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| Killer of South African anti-apartheid hero Hani to be freed on parole | |  The convicted killer of South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani will be freed on parole in two weeks after more than 20 years in prison, a Pretoria court ruled on Thursday. Janusz Walus was serving a life sentence for the 1993 murder of Hani, a charismatic activist and politician who was both a senior member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the head of the South African Communist Party (SACP) when he was gunned down. Hani's murder threatened to derail South Africa's transition to multi-racial democracy, leading to nationwide riots and triggering fears of a civil war.
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| Serb nationalist defies U.N. war crimes court, burns EU, NATO flags | |  A Serbian ultra-nationalist who is resisting an order from a U.N. court to return to The Hague to hear the verdict in his war crimes trial flaunted his defiance on Thursday by holding up burning EU and NATO flags outside a Belgrade court. Vojislav Seselj, who has liver cancer, was freed on compassionate grounds in November 2014 by the United Nations court trying war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Seselj repeated on Thursday that he would not voluntarily return to The Hague, which has set March 31 as the date for giving its verdict on his alleged role in fomenting the Balkan wars of the 1990s, when he headed the biggest party in Serbia's parliament and led paramilitaries in wars in Croatia and Bosnia.
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| UN rights boss warns against collective expulsions of migrants | |  GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official voiced concern on Thursday that the EU-Turkey draft deal on migrants may lead to "collective and arbitrary expulsions" which are illegal under international law. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, in his main annual speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, called on the EU bloc to adopt a "much more rights-compliant and humane set of measures" at its March 17 session. "Any returns of people must be in conformity with international human rights standards," he said. ...
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| Rajya Sabha passes real estate regulation bill | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed a bill to regulate the real estate sector, protect home buyers and curb undeclared "black money" in property markets that costs the exchequer billions of dollars in lost taxable income. During recent years sluggish economic growth and delays in getting approvals stalled several real estate projects, leaving buyers waiting for their homes and developers holding high debt. The new law is expected to benefit developers such as DLF Ltd, Oberoi Realty, Sobha Ltd and Godrej Properties. ...
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| ATP chief Kermode appointed for second term, focus on integrity | |  (Reuters) - Protecting the integrity of tennis in the wake of the recent match-fixing and doping scandals is the biggest challenge facing the sport over the next decade, ATP Executive Chairman Chris Kermode has said. Kermode was appointed for a second term in charge of men's tennis on Thursday, having taken over the role in January 2014. It comes just days after the world of sport was rocked by the news that five-times grand slam winner Maria Sharapova had failed her drugs test at the Australian Open and as the sport deals with questions about match-fixing.
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| Foreign captives held by Philippine militants appeal for help | | | Three foreigners kidnapped by militants in the Philippines nearly six months ago have appealed to their governments for help to secure their release, as their al Qaeda-linked captors issued a one month deadline for their demands to be met. "To the Canadian prime minister and to the Canadian people in the world, please, do as needed to meet their demands, within one month or they will kill me, they will execute us," said one of the men who identified himself as John Ridsdel, a Canadian mining consultant said. Another of the men, who identified himself as Robert Hall, who is also Canadian, said he did not know how much money their captors were demanding but he appealed for help quickly. |
| Iraq's al-Sadr supporters back PM's move for non-partisan cabinet to fight graft | |  By Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to stay in power but replace his cabinet with professionals with no party affiliation so he can fight corruption, the head of the Sadrist bloc in parliament said. Corruption is eating away at Baghdad's resources even as it struggles with falling revenue due to rock-bottom oil prices and high spending due to the costs of the war on Islamic State. A year and a half into his four-year term, Abadi said last month that he wanted to replace his ministers with technocrats to weaken the system of patronage that distributing posts along political, ethnic and sectarian lines creates.
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| Two missing booksellers return to China hours after re-appearing in HK - report | |  Two Hong Kong booksellers released from mainland Chinese custody after going missing went straight back to China after returning home to ask police to drop their missing persons cases, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. The two, Cheung Chi Ping and Lui Por, were among five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared over the past six months and re-surfaced in mainland Chinese police custody.
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| How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank's systems last month and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior Bangladesh Bank officials said. Four requests to transfer a total of about $81 million to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $20 million, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation got held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO.
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