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New York says breaks cigarette-smuggling ring linked to militants

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(Reuters) – Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist militant groups.

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House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threatened to torpedo negotiations.

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ECB eyes supervisor role to squeeze weak banks

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank could use its new supervisory role from next year to single out weak banks and make it harder for them to get its financial support, people familiar with the matter say.

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Obama shifts focus to jobs, eases building permit process

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday will seek to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening to swamp his agenda to the economic issues by announcing he will make it easier to get federal building projects off the ground.

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Gunmen attack police station beyond Nigeria emergency zone

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KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria’s northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the north.

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Myanmar frees political prisoners before president goes to U.S.

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YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s government has freed 23 political prisoners, a senior interior ministry official said on Friday, the day President Thein Sein was due to leave for a landmark visit to the United States.

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Japan PM sets targets in latest growth strategy tranche

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TOKYO (Reuters) – The latest tranche of Japan’s growth strategy will aim to triple infrastructure exports and double farm exports by 2020, as well as boost private investment, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday.

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Obama: U.S. preserves diplomatic, military options on Syria

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian crisis.

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Bahraini security forces raid top cleric’s house: opposition

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LONDON (Reuters) – Bahraini security forces raided the house of top Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on Friday, the opposition said, an act likely to enrage the island’s majority Shi’ite population which is at loggerheads with its Sunni rulers.

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Turkey detains prime suspect in car bombings

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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said on Friday.

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