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| Kenya prepares huge ivory burning as it seeks ban on trade |
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 By Ben Makori NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan park rangers piled up thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns to burn on Saturday, sending a message to poachers and smugglers that their trade will be stopped. Armed police guarded the area, on the edge of Nairobi National Park, where a tonne of rhino horn was added to 105 tonnes of ivory in a dozen large pyres, ahead of President Uhuru Kenyatta coming to start the fire. Kenyatta has said the ceremony will show Kenya's commitment "to fighting wildlife crime and putting wildlife products beyond any economic use." The incineration will be the world's biggest after Kenya staged its first such burning in 1989.
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| Hundreds of protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone, enter parliament |
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| Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday and entered the parliament building after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government, two Reuters witnesses said. The protesters, who had gathered outside the heavily fortified district housing government buildings and many foreign embassies, crossed a bridge over the Tigris River chanting, "The cowards ran away!" in apparent reference to lawmakers leaving parliament, one of the witnesses said. A guard at a checkpoint said the protesters had not been searched before entering. |
| Iran's moderates make modest gains in run-off election |
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 By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - Politicians allied to President Hassan Rouhani came out strongest in a second round of parliamentary elections in Iran, early results showed on Saturday, but his moderate faction appeared unlikely to clinch an overall majority. If confirmed, the results suggest Iran's next parliament will be more supportive of Rouhani's drive for economic reforms, but conservatives will remain a powerful force and could limit the prospects for social change. Rouhani's allies made significant gains in that vote, held in February, ending conservative dominance of the 290-seat assembly.
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| Muslim prayer hall set on fire on French island of Corsica |
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| A Muslim prayer hall was seriously damaged by fire overnight in the capital of the French island of Corsica, local authorities said, four months after a separate Muslim prayer hall there was ransacked. No one was injured in the fire in Ajaccio, which police are investigating as criminal after finding two separate sources of fire inside the hall. "This is unacceptable," Ajaccio mayor Laurent Marcangeli told iTELE newschannel. |
| Britain's Labour Party launches anti-semitism inquiry |
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 Britain's opposition Labour party has launched an inquiry into how to tackle anti-semitism after suspending former London mayor Ken Livingstone days before it contests elections in London, Scotland and Wales. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn - a close ally of party veteran Livingstone - said in a statement late on Friday that he would propose a new code of conduct explicitly banning anti-semitism and other forms of racism. "There is no place for anti-semitism or any form of racism in the Labour party, or anywhere in society," he said.
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