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| Fugitive Snowden asks to extend stay in Russia - lawyer | |  Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has asked Moscow to extend his asylum in Russia, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Russia granted Snowden a one-year visa in August 2013 despite the United States wanting Moscow to send him home to face criminal charges, including espionage, for disclosing secret U.S Internet and telephone surveillance programmes. It expires on July 31," Interfax news agency quoted Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, as saying. "Correspondingly, we have filed documents to extend his stay on the territory of Russia." Kucherena could not immediately be reached for comment independently and the Russian Federal Migration Service declined comment.
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| Iraq PM says Kurdish Arbil becoming a base for 'Islamic State' militants | |  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday the Kurdish-controlled city of Arbil was becoming an operations base for the Islamic State militant group that seized swathes of northern and western Iraq last month. Maliki is under pressure as Sunni Muslim militants, led by the al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State, hold large parts of the north and west of the country and have threatened to march on the capital. "We will never be silent about Arbil becoming a base for the operations of the Islamic State and Baathists and Al Qaeda and the terrorists," Maliki said in his weekly televised address.
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| Singapore anti-gambling ad turns into World Cup hot tip | |  By Caroline Ng SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has scored an own goal with its World Cup anti-gambling ad which features a crestfallen boy telling his friends his dad bet his life savings on Germany - who have just reached the finals by thrashing host nation Brazil 7-1. The video, which has run every day of the World Cup, went viral on social media soon after the Brazil game ended and Singapore government ministers were quick with some tongue-in-cheek remarks. "Looks like the boy's father who bet all his savings on Germany will be laughing all the way to the bank!" Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin wrote on his Facebook page. "Germany beat Brazil 7-1! Brazil need to find out what went wrong and I need to find the script-writer for the gambling control advertisement," appropriately named Minister for Trade and Industry Teo Ser Luck said in another post.
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| Modi tightens grip on BJP, names close aide Amit Shah as party chief | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political associate was named the president of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday as the leader tightened his grip on the party he carried to its biggest election victory this summer. Amit Shah is a controversial former minister from Modi's home state of Gujarat. "The spectacular success that he achieved in Uttar Pradesh has never been done before," the outgoing party chief, Rajnath Singh, told a news conference. The BJP now rules just eight of India's 29 states.
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| Kidnapped Israelis shot 10 times with silenced gun - U.S. lab | | | By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three Israeli teenagers who were abducted by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month were shot at least 10 times with a silenced gun in what appeared to be premeditated killings, a U.S. official involved in the investigation said. One of them, 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, also held American citizenship. Israeli police believe the killings led far-right Jews to kidnap and burn to death a Palestinian youth in revenge, and the incident also contributed to an eruption of three weeks of clashes between Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military. Israel blamed Hamas for their deaths but the Palestinian Islamist group has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation. |
| Australian PM says won't bow to "moral blackmail" over asylum seekers | |  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday vowed not to bow to "moral blackmail" following reports of suicide bids by female asylum seekers at a detention centre on Christmas Island. Opposition Greens lawmaker Sarah Hanson-Young, whose party is one of the strongest critics of the government's "Operation Sovereign Borders" immigration policy, said she had spoken to people inside the centre who reported that almost ten mothers were on suicide watch this week. Fairfax media reported the women had tried to kill themselves after deciding their children would have a better chance of making it to Australia without them. "This is not going to be a government which has our policy driven by people who are attempting to hold us over a moral barrel - we won't be driven by that." Government minister Eric Abetz later told parliament there had been a small number of "minor self-harm incidents" at the facility on Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island but declined to provide any further detail, citing the detainees' rights to privacy.
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| Afghan war inflicting devastating toll on civilians - U.N. | |  By Maria Golovnina KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's war is inflicting an increasingly devastating toll on the civilian population, with the number of casualties rising by almost a quarter in the first half of this year, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday. U.S.-led forces are gradually withdrawing from military bases scattered across Afghanistan after 12 years of war against Taliban insurgents, contributing to deteriorating security, with civilians bearing the brunt of the violence. The U.N. report comes out as a political crisis unfolds in Afghanistan, threatening civil unrest on top of the insurgency as supporters of the two presidential candidates go head-to-head over the result of a presidential run-off. Preliminary results announced on Monday gave Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank official, 56.44 percent in the run-off on June 14, but his rival Abdullah Abdullah immediately rejected the outcome, saying the vote had been marred by widespread fraud.
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