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| Five dead including suspect after Washington state shooting - newspaper | | | SEATTLE (Reuters) - Five people are dead, including a suspect, following a shooting and standoff with police at a home in Washington state, the Seattle Times newspaper reported on Friday, citing Mason County authorities. The male suspect "apparently came outside the home and shot himself," Mason County Sheriff Casey Salisbury told the newspaper. "It's a terrible tragedy." (Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) |
| 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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| 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 man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said at a news conference on Friday, noting that there were up to 300 people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the rampage took place. The order, posted by the Wichita Eagle on its web site, was sought by an unidentified woman who had been living with Ford and said he had been physically abusive.
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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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| China state TV airs confession by lawyer who helped Christian groups | | | 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. |
| 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. |
| Turkey turns off independent TV channel on 'terrorist' charge | |  Turkey's satellite provider Turksat halted broadcasts of IMC TV at the request of an Ankara prosecutor investigating whether the channel supported a "terrorist" group, Eyup Burc said. "In Turkey, everything contrary to the official view is tossed into the terrorism bag," Burc told Reuters, denying any ties with terrorist networks. The plug was pulled on IMC mid-broadcast during a live interview with Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, two prominent journalists who were freed pending trial earlier on Friday after spending 92 days in prison.
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| Highlights from the FIFA congress | |  The first round voting figures are: Gianni Infantino 88 votes, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa 85, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein 27, Jerome Champagne 7. 12.15. Gianni Infantino takes to the stage, saying he wants to speak from the heart, so needs to speak Italian, before rattling through French, Spanish, Portuguese and German before settling on English for the bulk of his main speech.
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| Man sought by Israel dies at Palestinian mission in Bulgaria | |  A Palestinian who escaped from Israeli custody after being convicted of a 1986 murder has died at the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgarian prosecutors said on Friday. Police sealed off the mission building in the capital as an investigation began into the death of Omar el-Nayef, who was jailed along with two other men for killing Jewish ultra-orthodox seminary student, Eliahu Amedi, in Jerusalem. Prosecutors said in an initial statement they had been alerted by a representative of the Palestinian mission in Bulgaria "about a man who died as a result of violence" but a spokeswoman for the prosecutors later said no signs of violence were found on his body.
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| Venezuelan soccer official Esquivel agrees to U.S. extradition | |  Venezuelan soccer official Rafael Esquivel has agreed to be extradited from Switzerland to face charges in the United States in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption in the sport, the Swiss government said on Friday. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice said Esquivel, the former president of Venezuela's football federation, withdrew his appeal against the extradition and would be escorted by police to the United States within 10 days. Since then, more high-ranking soccer officials have been indicted in a sweeping U.S. probe alleging kickback and bribery schemes related to the marketing of the sport.
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| Gang jailed for sex crimes in English town at centre of abuse scandal | |  Five people were jailed on Friday for multiple sex crimes against young girls in Rotherham, the northern English town that hit the headlines two years ago when it was revealed that as many as 1,400 children had been abused by gangs. The group, which included three British Asian brothers, their uncle and two white women, systematically carried out the sexual exploitation of 15 victims, aged between 11 and 21, over a period of 16 years from 1987, prosecutors said. "The impact of your offending upon the victims, their families and indeed the wider community has been devastating," judge Sarah Wright said during sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court.
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| Bangladesh police arrest three more suspected of killing Hindu priest | | | Bangladesh's police arrested three more men on Friday suspected of killing of a Hindu priest, the latest incident of increasing Islamist violence in the south Asian nation. The three men are members of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), police said, and join three other suspects in custody who have been charged over Sunday's deadly attack. The six are accused of slitting the throat of the priest, shooting and injuring two devotees and setting off homemade bombs at a Hindu temple in northern district of Panchagarh. |
| Kurds say investigating suspected Islamic State chemical attack in Iraq | | | ERBIL (Reuters) - Kurdish authorities said on Friday they were investigating a suspected chemical attack by Islamic State militants against peshmerga fighters in northwestern Iraq this week. Dozens of peshmerga and civilians were treated for nausea and vomiting after homemade rockets, that appeared to have contained a chemical substance, were fired at them in the Sinjar area on Feb. 25, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said on its official Twitter account. (Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Tear gas and petrol bombs disrupt Kosovo presidential vote | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Lawmakers threw tear gas cannisters in Kosovo's parliament and protesters outside threw petrol bombs at the building to try to stop the election of a president they say has given too much power to the ethnic-Serb minority. Opposition parties want parliament to suspend the vote, which may make Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci president, protesting that he helped broker an agreement with Serbia on more local autonomy for Kosovo's Serbs. Four hours into Friday's session, led by Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), opposition lawmakers threw three tear gas canisters in the chamber, prompting the speaker, Kadri Veseli, to eject 11 MPs.
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| Syria opposition agrees to two-week truce - statement | |  The Syrian opposition said on Friday armed groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad would respect a two-week week truce beginning at midnight, but said the government and its allies must not launch attacks on the pretext of fighting terrorism. "The High Negotiations Committee confirms the agreement of the Free Syrian Army factions and the armed opposition to a temporary truce from midnight Saturday," an HNC statement said. The HNC said the government and its allies must not use the "proposed text to continue the hostile operations against the opposition factions under the excuse of fighting terrorism".
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