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| China aims to maintain growth pace, fend off unemployment in 5-yr plan |
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 By Xiaoyi Shao and Jake Spring BEIJING (Reuters) - China faces a tough battle to keep its economy growing by at least 6.5 percent over the next five years while creating more jobs and restructuring inefficient industries, Premier Li Keqiang said as he opened China's annual parliament on Saturday. Growth of 6.5 percent would mark a ripping pace for most countries but would be the slowest in China in a quarter century as world's No. 2 economy grapples with gyrating financial markets, softening global trade and efforts to reduce environmental degradation. ...
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| Family and lawyers protest treatment of Mexican kingpin Guzman |
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 Family members, lawyers and supporters of Mexico's Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman protested on Friday outside the maximum security prison where the drug kingpin is being held, claiming authorities were depriving him of sleep as a form of torture. The small group included Guzman's sister Bernarda, who said her brother was being punished for escaping from the prison in 2014. Prison authorities deny any inhumane treatment of Guzman, and said he was in good health.
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| Erin Andrews video stalker civil trial goes to jury |
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 (Reuters) - A jury will begin deliberations on Monday in sportscaster Erin Andrews' civil trial against a Nashville hotel over a 2008 nude video of her, taken by a stalker who was in an adjoining room and later posted on the Internet. Closing arguments concluded on Friday evening, and Judge Hamilton Gayden said he would allow jurors to rest before returning on Monday for deliberations. Andrews, a Fox sportscaster who used to work for ESPN, testified for two days at the two-week trial, saying she has experienced depression and spells of crying and sleeplessness since the video went viral in 2009.
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| China economy faces greater difficulties, downward pressure increasing - Li |
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy faces greater difficulties and challenges this year with downward pressure increasing, but it will be able to achieve its economic and social development targets, Premier Li Keqiang said in remarks prepared for delivery on Saturday. The government will expand domestic consumption and use effective investment to support growth this year, while opening manufacturing and services to foreign investors, Li said in remarks to be delivered at the opening of the annual meeting of parliament. ...
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| China premier says will punish corruption without fail |
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - China will punish corruption without fail, Premier Li Keqiang said in remarks prepared for delivery at the opening of the annual meeting of parliament on Saturday. President Xi Jinping has embarked upon a sweeping campaign against deep-rooted graft since assuming power in late 2012. (Reporting by Michael Martina; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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| U.S. pushing for repatriation of U.N. peacekeepers over sex abuse |
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 By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Friday announced it was pushing the U.N. Security Council to call for repatriation of peacekeepers if there is a pattern of sexual crimes by troops of a certain nationality or if a country fails to investigate accusations. The United Nations reported 99 allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse against U.N. staff members across the U.N. system last year, a sharp increase from the 80 allegations in 2014.
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| Brazil's Lula detained in corruption probe; Rousseff objects |
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 By Brad Haynes and Anthony Boadle SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. Lula's questioning in police custody was the highest profile development in a two-year-old graft probe centred on the state oil company Petrobras, which has rocked Brazil's political and business establishment and deepened the worst recession in decades in Latin America's biggest economy. The investigation threatens to tarnish the legacy of Brazil's most powerful politician, whose humble roots and anti-poverty programs made him a folk hero, by putting a legal spotlight on how his left-leaning Workers' Party consolidated its position since rising to power 13 years ago.
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