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| Hundreds of students seek refuge outside U.S. embassy in Burundi | | | By Edmund Blair BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Hundreds of students from a Burundi university shuttered by the government were seeking refuge outside the U.S. embassy in the capital on Friday, amid unrest and escalating tensions ahead of the June 26 presidential vote. The east African nation has been rocked by days of protests triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term, a move opponents say violates the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war in 2005. Citing security fears, the government on Wednesday closed University of Burundi, a prestigious institution where football-fanatic Nkurunziza taught physical education in the mid-1990s. An official at the U.S. embassy in Bujumbura said late on Thursday that hundreds of students were "seeking a safe refuge" and had lined the street next to the embassy compound. |
| Music streaming service Grooveshark shuts down to settle infringement | | | Online music streaming service Grooveshark shut down its operations as part of its settlement agreement with major record companies, according to a message posted on the website, putting an end to a four-year legal battle. Grooveshark will wipe clean all of the record companies' copyrighted works and hand over ownership of its website, mobile apps and intellectual property, including patents and copyrights, the company said. We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service," Grooveshark said. Grooveshark and its parent Escape Media Group were not immediately reachable for comment. |
| "Decent Indonesians" understand Australian anger over executions - PM Abbott | |  SYDNEY (Reuters) - "Decent Indonesians" understand Australian anger over the execution of two convicted drug traffickers, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said after Jakarta's ambassador in Canberra expressed sympathy for the families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. His comments followed a statement by Ambassador Nadjib Riphat Kesoema acknowledging the strain the executions had placed on relations between the neighbours. "The Indonesian people and government express our sympathies to the families and friends of the deceased," Kesoema said. Abbott recalled Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Gibson, in protest against the execution of Sukumaran and Chan, who faced a firing squad, along with six drug convicts from several countries, shortly after midnight on Wednesday. "It's a sign that decent people in Indonesia appreciate the anger that Australians feel at these cruel and unnecessary deaths and it's a sign that in time the good and strong friendship between Australia and Indonesia can be resumed," Abbott told reporters in Canberra on Friday. The mass execution cements the hard line on enforcing the death penalty adopted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo when he took office last July, damaging diplomatic relations with several countries.
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| Insight - A barber's half-century of clipping hair in a changing Baltimore | |  By Emily Flitter BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The view from Lenny Clay's barbershop in a neighborhood just west of downtown Baltimore is bleak. "Back in the '60s I couldn't keep the politicians out of here," Clay, now 80, said. "Now none of them will come." In 1961, when Clay opened Lenny's House of Naturals in this corner storefront, the neighborhood was busy, bright, full of hard-working black families and black-owned businesses. On Wednesday, visitors who stopped by the shop wanted to talk about the city's recent unrest and how it was different from the riots that erupted in Baltimore in 1968, following the death of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. "In the '60s, we were fighting for equality," said Sterling Brunson, 50.
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