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| Iranians vote in contest likely to shape post-sanctions era | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians voted in two crucial elections on Friday, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging a big turnout in order to frustrate Tehran's foes, a remark reflecting the Islamic Republic's traditionally anti-Western policies. The vote, Iran's first since last year's nuclear deal with world powers, could determine whether the Islamic Republic continues to emerge from diplomatic and economic isolation after years of sanctions. "Whoever likes Iran and its dignity, greatness and glory should vote.
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| Blatter disappointed soccer ban upheld by FIFA appeal body - paper | |  Longtime FIFA President Sepp Blatter is disappointed the global soccer body's appeal committee upheld his ban from the sport, he told a Swiss newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "I am deeply disappointed," Blatter told the Aargauer Zeitung when asked about the decision to uphold the ban. For a financial procedure that has nothing to do with ethics." Blatter and European soccer head Michel Platini had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six.
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| Eleven killed in mass Papua New Guinea jail break - media | | | Police in Papua New Guinea shot and killed 11 prisoners and wounded 17 after a mass prison breakout in the Pacific nation's second largest city, PNG media outlet EMTV reported on Friday. More than 30 prisoners attacked two guards at the Buimo prison in Lae, nearly 320 km (200 miles) north of the Papua New Guinea capital, Port Moresby, before escaping, EMTV said. "It is confirmed that 11 prisoners have been shot and killed and 17 wounded and recaptured," EMTV quoted Metropolitan Superintendent Anthony Wagambie as saying. |
| Gunman kills three in Kansas workplace, shot to death by police | | | A gunman killed three people on Thursday at a manufacturing plant in central Kansas where he worked and wounded 14 others, in a shooting spree spanning several miles that ended when a lone officer killed the suspect, authorities said. While many of his victims were coworkers, overall the attacker appears to have opened fire at random, said Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton of the mass killing that struck fear in Hesston and the town's major employer, a lawnmower manufacturing company. The Kansas shootings come after a Michigan man who worked as a driver for car-hailing service Uber was charged with killing six people during a shooting rampage this past weekend. |
| Fight night: Rubio, Cruz gang up on Trump in debate ploy | |  By Emily Stephenson HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican rivals Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz ganged up on front-runner Donald Trump at a raucous debate on Thursday in a last-ditch bid to keep the billionaire from winning victories next week that could set him up to clinch the presidential nomination. The CNN-hosted debate at the University of Houston was the two first-term senators' last, best chance to try to shake up the race for the Republican nomination. The contest is dramatically shifting toward Trump, who is leading in opinion polls in nearly all 11 states set to make their choices on next Tuesday.
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| Iranians start voting for new parliament, Assembly of Experts | |  Iranians went to the polls on Friday in parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections, seen as a contest between hardliners entrenched in power and allies of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani seeking to expand their influence. "Voting has started in Iran. Millions of Iranians will vote all around the country," state TV said.
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| Australian abuse victims journey to Rome for Vatican treasurer testimony | |  Australian child sex abuse victims on Friday began a journey half way around the world to watch the Vatican's Australian-born finance director testify in Rome about his knowledge of child molestation within the Catholic Church. Cardinal George Pell will give evidence on Monday to Australia's long-running Royal Commision into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse, via a videolink from a Rome hotel, after his lawyers cited health concerns preventing his travel to Australia.
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| Canadian teacher re-arrested for sex abuse to return to Jakarta prison | |  A Canadian teacher is expected to return to a Jakarta prison on Friday, a family member said, a day after Indonesia's Supreme Court overturned his acquittal on charges of sexually abusing kindergarten children at an international school in the capital. "Along with others, we have made repeated calls to ensure this case is handled in a fair and transparent manner," said British Ambassador to Indonesia Moazzam Malik in a statement. "Yesterday's development adds to serious questions about transparency and consistency in the rule of law in Indonesia." The United States and Canada have also expressed similar concerns.
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| Sri Lanka could accept international actors in war crimes probe | |  By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's foreign minister said on Thursday he is willing to consider international participation in investigating possible war crimes during the 26-year Tamil insurgency. "I think it is only fair that the victims of the war would want some form of guarantee that the new courts will deliver justice and accountability in a fair manner, and for that we are willing to consider the participation of international actors," Mangala Samaraweera, the minister, said at a Washington think tank. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has previously said that foreign participation was not needed for an impartial inquiry.
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| U.S. needs to streamline foreign arms sales approval process - McCain | |  By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government needs to improve and accelerate its process for approving foreign arm sales, Senator John McCain said Thursday, warning that U.S. firms were losing billions of dollars of potential orders to countries like Russia. McCain, who heads the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, said both the White House and State Department were too slow to process requests for arms sales from U.S. allies and coalition partners, noting he frequently received complaints from visiting defense ministers. It's not working," McCain told reporters.
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