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Myanmar votes in historic election; spotlight on Suu Kyi
Sat,31 Mar 2012 07:53 PM PDT
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A woman votes at a ballot station during by-elections in YangonYANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar votes on Sunday in its third election in half a century, a crucial test of its nascent reform credentials that could propel opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament and convince the West to end sanctions. The United States and European Union have hinted that economic sanctions - imposed years ago in response to human rights abuses - may be lifted if the election is free and fair, unleashing a wave of investment in the impoverished but resource-rich country bordering rising powers India and China. ...


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Insight: Lifting the veil on Afghanistan's female addicts
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:30 PM PDT
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(Blank Headline Received)KABUL (Reuters) - Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago. "I can't give breast milk to my baby," said the 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. "I'm scared he'll get addicted She was huddled with other women at the U.N. ...


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Rebels advance in Mali, deadline for coup leaders
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:26 PM PDT
Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's army has abandoned bases around the northern town of Gao to rebels while the leaders of a coup faced a deadline to start handing back power or face sanctions. The defeat in the key garrison town was the latest for the army after a lightning 48-hour advance by northern rebels seeking to capitalize in chaos in the West African country after the March 22 coup. "Given the proximity of the camps to residential areas, our forces decided not to fight," a statement by junta leader Captain Amadou Sanogo, read out on state television, said. ... Full Story
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Three winning tickets sold in record $656 million U.S. lottery
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:23 PM PDT
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Store owner Jean Shin places a sign with the updated jackpot in Los AngelesATLANTA (Reuters) - The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the tiny farming community of Red Bud in southern Illinois, with less than 4,000 residents, about 30 miles southeast of St. Louis. ...


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Mali army abandons northern town after rebel attack
Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:21 PM PDT
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Supporters of Mali's junta attend a rally to protest against regional bloc ECOWAS in BamakoGAO/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's army abandoned its military bases around the key northern garrison town of Gao on Saturday after a fierce assault by heavily armed rebels, military and civilian sources said. It was the latest defeat for the army after a lightning 48-hour advance by northern rebels seeking to capitalize in chaos in the West African country after last week's coup. "Given the proximity of the camps to residential areas, our forces decided not to fight," a statement by junta leader Captain Amadou Sanogo read out on state television said. ...


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Dead wolf photos stir tensions in West
Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:53 PM PDT
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A handout photo of an endangered gray wolf peering out from a snow covered shelterSALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Photos of dead and maimed wolves have pervaded the Internet in recent weeks, raising tensions in the Northern Rocky Mountains over renewed hunting and trapping of the once federally protected animals. Escalating rancor between hunters and animal rights activists on social media and websites centers on pictures of wolves killed or about to be killed. Many have text celebrating the fact that Western states are allowing more killing of the predators. ...


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Fighting continues in Syria as West, opposition to meet
Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:32 PM PDT
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Syrian refugee flashes a victory sign at Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay provinceISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrians trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad meet their Western backers on Sunday while fighting has continued despite the Syrian government saying the year-long revolt is over. The political opposition remains divided and has not yet formally accepted a peace plan brokered by United Nations-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan. Prospects of Western-led military intervention are close to zero, although Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal renewed calls on Saturday to arm the Syrian opposition, describing it as a "duty". ...


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Romney predicts victory in Wisconsin primary
Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:24 PM PDT
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Romney greets members of the crowd after addressing supporters in MuskegoFITCHBURG, Wisc. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday predicted a victory on Saturday in Wisconsin's upcoming primary contest and said he believed it could help put him on a path to clinching the nomination. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, has come from behind in the polls in Wisconsin to take the lead over chief rival Rick Santorum. The state will vote on Tuesday along with Maryland and Washington, D.C. "This was an uphill battle for me if you looked back three or four weeks ago. ...


