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Ugandan leader removes army chief named in succession plot claim
Ugandan leader removes army chief named in succession plot claim
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has removed his head of the military Aronda Nyakairima, and moved him to a civilian position as the minister for internal affairs, a statement from the military said on Friday.
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Bank of England's Fisher says does not want U.S.-style QE pledge
Bank of England's Fisher says does not want U.S.-style QE pledge
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CARDIFF (Reuters) - A Bank of England policymaker said on Friday he favored small additional amounts of bond purchases over time, but not a hard-to-manage commitment to longer-term stimulus like that of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Three mainland Chinese charged in HK mercantile exchange probe
Three mainland Chinese charged in HK mercantile exchange probe
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Three men were charged on Friday in a Hong Kong court with possessing false documents including a check for $460 million in connection with an investigation into the city's shuttered Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange.
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Academics back BP's fight to cap oil spill payouts
Academics back BP's fight to cap oil spill payouts
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LONDON (Reuters) - A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster.

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Syria opposition struggles to forge transition plan before talks
Syria opposition struggles to forge transition plan before talks
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's divided opposition leaders have failed to back a plan by their outgoing leader for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power gradually to end the country's civil war, highlighting the obstacles to international peace talks expected next month.
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Suspect in Czech family killings arrested in Washington -police
Suspect in Czech family killings arrested in Washington -police
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested a man wanted for murdering four members of a family in the Czech Republic, Czech police said on Friday.

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Fed's Bullard wants inflation pickup before tapering QE
Fed's Bullard wants inflation pickup before tapering QE
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LONDON (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve official said on Friday U.S. inflation would have to pick up before he voted to scale back monetary policy stimulus and that this was unlikely to happen in the coming month.
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Truck strike may have caused Washington state bridge collapse, officials says
Truck strike may have caused Washington state bridge collapse, officials says
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OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A colliding truck may have triggered the collapse on Thursday of part of a four-lane freeway bridge that sent vehicles and drivers tumbling into a frigid river in Washington state, officials said.

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BA plane makes Heathrow emergency landing after engine fire
BA plane makes Heathrow emergency landing after engine fire
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British Airways plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow on Friday after a technical fault in an engine.
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Runways at Heathrow Airport shut after BA incident
Runways at Heathrow Airport shut after BA incident
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LONDON (Reuters) - London's Heathrow Airport closed both its runways on Friday following an incident with a British Airways plane, the airport operator said.
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Market turbulence poses first serious test for Abenomics
Market turbulence poses first serious test for Abenomics
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TOKYO (Reuters) - This week's turbulence in Tokyo markets exposes a key risk of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's all-in strategy to revive Japan's economy - if investor confidence falters, the government and the Bank of Japan may be left with few options to turn the tide.
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China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tension
China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tension
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes that a visit by a senior North Korean envoy can ease tension in the region and help spur efforts to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.
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Russia's oldest human rights group fights
Russia's oldest human rights group fights "foreign agent" tag
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a "foreign agent" under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence dissent.
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Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East
Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said.
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Private consumption helps German economy to meager growth
Private consumption helps German economy to meager growth
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Robust private consumption helped Germany eke out meager growth in the first quarter, compensating for declines in both exports and investment, and is likely to remain a pillar of support for Europe's largest economy this year.

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Volatile Nikkei keeps Asian stocks on edge
Volatile Nikkei keeps Asian stocks on edge
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian stocks fell to one-month lows on Friday and the yen rebounded broadly as extreme volatility in the Nikkei kept investors on edge.
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Russia lifts tsunami warning on Russia's Sakhalin, Kurile islands
Russia lifts tsunami warning on Russia's Sakhalin, Kurile islands
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian emergency authorities lifted a tsunami warning on Friday several minutes after they announced one, following an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's eastern coast.
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Private consumption helps Germany to meager growth in Q1
Private consumption helps Germany to meager growth in Q1
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Berlin (Reuters) - Private consumption helped Germany eke out meager economic growth of 0.1 in the first quarter of the year, compensating for declines in exports and investment in Europe's largest economy, data showed on Friday.

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Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes Northern California
Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes Northern California
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(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East off Kamchatka
Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East off Kamchatka
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LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Russia'a Far East in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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