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| Thai police hunt more suspects after Bangkok bomb arrest | |  By Pairat Temphairojana BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing widened their net in the search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials were found during a raid on a Bangkok apartment block. The 28-year-old man, who has been in Thailand since January 2014, was detained on charges of possessing illegal explosives. The Aug. 17 bomb at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine, where Thais and Asian tourists flock each day, stunned Thailand.
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| Burkina dismisses election candidates linked to ex-president | | | By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's constitutional council on Saturday dismissed two election candidates close to ousted President Blaise Compaore, but allowed other members of the political old guard to stand. This week the same council rendered ineligible more than 40 candidates for the legislative elections on the grounds they had supported "anti-constitutional change damaging to the principle of democratic transition". Among those disqualified by the decision were Eddie Komboigo, a former member of parliament representing Compaore's former ruling party the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), and Gilbert Noel Ouedraogo from the Alliance for Democracy and Federation-African Democratic Rally (ADF-RDA). |
| Black Lives Matter marches on Minnesota State Fair | | | By Marisa Helms ST PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) - Several hundred protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement marched to the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday to bring attention to race issues ranging from policing to underrepresentation of minorities at one of the nation's biggest state fairs. "There's a cliche that Minnesota is nice to everyone, but that's not the case for people of color," said 51-year-old marcher Tim, who did not want to give his last name because event organizers said they had received death threats. Fairgoers stopped to take photos of the marchers, organized by Black Lives St. Paul. |
| U.S. 'deeply disappointed' by Egyptian court sentence against Al Jazeera journalists | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is "deeply disappointed" by the sentence handed down in an Egyptian court on Saturday against three Al Jazeera TV journalists, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. "We urge the government of Egypt to take all available measures to redress this verdict, which undermines the very freedom of expression necessary for stability and development," the statement said. The journalists were sentenced to three years in prison for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt. ... |
| Republican Christie proposes tracking immigrants like FedEx packages | |  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on Saturday if he were elected president he would combat illegal immigration by creating a system to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages. Christie, who is well back in the pack seeking the Republican nomination for president, told a campaign event in the early voting state of New Hampshire that he would ask FedEx Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith to devise the tracking system. Immigration has become a top issue in the Republican campaign, with front-runner Donald Trump vowing to deport all of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants and to build a wall along the southern border.
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| Egyptian court sentences 3 Al Jazeera journalists to prison | |  By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has stirred an international outcry. The verdict, in a retrial, was issued against Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalised Canadian who has given up his Egyptian citizenship, Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian, and Peter Greste, an Australian who was deported in February. Rights advocates say their arrest was part of a crackdown on free speech waged since the army overthrew President Mohamed Mursi, a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure, in July 2013 following mass unrest over his rule.
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