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Fed's Kocherlakota sees 2.3 percent inflation in 2013
Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:16 PM PDT
Reuters - EVANSTON, Illinois (Reuters) - U.S. inflation will be above the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target next year, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota said on Saturday, suggesting he sees pressure building for the central bank to lift interest rates. "I'm expecting inflation to be 2 percent this year, and 2.3 percent next year," Kocherlakota told the Midwest Economics Association's annual meeting. The Fed has kept U.S. short-term borrowing costs near zero for more than three years, and its policy-setting panel has said it expects to need to keep them there through late 2014. ... Full Story
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Haitian president urged to control ex-soldiers
Sat,31 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PDT
Reuters - PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A Haitian government panel has urged the president to appoint an interim commander to take charge of former soldiers, a panel member said on Saturday, as the leader of a successful 2004 uprising warned that ex-members of the military could seize power. Several thousand former members of the military that was disbanded in 1995 by then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide after a series of coups, have occupied government buildings and former army camps, defying injunctions from the government to leave. ... Full Story
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In U-turn, Egypt's Brotherhood names presidential candidate
Sat,31 Mar 2012 04:26 PM PDT
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File photo of newly released deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat al-Shater attending a pro-democracy rally at Tahrir Square in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, in a policy U-turn, said on Saturday it would back its deputy leader for president, an endorsement that guarantees Khairat al-Shater a place among the frontrunners after the group initially said it would not field a candidate. The Brotherhood said it changed tack after reviewing other candidates in the race and after parliament, where its Freedom and Justice Party controls the biggest bloc, was unable to meet "the demands of the revolution", a reference to its mounting criticism of the ruling army's handling of the transition. ...


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Santorum says he won't be "unrealistic" in Republican nomination race
Sat,31 Mar 2012 04:07 PM PDT
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U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Santorum speaks during a campaign appearance in FairfieldBROOKFIELD, Wisc. (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum vowed on Saturday that the race for the Republican nomination is far from over but signaled that he would not be "unrealistic" if the time ever came to step aside for rival Mitt Romney. Lagging in opinion polls, endorsements and delegates, Santorum nevertheless challenged the Romney camp's assertions that the former Massachusetts governor is the inevitable Republican nominee to face President Barack Obama on November 6. ...


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Switzerland seeks arrest of German tax collectors
Sat,31 Mar 2012 03:17 PM PDT
Reuters - BERLIN/ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has issued arrest warrants for three German civil servants, accusing them of industrial espionage for buying the bank details of German tax evaders, the finance ministry of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said on Saturday. In the latest chapter of an ugly dispute over tax evasion that has strained ties between the two neighbors, a spokeswoman for the ministry confirmed a report about the arrest warrants due to appear in Sunday's Bild am Sonntag newspaper. ... Full Story
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Clinton: "regret" over closure of U.S.-backed group in Dubai
Sat,31 Mar 2012 02:59 PM PDT
Reuters - RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday raised concerns over a move by the United Arab Emirates, a key U.S. ally in the Gulf, to shut down a U.S.-funded pro-democracy group. "We very much regret it," Clinton said after a meeting in Riyadh with foreign ministers from Gulf States, referring to the closure of the Dubai office of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which was also the subject of a crackdown in Egypt. Clinton said she discussed the issue with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan. ... Full Story
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Gunmen kill two outside Miami funeral of shooting victim
Sat,31 Mar 2012 02:49 PM PDT
Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on mourners outside a Miami funeral home, killing two people and injuring 12, including a young girl, police said on Saturday. The gunmen escaped after firing from a car into a crowd of mourners who had gathered on Friday night for the funeral of a 21-year-old man, who was himself the victim of a deadly shooting. "I was on my way out of the chapel when I heard the shots," the pastor who officiated at the service, A.D. Lenoir, told The Miami Herald. "I told people to look for cover. It was chaos. ... Full Story
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One person killed in Kenyan coast explosions
Sat,31 Mar 2012 02:23 PM PDT
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Nurses attend to a victim from a blast at the Coast General Hospital in the Kenyan coastal town of MombasaMOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two blasts in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and a nearby town killed one person and wounded more than 20 on Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks to hit the east African country since it sent troops into neighboring Somalia. Up until now, attacks had centered on the capital, Nairobi, and near the border with Somalia following its deployment of troops last October. Saturday's blasts were the first in Mombasa, a popular holiday destination with locals and foreigners, since Kenya began its mission to fight Islamist rebels north of the border. ...


