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| Palestinian gunman kills two Israelis in West Bank - army | |  A Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis in the southern West Bank on Friday, the military said, while in the nearby city of Hebron Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian involved in stone-throwing clashes, medics said. The gunman opened fire on a family travelling near the Jewish settlement of Otneil, which is close to Hebron, Israel medics and media reported. Israel's Channel 2 said a Palestinian vehicle overtook two Israeli cars on a main road and fired at the first, a people carrier, in which a man in his 40s and an 18-year-old youth, thought to be his son, were killed.
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| Lebanon PM holds emergency meeting as nation mourns bomb victims | |  By John Davison BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam held an emergency meeting with his security cabinet and military chiefs on Friday as the nation mourned 44 people killed in a double suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State. The blasts late on Thursday hit a residential and commercial area in a southern suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah, in the latest spillover of violence from the war in neighbouring Syria. The first attacks in more than a year on a Hezbollah bastion inside Lebanon came at time when the group is stepping up its involvement in Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year.
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| World leaders laud Myanmar election as Suu Kyi secures majority | |  By Antoni Slodkowski YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party on Friday clinched enough seats in parliament to elect a president and form a government when incoming lawmakers convene next year. Results from the country's election commission confirmed the thumping victory that Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had claimed after the first free nationwide election in 25 years on Sunday. The confirmation came five years to the day since the junta released Suu Kyi from house arrest.
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| British IS leader Jihadi John "probably" 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 attack in northern Syria which Britain said would "strike at the heart of Islamic State" if the militant's death is confirmed. British Prime Minister David Cameron said the death of Mohammed Emwazi, who was known as Jihadi John after appearing in videos showing the killings of U.S. and British hostages, could not yet be confirmed and the Pentagon said it was still assessing the effectiveness of the strike.
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| Marion Le Pen, heiress to France's far-right in quest for power | |  By Ingrid Melander CARPENTRAS, France (Reuters) - A huge 1990s election poster of Marion Marechal-Le Pen as a blonde toddler with her grandfather, founder of France's far-right National Front party, greets visitors at her campaign headquarters. Now a 25-year-old rising political star and France's youngest lawmaker, she wants to win a December local election in southern France, to put the anti-immigration, anti-Europe party started by the maverick Jean-Marie Le Pen on a firmer footing for the 2017 presidential vote. Like her aunt, National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen, she hopes to bring the party into the mainstream, distancing it from the patriarch's shock tactics, including comments playing down the Holocaust that Marine expelled him for this summer.
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| Spanish football chief fined over conduct during FIFA investigation | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - 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 during its investigation into the contest to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said Villar had been penalised for a late reply to correspondence and for using the phrase "My God, you've got balls" during an interview with Michael Garcia, FIFA's chief investigator into the World Cup bids. Villar himself, who was on a committee pushing Spain and Portugal's joint bid to host the 2018 tournament, said a phrase he had used at the time had been misunderstood and insisted his conduct had never been "unruly".
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| BJP frets over growing dissent against Modi | |  By Rupam Jain Nair and Andrew MacAskill NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Senior leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are growing uneasy about an internal rebellion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership style, which has punctured his aura of invincibility and threatens to weaken him further. One is a revolt among a handful of senior members of his nationalist BJP, the first time allies have openly questioned the direction of a leader who captured power to a degree last seen when Indira Gandhi ruled India with a firm hand.A cabinet minister and two BJP leaders told Reuters they agreed with comments made by party elders earlier this week questioning Modi's stewardship, after a second straight regional election setback. Tuesday's statement by four party elders zeroed in on the centralised leadership style of Modi.
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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. |
| 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. |
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