaw had been in a period of fasting and reflection and had not eaten or even drunk water for four days before she went missing. They speculated that weakened state could have led her to fall.

The Lucie Blackman Trust has also said it believes Shaw's death to be a "tragic accident," while not ruling anything out for now.

Her family said Tuesday that she "just loved mountains and sunrises" and "died doing what she loved."

Source: Fox News World

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Death of rare turtle leaves 3 remaining in the world

A zoo in southern China says the only known female member of one of the world's rarest turtle species has died.

The animal was one of four Yangtze giant softshell turtles known to be remaining in the world.

The Suzhou zoo, where the female turtle lived, also houses a male Yangtze giant softshell turtle. The other two live in Vietnam, but their genders are unknown.

Suzhou authorities said Sunday that the female turtle died Saturday afternoon.

The city government said in a statement that experts have already used technology to collect the turtle's ovarian tissue for future research.

The state-run People's Daily reported that the turtle was over 90 years old and had undergone a fifth attempt at artificial insemination shortly before she died.

Source: Fox News World

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Congress faces long road ahead in fight over Mueller documents

U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his house after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election in McClean, Virginia
U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his house after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election in McClean, Virginia, U.S., March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

March 25, 2019

By Jan Wolfe

(Reuters) – Lawmakers seeking Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report are likely to face a protracted legal battle that will turn on President Donald Trump’s right to keep communications with his advisers private, legal and political experts said.

On Sunday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr sent a summary to lawmakers saying the Mueller investigation found Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign did not conspire with Russia. But the probe left unresolved the question of whether Trump engaged in obstruction of justice, setting out “evidence on both sides of the question.”

Barr concluded there was insufficient evidence to bring an obstruction case against Trump, prompting Democratic lawmakers to call for the release of the full report and the underlying evidence Mueller relied on.

House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, said on CNN on Sunday he would “try to negotiate” with the Justice Department to obtain the full report, but that the committee would issue subpoenas and litigate if needed. Other Democrats, including candidates vying for the 2020 presidential nomination, have called for release of the full report.

The Justice Department has not said whether it will release Mueller’s full report, but Barr has said he will be as transparent as possible.

Ross Garber, a lawyer in Washington focusing on political investigations, said Congress would have a difficult time persuading judges to release materials marked as classified or privileged by the executive branch, and that even a successful challenge could take years.

“Congress faces substantial legal and procedural hurdles in any effort to get these materials,” Garber said.

Barr is required by law to keep secret information obtained from grand jury proceedings. This would not apply to information obtained from Trump advisers and other witnesses who agreed to sit down voluntarily with Mueller.

Barr could also keep parts of the report under wraps by invoking a Justice Department policy against disparaging individuals who have not been charged with crimes.

The most contentious fight will likely be over any materials the White House tries to shield from public view by claiming executive privilege, a legal doctrine generally used to keep conversations between the president and advisers private. The doctrine is rooted in the idea that the president should be able to receive candid advice on policy matters.

If Barr withholds information based on executive privilege or Justice Department policy, Democrats could bring a lawsuit seeking to force disclosure.

But it could be months before the Democrat-led House is even in a position to sue, legal experts said.

Lawmakers would first need to make a formal demand for the report by invoking their subpoena power.

If Barr refused to release it, Democrats would then vote to hold him in contempt of Congress, experts said.

Congress would then sue to enforce its contempt finding.

Legal experts said that, while executive privilege has been recognized by the Supreme Court, it must be narrowly asserted and balanced against Congress’ need for information to fulfill its duty of oversight over the executive branch.

Garber said an executive privilege claim would be particularly strong if it were invoked to keep private the nature of Trump’s private conversations with close advisers, like former White House lawyer Don McGahn, who sat for interviews with Mueller’s team.

Those sorts of communications are exactly what the privilege is intended to keep private, Garber said.

But Mitchel Sollenberger, a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, said courts would be sympathetic to arguments by lawmakers that they need more information about the Mueller investigation to do their job.

In 2012, Republican lawmakers sued Democratic President Barack Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, to obtain documents over a federal law enforcement operation targeting gun traffickers, code-named Fast and Furious. The litigation dragged on for six years before ending in a settlement that called for the production of documents after Obama and Holder had already left office.

