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Macedonia’s pro-Western candidate wins first round of presidential vote

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Ruling Social Democratic Union of Macedonia's candidate Stevo Pendarovski talks to the media after casting his vote for the presidential elections in Skopje, North Macedonia April 21, 2019. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

April 21, 2019

SKOPJE (Reuters) – Early results of a presidential election in North Macedonia showed pro-Western candidate Stevo Pendarovski in first place, with 45 percent of the vote, the Central Election Commission website showed on Sunday.

His main rival, opposition candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, was in second place with 41 percent of the votes, preliminary results showed, based on 57 percent of ballots counted.

Blerim Reka, candidate of the second largest Albanian party Besa came third with 11.7 percent of the votes counted.

Pendarovski and Siljanovska-Davkova will face a run-off on May 5.

(Reporting by Kole Casule; Writing by Ivana Sekularac; editing by Louise Heavens)

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Cryptocurrency miner Bitmain lets its Hong Kong IPO application lapse

Bitcoin mining computers are pictured in Bitmain's mining farm near Keflavik
Bitcoin mining computers are pictured in Bitmain's mining farm near Keflavik, Iceland, June 4, 2016. REUTERS/Jemima Kelly

March 26, 2019

By Julia Fioretti

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bitmain Technologies, the world’s largest designer of products used for mining cryptocurrencies, on Tuesday let its application for a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) lapse as hopes for cryptocurrency companies to go public fade.

Bitmain’s application lapsed on Tuesday, six months after it was filed, the Hong Kong stock exchange’s website showed.

“We do recognize that despite the huge potential of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, it remains a relatively young industry which is proving its value. We hope regulatory authorities, media, and the general public can be more inclusive to this young industry,” the company said on its website.

Bitmain designs different microchips specialized for mining cryptocurrencies and for artificial intelligence applications, as well as manufacturing cryptocurrency and AI hardware, and managing crypto mining farms.

The reputation of cryptocurrencies, and particularly exchanges, has been hit hard by fears of price volatility and possible uses for laundering money alongside high-profile hacks and infrastructure failures.

Bitmain’s IPO hopes suffered the same fate as those of smaller cryptocurrency mining equipment maker Canaan Inc, which let its own IPO application lapse last year.

Hong Kong officials had raised questions about the sustainability of miners’ business models given the falling price of bitcoin, sources have said in the past.

The crypto market peaked in late 2017, when trading volumes surged and bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, reached a high just above $20,000. Bitcoin’s price has fallen more than 80 percent since then, and trading volumes have slumped.

Bitcoin was worth $3,898.12 on Tuesday.

The lapsing of Bitmain and Canaan’s IPO applications leaves only cryptocurrency mining equipment maker Ebang International Holdings in the running for a listing in the financial hub. Ebang refiled its application in December to avoid its lapsing.

(Reporting by Julia Fioretti; Editing by Shreejay Sinha)

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Police search for suspect after officer shot at traffic stop

Louisiana State Police say they're searching for a man suspected of shooting an Abbeville police officer.

Authorities say the female officer was shot after a traffic stop Wednesday night. Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza tells local media that she was flown to a hospital and was in stable condition.

State police spokesman Thomas Gossen told reporters that the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. He says anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 911.

Abbeville is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Lafayette.

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Rwanda’s post-genocide guide keeps the memories alive

Aline Uwase, a Rwandan genocide survivor looks at the pictures of victims donated by survivors inside at the Genocide Memorial in Gisozi within Kigali
Aline Uwase, a Rwandan genocide survivor looks at the pictures of victims donated by survivors inside at the Genocide Memorial in Gisozi within Kigali, Rwanda April 3, 2019. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana

April 5, 2019

By Clement Uwiringiyimana

KIGALI (Reuters) – Every weekday, Aline Uwase Turatsinze gets up, washes her face and rides a motorbike to the site where more than 60 members of her family were buried after being murdered.

The quiet woman with the long braids is a guide at Rwanda’s genocide museum, a memorial to the killing that claimed 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu lives after the then-president’s plane was shot down on April 7, 1994.

Uwase, who turns 25 on Friday, was two days old when the bloodshed began.

“I lost a lot of people,” she said.

“It’s a responsibility to be standing here … I am protecting the memory but as well putting the ‘Never again’ slogan in action so that it might not happen anywhere in the world. Not in Rwanda, not anywhere in the world.”

