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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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| Rubio, Cruz go on attack against Trump at debate | |  By Emily Stephenson HOUSTON (Reuters) - Republican rival Marco Rubio attacked front-runner Donald Trump at length for the first time at a debate on Thursday, targeting his wealth and absence of detailed policy plans to try to thwart the billionaire from making massive gains next week in the presidential race. In perhaps his most aggressive performance to date, Rubio brought up Trump's four past bankruptcies and his use of imported Polish workers to work at a Florida resort, and pointedly suggested the New Yorker would not be where he is today in the real estate business without a family inheritance. Without the family money, the senator from Florida said: "You know where Donald Trump would be right now?
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| Gunman kills three in Kansas workplace, shot to death by police | | | A man killed three people at a manufacturing plant in central Kansas, after driving around and opening fire on others in a shooting spree that left 14 others wounded and ended when police killed the gunman, authorities said. The shooter appears to have driven around in a car, opening fire at several locations before entering the building of a lawnmower manufacturer in the town of Hesston, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said at a news conference. The shooter, identified by a dispatcher with the Sheriff's Department as 38-year-old Cedric Ford, began his attacks at about 5 p.m. local time (2300 GMT) in the town of Newton, where a man driving a truck was shot in the shoulder, Walton said. |
| 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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| Protesters march over extradition of Salvadoran soldiers to Spain | |  By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Friends and relatives of Salvadoran soldiers accused of murdering six Jesuit priests during the country's civil war marched on Thursday to protest their extradition to Spain and press for them to be released. El Salvador earlier this month detained four soldiers wanted over the 1989 killings after Spanish Judge Eloy Velasco in January sent a new request for their capture and extradition. Another 12 military personnel wanted are fugitive and one other is now in U.S. custody awaiting extradition to Spain over the killing of the priests, five of whom were Spanish.
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| U.S. senator wants hearing on possible F-16 sale to Pakistan | |  By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain on Thursday urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold a hearing on the possible sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, as more lawmakers expressed concern about the deal. McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters he was concerned about the timing of the Obama administration's decision to approve the sale of the fighter jets to Pakistan, and the potential consequences for U.S. relations with India. "I would rather have seen it kicked over into the next administration," McCain said.
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| Bangkok shrine bombers first targeted pier for Chinese tourists | | Thursday, February 25, 2016 11:43 PM | |
|  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Andrew R.C. Marshall BANGKOK (Reuters) - The perpetrators of last year's deadly explosion at a Bangkok shrine originally chose a pier packed with Chinese tourists as their primary target and had amassed enough chemicals to make 10 equally powerful bombs, the chief of Thailand's police bomb squad told Reuters. A bomb planted at the Erawan Shrine on Aug. 17 killed 20 people and turned a popular tourist site into a scene of carnage. Another device, which was left at a crowded pier on Bangkok's Chao Phraya river but failed to explode, might have inflicted much greater casualties, said a leading security analyst.
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