John Marston, a former federal prosecutor in Washington now at law firm Foley Hoag, said it would be in the best interests of both Democratic lawmakers and the public to compromise with Barr and avoid a protracted court fight.

“I’m sure there are many ways to structure access to a significant amount of this information,” Marston said. “Negotiating and finding a common agreement on access to the materials would help us all move past this.”

(Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Jonathan Oatis)

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Rep. Pete King: Trump Probe Came from ‘Coordinated Effort’ Against Him

Rep. Pete King said Friday he thinks the lengthy investigation into President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian collusion was the result of a "coordinated effort," to implicate the president's campaign of collusion, and now, the investigation should shift to the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

"This was a coordinated effort by certain people at the top levels of the government," including former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, and "that should be investigated," the New York Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

He said the probe was launched "on the flimsiest of evidence" and there was no evidence at all to justify it.

"Being on the Intelligence Committee, I heard almost all of the witnesses Bob Mueller would have heard, and they were under oath," King said. "I never saw any evidence at all whatsoever of collusion."

He said he'd be saying the same thing whether the president was "Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders or anybody else."

King added he fears that there will be a continued investigation about Trump, but he'd rather resolve it.

"This is going to be used as an 18-month investigation of President Trump," he said. "I went through all of those instances of supposed obstruction of justice, and to me, people on the Mueller staff who couldn't get Donald Trump on any criminal (charges), just allow this investigation to go forward. I don't see any reason why this couldn't be wrapped up in a matter of months."

Source: NewsMax Politics

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The Latest: Noor jury seated; 6 people of color on panel

The Latest on the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime (all times local):

11:15 a.m.

A jury has been seated to hear the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman minutes after she had called 911 to report a possible crime.

Six of the 16 people selected to hear Mohamed Noor's trial are people of color.

Noor is a Somali American. He's charged with murder and manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. She was a dual Australian-U.S. citizen who was shot when she approached his squad car in the alley behind her home.

The jury includes 12 men and four women.

Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday to give the judge in the case time to consider and rule on several pending motions.

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11 p.m.

Jurors could hear opening statements soon in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home.

Attorneys will continue questioning potential jurors in the case Monday. Mohamed Noor is charged with murder and manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual Australian-U.S. citizen who was shot when she approached his squad car.

Attorneys spent last week paring a pool of 75. If they settle Monday on a panel of 12 jurors and four alternates, opening statements and testimony would follow.

The judge is considering a media request to allow access to graphic evidence shown to the jury. Noor has joined the challenge to evidence restrictions.

Source: Fox News National

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War Room – 2019-Apr 03, Wednesday – Democrats That Support Open Borders Are Committing Treason Against America

There is a national emergency at the Southern Border and shocking new videos shows how desperate it has become as children are going through torture to be brought here. We also look at the collapse of Western America and how to properly beat your wife in modern day Islam.

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FILE PHOTO: The Credit Suisse logo is pictured on a bank in Geneva
FILE PHOTO: The Credit Suisse logo is pictured on a bank in Geneva, Switzerland, October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

April 26, 2019

ZURICH (Reuters) – Shareholders approved Credit Suisse’s 2018 compensation report with an 82 percent majority on Friday, overriding frustrations expressed at its annual general meeting over jumps in executive pay during a year its share price plummeted.

Three shareholder advisers had recommended investors vote against Switzerland’s second-biggest bank’s remuneration report, while a fourth backed the report but expressed reservations about whether management pay matched performance.

The approval marked a slight increase over the 80.8 percent support garnered for the bank’s 2017 compensation report.

(Reporting by Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi; Editing by Michael Shields)

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FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the trading floor of Barclays Bank at Canary Wharf in London
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the trading floor of Barclays Bank at Canary Wharf in London, Britain December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise

LONDON (Reuters) – Activist investor Edward Bramson is likely to fail in his attempt to get a board seat at Barclays’ annual meeting next week, even though shareholders are dissatisfied with performance of the group’s investment bank.

New York-based Bramson’s Sherborne Investors and the board of the British bank have been sparring for months over Barclays’ strategy.

Bramson wants to scale back Barclays’ investment bank to reduce risk and boost shareholder returns. Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley remains staunchly committed to growing the business out of trouble.