The Gisozi Memorial site is the final resting place of more than a quarter of a million people killed during the 100 days of genocide. Uwase wants visitors to see the memorial as a place of respect and learning, not bitterness or recrimination.

“We have reconciled,” she said, echoing the line of a government that strongly discourages any talk of ethnicity. “It doesn’t matter who I marry, the son of a survivor or the son or a perpetrator. The future is brighter.”

Each day, she walks through the memory room filled with the photos of children who were killed, accompanied by details about their favorite toys and the manner of their deaths. UNICEF estimated more than 300,000 children were killed. Most were hacked or beaten to death.

“You never get used to this,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “Every time I enter that room, I am never the same person when I get out.”

For a long time, Uwase avoided the videos of bodies floating down the river and of Hutu militias killing people with machetes because it makes her think of the father she never knew, a designer and painter whom she feels still watches over her.

“I don’t know how he was killed, but I imagine his death resembles this video. The murderers had machetes. Clubs…” she tailed off.

Other rooms contain an exhibition of genocidal violence around the globe, and Rwanda’s search for justice through an international tribunal and traditional local courts.

After the killings ended, shattered communities had to rebuild themselves as survivors sometimes returned to live next to those complicit in the killings of their families.

As the country recovered, some opposition leaders have criticized the government of President Paul Kagame for keeping a tight reign on the media and politics. Kagame won nearly 99 percent of the vote in 2017 polls on a 96 percent turnout.

Uwase dismisses such criticism, pointing out that Kagame ended the genocide when he fought his way to the capital at the head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel force.

“I should have been dead like any other person but I am here because of the RPF,” she said. “I can tell those critics: you can’t talk about something you don’t know.”

Now Rwanda is focused on the future, she said. While some of its neighbors stagnate in corruption, the small east African nation stands out for its ease of doing business and rising investment. Although there is still poverty in parts of the country, downtown Kigali is full of new buildings lining its clean and well-kept streets.

Many visiting business people come to the memorial, Uwase said. One recent visitor was Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who stars in the television series “Game of Thrones”.

“Every person who comes here has questions to ask … Every time someone comes here it challenges them,” Uwase said. “I have something to teach the world about what happened to Rwanda and my family.”

(Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Finland’s top candidate for prime minister says wants to raise taxes

Social Democratic Party leader Antti Rinne listens during an interview in Helsinki
Social Democratic Party leader Antti Rinne listens during an interview in Helsinki, Finland April 9, 2019. Picture taken April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Attila Cser

April 11, 2019

By Anne Kauranen

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s Social Democrats, who may be returned to power for the first time in 20 years on Sunday, plan to raise taxes to fund the country’s generous welfare system as it struggles to cope with a rapidly aging population.

Antti Rinne’s Social Democrats have led in the polls for almost a year, with many Finns concerned over the future of public services and welfare due partly to the cost of caring for its growing ranks of pensioners.

“We need to strengthen our welfare society – and that needs money,” Rinne, a former union strong man, told Reuters in an interview ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday.

He said raising taxes would also help combat inequality in Finnish society.

The left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SDP) topped the most recent poll with 19.0 percent support, Finland’s public broadcaster Yle reported on Thursday, although it would need to build a coalition to form a stable government.

“We need to spread our tax base and we need to strengthen it. That’s a big policy change here in Finland if we do that,” Rinne said.

The current center-right government’s policies have hurt the income of less privileged groups such as pensioners, families with children, students and the unemployed, Rinne said.

Since the last parliamentary elections, in 2015, centrist Prime Minister Juha Sipila has made preventing Finland from taking on more debt one of the government’s main goals together with pulling the country out of the three-year recession that eventually ended in late 2015.

Last year, Sipila’s government managed to cut Finland’s outstanding debt for the first time in a decade.

But the tight finances led to austerity measures and spending cuts such as reductions in unemployment benefits, pension freezes and cuts to public sector holiday pay, which made his government deeply unpopular.

“That’s not a fair way to do it,” Rinne said, adding he would adopt a different strategy to balance the public finances.

“We can collect a little bit over 1.5 billion euros more in taxes, but not via income taxes,” he said.

He suggested raising some consumption taxes as well as the capital gains tax, which now stands at 30 percent and at 34 percent for gains above 30,000 euros ($34,000).

