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| Suu Kyi proxy a step closer to Myanmar presidency | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Antoni Slodkowski NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's lower house of parliament voted on Friday to confirm a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, bringing the top office a step closer for the man expected to rule as Suu Kyi's proxy. The vote in the lower house for the presidential nominee was never in doubt as Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) holds an outright majority following a crushing electoral win in November. NLD candidate Htin Kyaw received 274 of the 317 votes cast.
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| Kingfisher baron Vijay Mallya denies charge he is an 'absconder' | |  Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who left the country as he faced pressure from banks to repay more than $1 billion owed by his collapsed airline, refuted charges he was an absconder and said he respected the law of the land. "I did not flee from India and neither am I an absconder", Mallya said in a tweet posted on Friday.
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| Modi's BJP vows to strip Muslim immigrants of vote in Assam | |  By Krishna N. Das JALESWAR (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in Assam, waging a polarising election campaign in a bid to form its first government there. In campaign rallies in Assam, officials of the BJP have also promised to identify and deport younger illegal migrants, in response to rising discontent among the state's Hindus. When Assam elects a state legislature in April, an estimated 10 percent of its 20 million voters will be Muslims who have migrated since the 1950s from the former East Pakistan, later Bangladesh, and gained Indian citizenship.
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| BSI's Singapore-based banker linked to 1MDB leaves the bank - spokeswoman | |  A Singapore-based private banker, who handled Swiss private bank BSI's relationship with embattled state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), has left the bank, an external spokeswoman said on Friday. Yak Yew Chee, who was a senior vice president at BSI Singapore, is facing a criminal probe in Singapore on money laundering charges linked to 1MDB. Yak did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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| Former Russian press minister died in U.S. of blunt force injuries | | | By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin, who was found dead in a Washington hotel room last year, died of blunt force injuries to the head, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. Lesin who once headed the state-controlled Gazprom-Media, also had blunt force injuries to the neck, torso, arms and legs, the U.S. capital's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Metropolitan Police Department said in a brief statement. According to a police incident report, Lesin, who was President Vladimir Putin's press minister from 1999 to 2004, was found unconscious on Nov. 5 on the floor of his room in the Doyle Washington Hotel. |
| Trump gets boost with plans by Carson to endorse him | | | By James Oliphant MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump got a fresh injection of campaign momentum on Thursday with news that former rival Ben Carson, who is popular with conservatives, planned to endorse him. A source familiar with Carson's decision told Reuters that Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who dropped out of the race March 4 after failing to gain traction in early voting states, would endorse Trump. The endorsement could help Trump settle the nerves of those conservative voters who have doubts about whether he truly is one of them. |
| Brazil prosecutors seek Lula's arrest for money laundering | |  By Brad Haynes and Eduardo Simões SAO PAULO (Reuters) - State prosecutors in Brazil are seeking the arrest of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on charges of money laundering and identity fraud for concealing ownership of a beachfront apartment, his foundation said on Thursday. The effort to arrest the former president raised the stakes dramatically in a crisis threatening to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff, and was likely to further polarize protests on Sunday calling for her impeachment. Lula's foundation called the motion to arrest the president "more proof of the partiality" of Sao Paulo state prosecutor Cassio Conserino.
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| Militias, hunters reprieved from post-Paris EU gun control | | | By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finnish volunteer militias on the Russian frontier, boar and elk hunters and the Swiss army's pensioner reserve won reprieve on Thursday from tighter European gun control following last year's Islamist attacks on Paris. At a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels, officials accepted an array of objections and agreed to review draft plans that could have barred minors from owning firearms, restricted online weapons sales and, notably, banned private use of most semi-automatic rifles, like the Kalashnikovs used by Islamic State militants in the French capital in November. EU and French officials, who have pushed to block loopholes, stressed that after the return to the drafting table the new regulations were still on schedule to be agreed by governments in June before sending to EU lawmakers. |
| U.S. judge allows release of Venezuelan ex-football official on bond | |  A former South American football boss who was arrested last year as part of a U.S. investigation into corruption in football's world governing body FIFA won the right to be released from jail on Thursday on a $7 million bond. Rafael Esquivel, a former president of the Venezuelan Football Federation and vice president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) is accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights to regional football tournaments. Esquivel, wearing prison issue khaki coveralls at a court hearing in front of Brooklyn federal judge Raymond Dearie, was to be released to his son and daughter after securing the bond with $2 million in cash and 12 properties.
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