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| Kashmir killings raise fears of new bloodletting | |  By Fayaz Bukhari SOPORE, India (Reuters) - After years of sharply reduced political violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the gunning down of four men with links to militants has fanned fears of a new wave of bloodletting. No group has claimed responsibility for the killings, but the police blame a breakaway faction of Hizbul Mujahideen, the largest group in the region, which has been fighting for Kashmir's merger with neighbouring Pakistan. "They have serious differences with ... other militant leadership over several issues," said Garib Dass, the chief of the police for northern Kashmir.
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| 'Crazy' Kenyan grannies use tricks to save themselves from rape | | | "He wants to sleep with me! He's younger than my son," she said as a dozen elderly women, sitting on wooden benches around her, laugh raucously. Across Nairobi, more than 200 elderly women, aged up to 105, are learning self defence to protect themselves against rape, which is widespread in Kenya, particularly in its slums. Research by the charity Ujamaa, which runs the self defence programme, shows that one in four women in Korogocho experience sexual assault. |
| Swiss prosecutor says seized 9 terabytes of FIFA evidence | |  By Karolin Schaps and Mark Hosenball BERNE (Reuters) - Switzerland's attorney general said on Wednesday his office had seized around nine terabytes of data as part of a sweeping investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption at world soccer's governing body FIFA. Michael Lauber told journalists he would not rule out interviewing FIFA President Sepp Blatter and General Secretary Jerome Valcke, though no individuals were being targeted at the moment. "Our investigation is of great complexity and quite substantial," he said in his first public comments since his office seized FIFA computer data last month.
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| Debate under way on Hong Kong election reform plan; veto likely | |  By James Pomfret and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers appeared to be standing firm on Wednesday in their pledge to veto a Beijing-backed electoral reform plan, as the Asian financial centre's legislature debated the package that will define its democratic future. The former British colony has reinforced security after mass protests crippled parts of the city late last year, presenting China's ruling Communist Party with one of its biggest political challenges in decades. Hundreds of people converged outside government buildings as debate began on a blueprint that would allow a direct vote for Hong Kong's next leader in 2017, but only from pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates.
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| Turkey searches for British sisters and nine children feared Syria-bound | | | Turkish security services searching for three British sisters and their nine children thought headed to join Islamic State militants in Syria have no idea where they are, a Turkish official said on Wednesday. British Muslims Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children, aged between three and 15, were reported missing six days ago. "We have no idea if they are in Turkey or have crossed into Syria. |
| Transgender police officer says becoming a woman "wasn't even a thought" | | | By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Stephenie Robinson, a British transgender police officer born Stephen, never felt like she was trapped in a wrong body and never dreamed of living life as a woman. The doctor proposed three treatment options to the then-26-year-old computer engineer: brain surgery, aversion therapy or female hormone treatment. "When I went to the (gender identity) clinic for the first time and was sitting around with a lot of male-looking women I thought 'What am I doing here? |
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