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| Gunfight in western Mexico kills at least 39 - officials | | | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 39 people were killed on Friday in a fight between armed civilians and security forces in western Mexico, two government officials said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 37 civilians had been killed in the clash in the state of Michoacan in an area where powerful drug gangs have been active for years. One of the officials said two police had been killed in the clash, while the other said three had died. (Reporting by Dave Graham, Lizbeth Diaz and Ana Isable Martinez; Editing by Dan Grebler) |
| Irish vote on gay marriage in landmark referendum | |  By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland voted on Friday on whether to allow gay marriage, just two decades after decriminalising homosexuality, with reports of a high turnout likely to favour the 'Yes' side. With the once mighty Catholic Church's influence ravaged by child abuse scandals, opinion polls indicated the proposal would pass by as much as two-to-one, making Ireland the first country to adopt same-sex marriage via a popular vote. Irish national broadcaster RTE estimated turnout was likely to reach 60 percent in Dublin, which would be the highest in a referendum for years.
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| U.N. investigates reports of executions, abuses in Mali | | | The United Nations said on Friday it was investigating reports serious human rights abuses, including the execution of civilians, in northern Mali following clashes this week between northern Tuareg separatist rebels and pro-government militia. U.N.-brokered peace efforts in Mali's north are in danger of unravelling because of repeated violations of a ceasefire between the Tuareg-led Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA) and the pro-government factions around the flashpoint northern town of Menaka. The U.N. mission in Mali said on Friday it had sent a team of investigators to verify reports of serious abuses and the execution of civilians, possibly including an aid worker in Tin-Hamma, in Gao region. |
| U.S. State Dept posts first set of Hillary Clinton emails online | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department on Friday posted on its website a set of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails that were related to a 2012 attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya. The department is reviewing additional Clinton emails for later release. It said the Web address for the first batch of emails was: http://foia.state.gov/search/results.aspx?collection=clinton_email. The site appeared to be loading slowly for many users, according to numerous posts by reporters on Twitter. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson)
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| Hundreds march in Sudan against Mursi death sentence | |  Around 800 protesters marched through Sudan's capital on Friday against a court's decision this week to seek the death penalty for Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. Sudan's government has up to now declined to comment on the sentence in neighbouring Egypt, describing it as an internal matter.
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| Suicide bomber kills 21 at Saudi Shi'ite mosque, Islamic State claims attack | |  By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 21 worshippers on Friday in a packed Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, residents and the health minister said, the first attack in the kingdom to be claimed by Islamic State militants. More than 90 people were wounded, the Saudi health minister told state television. Islamic State said in a statement that one of its suicide bombers, identified as Abu 'Ammar al-Najdi, carried out the attack using an explosives-laden belt that killed or wounded 250 people, U.S.-based monitoring group SITE said on its Twitter account.
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| Netherlands plans to ban full-face veil in public places | |  The Dutch government on Friday agreed to introduce a partial ban on the wearing of the full-face veil in public places, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement. The proposed ban, which must be approved by parliament before it can become law, would apply to all face-covering clothing, including ski-masks and helmets, on public transport and in schools, hospitals and government offices. The measure "had nothing to do with religion," Prime Minister Mark Rutte told journalists in The Hague after the proposed measure was passed by the cabinet.
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| Russians seized in Ukraine: We were following Moscow's orders | |  By Christian Lowe and Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Russian men captured by Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian rebels have told a newspaper they were in Ukraine on a mission for the Russian military, contradicting Moscow's official line. Speaking from a hospital bed in Kiev, one of the men, Alexander Alexandrov, became tearful when his interviewer told him his relatives had told Russian state media that he had quit the Russian military before heading to Ukraine. In a video posted online by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry this week, Alexandrov said he had been on a spying mission in Ukraine as part of a 14-member special forces group from the Russian town of Togliatti.
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| A year after Thai coup, stability trumps growth for business | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Thailand's army seized power in a bloodless coup, much of the business establishment quietly cheered them on. A year on, the captains of Thai industry remain firmly behind the junta, despite a lacklustre economy and a delayed return to democracy. At the very least it has made the country peaceful and it has brought order," Poj Aramwattanont, president of the Thai Frozen Foods Association (TFFA), told Reuters.
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| Colombia's FARC rebels suspend unilateral ceasefire | |  By Julia Symmes Cobb and Helen Murphy BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels suspended a unilateral ceasefire after government troops killed 26 of its fighters, the guerrilla group said on Friday, a move that will likely ratchet up tension at peace talks to end five decades of war. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said it lifted the ceasefire because of the attack, one of the deadliest confrontations since the two sides began negotiations in Cuba at the end of 2012. The insurgent group slammed President Juan Manuel Santos for "incoherence" in seeking peace while his military continued attacks against FARC encampments.
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| Eiffel Tower closes as staff strike over pickpockets | |  A strike closed the Eiffel Tower for most of Friday as staff demanded more help to deal with pickpockets operating around the Paris landmark, tower officials and unions said. "There have always been pickpockets at the Eiffel Tower, but we are now facing an organized network", said a union representative. The protest came a day after Paris authorities launched a drive to improve tourist protection and said theft around Paris' main attractions was on the decline compared to last year.
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| Myanmar's Rakhine state denies persecution at root of migrant crisis | |  By Antoni Slodkowski and Tim McLaughlin SITTWE, Myanmar/YANGON (Reuters) - The head of the Myanmar state from which thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing denied that persecution had prompted the exodus after the United States called on the country to deal with its root causes. Many Rohingya have become prey to human traffickers on the journey south to Thailand, Malaysia and beyond as they flee what U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday were "the desperate conditions they face in Rakhine State". Rakhine Chief Minister Maung Maung Ohn told Reuters after meeting United Nations officials on Friday: "I am disappointed by, and completely disagree and reject such unfounded allegations by the United States." "This (migration) is human trafficking, not (due to) political or religious discrimination at all." Blinken, who was visiting Myanmar on Thursday and Friday, told Myanmar's leaders they needed to address discrimination and violence against the minority Rohingya.
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| Sri Lanka probe finds evidence of sex bribes in women's cricket team | | | By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sri Lanka's sports ministry said on Friday that an investigation had found evidence that members of the national women's cricket team had been forced to perform sexual favours for officials in order to earn or keep their places in the squad. Sri Lanka Cricket, the controlling body for the island nation's most popular sport, ordered an investigation in November after reports emerged alleging officials had asked female cricketers for sex in exchange for being on the team. |
| U.N. panel adopts new rules on treatment of prisoners | |  A United Nations commission on Friday adopted revised rules on the treatment of prisoners in what human rights organisations hailed as a landmark deal to update 60-year-old international standards. The so-called Mandela Rules, named for the late South African leader and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela, now go to the U.N. General Assembly for final approval. "The Mandela Rules could herald in a new era in which prisoners' human rights are fully respected," Yuval Ginbar, a legal adviser at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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