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| CORRECTED - Hong Kong's leader asks China to allow democratic reform |
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 By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - (Corrects 11th paragraph to remove reference to Britain's role in drafting of Hong Kong's mini-constitution) Hong Kong's leader formally asked Beijing on Tuesday to allow electoral reform, paving the way for a city-wide leadership election in the free-wheeling Asian financial hub in 2017. The devil remains in the details, however, with Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying offering no firm proposal and the city's democrats fearing they will be shut out of the poll once Beijing's Communist Party leadership approves an election plan. Leung's report to the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, followed a five-month consultation on democracy in the former British colony that drew nearly 125,000 public submissions. Hong Kong returned to China in 1997 with wide-ranging autonomy under the formula of "one country, two systems".
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| Thailand's ex-PM Yingluck given permission to leave country |
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 By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military rulers have given permission to former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to travel to Europe where she is expected to attend the birthday party of her brother Thaksin, also a deposed former premier, officers said on Thursday. A military spokesman said Yingluck, forced from office by a court ruling days before the military seized power in May, was permitted to leave provided she stayed out of politics. He said she would be allowed back into Thailand at the end of her trip. The military briefly detained Yingluck and hundreds of other politicians, activists, academics and journalists after the May 22 coup, which it says it staged to restore order after months of sometimes violent protests against her government.
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| Russia condemns "primitive" US sanctions over Ukraine |
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| Russia condemned new U.S. sanctions on Thursday as a primitive attempt to take revenge on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis and accused Washington of blackmailing the European Union into agreeing more sanctions. Washington and Brussels say Moscow has been fanning separatist violence in eastern Ukraine and broadened their sanctions on Wednesday, sending Russian shares and the rouble currency down. "We consider the new set of American sanctions on Russia as a primitive attempt to avenge the fact that developments in Ukraine are not following Washington's scenario," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. |
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