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• Australia awaits Turkey's response on extradition of IS recruiter

  27-11-2016 23:41
  Australia is awaiting Turkey's response to a request to extradite a citizen believed to be a top recruiter for Islamic State who has been arrested in Turkey, the Australian government said on Monday. Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the man is believed to be Neil Prakash, who has been linked to several Australia-based attack plans and appeared in Islamic State videos and magazines. "He's obviously subject at the moment to the Turkish justice system and Turkish legal processes," Australian ju
  
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• Nice held by Bastia as PSG close gap thanks to Cavani

  27-11-2016 23:35
  Nice returned to the top of Ligue 1 after drawing 1-1 at home to Bastia but champions Paris St Germain moved to within a point of the leaders as an Edinson Cavani double earned them a 2-1 victory at Lyon on Sunday. Uruguayan striker Cavani headed home the winner with just nine minutes left, his 18th goal in all competitions this term, to complete a fine week in which he also scored at Arsenal in their midweek Champions League draw. Cavani had converted from the penalty spot on the half-hour afte
  
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• Fillon promises 'software change' for France in primaries' victory speech

  27-11-2016 23:32
  PARIS (Reuters) - Former prime minister Francois Fillon pledged to unite his camp behind a project to carry out deep reforms in France in a victory speech after winning the conservative ticket for next year's presidential election. "My approach has been understood: France can't bear its decline. It wants truth and it wants action," Fillon told supporters at his campaign headquarter. "I will take up an unusual challenge for France: tell the truth and completely change its software," he said. (Rep
  
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• Hamilton hands over title as a winner

  27-11-2016 23:28
  By Alan Baldwin ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The podium celebration was muted, and the smile looked forced, but Lewis Hamilton said he still felt great after winning a season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that handed his title to Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg. The Briton has also made clear he felt he was the moral winner, if not the actual champion, given that he won more races and took more pole positions.
  
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• Trump says he would have won U.S. popular vote if not for illegal voting

  27-11-2016 23:25
  By Roberta Rampton and Dustin Volz PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that besides winning the Electoral College "in a landslide" in the Nov. 8 election: "I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." The allegation, made without evidence, comes as Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote over Trump has surpassed 2 million votes and is expected to grow to more than 2.5 million as ballo
  
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• Britons in EU must have rights protected, MPs tell Donald Tusk

  27-11-2016 23:14
  
  MPs have called for an early agreement on the rights of British citizens living in EU countries and EU citizens living in the UK to end "anxiety and uncertainty". In a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, 80 MPs, most of them from the Conservative Party, criticised Brussels' refusal to allow formal talks on the matter. Prime Minister Theresa May has already said she wants to give EU citizens the right to remain in the UK but this will not happen if European countries do not allow th
  
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• Ed Balls Urged To Stand As MP Again After 'Strictly Come Dancing' Exit

  27-11-2016 22:49
  
  Ed Balls has been urged to exploit his new-found national treasure status and return to frontline politics after being kicked off Strictly Come Dancing.
  Journalists and politicians from across the political spectrum hailed the former Shadow Chancellor, who repeatedly won the public vote - keeping him on the flagship BBC show for ten weeks, much to the chagrin of the judges.
  Balls, who has made no suggestion he is seeking a political comeback, is currently teaching at Harvard and is chairman of
  
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• England's Vunipola set to miss Six Nations with knee injury

  27-11-2016 22:36
  England number eight Billy Vunipola is likely to miss the Six Nations after the RFU ruled him out for at least three months with a knee injury sustained in Saturday's win over Argentina. Saracens' Vunipola, 24, had surgery on Sunday to repair the torn cartilage he suffered in the 27-14 victory over the Pumas and will not be fit before the Six Nations starts on Feb. 4. “Billy’s been absolutely fantastic for England over the last 11 months and we wish him a quick recovery,” said
  
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• Trump assails recount push, claims millions voted illegally

  27-11-2016 22:35
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence Sunday that "millions" voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton's nearly 2 million edge in the popular vote and returning to his campaign mantra of a rigged race even as he prepares to enter the White House in less than two months.
  
