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| Pope urges Paraguay to consolidate democracy, end drug trade, graft | |  By Philip Pullella and Daniela Desantis ASUNCION, Paraguay (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged Paraguay to consolidate democracy and end corruption and drug trafficking, after receiving a colourful welcome on Friday at the start of the last leg of his eight-day South American tour. The Argentine-pontiff was in Bolivia earlier in the day where he visited one of Latin America's most violent prisons. There, saying he too had made mistakes and sinned, the pope called on inmates to shun gang violence and exhorted guards to treat them with dignity.. The pope's reception in the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, included women dancing in long swaying dresses as Paraguayan Guarania music played and people dressed as saints with halos were carried on platforms.
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| South Carolina lowers Confederate flag in wake of church massacre | |  By Harriet McLeod COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina on Friday removed the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds in a joyous but solemn ceremony that relegated a divisive symbol of the South's pro-slavery legacy to a museum. The Civil War flag, which had flown at the State House for 54 years, came down less than a month after a white gunman killed nine black men and women in a historic Charleston church. In Washington, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Friday that the man charged in the massacre, Dylann Roof, was erroneously able to buy a gun due to a mix-up in a federal background check.
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| Background check mix-up let suspected Charleston shooter buy gun - FBI | |  By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspect in the killings of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was able to buy a gun because of mistakes in a background check that should have revealed an admission of drug possession, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Friday. The examiner of suspect Dylann Roof's federal background check did not see a police report in which Roof admitted to drug possession, which would have barred him from buying the weapon, Comey told reporters at a briefing.
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| Ex-FIFA official Webb agrees to extradition on U.S. charges - source | | | By Nate Raymond and Michael Shields NEW YORK/ZURICH (Reuters) - Jeffrey Webb, one of seven current and former officials of football's world governing body FIFA arrested in Switzerland in May, has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face corruption charges, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) had said earlier on Friday that one of those detained had agreed not to fight extradition but it did not identify the official. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Reuters that Webb, a former FIFA vice president and president of the CONCACAF regional football federation, was the official concerned. |
| Ex-FIFA executive Webb agrees to U.S. extradition - report | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeffrey Webb, one of seven current and former officials of football's world governing body FIFA detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe, has agreed to be extradited to the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice had said earlier on Friday that one of the seven had agreed not to fight extradition but did not identify the official. After Webb's May 27 arrest, FIFA and the regional football federation CONCACAF provisionally banned Webb from his posts. (Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Grant McCool)
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| Bolivar boats, bills in bras as Venezuela's currency sinks | |  By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Origami-like boats made from Venezuela's rapidly depreciating bolivar bills sit on the cash register of a small fruit and vegetable store in Caracas. Cashier Marisol Garcia makes the bolivar boats to illustrate roaring inflation and the currency's tumble on the black market, where even the country's biggest bill is worth just 16 U.S. cents. "We're sinking." A debilitating recession and a drop in oil prices have harmed the OPEC nation's ability to provide dollars through its complex three-tiered currency control system, pushing up the black market rate at a dizzying speed.
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| Al Shabaab attacks hotels in Somali capital, six civilians killed | | | At least six civilians and four militants were killed when al Shabaab Islamists attacked two hotels in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, police said. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack on the Wehliya Hotel and said it had also laid siege to another hotel in the city, the Siyad, where gunfire continued into the night near the presidential palace. |
| Two shot dead in southern Germany; police arrest suspect | | | A gunman shot and killed two people in northern Bavaria on Friday and was later captured, German police said. "Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped," Joachim Hermann, Bavaria's interior minister, told a news conference. |
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