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| China state TV airs confession by lawyer who helped Christian groups | | Saturday, February 27, 2016 1:10 AM | |
| | BEIJING (Reuters) - (This story has been corrected to add State Department comment in paragraphs 7-8) A well-known Chinese rights lawyer has appeared on state television confessing to crimes after a months-long disappearance, the latest case in China's widening crackdown on dissent. Zhang Kai had represented a group of Christians who were detained for suspected financial crimes last year after they resisted the demolition of crosses. Heavily Christian Wenzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, was the site of protests in 2014 over a government campaign to demolish crosses. |
| U.N. expects breaches of Syria truce, urges restrained response | | Saturday, February 27, 2016 1:08 AM | |
|  U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Saturday he expected "hiccups" in a cessation of hostilities that came into force at midnight Damascus time (2200 GMT) on Friday, and urged restraint in curbing any new outbreaks of fighting. "There is a high chance we should expect such hiccups" in the pause in fighting brokered by the United States and Russia, he told reporters in Geneva after briefing the United Nations Security Council in New York via videolink.
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| Five dead including suspect after Washington state shooting | | Saturday, February 27, 2016 12:40 AM | |
|  By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Five people were left dead, including a suspected gunman, following a shooting and standoff with police at a home in Washington state on Friday, but a 12-year-old girl escaped the carnage, Mason County authorities said. Circumstances of the violence that unfolded in a rural area near the community of Belfair, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Seattle across Puget Sound, were not immediately clear. The neighbour, Jack Pigott, 79, who lives across the road from the house where the incident occurred, said authorities told him the victims were all from one family and that the suspected gunman was a stepfather.
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| Kansas mass shooting suspect had been served domestic violence order | | Saturday, February 27, 2016 12:33 AM | |
|  The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawnmower factory where he worked was served 90 minutes before his shooting spree with a court order to stay away from a woman who said he had abused her, authorities said on Friday. The first police officer to reach the scene, Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder, killed Ford in an exchange of gunfire, said police secretary Jeannine Hoheisel. "The man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said on Friday, noting that there were up to 300 people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the rampage took place.
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| Angola says proposes U.N. arms embargo on South Sudan | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Angola said on Friday it has proposed that the United Nations Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, where more than 10,000 people have been killed in a two year civil war sparked by a political dispute between the country's leaders. The United Nations said last week that South Sudan's warring parties are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar. Now what is necessary to do is an arms embargo," said Angola's U.N. Ambassador Ismael Abraao Gaspar Martins. |
| U.N. says force is last resort in case of Syria truce breaches | | U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday the use of force must be proportionate and a last resort if fresh fighting breaks a cessation of hostilities that began at midnight Damascus time. "Let's pray that this works because frankly this is the best opportunity we can imagine the Syrian people has had for the last five years in order to see something better and hopefully something related to peace.
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| Kansas mass shooting suspect had been served protection order | | The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawnmower factory where he worked had been served a protection order 90 minutes before his shooting spree, which also wounded 14 people, authorities said on Friday. The first police officer to reach the scene, Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder, killed Ford in an exchange of gunfire, said police secretary Jeannine Hoheisel. "The man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said on Friday, noting that there were up to 300 people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the rampage took place.
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| Iran starts election count to set post-sanctions power balance | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran started counting tens of millions of votes on Saturday after hotly contested elections that could see reformists speed up Tehran's opening to the world or long-dominant hardliners reassert the Islamic Republic's traditional anti-Westernism. The twinned elections for parliament and a leadership body called the Assembly of Experts are seen by some analysts as a potential turning point that could shape the future for the next generation, in a country where nearly 60 percent of the 80 million population is under 30. First partial results are not expected until Saturday and a clear outcome may take days to emerge, although conservatives normally perform well in rural areas and young urbanites are seen as favouring more moderate candidates allied to President Hassan Rouhani.
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| Niger's Issoufou faces run-off against jailed opposition leader | |  By Abdoulaye Massalaki NIAMEY (Reuters) - President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger fell short of an outright majority in the Feb. 21 election, according to provisional results on Friday, meaning he now faces a run-off against jailed opposition leader Hama Amadou. Issoufou will bid for a second term on March 20 on a promise to clamp down on Islamist militants in what is one of the poorest countries in the world. Critics say Amadou's imprisonment is part of a crackdown by the government over the election season.
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| Kosovo's parliament elects president; protesters throw teargas, petrol bombs | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Opposition lawmakers released teargas in Kosovo's parliament and protesters outside threw petrol bombs in an unsuccessful attempt to stop Hashim Thaci, who they say gave too much power to ethnic Serbs, from being elected president. Twenty one officers were injured in the streets of Pristina during Friday's session when police used teargas and water cannons to disperse protesters. With 71 votes in a 120-seat parliament, he will be Kosovo's fourth president and serve five years in the largely ceremonial role.