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Mali army abandons northern town after rebel attack
Sat,31 Mar 2012 02:19 PM PDT
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Supporters of Mali's junta attend a rally to protest against regional bloc ECOWAS in BamakoGAO/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's army abandoned its military bases around the key northern garrison town of Gao on Saturday after a fierce assault by heavily armed rebels, military and civilian sources said. It was the latest defeat for the army after a lightning 48-hour advance by northern rebels seeking to capitalize in chaos in the West African country after last week's coup. "Given the proximity of the camps to residential areas, our forces decided not to fight," a statement by junta leader Captain Amadou Sanago read out on state television said. ...


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Sudan and South Sudan accuse each other of border attacks
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:44 PM PDT
Reuters - JUBA/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan have accused each of launching further attacks in the oil-producing area straddling their border, dashing hopes for a new round of talks designed to end the dispute. Clashes first broke out on Monday in the worst direct confrontation between the two since South Sudan became independent in July 2011 but died down two days later when South Sudanese troops moved out of the disputed Heglig area, inside Sudan. But on Friday Sudan launched an aerial bombardment on South Sudanese army border positions, according to South Sudan's army. ... Full Story
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Marchers again demand arrest in Trayvon Martin case
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:31 PM PDT
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Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at an NAACP march and rally in front of the Sanford Police Department for Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FloridaSANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through Sanford, Florida, on Saturday demanding an arrest of the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed black teen a month ago. "We want arrests ... shot in the chest," they chanted in reference to 17-year-old victim Trayvon Martin, who was shot in the chest. Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP which organized the march, and civil rights leader the Rev. ...


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Dead wolf photos stir tensions in West
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:25 PM PDT
Reuters - SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Photos of dead and maimed wolves have pervaded the Internet in recent weeks, raising tensions in the Northern Rocky Mountains over renewed hunting and trapping of the once federally protected animals. Escalating rancor between hunters and animal rights activists on social media and websites centers on pictures of wolves killed or about to be killed. Many have text celebrating the fact that Western states are allowing more killing of the predators. ... Full Story
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Mali army deserts Gao bases: sources
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:20 PM PDT
Reuters - GAO/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Soldiers in the Malian army deserted the main military bases around the key northern town of Gao on Saturday after a rebel assault, military and civilian sources said. One civilian source said rebels already occupied the two main bases around the town while another source just one of the two camps was now under rebel control. A Reuters reporter in Gao said there was no fighting in the town itself. (Reporting by Cheick Dioura and Tiemoko Diallo; writing by Mark John) Full Story
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Support for Greek socialists rises ahead of election
Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:04 PM PDT
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Greece's PM Papademos shakes hands with newly appointed Finance Minister Sachinidis in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Support for Greece's co-ruling socialists is ticking up ahead of an election expected in May, though backing for the country's biggest parties remains low, an opinion poll showed on Saturday. Greece is expected to hold the election on May 6 after a successful debt swap deal to cut its massive debt allowed it to secure a 130 billion euro bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund earlier this month. ...


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Hungarians rally as pressure rises on president to quit
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:57 PM PDT
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People attend a demonstration against Hungarian President Schmitt in BudapestBUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hundreds of Hungarian protesters called on President Pal Schmitt to resign on Saturday over a plagiarism scandal that could become a distraction to the government as it tries to win financial support from international lenders. They chanted "Pal Schmitt, pack your things" at the hilltop presidential palace. The rally follows an interview with Schmitt on state television M1 late on Friday, in which he resisted calls to quit even though a day earlier he was stripped of his doctorate after a months-old plagiarism row. ...


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Who are the lucky 3 to share record $656 million U.S. lottery?
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:39 PM PDT
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Store owner Jean Shin places a sign with the updated jackpot in Los AngelesATLANTA (Reuters) - Three lucky ticket-holders in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland will share the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history of $656 million, after about 1.5 billion $1 tickets were sold, lottery officials said on Saturday. At least two of the winners' tickets were "quick picks" - meaning all six numbers of the Mega Millions lottery computer picked the winning numbers announced at the drawing Friday night in Atlanta: 2-4-23-38-46 and Mega Ball 23. ...