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• Argentina beat Croatia to clinch maiden Davis Cup title

  27-11-2016 22:27
  Argentina took their first Davis Cup title after Juan Martin Del Potro and Federico Delbonis won Sunday's reverse singles to complete the South American nation's spectacular comeback in a 3-2 victory over hosts Croatia in the final. Del Potro fought back from two sets down to beat Marin Cilic 6-7(4) 2-6 7-5 6-4 6-3 before Delbonis swept aside Ivo Karlovic 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the decisive rubber, sparking wild celebrations among several thousand away fans in the Zagreb Arena. Argentina joined the list
  
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• France's Fillon would beat Le Pen in presidential election - poll

  27-11-2016 22:25
  French conservative candidate Francois Fillon would easily beat far-right party leader Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election, according to a Harris Interactive poll conducted on the day Fillon won his party's nomination for the election. Fillon would beat Le Pen in the presidential election's second round with 67 percent of the votes versus 33 percent for Le Pen, the poll said. In the first round, Socialist President Francois Hollande would only get 9 percent of the votes.
  
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• Pilots at Lufthansa announce further strikes this week

  27-11-2016 22:04
  By Christoph Steitz and Peter Maushagen FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German pilots union VC has announced further strikes at Lufthansa for Tuesday and Wednesday this week after fresh talks at the end of a four-day walkout failed to settle their long-running pay dispute. "Unfortunately the high-level talks that took place today at short notice failed to produce a result," VC board member Joerg Handwerg said in a statement. "There is still no negotiable offer from Lufthansa regarding the compensation of
  
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• Fillon, the Margaret Thatcher admirer in France's presidential race

  27-11-2016 22:02
  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Fillon, centre-right candidate in France's presidential election as of Sunday and pollsters' favourite to win that vote next May, is a true social and economic conservative who wants to cut half a million public sector jobs. Behind still-boyish looks and a mild, refined demeanour, the 62-year-old who won his Les Republicains party primaries, says he will slash the cost of government. An admirer of late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Fillon, who
  
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• Rosberg shakes off Hamilton's shadow

  27-11-2016 21:57
  By Alan Baldwin ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Nico Rosberg lost a race and won a Formula One world championship on Sunday and a weight of history slipped from his shoulders as the tears flowed and a night of partying stretched out before him. From their days together as teenage karting team mates to mature Mercedes rivals, Britain's Lewis Hamilton has been the implacable rival against whom the German has measured himself and come short. "It feels like I’ve been racing him forever and always he&rsq
  
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• Fillon scores huge win in French conservative presidential primaries

  27-11-2016 21:54
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Fillon, a socially conservative free-marketeer, won France's centre-right presidential primaries on Sunday, setting up a likely showdown next year with far-right leader Marine Le Pen that the pollsters expect him to win. With votes from four-fifths of 10,228 polling stations counted, Fillon, who went into Sunday's second-round run-off as firm favourite, had won over 67 percent of the vote in a head-to-head battle with another ex-prime
  
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• Mourinho sent off on bad day for United as Arsenal win again

  27-11-2016 21:53
  By Ian Chadband LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was sent off for the second time in a month on Sunday as the controversial coach watched his side draw 1-1 at home to West Ham United and lose more ground in the Premier League title race. On an afternoon when Arsenal moved within three points of top spot after Alexis Sanchez scored twice in a 3-1 home win over Bournemouth, Mourinho's hopes of seeing United roar back into contention foundered amid more Old Trafford drama.
  
