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| Tears flow as Myanmar swears in first president with no army ties in more than 50 years | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw and Aung Hla Tun NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) - Members of Aung San Suu Kyi's victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears on Wednesday as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century. Htin Kyaw, a close friend and confidant of the Nobel peace prize laureate, was hand-picked by her to run Myanmar's government because a constitution drafted by the former junta bars the democracy champion from the top office. In a short address to the chamber, Htin Kyaw reiterated Suu Kyi's stance on the importance of changing the 2008 charter, which entrenches the military's powerful position in politics, and called for national reconciliation.
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| Danish PM calls for action against hate speech | |  By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen proposed on Wednesday a plan to curb hate speech from radical imams after a meeting with political party leaders. The proposal followed a documentary series aired by news station TV2 revealing how imams in eight mosques in Denmark advocated illegal practices such as stoning, corporal punishment and bigamy, to Muslim women and children. Rasmussen proposed the creation of a list of registered "hate preachers" in order to prevent them from speaking publicly in Denmark. ...
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| Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for Khaleda Zia | |  A Bangladesh court issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia over a deadly firebombing attack last year, a prosecutor said. "The court passed the order after accepting the charges against them," public prosecutor Shah Alam Talukdar said. Bangladeshi politics has been mired for years in rivalry between Hasina and Khaleda.
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| Turkish police detain 16 suspected Nusra Front members - news agency | | | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 16 people in the southeastern province of Adiyaman on Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Counter-terrorism police carried out simultaneous raids on 20 locations including in Adiyaman town centre and the Celikhan district, the agency said. Turkey designates Nusra, which is one of the main parties fighting in the Syrian civil war, as a terrorist organisation. ... |
| Colombia and leftist ELN rebels to begin formal peace talks - source | |  Colombia will announce peace talks with its second-largest rebel group the ELN, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday, after the guerrillas freed two hostages to meet a government condition for the start of talks. The government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) have been in preliminary talks for more than two years, but have yet to begin formal negotiations. The group has recently freed two hostages whose liberation President Juan Manuel Santos made a condition for beginning talks.
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| Egypt asks Cyprus to extradite EgyptAir hijacker - state TV | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor has asked Cypriot authorities to hand over an Egyptian man accused of hijacking a passenger plane and diverting it to Cyprus, Egyptian state television reported on Wednesday. The suspect, whom Cypriot and Egyptian authorities have identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, surrendered on Tuesday after commandeering a domestic Alexandria-Cairo flight with 72 passengers and crew on board. All hostages were released unharmed. ...
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| Dutch minister misinforms parliament again about Belgium attack intelligence | |  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch interior minister said on Wednesday he had made another factual error in a letter informing parliament that U.S. intelligence warned the authorities about two Belgian brothers a week before the pair carried out the Brussels attacks. A series of blunders by Belgium's security and intelligence agencies have come to light since the attacks that killed 32 and wounded hundreds last week. It has also exposed weaknesses in communication between intelligence agencies across Europe.
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| France's Hollande drops post-attack plans to change constitution | |  France's president said on Wednesday he would not push ahead with plans to change the constitution, including a clause allowing convicted terrorists to be stripped of their French nationality, after parliament failed to agree on the measure. The plan's withdrawal is a major blow for Francois Hollande, who had introduced it in an address to parliament at Versailles three days after Islamist militants killed 130 people in Paris. "Parts of the opposition have been hostile to a revision of the constitution.
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| Exclusive - Most Americans support torture against terror suspects: poll | |  Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, a level of support similar to that seen in countries like Nigeria where militant attacks are common. The poll reflects a U.S. public on edge after the massacre of 14 people in San Bernardino in December and large-scale attacks in Europe in recent months, including a bombing claimed by the militant group Islamic State last week that killed at least 32 people in Belgium. Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, has forcefully injected the issue of whether terrorism suspects should be tortured into the election campaign.
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| S.African state appeals freeing of anti-apartheid hero's killer | |  South Africa's justice minister Michael Masutha will appeal a court decision to free the killer of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, his department said on Wednesday. Janusz Walus, a Polish immigrant, has served more than 20 years of a life sentence for the 1993 murder of Hani, who was a senior member of the now-ruling African National Congress (ANC) and head of the South African Communist Party.
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| Thai junta gives troops wide-ranging powers "because not enough police" | |  Thailand's military rulers have given soldiers new powers of arrest and detention, the defence minister said on Wednesday, a move rights groups say will only help strengthen a junta crackdown on critics. An order issued late on Tuesday gives soldiers authority to seize assets and search premises, said Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan. "Military officers will take part in activities that are for community safety because there are not enough police officers to tackle crime," Prawit said.
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| Vietnam jails three over protest with flag of former South | | | Three Vietnamese women who held a rally and waved national flags of the former South Vietnam were jailed on Wednesday for "anti-state propaganda" after a trial that lasted half a day, domestic media reported. North Vietnam toppled the U.S.-backed democratic South in 1975 and formed one nation under communism, an event marked domestically as Vietnam's reunification. The verdict followed a similar case last year, when a man was jailed for 15 months for "disturbing public order" when he wore a uniform of the defeated army of South Vietnam. |
| Cyprus remands suspected hijacker who wanted to see ex-wife | |  By Yiannis Kourtoglou LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) - An Egyptian man accused of hijacking a passenger plane and diverting it to Cyprus has told police he acted because he wanted to see his estranged wife and children, saying "what should one do?". The suspect, whom Cypriot and Egyptian authorities have identified as Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, surrendered on Tuesday after commandeering a domestic Alexandria-Cairo flight with 72 passengers and crew on board. Mustafa took charge of the early morning flight by flashing what appears to be a belt stuffed with plastic wires and a remote control, directing it to the holiday island where he asked for the release of female prisoners in Egypt, and to come in contact with his Cypriot ex-wife.
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| Italy demands release of marine on day India seeks better ties at summit | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday asked judges in The Hague to order India to release a detained Italian marine, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was due at an EU-India summit in Brussels at which he aims to defuse the long-running row with Rome. In 2012, India arrested two Italian marines who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of killing two fishermen they mistook for pirates. Massimiliano Latorre was allowed to return home last year for medical treatment, but Salvatore Girone has for four years been confined to Delhi, where he lives at the Italian embassy and reports weekly to Indian police.
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