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Who are the lucky 3 to share record $656 million U.S. lottery?
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:37 PM PDT
Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - Three lucky ticket-holders in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland will share the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history of $656 million, after about 1.5 billion $1 tickets were sold, lottery officials said on Saturday. At least two of the winners' tickets were "quick picks" - meaning all six numbers of the Mega Millions lottery computer picked the winning numbers announced at the drawing Friday night in Atlanta: 2-4-23-38-46 and Mega Ball 23. ... Full Story
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Cuba declares Good Friday a holiday at pope's request
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:35 PM PDT
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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he rides the popemobile on his way to the airport in HavanaHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has declared next week's Good Friday a holiday following a request from Pope Benedict during his visit to the island, state media said on Saturday. The communist government will decide later whether to make Good Friday, the day Christians commemorate Christ's death, a permanent holiday, it said. Benedict requested the holiday - celebrated on April 6 this year - as part of Easter celebrations during a meeting with President Raul Castro in Havana on Tuesday, the Vatican said. ...


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Dutch minister says to follow IMF on aid to Greece
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:32 PM PDT
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - The Netherlands will not give its share of bailout funds to Greece if the International Monetary Fund deems Athens has failed to keep its pledges and withholds its next tranche of aid, the Dutch finance minister said in a newspaper interview. The minister, who took a hard line during negotiations on Greece's second, 130 billion euro ($173 billion) bailout earlier this year, has in the past warned the programme remains fraught with risk and that its success depends on Athens' ability to push through reform. ... Full Story
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Grenade attacks in, near Kenya's Mombasa injure 15: media
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:05 PM PDT
Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five people were injured in a grenade attack at a packed restaurant in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Saturday, media and a police source said, after an earlier explosion near the city injured 10 others. Media and the police source said the first blast was also thought to be a grenade which went off at a religious meeting in Mtwapa, outside Mombasa, but there was no official confirmation. "One hand grenade was thrown into a pub and restaurant opposite the stadium. ... Full Story
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Former Iran negotiator says nuclear deal possible
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:03 PM PDT
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Mousavian talks with Reuters during an interview in Tehran.UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An end to a nearly decade-long nuclear standoff between Iran and major world powers will be possible if the United States and its European allies recognize Tehran's right to enrich uranium, a former Iranian negotiator said in an editorial. "Talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (P5+1), scheduled for next month, provide the best opportunity to break the nine-year deadlock over Iran's nuclear program," Hossein Mousavian, Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator, wrote in an editorial in the Boston Globe. ...


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Qaeda-linked militants kill at least 20 Yemeni soldiers
Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:00 PM PDT
Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - Islamist militants stormed a military checkpoint in southern Yemen early on Saturday, killing at least 20 soldiers, a senior military official said, the latest in a spate of attacks claimed by an al Qaeda-linked group. Local officials said heavy fighting broke out between the militants and army reinforcements sent from the port city of Aden to retake the checkpoint, located on the road linking the southern provinces of Lahej and Abyan, which was still closed off on Saturday evening. ... Full Story
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Libya says 147 dead in week of southern tribal clashes
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:47 AM PDT
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Fighters prepare for clashes between rival militias in SabhaTRIPOLI (Reuters) - A week of fighting between rival tribes deep in Libya's south has killed 147 people, the government said on Saturday, but it said it had brokered a fresh ceasefire agreement between the two sides. The clashes in the desert oasis city of Sabha were between members of the Tibu ethnic group, many of whom are originally from neighboring Chad, and local militias from Sabha. ...


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Kosovo accuses Serbia of police "abduction"
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:39 AM PDT
Reuters - PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo accused former master Serbia on Saturday of abducting two Kosovo Albanian police officers patrolling their joint border and demanded the European Union intervene, in the latest sign of tension ahead of Serbian elections in May. Serbia's interior ministry said it had arrested the two men on Serbian-controlled territory and released photographs of them handcuffed and face down in a wooded area. Weapons and radios were scattered on the ground and masked members of the Serbian gendarmerie stood over them. ... Full Story
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Suu Kyi runs for parliament in crucial Myanmar poll
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:32 AM PDT
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A woman votes at a ballot station during by-elections in YangonYANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar holds crucial by-elections on Sunday that are expected to see Aung San Suu Kyi, who led the fight for democracy under the former junta, entering parliament for the first time and could lead to an easing of sanctions by the West. The United States and European Union have hinted economic sanctions - imposed years ago in response to human rights abuses - could be lifted if the election is free and fair, which could unleash a wave of investment in the impoverished but resource-rich country bordering India and China. ...


