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| Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya see glimmer of hope in Suu Kyi victory | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Noor Bagum would have liked to have voted for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) but, like the majority of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, she took no part in the historic election the Nobel laureate won by a landslide. Stripped of their right to cast ballots by the current government, many Rohingya now hope that, with the NLD able to rule largely on its own, a Suu Kyi-led government will work to restore their lives and many of the rights they have lost. "I hope that things will get a little bit better," said Noor Bagum, a 28-year-old mother-of-five, whose village was destroyed during violence between Buddhists and Muslims that swept through Myanmar's western Rakhine State in 2012.
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| German police find seven dead babies in apartment | | | The bodies of seven dead babies have been found in an apartment in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said, adding that they wanted to question a 45-year-old woman who was the previous tenant of the property. Police were alerted by another woman who found the body of a baby in the apartment in the town of Wallenfels near the border with the Czech Republic on Thursday afternoon, they said in a statement. Police found six more bodies in the flat after a search. |
| FIFA panel fines Spanish football chief over conduct | |  FIFA's Ethics Committee said on Friday it had fined and warned Spanish football chief and veteran FIFA official Angel Maria Villar over his conduct in relation to its investigation into the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Villar said in a statement issued by the Spanish federation (RFEF) that he was happy his name had been cleared of more serious charges of not cooperating, but denied he had "lacked decorum". The World Cup tournaments were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively by soccer's governing body FIFA in December 2010 following a bidding contest which is now being investigated by the Swiss attorney general's office.
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| Evidence mounts that British Islamic State leader killed in air strike | |  By John Davison and Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States targeted British Islamic State leader "Jihadi John" in an air strike in northern Syria and evidence was growing on Friday that he was killed. A U.S. official said Thursday's attack in the town of Raqqa probably killed Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen who was nicknamed "Jihadi John" after appearing in videos showing the killings of American and British hostages. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said four foreign militants had been killed in U.S. air strikes.
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| Indonesia court sentences Hong Kong drug leader to death | | | An Indonesian court sentenced a drug leader from Hong Kong to death on Friday for possession of more than 860 kg (1,900 lb) of methamphetamines in one of the country's biggest drug busts in years. Indonesian authorities in January arrested Wong Chi Ping and members of his drug syndicate in the capital, Jakarta, after a nearly three-year investigation. "This was our biggest catch so far in five years," said Slamet Pribadi, spokesman for the National Narcotics Agency. |
| Security boosted at Milan Jewish sites after stabbing | | | Italy boosted security at Jewish sites in Milan on Friday after an Israeli Jew was knifed in the city, police said. Nathan Graff was stabbed in the back and face on Thursday evening by an unknown assailant near a Jewish school in Italy's financial capital, police said. Members of the Jewish community in Milan said Graff was wearing a kippa, or skullcap, at the time of the attack. |
| China to prosecute two more military officers for graft | | | China's military will prosecute two more senior officers for suspected "serious discipline violations", the Defence Ministry said on Friday, using the usual euphemism for corruption. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made weeding out corruption in the military a top goal, with serving and retired officers warning that graft is so pervasive it could undermine the country's ability to wage war. In a brief statement, the ministry identified the two as Wu Ruizhong, a former deputy political commissar at the Second Artillery Engineering University, and Qu Mutian, a former deputy commander of the transport command for the paramilitary People's Armed Police. |
| Rights group says migrants face beatings, abuse in Bulgaria | |  By Aleksandar Vasovic and Angel Krasimirov BELGRADE/SOFIA (Reuters) - Migrants coming through Bulgaria have faced beatings, threats and other abuses by police, a rights groups reported on Friday, though the country's own refugee agency said it had received no such complaints. Refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq reported extortion, robbery, violence, threats of deportation and police dog attacks, according to a survey by the Belgrade Center for Human Rights that was funded by Oxfam. Bulgaria is one of a number of central and eastern European countries struggling to handle the region's biggest influx of migrants and refugees since World War Two.
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| Escape claws: Tigers, piranhas may join Indonesia crocodile prison guard | |  When Indonesia's anti-drugs czar announced plans to guard a death-row prison island with crocodiles, the government rushed to explain that it was just a joke, but on Friday Budi Waseso said he was now thinking of using tigers and piranha fish too. Media quoted the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) chief as saying that he had already obtained two crocodiles from a farm to study their power and aggression and may ultimately put as many as 1,000 in place to keep convicts from escaping. "Because the (prison) personnel numbers are short we can use wild animals.
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| Islamic State in Libya fights to emulate Iraq, Syria success | |  By Patrick Markey and Ahmed Elumami MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - The attack bore all the traits of Islamic State in Iraq. A small unit of militants, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide belts, hit the Tripoli prison just before sunrise. Blasting though a wall, four fighters worked their way through the heavily guarded compound before firing a rocket-propelled grenade to breach the cells inside. Their target, security sources say, was a jailed Libyan Islamic State militant. Clashes erupted. ...
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| World leaders laud Myanmar election as Suu Kyi secures majority | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar's parliament, the election commission said on Friday, giving it enough seats to elect its chosen candidate to the presidency when the new legislature convenes next year. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had been expected take control of parliament since Sunday's nationwide vote, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. President Barack Obama had already congratulated her on a landmark victory in the country's first free election in 25 years.
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