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| Suu Kyi meets Myanmar's military chief again as transition talks drag on | |  Aung San Suu Kyi met again with Myanmar's powerful commander-in-chief on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post by his office, as talks over a protracted political transition drag on and amid reports that the military chief has secured a five-year extension. The meeting is the third between Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Suu Kyi since her National League for Democracy (NLD) won a sweeping victory at the Nov. 8 general election, securing some 80 percent of elected seats in parliament. The post on the page of the commander-in-chief's office said that discussions in Naypyitaw, the capital, lasted just over an hour and focused on "the rule of law and achieving everlasting peace." Top aides from the NLD and military were both present.
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| Maldives opposition leader jailed for 12 years for role in protests | | | By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - A Maldives court has sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to 12 years in jail, convicting him on terrorism charges related to a speech that protested the imprisonment of the islands' first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed. Best known as an exotic tourist destination, the Indian Ocean archipelago has been roiled by political unrest since Nasheed was ousted in disputed circumstances in 2012. Under pressure from foreign governments, President Abdulla Yameen's government released Nasheed last month to let him seek medical treatment in London. |
| Fighting outside Delhi's Patiala House court hearing JNU student sedition case | |  By Aditya Kalra and Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fighting broke out on Wednesday around Delhi's Patiala House court hearing a case against a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student union leader accused of sedition, a charge that has sparked protests across university campuses and criticism the government was curtailing free speech. Kanhaiya Kumar, head of JNU's student union, was rushed from a car through a gate into the court by police officers protecting him with a riot shield. Lawyers chanting nationalist slogans earlier barged into the compound and threw stones at reporters outside, in defiance of an earlier Supreme Court order banning protests after there was a punch-up at a hearing on Monday.
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| Turkish PM says work on new constitution will go on after main opposition pulls out | |  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday the ruling AK Party would continue work on a new constitution after the main opposition CHP pulled out of a parliamentary commission charged with working on a new text. In a speech in Ankara broadcast on Turkish television, Davutoglu called on other opposition parties to continue work in the parliamentary commission. The CHP pulled out in protest at AKP efforts to include stronger presidential powers, championed by President Tayyip Erdogan, in the new constitution.
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| Obama says ASEAN summit discussed need to lower tensions in South China Sea | |  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he and leaders of Southeast Asian countries meeting in a California summit discussed the need to ease tensions in the South China Sea, and agreed that any territorial disputes there should be resolved peacefully and through legal means. "The United States and ASEAN are reaffirming our strong commitment to a regional order where international rules and norms and the rights of all nations, large and small, are upheld," Obama said at the end of the summit with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. "We discussed the need for tangible steps in the South China Sea to lower tensions including a halt to further reclamation, new construction and militarization of disputed areas," he said.
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| Apple opposes order to help unlock California shooter's phone | |  By Dustin Volz and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc opposed a court ruling on Tuesday that ordered it to help the FBI break into an iPhone recovered from a San Bernardino shooter, heightening a dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption. Chief Executive Tim Cook said the court's demand threatened the security of Apple's customers and had "implications far beyond the legal case at hand." (http://apple.co/1Lt7ReW) Earlier on Tuesday, Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said that Apple must provide "reasonable technical assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock the data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook. Federal prosecutors requested the court order to compel Apple to assist the investigation into the Dec. 2 shooting rampage by Farook and his wife, killing 14 and injuring 22 others.
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| Polio worker shot as Pakistan holds countrywide vaccination drive | | | Gunmen shot and wounded a Pakistani polio worker in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks against eradication teams in a country that accounts for more than 70 percent of the world's cases of the virus. More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan this week, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite threats from militants against the vaccination teams. "Initial reports say that two men on a motorcycle opened fire on the vaccinators and ran away," police spokesman Hammad Haider told Reuters. |
| Soccer radio deals in the U.S. put spotlight on FIFA's bidding process | |  By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - As world soccer body FIFA faces pressure to reform in the wake of a global corruption scandal, several current and former media executives are raising questions about the transparency of the bidding process for U.S. radio broadcasting rights to the World Cup. The company was co-founded by Andres Cantor, who famously introduced American soccer fans to the Latin American style of yelling "Gooooooal!" One former chief executive of a rival broadcaster, Joaquin Blaya, said that in 2000 then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter told him he had a deal for the next two World Cups in South Korea/Japan (2002) and Germany (2006), but the contracts instead went to Cantor's Futbol de Primera for a lower price.
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| Seoul prosecutors raid national swimming federation | | | SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors have raided the headquarters of the country's national swimming federation (KSF) amid suspicions of misappropriation of government funds, Yonhap News agency reported on Wednesday. The South Korean agency quoted prosecutors as saying arrests had been made and computer hard drives and documents on sports industry projects had been confiscated. The raid comes after the country's sports ministry announced last week it was cutting off funding to several federations amid concerns about corruption. ... |
| Apple ordered to aid FBI in unlocking California shooter's phone | |  By Dustin Volz and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc to help the FBI break into a phone recovered from one of the San Bernardino shooters, an order that heightens a long-running dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption. Apple must provide "reasonable technical assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock the data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said in a ruling.
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