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Reza Zarrab case: Turkey seizes assets of trader in US trial SOURCE: BBC NEWS   The case involving Mr Zarrab (centre) is being closely followed in Turkey Turkish prosecutors have ordered the seizure of assets of a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who is testifying in a US trial of a banker accused of violating US sanctions against Iran. Witness Reza Zarrab earlier told a New York court that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had approved his and the defendant's sanctions-breaking deals. Mr Erdogan has denied that Turkey breached US sanctions on Iran. The case has strained relations between Ankara and Washington. In a separate development on Friday, Turkey's chief prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for former CIA officer Graham Fuller. The prosecutor accused Mr Fuller, former vice-chair of the US National Intelligence Council, of having links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Mr Gulen, who lives in the US
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US WOMAN ADMITS TESTING HOMEMADE RICIN ON NEIGHBOURS SOURCE: BBC NEWS Ms Miller said she made the ricin from the castor beans she grew from plants in her apartment A woman living in a US nursing home has admitted making ricin and testing it on other elderly residents. Betty Miller has been charged after ricin was found in a care home in Shelburne, Vermont. Investigators said Ms Miller made the highly toxic powder from castor plant seeds. Ms Miller told authorities she made between two and three tablespoons of ricin in her kitchen. The alleged poisonings were uncovered earlier this week when Ms Miller drove herself to a local medical centre to be evaluated. The ricin was found on Tuesday afternoon in her apartment. What is ricin? Ms Miller said she grew 30 to 40 castor beans from plants. In court documents, she said "her goal was to injure herself". However, she sought to test the effectiveness of the plant-
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Why Manchester United will regret hiring Mourinho instead of Pochettino SOURCE: goal.com Unllike the Portuguese coach, the Tottenham manager plays football the 'United Way' and has a better chance of building a legacy at his club It may have seemed like a tactical masterstroke at the time, but the folly of Jose Mourinho’s defensive set-up at in a much-hyped derby clash with Liverpool was brutally exposed last Sunday. Manchester United had headed to Anfield full of vigour, gleefully swatting teams aside with an abundance of goals and flair. Mourinho played to type, though, and set his side out to earn a 0-0 draw. They did. Last Sunday, Liverpool headed to Wembley to play a Tottenham side on a roll, having earned a superb 1-1 draw with Real Madrid in the Bernabeu the week prior. Unlike Mourinho, Mauricio Pochettino decided to go for the jugular. Harry Kane was supported by the pace of Son Heung-Min from the left flank, while Dele Alli was given freedom
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Ozil: I give everything on the pitch for Arsenal SOURCE: goal.com Despite criticism over his work rate, the German international insists he is always 100 per cent committed when representing the Gunners Mesut Ozil says he is giving his all for Arsenal despite being consistently mired in transfer speculation. Several outlets reported last week that the German had told team-mates he would be leaving the Gunners for Manchester United this winter. With the 29-year-old in the final year of his current deal, Arsenal owner  Stan Kroenke also came out to make it clear that the club would like to keep him around . Ozil, for his part, was happy to get the backing and says he'll give his best for the Gunners, though was not ready to clarify anything about his future.  "It's very nice to hear that [Kroenke's comments] and to see that - he's the major shareholder," Ozil told  Sky Sports. "I'm happy here, and I do my job to 100 per cent
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JFK files: FBI anxious to 'convince public' about Oswald SOURCE: BBC NEWS   President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas on 22 November 1963 Thousands of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963 have been released by the US government. As people examine all 2,800 files , here are the most interesting points so far. NB many files contain unverified raw intelligence. FBI concerned about conspiracy theories In a memo written the day Oswald was killed, FBI director J Edgar Hoover expressed concern about the spread of conspiracy theories . "The thing I am concerned about is having something issued so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin," he said. Oswald spoke to a KGB officer A memo from the CIA, based on an intercepted phone call, suggests Oswald spoke with a KGB officer at the Russian embassy in Mexico City. It sa
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HIV- POSITIVE ITALIAN VALENTINO TALLUTO JAILED FOR INFECTING 30 WOMEN SOURCE: BBC NEWS Valentino Talluto was arrested in November 2015 An Italian accountant has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV. Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex with at least 53 women after his HIV diagnosis in 2006, the youngest of whom was 14 at the relationship's start. The accountant, using the pseudonym "Hearty Style", went on social networks and dating sites to find his victims. On Friday, judges sentenced the 33-year-old to 24 years in prison. Talluto's defence lawyers had argued their client's actions were "imprudent, but not intentional". However, those who asked him to wear a condom were told he was either allergic, or had recently been tested for HIV, news agency AFP reported. When some of the women confronted him after discovering they were infec
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TWITTER BANS RT AND SPUTNIK ADS AMID ELECTION INTERFERENCE FEARS  SOURCE; BBC NEWS   Twitter is banning two of Russia's biggest media outlets from buying advertising amid fears they attempted to interfere with the 2016 US election. The ban on advertising from Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, and all linked accounts, was "effective immediately". US authorities say both act as "a platform for Kremlin messaging". The social media giant will donate an estimated $1.9m (£1.4m) made from the outlets into research on Twitter's use in "civic engagement and elections". Twitter said the decision "was based on the retrospective work we've been doing around the 2016 US election and the US intelligence community's conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government". The statement, published on the social media platform's blog , continued: "We did not com
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