Rinne’s talk of raising taxes is unlikely to drive off his supporters, many of whom value highly Finland’s huge welfare state.

A poll commissioned by the tax authority in 2017 found 79 percent of Finns were happy with their taxes, up 10 percentage points from a similar poll four years earlier.

One of Rinne’s election promises has been to increase all state pensions of less than 1,400 euros per month by 100 euros, a reform worth 700 million euros that would help “more than 55,000 pensioners escape poverty”, he said.

But taxpayers’ solvency might have its limits in the coming years, not only due to the increasing costs of caring for a rapidly aging population, but also because Finland will have to spend an estimated 7-10 billion euros on renewing its equally aging fighter jet fleet.

To Rinne’s disappointment, his party’s performance in the polls has declined in the weeks ahead of the election day, while the nationalist Finns Party has made significant gains, rising to second place, ahead of the SDP’s traditional opponent, the center-right National Coalition in the latest Yle poll.

If the SDP wins on Sunday, Rinne will have to team up with at least one of his main rivals such as the National Coalition’s chair and finance minister Petteri Orpo – who has called Rinne’s economic policies “irresponsible” – or with Sipila’s Centre Party, to be able to form a majority government.

Rinne has ruled out forming a government with the nationalists led by Jussi Halla-aho, an anti-immigration hardliner, who was fined by the Supreme Court in 2012 for blog comments linking Islam to paedophilia and Somalis to theft.

“My values are not similar to Jussi Halla-aho’s values, and it seems very difficult (for us) to be in the same government,” Rinne said.

(Reporting by Anne Kauranen; Additional reporting by Attila Cser; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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MLB roundup: Harper launches first Phils HR in win over Braves

MLB: Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies
Mar 30, 2019; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper (3) hits a solo home run in the seventh inning against the Atlanta Braves at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: James Lang-USA TODAY Sports

March 31, 2019

High-priced offseason acquisitions Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto hit their first home runs for Philadelphia and sparked the Phillies to an 8-6 win over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

Realmuto ripped a two-run shot into the center field bleachers that put the Phillies ahead to stay in the fifth inning, and Harper hammered a 465-foot solo homer in the seventh. Maikel Franco was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and homered for the second straight game.

The winning pitcher was Adam Morgan (1-0), who retired the only batter he faced in the fifth. The losing pitcher was rookie Wes Parsons (0-1), who surrendered the homer to Realmuto.

Atlanta’s offense was paced by Freddie Freeman, who went 4-for-5 with two doubles and two RBIs. Dansby Swanson and Charlie Culberson each hit two-run homers, their first of the year.

Dodgers 18, Diamondbacks 5

Cody Bellinger hit two home runs, and Joc Pederson reached base six times, while Kenta Maeda pitched 6 2/3 much-needed innings, as host Los Angeles shook off the effects of a 13-inning loss on Friday to defeat Arizona.

Pederson and Austin Barnes also hit home runs as the Dodgers scored in double digits for the second time in three games. Pederson and Bellinger each have three home runs in the first three games. Jarrod Dyson, Alex Avila, Adam Jones and David Peralta all hit home runs for the Diamondbacks.

Dodgers catcher Russell Martin pitched a scoreless inning, and Diamondbacks catcher John Ryan Murphy pitched the final two innings, giving up seven runs on eight hits. Maeda (1-0) allowed three runs and five hits with two walks and six strikeouts.

Mariners 6, Red Sox 5

Jay Bruce hit a three-run homer, and right-hander Mike Leake (1-0) pitched six strong innings to help host Seattle defeat Boston.

Trailing 6-2, the Red Sox scored three times in the ninth on errors — two throwing errors and one fielding error — on three consecutive plays by rookie third baseman Dylan Moore. With closer Hunter Strickland injured, Mariners right-hander Nick Rumbelow caught Xander Bogaerts looking to end the game and record his first career save.

Leake allowed two runs on seven hits, with two walks and seven strikeouts. He walked two and struck out seven.

Orioles 5, Yankees 3

Jesus Sucre tied a career high with three RBIs, Mike Wright recorded his first career save and Brandon Hyde picked up his first managerial win as Baltimore held on at Yankee Stadium.

Baltimore’s Jimmy Yacabonis (1-0) worked three innings, following “opener” Nick Karns. Yacabonis gave up one run and three hits with two walks and two strikeouts. James Paxton (0-1) gave up two runs (one earned) and four hits in 5 2/3 innings for the Yankees. He struck out five and walked one.

