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| Gunmen open fire at Sri Lanka election rally, one dead | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - One person was killed and 13 wounded on Friday in a drive-by shooting at a Sri Lankan election rally attended by the finance minister, a further act of political violence in a nation still recovering from civil war. Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake called the attack an "act of political terrorism" and blamed forces loyal to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is attempting a comeback at next month's general election. The body of a woman was brought to Colombo National Hospital and 14 people were admitted with gunshot wounds.
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| Hillary Clinton takes on Jeb Bush on racial equality issues | |  By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton launched a direct assault on Jeb Bush on Friday, questioning his commitment to tackle issues of economic and racial inequality at a convention of a major African American civil rights group. The meeting of the National Urban League was the first same-stage appearance during the 2016 campaign and could be a general election preview for former Secretary of State Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic nomination for the presidential election, and Bush, a former Florida governor who is one of the leading candidates in the Republican race. Democrats have long counted on African Americans as a loyal voting bloc, whereas the Republican Party acknowledged after its loss in the 2012 presidential race that it needed to build support among minorities to win the presidency.
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| Minister intervenes to give Chinese artist Ai Weiwei full UK visa | |  British Home Secretary Theresa May has intervened to reverse a decision by her officials and grant dissident Chinese artist and free speech advocate Ai Weiwei a full six-month visa to enter Britain, her government department said on Friday. On Thursday the artist, whose passport was returned by Chinese authorities last week four years after it was confiscated, said Britain had granted him only a short-stay visa instead of one granting him permission to stay for the full six months. Ai, who was detained for 81 days and had his passport confiscated four years ago, has never been charged nor convicted of a crime.
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| Argentine executive to appear in U.S. court in FIFA case | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former chairman of an Argentina-based sports marketing business who was among 14 people indicted in a federal corruption case involving the soccer world's governing body, FIFA, is expected to appear in U.S. court on Friday. Alejandro Burzaco, an Argentine businessman who was the former general manager and chairman of Torneos y Competencias SA, is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the U.S. Justice Department said. A lawyer for Burzaco did not immediately respond to requests for comment. |
| Zimbabwe calls for extradition of Cecil the lion's killer | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday. In Harare's first official comments since Cecil's killing grabbed world headlines this week, Muchinguri said the Prosecutor General had already started the process to have 55-year-old Walter Palmer extradited from the United States. Muchinguri, a senior member of President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party, described Cecil, a rare black-maned lion well-known to tourists in the Hwange National Park, as an "iconic attraction".
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| Palestinian toddler killed in West Bank; Jewish arsonists suspected | |  By Ali Sawafta DUMA, West Bank (Reuters) - Suspected Jewish attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing an 18-month-old child and seriously injuring his parents and brother, an act that Israel's prime minister described as terrorism. Graffiti in Hebrew reading "revenge" was scrawled outside, below a Star of David. It was the worst attack by Israeli assailants since a Palestinian teenager was burned to death in Jerusalem a year ago.
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| Malaysia says charge sheet against Najib is false, an attempt to topple PM | |  Malaysia's newly-appointed attorney general said on Friday a purported draft of a charge sheet against Prime Minister Najib Razak published on the Sarawak Report website was false, and part of a plot to topple the country's leader. Mohamed Apandi Ali said the documents had not been issued by his office, and he had ordered an investigation into the publication of the alleged papers. Sarawak Report, a website run by London-based journalist Clare Rewcastle-Brown, published documents on Thursday it said showed that the previous Attorney General Abdul Gani Patail was on the brink of bringing corruption charges against Najib before he was replaced earlier this week.
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| Russia's "tin pot despot" Putin ordered spy's London murder, UK inquiry told | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is a "tin pot despot" who personally ordered the 2006 poisoning murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, the lawyer for his widow said on Friday. Kremlin critic Litvinenko, 43, died three weeks after drinking green tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at London's plush Millennium Hotel, shortly after obtaining British citizenship. British authorities say there is evidence to try Russian suspects Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun for murder.
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| After uproar, India ups budget for some social welfare sectors | |  The government on Friday sought parliamentary approval to raise federal spending on social welfare, months after opposition lawmakers and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's own officials slammed his cuts in spending. Modi's finance ministry plans to raise the budget for women and child welfare, as well as sanitation programmes, by around 40 percent, a government document tabled in parliament showed.
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| Freeing of Chinese loggers riles Myanmar citizens | |  By Tim McLaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's newspapers and social media users reacted with anger and disappointment on Friday to the government's decision to include 155 Chinese in a mass amnesty, just eight days after they were jailed for illegal logging. News journals slammed the freeing of the loggers, 153 of whom had been sentenced to life imprisonment, while Internet and social media users vented frustration over what they saw as the government caving in to pressure from its massive neighbour. "I hope the Chinese government reads this," Facebook user Ye Moe said in a post that had received around 1,200 "likes".
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| Suspect in Charleston church massacre to be arraigned on hate charges | |  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Relatives of nine African-Americans killed at a historic South Carolina church may get a second opportunity to address the white man accused in the murders on Friday when he is arraigned on federal hate crime charges, sources close to the case said. At an earlier court appearance, family members riveted the country by expressing heartfelt forgiveness to Dylann Storm Roof, the suspect in last month's massacre at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, saying their Christian faith compelled them to rise above their grief. Friday's arraignment comes a week after a federal grand jury in South Carolina returned a 33-count indictment accusing Roof of hate crimes and firearms charges, adding to the raft of state murder and attempted murder counts he already faces.
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