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• Mourinho sent off as United draw again at Old Trafford

  27-11-2016 21:49
  (Reuters) - MANCHESTER UNITED 1 WEST HAM UNITED 1 Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was sent off for the second time in a month at Old Trafford on Sunday and was left more frustrated by a 1-1 draw with West Ham United that left his side further off the Premier League pace. Mourinho, who had been sent to the stands against Burnley last month for abuse towards referee Mark Clattenburg, this time received his matching orders from Jon Moss in the 27th minute after petulantly kicking a drinks b
  
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• France's far-right says Fillon 'great candidate' to face in presidential election

  27-11-2016 21:44
  Francois Fillon's wide-reaching plans to slash public spending and overhaul the French economy would "trigger chaos", a top official of the far-right National Front said, welcoming him as an opponent because of their sharp differences on that issue. Fillon on Sunday became the centre-right's nominee for next year's presidential election after winning a primary vote. Under the leadership of Marine Le Pen, who took over from her father Jean-Marie in 2011, the National Front has switched from an ec
  
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• Trump aide steps up bid to block possible Romney nomination

  27-11-2016 21:42
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Donald Trump adviser warned Sunday that the president-elect's supporters would feel "betrayed" if he tapped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as secretary of state, a move that would put a once fierce Trump critic in a powerful Cabinet post.
  
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• 'Fire under the ice'

  27-11-2016 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Known for his quiet nature and love of motor-racing, who is Francois Fillon, tipped as France's next president?
  
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• Factbox - Policy proposals of French conservative presidential candidate Fillon

  27-11-2016 21:31
  Here is what Francois Fillon, a former prime minister who on Sunday won the conservatives' nomination for next year's presidential election, has said he will do if elected president of France in May. The 62-year-old was voted candidate of the centre-right Les Republicains party on Sunday, beating off main challenger Alain Juppe, partial results show.
  
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• Even dissidents hold back as Castro's death casts a pall over Cuba

  27-11-2016 21:25
  By Nelson Acosta and Ana Isabel Martinez HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's most prominent dissident group called off its weekly protest march for the first time in 13 years on Sunday following the death of its nemesis Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader whose passing has cast a pall over the island. Castro, an icon of the Cold War who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and defied half a century of U.S. efforts to topple him, died late on Friday at the age of 90. The Cuban go
  
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• Canada’s Trudeau defends warm Castro remarks after backlash

  27-11-2016 21:25
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, criticized for fondly remembering Fidel Castro without mention of his human rights record, defended his comments on Sunday and said the late Cuban leader had been a dictator. Trudeau sparked fury and online mockery after he referred to Castro as a "remarkable leader" and expressed his sorrow at the Friday death of "Cuba’s longest serving president". On Sunday, Trudeau said the statement was simply meant “to recognise the passing of a former hea
  
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• Next steps

  27-11-2016 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What is Ed Balls's next move following his somewhat surprising Strictly Come Dancing success?
  
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• France's Juppe concedes defeat, backs Fillon in presidential election

  27-11-2016 21:16
  PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative primaries' candidate Alain Juppe on Sunday conceded defeat in the race to become his camp's candidate in next year's presidential election and said he would support Francois Fillon. Partial results based on half the primaries' polling stations showed Fillon winning by a wide margin. (Reporting by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Michel Rose)
  
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• Hundreds uprooted in east Aleppo as Syrian army advances

  27-11-2016 20:55
  By Lisa Barrington BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, sources said on Sunday, after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces that rebels fear could split their most important urban stronghold in two. The army and its allies took control on Saturday of the large Hanano housing district, on the northeast frontline of the besieged eastern part of Aleppo. On Sunday they said they had captured the neighbouring district, Jabal Ba
  
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• Nice held 1-1 by Bastia but still reclaim top spot

  27-11-2016 20:51
  PARIS (Reuters) - Nice returned to the top of League 1 after drawing 1-1 at home to Bastia after Alassane Plea's early header was cancelled out in the second half on Sunday. Missing the injured Mario Balotelli, Nice took the lead through Plea after 11 minutes before being pegged back by a fierce 20-metre shot from Enzo Crivelli on the hour. Plea should have won it for Nice late on but, after rounding the keeper, crashed his shot against the bar. The win put Nice one point ahead of Monaco after 1
  
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• Fillon wins French conservative presidential primary - partial results

  27-11-2016 20:42
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Fillon, a socially conservative free-marketeer, is to be the presidential candidate of the French centre-right and likely main challenger to far-right leader Marine Le Pen in next year's election, first partial results of a primaries' second-round vote showed on Sunday. With votes from over a third of 10,228 polling stations counted, Fillon, who went into Sunday's second-round run-off as favourite, had won 68.6 percent of the vote in
  