Troy Tulowitzki hit his first home run for New York in the bottom of the ninth, when the Yankees scored twice but fell short.

Mets 11, Nationals 8

J.D. Davis lined a two-run single with the bases loaded to snap a tie in the eighth, and Jeff McNeil had four hits and drove in two runs as New York won at Washington.

The Nationals scored four in the ninth, including a three-run double by Ryan Zimmerman with two outs, before Edwin Diaz entered the game and got the last out by retiring Kurt Suzuki for his second save of the season.

The winning pitcher was Justin Wilson (1-0), who pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh. Trevor Rosenthal (0-1) gave up the hit to Davis and didn’t record an out, allowing four runs on three hits and a walk.

Rangers 8, Cubs 6

Texas slugger Joey Gallo crushed a go-ahead three-run homer 433 feet, and host Texas scored a combined five runs in the seventh and eighth innings come from behind and knock off Chicago.

Asdrubal Cabrera had three hits, including a home run, and drove in two runs for the Rangers. Kyle Schwarber had three hits including a home run and drove in two runs for the Cubs, and Willson Contreras also had three hits and two RBIs.

Reliever Shawn Kelly (1-0) got the win, pitching 1 1/3 scoreless innings, and Jose Leclerc picked up his first save. Cubs reliever Carl Edwards Jr. (0-1) didn’t retire a batter, allowing three runs on two hits and two walks.

Brewers 4, Cardinals 2

Christian Yelich set a franchise record by homering for the third consecutive game to open the season, and host Milwaukee held on to beat St. Louis.

Travis Shaw and Mike Moustakas also homered for Milwaukee. Yelich, the reigning National League Most Valuable Player, has three homers in his first 10 at-bats. Kolten Wong went 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI to lead St. Louis at the plate.

Brewers right-hander Brandon Woodruff (1-0) limited the Cardinals to two runs on six hits in five innings. Cardinals right-hander Dakota Hudson (0-1) drew the loss in his first career start. He surrendered four runs (three earned) on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. He walked two and fanned six.

Rays 3, Astros 1

Tyler Glasnow, who went 0-5 with a 10.38 ERA during spring training, allowed one run and six hits over five innings, and host Tampa Bay defeated Houston.

Glasnow (1-0) gave up a solo home run to Alex Bregman in the first inning before the 6-foot-8 right-hander blanked Houston over the next four. Michael Perez had two hits, a run scored and an RBI in the No. 9 spot to lead the Tampa Bay offense.

Astros starter Collin McHugh (0-1) allowed two runs and three hits over five innings, striking out nine and walking one.

Giants 3, Padres 2

After scoring one run in the season’s first 23 innings, San Francisco scored three times in the top of the sixth to defeat host San Diego.

Former Padre Yangervis Solarte doubled in a run and Evan Longoria and Joe Panik singled in a run apiece, while Manuel Margot and Eric Hosmer had RBI doubles for the Padres in the bottom of the inning.

Giants starter Dereck Rodriguez (1-0) went five innings, allowing two runs on four hits. Padres starter Nick Margevicius also went five innings, allowing one run on three hits. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out five.

Athletics 4, Angels 2

Left-hander Brett Anderson gave host Oakland its third straight scoreless outing by a starter, and Mark Canha belted a two-run home run in beating Los Angeles.

Anderson allowed three hits and two walks while striking out four in six innings. Stephen Piscotty also drove in two runs for the Athletics.

Mike Trout and Andrelton Simmons drove in runs for the Angels. Starter Felix Pena gave up four runs on four hits with a walk and three strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings.

Indians 2, Twins 1

Greg Allen lofted a tie-breaking sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning as Cleveland edged host Minnesota.

Carlos Santana began the winning rally when he singled with one out against Blake Parker (0-1). Santana advanced to third on a pair of wild pitches before Hanley Ramirez walked. Santana then trotted home after Allen flew out to center on a 2-0 pitch.

Jon Edwards (1-0) retired both batters he faced in the eighth to earn his first major league win in his 41st career appearance. Brad Hand gave up a wind-blown leadoff double in the bottom of the ninth to Byron Buxton and loaded the bases via a pair of two-out walks before he closed out his first save.