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Slain Iraqi-American woman buried in Iraq
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:13 AM PDT
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Mourners hold up candles at a candle light vigil held at a city park in Santee, California, for Shaima AlawadiBAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi-American woman who was beaten to death in her U.S. home in a possible case of hate crime was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Relatives wept as the casket of Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, was taken to the Valley of Peace cemetery in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Iraq's capital Baghdad. Alawadi was found unconscious in the dining room of her rented home in California last Wednesday by her 17-year-old daughter. ...


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Second grenade hits restaurant in Kenya's Mombasa: police source
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:10 AM PDT
Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five people were injured in a grenade attack at a packed restaurant in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Saturday, media and a police source said, after an earlier explosion near the city injured 10 others. Media and the police source said they were wounded when a suspected grenade went off at a religious meeting in Mtwapa, a place outside of Mombasa, although there was no official confirmation. "One hand grenade was thrown into a pub and restaurant opposite the stadium. The place was full of people," said a police source at the scene by telephone of the second attack. ... Full Story
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Bahraini protester dies after being shot at demonstration
Sat,31 Mar 2012 11:06 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini man died on Saturday after being shot during an anti-government march a day earlier, his relative and the opposition said, blaming his death on what they described as loyalist militia members. The government's media arm, known as the Bahrain Information Affairs Authority (IAA), confirmed that Ahmed Ismail, 22, bled to death after being shot on Friday. Mohammed bu Daniel said his cousin was taking pictures of a demonstration when what he described as "militia members" in an unmarked car opened fire on him. ... Full Story
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Riot police detain Russians demanding free assembly
Sat,31 Mar 2012 10:44 AM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters shouting "Russia without Putin!" tussled with police in Moscow on Saturday, and dozens of activists were detained and bundled into police vans. Police detained about 75 people rallying in Moscow and St Petersburg against Vladimir Putin - who will return to the presidency in May after four years as prime minister - and demanding the freedom of assembly. In Moscow, riot police in black helmets and body armor locked elbows and pushed a crowd of about 300 protesters and journalists along sidewalks and roadways near a central square. ... Full Story
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US deports Liberian ex-rebel for alleged abuses
Sat,31 Mar 2012 09:20 AM PDT
Reuters - MONROVIA (Reuters) - A former Liberian rebel leader accused of commissioning killings and recruiting child soldiers during a bloody civil war in the 1990s arrived in his West African country a free man late on Friday after being deported from the United States. George Saigbe Boley, 62, was targeted by the first removal order made by a U.S. immigration court using the 2008 Child Soldiers Accountability Act, which allows a resident to be deported if they have recruited and used child soldiers. ... Full Story
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We'll cease fire if tanks, big guns go: Syria rebels
Sat,31 Mar 2012 09:13 AM PDT
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Demonstrators holding Kurdish, Syrian opposition and Qatari flags gather during a protest against Syria's President Assad in QamishliBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels are ready to stop fighting the moment the army withdraws its tanks, artillery and heavy weapons from opposition areas, a spokesman for Free Syrian Army commanders inside Syria said on Saturday. Rebels taking part in the year-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule say they are still skeptical the government will commit to a meaningful ceasefire. ...


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Mali rebels launch assault on key northern town
Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PDT
Reuters - GAO/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Heavily armed Malian rebels in pick-up trucks attacked the northern garrison town of Gao on Saturday, capitalizing on the chaos after last week's military coup to make further gains. The assault came a day after rebels - a loose alliance of separatist nomad Tuaregs and local Islamists - seized the town of Kidal, which is one of the three main towns of Mali's north, along with Gao and the historic trading city of Timbuktu. ... Full Story
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