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| Relief in Afghanistan after largely peaceful landmark poll | |  By Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati KABUL/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A fghanistan's presidential election closed on Saturday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared for a vote that will bring the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by conflict for decades. It will take six weeks for results to come in from across Afghanistan's rugged terrain and a final result to be declared in the race to succeed President Hamid Karzai. This could be the beginning of a potentially dangerous period for Afghanistan at a time when the war-ravaged country desperately needs a leader to stem rising violence as foreign troops prepare to leave. "On behalf of the people, I thank the security forces, election commission and people who exercised democracy and ... turned another page in the glorious history of Afghanistan." One of the eight candidates will have to score over 50 percent of the vote to avoid a run-off with his nearest rival.
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| Brazil army occupies shantytowns ahead of World Cup | |  By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Brazilian Armed Forces occupied a massive compound of slums north of Rio de Janeiro early on Saturday without firing a shot, securing a focal point of violent crime two months ahead of the soccer World Cup. Wresting control of the area from drug gangs was a priority for authorities because it surrounds the expressway to the Galeão International Airport where tens of thousands of fans will land in June for the World Cup. Rio de Janeiro state authorities requested the occupation after a spree of attacks against police in the area. About 2,050 army troops and 450 marines in armored cars and helicopters took over the so-called Complexo da Maré, reinforcing police presence where 130,000 people live in 15 shantytowns, Major Alberto Horita said.
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| Two men held for attacking six people from northeast | | | Gurgaon, April 5 (IANS) Two men living in rented accommodation here were arrested for attacking six people from the northeast, police said Saturday. They were identified as Vijay Kumar, a resident of 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, and Rambihari from village Sikanderpur Sahu in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district. |
| 23 killed in family feud in southern Egypt: officials | | | At least 23 people were killed in clashes between rival families in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, health and security officials said on Saturday. The violence erupted late Friday after students from the feuding families had scrawled insulting graffiti on the walls of a school, security sources said. One family is from the Nubian ethnic group and the other from the Arab Beni Helal clan, the sources said. The two sides used gunfire and petrol bombs and several houses were burned to the ground before police were able to stop the fighting on Saturday morning, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. |
| 'Media soft-pedals riot coverage' | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The media has traditionally "soft-pedalled" coverage of violence during riots in the country, senior journalist Manoj Mitta said here Saturday. Giving examples of the 1984 anti-Sikh and the 2002 Gujarat riots, he said the media, except in some cases, largely remained silent when violence was being unleashed in certain worst-affected areas. He said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on Gujarat riots showed journalists did not ask a single question about the Gulbarg society massacre in Ahmedabad to Chief Minister Narendra Modi at a press conference held within an hour of the incident. |
| 'Media soft-peddles riot coverage' | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) The media has traditionally "soft-peddled" coverage of violence during riots in the country, senior journalist Manoj Mitta said here Saturday. Giving examples of both the 1984 anti-Sikh and the 2002 Gujarat riots, he said the media, except in some cases, largely remained silent when violence was being unleashed in certain worst-affected areas. He said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on Gujarat riots showed journalists did not ask a single question about the Gulbarg society massacre in Ahmedabad to Chief Minister Narendra Modi at a press conference held within an hour of the incident. |
| BSP MP moves bail application in rape case | | | New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) BSP MP Dhananjay Singh Saturday moved bail application after the woman who accused him of raping her, denied the charge in a court here. Singh moved his bail application before Additional Sessions Judge Sarita Birbal, who fixed the hearing for Monday. The married railway employee, who lodged a rape case against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP, told the court here Friday that she had deposed against the accused before a magistrate under pressure from relatives. She has said that a case was lodged against the MP as she feared that he was interfering in her matrimonial life. |
| US cop's arrest has nothing to do with Khobragade case | | | New Delhi/New York, April 5 (IANS) A New York police officer arrested at Delhi airport last month for carrying three live bullets in his luggage is out on bail, authorities in India said Saturday, as officials dismissed US media reports describing it as India's revenge over the Khobragade affair. US police officer Manny Encarnacion was arrested on March 11 after three 9 mm bullets were found in the pocket of a jacket in his checked luggage at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), a senior airport official told IANS. |
| Italian priests, Canadian nun kidnapped in Cameroon | | | Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped in northern Cameroon overnight, a bishop and a government source said on Saturday, months after a French priest was seized nearby. It was not immediately clear who took them, though Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram is known to operate in the area. He named the priests as Giampaolo Marta and Gianantonio Allegri, both missionaries sent out by the diocese of Vicenza in northeast Italy, and the nun as Gilberte Bissiere. Pope Francis was aware of the kidnappings and praying for those taken, the Vatican press office said. |
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