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| Key developments at Friday's FIFA congress | |  Key developments and reaction when world football's governing body FIFA elected Gianni Infantino as new president and voted in a series of reforms at its congress on Friday: * Infantino succeeds fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter. * After a year of corruption scandals at the ruling body, a victorious Infantino told the congress: "I will work tirelessly to bring football back to FIFA and FIFA back to football.
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| Argentine judge summons Fernandez for questioning in fraud probe | |  An Argentine judge has summoned former President Cristina Fernandez for questioning in a probe into the sale of dollar future contracts at below market rates by the central bank just months before she handed over power in December. Judge Claudio Bonadio also summoned Fernandez's former economy minister, Axel Kicillof, and former central bank chief Alejandro Vanoli on suspicions of defrauding the public administration with the sale of $17 billion of contracts. Under Fernandez, the central bank routinely sold dollar futures to prop up the peso, partly in an attempt to anchor double-digit inflation in Latin America's No. 3 economy.
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| Infantino promises 'to bring FIFA back to football' | |  Selected quotes from Swiss Gianni Infantino's first news conference after the former UEFA general secretary was elected president of scandal-hit world soccer's governing body FIFA on Friday: "I will work tirelessly to bring football back to FIFA and FIFA back to football, this is what we have to do. "I would like to see a big development of football all over the world. "I want to see football growing all over the world and people looking at FIFA as the organisation that helps each country in the world to develop football.
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| Yemeni suspect in 9/11 attacks asks court to halt harassment | |  By Lacey Johnson FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - Attorneys for a Yemeni man accused in the Sept. 11 attacks asked a military judge on Friday to halt court proceedings until Guantanamo Bay prison guards stop tormenting their client. Ramzi bin al Shibh, 43, testified during a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday that guards have used noises and vibrations to abuse him and disrupt his sleep for years. Bin al Shibh's attorney, James Harrington, said: "Both he and I were concerned about potential retaliation when he returned to camp, given the testimony he had given." Harrington said he received a letter from Bin al Shibh that said guards at the military base in Cuba punished him with noises following his testimony.
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| Europe's Infantino chosen to lead FIFA into new era | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead FIFA out of years of corruption and scandal after the former UEFA general secretary was elected to succeed his Swiss compatriot Sepp Blatter as president of football's world governing body. "We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the world will be proud of us," the 45-year-old law graduate, who for the last seven years has been the leading administrator for Europe's governing body, told an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich. "I feel a lot of emotion and have not realised yet what has happened today." After a first round of voting in which he narrowly beat Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Infantino appeared to gather up almost all the votes that had been cast for the two trailing candidates, Prince Ali and Jerome Champagne.
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| FIFA passes reform package in bid to shake off scandals | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's world governing body approved the deepest reforms in its 112-year history on Friday in an attempt to put years of scandal and crisis behind it and transform itself into a trusted, modern sporting organisation. FIFA delegates voted by 179 votes to 22 to accept the reforms, which include replacing the Executive Committee with a 36-member FIFA Council, and limiting the president and other senior officials to three terms of four years. A new professional general secretariat, akin to a company's executive board, will handle the business side of FIFA, leaving the 36-member Council, elected by national member associations and including at least six women, to focus on broad matters of policy and strategy.
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| Cameroon says its army kills 92 militants in operation with Nigeria | | | Cameroon's army killed 92 members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram and freed 850 villagers in a joint operation with Nigerian forces, the government of Cameroon said on Friday. The operation in the Nigerian village of Kumshe, close to the border with Cameroon, was conducted under the auspices of a multinational force fighting Boko Haram, the statement from Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said. "Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed (during the operation) by an accidental mine explosion. |
| Trump vows to 'open up' libel laws if elected | |  (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Friday that if elected he would "open up" libel laws to make suing the media easier. Speaking at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas, Trump said the change was necessary to combat what he described as the "dishonesty" of major American newspapers. "One of the things I'm going to do if I win," he said on Friday, "I'm going to open up our libel law so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money." Trump mentioned the New York Times and the Washington Post specifically and added: "With me they're not protected.
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| U.S. mulls special ops mission to support Nigeria's Boko Haram fight | | | By Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) - The United States has offered to send a special operations mission to Nigeria to help the West African country fight Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) said on Friday. African armies routed the militant group from much of its self-proclaimed caliphate in northeastern Nigeria last year. |
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