Marlins 7, Rockies 3

Leadoff batter Miguel Rojas drove in three runs as host Miami defeated Colorado for its first win of the season.

Rojas and Martin Prado each had three hits for Miami. The Marlins, who totaled just five hits in losing their first two games of the season, had 16. Ian Desmond and David Dahl had RBIs for Colorado.

Pablo Lopez (1-0), a 22-year-old right-hander making his 11th career appearance, allowed five hits and three runs in 5 1/3 innings to earn the win. He struck out seven, walked none and also lined a key hit on offense.

Blue Jays 3, Tigers 0

Justin Smoak hit a two-run home run, starter Aaron Sanchez pitched five scoreless innings and host Toronto defeated Detroit.

Sanchez (1-0) allowed three hits and three walks while striking out six in five-plus innings. Ken Giles pitched around a ninth-inning single to earn his first save of the season.

The Blue Jays have won two in a row after the Tigers won on Opening Day on Thursday. All three games have been shutouts. Detroit starter Spencer Turnbull (0-1) allowed four hits, two walks and three runs with five strikeouts in five innings.

Royals 8, White Sox 6

Jorge Soler had two doubles among his three hits and drove in three runs, and right-hander Jakob Junis pitched into the sixth inning as host Kansas City defeated Chicago.

Junis (1-0) finished with six hits and three runs in 5 2/3 innings. He walked one and struck out six. Ian Kennedy pitched the ninth for the first save of his career.

White Sox right-hander Reynaldo Lopez (0-1) gave up four runs in and six hits in four innings, with four walks and two strikeouts. Jose Abreu hit a three-run homer, and Yoan Moncada had a two-run shot for Chicago.

Reds-Pirates PPD

The game between host Cincinnati and Pittsburgh was postponed due to rain and will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on May 27.

Scheduled starters Sonny Gray of the Reds and fellow right-hander Trevor Williams of the Pirates are expected to be pushed back to Sunday’s finale.

–Field Level Media

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FILE PHOTO: An employee looks up at goods at the Miniclipper Logistics warehouse in Leighton Buzzard, Britain December 3, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

April 26, 2019

LONDON, April 26 – British factories stockpiled raw materials and goods ahead of Brexit at the fastest pace since records began in the 1950s, and they were increasingly downbeat about their prospects, a survey showed on Friday.

The Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) quarterly survey of the manufacturing industry showed expectations for export orders in the next three months fell to their lowest level since mid-2009, when Britain was reeling from the global financial crisis.

The record pace of stockpiling recorded by the CBI was mirrored by the closely-watched IHS Markit/CIPS purchasing managers’ index published earlier this month.

(Reporting by Andy Bruce, editing by David Milliken)

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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks at the opening ceremony for the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks at the opening ceremony for the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China April 26, 2019. REUTERS/Florence Lo

April 26, 2019

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Fewer than half of Malaysians approve of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, an opinion poll showed on Friday, as concerns over rising costs and racial matters plague his administration nearly a year after taking office.

The survey, conducted in March by independent pollster Merdeka Center, showed that only 46 percent of voters surveyed were satisfied with Mahathir, a sharp drop from the 71 percent approval rating he received in August 2018.

Mahathir’s Pakatan Harapan coalition won a stunning election victory in May 2018, ending the previous government’s more than 60-year rule.

But his administration has since been criticized for failing to deliver on promised reforms and protecting the rights of majority ethnic Malay Muslims.

Of 1,204 survey respondents, 46 percent felt that the “country was headed in the wrong direction”, up from 24 percent in August 2018, the Merdeka Center said in a statement. Just 39 percent said they approved of the ruling government.

High living costs remained the top most concern among Malaysians, with just 40 percent satisfied with the government’s management of the economy, the survey showed.

It also showed mixed responses to Pakatan Harapan’s proposed reforms.

Some 69 percent opposed plans to abolish the death penalty, while respondents were sharply divided over proposals to lower the minimum voting age to 18, or to implement a sugar tax.

“In our opinion, the results appear to indicate a public that favors the status quo, and thus requires a robust and coordinated advocacy efforts in order to garner their acceptance of new measures,” Merdeka Center said.

The survey also found 23 percent of Malaysians were concerned over ethnic and religious matters.

Some groups representing Malays have expressed fear that affirmative-action policies favoring them in business, education and housing could be taken away and criticized the appointments of non-Muslims to key government posts.

