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| Interview: New technology aims to speedily repatriate South Asia's trafficked children | |  By Nita Bhalla SILIGURI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Charities in South Asia are piloting new software which aims to speed up the repatriation of rescued victims of human trafficking who have been smuggled from countries such as Nepal and Bangladesh and forced into slavery in India. South Asia, with India at its centre, is the fastest-growing and second-largest region for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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| Indian-American judge who could replace Scalia worked on controversial cases for business | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One possible contender to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court is an Indian-American appeals court judge, Sri Srinivasan, who has pro-business credentials and a stellar resume. If he was nominated his background may make it more politically challenging for Republicans as they plan to block anyone put forward by President Barack Obama. Srinivasan, 48, has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since he was confirmed on a 97-0 bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate in May 2013.
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| Interview: More than 160 trafficked Nepalis rescued by India after earthquake - official | |  By Nita Bhalla SILIGURI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Law enforcement agencies in northern India have rescued at least 160 Nepalis trafficked across the border since two powerful earthquakes struck last year, a senior Indian official said. Following aid agency warnings that human traffickers could prey on vulnerable survivors in the aftermath of disasters, authorities in Uttar Pradesh passed an order directing areas bordering Nepal to be vigilant. "The day the earthquake happened, I went to my office and issued a sensitisation letter to all the district magistrates and superintendents of police in all the seven districts which border Nepal," Kamal Saksena, home secretary for Uttar Pradesh state, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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| Chinese Uighur was tortured into confessing role in Bangkok bomb - lawyer | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Chinese ethnic Uighur man arrested in Thailand over a bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok last year denied on Monday charges of murder or involvement in the attack, retracting an earlier confession his lawyer said he was tortured into making. Adem Karadag, also known as Bilal Mohammed, is due to appear at a military court on Tuesday, along with a second suspect, Yusufu Mieraili, to formally hear the charges. A lawyer for Karadag, said his client was coerced into confessing that he took part in the attack.
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| In poor, violent enclave of 'Saint Death', Pope slams Mexico´s rich | |  By Philip Pullella and Alexandra Alper ECATEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - Celebrating Mass for more than 300,000 people in one of Mexico´s poorest and most dangerous cities, Pope Francis on Sunday took a swipe at the country's rich and corrupt elite . This is the bread that a corrupt family or society gives its own children," the pope said at the Mass in the city of Ecatepec. Francis urged his listeners to struggle to make Mexico "a land of opportunities where there will be no need to emigrate in order to dream" and where drug traffickers, whom he called "dealers of death", would not ensnare their children.
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| Australian PM Turnbull losing shine ahead of elections | |  By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's honeymoon period may be ending, with economists and political analysts blaming a lack of new policies for a drop in poll numbers that has reignited speculation of an early election. Turnbull on Saturday announced more than a dozen changes to his ministry, a decision forced on him by the resignation of one minister, the retirement of two others and the sacking of two more over their involvement in political scandals. A Fairfax-Ipsos poll of 1403 people taken on Feb. 11-13 showed the government's worst numbers since Turnbull ousted Tony Abbott in a party coup last September, narrowing its lead over the centre-left Labor Party by four percentage points to 52-48 percent.
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| Beijing's top official in Hong Kong calls rioters "radical separatists" | |  Beijing's top representative in Hong Kong has blamed radical separatists for riots that erupted in the Chinese-ruled city almost a week ago, the worst violence since pro-democracy protests paralysed parts of the Asian financial centre in 2014. The actions of the "radical separatists" were "leaning towards terrorism", the South China Morning Post daily quoted Zhang Xiaoming, the head of Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, as saying. "We will not [allow] this very small number of radical separatists to destroy the most precious rule of law in Hong Kong," he told a spring festival in Hong Kong.
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| Republicans gear up for U.S. Supreme Court battle after Scalia's death | |  By Doina Chiacu and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates hardened their positions on Sunday on blocking a move by President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, a lifetime appointment that would help decide some of the most divisive issues facing Americans. "We ought to make the 2016 election a referendum on the Supreme Court," U.S. Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press." The normally nine-justice court is set to decide this year its first major abortion case in nearly a decade, as well as cases on voting rights, affirmative action and immigration. Scalia, 79, died on Saturday at a West Texas resort.
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| Obama to nominate Supreme Court justice when Senate returns - White House | |  By Jeff Mason RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will not rush through a Supreme Court choice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia this week but will wait to nominate a candidate until the U.S. Senate is back in session, the White House said on Sunday. "Given that the Senate is currently in recess, we don't expect the president to rush this through this week, but instead will do so in due time once the Senate returns from their recess," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. "At that point, we expect the Senate to consider that nominee, consistent with their responsibilities laid out in the United States Constitution," he said.
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| Israel says its forces shot dead five Palestinian assailants | |  Israeli police officers fatally shot two Palestinians who opened fire at them outside Jerusalem's walled Old City on Sunday, police said, on a day when officials said three other Palestinian assailants were killed in two other incidents. A police spokeswoman said two men used automatic weapons to shoot at officers stationed on the Damascus Gate plaza, a busy entrance to the Old City and the scene of many previous violent incidents, and they responded swiftly and shot the two. Earlier, the Israeli army said troops shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers who were throwing stones at cars in the occupied West Bank after coming under fire from one of them.
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