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| Vietnam's Communists put to the test as dissidents bid for parliament | | | By Martin Petty HANOI (Reuters) - Former IT entrepreneur and banker Nguyen Quang A is running a disciplined campaign to be elected to Vietnam's parliament, declaring his assets, securing voter endorsements and appearing in a slick online video. Quang A is one of its biggest critics and among 19 dissidents trying to run as independents in a May election to the assembly, determined to test the sincerity of promises made by the party to strengthen democracy. "Let's see them turn rhetoric into reality." To pique the Communists further, Quang A is waiting to see if party chief Nguyen Phu Trong will seek re-election to the National Assembly so that he can go head-to-head with him for his seat. |
| UNICEF says deeply concerned about U.S. citizen jailed in Iran | |  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday it is worried about the health and well-being of one of its former officials, an elderly man jailed in Iran for more than a week. Baquer Namazi, whose son Siamak has been jailed in Iran since October, was himself arrested on Feb. 22 and taken to Tehran's Evin Prison, his wife said last week on social media. Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian provincial governor, served as UNICEF representative in Somalia, Kenya, Egypt and elsewhere before retiring in 1996, UNICEF said in a statement.
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| Security logs of Clinton email server show no evidence of foreign hacking - NYT | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Computer security records turned over to the FBI from an email server Hillary Clinton used while she was U.S. secretary of state show no evidence of foreign hacking, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing unnamed people close to a federal investigation into her emails. The security logs handed over by a former aide to Clinton, the Democratic front-runner in the Nov. 8 presidential election, back up her stance that her use of a personal email account did not risk exposing U.S. secrets to hackers or foreign governments, the Times said. ...
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| Republican foreign policy veterans rebuke Trump worldview | |  By Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 90 Republican foreign policy veterans have pledged to oppose Donald Trump, saying his proposals would undermine U.S. security, in the latest sign of fissures between the Republican presidential front-runner and the party establishment. Bryan McGrath, a retired U.S. Navy officer and adviser to Republican Mitt Romney's unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign who helped organise the letter, said at least two people declined to sign because of concerns it would fuel Trump's campaign theme of being an anti-Washington candidate opposed by the establishment.
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| Protesters in Kentucky claim they were assaulted at Trump rally | |  By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Protesters at a Donald Trump rally in Kentucky last Tuesday have filed complaints with police claiming they were assaulted by Trump supporters, according to police and protesters. Henry Brousseau, 17, of Louisville, said he went to the Super Tuesday event at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville to protest Trump's campaign and was punched in the stomach by a woman who was wearing a T-shirt of the Traditionalist Worker Party.
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| Quick switch from Russian rocket engines could cost $5 billion - U.S. Air Force | | | By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Quickly ending U.S. reliance on Russian rocket engines could add up to $5 billion to the cost of upcoming satellite launches, Air Force Secretary Deborah James said on Thursday at a contentious Senate hearing where lawmakers raised several hot-button issues. James said Air Force efforts to develop a U.S. rocket engine for powering heavy satellites into space were advancing, but an early ban on use of RD-180 rocket engines from Russia would force the service to choose other launch providers. |
| U.S. senators urge Obama to push for female U.N. Secretary-General | |  By Michelle Nichols and Patricia Zengerle UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven U.S. women senators urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to push for the election of the United Nations' first female secretary-general later this year. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, is due to step down at the end of 2016 after two five-year terms. A man has held the top job at the world organisation since its inception 70 years ago. ...
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| Brazil's Rousseff condemns the leaking of testimony as political weapon | |  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday condemned the practice of leaking legal testimony as a political weapon, after media reported that a pro-government senator had implicated her in a major graft probe in leaked plea bargain documents. "Leaks that are false, selective and illegal should be rejected and have their source rigorously investigated," Rousseff said in a statement. Rousseff said her government was committed to defending democratic principles, fighting corruption and defending the Constitution. ...