Last November, the government reversed its pledge to ratify a UN convention against racial discrimination, after a backlash from Malay groups.

Earlier this month, Pakatan Harapan suffered its third successive loss in local elections since taking power, which has been seen as a further sign of waning public support.

Despite the decline, most Malaysians – 67 percent – agreed that Mahathir’s government should be given more time to fulfill its election promises, Merdeka Center said.

This included a majority of Malay voters who were largely more critical of the new administration, it added.

(Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Staff

April 26, 2019

By Medha Singh and Agamoni Ghosh

(Reuters) – European shares slipped on Friday after losses in heavyweight banks and Glencore outweighed gains in healthcare and auto stocks, while investors remained on the sidelines ahead of U.S. economic data for the first quarter.

The pan-European STOXX 600 index was down 0.1 percent by 0935 GMT, eyeing a modest loss at the end of a holiday-shortened week. Banks-heavy Italian and Spanish indices were laggards.

The banking index fell for a fourth day, at the end of a heavy earnings week for lenders.

Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland tumbled after posting lower first quarter profit, hurt by intensifying competition and Brexit uncertainty, while its investment bank also registered poor returns.

Weakness in investment banking also dented Deutsche Bank’s quarterly trading revenue and sent its shares lower a day after the German bank abandoned merger talks with smaller rival Commerzbank.

“The current interest rate environment makes it challenging for banks to make proper earnings because of their intermediary function,” said Teeuwe Mevissen, senior market economist eurozone, at Rabobank.

Since the start of April, all country indexes were on pace to rise between 1.8 percent and 3.4 percent, their fourth month of gains, while Germany was strongly outperforming with 6 percent growth.

“For now the current sentiment is very cautious as markets wait for the first estimates of the U.S. GDP growth which could see a surprise,” Mevissen said.

U.S. economic data for the first-quarter is due at 1230 GMT. Growth worries outside the United States resurfaced this week after South Korea’s economy unexpectedly contracted at the start of the year and weak German business sentiment data for April also disappointed.

Among the biggest drags on the benchmark index in Europe were the basic resources sector and the oil and gas sector, weighed down by Britain’s Glencore and France’s Total, respectively.

Glencore dropped after reports that U.S authorities were investigating whether the company and its subsidiaries violated certain provisions of the commodity exchange act.

Energy major Total said its net profit for the first three months of the year fell compared with a year ago due to volatile oil prices and debt costs.

Chip stocks in the region including Siltronic, Ams and STMicroelectronics lost more than 1 percent after Intel Corp reduced its full-year revenue forecast, adding to concerns that an industry-wide slowdown could persist until the end of 2019.

Meanwhile, healthcare, which is also seen as a defensive sector, was a bright spot. It was helped by French drugmaker Sanofi after it returned to growth with higher profits and revenues for the first-quarter.

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES led media stocks higher after it maintained its full-year outlook on the back of the company’s Networks division.

Automakers in the region rose 0.4 percent, led by Valeo’s 6 percent jump as the French parts maker said its performance would improve in the second half of the year.

Continental AG advanced after it backed its outlook for the year despite reporting a fall in first-quarter earnings.

Renault rose more than 3 percent as it clung to full-year targets and pursues merger talks with its Japanese partner Nissan.

(Reporting by Medha Singh and Agamoni Ghosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Gareth Jones and Elaine Hardcastle)

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U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at the White House in Washington
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to his audience as he hosts Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

April 26, 2019

By Jan Wolfe and Richard Cowan

(Reuters) – The “i word” – impeachment – is swirling around the U.S. Congress since the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted Russia report, which painted a picture of lies, threats and confusion in Donald Trump’s White House.

Some Democrats say trying to remove Trump from office would be a waste of time because his fellow Republicans still have majority control of the Senate. Other Democrats argue they have a moral obligation at least to try to impeach, even though Mueller did not charge Trump with conspiring with Russia in the 2016 U.S. election or with obstruction of justice.

Whether or not the Democrats decide to go down this risky path, here is how the impeachment process works.

WHAT ARE GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT?

The U.S. Constitution says the president can be removed from office by Congress for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Exactly what that means is unclear.