After failing to persuade Staley to change course since he began building a 5.5 percent stake in the bank in March last year, Bramson hopes a board seat will rachet up the pressure.

Both sides have written to shareholders pitching their case and Bramson has courted investors in one-on-one meetings, although none have publicly backed him yet.

Interviews by Reuters with five institutional investors in Barclays suggest Bramson has failed to persuade them.

Sherborne declined to comment.

Mirza Baig, head of investment stewardship at top-40 shareholder Aviva Investors, said Bramson was welcome on the bank’s register but the boardroom was a step too far.

“He has created a lot of value at other businesses, but, generally, when he has come in as executive chair and taken full control. This would be a different case where he would just be one lone voice on the board,” he said.

A second Barclays shareholder said he backed Bramson’s goal of improving returns but via an “evolutionary” approach.

“If you look at banks that have tried to restructure their operations in investment banking – you look at Natwest Markets, Deutsche Bank – I struggle to think of an example where a roughshod restructuring has been accretive to shareholder value.”

A third, top-30 investor said he had been impressed by incoming Chairman Nigel Higgins’ grasp of the challenge in hand, and felt investors would give him time.

“Management know they have to execute and deliver improved returns… [Higgins] will continue to re-shape the board but obviously he didn’t feel that having someone with a diametrically opposed view on it would be helpful.”

A fourth, top-30 investor agreed: “We voted for the chairman to come in and it would be crazy to allow an activist to join the board (at this time).”

Jupiter Fund Management, the 24th largest investor, said it also planned to vote against Bramson.

Barclays has nearly 500 institutional shareholders, Refinitiv data showed.

Since Staley joined Barclays in 2015, the investment bank returns relative to capital invested have increased but are still underperforming the overall business.

Barclays’ first-quarter figures showed the investment bank posted a 6 percent drop in income from its markets business and a 17 percent fall in banking advisory fees.

Returns in the investment bank fell to 9.5 percent from 13.2 percent a year ago.

Famed for successful campaigns against smaller British companies in sectors from chemicals to advertising, Bramson’s board seat pitch has been rebuffed by shareholder advisory firms.

Institutional Shareholder Services, the world’s biggest, said Bramson’s proposal “falls short of what can reasonably be expected from a shareholder trying to address issues at a 28 billion pounds, systemically important bank”.

Glass Lewis also flagged concern about Bramson’s lack of banking experience and “questionable” shareholding structure, referring to Sherborne’s use of derivative contracts to hedge losses should its strategy fail.

Critics said the arrangement meant his interests are not truly aligned with those of other long-term shareholders.

British advisory firm Pirc, however, said it recommended that investors abstain in the vote on Bramson’s proposal as a challenge to the board to do better in the year ahead – or face a similar contest in 2020.

(Editing by Jane Merriman)

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After an over 15-month pregnancy, “Akuti,” a 7-year-old Greater One Horned Indian Rhinoceros, gave birth as a result of induced ovulation and artificial insemination at Zoo Miami, April 23, 2019.

Ron Magill/Zoo Miami

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FILE PHOTO: File photo of a Chevron gas station sign in Del Mar, California
FILE PHOTO: A Chevron gas station sign is seen in Del Mar, California, in this April 25, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – U.S. oil and natural gas producer Chevron Corp reported a 27 percent fall in quarterly earnings on Friday, hit by lower crude prices and weaker margins in its refining and chemicals businesses.

Net income attributable to the company fell to $2.65 billion, or $1.39 per share, for the first quarter ended March 31, from $3.64 billion, or $1.90 per share, a year earlier.

Earlier in the day, larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp reported earnings well below analysts’ estimates, as margins in its refining business were hurt by higher Canadian prices and heavy scheduled maintenance.

(Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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FILE PHOTO: Ford logo is seen at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan
FILE PHOTO: The Ford logo is seen at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said on Friday the U.S. Department of Justice had opened a criminal investigation into the automaker’s emissions certification process in the United States.

The potential concern does not involve the use of defeat devices, the company said in a regulatory filing. (https://bit.ly/2VqjHpl)

Ford had voluntarily disclosed the matter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board in February.

(Reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bengaluru; Editing by James Emmanuel)

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