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| Pistorius freed on parole after year behind bars for killing girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's "Blade Runner", was released on parole on Monday, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, 28, who was found guilty of the lesser charge when he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door and hit Steenkamp, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a wealthy suburb of the capital Pretoria. Pistorius was freed on Monday evening, taking media by surprise.
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| Turkish police detain bar association head for PKK comments | | | Turkish police detained the head of the bar association in the main southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday on a charge of "terrorist group propaganda" for his comments on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, witnesses said. The move to detain the prominent lawyer, Tahir Elci, comes at a time of heightened tension in the southeast fuelled by a conflict between the state and PKK militants ahead of a Nov. 1 parliamentary election. Speaking on a discussion programme on broadcaster CNN Turk last week, Elci said "the PKK is not a terrorist group". |
| Accused mobster, 80, pulled off 'Goodfellas' heist - U.S. prosecutors | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - An alleged top member of New York's Bonanno crime family went on trial on Monday for what federal prosecutors said was his role in the famous 1978 airport heist that inspired the mob movie "Goodfellas." Vincent Asaro, 80, was one of several armed men that stole $6 million in cash and jewelry in December 1978 from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, "truly the score of all scores," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsay Gerdes told a federal jury in Brooklyn.
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| Canada's Trudeau topples PM Harper in stunning election win | |  By Randall Palmer and Rod Nickel MONTREAL/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Trudeau, 43, the photogenic son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, pledged to run a C$10 billion annual budget deficit for three years to invest in infrastructure and help stimulate Canada's anemic economic growth. Trudeau has said he will repair Canada's cool relations with the Obama administration, withdraw Canada from the combat mission against Islamic State militants in favor of humanitarian aid and training, and tackle climate change.
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| Bus blast kills 11 in Pakistan's Baluchistan province | |  The bomb exploded as the bus was bound for the city suburbs, carrying dozens of passengers home from work, police official Abdul Waheed Khattak said. Baluchistan province has seen almost a decade of separatist violence against government personnel and security forces as well as non-Baluch ethnic groups. "This is a cowardly act that has targeted innocent people," said Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti, Baluchistan's home minister.
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| Asylum seeker's rape claims overshadow Australia's bid for U.N. rights body | |  By Jane Wardell and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's hardline immigration policies overshadowed the launch of its bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday, with the government and rights lawyers arguing bitterly over a pregnant Somali asylum-seeker who claims she was raped. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton accused lawyers of fabricating stories about the treatment of the woman, who human rights advocates said was denied basic medical attention and likened her removal from Australia to CIA-style rendition. Australia has decided to take 12,000 refugees from Syria on top of its current humanitarian intake quota.
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