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| Pistorius in court for sentencing on murder conviction |
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 By TJ Strydom and Tanisha Heiberg PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius arrived in court on Wednesday for sentencing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, bringing the curtain down on a trial that gripped the world. Pistorius was found guilty of murdering Steenkamp by an appeals court last December. The athlete had the lower part of his legs amputated when he was a baby and his lawyers have argued that his disability and mental stress should be considered as mitigating circumstances to reduce his sentence.
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| Australian PM Turnbull in reach of hollow election victory |
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 By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday pulled within striking distance of the votes needed to form a narrow majority government in a cliffhanger election that has left the country in limbo and his leadership in doubt. "The government is still on track to form a majority government," Treasurer Scott Morrison told Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) radio. Electoral officials are counting 1.5 million postal and absentee votes that will be crucial to the result of Saturday's poll, which saw a swing against Turnbull's conservative coalition government and the rise of populist independents.
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| U.S. lawsuit: A McDonald's worker was fired for being HIV-positive |
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 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said on Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit accusing the operators of a McDonald's restaurant in Bentonville, Arkansas, of firing a worker because he was HIV-positive. In its complaint against Mathews Management Co and Peach Orchard Inc, the EEOC said the worker was fired in February 2015 after admitting to the restaurant's general manager to having had "an interest" in a co-worker, and telling that co-worker about his HIV-positive status. The EEOC said the fired worker had been questioned a week earlier by his shift manager, and told he might lose his job because the defendants had previously fired a female worker who was also HIV-positive.
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| Hong Kong security chief says no legal way to return bookseller to China |
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 Hong Kong's security chief said on Wednesday that there was no legal way a Hong Kong bookseller who returned to the city after being detained on the mainland could be sent back to China. Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok's comments came after a one-day trip to Beijing to meet with officials, after five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing last year later surfaced in mainland Chinese custody. One of the booksellers, Lam Wing-kee, returned to Hong Kong last month and held a press conference detailing his months of captivity and repeated interrogations by mainland agents.
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| New Zealand government evaluating court order on China extradition |
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| New Zealand's justice minister said on Wednesday she was looking into a High Court ruling that has ordered the government to reconsider the extradition of a man accused of murder to China because of concerns he may not be treated fairly. New Zealand agreed in December to extradite a South Korean-born resident, Kyung Yup Kim, to Shanghai but in a ruling released on Tuesday Judge Jillian Mallon ordered the government to review the extradition. |
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