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• Sims is Southampton hero on his debut in defeat of Everton

  27-11-2016 20:41
  (Reuters) - SOUTHAMPTON 1 EVERTON 0 Josh Sims said he was delighted by his instant impact after setting up Southampton's winner in the first minute of his Premier League debut as they beat Everton 1-0 at St Mary's on Sunday. The 19-year-old winger is the latest star from Southampton's formidable academy and took just 43 seconds to get the home fans cheering his name after scooping the ball on for Charlie Austin to head in the game's only goal from close range. Sims had been told he was playing b
  
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• Mercedes mull response to Hamilton tactics

  27-11-2016 20:37
  By Alan Baldwin ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Mercedes bosses left open the possibility of disciplinary action against Lewis Hamilton after the Briton ignored their orders while fighting team mate Nico Rosberg for the Formula One championship on Sunday. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff warned of potential 'anarchy' and said he had yet to decide how to respond to a situation that threatened to undermine the team. Hamilton, who won the race in Abu Dhabi but lost his title to Rosberg, slowed the pace deliberately
  
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• Fillon wins French conservative ticket for presidential race - partial results

  27-11-2016 20:29
  Former prime minister Francois Fillon won the conservative ticket for next year's presidential election in France by a wide margin, beating ex-premier Alain Juppe, partial results of a primaries' vote showed on Sunday. Fillon won 69.5 percent of the votes based on 2,121 polling stations out of a total 10,228, the election's organisers said. Organisers of the Republicains party and its centre-right allies have warned ahead of the vote that partial results may not be representative of final result
  
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• The Latest: Wisconsin officials to set timeline for recount

  27-11-2016 20:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump's transition (all times EST):
  
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• Trump aides say Cuban government will have to change

  27-11-2016 20:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cuban government must move toward enacting greater freedoms for its people and giving Americans something in return if it wants to keep warmer U.S. relations initiated by President Barack Obama, top aides to President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday.
  
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• May to press ahead with corporate governance reforms

  27-11-2016 19:31
  Proposal for workers to have ‘advisory role’ on pay committees
  
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• Fidel Castro’s unusual gift to history

  27-11-2016 19:29
  After Fidel Castro’s passing last week, reactions were decidedly mixed about his legacy for the Cuban people. Are they better off now than, say, the people of Costa Rica? In his later years, Mr. Castro admitted his model of governance “doesn’t even work for us any more.” Yet most reactions did not miss this undeniable fact: No other person in modern history had so dominated a country for so long.
  
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• Trump assails effort to recount votes; aide slams Romney

  27-11-2016 19:24
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In a reprise of campaign-season rancor, Donald Trump and his lieutenants are assailing an effort — now joined by Hillary Clinton — to recount votes in up to three battleground states, calling the push fraudulent, the work of crybabies and, in the president-elect's estimation, "sad."
  
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• Israel increases order for F-35 fighter jets to 50

  27-11-2016 19:21
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's security cabinet on Sunday approved the purchase of an additional 17 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter jets, bringing its total number on order to 50. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement the decision to increase the order was unanimous. Lockheed is developing three versions of the F-35 Lightning II jets for the U.S. military and nine countries that have already placed orders - Britain, Italy, Turkey, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Japan, I
  
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• High turnout in French centre-right primaries, up from first round

  27-11-2016 19:00
  The latest turnout figures in the second round of France's centre-right primaries for next year's presidential election stood 4.5 percent higher than they did at the same time in the first round, the organiser of the vote said. Thierry Solere, president of the committee organising the Les Republicains party vote, told reporters on Sunday that the turnout stood at more than 2.9 million at 5 pm (1600 GMT), with 78 percent of polling stations taken into account. Former prime minister Francois Fillo
  
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• Islamic State gone, Mosul district residents adjust to new life