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| Guyana prison riot over seized cell phones leaves 16 dead | | | By Neil Marks Georgetown (Reuters) - A major riot left 16 people dead in Guyana's overcrowded main prison after inmates were angered by the seizure of illicit cell phones, officials said on Thursday. "We have a crisis on our hands ... as a result of several incidents that commenced at around 9:23 last night," Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said at a press conference in Georgetown. President David Granger said a three-member panel would be convened to investigate the incident. |
| Judge orders release of Bobbi Kristina Brown's autopsy results | |  By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Autopsy results for Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, will be made public after a Georgia judge on Thursday ordered the report to be unsealed. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, died in July after months in a coma. The Fulton County medical examiner's office said it was awaiting the judge's order and would not provide the autopsy details before Friday.
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| Clinton tech employee has stopped working at U.S. State Dept | |  The employee who helped set up and manage Hillary Clinton's private email server for her work as secretary of state no longer works at the State Department, a department spokesman said on Thursday. Bryan Pagliano is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal inquiry into the email setup in exchange for immunity from prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to the Washington Post. The investigation has clouded Hillary Clinton's campaign to become the Democratic Party's candidate in the November presidential election.
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| Spanish princess tells fraud trial her husband handled all expenses | |  Spain's Princess Cristina told her tax fraud trial on Thursday she had no knowledge of financial matters and her husband handled all their accounts. King Felipe's 50-year-old sister, the first member of the royal family to stand in the dock, said she believed her husband Inaki Urdangarin was also innocent, in a case that has tapped into public anger over high-level corruption. Cristina answered questions from her own lawyer for half an hour, refusing to answer those from a legal team representing the 'Clean Hands' anti-corruption organisation which filed charges against the couple.
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| Brazil senator's plea bargain implicates Rousseff, Lula - media | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian ruling party Senator Delcidio do Amaral has implicated President Dilma Rousseff and ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Petrobras graft scandal as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors, local media reported on Thursday. If confirmed, the revelations in a 400-page statement seen by weekly news magazine IstoE provide ammunition to Rousseff's opponents, who are trying to impeach her or invalidate her 2014 re-election. Amaral was the leader of the Workers' Party in the Senate and Rousseff's point man on economic policy until his arrest in November on obstruction of justice charges.
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| Three aid workers kidnapped in east Congo | | | Three employees of international charity Save the Children were kidnapped on Wednesday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the organisation said on Thursday, as insecurity in the region continues to hamper humanitarian efforts. The Congolese staff members were taken at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) in North Kivu province, Save the Children said. North Kivu province, which borders Rwanda and Uganda, was ravaged by regional wars that killed millions between 1996 and 2003. |
| Uproar ends triathlon at infamous 'Angola' prison in Louisiana | | | A triathlon promising athletes an opportunity to compete in a notorious Louisiana prison has been cancelled after organisers said they had received threats over the event planned at a maximum security penitentiary on a former slave plantation. The "Escape from Angola Triathlon," scheduled for March 20, drew criticism for appearing insensitive and sensationalising a prison famed for its harsh conditions for prisoners, including some of the longest stretches in solitary confinement in U.S. history. Organizers, who had worked with the state, defended the concept, noting in the statement that the site offered a tough course and "a way to showcase some beautiful Louisiana countryside." But it drew outrage from critics over social media, as well as objections from prisoners' advocates, local media reported. |
| South African court rejects Pistorius right to appeal murder conviction | |  South Africa's Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected Olympian Oscar Pistorius' right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The Supreme Court of Appeal changed the 29-year-old's conviction to murder in December after the state prosecutors appealed the athlete's prior conviction of culpable homicide in the Pretoria High Court. South African authorities had challenged Pistorius' appeal on the grounds that the Supreme Court of Appeal had correctly found Pistorius guilty.
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| Charged with six murders, Michigan Uber driver to get competency exam | |  By Mark Wedel KALAMAZOO, Mich. (Reuters) - The Michigan Uber driver charged with murdering six people last month in a shooting spree in the southwestern part of the state will undergo a competency exam, the prosecuting attorney said on Thursday. Jason Dalton, 45, is charged with shooting eight people, killing six of them, over a five-hour period on Feb. 20 in between driving customers for the Uber car service in Kalamazoo, Michigan, about 150 miles (240 km) west of Detroit. A judge granted a request by Dalton's attorney for a competency exam for the suspect, Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Getting told reporters following a 45-minute probable-cause hearing that was closed to the public.
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