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| JNU student held on sedition charge bailed after free-speech protests | |  The Delhi High Court granted bail on Wednesday to Kanhaiya Kumar, head of the student union at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, arrested for alleged sedition in a case that led to mass protests and accusations the government is trying to stifle free speech. The court granted the student six months bail on a surety of 10,000 rupees ($150), defence lawyer Vrinda Grover said. Kumar's detention -- under colonial-era laws once used by India's British rulers to jail nationalist heroes including Mahatma Gandhi -- exposed deep ideological differences over freedom of speech in India.
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| Pakistani man kills sisters in suspected honour killing | | | Pakistani police are hunting a 29-year-old man who shot his two sisters dead in a suspected honour killing, officials said on Wednesday, two days after a Pakistani filmmaker won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders. More than 500 men and women died in honour killings last year, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says. Police named the suspect as Muhammad Asif, saying he has been on the run since Tuesday night, after murdering his sisters Fozia Bibi, 22, and Suriya Bibi, 24, in the eastern province of Punjab. |
| Turkish journalist calls his release from jail a 'defeat' for Erdogan | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The release of two prominent Turkish journalists following a ruling by Turkey's top court that their rights had been violated is a "clear defeat" for President Tayyip Erdogan, one of them said on Wednesday. Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, and his colleague Erdem Gul were freed on Friday after a ruling from the constitutional court. Erdogan has said he does not respect the court's decision.
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| How the Republican elite turned a blind eye to the rise and rise of Donald Trump | |  By Emily Flitter and Luciana Lopez WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One evening last June, some of the Republican Party's wealthiest donors gathered for a cocktail party at an exclusive resort in Deer Valley, Utah, during a three-day retreat hosted by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. They had just heard from six presidential hopefuls. Tom Duncan, the CEO of tool-maker Positec Tool Corp, chatted with a few attendees about a fantasy ticket to secure the White House in November 2016: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his running mate. Duncan, for his part, liked Ohio Governor John Kasich, but also had his eye on former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
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| Republican leaders condemn bigotry, but won't talk about Trump | |  By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress condemned white supremacist groups on Tuesday after their party's front-runner in the presidential contest, Donald Trump, failed to disavow support for an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, but the leaders declined further comment on Trump's controversial White House bid. The comments from the two top Republicans in the U.S. Congress, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, came as many of the party's lawmakers struggle to come to terms with the growing possibility that Trump will be their nominee.
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| Trump, Clinton capture key wins on U.S. Super Tuesday | |  Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations on Tuesday with a series of state-by-state victories, but their rivals vowed to keep on fighting. On Super Tuesday, the 2016 campaign's biggest day of state-by-state nominating contests, Trump, 69, and Clinton, 68, proved themselves the undisputed front-runners to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama. U.S. networks projected Trump won seven states, with victories stretching into the Deep South and as far north as Massachusetts, adding to a sense of momentum he had built last month by winning three of the first four contests.
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| Jordan says foils Islamic State plot to attack civilian, military targets | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's security services said on Wednesday they had thwarted a plot by Islamic State militants to blow up civilian and military targets, in one of the U.S. ally's largest sweeps in years against hardline sleeper cells. The security services located the militants, who were carrying suicide belts, in a hideout in the northern city of Irbid near the Syrian border, they said in a statement carried by the state news agency Petra. Seven militants were killed in clashes that began on Tuesday night and lasted till dawn and one police officer was also killed, the statement said. |
| Woman on trial in Russia says Allah ordered her to behead child | |  By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman suspected of beheading a child in her care before brandishing the severed head outside a Moscow metro station said on Wednesday Allah had ordered her to commit the crime. Police on Monday wrestled to the ground Gulchekhra Bobokulova, a 38-year-old divorced mother of three from the Muslim-majority ex-Soviet state of Uzbekistan, after she wandered around a Moscow street holding the infant's severed head in the air and shouting Islamist slogans. Eyewitnesses said at the time they believed she was carrying out a terrorist act, but since her detention, Russian investigators have raised the possibility she might be suffering from mental illness.
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| Anti-immigrant "Soldiers of Odin" expand from Finland to Nordics, Baltics | |  By Janis Laizans and Joachim Dagenborg TALLINN/OSLO (Reuters) - The Soldiers of Odin, self-proclaimed patriots who have patrolled the streets of some cities in Finland saying they wants to protect locals from immigrants, have begin appearing in other Nordic and Baltic countries, worrying authorities. With some 250,000 asylum seekers moving into the region as a whole over the last year, the group has triggered fears of a rise in vigilantism. The Soldiers are now expanding outside Finland, wearing similar black jackets adorned on the back with a Viking, his mouth covered with the relevant country's national flag, and the name of the group written in English.
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| Gulf Arab states label Hezbollah a terrorist organisation | |  The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council has designated Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, it said on Wednesday, ratcheting up pressure on the Iran-allied group that wields influence in Lebanon and plays a key role in the Syrian crisis. Gulf Arab states imposed sanctions on Hezbollah members in 2013 in retaliation for the group's intervention in Syria's civil war in support of President Bashar al-Assad. "As the militia continues its terrorist practices, the GCC states have decided to label it a terrorist organisation and will take the necessary measures to implement its decision in this regard based on anti-terrorism laws applied in the GCC and similar international laws," the statement quoted Zayani as saying.
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| Jordanian forces kill 7 Islamist militants in Irbid raid - security source | | | Jordanian security forces killed seven Islamist militants overnight in the northern border city of Irbid, a security source said on Wednesday, in one of the country's largest sweeps in years against hardline sleeper cells. One Jordanian police officer was also killed in the operation, which two security sources said targeted mainly members of the Islamic State group. Dozens of special forces clashed with militants holed up near a Palestinian refugee camp in the centre of the city, which is close to the Syrian border, the first source said. |
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