  27-11-2016 18:57
  By Isabel Coles GOGJALI, Iraq (Reuters) - Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment. Now, most of them are Iraqi security forces who recaptured the Gogjali neighbourhood earlier this month and are pushing further into the city, which has been under Islamic State control for more than two years. As the militants retreat, civilians are adjusting to
  
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• Nigel Farage Facing Death Threats As Ukip Leader Labelled 'Britain’s Most Hated Man'

  27-11-2016 18:46
  
  Nigel Farage claims threats to his safety have increased since Donald Trump’s endorsement of the Ukip leader following the US election victory - as he was told by an angry radio phone-in caller that he will be “Britain’s most hated man”.
  Farage, who is reportedly moving to the US, also spelled out his plans to visit the country again this week - where he said he’ll ask for “forgiveness” for things British politicians said about Trump.
  The Republica
  
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• Castro´s death casts pall over Cuba - even dissidents hold back

  27-11-2016 18:26
  By Nelson Acosta and Ana Isabel Martinez HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's most prominent dissident group called off its weekly protest march for the first time in 13 years on Sunday following the death of its nemesis Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader whose passing has cast a pall over the island. The Ladies in White dissident group decided to avoid creating tensions this week. "We respect the mourning of others and will not celebrate the death of any human being." The group, originally formed in s
  
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• National Grid to be spared from break-up

  27-11-2016 18:09
  UK power group will be ordered to put in place stricter controls to prevent conflicts of interest
  
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• Swiss reject plan to speed up exit from nuclear energy

  27-11-2016 18:04
  
  Swiss voters rejected a plan to accelerate the country's exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have forced their government to shut the last plant in 2029. ...
  
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• Pelosi challenger: House Dems need new message and messenger

  27-11-2016 17:57
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ohio congressman challenging House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says his colleagues understand that regaining the majority requires a "new message and a new messenger" able to reach out to voters who abandoned the party in this month's election.
  
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• Ukip poised to name new leader

  27-11-2016 17:53
  Second contest in six months after Nigel Farage stepped down
  
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• Sanchez's double for Arsenal ends brave Bournemouth's hopes

  27-11-2016 17:50
  ARSENAL 3 BOURNEMOUTH 1 Nov 27 (Reuters) - Two goals from Alexis Sanchez and another from Theo Walcott ended Bournemouth's brave resistance at the Emirates stadium as Arsenal won 3-1 to stay in touch with the Premier League leaders on Sunday. The visitors, for whom Jack Wilshere was ineligible against his parent club, endured a horrific start with two players booked inside seven minutes and a goal conceded after 12 when Steve Cook botched a back pass to his keeper to let in Sanchez for the easie
  
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• Today's News: Nov. 27, 2016

  27-11-2016 17:44
  —Former Cuban President Fidel Castro died Saturday. More here. —Swiss voters rejected a rapid phase-out of the country’s nuclear industry. —We’re live-blogging the news stories of the day below. All updates are in Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5).
  
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• Renzi faces pressure to stay in office as Italy referendum defeat looms

  27-11-2016 17:28
  By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - When a handful of European leaders met Barack Obama in Berlin this month to say their goodbyes, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi informed the group that he may well lose power before the U.S. president. While Obama leaves office on Jan. 20, Renzi has promised to resign if he does not win a Dec. 4 referendum on constitutional reform, opening the way for renewed political instability in the eurozone's third largest economy. "I have no desire to hang around if
  
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• Swiss reject quick exit from atomic power

  27-11-2016 17:24
  By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voted in a referendum on Sunday to reject a speedy exit from the nation's five nuclear power plants, as concerns over losing energy independence outweighed safety worries raised by the measure's proponents. The Swiss government and industry fought the plan, saying it could have led to blackouts, higher costs and the loss of energy independence because the country would have become more dependent on coal-fired power from neighbouring Germany. "We're very ha
  
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• Iraqi forces grind on in east Mosul as political rift opens over Shi'ite militias

  27-11-2016 17:13
  By Michael Georgy, Isabel Coles and John Davison MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi'ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State's biggest stronghold. Forty days into the biggest ground offensive in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, about a quarter of the city has been taken by U.S.-backed government units on the eastern side. Res
  
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