Before he became president in 1974, replacing Republican Richard Nixon who resigned over the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford said: “An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”

Frank Bowman, a University of Missouri law professor and author of a forthcoming book on the history of impeachment, said Congress could look beyond criminal laws in defining “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Historically, it can encompass corruption and other abuses, including trying to obstruct judicial proceedings.

HOW DOES IMPEACHMENT PLAY OUT?

The term impeachment is often interpreted as simply removing a president from office, but that is not strictly accurate.

Impeachment technically refers to the 435-member House of Representatives approving formal charges against a president.

The House effectively acts as accuser – voting on whether to bring specific charges. An impeachment resolution, known as “articles of impeachment,” is like an indictment in a criminal case. A simple majority vote is needed in the House to impeach.

The Senate then conducts a trial. House members act as the prosecutors, with senators as the jurors. The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court presides over the trial. A two-thirds majority vote is required in the 100-member Senate to convict and remove a president from office.

No president has ever been removed from office as a direct result of an impeachment and conviction by Congress.

Nixon quit in 1974 rather than face impeachment. Presidents Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 were impeached by the House, but both stayed in office after the Senate acquitted them.

Obstruction of justice was one charge against Clinton, who faced allegations of lying under oath about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Obstruction was also included in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

CAN THE SUPREME COURT OVERTURN?

No.

Trump said on Twitter on Wednesday that he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene if Democrats tried to impeach him. But America’s founders explicitly rejected making a Senate conviction appealable to the federal judiciary, Bowman said.

“They quite plainly decided this is a political process and it is ultimately a political judgment,” Bowman said.

“So when Trump suggests there is any judicial remedy for impeachment, he is just wrong.”

PROOF OF WRONGDOING?

In a typical criminal court case, jurors are told to convict only if there is “proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” a fairly stringent standard.

Impeachment proceedings are different. The House and Senate “can decide on whatever burden of proof they want,” Bowman said. “There is no agreement on what the burden should be.”

PARTY BREAKDOWN IN CONGRESS?

Right now, there are 235 Democrats, 197 Republicans and three vacancies in the House. As a result, the Democratic majority could vote to impeach Trump without any Republican votes.

In 1998, when Republicans had a House majority, the chamber voted largely along party lines to impeach Clinton, a Democrat.

The Senate now has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two independents who usually vote with Democrats. Conviction and removal of a president would requires 67 votes. So that means for Trump to be impeached, at least 20 Republicans and all the Democrats and independents would have to vote against him.

WHO BECOMES PRESIDENT IF TRUMP IS REMOVED?

A Senate conviction removing Trump from office would elevate Vice President Mike Pence to the presidency to fill out Trump’s term, which ends on Jan. 20, 2021.

(Reporting by Jan Wolfe and Richard Cowan; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Peter Cooney)

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FILE PHOTO: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft attends a conference at the Cannes Lions Festival in Cannes, France, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s lawyers on Friday are set to ask a Florida judge to toss out hidden-camera videos that prosecutors say show the 77-year-old billionaire receiving sexual favors for money inside a Florida massage parlor.

The owner of the reigning Super Bowl champions plans wants the video to not be used as evidence against him as he contests two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution at the Orchids of Asia Spa in Jupiter, Florida, along with some two dozen other men.

His legal team is fresh off a win on Tuesday, when they successfully persuaded Palm Beach County Judge Leonard Hanser to block prosecutors from releasing the hidden-camera footage to media outlets, which had requested copies under the state’s robust open records law.

Kraft, who has owned the franchise since 1994, pleaded not guilty, but has issued a public apology for his actions.

His attorneys have argued in court papers that the surreptitious videotaping of customers, including Kraft, inside a massage parlor was governmental overreach and the result of an illegally obtained search warrant.

The warrant, Kraft’s lawyers claim, was secured under false pretenses because police officers cited human trafficking as a potential crime in their application. Prosecutors have since acknowledged that the investigation yielded no evidence of trafficking.

Palm Beach County prosecutors in a court filing on Wednesday said Kraft’s motion should be rejected because he could not have had any expectation of privacy while visiting a commercial establishment to engage in criminal activity.

That prompted an indignant response from Kraft’s attorneys, who said the prosecution’s position on privacy was “unhinged.”

“It should go without saying that Mr. Kraft and everyone else in the United States have a reasonable expectation that the government will not secretly spy on them while they undress behind closed doors,” they wrote.

(Reporting by Joseph Ax, editing by G Crosse)

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